--- OA_place: publisher OA_type: hybrid PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '20657' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'The Upper Bound Theorem for convex polytopes implies that the p-th Betti number of the Čech complex of any set of N points in ℝ^d and any radius satisfies β_p = O(N^m), with m = min{p+1, ⌈d/2⌉}. We construct sets in even and odd dimensions, which prove that this upper bound is asymptotically tight. For example, we describe a set of N = 2(n+1) points in ℝ³ and two radii such that the first Betti number of the Čech complex at one radius is (n+1)² - 1, and the second Betti number of the Čech complex at the other radius is n². ' acknowledgement: The first author is supported by the European Research Council (ERC), grant no. 788183, and by the DFG Collaborative Research Center TRR 109, Austrian Science Fund (FWF), grant no. I 02979-N35. The second author is supported by the European Research Council (ERC), grant “GeoScape” and by the Hungarian Science Foundation (NKFIH), grant K-131529. Both authors are supported by the Wittgenstein Prize, Austrian Science Fund (FWF), grant no. Z 342-N31. Open access funding provided by Institute of Science and Technology (IST Austria). article_processing_charge: Yes (via OA deal) article_type: original arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Herbert full_name: Edelsbrunner, Herbert id: 3FB178DA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Edelsbrunner orcid: 0000-0002-9823-6833 - first_name: János full_name: Pach, János id: E62E3130-B088-11EA-B919-BF823C25FEA4 last_name: Pach citation: ama: Edelsbrunner H, Pach J. Maximum Betti numbers of Čech complexes. Discrete & Computational Geometry. 2026;75:597-624. doi:10.1007/s00454-025-00796-5 apa: Edelsbrunner, H., & Pach, J. (2026). Maximum Betti numbers of Čech complexes. Discrete & Computational Geometry. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-025-00796-5 chicago: Edelsbrunner, Herbert, and János Pach. “Maximum Betti Numbers of Čech Complexes.” Discrete & Computational Geometry. Springer Nature, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-025-00796-5. ieee: H. Edelsbrunner and J. Pach, “Maximum Betti numbers of Čech complexes,” Discrete & Computational Geometry, vol. 75. Springer Nature, pp. 597–624, 2026. ista: Edelsbrunner H, Pach J. 2026. Maximum Betti numbers of Čech complexes. Discrete & Computational Geometry. 75, 597–624. mla: Edelsbrunner, Herbert, and János Pach. “Maximum Betti Numbers of Čech Complexes.” Discrete & Computational Geometry, vol. 75, Springer Nature, 2026, pp. 597–624, doi:10.1007/s00454-025-00796-5. short: H. Edelsbrunner, J. Pach, Discrete & Computational Geometry 75 (2026) 597–624. corr_author: '1' das_tickbox: '0' date_created: 2025-11-19T09:44:58Z date_published: 2026-03-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-10-02T11:48:00Z day: '01' ddc: - '510' department: - _id: HeEd doi: 10.1007/s00454-025-00796-5 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2310.14801' isi: - '001610592600001' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: c17c014dbbf5be702195c737890251c8 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2026-07-27T08:11:05Z date_updated: 2026-07-27T08:11:05Z file_id: '22410' file_name: 2026_DiscreteCompGeom_Edelsbrunner.pdf file_size: 546483 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2026-07-27T08:11:05Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-025-00796-5 has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 75' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 597-624 project: - _id: 266A2E9E-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '788183' name: Alpha Shape Theory Extended - _id: 2561EBF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: I02979-N35 name: Persistence and stability of geometric complexes - _id: 268116B8-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: Z00342 name: Mathematics, Computer Science publication: Discrete & Computational Geometry publication_identifier: eissn: - 1432-0444 issn: - 0179-5376 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '17146' relation: earlier_version status: public researchdata_availability: no scopus_import: '1' status: public supplementarymaterial: no title: Maximum Betti numbers of Čech complexes tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 75 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: repository OA_type: green _id: '20585' abstract: - lang: eng text: Motivated by applications in medical sciences, we study finite chromatic sets in Euclidean space from a topological perspective. Based on the persistent homology for images, kernels and cokernels, we design provably stable homological quantifiers that describe the geometric micro- and macro-structure of how the color classes mingle. These can be efficiently computed using chromatic variants of Delaunay and alpha complexes, and code that does these computations is provided. acknowledgement: "This project has received funding from the European Research\r\nCouncil (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation\r\nprogramme, grant no. 788183, from the Wittgenstein Prize, Austrian Science Fund\r\n(FWF), grant no. Z 342-N31, and from the DFG Collaborative Research Center TRR\r\n109, ‘Discretization in Geometry and Dynamics’, Austrian Science Fund (FWF),\r\ngrant no. I 02979-N35." article_processing_charge: No article_type: original arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Sebastiano full_name: Cultrera di Montesano, Sebastiano id: 34D2A09C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Cultrera di Montesano orcid: 0000-0001-6249-0832 - first_name: Ondrej full_name: Draganov, Ondrej id: 2B23F01E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Draganov orcid: 0000-0003-0464-3823 - first_name: Herbert full_name: Edelsbrunner, Herbert id: 3FB178DA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Edelsbrunner orcid: 0000-0002-9823-6833 - first_name: Morteza full_name: Saghafian, Morteza id: f86f7148-b140-11ec-9577-95435b8df824 last_name: Saghafian citation: ama: Cultrera di Montesano S, Draganov O, Edelsbrunner H, Saghafian M. Chromatic alpha complexes. Foundations of Data Science. 2026;8:30-62. doi:10.3934/fods.2025003 apa: Cultrera di Montesano, S., Draganov, O., Edelsbrunner, H., & Saghafian, M. (2026). Chromatic alpha complexes. Foundations of Data Science. AIMS. https://doi.org/10.3934/fods.2025003 chicago: Cultrera di Montesano, Sebastiano, Ondrej Draganov, Herbert Edelsbrunner, and Morteza Saghafian. “Chromatic Alpha Complexes.” Foundations of Data Science. AIMS, 2026. https://doi.org/10.3934/fods.2025003. ieee: S. Cultrera di Montesano, O. Draganov, H. Edelsbrunner, and M. Saghafian, “Chromatic alpha complexes,” Foundations of Data Science, vol. 8. AIMS, pp. 30–62, 2026. ista: Cultrera di Montesano S, Draganov O, Edelsbrunner H, Saghafian M. 2026. Chromatic alpha complexes. Foundations of Data Science. 8, 30–62. mla: Cultrera di Montesano, Sebastiano, et al. “Chromatic Alpha Complexes.” Foundations of Data Science, vol. 8, AIMS, 2026, pp. 30–62, doi:10.3934/fods.2025003. short: S. Cultrera di Montesano, O. Draganov, H. Edelsbrunner, M. Saghafian, Foundations of Data Science 8 (2026) 30–62. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2025-11-02T23:01:33Z date_published: 2026-03-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-10-02T11:56:12Z day: '01' ddc: - '510' department: - _id: HeEd doi: 10.3934/fods.2025003 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2212.03128' fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.3934/fods.2025003 has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 8' keyword: - Topological data analysis - Delaunay mosaic - alpha complex - chromatic sets - persistent homology - kernel/image/cokernel persistent homology - radius function - discrete Morse theory - exact sequences language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2212.03128 mathsc: - 62R40 - 55N31 - 68T09 - 57Q70 month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 30-62 project: - _id: 266A2E9E-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '788183' name: Alpha Shape Theory Extended - _id: 268116B8-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: Z00342 name: Mathematics, Computer Science - _id: 2561EBF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: I02979-N35 name: Persistence and stability of geometric complexes publication: Foundations of Data Science publication_identifier: eissn: - 2639-8001 publication_status: published publisher: AIMS quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '15091' relation: earlier_version status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Chromatic alpha complexes type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 8 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: publisher _id: '22804' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Embryo cleavage — a series of rapid, reductive cell divisions — is the first morphogenetic movement following fertilisation. It lays the foundation for subsequent developmental events, including gastrulation, germ layer specification, organogenesis, and the establishment of the overall body plan. Two major modes of cleavage exist in the animal kingdom: holoblastic (complete) and meroblastic (incomplete) cleavage. Because holoblastic cleavage resembles canonical cytokinesis, its biochemical and mechanical basis has been extensively studied — an annular contractile ring forms at the equator and constricts in a purse-string-like manner, leading to the complete separation of two daughter cells. In contrast, although meroblastic cleavage occurs widely across the animal kingdom (e.g. in fish, reptiles, birds, and cephalopod molluscs), its mechanical basis remains largely unclear. During meroblastic cleavage, the cytokinetic furrow forms only at one pole and does not traverse the entire embryo, raising the question of how cytokinesis proceeds in the absence of a closed contractile ring. Moreover, the resulting daughter cells are not fully separated from the underlying yolk compartment, and how these blastomeres are subsequently cellularised remains unknown. This thesis takes the zebrafish as a model organism to address both questions. The first part characterises the biochemical and mechanical mechanisms underlying non-canonical meroblastic cleavage, revealing a two-phase process in which actomyosin cable contraction and cadherin-mediated membrane adhesion act sequentially to drive furrow ingression and invagination. The second part sheds light on the spatiotemporal dynamics by which individual blastomeres become cellularised, and uncovers a previously unrecognised contribution of central blastomeres to the yolk syncytial layer.' acknowledged_ssus: - _id: Bio - _id: LifeSc acknowledgement: "I gratefully acknowledge the NOMIS Stiftung (Project ID 5061.844, Cytoplasmic\r\nself-organization into cell-like compartments as a common guiding principle in\r\nearly animal development) for funding my doctoral studies." alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Xin full_name: Tong, Xin id: 50F65CDC-AA30-11E9-A72B-8A12E6697425 last_name: Tong citation: ama: Tong X. Towards a deeper understanding of meroblastic cleavage. 2026. doi:10.15479/AT-ISTA-22804 apa: Tong, X. (2026). Towards a deeper understanding of meroblastic cleavage. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22804 chicago: Tong, Xin. “Towards a Deeper Understanding of Meroblastic Cleavage.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22804. ieee: X. Tong, “Towards a deeper understanding of meroblastic cleavage,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. ista: Tong X. 2026. Towards a deeper understanding of meroblastic cleavage. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Tong, Xin. Towards a Deeper Understanding of Meroblastic Cleavage. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026, doi:10.15479/AT-ISTA-22804. short: X. Tong, Towards a Deeper Understanding of Meroblastic Cleavage, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2026-09-04T11:54:20Z date_published: 2026-07-12T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-10-05T08:56:10Z day: '12' ddc: - '596' - '532' - '572' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: CaHe doi: 10.15479/AT-ISTA-22804 doi_confirm: '1' file: - access_level: closed checksum: fdcc187a5a92e785da0eff8936fb127e content_type: application/zip creator: xtong date_created: 2026-09-11T13:04:37Z date_updated: 2026-09-14T08:28:06Z file_id: '22909' file_name: 2026_TONG_Xin_Thesis.zip file_size: 126983933 relation: source_file - access_level: open_access checksum: 23ee39b3f08bccd46acfd332e67f5232 content_type: application/pdf creator: xtong date_created: 2026-09-14T12:30:07Z date_updated: 2026-09-14T12:48:53Z file_id: '22930' file_name: 2026_TONG_Xin_Thesis.pdf file_size: 46855054 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2026-09-14T12:48:53Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22804 has_accepted_license: '1' keyword: - meroblastic cleavage - cytokinesis - active gel theory - embryogenesis - zebrafish - adhesion language: - iso: eng license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '121' project: - _id: 917c023a-16d5-11f0-9cad-eb5cafc52090 name: Cytoplasmic self-organization into cell-like compartments as a common guiding principle in early animal development publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-3-99078-080-0 issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '22777' relation: research_data status: public - id: '22807' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public researchdata_availability: upon request status: public supervisor: - first_name: Carl-Philipp J full_name: Heisenberg, Carl-Philipp J id: 39427864-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Heisenberg orcid: 0000-0002-0912-4566 title: Towards a deeper understanding of meroblastic cleavage tmp: image: /images/cc_by_nc.