First-principles simulations show that Pt single atoms and dimers are stabilized by tin doping in indium oxide the presence of hydroxyl groups.

We study the formation of the electric and magnetic near-field hotspots in dielectric cylindrical dimers. We compare dielectric and metallic dimers by using experimental data for all materials and consider both TM and TE polarizations of light. We demonstrate that dielectric dimers allow us to simultaneously achieve pure magnetic and electric near-field hotspots for both polarizations in contra...

Mycobacterium smegmatis porin A (MspA) forms an octameric channel and represents the founding member of a new family of pore proteins. Control of subunit stoichiometry is important to tailor MspA for nanotechnological applications. In this study, two MspA monomers were connected by linkers ranging from 17 to 62 amino acids in length. The oligomeric pore proteins were purified from M. smegmatis ...

We consider close-packed dimers, or perfect matchings, on twodimensional regular lattices. We review known results and derive new expressions for the free energy, entropy, and the molecular freedom of dimers for a number of lattices including the simple-quartic (44), honeycomb (63), triangular (36), kagomé (3 · 6 · 3 · 6), 3-12 (3 · 122) and its dual [3 · 122], and 4-8 (4 · 82) and its dual Uni...