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Mercury-Mediated Organic Semiconductor Surface Doping Monitored by Electrolyte-Gated Field-Effect Transistors

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Qiaoming Zhang, Francesca Leonardi, Stefano Casalini, Marta Mas-Torrent. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2017, 27, 1703899. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201703899

Tailored metallacarboranes as mediators for boosting the stability of carbon-based aqueous supercapacitors

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Pressure-Responsive, Surfactant-Free CO2-Based Nanostructured Fluids

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Natascia Grimaldi, Paula Elena Rojas, Simon Stehle, Alba Cordoba, Ralf Schweins, Santi Sala, Stefan Luelsdorf, David Piña, Jaume Veciana, Jordi Faraudo, Alessandro Triolo*, Andreas Siegfried Braeuer*, and Nora Ventosa*. ACS Nano, 2017, 11 (11), pp 10774–10784. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b02500

Hidden Magnetic States Emergent Under Electric Field, In A Room Temperature Composite Magnetoelectric Multiferroic

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Electric and Mechanical Switching of Ferroelectric and Resistive States in Semiconducting BaTiO3–δ Films on Silicon

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Andrés Gómez, José Manuel Vila-Fungueiriño, Rahma Moalla, Guillaume Saint-Girons, Jaume Gázquez, María Varela, Romain Bachelet, Martí Gich, Francisco Rivadulla, Adrián Carretero-Genevrier. SMALL, Volume 13, Issue 39
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Fluorescent carborane–vinylstilbene functionalised octasilsesquioxanes: synthesis, structural, thermal and photophysical properties

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Justo Cabrera-González, Albert Ferrer-Ugalde, Santanu Bhattacharyya, Mahdi Chaari, Francesc Teixidor, Johannes Gierschner and Rosario Núñez*. J. Mater. Chem. C, 2017,5, 10211-10219. DOI:10.1039/C7TC03319B

Morphology Influence on the Mechanical Stress Response in Bendable Organic Field-Effect Transistors with Solution-Processed Semiconductors

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S. Lai, I. Temiño, T. Cramer, F. G. del Pozo, B. Fraboni, P. Cosseddu, A. Bonfiglio, M. Mas-Torrent, Adv. Electron. Mater. 2017, 1700271. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.201700271

Materials and toxicological approaches to study metal and metal-oxide nanoparticles in the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans

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Laura Gonzalez-Moragas,Laura L. Maurer,Victoria M. Harms,Joel N. Meyer,Anna Laromaine* and Anna Roig*, Mater. Horiz., 2017, 4, 719, DOI: 10.1039/C7MH00166E

Bottom-up approach for the preparation of hybrid nanosheets based on coordination polymers made of metal–diethyloxaloacetate complexes linked by 4,4′-bipyridine

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Nuria Portoles-Gil, Ricard Parra-Aliana, Ángel Álvarez-Larena, Concepción Domingo, José A. Ayllón* and Ana López-Periago*. CrystEngComm, 2017, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/C7CE00909G

Electronic, spin-state, and magnetic transitions in Ba₂ Co₉ O₁₄ investigated by x-ray spectroscopies and neutron diffraction

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Probing localized strain in solution-derived YBa₂Cu₃O_7−δ nanocomposite thin films

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Anisotropic features in the electronic structure of the two-dimensional transition metal trichalcogenide TiS₃: electron doping and plasmons

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Effect of Temperature on Magnetic Solitons Induced by Spin-Transfer Torque

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Sergi Lendínez, Jinting Hang, Saül Vélez, Joan Manel Hernández, Dirk Backes, Andrew D. Kent, and Ferran Macià. Phys. Rev. Applied 7, 054027. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.7.054027

Monolayer Contact Doping from a Silicon Oxide Source Substrate

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NMR signal enhancement of >50 000 times in fast dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization

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Covalent Modification of Highly Ordered Pyrolytic Graphite with a Stable Organic Free Radical by Using Diazonium Chemistry

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Dr. Gonca Seber, Dr. Alexander V. Rudnev, Dr. Andrea Droghetti, Dr. Ivan Rungger, Prof. Jaume Veciana, Dr. Marta Mas-Torrent, Prof. Concepció Rovira, Dr. Núria Crivillers. Chemistry, Volume 23, Issue 6, January 26, 2017, Pages 1415–1421. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201604700

Filling Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Lutetium Chloride: A Sustainable Production of Nanocapsules Free of Nonencapsulated Material

