Image transmission using Airy array beam.

An approach for image transmission based on the Airy array beam is proposed and demonstrated. The Airy array beam is generated by employing the product of a special cubic phase and a shift function at its Fourier plane. The image can be modulated into this Airy array beam by overlapping it at the Fourier plane of this beam.

Emergent multiferroicity and strain-driven metal-semiconductor transitions in LaMnO/RMnO superlattices (R = Pr, Pm, Sm and Gd).

It is known that rare-earth manganites LnMnO with Ln = La to Gd are typical Mott insulators favoring the A-type antiferromagnetic (A-AFM) state. Certainly no ferroelectricity can be possible although the alternatively stacked LnO layers are both polar. Nevertheless, under the inspiration that one plus one is more than two, it is appreciated that by combining two components of this manganite series into a superlattice functionality is added.

Saikosaponin-d protects renal tubular epithelial cell against high glucose induced injury through modulation of SIRT3.

Saikosaponin-d (Ssd) is one of the major pharmacologically active molecules present in Bupleurum falcatum L, a medical herb against inflammatory diseases in the traditional Chinese medicine. In the current study, we investigated the protective activity of Ssd on diabetic nephropathy along with the underlying mechanisms using renal tubular epithelial cell line (NRK-52E). Our study showed that high glucose stimulation significantly increased NRK-52E cell proliferation.