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‘The Masked Singer’ Spoilers: Russian Dolls Are

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“The Masked Singer” welcomed back after a two-week absence the celebrities in Group A on April 14. While this is only episode 6 of season 5, it is already the Group A final. Vying to continue on in the competition are three contenders who have been part of Group A since they first performed on March 10 — Robopine, Russian Dolls and Seashell — plus the Wild Card entry Orca, who first sang on March 24.

That episode marked the end of the line for Raccoon, who turned out to be “Machete” star Danny Trejo. He was bounced from the show after his cover of “Ring of Fire” by Johnny Cash failed to ignite any passion from the four judges (Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke).

Conversely, Russian Dolls once again wowed the panel with their cover of the Shawn Mendes hit “Wonder.” We’ve watched that performance as well as their March 10 debut with “Man in the Mirror” by Michael Jackson. Keep reading if you want to know the real name of the Russian Dolls.

Forget the panel guesses that the Russian Dolls are Boyz II Men or Lady A. We’ve added together both their individual clues and the collective ones about all the celebrities taking part on season 5 of “The Masked Singer” and are sure we know who is hidden inside the Russian Dolls costumes.

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We think that hiding these these nesting dolls decorated with three flowers are the members of another trio, the Hanson Brothers (Isaac, Taylor and Zac).

In the first clues package we saw the brothers’ initials in the stylized spelling of the sign “Mizfitz Toy Store,” which also signals another connection to the brothers. Hanson made one of their first TV appearances on Carman’s “Yo Kidz” way back in 1994.

Three years later Hanson soared to the top of the charts with “Mmmbop.” That catchy tune sold 1.5 million copies and was certified platinum. Collectively, the season 5 contestants on “The Masked Singer” have released nine singles that achieved such sales.

In week 3, we saw a letterman jacket emblazoned with an “M” – we read that as a reference this mega-hit, which bagged Hanson three Grammy nominations: Record of the Year, Best New Artist and Best Pop Duo/Group. As a whole, this season’s contestants have contended for music’s top prize 26 times.

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Collectively this season’s contestants have moved 55 million albums; Hanson account for a whopping 16 million of that total. The contestants can brag of 25 gold and platinum discs; Hanson’s debut studio album, “Middle of Nowhere,” went quadruple platinum.

Their star burned bright for several years but faded after Hanson changed record companies in 2000. They were soon dropped by their new label, which would explain the mention by the Russian Dolls of “being put on a shelf.”

Those shots of snow in the first video package put us in mind of Hanson’s first Christmas album, “Snowed In.”

Besides performing with his brothers, Taylor also fronts the band Tinted Windows, which would account for one of the Russian Dolls saying he also does his own thing.

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Zac was in a motorcycle accident in 2019 that resulted in him, like the Russian Doll in week 3, being “rushed to the hospital.”

We will only find out if we were right that the Russian Dolls are Hanson when they are unmasked. That will happen if they loses a popular vote or win the show. Do you think we are correct in our guess about the real name of the Russian Dolls? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section with your best guesses.

A Catalan-German research team has succeeded in using a three-shell 'matryoshka' architecture to solve a long-standing problem in chemical synthesis. The researchers from Girona and Ulm have developed a three-dimensional construct of nested molecules, which is best imagined as a soccer ball stuck in a hula hoop, which in turn is embedded in a cage. With the help of this molecular 'matryoshka', the molecular soccer balls can be converted with record efficiency into products that are used in the latest generation of solar cells.

Fullerenes are unique chemical species. Their structure and shape resemble a soccer ball. Yet they consist of pure carbon - more precisely, an extremely thin layer that is only one atom thick. Organic solar cells of the latest generation use specifically functionalised forms of these molecular soccer balls as transporters of charge. 'Until now, the production of precisely functionalised fullerenes has been very difficult due to the formation of a large number of unwanted by-products. The target molecules therefore have to be painstakingly purified, which is an impediment for their widespread application,' explains Max von Delius, head of the Institute of Organic Chemistry I at Ulm University. The international research team led by Professor Xavi Ribas from the University of Girona and Professor Max von Delius has developed a highly selective method for functionalising the fullerene C60 in a way that does not require any complex purification steps and, overall, achieves a yield of over 90% for a so called trans-3 bisadduct - a new record. The three-shell nanoreactor, which is reminiscent of a 'matryoshka' doll, has now been published in the prestigious journal Nature Chemistry.

A 'matryoshka' is a Russian doll made of thinly-carved wood. It consists of a series of increasingly smaller wooden dolls that are nested inside each other. 'With the molecular matryoshka, our research team has succeeded in "nesting" different chemical reaction spaces within each other in a similar way,' explains Professor Xavi Ribas. At the centre of this reaction space is the football-shaped fullerene molecule that is to be chemically modified. This is surrounded by a rotating 'nanohoop', which is restricted by the outer shell in its rotation in one dimension and therefore shields parts of the fullerene surface from the reagents. The chemical 'hula hoop' consists of cyclic organic compounds that form a stable ring-shaped molecular structure. The construct of football and nanohoop is in turn embedded in a molecular 'cage' that forms the outer layer of the matryoshka. The reaction space is closed at the top and bottom, but has a 'window' on each of the four sides through which the functionalisation reagents can enter the nanoreactor.

For the chemical realisation of the matryoshka principle, the molecular architects made use of special chemical forces such as 'pi-pi' interactions, which act between the 'soccer ball', 'hoop' and 'cage' and thus give the structure both support and at the same time a certain degree of flexibility. 'In supramolecular chemistry, a special field of organic chemistry, the encapsulation of chemical species within others is known as a host-guest architecture. With our "matryoshka" design, we have succeeded for the first time in using a three-shell host-guest system for solving a problem of chemical synthesis,' say Ernest Ubasart (University of Girona) and Oleg Borodin (Ulm University), who were involved in the study as lead authors.

The multi-shell nanoreactor has the task of precisely selecting which carbon binding sites of the fullerene are accessible for chemical modification. This functionalisation is achieved via so-called addition reactions that install chemical appendages carrying specific functional groups. The researchers highlight that 'using the "matryoshka" architecture, [they] were able to synthesise certain fullerene bis-adducts in perfect purity, whereas conventional reactions of this type give rise to more than a dozen undesirable reaction products.'

Eureka moment during international conferenceThe German-Catalan collaboration also has a unique story of how it came to be. 'Xavi Ribas and I met at an international research conference and participated in the "poster session". I quickly noticed a poster by Carles Fuertes, a member of Xavi’s research group. It had the same objective as the project we were presenting, but was based on a completely different molecular design,' says Professor Max von Delius. The common theme was the precise functionalisation of the C60 molecule. While the Ulm team was researching a suitable 'nanohoop' solution, Professor Xavi Ribas' group at the University of Girona was working on a 'cage' concept. Both approaches on their own, however, left certain aspects to be desired. So why not combine the two designs? 'This scientific collaboration was incredibly exciting for all of us. I still remember how excited we were and kept running back and forth between the two posters,' Ribas recalls this particular 'eureka' experience. In the end, the researchers not only achieved the 'soccer ball, hoop and cage' solution, but also realised that a scientific collaboration is much more than the sum of its parts.

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