Scientific Reports Physics Table of Contents e-alert: November 2013

04 November 2013      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         Choose Scientific Reports for fast, efficient, open access publishing  94% of authors said they are likely or very likely to recommend Scientific Reports to their colleagues* 91% of authors would publish in Scientific Reports again*   SUBMIT your paper today!    *Nature Publishing Group author survey, data correct as of September 2013           Physical Sciences               Turning Indium Oxide into a Superior Electrocatalyst: Deterministic Heteroatoms ▶     Bo Zhang, Nan Nan Zhang, Jian Fu Chen et al.     The efficient electrocatalysts for many heterogeneous catalytic processes in energy conversion and storage systems must possess necessary surface active sites. Here we identify, …             Wideband THz Time Domain Spectroscopy based on Optical Rectification and Electro-Optic Sampling ▶     A. Tomasino, A. Parisi, S. Stivala et al.     We present an analytical model describing the full electromagnetic propagation in a THz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) system, from the THz pulses via Optical Rectification to …             Novel dielectric anomalies due to spin-chains above and below Néel temperature in Ca3Co2O6 ▶     Tathamay Basu, Kartik K. Iyer, Kiran Singh et al.     We bring out novel dielectric behavior of a spin-chain compound, Ca3Co2O6, undergoing Néel order at (TN=) 24 K. It is found that the virgin curve in the plot of isothermal …             Superconductivity in Ca10(Ir4As8)(Fe2As2)5 with Square-Planar Coordination of Iridium ▶     Kazutaka Kudo, Daisuke Mitsuoka, Masaya Takasuga et al.     We report the unprecedented square-planar coordination of iridium in the iron iridium arsenide Ca10(Ir4As8)(Fe2As2)5. This material experiences superconductivity at 16 K. X-ray …             High rate capability caused by surface cubic spinels in Li-rich layer-structured cathodes for Li-ion batteries ▶     Bohang Song, Hongwei Liu, Zongwen Liu et al.     Modified Li-rich layered cathode Li(Li0.2Mn0.54Ni0.13Co0.13)O2 has been synthesized by a simple strategy of using surface treatment with various amounts (0–30 wt.%) of Super P …             Flow Through Randomly Curved Manifolds ▶     M. Mendoza, S. Succi, H. J. Herrmann     We present a computational study of the transport properties of campylotic (intrinsically curved) media. It is found that the relation between the flow through a campylotic media, …             Position-sensitive spectral splitting with a plasmonic nanowire on silicon chip ▶     Qing Hu, Di-Hu Xu, Yu Zhou et al.     On-chip nanophotonics serves as the foundation for the new generation of information technology, but it is challenged by the diffraction limit of light. With the capabilities of …             Solution processed molecular floating gate for flexible flash memories ▶     Ye Zhou, Su-Ting Han, Yan Yan et al.     Solution processed fullerene (C60) molecular floating gate layer has been employed in low voltage nonvolatile memory device on flexible substrates. We systematically studied the …             Activity clocks: spreading dynamics on temporal networks of human contact ▶     Laetitia Gauvin, André Panisson, Ciro Cattuto et al.     Dynamical processes on time-varying complex networks are key to understanding and modeling a broad variety of processes in socio-technical systems. Here we focus on empirical …             Hierarchical chirality transfer in the growth of Towel Gourd tendrils ▶     Jian-Shan Wang, Gang Wang, Xi-Qiao Feng et al.     Chirality plays a significant role in the physical properties and biological functions of many biological materials, e.g., climbing tendrils and twisted leaves, which exhibit …             The Origin of Local Strain in Highly Epitaxial Oxide Thin Films ▶     Chunrui Ma, Ming Liu, Chonglin Chen et al.     The ability to control the microstructures and physical properties of hetero-epitaxial functional oxide thin films and artificial structures is a long-sought goal in functional …             Ratcheted diffusion transport through crowded nanochannels ▶     Anna Lappala, Alessio Zaccone, Eugene M. Terentjev     The problem of transport through nanochannels is one of the major questions in cell biology, with a wide range of applications. In this paper we discuss the process of spontaneous …             Discontinuous properties of current-induced magnetic domain wall depinning ▶     X. F. Hu, J. Wu, D. X. Niu et al.     The current-induced motion of magnetic domain walls (DWs) confined to nanostructures is of great interest for fundamental studies as well as for technological applications in …             The Effect of Blood Flow on Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Non Thermal Irreversible Electroporation ▶     Mohammad Hjouj, Jacob Lavee, David Last et al.     To generate an understanding of the physiological significance of MR images of Non-Thermal Irreversible Electroporation (NTIRE) we compared the following MR imaging sequences: …             Inoculation of silicon nanoparticles with silver atoms ▶     Cathal Cassidy, Vidyadhar Singh, Panagiotis Grammatikopoulos et al.     Silicon (Si) nanoparticles were coated inflight with silver (Ag) atoms using a novel method to prepare multicomponent heterostructured metal-semiconductor nanoparticles. Molecular …             Nearly Constant Electrical Resistance over Large Temperature Range in Cu3NMx (M=Cu, Ag, Au) Compounds ▶     Nianpeng Lu, Ailing Ji, Zexian Cao     Electrical resistance is a material property that usually varies enormously with temperature. Constant electrical resistivity over large temperature range has been rarely measured …             Atomically resolved spectroscopic study of Sr2IrO4: Experiment and theory ▶     Qing Li, Guixin Cao, Satoshi Okamoto et al.     Particularly in Sr2IrO4, the interplay between spin-orbit coupling, bandwidth and on-site Coulomb repulsion stabilizes a Jeff=1/2 spin-orbital entangled insulating state at low …             Bulk modulus for polar covalent crystals ▶     Bo Xu, Qianqian Wang, Yongjun Tian     A microscopic empirical model of bulk modulus based on atomic-scale parameters is proposed. These parameters include the bond length, the effective bonded valence electron (EBVE) …             Motion-induced radiation from electrons moving in Maxwell's fish-eye ▶     Yangjie Liu, L. K. Ang     In Čerenkov radiation and transition radiation, evanescent wave from motion of charged particles transfers into radiation coherently. However, such dissipative motion-induced …             An efficient methodology for measurement of the average electrical properties of single one-dimensional NiO nanorods ▶     Ranjit A. Patil, Rupesh S. Devan, Jin-Han Lin et al.     We utilized a metal tantalum (Ta) ball-probe to measure the electrical properties of vertical-aligned one-dimensional (1D) nickel-oxide (NiO) nanorods. The 1D NiO nanorods (on …             Complex magnetic structure of clusters and chains of Ni and Fe on Pt(111) ▶     Manoel M. Bezerra-Neto, Marcelo S. Ribeiro, Biplab Sanyal et al.     We present an approach to control the magnetic structure of adatoms adsorbed on a substrate having a high magnetic susceptibility. Using finite Ni-Pt and Fe-Pt nanowires and …             Environmental structure and competitive scoring advantages in team competitions ▶     Sears Merritt, Aaron Clauset     In most professional sports, playing field structure is kept neutral so that scoring imbalances may be attributed to differences in team skill. It thus remains unknown what impact …             On the Predictability of Future Impact in Science ▶     Orion Penner, Raj K. Pan, Alexander M. Petersen et al.     