We study abelian covers of rational surfaces branched over line arrangements. We use these covers to address the geography problem for closed simply connected nonspin irreducible symplectic 4-manifolds with positive signature.

N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have become the most celebrated ligands in various fields of chemistry due to their unique electronic properties. (1−5) Since the first stable N-heterocyclic carbene was isolated, many other ...

Background. Height growth is affected by longterm childhood morbidity. Objectives. To compare the growth curves of Indian children diagnosed with Type-1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and a control group of children without ...

Micro particles come in a wide variety of architectural designs and shapes. It is time to look beyond the conventional spherical morphology and focus on anisotropic systems. Rod-shaped micro particles in particular exhibit ...

Nanoparticles (NPs) offer their core as well as surface for manifesting various optoelectronic properties, making them one of the prominent class of materials in modern science. Here, we have used NPs as the building blocks ...

The ability of quantum dots (QDs) to photocatalyze organic reactions is gaining attention because of their distinct light harvesting properties over traditional precious metal- and small molecule-based catalysts. However, ...

Layered metal halide perovskites have attracted enormous research attention over the last few years, befitting their unique optical and electronic properties. Low-dimensional layered perovskites demonstrate great potential ...

Ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) based spin pumping is a versatile tool to quantify the spin-mixing conductance and spin-to-charge conversion (S2CC) efficiency of ferromagnet–normal metal (FM/NM) heterostructures. The spin-mixing ...

Three-dimensional printing (3DP) is an emerging technology to fabricate complex architectures, necessary to realize state-of-the-art flexible and wearable electronic devices. In this regard, top-performing devices containing ...

Aliphatic polyesters are intrinsically enzymatic-biodegradable, and there is ever-increasing demand for safe and smart next-generation biomaterials including drug delivery nano-vectors in cancer research. Using bioresource-based ...