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cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 15 cited

Spin-polarized electron transmission in DNA-like systems

Miguel A. Sierra, David Sanchez, Rafael Gutierrez +3

The helical distribution of the electronic density in chiral molecules, such as DNA and bacteriorhodopsin, has been suggested to induce a spin-orbit coupling interaction that may l…

q-bio.TO2019★ 20 cited

Resilience of three-dimensional sinusoidal networks in liver tissue

Jens Karschau, Andre Scholich, Jonathan Wise +4

Can three-dimensional, microvasculature networks still ensure blood supply if individual links fail? We address this question in the sinusoidal network, a plexus-like microvasculat…

nlin.AO2019★ 18 cited

Towards synthetic neural networks: Can artificial electrochemical neurons be coupled with artificial memristive synapses?

Ewelina Wlaźlak, Dawid Przyczyna, Rafael Gutierrez +2

The enormous amount of data generated nowadays worldwide is increasingly triggering the search for unconventional and more efficient ways of processing and classifying information,…

physics.bio-ph2019★ 16 cited

Surfing along concentration filaments: sperm chemotaxis in physiological shear flows

Steffen Lange, Benjamin M. Friedrich

Many motile biological cells navigate along concentration gradients of signaling molecules: This chemotaxis guides for instance sperm cells from marine invertebrates, which have to…

physics.app-ph2019★ 16 cited

Silver particles with rhombicuboctahedral shape and effectively isotropic interactions with light

Anja Maria Steiner, Martin Mayer, Daniel Schletz +7

Truly spherical silver nanoparticles are of great importance for fundamental studies including plasmonic applications, but the direct synthesis in aqueous media is not feasible. Us…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 54 cited

Direct Observation of Plasmon Band Formation and Delocalization in Quasi-Infinite Nanoparticle Chains

Martin Mayer, Pavel L. Potapov, Darius Pohl +6

Chains of metallic nanoparticles sustain strongly confined surface plasmons with relatively low dielectric losses. To exploit these properties in applications,such as waveguides, t…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 19 cited

Mechanical transmission of rotational motion between molecular-scale gears

H. -H. Lin, A. Croy, R. Gutierrez +2

Manipulating and coupling molecule gears is the first step towards realizing molecular-scale mechanical machines. Here, we theoretically investigate the behavior of such gears usin…

nlin.AO2019★ 61 cited

Data-driven model of the power-grid frequency dynamics

Leonardo Rydin Gorjão, Mehrnaz Anvari, Holger Kantz +4

The energy system is rapidly changing to accommodate the increasing number of renewable generators and the general transition towards a more sustainable future. Simultaneously, bus…

physics.app-ph2019★ 19 cited

Improved evaluation of deep-level transient spectroscopy on perovskite solar cells reveals ionic defect distribution

Sebastian Reichert, Jens Flemming, Qingzhi An +3

One of the key challenges for future development of efficient and stable metal halide perovskite solar cells is related to the migration of ions in these materials. Mobile ions hav…

nlin.AO2019★ 34 cited

Stochastic properties of the frequency dynamics in real and synthetic power grids

Mehrnaz Anvari, Leonardo Rydin Gorjão, Marc Timme +3

The frequency constitutes a key state variable of electrical power grids. However, as the frequency is subject to several sources of fluctuations, ranging from renewable volatility…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 27 cited

Topological universality of on-demand ride-sharing efficiency

Nora Molkenthin, Malte Schröder, Marc Timme

Ride-sharing may substantially contribute to future-compliant sustainable mobility, both in urban and rural areas. The service quality of ride-sharing fleets jointly depends on the…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 11 cited

