Free-electron interaction with nonlinear optical states in microresonators
微諧振器中非線性光學態的自由電子相互作用
▲ 作者:YUJIA YANG, JAN-WILKE HENKE, ARSLAN S. RAJA, F. JASMIN KAPPERT, GUANHAO HUANG, GERMAINE AREND, ZHERU QIU, ARMIN FEIST, RUI NING WANG , AND TOBIAS J. KIPPENBERG
Electron microscopes provide imaging capability on the tiniest of scales. The electron beams that scatter off the samples are generally energetically stable and spatially uniform. Being able to modulate the beam to access spatiotemporal information about the sample would be extremely useful but is technically challenging. Yang et al. demonstrate that the nonlinear optical states induced in a microresonator can interact with the electron beam and imprint the nonlinear optical states onto the beam. This interaction provides access to ultrafast modulation of the electron beam and broadens the application of electron microscopes for spatiotemporal imaging and spectroscopy.
Designing metainterfaces with specified friction laws
設計具有指定摩擦律的元接口
▲ 作者:ANTOINE AYMARD, EMILIE DELPLANQUE, DAVY DALMAS, AND JULIEN SCHEIBERT
Many devices, including touchscreens and robotic hands, involve frictional contacts. Optimizing these devices requires fine control of the interface’s friction law. We lack systematic methods to create dry contact interfaces whose frictional behavior satisfies preset specifications. We propose a generic surface design strategy to prepare dry rough interfaces that have predefined relationships between normal and friction forces. Such metainterfaces circumvent the usual multiscale challenge of tribology by considering simplified surface topographies as assemblies of spherical asperities. Optimizing the individual asperities’ heights enables specific friction laws to be targeted. Through various centimeter-scaled elastomer-glass metainterfaces, we illustrate three types of achievable friction laws, including linear laws with a specified friction coefficient and unusual nonlinear laws. This design strategy represents a scale- and material-independent, chemical-free pathway toward energy-saving and adaptable smart interfaces.
化學Chemistry
Synthetic dioxygenase reactivity by pairing electrochemical oxygen reduction and water oxidation
電化學氧還原與水氧化配對合成雙加氧酶的反應性
▲ 作者:MD. ASMAUL HOQUE, JAMES B. GERKEN, AND SHANNON S. STAHL
The reactivity of molecular oxygen is crucial to clean energy technologies and green chemical synthesis, but kinetic barriers complicate both applications. In synthesis, dioxygen should be able to undergo oxygen atom transfer to two organic molecules with perfect atom economy, but such reactivity is rare. Monooxygenase enzymes commonly reductively activate dioxygen by sacrificing one of the oxygen atoms to generate a more reactive oxidant. Here, we used a manganese-tetraphenylporphyrin catalyst to pair electrochemical oxygen reduction and water oxidation, generating a reactive manganese-oxo at both electrodes. This process supports dioxygen atom transfer to two thioether substrate molecules, generating two equivalents of sulfoxide with a single equivalent of dioxygen. This net dioxygenase reactivity consumes no electrons but uses electrochemical energy to overcome kinetic barriers.
Twisted epitaxy of gold nanodisks grown between twisted substrate layers of molybdenum disulfide
在扭曲二硫化鉬襯底層間生長的金納米片的扭曲外延
▲ 作者:YI CUI, JINGYANG WANG, YANBIN LI, YECUN WU, EMILY BEEN, ZEWEN ZHANG, JIAWEI ZHOU, WENBO ZHANG, HAROLD Y. HWANG, AND YI CUI
Epitaxial growth of a crystalline film normally proceeds from one substrate. Cui et al. report that two molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) layers can both impose orientation effects on gold. The authors grew gold nanoparticle layers on one MoS2 substrate and then covered the nanoparticles with a second MoS2 film. Upon heating, the nanoparticles flattened to nanodisks. For small twist angles between the two substrates (about 7 degrees), the nanometer-thick gold nanodisks adopted an orientation intermediate to both substrates. This alignment was driven in part by the chemical interaction of gold with sulfur.
保護生物學Conservation biology
Comprehensive conservation assessments reveal high extinction risks across Atlantic Forest trees
大西洋森林林木滅絕風險很高
▲ 作者:RENATO A. F. DE, GILLES DAUBY, ANDRé L. DE GASPER, EDUARDO P. FERNANDEZ, ALEXANDER C. VIBRANS, ALEXANDRE A. DE OLIVEIRA, PAULO I. PRADO, VINíCIUS C. SOUZA, MARINEZ F. DE SIQUEIRA, AND HANS TER STEEGE
Biodiversity is declining globally, yet many biodiversity hotspots still lack comprehensive species conservation assessments. Using multiple International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List criteria to evaluate extinction risks and millions of herbarium and forest inventory records, we present automated conservation assessments for all tree species of the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot, including ~1100 heretofore unassessed species. About 65% of all species and 82% of endemic species are classified as threatened. We rediscovered five species classified as Extinct on the IUCN Red List and identified 13 endemics as possibly extinct. Uncertainties in species information had little influence on the assessments, but using fewer Red List criteria severely underestimated threat levels. We suggest that the conservation status of tropical forests worldwide is worse than previously reported.
Global shark fishing mortality still rising despite widespread regulatory change
全球鯊魚捕撈死亡率仍在上升
▲ 作者:BORIS WORM , SARA OROFINO, ECHELLE S. BURNS, NIDHI G. D’COSTA, LEONARDO MANIR FEITOSA, MARIA L. D. PALOMARES, LAURENNE SCHILLER, AND DARCY BRADLEY