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02 January 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Chemical Sciences               Construction of Self-Supported Three–Dimensional TiO2 Sheeted Networks with Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity ▶     Xuan Zhang, Chao Hu, Hua Bai et al.     The degradation of toxic gases and liquids using a catalyst and solar energy is an ideal method, compared with landfill and combustion methods. The search for active semiconductor …             Hierarchical Nanocomposites of Polyaniline Nanowire Arrays on Reduced Graphene Oxide Sheets for Supercapacitors ▶     Li Wang, Yinjian Ye, Xingping Lu et al.     Here we reported a novel route to synthesize a hierarchical nanocomposite (PANI-frGO) of polyaniline (PANI) nanowire arrays covalently bonded on reduced graphene oxide (rGO). In …             Unveiling the gating mechanism of ECF Transporter RibU ▶     Jianing Song, Changge Ji, John Z. H. Zhang     Energy-coupling factor (ECF) transporters are responsible for uptake of micronutrients in prokaryotes. The recently reported crystal structure of an ECF transporter Rib provided a …             Single Domain SmCo5@Co Exchange-coupled Magnets Prepared from Core/shell Sm[Co(CN)6]·4H2O@GO Particles: A Novel Chemical Approach ▶     Ce Yang, Lihui Jia, Shouguo Wang et al.     SmCo5 based magnets with smaller size and larger maximum energy product have been long desired in various fields such as renewable energy technology, electronic industry and …             Computational Assay of H7N9 Influenza Neuraminidase Reveals R292K Mutation Reduces Drug Binding Affinity ▶     Christopher J. Woods, Maturos Malaisree, Ben Long et al.     The emergence of a novel H7N9 avian influenza that infects humans is a serious cause for concern. Of the genome sequences of H7N9 neuraminidase available, one contains a …             Viscous Fingering and Dendritic Growth of Surface Crystallized Sr2TiSi2O8 Fresnoite ▶     Wolfgang Wisniewski, Marek Patschger, Christian Rüssel     During the quenching of a melt with the composition 2SrO·TiO2·2.75SiO2, cubic SrTiO3- and tetragonal Sr2TiSi2O8-crystals are formed at the surface. Subsequent crystal growth leads …             Ultrathin Co3O4 nanosheet arrays with high supercapacitive performance ▶     Qiu Yang, Zhiyi Lu, Xiaoming Sun et al.     Constructing nanostructures with desirable morphology and size is a critical issue for pursuing high performance electrode materials. Ultrathin Co3O4 nanosheet arrays, which are …             Iterative Mass Spectrometry and X-Ray Crystallography to Study Ion-Trapping and Rearrangements by a Flexible Cluster ▶     Kun Zhang, Mohamedally Kurmoo, Lian-Qiang Wei et al.     An important aspect of chemical reactions involves understanding the intermediate steps from reactants to products. The iterative use of mass spectrometry and X-Ray …             Labeling Thiols on Proteins, Living Cells, and Tissues with Enhanced Emission Induced by FRET ▶     Yue Yuan, Xijun Wang, Bin Mei et al.     Using N-(2-Aminoethyl)maleimide-cysteine(StBu) (Mal-Cys) as a medium, protein thiols were converted into N-terminal cysteines. After a biocompatible condensation reaction between …             Engineering New Layered Solids from Exfoliated Inorganics: a Periodically Alternating Hydrotalcite – Montmorillonite Layered Hybrid ▶     Rajesh Chalasani, Amit Gupta, Sukumaran Vasudevan     Two-dimensional (2D) nanosheets obtained by exfoliating inorganic layered crystals have emerged as a new class of materials with unique attributes. One of the critical challenges …             Fe-catalyzed growth of one-dimensional α-Si3N4 nanostructures and their cathodoluminescence properties ▶     Juntong Huang, Zhaohui Huang, Shuai Yi et al.     Preparation of nanomaterials with various morphologies and exploiting their novel physical properties are of vital importance in nanoscientific field. Similarly to the III-N …             Large and fast reversible Li-ion storages in Fe2O3-graphene sheet-on-sheet sandwich-like nanocomposites ▶     Jin Kan, Yong Wang     Fe2O3 nanosheets and nanoparticles are grown on graphene by simply varying reaction solvents in a facile solvothermal/hydrothermal preparation. Fe2O3 nanosheets are uniformly …             Wet-spinning of PEDOT:PSS/Functionalized-SWNTs Composite: a Facile Route Toward Production of Strong and Highly Conducting Multifunctional Fibers ▶     Rouhollah Jalili, Joselito M. Razal, Gordon G. Wallace     With the aim of fabricating multifunctional fibers with enhanced mechanical properties, electrical conductivity and electrochemical performance, we develop wet-spinning of …             Hierarchical Li4Ti5O12/TiO2 composite tubes with regular structural imperfection for lithium ion storage ▶     Yan-Mei Jiang, Kai-Xue Wang, Hao-Jie Zhang et al.     