Miniaturized spectrometers have great potential for use in portable optoelectronics and wearable sensors. However, current strategies for miniaturization rely on von Neumann architectures, which separate the spectral sensing, storage, and processing modules spatially, resulting in high energy consumption and limited processing speeds due to the storage-wall problem. Here, we present a miniaturized spectrometer that utilizes a single SnS/ReSe van der Waals heterostructure, providing photodetection, spectrum reconstruction, spectral imaging, long-term image memory, and signal processing capabilities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Uveal melanoma (UM) is a rare and malignant intraocular tumour with a dismal prognosis. Despite a good control of the primary tumour by radiation or surgery, up to 50% of patients subsequently develop metastasis for which no efficient treatment is yet available.
Methodology: To identify therapeutic opportunities, we performed an in vitro screen of 30 combinations of different inhibitors of pathways that are dysregulated in UM.
Quantitative information of solvation and transfer free energies is often needed for the understanding of many physicochemical processes, e.g the molecular recognition phenomena, the transport and diffusion processes through biological membranes and the tertiary structure of proteins. Recently, a concept for the localization and quantification of hydrophobicity has been introduced (Jäger et al.
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January 2008
A new program called pyVib has been developed as a tool for the analysis of Gaussian (Gaussian 03, Gaussian Inc., Pittsburgh, PA) outputs of vibrational absorption (IR), Raman as well as vibrational optical activity (VOA) spectra calculations. This program has been designed to help the computational chemistry practitioner in the task of analyzing and visualizing molecular vibrations and cross sections.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFState-of-the-art generalized gradient approximation (GGA) (PBE, OPBE, RPBE, OLYP, and HCTH), meta-GGA (VSXC and TPSS), and hybrid (B3LYP, B3LYP*, O3LYP, and PBE0) functionals are compared for the determination of the structure and the energetics of the D3 [Co(bpy)3](2+) complex in the (4)A2 and (4)E trigonal components of the high-spin (4)T1g([Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] ) state and in the low-spin (2)E state of octahedral (2)Eg([Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] ) parentage. Their comparison extends also to the investigation of the Jahn-Teller instability of the (2)E state through the characterization of the extrema of C2 symmetry of this spin state's potential energy surface. The results obtained for [Co(bpy)3](2+) in either spin manifold are very consistent among the functionals used and are in good agreement with available experimental data.
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