Scientific Reports Physics Table of Contents e-alert: November 2012

08 November 2012      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports This Monthly Table of Contents e-alert was delayed due to Hurricane Sandy closing our New York offices temporarily. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.             Nature Arabic Edition allows Arabic speakers throughout the world to access top quality science news and comment from Nature, as well as summaries of all the research papers from the leading multidisciplinary journal. Access Nature Arabic Edition online and apply for your free subscription arabicedition.nature.com In partnership with: KACST                Physical Sciences               Sequential origin in the high performance properties of orb spider dragline silk ▶     Todd A. Blackledge, José Pérez-Rigueiro, Gustavo R. Plaza et al.     Major ampullate (MA) dragline silk supports spider orb webs, combining strength and extensibility in the toughest biomaterial. MA silk evolved ~376 MYA and identifying how …             Transparent, flexible supercapacitors from nano-engineered carbon films ▶     Hyun Young Jung, Majid B. Karimi, Myung Gwan Hahm et al.     Here we construct mechanically flexible and optically transparent thin film solid state supercapacitors by assembling nano-engineered carbon electrodes, prepared in porous …             Counterflow Dielectrophoresis for Trypanosome Enrichment and Detection in Blood ▶     Anoop Menachery, Clemens Kremer, Pui E. Wong et al.     Human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness is a deadly disease endemic in sub-Saharan Africa, caused by single-celled protozoan parasites. Although it has been targeted …             Spontaneous knotting of self-trapped waves ▶     Anton S. Desyatnikov, Daniel Buccoliero, Mark R. Dennis et al.     We describe theory and simulations of a spinning optical soliton whose propagation spontaneously excites knotted and linked optical vortices. The nonlinear phase of the …             Asymmetric cryorolling for fabrication of nanostructural aluminum sheets ▶     Hailiang YU, Cheng LU, Kiet TIEU et al.     Nanostructural Al 1050 sheets were produced using a novel method of asymmetric cryorolling under ratios of upper and down rolling velocities (RUDV) of 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4. …             Polymer-drug conjugates for intracellar molecule-targeted photoinduced inactivation of protein and growth inhibition of cancer cells ▶     Bing Wang, Huanxiang Yuan, Chunlei Zhu et al.     For most molecule-targeted anticancer systems, intracellular protein targets are very difficult to be accessed by antibodies, and also most efforts are made to inhibit protein …             Multifunctional, supramolecular, continuous artificial nacre fibres ▶     Xiaozhen Hu, Zhen Xu, Chao Gao     Nature has created amazing materials during the process of evolution, inspiring scientists to studiously mimic them. Nacre is of particular interest, and it has been studied for …             Nanoscale interference patterns of gap-mode multipolar plasmonic fields ▶     Yoshito Tanaka, Akio Sanada, Keiji Sasaki     Arbitrary spatial distributions of the electric field of light are formed through the interference of individual wavenumber mode fields with appropriate amplitudes and phases, …             Protease-catalysed Direct Asymmetric Mannich Reaction in Organic Solvent ▶     Yang Xue, Ling-Po Li, Yan-Hong He et al.     We reported the first enzyme-catalysed, direct, three-component asymmetric Mannich reaction using protease type XIV from Streptomyces griseus (SGP) in acetonitrile. Yields of up …             Quantum Tunneling of Magnetization in Ultrasmall Half-Metallic V3O4 Quantum Dots: Displaying Quantum Superparamagnetic State ▶     Chong Xiao, Jiajia Zhang, Jie Xu et al.     Quantum tunneling of magnetization (QTMs), stemming from their importance for understanding materials with unconventional properties, has continued to attract widespread …             Theoretical Investigation of the Magnetic Exchange Interactions in Copper(II) Oxides under Chemical and Physical Pressures ▶     Xavier Rocquefelte, Karlheinz Schwarz, Peter Blaha     It remains a challenge to understand the unconventional mechanisms that cause high-TC superconductivity in cuprate superconductors, high-TC multiferroicity in CuO, or …             High mobility conduction at (110) and (111) LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces ▶     G. Herranz, F. Sánchez, N. Dix et al.     In recent years, striking discoveries have revealed that two-dimensional electron liquids (2DEL) confined at the interface between oxide band-insulators can be engineered to …             Possible magnetic-polaron-switched positive and negative magnetoresistance in the GdSi single crystals ▶     Haifeng Li, Yinguo Xiao, Berthold Schmitz et al.     