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Magdalena Kierkowicz, Jose M. González-Domínguez, Elzbieta Pach, Stefania Sandoval, Belén Ballesteros *, Tatiana Da Ros *, and Gerard Tobias *
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Anticipating hyperthermic efficiency of magnetic colloids using a semi-empirical model: a tool to help medical decisions

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Ag₂Cu₃Cr₂O₈(OH)₄: a new bidimensional silver–copper mixed-oxyhydroxide with in-plane ferromagnetic coupling

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Carborane Bis-pyridylalcohols as Linkers for Coordination Polymers: Synthesis, Crystal Structures, and Guest-Framework Dependent Mechanical Properties

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Short-term electrostimulation enhancing neural repair in vitro using large charge capacity nanostructured electrodes

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Redox-Active Metallacarborane-Decorated Octasilsesquioxanes. Electrochemical and Thermal Properties

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Coming across a novel copper oxide 2D framework during the oxidation of Cu(111)

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Switchable Surface Hydrophobicity–Hydrophilicity of a Metal–Organic Framework

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Superconducting YBa₂Cu₃O_7–δ Nanocomposites Using Preformed ZrO₂ Nanocrystals: Growth Mechanisms and Vortex Pinning Properties

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Isothermal anisotropic magnetoresistance in antiferromagnetic metallic IrMn

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Monolithic integration of room-temperature multifunctional BaTiO₃-CoFe₂O₄ epitaxial heterostructures on Si(001)

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Mateusz Scigaj, Nico Dix, Jaume Gázquez, María Varela, Ignasi Fina, Neus Domingo, Gervasi Herranz, Vassil Skumryev, Josep Fontcuberta & Florencio Sánchez. Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 31870 (2016). doi:10.1038/srep31870

Pressure-Induced Conductivity in a Neutral Nonplanar Spin-Localized Radical

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Bio-identity and fate of albumin-coated SPIONs evaluated in cells and by the C. elegans model

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Si-Ming Yu, Laura Gonzalez-Moragas, Maria Milla, Androniki Kolovou, Rachel Santarella-Mellwig, Yannick Schwab, Anna Laromaine, Anna Roig, Acta Biomaterialia, Volume 43, 1 October 2016, Pages 348–357 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2016.07.024

Growth Instabilities as a Source of Surface Chemical Structuration in Functional Perovskite Thin Films

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Magnetoelectric and structural properties of Y₂CoMnO₆:The role of antisite defects

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A Rapid, Low-Cost, and Scalable Technique for Printing State-of-the-Art Organic Field-Effect Transistors

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Icosahedral boron clusters: a perfect tool for the enhancement of polymer features

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Synthesis of graphene-based photocatalysts for water splitting by laser-induced doping with ionic liquids

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Angel Pérez del Pino, Arántzazu González-Campo, Sandra Giraldo, José Peral, Enikö György, Constantin Logofatu, Andrew J. de Mello, Josep Puigmartí-Luis. Carbon Volume 130, April 2018, Pages 48-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2017.12.116

Strain landscapes and self-organization of free surfaces in complex oxide epitaxy

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Felip Sandiumenge. Journal of Materials Research,Volume 32, Issue 21. Invited Review to Focus Issue: Jan Van Der Merwe and the Computer Age. https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2017.317

Ion Transport across Biological Membranes by Carborane-Capped Gold Nanoparticles

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Marcin P. Grzelczak*, Stephen P. Danks, Robert C. Klipp, Domagoj Belic, Adnana Zaulet, Casper Kunstmann-Olsen, Dan F. Bradley, Tatsuya Tsukuda, Clara Viñas, Francesc Teixidor, Jonathan J. Abramson, and Mathias Brust*. ACS Nano, Article ASAP. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b06600

Unveiling a New High-Temperature Ordered Magnetic Phase in ε-Fe2O3

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Magnetic order and magnetoelectric properties of R2CoMnO6perovskites (R=Ho, Tm, Yb, and Lu)

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Carbon-Rich Monolayers on ITO as Highly Sensitive Platforms for Detecting Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Water: The Case of Pyrene

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Dr. Jose Muñoz, Dr. Núria Crivillers, Dr. Marta Mas-Torrent. Chemistry, Volume 23, Issue 61, November 2, 2017 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201703264

Excimers from Stable and Persistent Supramolecular Radical-Pairs in Red/NIR-Emitting Organic Nanoparticles and Polymeric

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Integrin-Assisted T-Cell Activation on Nanostructured Hydrogels

