Zinc is essential to all forms of life, 1-4 with an average adult human containing ca. 3 g of
zinc. 5 For example, zinc is indispensable for effective growth and development, has …

The use of X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) to characterize the local environment of
“spectroscopically quiet” metals in metalloproteins is reviewed, with an emphasis on studies …

MXenes, derived from layered MAX phases, are a class of two-dimensional materials with
emerging applications in energy storage, electronics, catalysis, and other fields due to their …

Despite the promise of high flexibility and conformability of hydrogel ionic conductors,
existing polymeric conductive hydrogels have long suffered from compromises in …

Zinc plays an important role in biological processes. It is implicated in many diseases,
including those affecting the brain. Imaging zinc is becoming crucial to the elucidation of zinc …

Oxygen (O), hydrogen (H), carbon (C), and nitrogen (N) are the most common elements
found in organic and biological molecules. Among these four elements, oxygen occupies a …

A series of yellow-emitting, pseudo-octahedral Zn (II) complexes supported by monoanionic,
tridentate acetylacetone-derived N^ N–^ O ligands incorporating phenanthridine (benzo [c] …

The Wideband Uniform Rate Smooth Truncation–Carr–Purcell Meiboom–Gill (WURST–
CPMG) pulse sequence was recently introduced as a new method of acquiring ultra …

The practical aspects of applying CPMG for acquisition of wideline powder patterns are
examined. It is shown that most distortions/modulations of spikelet spectra can be traced to …

A combination of multinuclear ultra-wideline solid-state NMR, powder X-ray diffraction
(pXRD), X-ray absorption fine structure experiments, and first principles calculations of …