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Interactions between photons and plasmons have resulted in a hotbed of research activity in the physical sciences, notably through techniques such as white-light and Raman scattering, as evidenced by > 10,000 articles published in 2020. In this work, plasmon-mediated linear w…

Raman optical activity (ROA) is a powerful probe of the structure and behaviour of biomolecules in aqueous solution for a number of important problems in molecular biology. Although ROA is a very sensitive technique for studying biological samples, it is a very weak effect and t…

Organic semiconductors, such as short-chain oligomers and long-chain polymers, are now a core constituent in numerous organic and organic-inorganic hybrid technologies. Blue-emitting polyfluorenes (PFs) have emerged as especially attractive π conjugated polymers (CP) due to thei…

Much of what is known about the early solar system’s history, processes, and conditions are determined through the study of airless bodies. Like their terrestrial counterparts, the geologic materials of airless bodies contain information about their formative environment; these …