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Judith Guasch*, Christine A. Muth, Jennifer Diemer, Hossein Riahinezhad, and Joachim P. Spatz. Nano Lett., DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b02636

Competition between Polar and Nonpolar Lattice Distortions in Oxide Quantum Wells: New Critical Thickness at Polar Interfaces

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Frontispiece: Small-Molecule Kinase-Inhibitors-Loaded Boron Cluster as Hybrid Agents for Glioma-Cell-Targeting Therapy

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Optical Emission in Hexagonal SiGe Nanowires

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Xavier Cartoixà, Maurizia Palummo, Håkon Ikaros T. Hauge, Erik P. A. M. Bakkers, and Riccardo Rurali*. Nano Lett., Article ASAP. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01441

Conflicting evidence for ferroelectricity

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Hybrid YBa₂Cu₃O₇ Superconducting–Ferromagnetic Nanocomposite Thin Films Prepared from Colloidal Chemical Solutions

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Elena Bartolomé, Pablo Cayado, Eduardo Solano,Cristian Mocuta, Susagna Ricart, Bernat Mundet, Marionna Coll, Jaume Gázquez, Alexander Meledin, Gustaaf van Tendeloo, Manuel Valvidares, Javier Herrero-Martín, Pierluigi Gargiani, Eric Pellegrin, Cesar Magén, Teresa Puig, Xavier Obradors. Adv. Electron. Mater. 2017, 1700037. DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201700037

ALBA synchrotron enlightens the way sodium-oxygen batteries discharge

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Imanol Landa-Medrano, Andrea Sorrentino, Lorenzo Stievano, Idoia Ruiz de Larramendi, Eva Pereiro, Luis Lezama, Teófilo Rojo, Dino Tonti. Nano Energy, Volume 37, July 2017, Pages 224–231 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.05.021

Metal–Organic Frameworks Precipitated by Reactive Crystallization in Supercritical CO₂

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Ana M. López-Periago, Nuria Portoles-Gil, Pedro López-Domínguez, Julio Fraile, Javier Saurina, Nuria Aliaga-Alcalde, Gerard Tobias, José A. Ayllón, and Concepcion Domingo *. Cryst. Growth Des., 2017, 17 (5), pp 2864–2872. DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.7b00378

Electric-Field-Adjustable Time-Dependent Magnetoelectric Response in Martensitic FeRh Alloy

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Ignasi Fina, Alberto Quintana, Jessica Padilla-Pantoja, Xavier Marti, Ferran Macià, Florencio Sanchez, Michael Foerster, Lucia Aballe, Josep Fontcuberta, Jordi Sort. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, Article ASAP. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b00476

Evidence of a minority monoclinic LaNiO_2.5 phase in lanthanum nickelate thin films

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Functional electronic inversion layers at ferroelectric domain walls

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Carborane–stilbene dyads: the influence of substituents and cluster isomers on photoluminescence properties

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High performing solution-coated electrolyte-gated organic field-effect transistors for aqueous media operation

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Qiaoming Zhang, Francesca Leonardi, Stefano Casalini, Inés Temiño & Marta Mas-Torrent. Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 39623 (2016).doi:10.1038/srep39623

TTF–PTM dyads: from switched molecular self assembly in solution to radical conductors in solid state

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Manuel Souto, Concepció Rovira, Imma Ratera* and Jaume Veciana*. CrystEngComm, 2017 19, 197–206. DOI: DOI: 10.1039/c6ce01660j

Potassium Disorder in the Defect Pyrochlore KSbTeO6: A Neutron Diffraction Study

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José Antonio Alonso,* Sergio Mayer, Horacio Falcón, Xabier Turrillas and María Teresa Fernández-Díaz. Crystals2017, 7(1), 24

Tuning and enhancement of the Mizoroki–Heck reaction using polarized Pd nanocomposite carbon aerogels

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Laura Martín, Elies Molins and Adelina Vallribera* .New J. Chem., 2016,40, 10208-10212. DOI: 10.1039/C6NJ02279K

Tuning thermal transport in Si nanowires by isotope engineering

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Electrolyte-Gated Organic Field-Effect Transistor Based on a Solution Sheared Organic Semiconductor Blend

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Francesca Leonardi, Stefano Casalini, Qiaoming Zhang, Sergi Galindo, Diego Gutiérrez, Marta Mas-Torrent. Advanced Materials. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201602479

Photoluminescence in Carborane–Stilbene Triads: A Structural, Spectroscopic, and Computational Study