Correctly assessing a scientist's past research impact and potential for future impact is key in recruitment decisions and other evaluation processes. While a candidate's future …             A microfibre assembly of an iron-carbon composite with giant magnetisation ▶     Ying Liang, Pu Liu, Jun Xiao et al.     Iron carbide is among the oldest known materials. The utility of this ancient advanced material is greatly extended in its nanostructured forms. We demonstrate for the first time …             New Carbon Allotropes with Helical Chains of Complementary Chirality Connected by Ethene-type π-Conjugation ▶     Jian-Tao Wang, Changfeng Chen, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe     We here identify by ab initio calculations two distinct three-dimensional three-connected (3D3C) chiral framework structures of carbon in and I41/amd symmetry, respectively, …             Airtight metallic sealing at room temperature under small mechanical pressure ▶     Stephen P. Stagon, Hanchen Huang     Metallic seals can be resistant to air leakage, resistant to degradation under heat, and capable of carrying mechanical loads. Various technologies – such as organic solar cells …             Controllable emission of a dipolar source coupled with a magneto-dielectric resonant subwavelength scatterer ▶     Brice Rolly, Jean-Michel Geffrin, Redha Abdeddaim et al.     We demonstrate experimentally and theoretically that a local excitation of a single scatterer of relative dielectric permittivity ε=6 permits to excite broad dipolar and …             Band-gap-graded Cu2ZnSn(S1-x,Sex)4 Solar Cells Fabricated by an Ethanol-based, Particulate Precursor Ink Route ▶     Kyoohee Woo, Youngwoo Kim, Wooseok Yang et al.     Solution processing of earth-abundant Cu2ZnSn(S1-x,Sex)4 (CZTSSe) absorber materials is an attractive research area in the economical and large-scale deployment of photovoltaics. …             Mapping plasmonic near-field profiles and interferences by surface-enhanced Raman scattering ▶     Luping Du, Dang Yuan Lei, Guanghui Yuan et al.     Mapping near-field profiles and dynamics of surface plasmon polaritons is crucial for understanding their fundamental optical properties and designing miniaturized photonic …             Approaching the strong coupling limit in single plasmonic nanorods interacting with J-aggregates ▶     Gülis Zengin, Göran Johansson, Peter Johansson et al.     We studied scattering and extinction of individual silver nanorods coupled to the J-aggregate form of the cyanine dye TDBC as a function of plasmon – exciton detuning. The …             Large, high quality single-crystals of the new Topological Kondo Insulator, SmB6 ▶     M. Ciomaga Hatnean, M. R. Lees, D. M. K. Paul et al.     SmB6 has recently been predicted to be a Topological Kondo Insulator, the first strongly correlated heavy fermion material to exhibit topological surface states. High quality …             Demonstration of surface transport in a hybrid Bi2Se3/Bi2Te3 heterostructure ▶     Yanfei Zhao, Cui-Zu Chang, Ying Jiang et al.     In spite of much work on topological insulators (TIs), systematic experiments for TI/TI heterostructures remain absent. We grow a high quality heterostructure containing single …             Active impedance metasurface with full 360° reflection phase tuning ▶     Bo O. Zhu, Junming Zhao, Yijun Feng     Impedance metasurface is composed of electrical small scatters in two dimensional plane, of which the surface impedance can be designed to produce desired reflection phase. …             Identification and dynamics of polyglycine II nanocrystals in Argiope trifasciata flagelliform silk ▶     G. B. Perea, C. Riekel, G. V. Guinea et al.     Spider silks combine a significant number of desirable characteristics in one material, including large tensile strength and strain at breaking, biocompatibility, and the …             Impact of Social Punishment on Cooperative Behavior in Complex Networks ▶     Zhen Wang, Cheng-Yi Xia, Sandro Meloni et al.     Social punishment is a mechanism by which cooperative individuals spend part of their resources to penalize defectors. In this paper, we study the evolution of cooperation in …             Factoring 51 and 85 with 8 qubits ▶     Michael R. Geller, Zhongyuan Zhou     We construct simplified quantum circuits for Shor's order-finding algorithm for composites N given by products of the Fermat primes 3, 5, 17, 257, and 65537. Such composites, …             Switching Molecular Orientation of Individual Fullerene at Room Temperature ▶     Lacheng Liu, Shuyi Liu, Xiu Chen et al.     Reversible molecular switches with molecular orientation as the information carrier have been achieved on individual fullerene molecules adsorbed on Si (111) surface at room …             Box-covering algorithm for fractal dimension of weighted networks ▶     Dai-Jun Wei, Qi Liu, Hai-Xin Zhang et al.     Box-covering algorithm is a widely used method to measure the fractal dimension of complex networks. Existing researches mainly deal with the fractal dimension of unweighted …             Selective Optical Assembly of Highly Uniform Nanoparticles by Doughnut-Shaped Beams ▶     Syoji Ito, Hiroaki Yamauchi, Mamoru Tamura et al.     A highly efficient natural light-harvesting antenna has a ring-like structure consisting of dye molecules whose absorption band changes through selective evolutionary processes …             Super-stretchable, Transparent Carbon Nanotube-Based Capacitive Strain Sensors for Human Motion Detection ▶     Le Cai, Li Song, Pingshan Luan et al.     Realization of advanced bio-interactive electronic devices requires mechanically compliant sensors with the ability to detect extremely large strain. Here, we design a new …             The hemocompatibility of oxidized diamond nanocrystals for biomedical applications ▶     Hung-Cheng Li, Feng-Jen Hsieh, Ching-Pin Chen et al.     Low-dimensional carbon-based nanomaterials have recently received enormous attention for biomedical applications. However, increasing evidence indicates that they are cytotoxic …             Molecular imaging of tumors and metastases using chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) MRI ▶     Michal Rivlin, Judith Horev, Ilan Tsarfaty et al.     The two glucose analogs 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) and 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) are preferentially taken up by cancer cells, undergo phosphorylation and accumulate in the …             Binary switching in a ‘symmetric’ potential landscape ▶     Kuntal Roy, Supriyo Bandyopadhyay, Jayasimha Atulasimha     A binary switch is the basic building block for information processing. The potential energy profile of a bistable binary switch is a ‘symmetric’ double well. The traditional …             VO2 thermochromic smart window for energy savings and generation ▶     Jiadong Zhou, Yanfeng Gao, Zongtao Zhang et al.     The ability to achieve energy saving in architectures and optimal solar energy utilisation affects the sustainable development of the human race. Traditional smart windows and …             A facile method for the large-scale continuous synthesis of graphene sheets using a novel catalyst ▶     Yi Shen, Aik Chong Lua     This study reports on a facile and economical method for the scalable continuous synthesis of graphene sheets by the thermocatalytic decomposition of methane using a unique and …             Cellular network entropy as the energy potential in Waddington's differentiation landscape ▶     Christopher R. S. Banerji, Diego Miranda-Saavedra, Simone Severini et al.     