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Journal: Nature Chemistry

Title: Highly conducting single-molecule topological insulators based on mono- and di-radical cations

Authors: Liang Li1, Jonathan Z. Low1, Jan Wilhelm2, Guanming Liao3, Suman Gunasekaran1, Claudia R. Prindle1, Rachel L. Starr1, Dorothea Golze4, Colin Nuckolls1, Michael L. Steigerwald1, Ferdinand Evers*2, Luis M. Campos*1, Xiaodong Yin*3, Latha Venkataraman*1,5 1Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States 2Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany 3Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 102488, P. R. China 4Technische Universitat Dresden, Konig-Bau, Bergstrasse 66 c, 01069 Dresden, Germany 5Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States

The study was supported by the National Science Foundation, under grant DMR-1807580.

COI: The authors declare no financial or other conflicts of interest.

Header image: A brief abstract figure of this work. The geometry of the highest conducting trimer (n=3) molecule in the molecular junction. Red and blue regions are artistic depictions on the coupling between the two edge states.

About the Study

Journal: Environmental Science: Advances

Title: “Microbial nanocellulose biotextiles for a circular materials economy.”

Authors: Theanne N. Schiros12, Romare Antrobus23, Delfina Far´ias1, Yueh-Ting Chiu3, Christian Tay Joseph2, Shanece Esdaille2, Gwen Karen Sanchirico1, Grace Miquelon1, Dong An4, Sebastian T. Russell4, Adrian M. Chitu5, Susanne Goetz6, Anne Marika Verploegh Chasse7, Colin Nuckolls8, Sanat K. Kumar4, and Helen H. Lu23.

1. Department of Science and Mathematics, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY 10001, USA
2. Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
3. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
4. Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
5. Materials Science and Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
6. Surface/Textile Design, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY 10001, USA
7. Footwear and Accessories Design, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY 10001, USA
8. Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA

The study was supported by National Science Foundation, MRSEC program through Columbia on Precision-Assembled Quantum Materials (PAQM), grant DMR-2011738 (TNS, RA, Y-TC, HHL, CTJ, SE, DA, STR), the National Institutes of Health, grant NIH-NIAMS 1R01-AR07352901 (HHL), and a DoD CDMRP award, grant W81XWH-15-1-0685 (HHL).

COI: The authors declare no financial or other conflicts of interest.

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Journal: Light: Science & Applications

Title: Multifunctional Resonant Wavefront-Shaping Meta-Optics Based on Multilayer and Multi-Perturbation Nonlocal Metasurfaces

Authors: Stephanie C. Malek1, Adam C. Overvig1,2, Andrea Alu2,3, Nanfang Yu1*

1. Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
2. Photonics Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 10031
3. Physics Program, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 10016

FUNDING: The study was supported by the National Science Foundation (grant no. QII-TAQS-1936359 and no. ECCS-2004685) and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (grant no. FA9550-14-1-0389 and no. FA9550-16-1-0322). S.C.M. acknowledges support from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (grant no. DGE-1644869). A.C.O. acknowledges support from the NSF IGERT program (grant no. DGE-1069240).

COI: The authors declare no financial or other conflicts of interest. The authors have filed a provisional patent on the device technology reported in this paper and a couple earlier theoretical papers.