Magnetoresistance (MR) has attracted tremendous attention for possible technological applications. Understanding the role of magnetism in manipulating MR may in turn steer the …             How to share underground reservoirs ▶     K. J. Schrenk, N. A. M. Araújo, H. J. Herrmann     Many resources, such as oil, gas, or water, are extracted from porous soils and their exploration is often shared among different companies or nations. We show that the effective …             Visualizing the chemistry and structure dynamics in lithium-ion batteries by in-situ neutron diffraction ▶     Xun-Li Wang, Ke An, Lu Cai et al.     We report an in-situ neutron diffraction study of a large format pouch battery cell. The succession of Li-Graphite intercalation phases was fully captured under an 1C …             Breaking the spatial resolution barrier via iterative sound-light interaction in deep tissue microscopy ▶     Ke Si, Reto Fiolka, Meng Cui     Optical microscopy has so far been restricted to superficial layers, leaving many important biological questions unanswered. Random scattering causes the ballistic focus, which is …             A stable solution-processed polymer semiconductor with record high-mobility for printed transistors ▶     Jun Li, Yan Zhao, Huei Shuan Tan et al.     Microelectronic circuits/arrays produced via high-speed printing instead of traditional photolithographic processes offer an appealing approach to creating the long-sought after, …             Field electron emission based on resonant tunneling in diamond/CoSi2/Si quantum well nanostructures ▶     Changzhi Gu, Xin Jiang, Wengang Lu et al.     Excellent field electron emission properties of a diamond/CoSi2/Si quantum well nanostructure are observed. The novel quantum well structure consists of high quality diamond …             Quantifying the Behavior of Stock Correlations Under Market Stress ▶     Tobias Preis, Dror Y. Kenett, H. Eugene Stanley et al.     Understanding correlations in complex systems is crucial in the face of turbulence, such as the ongoing financial crisis. However, in complex systems, such as financial systems, …             One plus Two: Supramolecular Coordination in a Nano-Reactor on Surface ▶     Xuemei Zhang, Yongtao Shen, Shuai Wang et al.     The supramolecular coordination of zinc (II) phthalocyanine (Zn-Pc) with V-shaped bi-pyridine in a nano-reactor is probed by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) at liquid/solid …             Dynamic-Load-Enabled Ultra-low Power Multiple-State RRAM Devices ▶     Xiang Yang, I-Wei Chen     Bipolar resistance-switching materials allowing intermediate states of wide-varying resistance values hold the potential of drastically reduced power for non-volatile memory. To …             Cold Radiofrequency Plasma Treatment Modifies Wettability and Germination Speed of Plant Seeds ▶     Edward Bormashenko, Roman Grynyov, Yelena Bormashenko et al.     We report the possibility to modify the wetting properties of the surfaces of a diversity of seeds including: lentils (Lens culinaris), beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) and wheat …             Beyond pairwise strategy updating in the prisoner's dilemma game ▶     Xiaofeng Wang, Matjaž Perc, Yongkui Liu et al.     In spatial games players typically alter their strategy by imitating the most successful or one randomly selected neighbor. Since a single neighbor is taken as reference, the …             Excitation of surface electromagnetic waves in a graphene-based Bragg grating ▶     Kandammathe Valiyaveedu Sreekanth, Shuwen Zeng, Jingzhi Shang et al.     Here, we report the fabrication of a graphene-based Bragg grating (one-dimensional photonic crystal) and experimentally demonstrate the excitation of surface electromagnetic waves …             Self organization of exotic oil-in-oil phases driven by tunable electrohydrodynamics ▶     Atul Varshney, Shankar Ghosh, S. Bhattacharya et al.     Self organization of large-scale structures in nature - either coherent structures like crystals, or incoherent dynamic structures like clouds - is governed by long-range …             Real-time frequency dynamics and high-resolution spectra of a semiconductor laser with delayed feedback ▶     Daniel Brunner, Xavier Porte, Miguel C. Soriano et al.     The unstable emission of semiconductor lasers due to delayed optical feedback is characterized by combined intensity and frequency dynamics. Nevertheless, real-time experimental …             Thermodynamics on Soluble Carbon Nanotubes: How Do DNA Molecules Replace Surfactants on Carbon Nanotubes? ▶     Yuichi Kato, Ayaka Inoue, Yasuro Niidome et al.     