Differentiation is a key cellular process in normal tissue development that is significantly altered in cancer. Although molecular signatures characterising pluripotency and …             Electrically Controlled Membranes Exploiting Cassie-Wenzel Wetting Transitions ▶     Edward Bormashenko, Roman Pogreb, Sagi Balter et al.     We report electrically controlled membranes which become permeable when an electrical field is exerted on a droplet deposited on the membrane. Micro-porous polycarbonate membranes …             Guided fracture of films on soft substrates to create micro/nano-feature arrays with controlled periodicity ▶     Byoung Choul Kim, Toshiki Matsuoka, Christopher Moraes et al.     While the formation of cracks is often stochastic and considered undesirable, controlled fracture would enable rapid and low cost manufacture of micro/nanostructures. Here, we …             An investigation of electron-phonon coupling via phonon dispersion measurements in graphite using angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy ▶     Shin-ichiro Tanaka, Masaharu Matsunami, Shin-ichi Kimura     Electron-phonon coupling (EPC) plays an important role in solid state physics. Here, we demonstrate an experimental method that enables investigation of the elemental processes of …             Detector-induced backaction on the counting statistics of a double quantum dot ▶     Zeng-Zhao Li, Chi-Hang Lam, Ting Yu et al.     Full counting statistics of electron transport is of fundamental importance for a deeper understanding of the underlying physical processes in quantum transport in nanoscale …             Phase equilibrium in Mg-Cu-Y ▶     Mohammad Mezbahul-Islam, Mamoun Medraj     Magnesium-based bulk metallic glasses (BMG) have potential in applications ranging from biomedical to sports equipment and the Mg-Cu-Y system offers some of the most promising …             Water transport mechanism through open capillaries analyzed by direct surface modifications on biological surfaces ▶     Daisuke Ishii, Hiroko Horiguchi, Yuji Hirai et al.     Some small animals only use water transport mechanisms passively driven by surface energies. However, little is known about passive water transport mechanisms because it is …             Nanoporous gold as an active low temperature catalyst toward CO oxidation in hydrogen-rich stream ▶     Dongwei Li, Ye Zhu, Hui Wang et al.     Preferential CO oxidation (PROX) was investigated by using dealloyed nanoporous gold (NPG) catalyst under ambient conditions. Systematic investigations were carried out to …             Enhanced photocatalytic activity of TiO2-C hybrid aerogels for methylene blue degradation ▶     Xia Shao, Wencong Lu, Rui Zhang et al.     Carbon-based TiO2 composites have many advantages as photocatalysts. However, they suffer from low light efficiency due to the low contrast of TiO2 with carbon. We synthesized a …             Laser confocal feedback tomography and nano-step height measurement ▶     Yidong Tan, Weiping Wang, Chunxin Xu et al.     A promising method for tomography and step height measurement is proposed, which combines the high sensitivity of the frequency-shifted feedback laser and the axial positioning …             Formation and control of Turing patterns in a coherent quantum fluid ▶     Vincenzo Ardizzone, Przemyslaw Lewandowski, M. H. Luk et al.     Nonequilibrium patterns in open systems are ubiquitous in nature, with examples as diverse as desert sand dunes, animal coat patterns such as zebra stripes, or geographic patterns …             Stabilization of metastable ferroelectric Ba1−xCaxTi2O5 by breaking Ca-site selectivity via crystallization from glass ▶     Atsunobu Masuno, Chikako Moriyoshi, Teruyasu Mizoguchi et al.     The thermal stability and dielectric and structural properties of ferroelectric Ba1−xCaxTi2O5 (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.30) prepared by crystallization from glass are investigated. The Ba1−xCaxTi…             Bioinspired TiO2 Nanostructure Films with Special Wettability and Adhesion for Droplets Manipulation and Patterning ▶     Yue-Kun Lai, Yu-Xin Tang, Jian-Ying Huang et al.     Patterned surfaces with special wettability and adhesion (sliding, sticky or patterned superoleophobic surface) can be found on many living creatures. They offer a versatile …             Surface engineered porous silicon for stable, high performance electrochemical supercapacitors ▶     Landon Oakes, Andrew Westover, Jeremy W. Mares et al.     Silicon materials remain unused for supercapacitors due to extreme reactivity of silicon with electrolytes. However, doped silicon materials boast a low mass density, excellent …             TLM-PSD model for optimization of energy and power density of vertically aligned carbon nanotube supercapacitor ▶     Arunabha Ghosh, Viet Thong Le, Jung Jun Bae et al.     Electrochemical capacitors with fast charging-discharging rates are very promising for hybrid electric vehicle industries including portable electronics. Complicated pore …             Mechanistic understanding of surface plasmon assisted catalysis on a single particle: cyclic redox of 4-aminothiophenol ▶     Ping Xu, Leilei Kang, Nathan H. Mack et al.     Surface plasmon assisted catalysis (SPAC) reactions of 4-aminothiophenol (4ATP) to and back from 4,4′-dimercaptoazobenzene (DMAB) have been investigated by single particle surface …             Bioinspired greigite magnetic nanocrystals: chemical synthesis and biomedicine applications ▶     Mei Feng, Yang Lu, Yuan Yang et al.     Large scale greigite with uniform dimensions has stimulated significant demands for applications such as hyperthermia, photovoltaics, medicine and cell separation, etc. However, …             Quantifying the effect of temporal resolution on time-varying networks ▶     Bruno Ribeiro, Nicola Perra, Andrea Baronchelli     Time-varying networks describe a wide array of systems whose constituents and interactions evolve over time. They are defined by an ordered stream of interactions between nodes, …             Infrared evidence of a Slater metal-insulator transition in NaOsO3 ▶     I. Lo Vecchio, A. Perucchi, P. Di Pietro et al.     The magnetically driven metal-insulator transition (MIT) was predicted by Slater in the fifties. Here a long-range antiferromagnetic (AF) order can open up a gap at the Brillouin …             Surfactant free most probable TiO2 nanostructures via hydrothermal and its dye sensitized solar cell properties ▶     Sawanta S. Mali, Hyungjin Kim, Chang Su Shim et al.     Tailoring the nano-morphology and nano-architecture of titanium dioxide (TiO2) is the most important task in the third generation solar cells (Dye sensitized solar cells/Quantum …             Activated carbons derived from coconut shells as high energy density cathode material for Li-ion capacitors ▶     Akshay Jain, Vanchiappan Aravindan, Sundaramurthy Jayaraman et al.     In this manuscript, a dramatic increase in the energy density of ~ 69 Wh kg−1 and an extraordinary cycleability ~ 2000 cycles of the Li-ion hybrid electrochemical capacitors …             Human opinion dynamics: An inspiration to solve complex optimization problems ▶     Rishemjit Kaur, Ritesh Kumar, Amol P. Bhondekar et al.     Human interactions give rise to the formation of different kinds of opinions in a society. The study of formations and dynamics of opinions has been one of the most important …             Size, separation, structural order, and mass density of molecules packing in water and ice ▶     Yongli Huang, Xi Zhang, Zengsheng Ma et al.     