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NMR Crystallography in the Big Data Era: New Methods and Applications Powered by Machine Learning

Structure determination of materials is key to understanding their physical properties. While single-crystal X-ray diffraction is the gold standard for structures displaying long-range order, many materials of interest are polycrystalline and/or disordered ...

EPFL2023

Hard X-ray helical dichroism of disordered molecular media

Majed Chergui, Jérôme Lacour, Christian David, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Malte Oppermann, Dominik Kinschel, Oliviero Cannelli, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira

Chirality is a structural property of molecules lacking mirror symmetry that has strong implications in diverse fields, ranging from life sciences to materials science. Chirality-sensitive spectroscopic methods, such as circular dichroism, exhibit weak sig ...

Nature Publishing Group2022

Single-Chain Nanoparticles for Intracellular Drug Delivery

Suiyang Liao

Single-chain nanoparticles (SCNPs) are a type of polymeric nanoparticles formed by collapsing/folding individual polymer chains via intra-molecular interactions. Their emergence holds promise to construct sub-20 nm polymeric nanoparticles with defined stru ...

EPFL2022

Binding affinity of p-PD-based schiff-bases towards human serum albumin; in-vitro and in-silico assessment

Kurt Schenk

The Schiff-bases [N,N'-Bis(2-hydroxybenzylidene)-benzene-1,4-diamine (L-1), N,N'-Bis(5-bromo-2-hydroxybenzylidene)-benzene-1,4-diamine (L-2), N,N'-Bis(2-hydroxy-3-methoxy-benzylidene)-benzene-1,4-diamine (L-3), and N,N'-Bis(2-hydroxynaphthylidene)-benzene- ...

ELSEVIER2022

Magneto-optical study of metamagnetic transitions in the antiferromagnetic phase of alpha-RuCl3

Zhe Wang

alpha-RuCl3 is a promising candidate material to realize the so far elusive quantum spin liquid ground state. However, at low temperatures, the coexistence of different exchange interactions couple the effective pseudospins into an antiferromagnetically zi ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Machines for Materials and Materials for Machines: Metal-Insulator Transitions and Artificial Intelligence

Bernat Mundet

In this perspective, we discuss the current and future impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning for the purposes of better understanding phase transitions, particularly in correlated electron materials. We take as a model system the rare-eart ...

2021

Length scales of interfacial coupling between metal and insulator phases in oxides

Jean-Marc Triscone, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Bernat Mundet

The characteristic length scale and mechanism of the metal-insulator transition in nickelate superlattices is addressed, with implications for the design of oxide electronics. ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Oxidation States, Thouless' Pumps, and Nontrivial Ionic Transport in Nonstoichiometric Electrolytes

Federico Grasselli

Thouless' quantization of adiabatic particle transport permits one to associate an integer topological charge with each atom of an electronically gapped material. If these charges are additive and independent of atomic positions, they provide a rigorous de ...

American Physical Society2020

Promising anti-cancer potency of 4,5,6,7-tetrahydrobenzo[d]thiazole-based Schiff-bases

Kurt Schenk, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani

Four new Schiff-bases have been synthesized from the 1:2 M condensation of 4,5,6,7-tetrahydrobenzothiazole-2,6-diamine with 2-hydroxybenzaldehyde (SL3), 5-Bromo-2-hydroxybenzaldehyde (SL2), 2-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzaldehyde (SL3) and 2-hydroxy-1-naphthaldehy ...

ELSEVIER2020

rstoolbox - a Python library for large-scale analysis of computational protein design data and structural bioinformatics

Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Zander Harteveld, Jaume Bonet Martinez, Fabian Sesterhenn, Andreas Scheck

BackgroundLarge-scale datasets of protein structures and sequences are becoming ubiquitous in many domains of biological research. Experimental approaches and computational modelling methods are generating biological data at an unprecedented rate. The deta ...

