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Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) combines analyte-specificity and single-molecule sensitivity, but its potential is limited by slow readout where sophisticated nanosensors are analysed in a serial fashion, one particle at a time. We…
The Sentinel-2 satellite, launched by the European Space Agency (ESA), offers extensive spatial coverage and has become indispensable in a wide range of remote sensing applications. However, it just has 12 spectral bands, making…
Accessing the terahertz (THz) spectral domain through surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is challenging and opens up the study of low-frequency molecular and electronic excitations. Compared to direct THz probing of heterogenous…
Due to the current severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, there is an urgent need for novel therapies and drugs. We conducted a large-scale virtual screening for small molecules that are potential CoV-2…
Currently, there is no effective antiviral drugs nor vaccine for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Due to its high conservativeness and low similarity with human genes,…
Experimental insight into the elementary processes underlying charge transfer across interfaces has blossomed with the wide-spread availability of ultra-high vacuum set-ups that allow the preparation and characterization of solid surfaces…
Here we show how surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) features can be fine-tuned in optically active substrates made of layered materials. To demonstrate this, we used DNA-assisted lithography (DALI) to create substrates with silver…
The clinical spectrum of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the strain of coronavirus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, is broad, extending from asymptomatic infection to severe immunopulmonary reactions that, if…
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Proteins can exhibit dynamic structural flexibility as they carry out their functions, especially in binding regions that interact with other molecules. For the key SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that facilitates COVID-19 infection, studies have…
Here I present the SiC-YiG Quantum Sensor, allowing electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) studies of monolayer or few nanometers thick chemical, biological or physical samples located on the sensor surface. It contains two parts, a 4H-SiC…
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infectivity is a major concern in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) prevention and economic reopening. However, rigorous determination of SARS-COV-2 infectivity is essentially…
In this paper we have carried out numerical simulation and experimental characterization of two variants of SR (Spiral resonator) viz. TTSR (Two-Turn Spiral Resonator) and NBSR (Non Bianisotropic spiral resonator). The numerical simulation…
The chiral magnetoelectric insulator Cu$_2$OSeO$_3$ hosts a rich and anisotropic magnetic phase diagram that includes helical, conical, field-polarised, tilted conical, and skyrmion lattice phases. Using resonant elastic x-ray scattering…
Experimental and theoretical studies on superconductivity in SrIr$_2$ and SrRh$_2$ Laves phases are presented. The measured resistivity, heat capacity, and magnetic susceptibility confirm the superconductivity of these compounds with $T_c$…
We present a radar sensing framework based on a low-complexity, quantized reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) that enables programmable manipulation of electromagnetic wavefronts for enhanced detection in non-specular and shadowed…
Cn2 profile monitoring usually makes use of wavefront slope correlations or of scintillation pattern correlations. Wavefront slope correlations provide sensitivity to layers close to the receiving plane. In addition, scintillation…
Through the use of cutting-edge unsupervised classification techniques from statistics and machine learning, we characterise symptom phenotypes among symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 PCR-positive community cases. We first analyse each dataset in…