The structural symmetry and molecular separation in water and ice remain uncertain. We present herewith a solution to unifying the density, the structure order and symmetry, the …             NiS - An unusual self-doped, nearly compensated antiferromagnetic metal ▶     S. K. Panda, I. Dasgupta, E. Şaşıoğlu et al.     NiS, exhibiting a text-book example of a first-order transition with many unusual properties at low temperatures, has been variously described in terms of conflicting descriptions …             Identifying overlapping communities as well as hubs and outliers via nonnegative matrix factorization ▶     Xiaochun Cao, Xiao Wang, Di Jin et al.     Community detection is important for understanding networks. Previous studies observed that communities are not necessarily disjoint and might overlap. It is also agreed that some …             Dielectric properties and Raman spectra of ZnO from a first principles finite-differences/finite-fields approach ▶     Arrigo Calzolari, Marco Buongiorno Nardelli     Using first principles calculations based on density functional theory and a coupled finite-fields/finite-differences approach, we study the dielectric properties, phonon …             Water dynamics: Relation between hydrogen bond bifurcations, molecular jumps, local density & hydrophobicity ▶     John Tatini Titantah, Mikko Karttunen     Structure and dynamics of water remain a challenge. Resolving the properties of hydrogen bonding lies at the heart of this puzzle. We employ ab initio Molecular Dynamics (AIMD) …             ArCH(OMe)2 - a PtIV-catalyst originator for diverse annulation catalysis ▶     Subhadeep Ghosh, Saikat Khamarui, Krishnanka S. Gayen et al.     We discover an important property of a small molecule ArCH(OMe)2 which transforms catalytically inactive PtIIBr2 procatalyst in situ to an powerful catalyst PtIV-species for …             Multi-Colour Nanowire Photonic Crystal Laser Pixels ▶     Jeremy B. Wright, Sheng Liu, George T. Wang et al.     Emerging applications such as solid-state lighting and display technologies require micro-scale vertically emitting lasers with controllable distinct lasing wavelengths and broad …             Ultrahigh capacitive performance from both Co(OH)2/graphene electrode and K3Fe(CN)6 electrolyte ▶     Cuimei Zhao, Weitao Zheng, Xin Wang et al.     Pseudocapacitance is commonly associated to the reversible redox reactions from electrode materials, but the enhancement in pseudocapacitance that only relies on electrode …             The Anatomy of a Scientific Rumor ▶     M. De Domenico, A. Lima, P. Mougel et al.     The announcement of the discovery of a Higgs boson-like particle at CERN will be remembered as one of the milestones of the scientific endeavor of the 21st century. In this paper …             Unraveling the origin of exponential law in intra-urban human mobility ▶     Xiao Liang, Jichang Zhao, Li Dong et al.     The vast majority of travel takes place within cities. Recently, new data has become available which allows for the discovery of urban mobility patterns which differ from …             Viking and Early Middle Ages Northern Scandinavian Textiles Proven to be made with Hemp ▶     G. Skoglund, M. Nockert, B. Holst     Nowadays most plant textiles used for clothing and household are made of cotton and viscose. Before the 19th century however, plant textiles were mainly made from locally …             Plutonium release from Fukushima Daiichi fosters the need for more detailed investigations ▶     Stephanie Schneider, Clemens Walther, Stefan Bister et al.     The contamination of Japan after the Fukushima accident has been investigated mainly for volatile fission products, but only sparsely for actinides such as plutonium. Only small …             Towards ultrahigh volumetric capacitance: graphene derived highly dense but porous carbons for supercapacitors ▶     Ying Tao, Xiaoying Xie, Wei Lv et al.     A small volumetric capacitance resulting from a low packing density is one of the major limitations for novel nanocarbons finding real applications in commercial electrochemical …             Emergence of nanoscale inhomogeneity in the superconducting state of a homogeneously disordered conventional superconductor ▶     Anand Kamlapure, Tanmay Das, Somesh Chandra Ganguli et al.     The notion of spontaneous formation of an inhomogeneous superconducting state is at the heart of most theories attempting to understand the superconducting state in the presence …             Opinion dynamics with similarity-based random neighbors ▶     Qipeng Liu, Xiaofan Wang     A typical assumption made in the existing opinion formation models is that two individuals can communicate with each other only if the distance between their opinions is less than …             Self-healing of the superhydrophobicity by ironing for the abrasion durable superhydrophobic cotton fabrics ▶     Jingxia Wu, Jingye Li, Bo Deng et al.     Self-healing of the superhydrophobic cotton fabric (SCF) obtained by the radiation-induced graft polymerization of lauryl methacrylate (LMA) and n-hexyl methacrylate (HMA), can be …             Back-scatter based whispering gallery mode sensing ▶     Joachim Knittel, Jon D. Swaim, David L. McAuslan et al.     Whispering gallery mode biosensors allow selective unlabelled detection of single proteins and, combined with quantum limited sensitivity, the possibility for noninvasive …             Hierarchically Structured Co3O4@Pt@MnO2 Nanowire Arrays for High-Performance Supercapacitors ▶     Hui Xia, Dongdong Zhu, Zhentao Luo et al.     Here we proposed a novel architectural design of a ternary MnO2-based electrode – a hierarchical Co3O4@Pt@MnO2 core-shell-shell structure, where the complemental features of the …             Resonant Transparency and Non-Trivial Non-Radiating Excitations in Toroidal Metamaterials ▶     V. A. Fedotov, A. V. Rogacheva, V. Savinov et al.     Engaging strongly resonant interactions allows dramatic enhancement of functionalities of many electromagnetic devices. However, resonances can be dampened by Joule and radiation …             Electromechanics in MoS2 and WS2: nanotubes vs. monolayers ▶     Mahdi Ghorbani-Asl, Nourdine Zibouche, Mohammad Wahiduzzaman et al.     The transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMD) MoS2 and WS2 show remarkable electromechanical properties. Strain modifies the direct band gap into an indirect one, and substantial …             A new class of fluorescent-dots: long luminescent lifetime bio-dots self-assembled from DNA at low temperatures ▶     Chun Xian Guo, Jiale Xie, Bin Wang et al.     Quantum-dots (QDs) have fuelled up intensive research efforts over the past two decades. Nevertheless, currently developed two classes of fluorescent QDs, colloidal semiconductor …             Universal phonon mean free path spectra in crystalline semiconductors at high temperature ▶     Justin P. Freedman, Jacob H. Leach, Edward A. Preble et al.     Thermal conductivity in non-metallic crystalline materials results from cumulative contributions of phonons that have a broad range of mean free paths. Here we use high frequency …             Empirical Prediction of Electronic Potentials of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes With a Specific Chirality (n,m) ▶     Yasuhiko Hirana, Gergely Juhasz, Yuhei Miyauchi et al.     The determination of the electronic states of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with a specific chirality has been a central issue in the science of SWNTs. Here we present …             How do spin waves pass through a bend? ▶     Xiangjun Xing, Yongli Yu, Shuwei Li et al.     