2019

Broad-Band Ultraviolet CD Spectroscopy of Ultrafast Peptide Backbone Conformational Dynamics

Majed Chergui, Malte Oppermann, Benjamin Bauer

The far-UV spectral window widely used for the conformational analysis of biomolecules is not easily covered with broad-band lasers. This has made it difficult to use circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy to directly follow fast structure changes. By combin ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Electronic localization in CaVO3 films via bandwidth control

Xingye Lu, Thorsten Schmitt, Sophie Beck, Vladimir N. Strocov

Understanding and controlling the electronic structure of thin layers of quantum materials is a crucial first step towards designing heterostructures where new phases and phenomena, including the metal-insulator transition (MIT), emerge. Here, we demonstra ...

Springer2019

Terahertz-optical properties of a bismuth ferrite single crystal

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Marcin Bialek

Transmission through a (100)-oriented single crystal of bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3) was studied at frequencies of 0.485-0.765 THz with a continuous-wave source and in the temperature range of 30-350 K as a function of polarization angle. The fine splitting of ...

2019

Accessible Superchiral Near-Fields Driven by Tailored Electric and Magnetic Resonances in All-Dielectric Nanostructures

Hatice Altug, Andreas Tittl, Yasaman Jahani, Kosmas Tsakmakidis, Ershad Mohammadi

Detection and differentiation of enantiomers in small quantities are crucially important in many scientific fields, including biology, chemistry, and pharmacy. Chiral molecules manifest their handedness in their interaction with the chiral state of light ( ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

X-ray absorption linear dichroism at the Ti K edge of anatase TiO2 single crystals

Majed Chergui, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Thomas Charles Henry Rossi, Dominik Kinschel, Oliviero Cannelli, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira, Jérémy Raymond Jean Maurice Rouxel

Anatase TiO2 (a-TiO2) exhibits a strong x-ray absorption linear dichroism in the pre-edge, the XANES and the EXAFS at the titanium K edge. In the pre-edge region, the behavior of the A1-A3 and B peaks originating from the 1s - 3d transitions is due to the ...

2019

Mid-Infrared plasmonic nanoantennas for ultrasensitive detection of proteins and their secondary structure

Dordaneh Etezadi

Engineered plasmonic nanostructures have emerged as powerful sensing platforms and are promoting novel applications in various fields. By providing extreme field confinement down to molecular dimensions and enhancing light-matter interaction at the nanosca ...

EPFL2018

An Automatic, Data-Driven Definition of Atomic-Scale Structural Motifs

Piero Gasparotto

Structure-property relationships at the atomic scale are usually understood in terms of recurrent structural motifs formed by atoms and molecules, and how they transform and interact with each other. We introduce with this thesis a novel analysis approach, ...

EPFL2018

Charge-carrier Dynamics in Metal Oxides and Hybrid Lead Perovskites investigated by Time-Resolved UV and X-ray Spectroscopy

Thomas Charles Henry Rossi

In modern ultrafast optoelectronic technologies based on wide band gap insulators, the non-equilibrium dynamics of photogenerated charges plays a major role. Unravelling the mechanisms of interaction between these charge carriers and their environment is c ...

EPFL2018

AFM-Based Single Molecule Techniques: Unraveling the Amyloid Pathogenic Species

Giovanni Dietler, Andrea Cerreta, Francesco Simone Ruggeri

Background: A wide class of human diseases and neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, is due to the failure of a specific peptide or protein to keep its native functional conformational state and to undergo a conformational change into a ...

Bentham Science Publishers2016

Chiral Spin Liquids in Triangular-LatticeSU(N)Fermionic Mott Insulators with Artificial Gauge Fields

Frédéric Mila, Karlo Penc, Pierre Marcel Nataf, Miklos Lajko

We show that, in the presence of a π/2 artificial gauge field per plaquette, Mott insulating phases of ultracold fermions with SU(N) symmetry and one particle per site generically possess an extended chiral phase with intrinsic topological order characteri ...

2016