Designing barrier-free metal/MoS contacts through electrene insertion.

Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), including MoS, have great potential in electronics applications. However, achieving low-resistance metal contacts is a challenge that impacts their performance in nanodevices due to strong Fermi-level pinning and the presence of a tunnelling barrier. As a solution, we explore a strategy of inserting monolayers of alkaline-earth sub-pnictide electrenes with a general formula of [MX]e (M = Ca, Sr, Ba; X = N, P, As, Sb) between the TMDC and the metal.

Long-term mortality in treated-to-target RA and UA: results of the BeSt and IMPROVED cohort.

Objectives: To study long-term (up to 20-year) mortality of two treat-to-target trial cohorts in undifferentiated arthritis (UA) and early rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Methods: The BeSt (BehandelStrategieën) study (n=508, early RA) was performed between 2000 and 2012. For 10 years, patients were treated-to-target disease activity score (DAS)≤2.

Periodic trends in the structural, electronic, and transport properties of electrenes.

Two-dimensional layered electrides are a class of atomically thin materials in which the anion is an excess electron rather than a negatively charged ion. These excess electrons form delocalized sheets of charge surrounding each layer of the material. A well-known example is CaN; its identification and characterization has triggered an avalanche of studies aimed at broadening applications of electrides.

In Vitro Simulated Neuronal Environmental Conditions Qualify Umbilical Cord Derived Highly Potent Stem Cells for Neuronal Differentiation.

The healing of neuronal injuries is still an unachieved goal. Medicine-based therapies can only extend the survival of patients, but not finally lead to a healing process. Currently, a variety of stem cell-based tissue engineering developments are the subject of many research projects to bridge this gap.