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The spin-torque resonance effect on domain walls is an exciting new line of research for spintronic devices such as race-track memory and magnetic ...
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All living cells require energy, usually provided in the form of ATP, to carry out fundamental processes like movement and growth. Therefore, ...
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The anaphase promoting complex or cyclosome (APC/C) is a multi-subunit cullin-RING E3 ubiquitin ligase that functions to regulate progression ...
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Liquid crystals have transformed our daily lives, with the LCD industry currently being worth £300 bn per year worldwide. The nematic phase, the ...
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Organic photovoltaic (PV) materials have long-term promise for large area devices on flexible substrates produced by low-cost processes such as ...
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Our society takes for granted the high performance aluminium alloys used in aircraft, trains, fast ferries and motor vehicles. This high ...
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Synchrotron applications such as coherent X-ray diffraction and X-ray photon-correlation spectroscopy require detectors with a very small pixel ...
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Solid-state materials, particularly those performing useful functions (e.g. zeolites), often form frameworks or cellular structures on the ...
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Magnetic recording lies at the heart of many modern electronic devices. The density at which information can be stored is directy related to the ...
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Despite decades of study, the mechanisms that HIV employs at certain steps of its replication cycle remain relatively nebulous. One such step ...
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The proton dependent oligopeptide transporters (POTs) are a large family of integral membrane proteins that use the inwardly directed proton ...
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Rhomboids belong to the family of intramembrane proteases that use a catalytic dyad of serine and histidine for proteolysis of substrate ...
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Diamond is one of the most interesting materials for many applications in engineering, electronics, jewellery, and synchrotron radiation ...
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The relentless drive for greater information storage capacity in physically smaller devices has pushed the size of components to scales where ...
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Spintronic devices make use of the electron spin to store, recall and process data. Examples include the spin-valve read head, which has produced ...
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2011 is the International Year of Chemistry and also sees the launch of Sustainability as a University-wide societal engagement theme at ...
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Thin films comprising ordered stacks of purple membrane (PM) sheets containing the light-driven proton pump bacteriorhodopsin, were infiltrated ...
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To establish successful infection, a retrovirus must insert a DNA replica of its genome into host cell chromosomal DNA. This process is ...
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Lassa fever virus kills more than five thousand people in West Africa every year, with many survivors having hearing and neurological problems.1 ...
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The serpins are a family of proteins of special interest to structural biologists because of their ability to spontaneously undergo a profound ...