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08 April 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               Personal electronics printing via tapping mode composite liquid metal ink delivery and adhesion mechanism ▶     Yi Zheng, Zhi-Zhu He, Jun Yang et al.     Printed electronics is becoming increasingly important in a variety of newly emerging areas. However, restricted to the rather limited conductive inks and available printing …             First-principles study on the phase diagram and multiferroic properties of (SrCoO3)1/(SrTiO3)1 superlattices ▶     Guang Song, Weiyi Zhang     To design a multiferroic material at atomic scale, strong spin-lattice and charge-lattice couplings play crucial roles. Our first-principles calculation on (SrCoO3)1/(SrTiO3)1 …             Fabrication and characterization of monolithically integrated microchannel plates based on amorphous silicon ▶     Andrea Franco, Jonas Geissbhler, Nicolas Wyrsch et al.     Microchannel plates are vacuum-based electron multipliers for particlein particular, photon detection, with applications ranging from image intensifiers to single-photon …             Critical behavior of a water monolayer under hydrophobic confinement ▶     Valentino Bianco, Giancarlo Franzese     The properties of water can have a strong dependence on the confinement. Here, we consider a water monolayer nanoconfined between hydrophobic parallel walls under conditions that …             Bipolar loop-like non-volatile strain in the (001)-oriented Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 single crystals ▶     Lifeng Yang, Yonggang Zhao, Sen Zhang et al.     Strain has been widely used to manipulate the properties of various kinds of materials, such as ferroelectrics, semiconductors, superconductors, magnetic materials, and strain …             Anion-activated, thermoreversible gelation system for the capture, release, and visual monitoring of CO2 ▶     Xin Zhang, Songyi Lee, Yifan Liu et al.     Carbon dioxide (CO2) is an important green house gas. This is providing an incentive to develop new strategies to detect and capture CO2. Achieving both functions within a single …             Template-directed Chemical Ligation to Obtain 3-3 and 5-5 Phosphodiester DNA Linkages ▶     Haodong Chen, Feng Du, Gangyi Chen et al.     Up to now, the direct ligation of two DNA fragments with opposite directions to obtain 3-3 or 5-5 phosphate ester bonds is still challenging. The only way to obtain DNA …             Structural and functional investigation of graphene oxide–Fe3O4 nanocomposites for the heterogeneous Fenton-like reaction ▶     Nor Aida Zubir, Christelle Yacou, Julius Motuzas et al.     Graphene oxide–iron oxide (GO–Fe3O4) nanocomposites were synthesised by co-precipitating iron salts onto GO sheets in basic solution. The results showed that formation of two …             Effect of aspect ratio and surface defects on the photocatalytic activity of ZnO nanorods ▶     Xinyu Zhang, Jiaqian Qin, Yanan Xue et al.     ZnO, aside from TiO2, has been considered as a promising material for purification and disinfection of water and air, and remediation of hazardous waste, owing to its high …             Dependency structure and scaling properties of financial time series are related ▶     Raffaello Morales, T. Di Matteo, Tomaso Aste     We report evidence of a deep interplay between cross-correlations hierarchical properties and multifractality of New York Stock Exchange daily stock returns. The degree of …             A reusable evanescent wave immunosensor for highly sensitive detection of bisphenol A in water samples ▶     Zhou Xiao-hong, Liu Lan-hua, Xu Wei-qi et al.     This paper proposed a compact and portable planar waveguide evanescent wave immunosensor (EWI) for highly sensitive detection of BPA. The incident light is coupled into the planar …             Discrete regenerative fuel cell reduces hysteresis for sustainable cycling of water ▶     Kiwon Park, Jungkoo Lee, Hyung-Man Kim et al.     The discrete regenerative fuel cell is being developed as a residential power control that synchronizes with a renewables load which fluctuates significantly with the time and …             Evolutionary Origin of Asymptotically Stable Consensus ▶     Chang-Bing Tang, Bin Wu, Jian-Bo Wang et al.     