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) short: CC BY-NC (4.0) type: dissertation user_id: 8b945eb4-e2f2-11eb-945a-df72226e66a9 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: repository _id: '22777' acknowledged_ssus: - _id: Bio - _id: LifeSc article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Xin full_name: Tong, Xin id: 50F65CDC-AA30-11E9-A72B-8A12E6697425 last_name: Tong citation: ama: Tong X. Towards a deeper understanding of meroblastic cleavage - supplementary movies. 2026. doi:10.15479/AT-ISTA-22777 apa: Tong, X. (2026). Towards a deeper understanding of meroblastic cleavage - supplementary movies. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22777 chicago: Tong, Xin. “Towards a Deeper Understanding of Meroblastic Cleavage - Supplementary Movies.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22777. ieee: X. Tong, “Towards a deeper understanding of meroblastic cleavage - supplementary movies.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. ista: Tong X. 2026. Towards a deeper understanding of meroblastic cleavage - supplementary movies, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 10.15479/AT-ISTA-22777. mla: Tong, Xin. Towards a Deeper Understanding of Meroblastic Cleavage - Supplementary Movies. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026, doi:10.15479/AT-ISTA-22777. short: X. 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access_level: open_access checksum: 343f8d51cd1ff3f8bbdbbc0a86e7117f content_type: video/avi creator: xtong date_created: 2026-09-03T10:57:20Z date_updated: 2026-09-03T10:57:20Z file_id: '22793' file_name: Movie S15_Cdh1_Factin.avi file_size: 3399188 relation: main_file success: 1 - access_level: open_access checksum: a48d888dc7994e54390c55deb0976f5a content_type: video/avi creator: xtong date_created: 2026-09-03T10:57:21Z date_updated: 2026-09-03T10:57:21Z file_id: '22794' file_name: Movie S16_cafree.avi file_size: 1253862 relation: main_file success: 1 - access_level: open_access checksum: ac4790a151352cc72534ec55468acebe content_type: video/avi creator: xtong date_created: 2026-09-03T10:57:22Z date_updated: 2026-09-03T10:57:22Z file_id: '22795' file_name: Movie S17_carhoa.avi file_size: 2268762 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2026-09-03T10:58:05Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-22777 has_accepted_license: '1' month: '9' oa: 1 oa_version: None project: - _id: 9B861AAC-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A name: NOMIS Fellowship Program - _id: 05943252-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '851288' name: Design Principles of Branching Morphogenesis publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '22804' relation: used_in_publication status: public status: public title: Towards a deeper understanding of meroblastic cleavage - supplementary movies tmp: image: /images/cc_by_nc.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) short: CC BY-NC (4.0) type: research_data user_id: 68b8ca59-c5b3-11ee-8790-cd641c68093d year: '2026' ... --- DOAJ_listed: '1' OA_place: publisher OA_type: gold PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '22964' abstract: - lang: eng text: We investigate whether the nonaccreting phases found in thin, locally isothermal circumbinary disks survive when the disk thermodynamics are evolved self-consistently. We present grid-based hydrodynamics simulations of circumbinary accretion with an energy equation that includes viscous and hydrodynamic heating coupled to radiative blackbody cooling in the high-Mach number regime. We find that, although gas accumulates and heats at the far edge of the circumbinary cavity, the regions that launch accretion streams remain comparatively cold, leading to potentially long-lived suppression of the binary accretion rate as the large-scale feeding rate is reduced towards the Eddington limit. This runaway nonaccretion problem, however, is weakened relative to locally isothermal solutions. Despite their low accretion rates, binaries interacting with disks in a nonaccreting phase can remain sufficiently luminous and variable at optical and near-infrared frequencies to be detectable in upcoming wide-field surveys such as LSST and the Roman Space Telescope. Because of the effective truncation of the surrounding disk, though, such systems are comparatively faint in high energy, photoionizing emission, and may therefore appear as intrinsically X-ray–weak active galactic nuclei with weak or absent emission line features. We additionally suggest an update to grid-based sink prescriptions for approximating mass loss across an unresolved horizon when including an energy conservation equation. acknowledgement: "This work was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2023 research and innovation program under Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101148364, and by Sapere Aude Starting grant No. 121587 through the Danish Independent Research Fund. It was additionally supported by NSF AAG No. 2511544. CT acknowledges many helpful conversations on binary accretion at the workshop Climbing Cosmic Peaks through the Sexten Center for Astrophysics Riccardo Giacconi. In particular, we thank Zoltan Haiman and Massimo Dotti for discussions on optical time-domain searches; Andrew MacFadyen, Alessia Franchini, Magdalena Siwek, and Mark Avara for conversations on binary accretion dynamics; Alessandra De Rosa for an insightful question on ionizing emission; and Jessie Runnoe for slope-side discussions on AGN broad-line regions. C.T. additionally thanks Jonathan Zrake for helpful comments on this manuscript and the anonymous reviewer for an engaging and insightful report. This work was conceived of, performed, and written by humans: C.T., D.O.N., D.J.D. Computation time was supported through the Tycho supercomputer hosted at the SCIENCE HPC center at the University of Copenhagen.\r\nSoftware: Sailfish (J. Zrake & A. MacFadyen 2024), numpy (C. R. Harris et al. 2020), scipy (P. Virtanen et al. 2020), matplotlib (J. D. Hunter 2007), cmasher (E. van der Velden 2020)." article_number: '26' article_processing_charge: Yes article_type: original arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Christopher full_name: Tiede, Christopher last_name: Tiede - first_name: David W full_name: O'Neill, David W id: 3fc12674-2d69-11f1-a6bf-b826b45a1150 last_name: O'Neill - first_name: Daniel J. full_name: D’Orazio, Daniel J. last_name: D’Orazio citation: ama: Tiede C, O’Neill DW, D’Orazio DJ. Dynamics and detectability of long-lived nonaccretion phases for massive Black Hole binaries in cold thermally regulating disks. The Astrophysical Journal. 2026;1008(1). doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ae914e apa: Tiede, C., O’Neill, D. W., & D’Orazio, D. J. (2026). Dynamics and detectability of long-lived nonaccretion phases for massive Black Hole binaries in cold thermally regulating disks. The Astrophysical Journal. IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae914e chicago: Tiede, Christopher, David W O’Neill, and Daniel J. D’Orazio. “Dynamics and Detectability of Long-Lived Nonaccretion Phases for Massive Black Hole Binaries in Cold Thermally Regulating Disks.” The Astrophysical Journal. IOP Publishing, 2026. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae914e. ieee: C. Tiede, D. W. O’Neill, and D. J. D’Orazio, “Dynamics and detectability of long-lived nonaccretion phases for massive Black Hole binaries in cold thermally regulating disks,” The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 1008, no. 1. IOP Publishing, 2026. ista: Tiede C, O’Neill DW, D’Orazio DJ. 2026. Dynamics and detectability of long-lived nonaccretion phases for massive Black Hole binaries in cold thermally regulating disks. The Astrophysical Journal. 1008(1), 26. mla: Tiede, Christopher, et al. “Dynamics and Detectability of Long-Lived Nonaccretion Phases for Massive Black Hole Binaries in Cold Thermally Regulating Disks.” The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 1008, no. 1, 26, IOP Publishing, 2026, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ae914e. short: C. Tiede, D.W. O’Neill, D.J. D’Orazio, The Astrophysical Journal 1008 (2026). das_tickbox: '0' date_created: 2026-09-20T22:01:48Z date_published: 2026-09-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-10-06T10:45:07Z day: '01' ddc: - '520' department: - _id: ZoHa doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae914e external_id: arxiv: - '2606.04082' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: f3fa2d7a10b75b74290d7a9a68a3d367 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2026-10-06T10:44:15Z date_updated: 2026-10-06T10:44:15Z file_id: '23061' file_name: 2026_AstrophysicalJour_Tiede.pdf file_size: 5621643 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2026-10-06T10:44:15Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae914e has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 1008' issue: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version publication: The Astrophysical Journal publication_identifier: eissn: - 1538-4357 issn: - 0004-637X publication_status: published publisher: IOP Publishing quality_controlled: '1' researchdata_availability: no scopus_import: '1' status: public supplementarymaterial: yes title: Dynamics and detectability of long-lived nonaccretion phases for massive Black Hole binaries in cold thermally regulating disks tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 1008 year: '2026' ... --- OA_type: closed access _id: '22965' abstract: - lang: eng text: Manganese-based aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) have emerged as promising candidates for large-scale energy storage owing to their low cost, intrinsic safety, and the abundance of constituent elements. However, their practical deployment is still restricted by severe capacity fading caused by Jahn–Teller-induced structural instability and sluggish Zn2+ transport in the cathode. Although surface coating, heteroatom doping, and structural regulation have been widely explored to improve Mn-based cathodes, these approaches may suffer from increased interfacial resistance, compositional complexity, or limited control over the intrinsic electronic structure. In this context, oxygen-vacancy engineering offers a more direct route to modulate local coordination environments and accelerate Zn2+/H+ storage kinetics. Herein, lattice-level defect engineering of a dense Mn2O3 host is achieved through a metal–organic framework-derived synthesis followed by mild secondary annealing. The introduced oxygen vacancies regulate the local electronic structure and coordination environment, thereby facilitating Zn2+ diffusion, accelerating charge-transfer kinetics, and improving electrochemical reversibility. Combined experimental and theoretical investigations further show that oxygen-vacancy engineering enhances electronic conductivity, reduces the Zn2+ migration barrier, and enables a reversible dual-ion storage mechanism involving both H+ and Zn2+. Benefiting from these effects, the Zn‖Vo-Mn2O3 battery delivers a high specific capacity of 359 mAh g−1 at 0.3 A g−1, maintains 210 mAh g−1 at 6 A g−1, and retains 74.3% of its capacity after 10 000 cycles at 12 A g−1 after only 150 s of initial preconditioning. This work highlights oxygen-vacancy engineering as an effective route to enhancing the kinetic and structural stability of Mn-based cathodes for advanced AZIBs. acknowledgement: 'Ao Y. acknowledges financial support from the China Scholarship Council (No. 202208320041), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 22475231), and the Shenzhen Science and Technology Planning Project (No. KJZD20230923115227054). The XAS experiments were performed in collaboration with ALBA staff at the NOTOS beamline of ALBA Synchrotron (experiment ID: 2024028418), Barcelona, Spain. JL is a Serra Húnter Fellow and is grateful to the Academia Excellence program (Generalitat de Catalunya) and to the project PID2024-156765OB-C21 funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER), and to the María de Maeztu Units of Excellence Programme CEX2023-001300 M, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033.' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Ao full_name: Yu, Ao last_name: Yu - first_name: Xingqi full_name: Chang, Xingqi last_name: Chang - first_name: Xuan full_name: Lu, Xuan last_name: Lu - first_name: Ren full_name: He, Ren id: 366c4efa-f61c-11f0-808b-d12a4547ac69 last_name: He - first_name: Linlin full_name: Yang, Linlin last_name: Yang - first_name: Jiali full_name: Chai, Jiali last_name: Chai - first_name: Xiaoyu full_name: Bi, Xiaoyu last_name: Bi - first_name: Jesús full_name: Chacón-Borrero, Jesús last_name: Chacón-Borrero - first_name: Karol V. full_name: Mejia-Centeno, Karol V. last_name: Mejia-Centeno - first_name: Jordi full_name: Llorca, Jordi last_name: Llorca - first_name: Eduardo full_name: Villalobos-Portillo, Eduardo last_name: Villalobos-Portillo - first_name: Qirong full_name: Liu, Qirong last_name: Liu - first_name: Jian full_name: Shang, Jian last_name: Shang - first_name: Andreu full_name: Cabot, Andreu last_name: Cabot citation: ama: Yu A, Chang X, Lu X, et al. Lattice-level defect engineering of dense Mn2O3 hosts unlocks fast H+/Zn2+ storage and long-life aqueous zinc-ion batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2026. doi:10.1039/d6ta05844b apa: Yu, A., Chang, X., Lu, X., He, R., Yang, L., Chai, J., … Cabot, A. (2026). Lattice-level defect engineering of dense Mn2O3 hosts unlocks fast H+/Zn2+ storage and long-life aqueous zinc-ion batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Royal Society of Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/d6ta05844b chicago: Yu, Ao, Xingqi Chang, Xuan Lu, Ren He, Linlin Yang, Jiali Chai, Xiaoyu Bi, et al. “Lattice-Level Defect Engineering of Dense Mn2O3 Hosts Unlocks Fast H+/Zn2+ Storage and Long-Life Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries.” Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Royal Society of Chemistry, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1039/d6ta05844b. ieee: A. Yu et al., “Lattice-level defect engineering of dense Mn2O3 hosts unlocks fast H+/Zn2+ storage and long-life aqueous zinc-ion batteries,” Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Royal Society of Chemistry, 2026. ista: Yu A, Chang X, Lu X, He R, Yang L, Chai J, Bi X, Chacón-Borrero J, Mejia-Centeno KV, Llorca J, Villalobos-Portillo E, Liu Q, Shang J, Cabot A. 2026. Lattice-level defect engineering of dense Mn2O3 hosts unlocks fast H+/Zn2+ storage and long-life aqueous zinc-ion batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. mla: Yu, Ao, et al. “Lattice-Level Defect Engineering of Dense Mn2O3 Hosts Unlocks Fast H+/Zn2+ Storage and Long-Life Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries.” Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2026, doi:10.1039/d6ta05844b. short: A. Yu, X. Chang, X. Lu, R. He, L. Yang, J. Chai, X. Bi, J. Chacón-Borrero, K.V. Mejia-Centeno, J. Llorca, E. Villalobos-Portillo, Q. Liu, J. Shang, A. Cabot, Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2026). das_tickbox: '1' dataavailabilitystatement: 'The data that support the findings of this study are available within the manuscript and the corresponding supplementary information (SI). Data are available upon request from the authors. Supplementary information is available. See DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/d6ta05844b.' date_created: 2026-09-20T22:01:48Z date_published: 2026-08-31T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-10-06T10:34:27Z day: '31' department: - _id: MaIb doi: 10.1039/d6ta05844b fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1039/d6ta05844b language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa_version: None publication: Journal of Materials Chemistry A publication_identifier: eissn: - 2050-7496 issn: - 2050-7488 publication_status: epub_ahead publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry quality_controlled: '1' researchdata_availability: no scopus_import: '1' status: public supplementarymaterial: yes title: Lattice-level defect engineering of dense Mn2O3 hosts unlocks fast H+/Zn2+ storage and long-life aqueous zinc-ion batteries type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: publisher OA_type: hybrid PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '22967' abstract: - lang: eng text: Alkali salts are widely used in solution processing, yet the corresponding cations are often assumed to remain in the liquid phase. Here, we show that alkali ions introduced during the solution synthesis of SnSe are retained through particle isolation and continue to influence the material during subsequent thermal processing, where they shape the evolution of the final polycrystalline material. Different SnSe powders were prepared using Li+, Na+, and K+ precursors, as well as tetramethylammonium (TMA+) precursors as a nonalkali reference for comparison, and all samples were consolidated under identical conditions. Although all three alkali ions were found in the matrix, at grain boundaries, and in segregated nanoscale regions, they partitioned differently and resulted in distinct grain sizes, defect distributions, and therefore transport properties. Li induced the strongest grain size heterogeneity and the lowest energy barriers, Na the best overall balance between carrier concentration and mobility, and K the broadest alkali-rich grain boundary regions along with the strongest interfacial penalty to charge carrier transport. These results show that residual alkali ions are not just remnants of solution synthesis but active determinants of microstructure and thermoelectric performance in SnSe. acknowledged_ssus: - _id: EM-Fac - _id: NanoFab acknowledgement: "ISTA and the Werner Siemens Foundation financially supported this work. The Scientific Service Units (SSU) of ISTA supported this research through resources provided by the Electron Microscopy Facility (EMF), Juan Aguilera Servin from the Nanofabrication facility (NNF). Special acknowledgments to the Ibá\r\nez group for their fruitful discussions and insights. K.M. acknowledges the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101034413 and PETRAIII at DESY for the synchrotron X-ray measurements under proposal No. I-20241048 EC. JL is a Serra Húnter Fellow and is grateful to the Academia Excellence program (Generalitat de Catalunya), project PID2024-156765OB-C21 funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER), and María de Maeztu Units of Excellence Programme CEX2023-001300 M, funded by MCIN/AEI 10.13039/501100011033. VG and SD acknowledge the use of resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. Y.L. acknowledges funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 754411, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grants No. 22209034)." article_processing_charge: Yes (via OA deal) article_type: original author: - first_name: Christine full_name: Fiedler, Christine id: bd3fceba-dc74-11ea-a0a7-c17f71817366 last_name: Fiedler - first_name: Sharona full_name: Horta, Sharona id: 03a7e858-01b1-11ec-8b71-99ae6c4a05bc last_name: Horta - first_name: Navita full_name: Navita, Navita id: 6ebe278d-ba0b-11ee-8184-f34cdc671de4 last_name: Navita orcid: 0000-0001-7408-8197 - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Maji, Krishnendu id: 76bc9e9f-ba0b-11ee-8184-90edabd17a58 last_name: Maji - first_name: Tobias full_name: Kleinhanns, Tobias id: 8BD9DE16-AB3C-11E9-9C8C-2A03E6697425 last_name: Kleinhanns orcid: 0000-0003-1537-7436 - first_name: Jordi full_name: Llorca, Jordi last_name: Llorca - first_name: Qi full_name: Wang, Qi id: 0d37923a-aca1-11ef-951f-fd411b71d5f0 last_name: Wang - first_name: Maria Garcia full_name: Ramon, Maria Garcia id: 1ffff7cd-ed76-11ed-8d5f-be5e7c364eb9 last_name: Ramon - first_name: Sambit full_name: Das, Sambit last_name: Das - first_name: Vikram full_name: Gavini, Vikram last_name: Gavini - first_name: Yu full_name: Liu, Yu id: 2A70014E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Liu orcid: 0000-0001-7313-6740 - first_name: Maria full_name: Ibáñez, Maria id: 43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Ibáñez orcid: 0000-0001-5013-2843 citation: ama: Fiedler C, Horta S, Jakhar N, et al. Alkali ions retained from synthesis govern microstructure and transport in solution-processed SnSe. Chemistry of Materials. 2026;38(18):9323–9332. doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.6c01284 apa: Fiedler, C., Horta, S., Jakhar, N., Maji, K., Kleinhanns, T., Llorca, J., … Ibáñez, M. (2026). Alkali ions retained from synthesis govern microstructure and transport in solution-processed SnSe. Chemistry of Materials. American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.6c01284 chicago: Fiedler, Christine, Sharona Horta, Navita Jakhar, Krishnendu Maji, Tobias Kleinhanns, Jordi Llorca, Qi Wang, et al. “Alkali Ions Retained from Synthesis Govern Microstructure and Transport in Solution-Processed SnSe.” Chemistry of Materials. American Chemical Society, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.6c01284. ieee: C. Fiedler et al., “Alkali ions retained from synthesis govern microstructure and transport in solution-processed SnSe,” Chemistry of Materials, vol. 38, no. 18. American Chemical Society, pp. 9323–9332, 2026. ista: Fiedler C, Horta S, Jakhar N, Maji K, Kleinhanns T, Llorca J, Wang Q, Ramon MG, Das S, Gavini V, Liu Y, Ibáñez M. 2026. Alkali ions retained from synthesis govern microstructure and transport in solution-processed SnSe. Chemistry of Materials. 38(18), 9323–9332. mla: Fiedler, Christine, et al. “Alkali Ions Retained from Synthesis Govern Microstructure and Transport in Solution-Processed SnSe.” Chemistry of Materials, vol. 38, no. 18, American Chemical Society, 2026, pp. 9323–9332, doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.6c01284. short: C. Fiedler, S. Horta, N. Jakhar, K. Maji, T. Kleinhanns, J. Llorca, Q. Wang, M.G. Ramon, S. Das, V. Gavini, Y. Liu, M. Ibáñez, Chemistry of Materials 38 (2026) 9323–9332. corr_author: '1' das_tickbox: '0' date_created: 2026-09-21T10:33:48Z date_published: 2026-09-22T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-10-06T12:16:03Z day: '22' ddc: - '540' department: - _id: MaIb - _id: GradSch - _id: NanoFab doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6c01284 ec_funded: 1 external_id: pmid: - '42787739' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 15e7866ca4fd57f5526737945651a6f2 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2026-10-06T12:11:04Z date_updated: 2026-10-06T12:11:04Z file_id: '23063' file_name: 2026_ChemistryMaterials_Fiedler.pdf file_size: 7461570 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2026-10-06T12:11:04Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.6c01284 has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 38' issue: '18' language: - iso: eng month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 9323–9332 pmid: 1 project: - _id: 9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A name: 'HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery' - _id: fc2ed2f7-9c52-11eb-aca3-c01059dda49c call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '101034413' name: 'IST-BRIDGE: International postdoctoral program' - _id: 260C2330-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '754411' name: ISTplus - Postdoctoral Fellowships publication: Chemistry of Materials publication_identifier: eissn: - 1520-5002 issn: - 0897-4756 publication_status: published publisher: American Chemical Society quality_controlled: '1' researchdata_availability: no scopus_import: '1' status: public supplementarymaterial: yes title: Alkali ions retained from synthesis govern microstructure and transport in solution-processed SnSe tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 38 year: '2026' ... --- DOAJ_listed: '1' OA_place: publisher OA_type: gold PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '22972' abstract: - lang: eng text: Genomic measurements of DNA methylation, gene expression or protein levels are becoming more prevalent and are increasingly used to study health outcomes. However, most proposed association testing methods consider only marginal effects of each feature on a single outcome variable and are not set up to handle highly correlated, continuous data. Here, we introduce MAJA, a method to learn shared and outcome-specific effects for multiple traits in multi-omics data. MAJA determines the unique contribution of individual loci, genes, or molecular pathways to variation in one or more traits, conditional on all other measured “omics” data genome-wide. Simulations show MAJA accurately finds shared and distinct associations between omics-data and multiple traits and estimates omics-specific (co)variances, allowing for sparsity and correlations within the data. Applying MAJA to 12 outcome traits in Generation Scotland methylation data (n = 18 264), we find novel shared epigenetic probes among cholesterol metabolism, osteoarthritis, blood pressure and asthma. In contrast to marginal testing, we find only 10 CpG probes with significant effects above the genome-wide background. This highlights the need for joint association testing in highly correlated methylation data from whole blood and for studies of increased sample size in order to refine epigenomic associations in observational data. acknowledged_ssus: - _id: ScienComp acknowledgement: 'We thank members of the Medical Genomics group at ISTA for their comments, which improved this manuscript. This work was funded by an SNSF Eccellenza Grant to MRR [PCEGP3-181181], and by core funding from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. We would like to acknowledge the participants and investigators of the Generation Scotland and Lothian Birth Cohort studies. Generation Scotland received core support from the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health Directorates [CZD/16/6] and the Scottish Funding Council [HR03006]. Genotyping and methylation typing of the GS: SFHS samples was carried out by the Genetics Core Laboratory at the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, Edinburgh, Scotland and was funded by the Medical Research Council UK and the Wellcome Trust (Wellcome Trust Strategic Award “STratifying Resilience and Depression Longitudinally” (STRADL) Reference 104036/Z/14/Z]. DNA methylation data for Generation Scotland was also funded by a 2018 NARSAD Young Investigator Grant from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation [Ref: 27404; awardee: Dr David M Howard] and by a John, Margaret, Alfred and Stewart Sim Fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (Awardee: Dr Heather C Whalley). The LBC1936 is supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, and the Economic and Social Research Council [BB/W008793/1] (which supports SEH, and JC), Age UK (Disconnected Mind project), the Milton Damerel Trust, the Medical Research Council [G0701120, G1001245, MR/M013111/1, MR/R024065/1] and the University of Edinburgh. Methylation typing of LBC1936 was supported by the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology (Pilot Fund award), Age UK, The Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund, The University of Edinburgh, and The University of Queensland. HS is supported by funding from the Wellcome Trust 4-year PhD in Translational Neuroscience [218493/Z/19/Z]. SRC is also supported by a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship jointly funded by Wellcome and the Royal Society [221890/Z/20/Z]. High-performance computing was supported by the Scientific Service Units (SSU) of IST Austria through resources provided by Scientific Computing (SciComp).' article_number: vbag231 article_processing_charge: Yes article_type: original author: - first_name: Ilse full_name: Krätschmer, Ilse id: 30d4014e-7753-11eb-b44b-db6d61112e73 last_name: Krätschmer orcid: 0000-0002-5636-9259 - first_name: Hannah M full_name: Smith, Hannah M last_name: Smith - first_name: Daniel L full_name: McCartney, Daniel L last_name: McCartney - first_name: Elena full_name: Bernabeu, Elena last_name: Bernabeu - first_name: Mahdi full_name: Mahmoudi, Mahdi last_name: Mahmoudi - first_name: Archie full_name: Campbell, Archie last_name: Campbell - first_name: Janie full_name: Corley, Janie last_name: Corley - first_name: Sarah E full_name: Harris, Sarah E last_name: Harris - first_name: Simon R full_name: Cox, Simon R last_name: Cox - first_name: Riccardo E full_name: Marioni, Riccardo E last_name: Marioni - first_name: Matthew Richard full_name: Robinson, Matthew Richard id: E5D42276-F5DA-11E9-8E24-6303E6697425 last_name: Robinson orcid: 0000-0001-8982-8813 citation: ama: 'Krätschmer I, Smith HM, McCartney DL, et al. MAJA: Multivariate Bayesian model for discovery of shared epigenetic pathways across human phenotypes. Bioinformatics Advances. 