Hierarchical Li4Ti5O12/TiO2 tubes composed of ultrathin nanoflakes have been successfully fabricated via the calcination of the hydrothermal product of a porous amorphous TiO2 …             Observation of Replacement of Carbon in Benzene with Nitrogen in a Low-Temperature Plasma ▶     Zhiping Zhang, Xiaoyun Gong, Sichun Zhang et al.     Selective activation of benzene has been mainly limited to the C-H activation. Simple replacement of one carbon in benzene with another atom remains unresolved due to the high …             Collective behaviours: from biochemical kinetics to electronic circuits ▶     Elena Agliari, Adriano Barra, Raffaella Burioni et al.     In this work we aim to highlight a close analogy between cooperative behaviors in chemical kinetics and cybernetics; this is realized by using a common language for their …             Sulfuric Acid Intercalated Graphite Oxide for Graphene Preparation ▶     Yanzhong Hong, Zhiyong Wang, Xianbo Jin     Graphene has shown enormous potential for innovation in various research fields. The current chemical approaches based on exfoliation of graphite via graphite oxide (GO) are …             Conserved-residue mutations in Wzy affect O-antigen polymerization and Wzz-mediated chain-length regulation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 ▶     Salim T. Islam, Steven M. Huszczynski, Timothy Nugent et al.     O antigen (O-Ag) in many bacteria is synthesized via the Wzx/Wzy-dependent pathway in which Wzy polymerizes lipid-linked O-Ag subunits to modal lengths regulated by Wzz. …             Ion Enrichment on the Hydrophobic Carbon-based Surface in Aqueous Salt Solutions due to Cation-π Interactions ▶     Guosheng Shi, Jian Liu, Chunlei Wang et al.     By incorporating cation-π interactions to classic all-atoms force fields, we show that there is a clear enrichment of Na on a carbon-based π electron-rich surface in NaCl …             CORRIGENDUM: Crystal, magnetic, and electronic structures, and properties of new BaMnPnF (Pn=As, Sb, Bi) ▶     Bayrammurad Saparov, David J. Singh, Vasile O. Garlea et al.                 Fabrication and Characterization of Flexible and Tunable Plasmonic Nanostructures ▶     Mehmet Kahraman, Pallavi Daggumati, Ozge Kurtulus et al.     We present a novel method to fabricate flexible and tunable plasmonic nanostructures based on combination of soft lithography and nanosphere lithography, and perform a …             Silicon/copper dome-patterned electrodes for high-performance hybrid supercapacitors ▶     Xuyan Liu, Hun-Gi Jung, Sang-Ok Kim et al.     This study proposes a method for manufacturing high-performance electrode materials in which controlling the shape of the current collector and electrode material for a Li-ion …             Fe2O3 Nanoparticles Wrapped in Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes With Enhanced Lithium Storage Capability ▶     Nan Yan, Xuhui Zhou, Yan Li et al.     We have designed a novel hybrid nanostructure by coating Fe2O3 nanoparticles with multi-walled carbon nanotubes to enhance the lithium storage capability of Fe2O3. The strategy to …             Common Pharmacophore of Structurally Distinct Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Intracellular Retrograde Trafficking of Ribosome Inactivating Proteins ▶     Shichao Yu, Jewn Giew Park, Jennifer Nielsen Kahn et al.     We reported previously (±)-2-(5-methylthiophen-2-yl)-3-phenyl-2,3-dihydroquinazolin-4(1H)-one [(±)-Retro-2cycl] as the chemical structure of Retro-2 that showed mouse protection …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Postdoc     University of Alabma, Birmingham            Postdoctoral Research Assistant     Queen Mary University of London            Research Assistant     University of Oxford            PhD Position     University of Geneva            Research Associate     King's College London            Postdoctoral Research Assistant     University of Dundee            Postdoctoral Scholar     University of Chicago            Research Assistant     Yale University School of Medicine            Postdoctoral Researcher     Harvard University            Doctoral Student     Aalto University          No matter what your career stage, student, postdoc or senior scientist, you will find articles on naturejobs.com to help guide you in your science career. 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