Consensus is widely observed in nature as well as in society. Up to now, many works have focused on what kind of (and how) isolated single structures lead to consensus, while the …             Towards a mathematical theory of meaningful communication ▶     Bernat Corominas-Murtra, Jordi Fortuny, Ricard V. Sol     Meaning has been left outside most theoretical approaches to information in biology. Functional responses based on an appropriate interpretation of signals have been replaced by a …             Magnetic Field Tunable Small-scale Mechanical Properties of Nickel Single Crystals Measured by Nanoindentation Technique ▶     Hao Zhou, Yongmao Pei, Daining Fang     Nano- and micromagnetic materials have been extensively employed in micro-functional devices. However, measuring small-scale mechanical and magnetomechanical properties is …             Direct evidence for three-dimensional off-axis trapping with single Laguerre-Gaussian beam ▶     T. Otsu, T. Ando, Y. Takiguchi et al.     Optical tweezers are often applied to control the dynamics of objects by scanning light. However, there is a limitation that objects fail to track the scan when the drag exceeds …             Dynamics and mechanism of oxygen annealing in Fe1+yTe0.6Se0.4 single crystal ▶     Yue Sun, Yuji Tsuchiya, Toshihiro Taen et al.     Iron chalcogenide Fe(Te,Se) attracted much attention due to its simple structure, which is favorable for probing the superconducting mechanism. Its less toxic nature compared with …             Ultrabroadband direct detection of nonclassical photon statistics at telecom wavelength ▶     Kentaro Wakui, Yujiro Eto, Hugo Benichi et al.     Broadband light sources play essential roles in diverse fields, such as high-capacity optical communications, optical coherence tomography, optical spectroscopy, and spectrograph …             Tandem-structured, hot electron based photovoltaic cell with double Schottky barriers ▶     Young Keun Lee, Hyosun Lee, Jeong Young Park     We demonstrate a tandem-structured, hot electron based photovoltaic cell with double Schottky barriers. The tandem-structured, hot electron based photovoltaic cell is composed of …             FALCON: fast and unbiased reconstruction of high-density super-resolution microscopy data ▶     Junhong Min, Cdric Vonesch, Hagai Kirshner et al.     Super resolution microscopy such as STORM and (F)PALM is now a well known method for biological studies at the nanometer scale. However, conventional imaging schemes based on …             The swelling transition of lepidocrocite-type protonated layered titanates into anatase under hydrothermal treatment ▶     Huiyu Yuan, Rogier Besselink, Zhaoliang Liao et al.     The common facets of anatase crystals are the (001) and (101) planes. However, the phase transformation from lepidocrocite-type titanate into anatase by hydrothermal processing …             Control of crystallographic orientation in diamond synthesis through laser resonant vibrational excitation of precursor molecules ▶     Zhi Qiang Xie, Jaeil Bai, Yun Shen Zhou et al.     Crystallographic orientations determine the optical, electrical, mechanical, and thermal properties of crystals. Control of crystallographic orientations has been studied by …             Bulk antimony sulfide with excellent cycle stability as next-generation anode for lithium-ion batteries ▶     Denis Y. W. Yu, Harry E. Hoster, Sudip K. Batabyal     Nanomaterials as anode for lithium-ion batteries (LIB) have gained widespread interest in the research community. However, scaling up and processibility are bottlenecks to further …             Efficient Quantum Transmission in Multiple-Source Networks ▶     Ming-Xing Luo, Gang Xu, Xiu-Bo Chen et al.     A difficult problem in quantum network communications is how to efficiently transmit quantum information over large-scale networks with common channels. We propose a solution by …             A New Route for Unburned Carbon Concentration Measurements Eliminating Mineral Content and Coal Rank Effects ▶     Dong Liu, Yuan-Yuan Duan, Zhen Yang et al.     500 million tons of coal fly ash are produced worldwide every year with only 16% of the total amount utilized. Therefore, potential applications using fly ash have both …             Dressed-photonphonon (DPP)-assisted visible- and infrared-light water splitting ▶     Takashi Yatsui, Tsubasa Imoto, Takahiro Mochizuki et al.     A dressed-phononphonon (DPP) assisted photocatalyst reaction was carried out to increase the visible light responsibility, where the photon energy of the radiation, which ranged …             Wave-packet rectification in nonlinear electronic systems: A tunable Aharonov-Bohm diode ▶     Yunyun Li, Jun Zhou, Fabio Marchesoni et al.     Rectification of electron wave-packets propagating along a quasi-one dimensional chain is commonly achieved via the simultaneous action of nonlinearity and longitudinal asymmetry, …             Formation of alternating interfacial layers in Au-12Ge/Ni joints ▶     Shih-kang Lin, Ming-yueh Tsai, Ping-chun Tsai et al.     