2026;6(1). doi:10.1093/bioadv/vbag231' apa: 'Krätschmer, I., Smith, H. M., McCartney, D. L., Bernabeu, E., Mahmoudi, M., Campbell, A., … Robinson, M. R. (2026). MAJA: Multivariate Bayesian model for discovery of shared epigenetic pathways across human phenotypes. Bioinformatics Advances. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbag231' chicago: 'Krätschmer, Ilse, Hannah M Smith, Daniel L McCartney, Elena Bernabeu, Mahdi Mahmoudi, Archie Campbell, Janie Corley, et al. “MAJA: Multivariate Bayesian Model for Discovery of Shared Epigenetic Pathways across Human Phenotypes.” Bioinformatics Advances. Oxford University Press, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbag231.' ieee: 'I. Krätschmer et al., “MAJA: Multivariate Bayesian model for discovery of shared epigenetic pathways across human phenotypes,” Bioinformatics Advances, vol. 6, no. 1. Oxford University Press, 2026.' ista: 'Krätschmer I, Smith HM, McCartney DL, Bernabeu E, Mahmoudi M, Campbell A, Corley J, Harris SE, Cox SR, Marioni RE, Robinson MR. 2026. MAJA: Multivariate Bayesian model for discovery of shared epigenetic pathways across human phenotypes. Bioinformatics Advances. 6(1), vbag231.' mla: 'Krätschmer, Ilse, et al. “MAJA: Multivariate Bayesian Model for Discovery of Shared Epigenetic Pathways across Human Phenotypes.” Bioinformatics Advances, vol. 6, no. 1, vbag231, Oxford University Press, 2026, doi:10.1093/bioadv/vbag231.' short: I. Krätschmer, H.M. Smith, D.L. McCartney, E. Bernabeu, M. Mahmoudi, A. Campbell, J. Corley, S.E. Harris, S.R. Cox, R.E. Marioni, M.R. Robinson, Bioinformatics Advances 6 (2026). corr_author: '1' das_tickbox: '1' dataavailabilitystatement: "Access to the data is available with appropriate permission from the Generation Scotland Access Committee. Applications should be made to access@generationscotland.org. https://www.ed.ac.uk/lothian-birth-cohorts/data-access-collaboration gives information on the Lothian Birth Cohort data, which are available on request from the Lothian Birth Cohort Study, University of Edinburgh. Data from both cohorts are not publicly available as they contain information that could compromise participant consent and confidentiality.\r\n\r\nSource code is available at https://github.com/medical-genomics-group/MAJA." date_created: 2026-09-22T05:41:01Z date_published: 2026-09-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-10-06T12:50:50Z day: '01' ddc: - '570' department: - _id: MaRo doi: 10.1093/bioadv/vbag231 external_id: pmid: - '42761413' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 86849f1b88c47d050be4aa0a40105a97 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2026-10-06T12:49:18Z date_updated: 2026-10-06T12:49:18Z file_id: '23064' file_name: 2026_BioinformaticsAdvances_Kraetschmer.pdf file_size: 1370368 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2026-10-06T12:49:18Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbag231 has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 6' issue: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version pmid: 1 publication: Bioinformatics Advances publication_identifier: eissn: - 2635-0041 publication_status: published publisher: Oxford University Press quality_controlled: '1' researchdata_availability: no scopus_import: '1' status: public supplementarymaterial: yes title: 'MAJA: Multivariate Bayesian model for discovery of shared epigenetic pathways across human phenotypes' tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 6 year: '2026' ... --- DOAJ_listed: '1' OA_place: publisher OA_type: gold PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '22963' abstract: - lang: eng text: Although studies of tumor invasion have mainly emphasized the evolution of genetic and epigenetic heterogeneity, cellular behaviors also depend on the physical microenvironment. Yet, the tumor microenvironment is both complex and continuously remodeled, making it hard to rigorously test its causal influence on tumor dissemination. Here, we adopted a reductionist approach to studying tumor cell invasion in microengineered environments of tunable patterned geometries. We find that not only the presence of obstacles but more unexpectedly their spatial disorder causes a drastic shift from a collective to a single-cell mode of invasion—comparable in strength to loss of cell-cell adhesion. Combining live-imaging and perturbation experiments with minimal biophysical modeling, we demonstrate that cell dissemination results both from local geometrical constraints and a global integration of spatial disorder over time. We identify generic universality classes of invasion dynamics dependent on environmental geometry, enabling us to identify quantitative physical principles for tumor dissemination. acknowledged_ssus: - _id: Bio - _id: LifeSc acknowledgement: 'We thank all the members of the Hannezo and Sixt groups for fruitful discussions and t. Kato for advice on the experimental setup. We are also thankful for support from the Scientific Service Units (SSU) of IST Austria through resources provided by the imaging and Optics Facility (iOF) and the Lab Support Facility (lSF). We used chatGPt (GPt- 5,OpenAi, 2025) to make minor grammatical and stylistic revisions to the original manuscript, which was written by us. We carefully reviewed and verified all changes and are solely responsible for all scientific content, data, interpretation, and conclusions. Funding: Z.D. has received funding from the Doctoral Programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW):grant agreement 26360. this work was supported by the European Research council (grant ERC- SyG 101071793 to M.S.). E.S. and R.P.J. are supported by the Francis Crick Institute, which receives its core funding from cancer Research UK (cc2040), the UK Medical Research council(cc2040), and the Wellcome trust (cc2040) and the European Research council (ERC Advanced Grant cAn_ORGAniSe, grant agreement number 101019366).' article_number: eaed0587 article_processing_charge: Yes article_type: original author: - first_name: Zuzana full_name: Dunajova, Zuzana id: 4B39F286-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Dunajova - first_name: Saren full_name: Tasciyan, Saren id: 4323B49C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Tasciyan orcid: 0000-0003-1671-393X - first_name: Juraj full_name: Majek, Juraj id: 3e6d9473-f38e-11ec-8ae0-c4e05a8aa9e1 last_name: Majek - first_name: Jack full_name: Merrin, Jack id: 4515C308-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Merrin orcid: 0000-0001-5145-4609 - first_name: Robert P. full_name: Jenkins, Robert P. last_name: Jenkins - first_name: Erik full_name: Sahai, Erik last_name: Sahai - first_name: Michael K full_name: Sixt, Michael K id: 41E9FBEA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Sixt orcid: 0000-0002-6620-9179 - first_name: Edouard B full_name: Hannezo, Edouard B id: 3A9DB764-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Hannezo orcid: 0000-0001-6005-1561 citation: ama: Dunajova Z, Tasciyan S, Majek J, et al. Substrate heterogeneity promotes cancer cell dissemination through interface roughening. Science Advances. 2026;12(37). doi:10.1126/sciadv.aed0587 apa: Dunajova, Z., Tasciyan, S., Majek, J., Merrin, J., Jenkins, R. P., Sahai, E., … Hannezo, E. B. (2026). Substrate heterogeneity promotes cancer cell dissemination through interface roughening. Science Advances. AAAS. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aed0587 chicago: Dunajova, Zuzana, Saren Tasciyan, Juraj Majek, Jack Merrin, Robert P. Jenkins, Erik Sahai, Michael K Sixt, and Edouard B Hannezo. “Substrate Heterogeneity Promotes Cancer Cell Dissemination through Interface Roughening.” Science Advances. AAAS, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aed0587. ieee: Z. Dunajova et al., “Substrate heterogeneity promotes cancer cell dissemination through interface roughening,” Science Advances, vol. 12, no. 37. AAAS, 2026. ista: Dunajova Z, Tasciyan S, Majek J, Merrin J, Jenkins RP, Sahai E, Sixt MK, Hannezo EB. 2026. Substrate heterogeneity promotes cancer cell dissemination through interface roughening. Science Advances. 12(37), eaed0587. mla: Dunajova, Zuzana, et al. “Substrate Heterogeneity Promotes Cancer Cell Dissemination through Interface Roughening.” Science Advances, vol. 12, no. 37, eaed0587, AAAS, 2026, doi:10.1126/sciadv.aed0587. short: Z. Dunajova, S. Tasciyan, J. Majek, J. Merrin, R.P. Jenkins, E. Sahai, M.K. Sixt, E.B. Hannezo, Science Advances 12 (2026). corr_author: '1' das_tickbox: '1' dataavailabilitystatement: ' All data and code needed to evaluate and reproduce the results in the paper are present in the paper and/or the Supplementary Materials and the associated data and code repositories. Source data underlying all figures and supplementary figures have been deposited in a Zenodo repository (DOi: 10.5281/zenodo.21718217) and will be made publicly available upon publication. custom simulation and analysis codes used in this study are available at https://codeocean.com/capsule/1237446/tree. no unique biological materials were generated in this study. Microfluidic mask designs generated for this work are available from the corresponding authors upon reasonable request.' date_created: 2026-09-20T22:01:48Z date_published: 2026-09-09T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-10-06T11:36:34Z day: '09' ddc: - '570' department: - _id: EdHa - _id: MiSi - _id: GradSch - _id: AnSa - _id: NanoFab doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aed0587 external_id: pmid: - '42715298' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 79f419b659650a39b3dfa58c782690a8 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2026-10-06T11:30:48Z date_updated: 2026-10-06T11:30:48Z file_id: '23062' file_name: 2026_ScienceAdv_Dunajova.pdf file_size: 11691064 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2026-10-06T11:30:48Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aed0587 has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 12' issue: '37' language: - iso: eng month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version pmid: 1 project: - _id: 34d75525-11ca-11ed-8bc3-89b6307fee9d grant_number: '26360' name: Motile active matter models of migrating cells and chiral filaments - _id: bd91e723-d553-11ed-ba76-fe7eeb2185fd grant_number: '101071793' name: 'Pushing from within: Control of cell shape, integrity and motility by cytoskeletal pushing forces' publication: Science Advances publication_identifier: eissn: - 2375-2548 publication_status: published publisher: AAAS quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '21427' relation: earlier_version status: public researchdata_availability: yes scopus_import: '1' status: public supplementarymaterial: no title: Substrate heterogeneity promotes cancer cell dissemination through interface roughening tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 12 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: publisher OA_type: hybrid PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '22976' abstract: - lang: eng text: The influence of chiral molecular potentials on phase-coherent transport in superconducting Josephson junctions is investigated. Within a Bogoliubov–de Gennes tight-binding framework, a superconducting-normal-superconducting (SNS) junction functionalized by adsorbed chiral molecules is modeled, where electrostatic gradients generated by the molecules induce spin-orbit coupling in the normal region. The equilibrium charge current-phase relation is found to remain largely insensitive to molecular chirality in symmetric, zero-field configurations. In contrast, the spin-polarized equilibrium current exhibits a pronounced chirality-dependent response, with opposite enantiomers producing distinct and anisotropic spin-polarized Josephson currents. The resulting handedness contrast can be enhanced through control parameters such as molecular orientation and the strength of the induced spin-orbit coupling. The temperature dependence of these currents further shows that the chirality-dependent signatures persist across a range of temperatures well below the superconducting critical temperature. These results identify Josephson interferometry as a phase-sensitive setting for probing chirality-dependent spin structure and highlight spin-polarized superconducting transport as a controlled route toward integrating chiral molecular functionality into superconducting spintronic devices. acknowledgement: "O.K. is funded by the European Union, in the framework of\r\nthe Marie Skłlodowska-Curie Actions-CISSE Doctoral Network, under Grant Agreement No. 101071886. R.A. received\r\nfunding from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW),\r\nGrant No. PR1029OEAW03.