Spin-wave devices hold great promise to be used in future information processing. Manipulation of spin-wave propagation inside the submicrometer waveguides is at the core of …             Optical waves in a gradient negative-index lens of a half-infinite length ▶     Yi S. Ding, C. T. Chan, R. P. Wang     Materials with negative permittivity and permeability can overcome the diffraction limit, thereby making the sub-wavelength imaging possible. In this study, we analyze the effects …             Observation of T2-like coherent optical phonons in epitaxial Ge2Sb2Te5/GaSb(001) films ▶     A. Shalini, Y. Liu, U.A.S. Al-Jarah et al.     The phonon spectrum of Ge2Sb2Te5 is a signature of its crystallographic structure and underlies the phase transition process used in memory applications. Epitaxial materials allow …             Atomic Scale Investigation of a Graphene Nano-ribbon Based High Efficiency Spin Valve ▶     Qing-Qing Sun, Lu-Hao Wang, Wen Yang et al.     Graphene nanoribbons based electronic devices present many interesting physical properties. We designed and investigated the spin-dependent electron transport of a device …             Detecting secondary structure and surface orientation of helical peptide monolayers from resonant hybridization signals ▶     Kamil Boratay Alici, Ignacio F. Gallardo     Hybridization of dominant vibrational modes with meta-surface resonance allows detection of both structural changes and surface orientations of bound helical peptides. Depending …             Superphobicity/philicity Janus Fabrics with Switchable, Spontaneous, Directional Transport Ability to Water and Oil Fluids ▶     Hua Zhou, Hongxia Wang, Haitao Niu et al.     Herein we demonstrate that switchable, spontaneous, directional-transport ability to both water and oil fluids can be created on fabric materials through wet-chemistry coating and …             Magneto-electric Nanoparticles to Enable Field-controlled High-Specificity Drug Delivery to Eradicate Ovarian Cancer Cells ▶     Rakesh Guduru, Ping Liang, Carolyn Runowicz et al.     The nanotechnology capable of high-specificity targeted delivery of anti-neoplastic drugs would be a significant breakthrough in Cancer in general and Ovarian Cancer in …             A facile strategy to decorate Cu9S5 nanocrystals on polyaniline nanowires and their synergetic catalytic properties ▶     Xiao-feng Lu, Xiu-jie Bian, Zhi-cheng Li et al.     Here, we demonstrated a novel method to decorate Cu9S5 nanocrystals on polyaniline (PANI) nanowires using the dopant of mercaptoacetic acid (MAA) in the PANI matrix as the sulfur …             Structural basis for a class of nanomolar influenza A neuraminidase inhibitors ▶     Philip S. Kerry, Sankar Mohan, Rupert J. M. Russell et al.     The influenza virus neuraminidase (NA) is essential for the virus life cycle. The rise of resistance mutations against current antiviral therapies has increased the need for the …             Spontaneous chiral resolution directed by symmetry restriction and π-π interaction ▶     Jin-Tao Yu, Yan-Yan Shi, Junliang Sun et al.     In order to understand and rationally construct homochiral self-assembled structures from racemic molecules, two novel crystalline metal-organic frameworks with chiral cavities …             Lateral spin transfer torque induced magnetic switching at room temperature demonstrated by x-ray microscopy ▶     M. Buhl, A. Erbe, J. Grebing et al.     Changing and detecting the orientation of nanomagnetic structures, which can be used for durable information storage, needs to be developed towards true nanoscale dimensions for …             Competition Between Antiferromagnetism and Ferromagnetism in Sr2RuO4 Probed by Mn and Co Doping ▶     J. E. Ortmann, J. Y. Liu, J. Hu et al.     Spin-triplet superconductivity in Sr2RuO4 has attracted enormous interest. Like other unconventional superconductors, superconductivity in Sr2RuO4 is in close proximity to …             Effects of adaptive degrees of trust on coevolution of quantum strategies on scale-free networks ▶     Qiang Li, Minyou Chen, Matjaž Perc et al.     We study the impact of adaptive degrees of trust on the evolution of cooperation in the quantum prisoner's dilemma game. In addition to the strategies, links between players are …             Palladium nanoparticles deposited on silanized halloysite nanotubes: synthesis, characterization and enhanced catalytic property ▶     Yi Zhang, Xi He, Jing Ouyang et al.     Palladium (Pd) nanoparticles were deposited on the surface of halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) modified with γ-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES) to produce Pd/NH2-HNTs nanocomposites. …             Quantum-criticality-induced strong Kerr nonlinearities in optomechanical systems ▶     Xin-You Lü, Wei-Min Zhang, Sahel Ashhab et al.     We investigate a hybrid electro-optomechanical system that allows us to realize controllable strong Kerr nonlinearities even in the weak-coupling regime. We show that when the …             Highly Enhanced Raman Scattering of Graphene using Plasmonic Nano-Structure ▶     M. Khorasaninejad, S. M. Raeis-Zadeh, S. Jafarlou et al.     Highly enhanced Raman scattering of graphene on a plasmonic nano-structure platform is demonstrated. The plasmonic platform consists of silver nano-structures in a periodic array …             Mesostructural Bi-Mo-O catalyst: correct structure leading to high performance ▶     Li Wang, Bo Peng, Luming Peng et al.     Structure-activity relationship has been one of the main topics of research on catalysts all the time. Component and structure are the two moieties governing the performance of …             Broadband solar absorption enhancement via periodic nanostructuring of electrodes ▶     Michael M. Adachi, André J. Labelle, Susanna M. Thon et al.     Solution processed colloidal quantum dot (CQD) solar cells have great potential for large area low-cost photovoltaics. However, light utilization remains low mainly due to the …             Significant Scales in Community Structure ▶     V. A. Traag, G. Krings, P. Van Dooren     Many complex networks show signs of modular structure, uncovered by community detection. Although many methods succeed in revealing various partitions, it remains difficult to …             Voltage and Power-Controlled Regimes in the Progressive Unipolar RESET Transition of HfO2-Based RRAM ▶     Shibing Long, Luca Perniola, Carlo Cagli et al.     Resistive switching (RS) based on the formation and rupture of conductive filament (CF) is promising in novel memory and logic device applications. Understanding the physics of RS …             A two-photon ratiometric fluorescence probe for Cupric Ions in Live Cells and Tissues ▶     Anwei Zhu, Changqin Ding, Yang Tian     Development of sensitive and selective probes for cupric ions (Cu2) at cell and tissue level is a challenging work for progress in understanding the biological effects of Cu2. …             Using Strahler's analysis to reduce up to 200-fold the run time of realistic neuron models ▶     Addolorata Marasco, Alessandro Limongiello, Michele Migliore     The cellular mechanisms underlying higher brain functions/dysfunctions are extremely difficult to investigate experimentally, and detailed neuron models have proven to be a very …             Bioinspired tilt-angle fabricated structure gradient fibers: micro-drops fast transport in a long-distance ▶     Yuan Chen, Lin Wang, Yan Xue et al.     Issues of surfaces, e.g., inspired from beetle's back, spider silk, cactus stem, etc., become the active area of research on designing novel materials in need of human beings to …             Cobalt monoxide-doped porous graphitic carbon microspheres for supercapacitor application ▶     Zheng-Chun Yang, Chun-Hua Tang, Yu Zhang et al.     