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Dr. Justo Cabrera-González, Prof. Dr. Clara Viñas, Prof. Dr. Matti Haukka, Dr. Santanu Bhattacharyya, Dr. Johannes Gierschner, Dr. Rosario Núñez. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201601177

Electronic structure of 2H-NbSe₂ single-layers in the CDW state

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José Ángel Silva-Guillén, Pablo Ordejón, Francisco Guinea and Enric Canadell. 2D Materials, Volume 3, Number 3. doi:10.1088/2053-1583/3/3/035028

Alignment under Magnetic Field of Mixed Fe₂O₃/SiO₂ Colloidal Mesoporous Particles Induced by Shape Anisotropy

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Jheng-Guang Li, Giulia Fornasieri, Anne Bleuzen, Martí Gich, Alexandre Gloter, Frédéric Bouquet, Marianne Impéror-Clerc. Small, 14 September 2016. DOI: 10.1002/smll.201602272

Ultrafast Epitaxial Growth Kinetics in Functional Oxide Thin Films Grown by Pulsed Laser Annealing of Chemical Solutions

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Physical aspects of ferroelectric semiconductors for photovoltaic solar energy conversion

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Chemical control over the energy-level alignment in a two-terminal junction

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Binary supercritical CO₂ solvent mixtures for the synthesis of 3D metal-organic frameworks

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Gaining Further Insight into the Solvent Additive-Driven Crystallization of Bulk-Heterojunction Solar Cells by in Situ X-ray Scattering and Optical Reflectometry

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Felix Buss, Benjamin Schmidt-Hansberg, Monamie Sanyal, Carmen Munuera, Philip Scharfer, Wilhelm Schabel, and Esther Barrena*. Macromolecules, 2016, 49 (13), pp 4867–4874

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Highly Fluorescent Silicon Nanocrystals Stabilized in Water Using Quatsomes

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Proximity-Induced Shiba States in a Molecular Junction

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Synergistic Exploitation of the Superoxide Scavenger Properties of Reduced Graphene Oxide and a Trityl Organic Radical for the Impedimetric Sensing of Xanthine

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Au/TiO2 Lyogels for Hydrogen Production

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Biomimetic Inspired Core–Canopy Quantum Dots: Ions Trapped in Voids Induce Kinetic Fluorescence Switching

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Arpita Saha, Elena Oleshkevich, Clara Vinas, and Francesc Teixidor, Adv. Mater.2017, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201704238.

Ultrafast Synthesis and Coating of High-Quality β-NaYF₄:Yb³⁺,Ln³⁺ Short Nanorods

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Fabrizio Guzzetta, Anna Roig*, and Beatriz Julián-López*. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2017, 8. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b02473

Piezo-generated charge mapping revealed through direct piezoelectric force microscopy

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A. Gomez, M. Gich, A. Carretero-Genevrier, T. Puig & X. Obradors Nature Communications 8, Article number: 1113 (2017) doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01361-2

Direct imaging of delayed magneto-dynamic modes induced by surface acoustic waves

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Michael Foerster, Ferran Macià, Nahuel Statuto, Simone Finizio, Alberto Hernández-Mínguez, Sergi Lendínez, Paulo V. Santos, Josep Fontcuberta, Joan Manel Hernàndez, Mathias Kläui & Lucia Aballe. Nature Communications, 8, 4017, (2017). DOI:10.1038/s41467-017-00456-0

Quantifying local thickness and composition in thin films of organic photovoltaic blends by Raman scattering

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Xabier Rodríguez-Martínez,* Michelle S. Vezie, Xingyuan Shi, Iain McCulloch, Jenny Nelson, Alejandro R. Goñi and Mariano Campoy-Quiles*, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2017,5, 7270-7282. DOI:10.1039/C7TC01472D

Toxicogenomics of iron oxide nanoparticles in the nematode C. elegans

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Laura Gonzalez-Moragas, Si-Ming Yu , Núria Benseny-Cases, StephenStürzenbaum , Anna Roig & Anna Laromaine (2017): Toxicogenomics of iron oxide nanoparticles inthe nematode C. elegans, Nanotoxicology, DOI: 10.1080/17435390.2017.1342011

Polymer: Fullerene Bimolecular Crystals for Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Photodetectors

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Z. Tang, Z. Ma, A. Sánchez-Díaz, S. Ullbrich, Y. Liu, B. Siegmund, A. Mischok, K. Leo, M. Campoy-Quiles, W. Li, K. Vandewal, Adv. Mater. 2017, 1702184. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201702184