\r\nViews and opinions expressed are, however, those of the\r\nauthor(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the\r\nEuropean Union or the European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority\r\ncan be held responsible for them." article_number: '154510' article_processing_charge: Yes (via OA deal) article_type: original arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Oleg full_name: Kuliashov, Oleg last_name: Kuliashov - first_name: Alberto full_name: Cappellaro, Alberto id: 9d13b3cb-30a2-11eb-80dc-f772505e8660 last_name: Cappellaro orcid: 0000-0001-6110-2359 - first_name: Oded full_name: Millo, Oded last_name: Millo - first_name: Yossi full_name: Paltiel, Yossi last_name: Paltiel - first_name: Mikhail full_name: Lemeshko, Mikhail id: 37CB05FA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Lemeshko orcid: 0000-0002-6990-7802 - first_name: Ragheed full_name: Al Hyder, Ragheed id: d1c405be-ae15-11ed-8510-ccf53278162e last_name: Al Hyder citation: ama: Kuliashov O, Cappellaro A, Millo O, Paltiel Y, Lemeshko M, Al Hyder R. Supercurrents in Josephson junctions with chiral molecular potentials. Physical Review B. 2026;114(15). doi:10.1103/s1jn-fq4d apa: Kuliashov, O., Cappellaro, A., Millo, O., Paltiel, Y., Lemeshko, M., & Al Hyder, R. (2026). Supercurrents in Josephson junctions with chiral molecular potentials. Physical Review B. American Physical Society. https://doi.org/10.1103/s1jn-fq4d chicago: Kuliashov, Oleg, Alberto Cappellaro, Oded Millo, Yossi Paltiel, Mikhail Lemeshko, and Ragheed Al Hyder. “Supercurrents in Josephson Junctions with Chiral Molecular Potentials.” Physical Review B. American Physical Society, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1103/s1jn-fq4d. ieee: O. Kuliashov, A. Cappellaro, O. Millo, Y. Paltiel, M. Lemeshko, and R. Al Hyder, “Supercurrents in Josephson junctions with chiral molecular potentials,” Physical Review B, vol. 114, no. 15. American Physical Society, 2026. ista: Kuliashov O, Cappellaro A, Millo O, Paltiel Y, Lemeshko M, Al Hyder R. 2026. Supercurrents in Josephson junctions with chiral molecular potentials. Physical Review B. 114(15), 154510. mla: Kuliashov, Oleg, et al. “Supercurrents in Josephson Junctions with Chiral Molecular Potentials.” Physical Review B, vol. 114, no. 15, 154510, American Physical Society, 2026, doi:10.1103/s1jn-fq4d. short: O. Kuliashov, A. Cappellaro, O. Millo, Y. Paltiel, M. Lemeshko, R. Al Hyder, Physical Review B 114 (2026). corr_author: '1' das_tickbox: '1' dataavailabilitystatement: "The data that support the findings of this article are openly\r\navailable in Zenodo [10.5281/zenodo.18961933]." date_created: 2026-09-22T05:47:09Z date_published: 2026-09-17T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-10-06T13:25:35Z day: '17' ddc: - '530' department: - _id: MiLe doi: 10.1103/s1jn-fq4d external_id: arxiv: - '2603.10925' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 784eb7e99c17ecacff5d69c7faf857b6 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2026-10-06T13:19:31Z date_updated: 2026-10-06T13:19:31Z file_id: '23066' file_name: 2026_PhysicalReviewB_Kuliashov.pdf file_size: 645485 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2026-10-06T13:19:31Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1103/s1jn-fq4d has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 114' issue: '15' language: - iso: eng month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 8fa7db46-16d5-11f0-9cad-917600954daf grant_number: '12078' name: Polarons in Lead Halide Perovskites publication: Physical Review B publication_identifier: eissn: - 2469-9969 issn: - 2469-9950 publication_status: published publisher: American Physical Society quality_controlled: '1' researchdata_availability: yes scopus_import: '1' status: public supplementarymaterial: yes title: Supercurrents in Josephson junctions with chiral molecular potentials tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 114 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: publisher OA_type: hybrid PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '22975' abstract: - lang: eng text: Conjugated molecules with diradical character have emerged as promising building blocks for high-conductance single-molecule electronics because of their behavior as 1D topological insulators. However, the impact of antiaromaticity on these radical-based edge states has not been explored. Here, we introduce thiophene-based molecular wires that exhibit intrinsic diradical character in their ground state under ambient conditions and systematically investigate how their conductance responds to changes in aromaticity upon the oxidation of fluorene-based flanking moieties. Using scanning tunneling microscopy-based break junction (STM-BJ) techniques, we show that the conductance increases with molecular length in the neutral state, supporting one-dimensional topological behavior. We further examine the effect of oxidation on conductance through three complementary methods, revealing substantial conductance enhancements that we attribute to an increase in the antiaromatic character of the wires. Together, these findings establish a rational design strategy for highly conducting, electrochemically switchable molecular junctions, with implications for single-molecule electronics. acknowledgement: This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant DMR-2241180 and the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. L.M.C. thanks the National Science Foundation for funding under award DMR-2453907. Open access funding provided by Institute of Science and Technology Austria. article_processing_charge: Yes (via OA deal) article_type: original author: - first_name: Woojung full_name: Lee, Woojung last_name: Lee - first_name: Wanzhuo full_name: Shi, Wanzhuo id: a3010425-87c8-11f0-8106-bec32bea74da last_name: Shi - first_name: Junho full_name: Kwon, Junho last_name: Kwon - first_name: Jonathan full_name: Low, Jonathan last_name: Low - first_name: Sujun full_name: Wei, Sujun last_name: Wei - first_name: Xiaodong full_name: Yin, Xiaodong last_name: Yin - first_name: Luis M. full_name: Campos, Luis M. last_name: Campos - first_name: Latha full_name: Venkataraman, Latha id: 9ebb78a5-cc0d-11ee-8322-fae086a32caf last_name: Venkataraman orcid: 0000-0002-6957-6089 citation: ama: Lee W, Shi W, Kwon J, et al. Redox-driven antiaromaticity enables multistate conductancein 1D topological insulators. Journal of the AmericanChemical Society. 2026;148(37):40536–40542. doi:10.1021/jacs.6c15721 apa: Lee, W., Shi, W., Kwon, J., Low, J., Wei, S., Yin, X., … Venkataraman, L. (2026). Redox-driven antiaromaticity enables multistate conductancein 1D topological insulators. Journal of the AmericanChemical Society. American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c15721 chicago: Lee, Woojung, Wanzhuo Shi, Junho Kwon, Jonathan Low, Sujun Wei, Xiaodong Yin, Luis M. Campos, and Latha Venkataraman. “Redox-Driven Antiaromaticity Enables Multistate Conductancein 1D Topological Insulators.” Journal of the AmericanChemical Society. American Chemical Society, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c15721. ieee: W. Lee et al., “Redox-driven antiaromaticity enables multistate conductancein 1D topological insulators,” Journal of the AmericanChemical Society, vol. 148, no. 37. American Chemical Society, pp. 40536–40542, 2026. ista: Lee W, Shi W, Kwon J, Low J, Wei S, Yin X, Campos LM, Venkataraman L. 2026. Redox-driven antiaromaticity enables multistate conductancein 1D topological insulators. Journal of the AmericanChemical Society. 148(37), 40536–40542. mla: Lee, Woojung, et al. “Redox-Driven Antiaromaticity Enables Multistate Conductancein 1D Topological Insulators.” Journal of the AmericanChemical Society, vol. 148, no. 37, American Chemical Society, 2026, pp. 40536–40542, doi:10.1021/jacs.6c15721. short: W. Lee, W. Shi, J. Kwon, J. Low, S. Wei, X. Yin, L.M. Campos, L. Venkataraman, Journal of the AmericanChemical Society 148 (2026) 40536–40542. corr_author: '1' das_tickbox: '0' date_created: 2026-09-22T05:46:30Z date_published: 2026-09-07T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-10-06T13:14:11Z day: '07' ddc: - '540' department: - _id: LaVe doi: 10.1021/jacs.6c15721 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 91f85ec18e571a602d2fec942825c9d2 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2026-10-06T13:10:49Z date_updated: 2026-10-06T13:10:49Z file_id: '23065' file_name: 2026_JACS_LeeWoojung.pdf file_size: 3646582 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2026-10-06T13:10:49Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c15721 has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 148' issue: '37' language: - iso: eng month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 40536–40542 publication: Journal of the AmericanChemical Society publication_identifier: eissn: - 1520-5126 issn: - 0002-7863 publication_status: published publisher: American Chemical Society quality_controlled: '1' researchdata_availability: no scopus_import: '1' status: public supplementarymaterial: yes title: Redox-driven antiaromaticity enables multistate conductancein 1D topological insulators tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 148 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: publisher OA_type: hybrid PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '22966' abstract: - lang: eng text: Solid-state polymer electrolytes (SPEs) are promising for high-safety, high-energy-density lithium metal batteries, but their adoption is limited by low room-temperature ionic conductivity and insufficient mechanical robustness. This study reports an improved SPE architecture consisting of a three-dimensional (3D) polyacrylonitrile (PAN)–Li6.4La3Zr1.4Ta0.6O12 (LLZTO) fibrous skeleton infused with a polymer electrolyte ionic liquid (PIL), which promotes lithium-salt dissociation, accelerates Li+ transport, and enhances mechanical strength. The resulting SPE achieves an ionic conductivity of up to 0.51 mS cm−1. Li|Li symmetric cells using a 40-µm-thick SPE cycle stably for 2500 h at 0.2 mA cm−2 with a low overpotential of 30 mV. In Li|LiFePO4 (LFP) full cells, the electrolyte enables 86.8% capacity retention after 1000 cycles at 0.5 C and maintains stable operation at 130 °C. Flexible pouch-cell tests further confirm improved safety and durability under harsh conditions, highlighting the potential of this SPE design for high-voltage lithium metal batteries. acknowledgement: 'This work was financially supported by the Generalitat de Catalunya (2021SGR01581), the Major Innovation Projects for Integrating Science, Education & Industry of Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences) (Grant No. 2025ZDZX19) and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2026M790106). ICN2 is supported by the Severo Ochoa program from Spanish MCIN/AEI (Grant No.: CEX2021-001214-S) and is funded by the CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya. ICN2 acknowledges funding from Generalitat de Catalunya 2021SGR00457. The authors thank support from the project AMaDE (PID2023-149158OB-C43), funded by MCIN/AEI/https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033/ and by “ERDF A way of making Europe”, by the “European Union”. Part of the present work has been performed in the framework of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Materials Science PhD program. JY has received funding from the CSC-UAB PhD scholarship program. ISTA co-authors acknowledge funding from the Werner Siemens Foundation. Authors acknowledge the use of instrumentation as well as the technical advice provided by the Joint Electron Microscopy Center at ALBA (JEMCA). ICN2 acknowledges funding from Grant IU16-014206 (METCAM-FIB) funded by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), with the support of the Ministry of Research and Universities, Generalitat de Catalunya. ICN2 is founding member of e-DREAM [51]. JL is a Serra Húnter Fellow and is grateful to the Academia Excellence program (Generalitat de Catalunya) and to projects MICIU/FEDER PID2024-156765OB-C21 and Maria de Maeztu Units of Excellence Programme CEX2023-001300-M funded by MCIN/AEI https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033.Open Access funding provided by CERCA through the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature.' article_processing_charge: Yes (via OA deal) article_type: original author: - first_name: Shengnan full_name: Zhang, Shengnan last_name: Zhang - first_name: Guifang full_name: Zeng, Guifang last_name: Zeng - first_name: Jing full_name: Yu, Jing last_name: Yu - first_name: Sharona full_name: Horta, Sharona id: 03a7e858-01b1-11ec-8b71-99ae6c4a05bc last_name: Horta - first_name: Xuan full_name: Lu, Xuan last_name: Lu - first_name: Qing full_name: Sun, Qing last_name: Sun - first_name: Yuchuan full_name: Ren, Yuchuan last_name: Ren - first_name: Maria full_name: Ibáñez, Maria id: 43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Ibáñez orcid: 0000-0001-5013-2843 - first_name: Jordi full_name: Llorca, Jordi last_name: Llorca - first_name: Jordi Jacas full_name: Biendicho, Jordi Jacas last_name: Biendicho - first_name: Jordi full_name: Arbiol, Jordi last_name: Arbiol - first_name: Lijie full_name: Ci, Lijie last_name: Ci - first_name: Andreu full_name: Cabot, Andreu last_name: Cabot citation: ama: Zhang S, Zeng G, Yu J, et al. Reinforced poly(ionic liquid)-in-salt electrolytes for highly stable solid-state Lithium metal batteries. Advanced Fiber Materials. 2026. doi:10.1007/s42765-026-00775-2 apa: Zhang, S., Zeng, G., Yu, J., Horta, S., Lu, X., Sun, Q., … Cabot, A. (2026). Reinforced poly(ionic liquid)-in-salt electrolytes for highly stable solid-state Lithium metal batteries. Advanced Fiber Materials. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42765-026-00775-2 chicago: Zhang, Shengnan, Guifang Zeng, Jing Yu, Sharona Horta, Xuan Lu, Qing Sun, Yuchuan Ren, et al. “Reinforced Poly(Ionic Liquid)-in-Salt Electrolytes for Highly Stable Solid-State Lithium Metal Batteries.” Advanced Fiber Materials. Springer, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42765-026-00775-2. ieee: S. Zhang et al., “Reinforced poly(ionic liquid)-in-salt electrolytes for highly stable solid-state Lithium metal batteries,” Advanced Fiber Materials. Springer, 2026. ista: Zhang S, Zeng G, Yu J, Horta S, Lu X, Sun Q, Ren Y, Ibáñez M, Llorca J, Biendicho JJ, Arbiol J, Ci L, Cabot A. 2026. Reinforced poly(ionic liquid)-in-salt electrolytes for highly stable solid-state Lithium metal batteries. Advanced Fiber Materials. mla: Zhang, Shengnan, et al. “Reinforced Poly(Ionic Liquid)-in-Salt Electrolytes for Highly Stable Solid-State Lithium Metal Batteries.” Advanced Fiber Materials, Springer, 2026, doi:10.1007/s42765-026-00775-2. short: S. Zhang, G. Zeng, J. Yu, S. Horta, X. Lu, Q. Sun, Y. Ren, M. Ibáñez, J. Llorca, J.J. Biendicho, J. Arbiol, L. Ci, A. Cabot, Advanced Fiber Materials (2026). das_tickbox: '1' dataavailabilitystatement: The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. date_created: 2026-09-20T22:01:49Z date_published: 2026-09-08T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-10-06T11:57:17Z day: '08' ddc: - '540' department: - _id: MaIb doi: 10.1007/s42765-026-00775-2 fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42765-026-00775-2 has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42765-026-00775-2 month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A name: 'HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery' publication: Advanced Fiber Materials publication_identifier: eissn: - 2524-793X issn: - 2524-7921 publication_status: epub_ahead publisher: Springer quality_controlled: '1' researchdata_availability: upon request scopus_import: '1' status: public supplementarymaterial: yes title: Reinforced poly(ionic liquid)-in-salt electrolytes for highly stable solid-state Lithium metal batteries tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: publisher OA_type: hybrid _id: '22974' abstract: - lang: eng text: Far from being static structures, it is now well accepted that proteins are highly dynamic entities even in the solid state. Here, we review recent progress in application of magic-angle spinning (MAS) NMR for studying the site-specific dynamics of proteins, as assessed using spin-relaxation and measurement of anisotropic spin interactions. We focus on the types of experimental data that are available, and how best to access the information which is provided by these experimental measurements; in particular, we provide a retrospective on the field in light of recent advances in analytical methodologies, which have led to a slow paradigm shift in how we interpret relaxation rate constant measurements made in the solid state. acknowledgement: We thank the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, project number 10.55776/I5812) for support. We are grateful to Petra Rovó (ISTA) for many insightful discussions. article_number: '101615' article_processing_charge: Yes (via OA deal) article_type: original author: - first_name: Benjamin full_name: Tatman, Benjamin id: 71cda2f3-e604-11ee-a1df-da10587eda3f last_name: Tatman - first_name: Paul full_name: Schanda, Paul id: 7B541462-FAF6-11E9-A490-E8DFE5697425 last_name: Schanda orcid: 0000-0002-9350-7606 citation: ama: 'Tatman B, Schanda P. Quantifying fast protein dynamics by magic-angle spinning NMR: Progress in experimental and analytical approaches. Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. 2026;156-157. doi:10.1016/j.pnmrs.2026.101615' apa: 'Tatman, B., & Schanda, P. (2026). Quantifying fast protein dynamics by magic-angle spinning NMR: Progress in experimental and analytical approaches. Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnmrs.2026.101615' chicago: 'Tatman, Benjamin, and Paul Schanda. “Quantifying Fast Protein Dynamics by Magic-Angle Spinning NMR: Progress in Experimental and Analytical Approaches.” Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. Elsevier, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnmrs.2026.101615.' ieee: 'B. Tatman and P. Schanda, “Quantifying fast protein dynamics by magic-angle spinning NMR: Progress in experimental and analytical approaches,” Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, vol. 156–157. Elsevier, 2026.' ista: 'Tatman B, Schanda P. 2026. Quantifying fast protein dynamics by magic-angle spinning NMR: Progress in experimental and analytical approaches. Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. 156–157, 101615.' mla: 'Tatman, Benjamin, and Paul Schanda. “Quantifying Fast Protein Dynamics by Magic-Angle Spinning NMR: Progress in Experimental and Analytical Approaches.” Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, vol. 156–157, 101615, Elsevier, 2026, doi:10.1016/j.pnmrs.2026.101615.' short: B. Tatman, P. Schanda, Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy 156–157 (2026). corr_author: '1' das_tickbox: '1' dataavailabilitystatement: No data was used for the research described in the article. date_created: 2026-09-22T05:44:22Z date_published: 2026-09-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-10-06T13:00:47Z day: '01' ddc: - '540' department: - _id: PaSc doi: 10.1016/j.pnmrs.2026.101615 fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnmrs.2026.101615 has_accepted_license: '1' keyword: - Solid-state NMR - Protein dynamics - Magic-angle spinning language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnmrs.2026.101615 month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: eb9c82eb-77a9-11ec-83b8-aadd536561cf grant_number: I05812 name: AlloSpace. The emergence and mechanisms of allostery publication: Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy publication_identifier: eissn: - 1873-3301 issn: - 0079-6565 publication_status: epub_ahead publisher: Elsevier quality_controlled: '1' researchdata_availability: no scopus_import: '1' status: public supplementarymaterial: yes title: 'Quantifying fast protein dynamics by magic-angle spinning NMR: Progress in experimental and analytical approaches' tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 156-157 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: publisher OA_type: gold PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '22971' abstract: - lang: eng text: "We study the problem of minimizing metric distortion in multi-winner elections, where a committee of size k is selected from a set of candidates based on voters’ ordinal preferences. We assume that voters and candidates are embedded on a line metric, and social cost is determined by the underlying metric distances.\r\nThe distortion of a voting rule is the worst-case ratio between the social cost of the elected committee and an optimal committee. Previous work has focused on the q-cost model, in which a voter’s cost is given by the distance to their qth closest committee member. Here, we study the additive cost, where a voter’s cost is the sum of distances to all committee members.\r\nWe introduce the Polar Comparison Rule and analyze its distortion under utilitarian additive cost. We show that it achieves a distortion upper bound of almost 2.33 for all committee sizes k > 4, improving upon the previously best-known upper bound of 3. Moreover, for k = 2 and k = 3, we establish tight distortion bounds of 2.41 and 2.33, respectively. We also derive lower bounds that depend on the parity of k and analyze the behavior of distortion for small and large committee sizes. Finally, we extend our results to the egalitarian additive cost." article_number: '3843232' article_processing_charge: Yes article_type: original author: - first_name: Negar full_name: Babashah, Negar id: 95f4864e-6ec9-11f0-b3f6-b8422c64859e last_name: Babashah orcid: 0009-0007-0203-9725 - first_name: Hasti full_name: Karimi, Hasti last_name: Karimi - first_name: Masoud full_name: Seddighin, Masoud last_name: Seddighin - first_name: Golnoosh full_name: Shahkarami, Golnoosh last_name: Shahkarami citation: ama: 'Babashah N, Karimi H, Seddighin M, Shahkarami G. Distortion of multi-winner elections on the line metric: The polar comparison rule. ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation. 2026. doi:10.1145/3843232' apa: 'Babashah, N., Karimi, H., Seddighin, M., & Shahkarami, G. (2026). Distortion of multi-winner elections on the line metric: The polar comparison rule. ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3843232' chicago: 'Babashah, Negar, Hasti Karimi, Masoud Seddighin, and Golnoosh Shahkarami. “Distortion of Multi-Winner Elections on the Line Metric: The Polar Comparison Rule.” ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation. ACM, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1145/3843232.' ieee: 'N. Babashah, H. Karimi, M. Seddighin, and G. Shahkarami, “Distortion of multi-winner elections on the line metric: The polar comparison rule,” ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation. ACM, 2026.' ista: 'Babashah N, Karimi H, Seddighin M, Shahkarami G. 2026. Distortion of multi-winner elections on the line metric: The polar comparison rule. ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation., 3843232.' mla: 'Babashah, Negar, et al. “Distortion of Multi-Winner Elections on the Line Metric: The Polar Comparison Rule.” ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, 3843232, ACM, 2026, doi:10.1145/3843232.' short: N. Babashah, H. Karimi, M. Seddighin, G. Shahkarami, ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation (2026). corr_author: '1' date_created: 2026-09-22T05:37:33Z date_published: 2026-09-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-10-06T12:38:17Z day: '01' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: GradSch doi: 10.1145/3843232 fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3843232 has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.1145/3843232 month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version publication: ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation publication_identifier: eissn: - 2167-8383 issn: - 2167-8375 publication_status: epub_ahead publisher: ACM quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: 'Distortion of multi-winner elections on the line metric: The polar comparison rule' tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2026' ... --- DOAJ_listed: '1' OA_place: publisher OA_type: gold PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '22999' abstract: - lang: eng text: The safety of Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based controllers has become a prominent research area in recent years, with various approaches being proposed to address this critical issue. Runtime Safety Assurance (RSA) methods for RL, such as Shielded RL, provide formal safety guarantees by preventing agents from taking unsafe actions and suggesting safe alternatives when necessary. However, previous surveys and reviews on RSA for RL have not thoroughly analysed the challenges and applications within the industrial sector. This study builds on existing state-of-the-art research on Shielded RL methods, emphasising its contributions to industrial applications and offering a domain-specific categorisation. This categorisation highlights the primary industrial domains utilising Shielded RL, detailing the optimised functions achieved by RL and the safety functions ensured by the shield. Additionally, the study presents a categorisation based on environmental features, enabling readers to assess the complexity of the problems addressed by the techniques studied. The shield’s attributes are analysed for each work, identifying key trends in their application, including their adaptability to new scenarios. Finally, a basic categorisation model for Shielded RL approaches, grounded in industrial safety standards, is introduced. This model serves as a baseline for future studies aiming to evaluate the maturity level of the works reviewed. acknowledgement: "This work was supported in part by the SAFEXPLAIN project under Grant 101069595.\r\nThis work was supported in part by the ROBOCONS project under Grant 101235566, from the European Union‘s HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-02 research and innovation programme.\r\nThis work was supported in part by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) - Reference 10.55776/COE12.\r\nThis work was supported in part by the Intelligent Systems for Industrial Systems research group of Mondragon Unibertsitatea - Reference IT1870-26. Department of Science, Universities and Innovation of the Basque Government.\r\nThis work was supported in part by the European Research Council under Grant No.: ERC-2020-AdG 101020093. This work was also supported by the ISTA Responsible AI Program, made possible through the support of Garrett Camp and the Camp Foundation ." article_number: '200729' article_processing_charge: Yes article_type: review author: - first_name: Haritz full_name: Odriozola-Olalde, Haritz last_name: Odriozola-Olalde - first_name: Filip full_name: Cano Cordoba, Filip id: 708cad98-e86a-11ef-8098-bdae2d7c6af1 last_name: Cano Cordoba orcid: 0000-0002-0783-904X - first_name: Bettina full_name: Könighofer, Bettina last_name: Könighofer - first_name: Nestor full_name: Arana-Arexolaleiba, Nestor last_name: Arana-Arexolaleiba - first_name: Maider full_name: Zamalloa, Maider last_name: Zamalloa - first_name: Jon full_name: Perez-Cerrolaza, Jon last_name: Perez-Cerrolaza citation: ama: 'Odriozola-Olalde H, Cano Cordoba F, Könighofer B, Arana-Arexolaleiba N, Zamalloa M, Perez-Cerrolaza J. Shielded reinforcement learning for industrial applications: A systematic literature survey. Intelligent Systems with Applications. 