Here we represent thermodynamics on soluble carbon nanotubes that enables deep understanding the interactions between single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and molecules. We …             The Chaos Within Sudoku ▶     Mária Ercsey-Ravasz, Zoltán Toroczkai     The mathematical structure of Sudoku puzzles is akin to hard constraint satisfaction problems lying at the basis of many applications, including protein folding and the …             Weak Anti-localization and Quantum Oscillations of Surface States in Topological Insulator Bi2Se2Te ▶     Lihong Bao, Liang He, Nicholas Meyer et al.     Topological insulators, a new quantum state of matter, create exciting opportunities for studying topological quantum physics and for exploring spintronic applications due to …             Enhanced Droplet Control by Transition Boiling ▶     Alex Grounds, Richard Still, Kei Takashina     A droplet of water on a heated surface can levitate over a film of gas produced by its own evaporation in the Leidenfrost effect. When the surface is prepared with ratchet-like …             Robust Digital Holography For Ultracold Atom Trapping ▶     Alexander L. Gaunt, Zoran Hadzibabic     We have formulated and experimentally demonstrated an improved algorithm for design of arbitrary two-dimensional holographic traps for ultracold atoms. Our method builds on the …             Manipulating Mn–Mgk cation complexes to control the charge- and spin-state of Mn in GaN ▶     Thibaut Devillers, Mauro Rovezzi, Nevill Gonzalez Szwacki et al.     Owing to the variety of possible charge and spin states and to the different ways of coupling to the environment, paramagnetic centres in wide band-gap semiconductors and …             A New Metrics for Countries' Fitness and Products' Complexity ▶     Andrea Tacchella, Matthieu Cristelli, Guido Caldarelli et al.     Classical economic theories prescribe specialization of countries industrial production. Inspection of the country databases of exported products shows that this is not the case: …             Extra-electron induced covalent strengthening and generalization of intrinsic ductile-to-brittle criterion ▶     Haiyang Niu, Xing-Qiu Chen, Peitao Liu et al.     Traditional strengthening ways, such as strain, precipitation, and solid-solution, come into effect by pinning the motion of dislocation. Here, through first-principles …             In Situ Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Studies of Lithium-Oxygen Redox Reactions ▶     Yi-Chun Lu, Ethan J. Crumlin, Gabriel M. Veith et al.     The lack of fundamental understanding of the oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution in nonaqueous electrolytes significantly hinders the development of rechargeable lithium-air …             Entropy-driven liquid–liquid separation in supercooled water ▶     V. Holten, M. A. Anisimov     Twenty years ago Poole et al. suggested that the anomalous properties of supercooled water may be caused by a critical point that terminates a line of liquid–liquid separation of …             Structural relaxation and quasi-elastic light scattering in glass: Approach by ferroelectric and ion-conducting phases ▶     Yoshihiro Takahashi, Kensaku Nakamura, Minoru Osada et al.     Inelastic light scattering has been utilized for examining the structure of glass and its relaxation. However, the quasi-elastic-light-scattering (QLS) phenomenon has not been …             Quantum learning without quantum memory ▶     G. Sentís, J. Calsamiglia, R. Muñoz-Tapia et al.     A quantum learning machine for binary classification of qubit states that does not require quantum memory is introduced and shown to perform with the minimum error rate allowed by …             Direct Optical Characterization of Graphene Growth and Domains on Growth Substrates ▶     Chuancheng Jia, Jiaolong Jiang, Lin Gan et al.     We detailed a facile detection technique to optically characterize graphene growth and domains directly on growth substrates through a simple thermal annealing process. It was …             Emergence of grouping in multi-resource minority game dynamics ▶     Zi-Gang Huang, Ji-Qiang Zhang, Jia-Qi Dong et al.     Complex systems arising in a modern society typically have many resources and strategies available for their dynamical evolutions. To explore quantitatively the behaviors of such …             Tailoring a fluorophosphate as a novel 4 V cathode for lithium-ion batteries ▶     Young-Uk Park, Dong-Hwa Seo, Byoungkook Kim et al.     Lithium-ion batteries, which have been widely used to power portable electronic devices, are on the verge of being applied to new automobile applications. To expand this emerging …             General and Controllable Synthesis Strategy of Metal Oxide/TiO2 Hierarchical Heterostructures with Improved Lithium-Ion Battery Performance ▶     Hengguo Wang, Delong Ma, Xiaolei Huang et al.     We demonstrate a simple, efficient, yet versatile strategy for the synthesis of novel hierarchical heterostructures composed of TiO2 nanofiber stem and various metal oxides (MOs) …                         Scientific Reports is accepting submissions from all scientific fields. 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