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JACS

Site-Selective Electronic Structure and Dynamical Softness in the Metallic Antiferromagnet Mn3CuN

Aryan Keshri; Sourav Chowdhury; Naveen Goyal; Anju Ahlawat; Pushpendra Gupta; Garima Kaura; Ram Janay Choudhury; Moritz Hoesch; N. Ravishankar; Manuel Bibes; A. C. Garcia-Castro; Sujit Das *

JACS 2026

🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c16429
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Nature Communication

Controlled motion of polar vortex boundary in oxide heterostructures

Pushpendra Gupta, Mohit Tanwani, Qi Xu, Guanshihan Du, Peiran Tong, Yongjun Wu, Zijian Hong, He Tian, Ramamoorthy Ramesh & Sujit Das

Nature Communication 2026

🔗 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-78049-z
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Nature Nanotechnology

Cryogenic energy storage enabled by dipole glass with unit-cell-level polar disorder

Yangyang Si, Denan Li, Yijie Li, Changsheng Chen, Jingxuan Li, Chao Zhou, Hao Xiong, Tianfu Zhang, Wenjing Liao, Zhongqi Ren, Huaicheng Yuan, Dong Li, Jing-Kai Qin, Cheng-Yan Xu, Ye Zhu, Yunlong Tang, Sujit Das, Jieun Kim, Junling Wang, Hao Pan, Fei Li, Zhen Chen, Shi Liu & Zuhuang Chen

Nature Nanotechnology 2026

🔗 DOI: 10.1038/s41565-026-02260-8
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Small

Role of defects on the electrochemical activity of ZnV2O4 spinel cathode for secondary Zn-ion batteries

D. Singh, Y. Hu, S.K. Parate, S. Thareja, Y. Shang, P. Nukala, M. Fichtner, D. Kundu, P. Barpanda

Small 2026

🔗 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202506524
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A

High-stability cathode materials for sodium-ion batteries: Optimization strategies and promising future applications

R. Deokate, P. Barpanda

Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2026

🔗 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D5TA06797A
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Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.

Designing Nuclease-Resistant Enzyme-Mimicking Assemblies of Oligonucleotides Through Supramolecular Conjugation with Platinum(II) Complexes

Alisha Kamra, Rohit Kapila, Abhay Srivastava, Bhaskar Sen, and Subinoy Rana*

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2026

🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1002/anie.202522266
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