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Microbial cocktails raise bar for C. diff. treatments by Ratner, Mark

“…Seres’s success with an industrially made bacterial mix in phase 3 trials against Clostridium difficile infection promises an alternative to fecal microbial…”
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Seres's pioneering microbiome drug fails mid-stage trial by Ratner, Mark

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Molecular Rectifiers: A New Design Based on Asymmetric Anchoring Moieties by Van Dyck, Colin, Ratner, Mark A

“…The quest for a molecular rectifier is among the major challenges of molecular electronics. We introduce three simple rules to design an efficient rectifying…”
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IBM's Watson Group signs up genomics partners by Ratner, Mark

“…The medical fields interest in applying New Yorkbased IBM Watsons cognitive computing capabilities has been growing throughout 2014, following the publicly…”
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Intermediate tunnelling–hopping regime in DNA charge transport by Xiang, Limin, Palma, Julio L., Bruot, Christopher, Mujica, Vladimiro, Ratner, Mark A., Tao, Nongjian

“…Charge transport in molecular systems, including DNA, is involved in many basic chemical and biological processes, and its understanding is critical if they…”
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Molecular Junctions: Control of the Energy Gap Achieved by a Pinning Effect by Van Dyck, Colin, Ratner, Mark A

“…Single-molecule junctions are the constitutive components of molecular electronics circuits. For any potential application, the energy gap in the junction,…”
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Rylene and Related Diimides for Organic Electronics by Zhan, Xiaowei, Facchetti, Antonio, Barlow, Stephen, Marks, Tobin J., Ratner, Mark A., Wasielewski, Michael R., Marder, Seth R.

“…Organic electron‐transporting materials are essential for the fabrication of organic p‐n junctions, photovoltaic cells, n‐channel field‐effect transistors, and…”
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Embedding Methods for Quantum Chemistry: Applications from Materials to Life Sciences by Jones, Leighton O, Mosquera, Martín A, Schatz, George C, Ratner, Mark A

“…Quantum mechanical embedding methods hold the promise to transform not just the way calculations are performed, but to significantly reduce computational costs…”
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Gate-controlled conductance switching in DNA by Xiang, Limin, Palma, Julio L., Li, Yueqi, Mujica, Vladimiro, Ratner, Mark A., Tao, Nongjian

“…Extensive evidence has shown that long-range charge transport can occur along double helical DNA, but active control (switching) of single-DNA conductance with…”
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Covalently bonded single-molecule junctions with stable and reversible photoswitched conductivity by Jia, Chuancheng, Migliore, Agostino, Xin, Na, Huang, Shaoyun, Wang, Jinying, Yang, Qi, Wang, Shuopei, Chen, Hongliang, Wang, Duoming, Feng, Boyong, Liu, Zhirong, Zhang, Guangyu, Qu, Da-Hui, Tian, He, Ratner, Mark A., Xu, H. Q., Nitzan, Abraham, Guo, Xuefeng

“…Through molecular engineering, single diarylethenes were covalently sandwiched between graphene electrodes to form stable molecular conduction junctions. Our…”
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Photodriven quantum teleportation of an electron spin state in a covalent donor–acceptor–radical system by Rugg, Brandon K., Krzyaniak, Matthew D., Phelan, Brian T., Ratner, Mark A., Young, Ryan M., Wasielewski, Michael R.

“…Quantum teleportation transfers the quantum state of a system over an arbitrary distance from one location to another through the agency of quantum…”
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Towards graphyne molecular electronics by Li, Zhihai, Smeu, Manuel, Rives, Arnaud, Maraval, Valérie, Chauvin, Remi, Ratner, Mark A., Borguet, Eric

“…α-Graphyne, a carbon-expanded version of graphene (‘ carbo -graphene’) that was recently evidenced as an alternative zero-gap semiconductor, remains a…”
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Molecular Self-Assembled Monolayers and Multilayers for Organic and Unconventional Inorganic Thin-Film Transistor Applications by DiBenedetto, Sara A., Facchetti, Antonio, Ratner, Mark A., Marks, Tobin J.

“…Principal goals in organic thin‐film transistor (OTFT) gate dielectric research include achieving: (i) low gate leakage currents and good chemical/thermal…”
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Exploring local currents in molecular junctions by Solomon, Gemma C., Herrmann, Carmen, Hansen, Thorsten, Mujica, Vladimiro, Ratner, Mark A.

“…Electron transfer through molecules is an ubiquitous process underlying the function of biological systems and synthetic devices. The electronic coupling…”
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Controlling Conformations of Conjugated Polymers and Small Molecules: The Role of Nonbonding Interactions by Jackson, Nicholas E, Savoie, Brett M, Kohlstedt, Kevin L, Olvera de la Cruz, Monica, Schatz, George C, Chen, Lin X, Ratner, Mark A

“…The chemical variety present in the organic electronics literature has motivated us to investigate potential nonbonding interactions often incorporated into…”
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Unequal Partnership: Asymmetric Roles of Polymeric Donor and Fullerene Acceptor in Generating Free Charge by Savoie, Brett M, Rao, Akshay, Bakulin, Artem A, Gelinas, Simon, Movaghar, Bijan, Friend, Richard H, Marks, Tobin J, Ratner, Mark A

“…Natural photosynthetic complexes accomplish the rapid conversion of photoexcitations into spatially separated electrons and holes through precise hierarchical…”
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Maximizing Singlet Fission in Organic Dimers: Theoretical Investigation of Triplet Yield in the Regime of Localized Excitation and Fast Coherent Electron Transfer by Greyson, Eric C, Vura-Weis, Josh, Michl, Josef, Ratner, Mark A

“…In traditional solar cells one photon absorbed can lead to at most one electron of current. Singlet fission, a process in which one singlet exciton is…”
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Mapping the Relation between Stacking Geometries and Singlet Fission Yield in a Class of Organic Crystals by Renaud, Nicolas, Sherratt, Paul A, Ratner, Mark A

“…By generating two free charge carriers from a single high-energy photon, singlet fission (SF) promises to significantly improve the efficiency of a class of…”
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Model Hamiltonian Analysis of Singlet Fission from First Principles by Parker, Shane M, Seideman, Tamar, Ratner, Mark A, Shiozaki, Toru

“…We present an approach to accurately construct the few-state model Hamiltonians for singlet fission processes on the basis of an ab initio electronic structure…”
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Using coherence to enhance function in chemical and biophysical systems by Scholes, Gregory D., Fleming, Graham R., Chen, Lin X., Aspuru-Guzik, Alán, Buchleitner, Andreas, Coker, David F., Engel, Gregory S., van Grondelle, Rienk, Ishizaki, Akihito, Jonas, David M., Lundeen, Jeff S., McCusker, James K., Mukamel, Shaul, Ogilvie, Jennifer P., Olaya-Castro, Alexandra, Ratner, Mark A., Spano, Frank C., Whaley, K. Birgitta, Zhu, Xiaoyang

“…Coherence phenomena arise from interference, or the addition, of wave-like amplitudes with fixed phase differences. Although coherence has been shown to yield…”
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