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In article number https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.201903093, Jong‐Heun Lee and co‐workers describe exclusive detection of sub‐ppm‐level ethylene, a representative plant hormone, using bilayer sensors. The sensor can be widely used for real‐time assessment of fruit freshness/ripening or the control of plant growth/development.

This paper investigates strategic and organisational context determinants of the sophistication of adopted sales force automation (SFA) systems in three UK industries: financial services, pharmaceuticals, and building/construction. Sophistication of adopted systems is associated with the organisation placing greater emphasis on information orientation, which is itself driven by an increased integration of IT and sales coupled with increased organisational slack. Increased integration of IT and sales is itself driven by increased strategic importance of sales coupled with increased use of internal communication networks. Importantly, a firm's marketing orientation, although also driven by the strategic importance of sales, has no impact on either information orientation or SFA sophistication. We discuss the implications of our findings to aid understanding of SFA implementation failure.

The selective detection of two different gases, NO(2) and C(2)H(5)OH, has been achieved using a p-type Co(3)O(4)-decorated n-type ZnO nanowire (NW) network sensor. The gas selectivity was explained by the catalytic effect of nanocrystalline Co(3)O(4) and the extension of the electron depletion layer via the formation of p-n junctions.