Novel Fe₃O₄@GNF@SiO₂ nanocapsules fabricated through the combination of an in situ formation method and SiO₂ coating process for magnetic resonance imaging

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Changyong Lu,* Stefania Sandoval, Teresa Puig, Xavier Obradors, Gerard Tobias, Josep Rosa and Susagna Ricart. RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 24690. DOI: 10.1039/c7ra04080f

Control of Polymorphism and Morphology in Solution Sheared Organic Field-Effect Transistors

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Sergi Galindo, Adrián Tamayo, Francesca Leonardi, Marta Mas-Torrent. Adv. Funct. Materials. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201700526

Untangling surface oxygen exchange effects in YBa₂Cu₃O_6+x thin films by electrical conductivity relaxation

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P. Cayado, C. F. Sánchez-Valdés, A. Stangl, M. Coll, P. Roura, A. Palau, T. Puig and X. Obradors*. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017,19, 14129-14140. DOI: 0.1039/C7CP01855J0.1039/C7CP01855J

A molecular-scale portrait of domain imaging in organic surfaces

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Ana Perez-Rodriguez, Esther Barrena*, Antón Fernández, Enrico Gnecco* and Carmen Ocal. Nanoscale, 2017, 9, 5589-5596. DOI: 10.1039/C7NR01116D

Tuning the Rectification Ratio by Changing the Electronic Nature (Open-Shell and Closed-Shell) in Donor−Acceptor Self-Assembled Monolayers

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Manuel Souto, Li Yuan, Dayana C. Morales, Li Jiang, Imma Ratera, Christian A. Nijhuis, and Jaume Veciana. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 4262−4265. DOI:10.1021/jacs.6b12601

Bis(aminoaryl) Carbon-Bridged Oligo(phenylenevinylene)s Expand the Limits of Electronic Couplings

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Dr. Paula Mayorga Burrezo, Dr. Nai-Ti Lin, Dr. Koji Nakabayashi, Prof. Shin-ichi Ohkoshi, Dr. Eva M. Calzado, Dr. Pedro G. Boj, Prof. María A. Díaz García, Carlos Franco, Prof. Concepciò Rovira, Prof. Jaume Veciana, Michael Moos, Prof. Christoph Lambert, Prof. Juan T. López Navarrete, Dr. Hayato Tsuji, Prof. Eiichi Nakamura, Prof. Juan Casado. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 2898. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201610921

On the Operative Mechanism of Hole Assisted Negative Charge Motion in Ground States of Radical-anion Molecular Wires

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C. Franco, P. Mayorga Burrezo, V. Lloveras, R. Caballero, I. Alcón, S. Bromley, M. Mas-Torrent, F. Langa, J.T. López Navarrete, C. Rovira, J. Casado, J. Veciana. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 686−692. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b08649

In vivo testing of gold nanoparticles using the Caenorhabditis elegans model organism

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Laura Gonzalez-Moragas, Pascal Berto, Clara Vilches, Romain Quidant, Androniki Kolovou, Rachel Santarella-Mellwig, Yannick Schwab, Stephen Stürzenbaum, Anna Roig, Anna Laromaine. Acta Biomaterialia. Available online 1 February 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2017.01.080

Unveiling the Nucleation and Coarsening Mechanisms of Solution-Derived Self-Assembled Epitaxial Ce_0.9Gd_0.1O_2–y Nanostructures

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Albert Queraltó*, María de la Mata, Jordi Arbiol, Ruben Hühne∥, Xavier Obradors, and Teresa Puig. Cryst. Growth Des., 2017, 17 (2), pp 504–516. DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.6b01358

Dynamic disorder, phonon lifetimes, and the assignment of modes to the vibrational spectra of methylammonium lead halide perovskites

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Aurélien M. A. Leguy, Alejandro R. Goñi,* Jarvist M. Frost,* Jonathan Skelton, Federico Brivio, Xabier Rodríguez-Martínez, Oliver J. Weber, Anuradha Pallipurath, M. Isabel Alonso, Mariano Campoy-Quiles, Mark T. Weller, Jenny Nelson, Aron Walshd and Piers R. F. Barnes*. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016,18, 27051-27066. DOI: 10.1039/C6CP03474H

Strain-Controlled Responsiveness of Slave Half-Doped Manganite La_0.5Sr_0.5MnO₃ Layers Inserted in BaTiO₃ Ferroelectric Tunnel Junctions

