Scientific Reports Chemistry Table of Contents e-alert: January 2013

02 January 2013      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports                 We've got something to share with you   Access the latest scientific news and research when and where you want it. Download the latest issues to browse at your convenience, zoom in on figures and images, save your searches and synchronize your bookmarks across devices.   Tap in to find out more .                 Chemical Sciences               Microsecond time-resolved energy-dispersive EXAFS measurement and its application to film the thermolysis of (NH4)2[PtCl6] ▶     Qingyu Kong, Francois Baudelet, Jun Han et al.     Microsecond (μs) time-resolved extended X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (EXAFS) has been developed using an energy-dispersive EXAFS (EDE) setup equipped with a …             Co-Assembly of Oppositely Charged Particles into Linear Clusters and Chains of Controllable Length ▶     Bhuvnesh Bharti, Gerhard H. Findenegg, Orlin D. Velev     Colloidal particles with strongly attractive interactions snap on contact and form permanent, but disordered aggregates. In contrast, AC electric fields allow directional assembly …             Microwave-assisted Low-temperature Growth of Thin Films in Solution ▶     B. Reeja-Jayan, Katharine L. Harrison, K. Yang et al.     Thin films find a variety of technological applications. Assembling thin films from atoms in the liquid phase is intrinsically a non-equilibrium phenomenon, controlled by the …             A singular thermodynamically consistent temperature at the origin of the anomalous behavior of liquid water ▶     Francesco Mallamace, Carmelo Corsaro, H. Eugene Stanley     The density maximum of water dominates the thermodynamics of the system under ambient conditions, is strongly P-dependent, and disappears at a crossover pressure Pcross ~ …             CoMn2O4 Spinel Hierarchical Microspheres Assembled with Porous Nanosheets as Stable Anodes for Lithium-ion Batteries ▶     Lin Hu, Hao Zhong, Xinrui Zheng et al.     Herein, we report the feasibility to enhance the capacity and stability of CoMn2O4 anode materials by fabricating hierarchical mesoporous structure. The open space between …             Ordering Ag nanowire arrays by a glass capillary: A portable, reusable and durable SERS substrate ▶     Jian-Wei Liu, Jin-Long Wang, Wei-Ran Huang et al.     Assembly of nanowires into ordered macroscopic structures with new functionalities has been a recent focus. In this Letter, we report a new route for ordering hydrophilic Ag …             Integrated photoelectrochemical energy storage: solar hydrogen generation and supercapacitor ▶     Xinhui Xia, Jingshan Luo, Zhiyuan Zeng et al.     Current solar energy harvest and storage are so far realized by independent technologies (such as solar cell and batteries), by which only a fraction of solar energy is utilized. …             Realization of tunable Dirac cone and insulating bulk states in topological insulators (Bi1−xSbx)2Te3 ▶     Chengwang Niu, Ying Dai, Yingtao Zhu et al.     The bulk-insulating topological insulators with tunable surface states are necessary for applications in spintronics and quantum computation. Here we present theoretical evidence …             Induced magnetic moment of Eu3+ ions in GaN ▶     V. Kachkanov, M. J. Wallace, G. van der Laan et al.     Magnetic semiconductors with coupled magnetic and electronic properties are of high technological and fundamental importance. Rare-earth elements can be used to introduce magnetic …             Linearly arranged polytypic CZTSSe nanocrystals ▶     Feng-Jia Fan, Liang Wu, Ming Gong et al.     Even colloidal polytypic nanostructures show promising future in band-gap tuning and alignment, researches on them have been much less reported than the standard …             Lithium storage mechanisms in purpurin based organic lithium ion battery electrodes ▶     Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, Subbiah Nagarajan, Porramate Chumyim et al.     Current lithium batteries operate on inorganic insertion compounds to power a diverse range of applications, but recently there is a surging demand to develop environmentally …             DNA based identification of medicinal materials in Chinese patent medicines ▶     Rong Chen, Juan Dong, Xin Cui et al.     Chinese patent medicines (CPM) are highly processed and easy to use Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The market for CPM in China alone is tens of billions US dollars annually …             Non-destructive Inhibition of Metallofullerenol Gd@C82(OH)22 on WW domain: Implication on Signal Transduction Pathway ▶     Seung-gu Kang, Tien Huynh, Ruhong Zhou     Endohedral metallofullerenol Gd@C82(OH)22 has recently been shown to effectively inhibit tumor growth; however, its potential adverse bioeffects remain to be understood before its …             DJ-1 isoforms in whole blood as potential biomarkers of Parkinson disease ▶     Xiangmin Lin, Travis J. Cook, Cyrus P. Zabetian et al.     DJ-1 is a multifunctional protein that plays an important role in oxidative stress, cell death, and synucleinopathies, including Parkinson disease. Previous studies have …             Pyro-Synthesis of Functional Nanocrystals ▶     Jihyeon Gim, Vinod Mathew, Jinsub Lim et al.     Despite nanomaterials with unique properties playing a vital role in scientific and technological advancements of various fields including chemical and electrochemical …             Direct N2H4/H2O2 Fuel Cells Powered by Nanoporous Gold Leaves ▶     Xiuling Yan, Fanhui Meng, Yun Xie et al.     Dealloyed nanoporous gold leaves (NPGLs) are found to exhibit high electrocatalytic properties toward both hydrazine (N2H4) oxidation and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) reduction. This …             Plasmon resonance tuning in metallic nanocavities ▶     A. Polyakov, K. F. Thompson, S. D. Dhuey et al.     Nanocavities fabricated in a metallic surface have important and technologically useful properties of complete light absorption and strong field enhancement. Here, we demonstrate …             Capillary wave propagation during the delamination of graphene by the precursor films in electro-elasto-capillarity ▶     Xueyan Zhu, Quanzi Yuan, Ya-Pu Zhao     Molecular dynamics simulations were carried out to explore the capillary wave propagation induced by the competition between one upper precursor film (PF) on the graphene and one …             Mesoporous NiO crystals with dominantly exposed {110} reactive facets for ultrafast lithium storage ▶     Dawei Su, Mike Ford, Guoxiu Wang     Faceted crystals with exposed highly reactive planes have attracted intensive investigations for applications such as hydrogen production, enhanced catalytic activity, and …             A novel series of isoreticular metal organic frameworks: realizing metastable structures by liquid phase epitaxy ▶     Jinxuan Liu, Binit Lukose, Osama Shekhah et al.     A novel class of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) has been synthesized from Cu-acetate and dicarboxylic acids using liquid phase epitaxy. The SURMOF-2 isoreticular series exhibits …             Magnetic instability and pair binding in aromatic hydrocarbon superconductors ▶     Zhongbing Huang, Chao Zhang, Hai-Qing Lin     Understanding magnetism and electron correlation in many unconventional superconductors is essential to explore mechanism of superconductivity. In this work, we perform a …             Gassing in Li4Ti5O12-based batteries and its remedy ▶     Yan-Bing He, Baohua Li, Ming Liu et al.     Destructive gas generation with associated swelling has been a major challenge to the large-scale application of lithium ion batteries (LIBs) made from Li4Ti5O12 (LTO) anodes. …             Layered plasmonic cloaks to tailor the optical scattering at the nanoscale ▶     F. Monticone, C. Argyropoulos, A. Alù     We discuss the rich scattering features offered by thin and thick plasmonic layers covering dielectric nanoparticles and their potential optical applications. 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