Au-Ge alloys are promising materials for high-power and high-frequency packaging, and Ni is frequently used as diffusion barriers. This study investigates interfacial reactions in …             A fiber-based quasi-continuous-wave quantum key distribution system ▶     Yong Shen, Yan Chen, Hongxin Zou et al.     We report a fiber-based quasi-continuous-wave (CW) quantum key distribution (QKD) system with continuous variables (CV). This system employs coherent light pulses and time …             High Electron Mobility in Epitaxial Graphene on 4H-SiC(0001) via post-growth annealing under hydrogen ▶     E. Pallecchi, F. Lafont, V. Cavaliere et al.     We investigate the magneto-transport properties of epitaxial graphene single-layer on 4H-SiC(0001), grown by atmospheric pressure graphitization in Ar, followed by H2 …             Quantum rotor in nanostructured superconductors ▶     Shi-Hsin Lin, M. V. Miloevi, L. Covaci et al.     Despite its apparent simplicity, the idealized model of a particle constrained to move on a circle has intriguing dynamic properties and immediate experimental relevance. While a …             New route toward building active ruthenium nanoparticles on ordered mesoporous carbons with extremely high stability ▶     Ying Yang, Chengjun Sun, Yang Ren et al.     Creating highly active and stable metal catalysts is a persistent goal in the field of heterogeneous catalysis. However, a real catalyst can rarely achieve both of these qualities …             Growth of Millimeter-Size Single Crystal Graphene on Cu Foils by Circumfluence Chemical Vapor Deposition ▶     Chaocheng Wang, Wei Chen, Cheng Han et al.     A simply and reproducible way is proposed to significantly suppress the nucleation density of graphene on the copper foil during the chemical vapor deposition process. By …             Network communities within and across borders ▶     Federica Cerina, Alessandro Chessa, Fabio Pammolli et al.     We investigate the impact of borders on the topology of spatially embedded networks. Indeed territorial subdivisions and geographical borders significantly hamper the geographical …             Revealing the Hidden Language of Complex Networks ▶     Ömer Nebil Yaveroğlu, Noël Malod-Dognin, Darren Davis et al.     Sophisticated methods for analysing complex networks promise to be of great benefit to almost all scientific disciplines, yet they elude us. In this work, we make fundamental …             Photoresist-Free Fully Self-Patterned Transparent Amorphous Oxide Thin-Film Transistors Obtained by Sol-Gel Process ▶     Hyun Soo Lim, You Seung Rim, Hyun Jae Kim     We demonstrated self-patterned solution-processed amorphous oxide semiconductor thin-film transistors (TFTs) using photosensitive sol-gels. The photosensitive sol-gels were …             Plasmonic Excitations of 1D Metal-Dielectric Interfaces in 2D Systems: 1D Surface Plasmon Polaritons ▶     Daniel R. Mason, Sergey G. Menabde, Sunkyu Yu et al.     Surface plasmon-polariton (SPP) excitations of metal-dielectric interfaces are a fundamental light-matter interaction which has attracted interest as a route to spatial …             Effect of strain on voltage-controlled magnetism in BiFeO3-based heterostructures ▶     J. J. Wang, J. M. Hu, T. N. Yang et al.     Voltage-modulated magnetism in magnetic/BiFeO3 heterostructures can be driven by a combination of the intrinsic ferroelectric-antiferromagnetic coupling in BiFeO3 and the …             Qudit-Teleportation for photons with linear optics ▶     Sandeep K. Goyal, Patricia E. Boukama-Dzoussi, Sibasish Ghosh et al.     Quantum Teleportation, the transfer of the state of one quantum system to another without direct interaction between both systems, is an important way to transmit information …             Random allocation of pies promotes the evolution of fairness in the Ultimatum Game ▶     Xiaofeng Wang, Xiaojie Chen, Long Wang     In the Ultimatum Game, two players are offered a chance to win a pie. The proposer suggests how to split the pie. The responder can either accept or reject the deal. If an …             FRET ratiometric probes reveal the chiral-sensitive cysteine-dependent H2S production and regulation in living cells ▶     Lv Wei, Long Yi, Fanbo Song et al.     Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is an endogenously produced gaseous signalling molecule with multiple biological functions. 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