Multilayer modeling of adoption dynamics in energy demand management

Iacopo Iacopini, Benjamin Schäfer, Elsa Arcaute +2

Due to the emergence of new technologies, the whole electricity system is undergoing transformations on a scale and pace never observed before. The decentralization of energy resou…

nlin.AO2019★ 25 cited

Dynamical modelling of cascading failures in the Turkish power grid

Benjamin Schäfer, G. Cigdem Yalcin

A reliable supply of electricity is critical for our modern society and any large scale disturbance of the electrical system causes substantial costs. In 2015, one overloaded trans…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 14 cited

The winner takes it all -- How to win network globalization

Chengyuan Han, Dirk Witthaut, Marc Timme +1

Quantifying the importance and power of individual nodes depending on their position in socio-economic networks constitutes a problem across a variety of applications. Examples inc…

physics.app-ph2019★ 17 cited

Electron transport through self-assembled monolayers of tripeptides

E. Mervinetsky, I. Alshanski, S. Lenfant +8

We report how the electron transport through a solid-state metal/Gly-Gly-His tripeptide (GGH) monolayer/metal junction and the metal/GGH work function are modified by the GGH compl…

physics.bio-ph2019★ 10 cited

Chemokinetic scattering, trapping, and avoidance of active Brownian particles

Justus A. Kromer, Noelia de la Cruz, Benjamin M. Friedrich

We present a theory of chemokinetic search agents that regulate directional fluctuations according to distance from a target. A dynamic scattering effect reduces the probability to…

q-bio.TO2019★ 12 cited

Quantification of Nematic Cell Polarity in Three-dimensional Tissues

André Scholich, Simon Syga, Hernán Morales-Navarrete +9

How epithelial cells coordinate their polarity to form functional tissues is an open question in cell biology. Here, we characterize a unique type of polarity found in liver tissue…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 107 cited

WS2-graphite dual-ion battery

Sebastiano Bellani, Faxing Wang, Gianluca Longoni +8

A novel WS2-graphite dual-ion battery (DIB) is developed by combining together a conventional graphite cathode and high-capacity few-layer WS2 flakes anode. The WS2 flakes are prod…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 70 cited

Luminescent emission of excited Rydberg excitons from monolayer WSe2

Shao-Yu Chen, Zhengguang Lu, Thomas Goldstein +11

We report the experimental observation of radiative recombination from Rydberg excitons in a two-dimensional semiconductor, monolayer WSe2, encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 6 cited

Hydrogenation, dehydrogenation of -tetragonal boron and its transition to -orthorhombic boron

Naoki Uemura, Koun Shirai, Jens Kunstmann +2

Boron bulk crystals are marked by exceptional structural complexity and unusual related physical phenomena. Recent reports of hydrogenated -tetragonal and a new -orthorhombic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 22 cited

Antiferromagnetic Domain Wall Control via the Surface Spin Flop in Fully Tunable Synthetic Antiferromagnets with Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy

Benny Böhm, Lorenzo Fallarino, Darius Pohl +4

Antiferromagnetic (AF) domain walls have recently attracted revived attention, not only in the emerging field of AF spintronics, but also more specifically for offering fast domain…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 37 cited

Thermal bridging of graphene nanosheets via covalent molecular junctions. a Non-Equilibrium Green Functions Density Functional Tight-Binding study

Diego Martinez, Alessandro di Pierro, Alessandro Pecchia +7

Despite the uniquely high thermal conductivity of graphene is well known, the exploitation of graphene into thermally conductive nanomaterials and devices is limited by the ineffic…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 93 cited

Structure-dependent electrical properties of graphene nanoribbon devices with graphene electrodes

Leonardo Martini, Zongping Chen, Neeraj Mishra +9

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are a novel and intriguing class of materials in the field of nanoelectronics, since their properties, solely defined by their width and edge type, are…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 23 cited

Strain and Band-Gap Engineering in Ge-Sn Alloys via P Doping

Slawomir Prucnal, Yonder Berencén, Mao Wang +19

Ge with a quasi-direct band gap can be realized by strain engineering, alloying with Sn, or ultrahigh n-type doping. In this work, we use all three approaches together to fabricate…