2026;32. doi:10.1016/j.iswa.2026.200729' apa: 'Odriozola-Olalde, H., Cano Cordoba, F., Könighofer, B., Arana-Arexolaleiba, N., Zamalloa, M., & Perez-Cerrolaza, J. (2026). Shielded reinforcement learning for industrial applications: A systematic literature survey. Intelligent Systems with Applications. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iswa.2026.200729' chicago: 'Odriozola-Olalde, Haritz, Filip Cano Cordoba, Bettina Könighofer, Nestor Arana-Arexolaleiba, Maider Zamalloa, and Jon Perez-Cerrolaza. “Shielded Reinforcement Learning for Industrial Applications: A Systematic Literature Survey.” Intelligent Systems with Applications. Elsevier, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iswa.2026.200729.' ieee: 'H. Odriozola-Olalde, F. Cano Cordoba, B. Könighofer, N. Arana-Arexolaleiba, M. Zamalloa, and J. Perez-Cerrolaza, “Shielded reinforcement learning for industrial applications: A systematic literature survey,” Intelligent Systems with Applications, vol. 32. Elsevier, 2026.' ista: 'Odriozola-Olalde H, Cano Cordoba F, Könighofer B, Arana-Arexolaleiba N, Zamalloa M, Perez-Cerrolaza J. 2026. Shielded reinforcement learning for industrial applications: A systematic literature survey. Intelligent Systems with Applications. 32, 200729.' mla: 'Odriozola-Olalde, Haritz, et al. “Shielded Reinforcement Learning for Industrial Applications: A Systematic Literature Survey.” Intelligent Systems with Applications, vol. 32, 200729, Elsevier, 2026, doi:10.1016/j.iswa.2026.200729.' short: H. Odriozola-Olalde, F. Cano Cordoba, B. Könighofer, N. Arana-Arexolaleiba, M. Zamalloa, J. Perez-Cerrolaza, Intelligent Systems with Applications 32 (2026). corr_author: '1' das_tickbox: '1' dataavailabilitystatement: No data was used for the research described in the article. date_created: 2026-09-27T22:01:51Z date_published: 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-10-07T06:25:37Z day: '18' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: ToHe doi: 10.1016/j.iswa.2026.200729 ec_funded: 1 fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iswa.2026.200729 has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 32' keyword: - Reinforcement learning - Runtime safety assurance - Shield - Safety - Industrial application language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iswa.2026.200729 month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 62781420-2b32-11ec-9570-8d9b63373d4d call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '101020093' name: Vigilant Algorithmic Monitoring of Software publication: Intelligent Systems with Applications publication_identifier: issn: - 2667-3053 publication_status: epub_ahead publisher: Elsevier quality_controlled: '1' researchdata_availability: no scopus_import: '1' status: public supplementarymaterial: no title: 'Shielded reinforcement learning for industrial applications: A systematic literature survey' tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 32 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: publisher OA_type: hybrid PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '22998' abstract: - lang: eng text: Balancing selection, a form of selection that maintains genetic diversity, is difficult to detect, and the importance of balancing selection for the maintenance of genetic variation may be larger than often assumed. We model the possibility that the diversity-promoting effects of balancing selection extend to other loci that show sign epistasis with a locus under balancing selection. Rather than focusing on overdominance, as was done in previous efforts, we explore the effects of negative frequency dependence and show that this has important effects on the conditions under which the diversity-promoting effect of epistasis can occur in diploids. Our results show that not only recombination rate but also the dominance of sign epistasis are key parameters that determine the maintenance of polymorphism beyond the locus under direct balancing selection. We suggest that the effect we explore may play a significant role, especially when balancing selection acts on major effect loci. acknowledgement: This work was funded by grants from the Swedish Research Council (2023-03730 to G.A.) and the DOC fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Science (26293 to K.K.). We thank L. Rowe for valuable discussions. article_processing_charge: Yes (via OA deal) article_type: original author: - first_name: Kseniia full_name: Khudiakova, Kseniia id: 4E6DC800-AE37-11E9-AC72-31CAE5697425 last_name: Khudiakova orcid: 0000-0002-6246-1465 - first_name: Nicholas H full_name: Barton, Nicholas H id: 4880FE40-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Barton orcid: 0000-0002-8548-5240 - first_name: Göran full_name: Arnqvist, Göran last_name: Arnqvist biorxivid: 1 citation: ama: Khudiakova K, Barton NH, Arnqvist G. Sign epistasis extends the effects of balancing selection on genetic diversity. Theoretical Population Biology. 2026;172:48-55. doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2026.09.001 apa: Khudiakova, K., Barton, N. H., & Arnqvist, G. (2026). Sign epistasis extends the effects of balancing selection on genetic diversity. Theoretical Population Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2026.09.001 chicago: Khudiakova, Kseniia, Nicholas H Barton, and Göran Arnqvist. “Sign Epistasis Extends the Effects of Balancing Selection on Genetic Diversity.” Theoretical Population Biology, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2026.09.001. ieee: K. Khudiakova, N. H. Barton, and G. Arnqvist, “Sign epistasis extends the effects of balancing selection on genetic diversity,” Theoretical Population Biology, vol. 172. pp. 48–55, 2026. ista: Khudiakova K, Barton NH, Arnqvist G. 2026. Sign epistasis extends the effects of balancing selection on genetic diversity. Theoretical Population Biology. 172, 48–55. mla: Khudiakova, Kseniia, et al. “Sign Epistasis Extends the Effects of Balancing Selection on Genetic Diversity.” Theoretical Population Biology, vol. 172, 2026, pp. 48–55, doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2026.09.001. short: K. Khudiakova, N.H. Barton, G. Arnqvist, Theoretical Population Biology 172 (2026) 48–55. corr_author: '1' das_tickbox: '1' dataavailabilitystatement: The Python code used for the numerical analyses is available online at https://github.com/khudyakovaks/Sign-epistasis-extends-the-effects-of-balancing-selection-on-genetic-diversity. date_created: 2026-09-27T22:01:51Z date_published: 2026-09-17T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-10-07T06:38:02Z day: '17' ddc: - '500' - '570' department: - _id: JaMa - _id: GradSch - _id: NiBa doi: 10.1016/j.tpb.2026.09.001 external_id: biorxivid: - 10.1101/2025.04.09.647826 pmid: - '42722132' fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2026.09.001 has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 172' keyword: - Sign epistasis - Balancing selection - Within-population genetic variation language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2026.09.001 month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 48-55 pmid: 1 project: - _id: 34d33d68-11ca-11ed-8bc3-ec13763c0ca8 grant_number: '26293' name: The impact of deleterious mutations on small populations publication: Theoretical Population Biology publication_identifier: eissn: - 1096-0325 issn: - 0040-5809 publication_status: epub_ahead quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '21968' relation: earlier_version status: public researchdata_availability: no scopus_import: '1' status: public supplementarymaterial: yes title: Sign epistasis extends the effects of balancing selection on genetic diversity tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 172 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: repository OA_type: green _id: '21968' abstract: - lang: eng text: Balancing selection, a form of selection that maintains genetic diversity, is difficult to detect, and the importance of balancing selection for the maintenance of genetic variation may be larger than often assumed. We model the possibility that the diversity-promoting effects of balancing selection extend to other loci that show sign epistasis with a locus under balancing selection. Rather than focusing on overdominance, as was done in previous efforts, we explore the effects of negative frequency dependence and show that this has important effects on the conditions under which the diversity-promoting effect of epistasis can occur in diploids. Our results show that not only recombination rate but also the dominance of sign epistasis are key parameters that determine the maintenance of polymorphism beyond the locus under direct balancing selection. We suggest that the effect we explore may play a significant role, especially when balancing selection acts on major effect loci. acknowledgement: This work was funded by grants from the Swedish Research Council (2023-03730 to G.A.) and the DOC fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Science (26293 to K.K.). article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Kseniia full_name: Khudiakova, Kseniia id: 4E6DC800-AE37-11E9-AC72-31CAE5697425 last_name: Khudiakova orcid: 0000-0002-6246-1465 - first_name: Nicholas H full_name: Barton, Nicholas H id: 4880FE40-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Barton orcid: 0000-0002-8548-5240 - first_name: Goran full_name: Arnqvist, Goran last_name: Arnqvist citation: ama: Khudiakova K, Barton NH, Arnqvist G. Sign epistasis extends the effects of balancing selection on genetic diversity. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2025.04.09.647826 apa: Khudiakova, K., Barton, N. H., & Arnqvist, G. (n.d.). Sign epistasis extends the effects of balancing selection on genetic diversity. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.09.647826 chicago: Khudiakova, Kseniia, Nicholas H Barton, and Goran Arnqvist. “Sign Epistasis Extends the Effects of Balancing Selection on Genetic Diversity.” BioRxiv, n.d. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.09.647826. ieee: K. Khudiakova, N. H. Barton, and G. Arnqvist, “Sign epistasis extends the effects of balancing selection on genetic diversity,” bioRxiv. . ista: Khudiakova K, Barton NH, Arnqvist G. Sign epistasis extends the effects of balancing selection on genetic diversity. bioRxiv, 10.1101/2025.04.09.647826. mla: Khudiakova, Kseniia, et al. “Sign Epistasis Extends the Effects of Balancing Selection on Genetic Diversity.” BioRxiv, doi:10.1101/2025.04.09.647826. short: K. Khudiakova, N.H. Barton, G. Arnqvist, BioRxiv (n.d.). corr_author: '1' date_created: 2026-06-09T12:26:11Z date_published: 2026-04-23T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-10-07T06:38:01Z day: '23' department: - _id: NiBa - _id: JaMa doi: 10.1101/2025.04.09.647826 fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.09.647826 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.09.647826 month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint project: - _id: 34d33d68-11ca-11ed-8bc3-ec13763c0ca8 grant_number: '26293' name: The impact of deleterious mutations on small populations publication: bioRxiv publication_status: draft related_material: record: - id: '21918' relation: dissertation_contains status: public - id: '22998' relation: later_version status: public status: public title: Sign epistasis extends the effects of balancing selection on genetic diversity tmp: image: /images/cc_by_nc.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) short: CC BY-NC (4.0) type: preprint user_id: 8b945eb4-e2f2-11eb-945a-df72226e66a9 year: '2026' ... --- DOAJ_listed: '1' OA_place: publisher OA_type: gold PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '23002' abstract: - lang: eng text: We investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics of core-hole excitations in a one-dimensional fermionic few-body system consisting of a spin-polarized Fermi bath coupled to a single heavy mobile impurity. The bath is initially prepared in a particle-hole configuration by emptying a selected bath single-particle orbital, while the impurity is displaced with respect to the center of the bath confinement potential. The quench dynamics are initialized by suddenly switching on the impurity-bath interaction. To resolve the resulting dynamics, we combine two complementary ab initio approaches, namely, the MultiLayer MultiConfiguration Time-Dependent Hartree method for mixtures and a multichannel Born-Oppenheimer framework. We show that the postquench response is governed by the interaction strength, impurity confinement, mass imbalance, and the location of the initially prepared hole within the Fermi sea. The density evolution and impurity center-of-mass motion reveal a competition between mixing and demixing of impurity and bath, while the von Neumann entropy demonstrates the buildup of pronounced many-body correlations. Most importantly, the occupation dynamics of the initially emptied orbital identifies deep core holes as substantially more robust against refilling than bulk or edge vacancies. Our results establish core-hole excitations as robust dynamical many-body features in trapped ultracold fermions and provide a controlled route toward probing orthogonality response, correlation buildup, and hole refilling in real time. acknowledgement: 'This work has been funded by the Cluster of Excellence “Advanced Imaging of Matter” of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)—EXC 2056—Project No. 390715994. G.M.K. has received funding by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [Grant DOI: 10.55776/F1004]. For this work, the HPC-cluster Hummel-2 at University of Hamburg was used. The cluster was funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)—498394658.' article_number: '033346' article_processing_charge: Yes article_type: original arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: A. full_name: Becker, A. last_name: Becker - first_name: Georgios full_name: Koutentakis, Georgios id: d7b23d3a-9e21-11ec-b482-f76739596b95 last_name: Koutentakis - first_name: P full_name: Schmelcher, P last_name: Schmelcher citation: ama: Becker A, Koutentakis G, Schmelcher P. Core-hole excitation dynamics of one-dimensional ultracold trapped fermions. Physical Review Research. 