There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality.

Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

I and i

다중혈관 관상동맥 환자에서 y-문합을 이용하여 양쪽 내흉동맥만을 사용한 우회술의 조기 성적

抗原变异可使得多种致病微生物易于逃避宿主免疫应答。表达在感染红细胞表面的恶性疟原虫红细胞表面蛋白1（PfPMP1）与感染红细胞、内皮细胞、树突状细胞以及胎盘的单个或多个受体作用，在黏附及免疫逃避中起关键的作用。每个单倍体基因组var基因家族编码约60种成员，通过启动转录不同的var基因变异体为抗原变异提供了分子基础。

疟原虫var基因转换速率变化导致抗原变异[英]／Paul H, Robert P, Christodoulou Z, et al//Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

[신간의 별자리x] 우리/미술, 그리고 ‘슬픔의 박물관’

Many potential applications have been proposed for carbon nanotubes, including conductive and high-strength composites; energy storage and energy conversion devices; sensors; field emission displays and radiation sources; hydrogen storage media; and nanometer-sized semiconductor devices, probes, and interconnects. Some of these applications are now realized in products. Others are demonstrated in early to advanced devices, and one, hydrogen storage, is clouded by controversy. Nanotube cost, polydispersity in nanotube type, and limitations in processing and assembly methods are important barriers for some applications of single-walled nanotubes.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/297/5582/787.full.pdf

Carbon Nanotubes--the Route Toward Applications

United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Basic Energy Sciences (Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center Award DE-SC0001299)

Stronger phonon scattering by larger differences in atomic mass and size in p-type half-Heuslers Hf[subscript 1−x]Ti[subscript x]CoSb[subscript 0.8]Sn[subscript 0.2]

A charge density wave (CDW) ground state is observed in polycrystalline Cu$_2$Se below 125 K, which corresponds to an energy gap of 40.9 meV and an electron-phonon coupling constant of 0.6. Due to the polycrystalline structure, the Peierls transition process has been expanded to a wide temperature range from 90 to 160 K. The Hall carrier concentration shows a continuous decrease from 2.1$\times$10$^{20}$ to 1.6$\times$10$^{20}$ cm$^{-3}$ in the temperature range from 160 K to 80 K, while almost unchanged above 160 K and below 90 K. After entering the CDW ground state, a wave-like fluctuation was observed in the I-V curve near 50 K, which exhibits as a periodic negative differential resistivity in an applied electric field due to the current. We also investigated the doping effect of Zn, Ni, and Te on the CDW ground state. Both Zn and Ni doped Cu$_2$Se show a CDW character with increased energy gap and electron-phonon coupling constant, but no notable Peierls transition was observed in Te doped Cu$_2$Se. Similar wave-like I-V curve was also seen in Cu$_{1.98}$Zn$_{0.02}$Se near 40 K. The regular fluctuation in $\it{dc}$ I-V curve was not magnetic field sensitive, but temperature and sample size sensitive.

Anomalous CDW ground state in Cu$_2$Se: a wave-like fluctuation of $\it{dc}$ I-V curve near 50 K

https://google.iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/abfefa/pdf

Electronic structure of cubic boron arsenide probed by scanning tunneling spectroscopy

Predictions of ultrahigh thermal conductivity in boron arsenide using first-principles calculations have motivated research to synthesize crystals and investigate their properties. In 2018, three groups reported synthesizing small single crystals of boron arsenide that exhibit thermal conductivity of 700–1300 W m−1 K−1 at room temperature. The progress in crystal growth has attracted significant attention and has inspired additional theoretical and experimental research. This brief review provides an overview of recent theoretical and experimental studies on boron arsenide, mostly since 2018. Progress in theoretical calculations, synthesis methods, characterizations, physical properties, and potential applications are presented, followed by a discussion of the remaining challenges and outlook for boron arsenide research. 

Recent progress on cubic boron arsenide with ultrahigh thermal conductivity

Random carbon nanotubes have been synthesized from many methods. Based on the understanding of the growth mechanism from these methods, aligned carbon nanotubes have been in situ grown. Randomly grown carbon nanotubes can also be aligned using ex situ methods. In this chapter we introduce various methods to grow carbon nanotubes. The grown nanotubes are aligned or random during growth.

Zhifeng Ren

Papers

Stronger phonon scattering by larger differences in atomic mass and size in p-type half-Heuslers Hf[subscript 1−x]Ti[subscript x]CoSb[subscript 0.8]Sn[subscript 0.2]

Anomalous CDW ground state in Cu$_2$Se: a wave-like fluctuation of $\it{dc}$ I-V curve near 50 K

Electronic structure of cubic boron arsenide probed by scanning tunneling spectroscopy

Recent progress on cubic boron arsenide with ultrahigh thermal conductivity

Growth Techniques of Carbon Nanotubes