A novel design and facile synthesis process for carbon based hybrid materials, i.e., cobalt monoxide (CoO)-doped graphitic porous carbon microspheres (Co-GPCMs), have been …             Correlative Multimodal Probing of Ionically-Mediated Electromechanical Phenomena in Simple Oxides ▶     Yunseok Kim, Evgheni Strelcov, In Rok Hwang et al.     The local interplay between the ionic and electronic transport in NiO is explored using correlative imaging by first-order reversal curve measurements in current-voltage and …             Approaching the Limit of Predictability in Human Mobility ▶     Xin Lu, Erik Wetter, Nita Bharti et al.     In this study we analyze the travel patterns of 500,000 individuals in Cote d'Ivoire using mobile phone call data records. By measuring the uncertainties of movements using …             Hydrogen production by Tuning the Photonic Band Gap with the Electronic Band Gap of TiO2 ▶     G. I. N. Waterhouse, A. K. Wahab, M. Al-Oufi et al.     Tuning the photonic band gap (PBG) to the electronic band gap (EBG) of Au/TiO2 catalysts resulted in considerable enhancement of the photocatalytic water splitting to hydrogen …             Mechanics of metal-catecholate complexes: The roles of coordination state and metal types ▶     Zhiping Xu     There have been growing evidences for the critical roles of metal-coordination complexes in defining structural and mechanical properties of unmineralized biological materials, …             Uncovering the role of elementary processes in network evolution ▶     Gourab Ghoshal, Liping Chi, Albert-László Barabási     The growth and evolution of networks has elicited considerable interest from the scientific community and a number of mechanistic models have been proposed to explain their …             Peel-and-Stick: Mechanism Study for Efficient Fabrication of Flexible/Transparent Thin-film Electronics ▶     Chi Hwan Lee, Jae-Han Kim, Chenyu Zou et al.     Peel-and-stick process, or water-assisted transfer printing (WTP), represents an emerging process for transferring fully fabricated thin-film electronic devices with high yield …             Atomic-Scale Fingerprint of Mn Dopant at the Surface of Sr3(Ru1−xMnx)2O7 ▶     Guorong Li, Qing Li, Minghu Pan et al.     Chemical doping in materials is known to give rise to emergent phenomena. These phenomena are extremely difficult to predict a priori, because electron-electron interactions are …             UV, visible and near-infrared lights induced NOx destruction activity of (Yb,Er)-NaYF4/C-TiO2 composite ▶     Xiaoyong Wu, Shu Yin, Qiang Dong et al.     Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is a well-known photocatalyst for environmental cleaning and energy conversion. However, it can only be excited by ultraviolet light for photocatalysis due …             Adsorption of Carbon Dioxide by MIL-101(Cr): Regeneration Conditions and Influence of Flue Gas Contaminants ▶     Qing Liu, Liqi Ning, Shudong Zheng et al.     MIL-101(Cr) has drawn much attention due to its high stability compared with other metal-organic frameworks. In this study, three trace flue gas contaminants (H2O, NO, SO2) were …             Amino acid composition of proteins reduces deleterious impact of mutations ▶     Sahand Hormoz     The evolutionary origin of amino acid occurrence frequencies in proteins (composition) is not yet fully understood. We suggest that protein composition works alongside the genetic …             Response of microchip solid-state laser to external frequency-shifted feedback and its applications ▶     Yidong Tan, Shulian Zhang, Song Zhang et al.     The response of the microchip solid-state Nd:YAG laser, which is subjected to external frequency-shifted feedback, is experimentally and theoretically analysed. The continuous …             Peculiar magnetism of BiFeO3 nanoparticles with size approaching the period of the spiral spin structure ▶     Fengzhen Huang, Zhijun Wang, Xiaomei Lu et al.     Size effect of multiferroics is important for its potential applications in new type miniaturized multifunctional devices and thus has been widely studied. However, is there …             Molecular degradation of ancient documents revealed by 1H HR-MAS NMR spectroscopy ▶     Carmelo Corsaro, Domenico Mallamace, Joanna Łojewska et al.     For centuries mankind has stored its knowledge on paper, a remarkable biomaterial made of natural cellulose fibers. However, spontaneous cellulose degradation phenomena weaken and …             Gate Control of Electronic Phases in a Quarter-Filled Manganite ▶     T. Hatano, Y. Ogimoto, N. Ogawa et al.     Electron correlation often produces a variety of electrically insulating states caused by self-organization of electrons, which are particularly stable at commensurate fillings. …             Radiation-modified natural zeolites for cleaning liquid nuclear waste (irradiation against radioactivity) ▶     Hrant Yeritsyan, Aram Sahakyan, Vachagan Harutyunyan et al.     There have been comparatively few investigations reported of radiation effects in zeolites, although it is known that these materials may be modified substantially by exposure to …             Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect and Tunable Topological States in 3d Transition Metals Doped Silicene ▶     Xiao-Long Zhang, Lan-Feng Liu, Wu-Ming Liu     Silicene is an intriguing 2D topological material which is closely analogous to graphene but with stronger spin orbit coupling effect and natural compatibility with current …             How Peer Pressure Shapes Consensus, Leadership, and Innovations in Social Groups ▶     Ernesto Estrada, Eusebio Vargas-Estrada     What is the effect of the combined direct and indirect social influences—peer pressure (PP)—on a social group's collective decisions? We present a model that captures PP as a …             Hollow Fibers Networked with Perovskite Nanoparticles for H2 Production from Heavy Oil ▶     Yukwon Jeon, Dae-Hwan Park, Joo-Il Park et al.     Design of catalytic materials has been highlighted to build ultraclean use of heavy oil including liquid-to-gas technology to directly convert heavy hydrocarbons into H2–rich gas …             Leaf water dynamics of Arabidopsis thaliana monitored in-vivo using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy ▶     E. Castro-Camus, M. Palomar, A. A. Covarrubias     The declining water availability for agriculture is becoming problematic for many countries. Therefore the study of plants under water restriction is acquiring extraordinary …             Growing Hyperbranched Polymers Using Natural Sunlight ▶     Jun-Jie Yan, Jiao-Tong Sun, Ye-Zi You et al.     In nature, a sapling can grow into a big tree under irradiation of sunlight. In chemistry, a similar concept that a small molecule only exposing to sunlight grows into a …             In-flight gas phase growth of metal/multi layer graphene core shell nanoparticles with controllable sizes ▶     Saurabh K. Sengar, B. R. Mehta, Rakesh Kumar et al.     In this report, we present a general method for a continuous gas-phase synthesis of size-selected metal/multi layer graphene (MLG) core shell nanoparticles having a narrow size …             Opening and reversible control of a wide energy gap in uniform monolayer graphene ▶     Cheolho Jeon, Ha-Chul Shin, Inkyung Song et al.     