2026;8(3). doi:10.1103/njcx-z6np apa: Becker, A., Koutentakis, G., & Schmelcher, P. (2026). Core-hole excitation dynamics of one-dimensional ultracold trapped fermions. Physical Review Research. American Physical Society. https://doi.org/10.1103/njcx-z6np chicago: Becker, A., Georgios Koutentakis, and P Schmelcher. “Core-Hole Excitation Dynamics of One-Dimensional Ultracold Trapped Fermions.” Physical Review Research. American Physical Society, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1103/njcx-z6np. ieee: A. Becker, G. Koutentakis, and P. Schmelcher, “Core-hole excitation dynamics of one-dimensional ultracold trapped fermions,” Physical Review Research, vol. 8, no. 3. American Physical Society, 2026. ista: Becker A, Koutentakis G, Schmelcher P. 2026. Core-hole excitation dynamics of one-dimensional ultracold trapped fermions. Physical Review Research. 8(3), 033346. mla: Becker, A., et al. “Core-Hole Excitation Dynamics of One-Dimensional Ultracold Trapped Fermions.” Physical Review Research, vol. 8, no. 3, 033346, American Physical Society, 2026, doi:10.1103/njcx-z6np. short: A. Becker, G. Koutentakis, P. Schmelcher, Physical Review Research 8 (2026). corr_author: '1' das_tickbox: '1' dataavailabilitystatement: The data that support the findings of this article are not publicly available upon publication because it is not technically feasible and/or the cost of preparing, depositing, and hosting the data would be prohibitive within the terms of this research project. The data are available from the authors upon reasonable request. date_created: 2026-09-27T22:01:52Z date_published: 2026-09-22T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-10-07T06:57:07Z day: '22' ddc: - '530' department: - _id: MiLe doi: 10.1103/njcx-z6np external_id: arxiv: - '2604.23785' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 7c886e062b11058f00c2049ba47fe3df content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2026-10-07T06:55:14Z date_updated: 2026-10-07T06:55:14Z file_id: '23067' file_name: 2026_PhysicalReviewResearch_BeckerA.pdf file_size: 2520954 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2026-10-07T06:55:14Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1103/njcx-z6np has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 8' issue: '3' language: - iso: eng month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 7c040762-9f16-11ee-852c-dd79eeee4ab3 grant_number: F100403 name: Coherent Optical Metrology Beyond Electric-Dipole-Allowed Transitions publication: Physical Review Research publication_identifier: eissn: - 2643-1564 publication_status: published publisher: American Physical Society quality_controlled: '1' researchdata_availability: upon request scopus_import: '1' status: public supplementarymaterial: yes title: Core-hole excitation dynamics of one-dimensional ultracold trapped fermions tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 8 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: publisher OA_type: hybrid PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '23029' abstract: - lang: eng text: Josephson junction (JJ) chains combine the coherence of superconductivity with the controllability of microwave-frequency circuits, making them a powerful platform for circuit quantum electrodynamics. In this work, we consider a long JJ chain that effectively realizes a multimode cavity with nonlinear dispersion and additional multimode interactions. Individual modes appearing due to the finite size of the chain can be experimentally probed via microwave spectroscopy, both in equilibrium and in driven far-from-equilibrium settings. We study the role of multimode interactions in degrading internal coherence—observable as excess linewidth—in both equilibrium and driven regimes. Focusing on two-into-two mode scattering as the leading relaxation process, we classify the relevant scattering processes and derive their expected temperature- and frequency-scaling under equilibrium conditions. For experimentally relevant parameters, we show that the equilibrium decay rate is dominated by nonresonant processes, however, weakly driving a particular set of modes out of equilibrium enhances resonant scattering, leading to observable signatures in the distribution function and linewidth. Finally, in the strong nonequilibrium regime, we report a crossover to a qualitatively different nonequilibrium steady state. acknowledgement: We acknowledge useful discussions with Anton Bubis, Vladimir Manucharyan, Alexander Mirlin, and Thomas Scaffidi. We are grateful to Eli Levenson-Falk and Alexander Mirlin for their feedback on the manuscript. This research was supported in part by Grant NSF PHY-2309135 to the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), and by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) SFB F86. article_number: '194501' article_processing_charge: Yes (via OA deal) article_type: original arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Lucia full_name: Vigliotti, Lucia id: 539e1e1a-e604-11ee-a1df-f02b018e5c8c last_name: Vigliotti - first_name: Andrew P full_name: Higginbotham, Andrew P id: 4AD6785A-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Higginbotham orcid: 0000-0003-2607-2363 - first_name: Maksym full_name: Serbyn, Maksym id: 47809E7E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Serbyn orcid: 0000-0002-2399-5827 citation: ama: Vigliotti L, Higginbotham AP, Serbyn M. Plasmon decay and nonequilibrium steady states in Josephson junction chains. Physical Review B. 2026;114(19). doi:10.1103/cw3m-thsw apa: Vigliotti, L., Higginbotham, A. P., & Serbyn, M. (2026). Plasmon decay and nonequilibrium steady states in Josephson junction chains. Physical Review B. American Physical Society. https://doi.org/10.1103/cw3m-thsw chicago: Vigliotti, Lucia, Andrew P Higginbotham, and Maksym Serbyn. “Plasmon Decay and Nonequilibrium Steady States in Josephson Junction Chains.” Physical Review B. American Physical Society, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1103/cw3m-thsw. ieee: L. Vigliotti, A. P. Higginbotham, and M. Serbyn, “Plasmon decay and nonequilibrium steady states in Josephson junction chains,” Physical Review B, vol. 114, no. 19. American Physical Society, 2026. ista: Vigliotti L, Higginbotham AP, Serbyn M. 2026. Plasmon decay and nonequilibrium steady states in Josephson junction chains. Physical Review B. 114(19), 194501. mla: Vigliotti, Lucia, et al. “Plasmon Decay and Nonequilibrium Steady States in Josephson Junction Chains.” Physical Review B, vol. 114, no. 19, 194501, American Physical Society, 2026, doi:10.1103/cw3m-thsw. short: L. Vigliotti, A.P. Higginbotham, M. Serbyn, Physical Review B 114 (2026). corr_author: '1' das_tickbox: '1' dataavailabilitystatement: 'The data and the source code that support the findings of this paper are openly available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19456426.' date_created: 2026-10-02T08:33:31Z date_published: 2026-10-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-10-07T09:42:41Z day: '01' ddc: - '530' department: - _id: MaSe - _id: AnHi doi: 10.1103/cw3m-thsw external_id: arxiv: - '2603.06371' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 95db327e1005564d09334763789ad7ae content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2026-10-07T09:39:01Z date_updated: 2026-10-07T09:39:01Z file_id: '23069' file_name: 2026_PhysicalReviewB_Vigliotti.pdf file_size: 2531016 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2026-10-07T09:39:01Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1103/cw3m-thsw has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 114' issue: '19' language: - iso: eng month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 34a7f947-11ca-11ed-8bc3-c5dc2bbaae25 grant_number: F8609 name: 'Center for Correlated Quantum Materials and Solid State Quantum Systems: Probing topology in circuits and quantum materials' publication: Physical Review B publication_identifier: eissn: - 2469-9969 issn: - 2469-9950 publication_status: published publisher: American Physical Society quality_controlled: '1' researchdata_availability: yes scopus_import: '1' status: public supplementarymaterial: yes title: Plasmon decay and nonequilibrium steady states in Josephson junction chains tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 114 year: '2026' ... --- OA_place: publisher OA_type: hybrid PlanS_conform: '1' _id: '23001' abstract: - lang: eng text: "A famous conjecture by Itai and Zehavi states that, for every \U0001D451\r\n-vertex-connected graph \U0001D43A\r\n and every vertex \U0001D45F\r\n in \U0001D43A\r\n, there are \U0001D451\r\n spanning trees of \U0001D43A\r\n such that, for every vertex \U0001D463\r\n in \U0001D43A ∖{\U0001D45F}\r\n, the paths between \U0001D45F\r\n and \U0001D463\r\n in different trees are internally vertex-disjoint. We show that with high probability the Itai–Zehavi conjecture holds asymptotically for the Erdős–Rényi random graph \U0001D43A⁡(\U0001D45B,\U0001D45D)\r\n when \U0001D45B⁢\U0001D45D =\U0001D714⁡(log⁡\U0001D45B)\r\n and for random regular graphs \U0001D43A⁡(\U0001D45B,\U0001D451)\r\n when \U0001D451 =\U0001D714⁡(log⁡\U0001D45B)\r\n. Moreover, we essentially confirm the conjecture up to a constant factor for sparser random regular graphs. This answers a question of Draganić and Krivelevich positively. Our proof makes use of recent developments on sprinkling techniques in random regular graphs." acknowledgement: "Hollom was supported by the Internal Graduate Studentship of Trinity College, Cambridge. Mond was supported by UK Research and Innovation grant MR/W007320/2. Wang was supported by the ERC Starting Grant “RANDSTRUCT” No. 101076777. Lichev was supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [10.55776/ESP624]. For open access purposes, the authors have applied a CC BY public copyright license to any author-accepted manuscript version arising from this submission. Open Access funding provided by Technische Universitat Wien.\r\n\r\nPart of this research was done during a visit of the fourth author to IST Austria. We thank IST Austria for its hospitality. We also thank the anonymous referees for their comments and suggestions. Open Access funding provided by Technische Universitat Wien. This work was supported by the European Research Council, UK Research and Innovation, the Austrian Science Fund, and Trinity College." article_number: e70095 article_processing_charge: Yes (via OA deal) article_type: original arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Lawrence full_name: Hollom, Lawrence last_name: Hollom - first_name: Lyuben full_name: Lichev, Lyuben id: 9aa8388e-d003-11ee-8458-c4c1d7447977 last_name: Lichev - first_name: Adva full_name: Mond, Adva last_name: Mond - first_name: Julien full_name: Portier, Julien last_name: Portier - first_name: Yiting full_name: Wang, Yiting id: 1917d194-076e-11ed-97cd-837255f88785 last_name: Wang citation: ama: Hollom L, Lichev L, Mond A, Portier J, Wang Y. Approximate Itai–Zehavi conjecture for random graphs. Random Structures and Algorithms. 2026;69(2). doi:10.1002/rsa.70095 apa: Hollom, L., Lichev, L., Mond, A., Portier, J., & Wang, Y. (2026). Approximate Itai–Zehavi conjecture for random graphs. Random Structures and Algorithms. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/rsa.70095 chicago: Hollom, Lawrence, Lyuben Lichev, Adva Mond, Julien Portier, and Yiting Wang. “Approximate Itai–Zehavi Conjecture for Random Graphs.” Random Structures and Algorithms. Wiley, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1002/rsa.70095. ieee: L. Hollom, L. Lichev, A. Mond, J. Portier, and Y. Wang, “Approximate Itai–Zehavi conjecture for random graphs,” Random Structures and Algorithms, vol. 69, no. 2. Wiley, 2026. ista: Hollom L, Lichev L, Mond A, Portier J, Wang Y. 2026. Approximate Itai–Zehavi conjecture for random graphs. Random Structures and Algorithms. 69(2), e70095. mla: Hollom, Lawrence, et al. “Approximate Itai–Zehavi Conjecture for Random Graphs.” Random Structures and Algorithms, vol. 69, no. 2, e70095, Wiley, 2026, doi:10.1002/rsa.70095. short: L. Hollom, L. Lichev, A. Mond, J. Portier, Y. Wang, Random Structures and Algorithms 69 (2026). das_tickbox: '0' date_created: 2026-09-27T22:01:52Z date_published: 2026-09-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-10-07T07:13:30Z day: '01' ddc: - '500' department: - _id: MaKw - _id: GradSch doi: 10.1002/rsa.70095 external_id: arxiv: - '2506.23970' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 9a786460a47542f24576e947987e558a content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2026-10-07T07:10:43Z date_updated: 2026-10-07T07:10:43Z file_id: '23068' file_name: 2026_RandomStructAlgorithms_Hollom.pdf file_size: 457581 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2026-10-07T07:10:43Z fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1002/rsa.70095 has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 69' issue: '2' language: - iso: eng month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: bd95085b-d553-11ed-ba76-e55d3349be45 grant_number: '101076777' name: Randomness and structure in combinatorics publication: Random Structures and Algorithms publication_identifier: eissn: - 1098-2418 issn: - 1042-9832 publication_status: published publisher: Wiley quality_controlled: '1' researchdata_availability: no scopus_import: '1' status: public supplementarymaterial: yes title: Approximate Itai–Zehavi conjecture for random graphs tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 69 year: '2026' ...