Partial substitution of wheat flour with soybean and gluten powder: impact on flavor characteristics of Pixian Douban-Meju and its quality.

Background: In this study, different proportions of soybean flour and gluten flour were used as partial replacements for wheat flour for the fermentation of Pixian Douban-Meju (PXDB). The aim was to study the effects of soybean flour/gluten flour on the quality improvement of PXDB.

Results: In comparison with the control group (CT) (0% substitution of wheat flour), substitution of wheat flower with 12.

Anomalous polarization enhancement in a van der Waals ferroelectric material under pressure.

CuInPS with robust room-temperature ferroelectricity has recently attracted much attention due to the spatial instability of its Cu cations and the van der Waals (vdW) layered structure. Herein, we report a significant enhancement of its remanent polarization by more than 50% from 4.06 to 6.

Providing or receiving alloparental care promote partner preference and alter central oxytocin and dopamine systems in adult mandarin voles.

Juveniles of cooperative breeding species usually remain in the natal area and provide care to younger siblings, a behavior considered one form of alloparenting in the natural condition. Previous studies have demonstrated the effects of providing or receiving alloparental care on adult behaviors, including anxiety-like behavior, social interaction, and parental behavior, but little is known about the influences on species-typical bonding behaviors, such as pair-bond formation. In this study, we explored this concept using socially monogamous mandarin voles (Lasiopodomys mandarinus).

Adolescence Predatory Risk Alters Social Behaviors and Cognitive Ability and Central Oxytocin and Vasopressin Expression in Adult Brandt's Voles.

Introduction: Stress during adolescence causes long-term behavioral changes in adulthood. We previously found that adolescent exposure to predatory risk augments adolescent social contact and adult parental behavior in Brandt's voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii).

Methods: Here, we determined whether this experience alters sexual behavior, pair-bond formation, and recognition ability as well as basal HPA axis activity, central oxytocin (OT), and arginine-vasopressin (AVP) expression in adulthood.

Strain-Tunable Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction and Spin-Hall Topological Hall Effect in Pt/TmFeO Heterostructures.

The interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in heavy-metal/ferromagnet heterostructures enables to stabilize and manipulate novel topological spin textures, such as skyrmions, which arise as potential logic and memory devices for future information technology. Along these lines, we study in this work the topological spin textures in the films of magnetic insulators by detecting the spin-Hall topological Hall effect (SH-THE). The SH-THE presents obvious dependence of epitaxial strain in Pt/TmFeO (TmIG) bilayers deposited on a series of (111)-oriented garnet substrates, indicating that the topological spin textures can be tuned by epitaxial strain in this system.

Perpendicular Manganite Magnetic Tunnel Junctions Induced by Interfacial Coupling.

The half-metallic manganite oxide LaSrMnO (LSMO) has a very high spin polarization of ∼100%, making it ideal for ferromagnetic electrodes to realize tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR). Because of the in-plane magnetic anisotropy of the ferromagnetic LSMO electrode, which leads to the density limit of memory, realizing perpendicular tunneling in manganite-based magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ) is critical for future applications. Here, we design and fabricate manganite-based MTJs composed of alternately stacked cobaltite and manganite layers that demonstrate strong perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) induced by interfacial coupling.

Super-Flexible Freestanding BiMnO Membranes with Stable Ferroelectricity and Ferromagnetism.

Multiferroic materials with flexibility are expected to make great contributions to flexible electronic applications, such as sensors, memories, and wearable devices. In this work, super-flexible freestanding BiMnO membranes with simultaneous ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism are synthesized using water-soluble Sr Al O as the sacrificial buffer layer. The super-flexibility of BiMnO membranes is demonstrated by undergoing an ≈180° folding during an in situ bending test, which is consistent with the results of first-principles calculations.

Ferroelectricity and Ferromagnetism Achieved via Adjusting Dimensionality in BiFeO/BiMnO Superlattices.

Integrating characteristics of materials through constructing artificial superlattices (SLs) has raised extensive attention in multifunctional materials. Here, we report the synthesis of BiFeO/BiMnO SLs with considerable ferroelectric polarizations and tunable magnetic moments. The polarization of BiFeO/BiMnO SLs presents a decent value of 12 μC/cm, even as the dimensionality of BiFeO layers per period is reduced to about five-unit cells when keeping the BiMnO layers same.

Tuning ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism in BiFeO/BiMnO superlattices.

Multiferroic materials with multifunctional characteristics play a critical role in the field of microelectronics. In a perovskite oxide, ferroelectric polarization and ferromagnetism usually cannot coexist in a single-phase material at the same time. In this work, we design a superlattice structure composed of alternating BiFeO and BiMnO layers and illustrate how tuning the supercell size of epitaxial BiFeO/BiMnO superlattices facilitates ferroelectric polarization while maintaining relatively strong ferromagnetism.

Large-scale multiferroic complex oxide epitaxy with magnetically switched polarization enabled by solution processing.

Complex oxides with tunable structures have many fascinating properties, though high-quality complex oxide epitaxy with precisely controlled composition is still out of reach. Here we have successfully developed solution-based single-crystalline epitaxy for multiferroic (1-)BiTiFe MgO-()CaTiO (BTFM-CTO) solid solution in large area, confirming its ferroelectricity at the atomic scale with strong spontaneous polarization. Careful compositional tuning leads to a bulk magnetization of 0.

RhoG/Rac1 signaling pathway involved in migration and invasion of salivary adenoid cystic carcinoma cells.

Objectives: This study aimed to explore whether RhoG/Rac1 was involved in migration and invasion of salivary adenoid cystic carcinoma (SACC).

Materials And Methods: RhoG and Rac1 were evaluated in two SACC cell lines, namely SACC-83 and SACC-LM, with low and high rates of lung metastasis, respectively. Functional changes were evaluated using cell proliferation, transwell, and wound-healing assays, and molecular events were investigated using real-time PCR and Western blot assays.

Strain-Enhanced Charge Transfer and Magnetism at a Manganite/Nickelate Interface.

The strain effect on charge transfer in correlated oxide LaSrMnO/NdNiO (LSMO/NNO) heterostructures is investigated. This is achieved by carefully tailoring the strain on the two layers using various substrates. In contrast to bare LSMO films, the strain dependence of the enhanced magnetic moment of the LSMO/NNO bilayers strongly suggests that the charge transfer can be controlled via strain engineering in complex oxide heterostructures.

Low-energy Resistive Random Access Memory Devices with No Need for a Compliance Current.

A novel resistive random access memory device is designed with SrTiO3/ La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 (LSMO)/MgAl2O4 (MAO)/Cu structure, in which metallic epitaxial LSMO is employed as the bottom electrode rather than traditional metal materials. In this device, the critical external compliance current is no longer necessary due to the high self-resistance of LSMO. The LMSO bottom electrode can act as a series resistor to offer a compliance current during the set process.

Co nanoparticles induced resistive switching and magnetism for the electrochemically deposited polypyrrole composite films.

The resistive switching behavior of Co-nanoparticle-dispersed polypyrrole (PPy) composite films is studied. A novel design method for resistive random access memory (ReRAM) is proposed. The conducting polymer films with metal nanocrystal (NC)-dispersed carbon chains induce the spontaneous oxidization of the conducting polymer at the surface.