For graphene to be used in semiconductor applications, a ‘wide energy gap' of at least 0.5 eV at the Dirac energy must be opened without the introduction of atomic defects. …             Ultrathin Nanostructured Metals for Highly Transmissive Plasmonic Subtractive Color Filters ▶     Beibei Zeng, Yongkang Gao, Filbert J. Bartoli     Plasmonic color filters employing a single optically-thick nanostructured metal layer have recently generated considerable interest as an alternative to colorant-based color …             Both High Reliability and Giant Electrocaloric Strength in BaTiO3 Ceramics ▶     Yang Bai, Xi Han, Xiu-Cheng Zheng et al.     BaTiO3 has a giant electrocaloric strength, |ΔT|/|ΔE|, because of a large latent heat and a sharp phase transition. The electrocaloric strength of a new single crystal, as giant …             Nano-antenna in a photoconductive photomixer for highly efficient continuous wave terahertz emission ▶     H. Tanoto, J. H. Teng, Q. Y. Wu et al.     We report highly efficient continuous-wave terahertz (THz) photoconductive antenna based photomixer employing nano-gap electrodes in the active region. The tip-to-tip nano-gap …             Noise Intensity-Intensity Correlations and the Fourth Cumulant of Photo-assisted Shot Noise ▶     Jean-Charles Forgues, Fatou Bintou Sane, Simon Blanchard et al.     We report the measurement of the fourth cumulant of current fluctuations in a tunnel junction under both dc and ac (microwave) excitation. This probes the non-Gaussian character …             Reversible insulator-metal transition of LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface for nonvolatile memory ▶     Hong-Liang Lu, Zhi-Min Liao, Liang Zhang et al.     We report a new type of memory device based on insulating LaAlO3/SrTiO3 (LAO/STO) hetero-interface. The microstructures of the LAO/STO interface are characterized by Cs-corrected …             Localized shear deformation and softening of bulk metallic glass: stress or temperature driven? ▶     S. V. Ketov, D. V. Louzguine-Luzgin     Metallic glasses due to their unique combination of physical and chemical properties have a great potential in various applications: materials for construction, medical, MEMs …             Rational syntheses of core-shell Fex@Pt nanoparticles for the study of electrocatalytic oxygen reduction reaction ▶     Ji-Hoon Jang, Eunjik Lee, Jinwoo Park et al.     We report on the syntheses of core-shell Fex@Pt (x=0.4–1.2) nanoparticles (NPs) with Pt-shell thickness systematically controlled while the overall particle size is constant. …             Polarized linewidth-controllable double-trapping electromagnetically induced transparency spectra in a resonant plasmon nanocavity ▶     Luojia Wang, Ying Gu, Hongyi Chen et al.     Surface plasmons with ultrasmall optical mode volume and strong near field enhancement can be used to realize nanoscale light-matter interaction. Combining surface plasmons with …             Loss mitigation in plasmonic solar cells: aluminium nanoparticles for broadband photocurrent enhancements in GaAs photodiodes ▶     N. P. Hylton, X. F. Li, V. Giannini et al.     We illustrate the important trade-off between far-field scattering effects, which have the potential to provide increased optical path length over broad bands, and parasitic …             Facet-dependent electrochemical properties of Co3O4 nanocrystals toward heavy metal ions ▶     Xin-Yao Yu, Qiang-Qiang Meng, Tao Luo et al.     We revealed an interesting facet-dependent electrochemical behavior toward heavy metal ions (HMIs) based on their adsorption behaviors. The (111) facet of Co3O4 nanoplates has …             Effect of magnetic dipolar interactions on nanoparticle heating efficiency: Implications for cancer hyperthermia ▶     Luis C. Branquinho, Marcus S. Carrião, Anderson S. Costa et al.     Nanostructured magnetic systems have many applications, including potential use in cancer therapy deriving from their ability to heat in alternating magnetic fields. In this work …             Ultrafast optical control using the Kerr nonlinearity in hydrogenated amorphous silicon microcylindrical resonators ▶     N. Vukovic, N. Healy, F. H. Suhailin et al.     Microresonators are ideal systems for probing nonlinear phenomena at low thresholds due to their small mode volumes and high quality (Q) factors. As such, they have found use both …             Integrated Solid/Nanoporous Copper/Oxide Hybrid Bulk Electrodes for High-performance Lithium-Ion Batteries ▶     Chao Hou, Xing-You Lang, Gao-Feng Han et al.     Nanoarchitectured electroactive materials can boost rates of Li insertion/extraction, showing genuine potential to increase power output of Li-ion batteries. However, electrodes …             Ultrafast demagnetization enhancement in CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB magnetic tunneling junction driven by spin tunneling current ▶     Wei He, Tao Zhu, Xiang-Qun Zhang et al.     The laser-induced ultrafast demagnetization of CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB magnetic tunneling junction is exploited by time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect (TRMOKE) for both the parallel …             Females become infertile as the stored sperm's oxygen radicals increase ▶     Klaus Reinhardt, Anne-Cecile Ribou     Predicting infertility is central to reproductive biology, medicine and evolutionary biology. In-vitro studies suggest that oxidative sperm damage causes infertility. Oxidative …             In-situ Photoelectron Microspectroscopy and Imaging of Electrochemical Processes at the Electrodes of a Self-driven Cell ▶     Benedetto Bozzini, Matteo Amati, Luca Gregoratti et al.     The challenges in development of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are reducing their dimensions and increasing their efficiency and durability, which requires physicochemical …             Surface-enhanced molecular spectroscopy (SEMS) based on perfect-absorber metamaterials in the mid-infrared ▶     Yongqian Li, Lei Su, Chen Shou et al.     Surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy has attracted increased attention for direct access to molecular vibrational fingerprints in the mid-infrared. Perfect-absorber …             Wafer-scale metasurface for total power absorption, local field enhancement and single molecule Raman spectroscopy ▶     Dongxing Wang, Wenqi Zhu, Michael D. Best et al.     The ability to detect molecules at low concentrations is highly desired for applications that range from basic science to healthcare. Considerable interest also exists for …             Quantum Google in a Complex Network ▶     Giuseppe Davide Paparo, Markus Müller, Francesc Comellas et al.     We investigate the behaviour of the recently proposed Quantum PageRank algorithm, in large complex networks. We find that the algorithm is able to univocally reveal the underlying …             Ag/GeSx/Pt-based complementary resistive switches for hybrid CMOS/Nanoelectronic logic and memory architectures ▶     Jan van den Hurk, Viktor Havel, Eike Linn et al.     Complementary resistive switches based on two anti-serially connected Ag/GeSx/Pt devices were studied. The main focus was placed on the pulse mode properties as typically required …             Numerical modeling of the wind flow over a transverse dune ▶     Ascânio D. Araújo, Eric J. R. Parteli, Thorsten Pöschel et al.     Transverse dunes, which form under unidirectional winds and have fixed profile in the direction perpendicular to the wind, occur on all celestial objects of our solar system where …             Fractal Markets Hypothesis and the Global Financial Crisis: Wavelet Power Evidence ▶     Ladislav Kristoufek     We analyze whether the prediction of the fractal markets hypothesis about a dominance of specific investment horizons during turbulent times holds. To do so, we utilize the …             Microbead-based biomimetic synthetic neighbors enhance survival and function of rat pancreatic β-cells ▶     Wei Li, Samuel Lee, Minglin Ma et al.     