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Greta Radaelli,* Diego Gutiérrez, Mengdi Qian, Ignasi Fina, Florencio Sánchez, Lorenzo Baldrati, Jakoba Heidler, Cinthia Piamonteze, Riccardo Bertacco, Josep Fontcuberta*. Adv. Elec. Materials 22nd Nov. 2016, DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201600368

Electrochemistry and Photoluminescence of Icosahedral Carboranes, Boranes, Metallacarboranes, and Their Derivatives

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Rosario Núñez, Màrius Tarrés,Albert Ferrer-Ugalde, Fabrizia Fabrizi de Biani *, and Francesc Teixidor *. Chem. Rev., 2016, 116 (23), pp 14307–14378. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00198

Lipid-based Nanovesicles for Nanomedicine

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N. Grimaldi, F. da Silva, N.V. Segovia, L. Ferrer-Tasies, S. Sala, J. Veciana,* and N. Ventosa*, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2016, 45, 6520—6545. DOI: 10.1039/C6CS00409A

One-Step Route to Iron Oxide Hollow Nanocuboids by Cluster Condensation: Implementation in Water Remediation Technology

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Lluís Balcells, Carlos Martínez-Boubeta *, José Cisneros-Fernández, Konstantinos Simeonidis, Bernat Bozzo, Judith Oró-Sole, Núria Bagués, Jordi Arbiol, Narcís Mestres, and Benjamín Martínez *. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2016, 8 (42), pp 28599–28606. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b08709

Carbon nanotubes allow capture of krypton, barium and lead for multichannel biological X-ray fluorescence imaging

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Christopher J. Serpell, Reida N. Rutte, Kalotina Geraki, Elzbieta Pach, Markus Martincic, Magdalena Kierkowicz, Sonia De Munari, Kim Wals, Ritu Raj, Belén Ballesteros, Gerard Tobias, Daniel C. Anthony & Benjamin G. Davis. Nature Communications 7, Article number: 13118 (2016). doi:10.1038/ncomms13118

Encoding Magnetic States in Monopole-Like Configurations Using Superconducting Dots

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Palau, A., Valencia, S., Del-Valle, N., Navau, C., Cialone, M., Arora, A., Kronast, F., Tennant, D. A., Obradors, X., Sanchez, A. and Puig, T. (2016), Encoding Magnetic States in Monopole-Like Configurations Using Superconducting Dots. Adv. Sci., 1600207. doi:10.1002/advs.201600207

Metallacarboranes as tunable redox potential electrochemical indicators for screening of gene mutation

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Tania García-Mendiola, Victoria Bayon-Pizarro, Adnana Zaulet, Isabel Fuentes, Félix Pariente, Francesc Teixidor, Clara Viñas* and Encarnación Lorenzo*. Chem. Sci., 2016,7, 5786-5797.

Crystal Phase Effects in Si Nanowire Polytypes and Their Homojunctions

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Michele Amato*, Thanayut Kaewmaraya, Alberto Zobelli, Maurizia Palummo, and Riccardo Rurali*. Nano Lett., 2016, 16 (9), pp 5694–5700. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b02362

Multiple strain-induced phase transitions in LaNiO₃ thin films

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M. C. Weber, M. Guennou, N. Dix, D. Pesquera, F. Sánchez, G. Herranz, J. Fontcuberta, L. López-Conesa, S. Estradé, F. Peiró, Jorge Iñiguez, and J. Kreisel. Phys. Rev. B 94. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.014118

Charged versus Neutral Hydrogen-Bonded Complexes: Is There a Difference in the Nature of the Hydrogen Bonds?

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Prof. Ibon Alkorta, Dr. Ignasi Mata, Prof. Elies Molins, Prof. Enrique Espinosa Chem. Eur. J.2016, 22, 9226. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201600788

Untangling Electrostatic and Strain Effects on the Polarization of Ferroelectric Superlattices

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Ekaterina Khestanova, Nico Dix, Ignasi Fina, Mateusz Scigaj, José Manuel Rebled, César Magén, Sonia Estradé, Francesca Peiró, Gervasi Herranz, Josep Fontcuberta, Florencio Sánchez (2016), Adv. Funct. Mater. doi:10.1002/adfm.201602084

Gold nanotriangles decorated with superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles: a compositional and microstructural study

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J. A. Hachtel, S. Yu, A. R. Lupini, S. T. Pantelides, M. Gich, A. Laromaine and A. Roig* Faraday Discuss., 2016, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00028B

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