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02 September 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Chemical Sciences               Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds by Weight-Detectable Sensors coated with Metal-Organic Frameworks ▶     Hiroki Yamagiwa, Seiko Sato, Tadashi Fukawa et al.     Detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) using weight-detectable quartz microbalance and silicon-based microcantilever sensors coated with crystalline metal-organic …             Electronic Coupling and Catalytic Effect on H2 Evolution of MoS2/Graphene Nanocatalyst ▶     Ting Liao, Ziqi Sun, Chenghua Sun et al.     Inorganic nano-graphene hybrid materials that are strongly coupled via chemical bonding usually present superior electrochemical performance. However, how the chemical bond forms …             Nickel-cobalt bimetallic anode catalysts for direct urea fuel cell ▶     Wei Xu, Huimin Zhang, Gang Li et al.     Nickel is an ideal non-noble metal anode catalyst for direct urea fuel cell (DUFC) due to its high activity. However, there exists a large overpotential toward urea …             Micro-tubular solid oxide fuel cell based on a porous yttria-stabilized zirconia support ▶     Dhruba Panthi, Atsushi Tsutsumi     Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are promising electrochemical energy conversion devices owing to their high power generation efficiency and environmentally benign operation. …             Fabrication and electrochemical performance of 0.6Li2MnO3-0.4Li(Ni1/3Co1/3Mn1/3)O2 microspheres by two-step spray-drying process ▶     Mun Yeong Son, Jung-Kul Lee, Yun Chan Kang     0.6Li2MnO3–0.4Li(Ni1/3Co1/3Mn1/3)O2 composite microspheres with dense structures are prepared by a two-step spray-drying process. Precursor powders with hollow and porous …             Allylic ionic liquid electrolyte-assisted electrochemical surface passivation of LiCoO2 for advanced, safe lithium-ion batteries ▶     Junyoung Mun, Taeeun Yim, Jang Hoon Park et al.     Room-temperature ionic liquid (RTIL) electrolytes have attracted much attention for use in advanced, safe lithium-ion batteries (LIB) owing to their nonvolatility, high …             Novel Germanium/Polypyrrole Composite for High Power Lithium-ion Batteries ▶     Xuanwen Gao, Wenbin Luo, Chao Zhong et al.     Nano-Germanium/polypyrrole composite has been synthesized by chemical reduction method in aqueous solution. The Ge nanoparticles were directly coated on the surface of the …             Honeycomb-like porous gel polymer electrolyte membrane for lithium ion batteries with enhanced safety ▶     Jinqiang Zhang, Bing Sun, Xiaodan Huang et al.     Lithium ion batteries have shown great potential in applications as power sources for electric vehicles and large-scale energy storage. However, the direct uses of flammable …             Remediation of chromium-slag leakage with electricity cogeneration via a urea-Cr(VI) cell ▶     Binbin Yu, Huimin Zhang, Wei Xu et al.     Chromium pollution has been historically widespread throughout the world. Most available remediation technologies often require energy consumption. This study is aimed to develop …             One-pot synthesis of manganese oxide-carbon composite microspheres with three dimensional channels for Li-ion batteries ▶     You Na Ko, Seung Bin Park, Seung Ho Choi et al.     The fabrication of manganese oxide-carbon composite microspheres with open nanochannels and their electrochemical performance as anode materials for lithium ion batteries are …             Manipulating Size of Li3V2(PO4)3 with Reduced Graphene Oxide: towards High-Performance Composite Cathode for Lithium Ion Batteries ▶     Xianjun Zhu, Zan Yan, Wenyan Wu et al.     Lithium vanadium phosphate (Li3V2(PO4)3, LVP)/reduced graphene oxide (rGO) composite is prepared with a rheological method followed by heat treatment. The size and interface of …             Electrochemical properties of yolk-shell structured ZnFe2O4 powders prepared by a simple spray drying process as anode material for lithium-ion battery ▶     Jong Min Won, Seung Ho Choi, Young Jun Hong et al.     