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Ecol Lett
September 2025
Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Ongoing declines of large-bodied frugivores limit the dispersal of large-seeded plants, contributing to their (local) demise and 'downsizing' of seeds across assemblages. However, the extent to which human pressure leads to contemporary seed downsizing, and whether extinct megafrugivores have left imprints on seed size, remains unclear. Here, we integrate trait and distribution data for 2852 endozoochorous plant species, 48 extant and 15 extinct frugivore species across 361 assemblages on Madagascar.
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September 2025
Extracorporeal Therapy Systems (EXTHER), Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI, Schillingallee 68, 18057 Rostock, Rostock, 18057, GERMANY.
The global rise in chronic kidney disease necessitates innovative solutions for end-stage renal dis-ease that can help to overcome the limitations of the only available treatment options, transplanta-tion and dialysis. Tissue engineering presents a promising alternative, leveraging decellularized scaffolds to retain the extracellular matrix (ECM). However, optimizing methods for decellularization and recellularization remains a challenge.
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September 2025
School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
The rotation of the bacterial flagellum is powered by the MotAB stator complex, which converts ion flux into torque. Despite its central role in flagellar function, the evolutionary origin and structural diversity of this system remain poorly understood. Here, we present the first comprehensive phylogenetic and structural characterization of MotAB and its closest non-flagellar homologs.
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September 2025
Laboratory for New Ceramics, Department of Ceramic Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Rourkela, Odisha 769008, India.
Polymer-derived ceramics are a versatile class of multifunctional materials synthesized the high-temperature treatment of a preceramic polymer. In this work, we report the synthesis of a vanadium carbide-embedded carbonaceous hybrid by pyrolyzing a modified preceramic polymer incorporating vanadium acetylacetonate in a polysilsesquioxane followed by hydrofluoric acid etching. The structural and microscopic characterisation confirmed the uniform distribution of nanoparticulate vanadium carbide in the matrix.
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September 2025
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, People's Republic of China.
The development of ultrablack coatings with exceptional absorption (>98%) has historically faced significant scientific and engineering challenges, primarily due to limitations in material selection, structural design, and practical durability. Considering the difficulties in practical applications of ultrablack materials with micro/nano structures and the limitations of planar ultrablack coatings in optical performance, we introduce an innovative integration of conventional planar ultrablack coatings with a specifically engineered trilayer antireflection architecture. This hybrid system incorporates a refractive index distribution (1.
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