Transiting exoplanet atmospheres in the era of JWST

EMR Kempton, HA Knutson - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The field of exoplanet atmospheric characterization has recently made considerable
advances with the advent of high-resolution spectroscopy from large ground-based …

Flow-induced periodic chiral structures in an achiral nematic liquid crystal

Q Zhang, W Wang, S Zhou, R Zhang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Supramolecular chirality typically originates from either chiral molecular building blocks or
external chiral stimuli. Generating chirality in achiral systems in the absence of a chiral input …

Self-consistent modeling of metastable helium exoplanet transits

F Biassoni, A Caldiroli, E Gallo, F Haardt… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Absorption of stellar X-ray and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation in the upper atmosphere
of close-in exoplanets can give rise to hydrodynamic outflows, which may lead to the …

NIGHT: A compact, near-infrared, high-resolution spectrograph to survey helium in exoplanet systems

C Farret Jentink, V Bourrier, C Lovis… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Among highly irradiated exoplanets, some have been found to undergo significant
hydrodynamic expansion traced by atmospheric escape. To better understand these …

Airy worlds or barren rocks? On the survivability of secondary atmospheres around the TRAPPIST-1 planets

G Van Looveren, M Güdel, SB Saikia… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. The James Webb Space Telescope is currently at the forefront of the search for
atmospheres of exoplanets. However, the observation of atmospheres of Earth-like planets …

Effects of planetary day-night temperature gradients on He 1083 nm transit spectra

F Nail, A Oklopčić, M MacLeod - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024 - aanda.org
A notable fraction of helium observations probing the evaporating atmospheres of short-
period gas giants at 1083 nm exhibit a blueshift during transit, which might be indicative of a …

Active Fabrics with Controllable Stiffness for Robotic Assistive Interfaces

X Yang, Y Chen, T Chen, J Li, Y Wang - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Assistive interfaces enable collaborative interactions between humans and robots. In
contrast to traditional rigid devices, conformable fabrics with tunable mechanical properties …

Barocaloric response of plastic crystal 2-methyl-2-nitro-1-propanol across and far from the solid-solid phase transition

A Salvatori, M Barrio, P Negrier, S Massip… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Plastic crystals have emerged as benchmark barocaloric (BC) materials for potential solid-
state cooling and heating applications due to huge isothermal entropy changes and …

Accelerated Scarless Wound Healing by Dynamical Regulation of Angiogenesis and Inflammation with Immobilized Asiaticoside and Magnesium Ions in Silk …

G Yang, L Liu, L Xiao, S Ke, H Yang… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
It remains a challenge to regulate the complicated microenvironment effectively in the
wound healing process. The optimization of synergistic action of angiogenesis and …

Insights into the vibration coupling effects on reorganization energy in π-isoelectronic frameworks

Y Zhu, X Xing, C Zhao, H Meng - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
A π-isoelectronic framework denotes a category of chemical compounds or molecular
structures where specific elements are arranged to share an identical count of π electrons. It …