ZnFe2O4 yolk–shell powders were prepared by applying a simple spray-drying process. Dextrin was used as a drying additive and carbon source material, and thus played a key role in …             Electrochemical properties of cobalt hydroxychloride microspheres as a new anode material for Li-ion batteries ▶     Gi Dae Park, You Na Ko, Yun Chan Kang     The use of cobalt hydroxychloride [Co2(OH)3Cl] as an anode material for lithium ion batteries (LIBs) is investigated using spherical shape and ultrafine nanocrystals directly …             CuO single crystal with exposed {001} facets - A highly efficient material for gas sensing and Li-ion battery applications ▶     Dawei Su, Xiuqiang Xie, Shixue Dou et al.     Single crystal copper oxide nanoplatelets with a high percentage of {001} facets were synthesized by a facile hydrothermal approach. The as-prepared materials were characterized …             Electrochemical properties of tungsten sulfide–carbon composite microspheres prepared by spray pyrolysis ▶     Seung Ho Choi, Sung Jin Boo, Jong-Heun Lee et al.     Tungsten sulfide (WS2)–carbon composite powders with superior electrochemical properties are prepared by a two-step process. WO3-carbon composite powders were first prepared by …             Single Crystalline Co3O4 Nanocrystals Exposed with Different Crystal Planes for Li-O2 Batteries ▶     Dawei Su, Shixue Dou, Guoxiu Wang     Single crystalline Co3O4 nanocrystals exposed with different crystal planes were synthesised, including cubic Co3O4 nanocrystals enclosed by {100} crystal planes, pseudo …             Ultrathin Nickel Hydroxide and Oxide Nanosheets: Synthesis, Characterizations and Excellent Supercapacitor Performances ▶     Youqi Zhu, Chuanbao Cao, Shi Tao et al.     High-quality ultrathin two-dimensional nanosheets of α-Ni(OH)2 are synthesized at large scale via microwave-assisted liquid-phase growth under low-temperature atmospheric …             Direct In Vivo Electrochemical Detection of Haemoglobin in Red Blood Cells ▶     Rou Jun Toh, Weng Kung Peng, Jongyoon Han et al.     The electrochemical behavior of iron ion in haemoglobin provides insight to the chemical activity in the red blood cell which is important in the field of hematology. Herein, the …             Hollandites as a new class of multiferroics ▶     Shuangyi Liu, Andrew R. Akbashev, Xiaohao Yang et al.     Discovery of new complex oxides that exhibit both magnetic and ferroelectric properties is of great interest for the design of functional magnetoelectrics, in which research is …             Effective charge separation in the rutile TiO2 nanorod-coupled α-Fe2O3 with exceptionally high visible activities ▶     Peng Luan, Mingzheng Xie, Dening Liu et al.     Herein, we have fabricated rutile TiO2 nanorod-coupled α-Fe2O3 by a wet-chemical process. It is demonstrated that the visible activities for photoelectrochemical water oxidation …             GluCl a target of indole alkaloid okaramines: a 25 year enigma solved ▶     Shogo Furutani, Yuri Nakatani, Yuka Miura et al.     In 1989, indole alkaloid okaramines isolated from the fermentation products of Penicillium simplicissimum were shown to be insecticidal, yet the mechanism of their toxicity to …                 SPECIAL SAVINGS: Latest lab equipment and services Discover the resource everyone is using!   Before you buy, VISIT MARKETPLACE         • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cellular / Molecular Biology of the B-MYB Transcription Factor     King's College London            Metabolic modeller (5064)     VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland            University Assistant (prae doc) at the Department of Biological Chemistry     University of Vienna (Universitaet Wien)            Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Organic Chemistry     University of Oxford            PhD Fellowship: Mathematical Modelling of Measures Supporting Eelgrass Recovery     University of Southern Denmark            Electrophysiologist to Study Ion Channel Dysfunction in Neurological Disorders     Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry AS CR            PhD in Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science     Cardiff University            Postdoctoral Fellow     Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital            Postdoctoral Associate     Baylor College of Medicine (BCM)            Postdoctoral Position in Bacterial Microcompartment Engineering     Michigan State 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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