Diabetes is caused by the loss or dysfunction of insulin-secreting β-cells in the pancreas. β-cells reduce their mass and lose insulin-producing ability in vitro, likely due to …             Enhancing Cell Nucleus Accumulation and DNA Cleavage Activity of Anti-Cancer Drug via Graphene Quantum Dots ▶     Chong Wang, Congyu Wu, Xuejiao Zhou et al.     Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) maintain the intrinsic layered structural motif of graphene but with smaller lateral size and abundant periphery carboxylic groups, and are more …             Robust Self-Healing Hydrogels Assisted by Cross-Linked Nanofiber Networks ▶     Yuan Fang, Cai-Feng Wang, Zhi-Hong Zhang et al.     Given increasing environmental and energy issues, mimicking nature to confer synthetic materials with self-healing property to expand their lifespan is highly desirable. Just like …             Ferroelectric control of a Mott insulator ▶     Hiroyuki Yamada, Maya Marinova, Philippe Altuntas et al.     The electric field control of functional properties is an important goal in oxide-based electronics. To endow devices with memory, ferroelectric gating is interesting, but usually …             Two-component Dirac-like Hamiltonian for generating quantum walk on one-, two- and three-dimensional lattices ▶     C. M. Chandrashekar     From the unitary operator used for implementing two-state discrete-time quantum walk on one-, two- and three- dimensional lattice we obtain a two-component Dirac-like Hamiltonian. …             H+-type and OH−-type biological protonic semiconductors and complementary devices ▶     Yingxin Deng, Erik Josberger, Jungho Jin et al.     Proton conduction is essential in biological systems. Oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria, proton pumping in bacteriorhodopsin, and uncoupling membrane potentials by the …             Vanishing of interband light absorption in a persistent spin helix state ▶     Zhou Li, F. Marsiglio, J. P. Carbotte     Spin-orbit coupling plays an important role in various properties of very different materials. Moreover efforts are underway to control the degree and quality of spin-orbit …             Three-dimensional Imaging of Crystalline Inclusions Embedded in Intact Maize Stalks ▶     John Badger, Jyotsana Lal, Ross Harder et al.     Mineral inclusions in biomass are attracting increased scrutiny due to their potential impact on processing methods designed to provide renewable feedstocks for the production of …             Diesel exhaust rapidly degrades floral odours used by honeybees ▶     Robbie D. Girling, Inka Lusebrink, Emily Farthing et al.     Honeybees utilise floral odours when foraging for flowers; we investigated whether diesel exhaust pollution could interrupt these floral odour stimuli. A synthetic blend of eight …             Soccer goes BOXing: Synthetic access to novel [6:0] hexakis[(bisoxazolinyl)methano]fullerenes ▶     Stefan M. Seifermann, Céline Réthoré, Thierry Muller et al.     The syntheses of [6:0] hexakis[(bisoxazolinyl)methano]fullerenes are presented. Two derivatives could be directly obtained using conditions developed by the Sun group. For the …             Giant refractive-index modulation by two-photon reduction of fluorescent graphene oxides for multimode optical recording ▶     Xiangping Li, Qiming Zhang, Xi Chen et al.     Graphene oxides (GOs) have emerged as precursors offering the potential of a cost-effective and large-scale production of graphene-based materials. Despite that their intrinsic …             Tuning interactions between zeolite and supported metal by physical-sputtering to achieve higher catalytic performances ▶     Xin-Gang Li, Cheng Liu, Jian Sun et al.     To substitute for petroleum, Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) is an environmentally benign process to produce synthetic diesel (n-paraffin) from syngas. Industrially, the synthetic …             Label-free route to rapid, nanoscale characterization of cellular structure and dynamics through opaque media ▶     Bipin Joshi, Ishan Barman, Narahara Chari Dingari et al.     We report a novel technique for label-free, rapid visualization of structure and dynamics of live cells with nanoscale sensitivity through traditionally opaque media. …             The Non-innocent Phenalenyl Unit: An Electronic Nest to Modulate the Catalytic Activity in Hydroamination Reaction ▶     Arup Mukherjee, Tamal K. Sen, Pradip Kr Ghorai et al.     The phenalenyl unit has played intriguing role in different fields of research spanning from chemistry, material chemistry to device physics acting as key electronic reservoir …             Bottom-Up Catalytic Approach towards Nitrogen-Enriched Mesoporous Carbons/Sulfur Composites for Superior Li-S Cathodes ▶     Fugen Sun, Jitong Wang, Huichao Chen et al.     We demonstrate a sustainable and efficient approach to produce high performance sulfur/carbon composite cathodes via a bottom-up catalytic approach. The selective oxidation of H2S …             One-Step Instant Synthesis of Protein-Conjugated Quantum Dots at Room Temperature ▶     Xuewen He, Li Gao, Nan Ma     We present a new general facile strategy for the preparation of protein-functionalized QDs in a single step at ambient conditions. We demonstrated that highly luminescent red to …             Experimental detection of transverse particle movement with structured light ▶     Carmelo Rosales-Guzmán, Nathaniel Hermosa, Aniceto Belmonte et al.     One procedure widely used to detect the velocity of a moving object is by using the Doppler effect. This is the perceived change in frequency of a wave caused by the relative …             A Tensile Deformation Model for In-situ Dendrite/Metallic Glass Matrix Composites ▶     J. W. Qiao, T. Zhang, F. Q. Yang et al.     In-situ dendrite/metallic glass matrix composites (MGMCs) with a composition of Ti46Zr20V12Cu5Be17 exhibit ultimate tensile strength of 1510 MPa and fracture strain of about 7.6%. …             Translational Symmetry Breaking and Gapping of Heavy-Quasiparticle Pocket in URu2Si2 ▶     Rikiya Yoshida, Koji Tsubota, Toshihiko Ishiga et al.     URu2Si2 is a uranium compound that exhibits a so-called ‘hidden-order’ transition at ~17.5 K. However, the order parameter of this second-order transition as well as many of its …             Manipulating Complex Light with Metamaterials ▶     Jinwei Zeng, Xi Wang, Jingbo Sun et al.     Recent developments in the field of metamaterials have revealed unparalleled opportunities for “engineering” space for light propagation; opening a new paradigm in spin- and …             Magneto-Dielectric Effects Induced by Optically-Generated Intermolecular Charge-Transfer States in Organic Semiconducting Materials ▶     Huidong Zang, Liang Yan, Mingxing Li et al.     Traditionally, magneto-dielectric effects have been developed by combining ferroelectric and magnetic materials. Here, we show a magneto-dielectric effect from optically-generated …             Structural evolution of calcite at high temperatures: Phase V unveiled ▶     Nobuo Ishizawa, Hayato Setoguchi, Kazumichi Yanagisawa     The calcite form of calcium carbonate CaCO3 undergoes a reversible phase transition between Rc and Rm at ~1240 K under a CO2 atmosphere of ~0.4 MPa. The joint probability density …                 Nature Communications is ranked #3 in the Multidisciplinary Sciences with an Impact Factor of 10.015*   Your research. Our reach. 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