The authors describe mitochondrial studies in a 6-year-old patient with a seizure disorder that can be seen in myoclonic epilepsy and ragged red fibers. Using a recently developed noninvasive approach, analysis of buccal mitochondrial enzyme function revealed severe respiratory complex I and IV deficiencies in the patient. In addition, analysis of buccal mitochondrial DNA showed significant amounts of the common 5 kb and 7.4 kb mitochondrial DNA deletions, also detectable in blood. This study suggests that a buccal swab approach can be used to informatively examine mitochondrial dysfunction in children with seizures and may be applicable to screening mitochondrial disease with other clinical presentations.
Resolving low-energy features in
the density of states (DOS) holds
the key to understanding a wide variety of rich novel phenomena in
graphene-based 2D heterostructures. The Lifshitz transition in bilayer
graphene (BLG) arising from trigonal warping has been established
theoretically and experimentally. Nevertheless, the experimental realization
of its effects on transport properties has been challenging because
of its relatively low energy scale (∼1 meV). In this work,
we demonstrate that the thermoelectric power (TEP) can be used as
an effective probe to investigate fine changes in the DOS of BLG.
We observed additional entropy features in the vicinity of the charge
neutrality point (CNP) in gapped BLG. This apparent violation of the
Mott formula can be explained quantitatively by considering the effects
of trigonal warping, thereby serving as possible evidence of a Lifshitz
transition.
The combination of field-tunable bandgap, topological edge states, and valleys in the band structure, makes insulating bilayer graphene a unique localized system, where the scaling laws of dimensionless conductance g remain largely unexplored. Here we show that the relative fluctuations in ln g with the varying chemical potential, in strongly insulating bilayer graphene (BLG) decay nearly logarithmically for channel length up to L/ξ ≈ 20, where ξ is the localization length. This 'marginal' self-averaging, and the corresponding dependence of ln g on L, suggest that transport in strongly gapped BLG occurs along strictly one-dimensional channels, where ξ ≈ 0.5±0.1 µm was found to be much longer than that expected from the bulk bandgap. Our experiment reveals a nontrivial localization mechanism in gapped BLG, governed by transport along robust edge modes.
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The planar assembly of twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) hosts multitude of interaction-driven phases when the relative rotation is close to the magic angle (θm = 1.1∘). This includes correlation-induced ground states that reveal spontaneous symmetry breaking at low temperature, as well as possibility of non-Fermi liquid (NFL) excitations. However, experimentally, manifestation of NFL effects in transport properties of twisted bilayer graphene remains ambiguous. Here we report simultaneous measurements of electrical resistivity (ρ) and thermoelectric power (S) in tBLG for several twist angles between θ ~ 1.0 − 1.7∘. We observe an emergent violation of the semiclassical Mott relation in the form of excess S close to half-filling for θ ~ 1.6∘ that vanishes for θ ≳ 2∘. The excess S (≈2 μV/K at low temperatures T ~ 10 K at θ ≈ 1.6∘) persists upto ≈40 K, and is accompanied by metallic T-linear ρ with transport scattering rate (τ−1) of near-Planckian magnitude τ−1 ~ kBT/ℏ. Closer to θm, the excess S was also observed for fractional band filling (ν ≈ 0.5). The combination of non-trivial electrical transport and violation of Mott relation provides compelling evidence of NFL physics intrinsic to tBLG.
Graphene constitutes one of the key elements in many functional van der Waals heterostructures.However, it has negligible optical visibility due to its monolayer nature. Here we study the visibility of graphene in various van der Waals heterostructures and include the effects of the source spectrum, oblique incidence and the spectral sensitivity of the detector to obtain a realistic model. A visibility experiment is performed at different wavelengths, resulting in a very good agreement with our calculations. This allows us to reliably predict the conditions for better visibility of graphene in van der Waals heterostructures. The framework and the codes provided in this work can be extended to study the visibility of any 2D material within an arbitrary van der Waals heterostructure.
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