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16 September 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               Rectifying Properties of Oligo(Phenylene Ethynylene) Heterometallic Molecular Junctions: Molecular Length and Side Group Effects ▶     Xiao-Xiao Fu, Rui-Qin Zhang, Guang-Ping Zhang et al.     The rectifying properties of α,ω-dithiol terminated oligo(phenylene ethynylene) molecules sandwiched between heterometallic electrodes, including the molecular length and side …             On-the-fly machine-learning for high-throughput experiments: search for rare-earth-free permanent magnets ▶     Aaron Gilad Kusne, Tieren Gao, Apurva Mehta et al.     Advanced materials characterization techniques with ever-growing data acquisition speed and storage capabilities represent a challenge in modern materials science, and new …             How to Reliably Determine the Complex Refractive Index (RI) of Graphene by Using Two Independent Measurement Constraints ▶     Sosan Cheon, Kenneth David Kihm, Hong goo Kim et al.     Reliable determination of the complex refractive index (RI) of graphene inherently requires two independent measurement realizations for two independent unknowns of the real (nG) …             Reversible logic gate using adiabatic superconducting devices ▶     N. Takeuchi, Y. Yamanashi, N. Yoshikawa     Reversible computing has been studied since Rolf Landauer advanced the argument that has come to be known as Landauer's principle. This principle states that there is no minimum …             Cup-Shaped Superparamagnetic Hemispheres for Size-Selective Cell Filtration ▶     Hyonchol Kim, Hideyuki Terazono, Hiroyuki Takei et al.     We propose a new method of size separation of cells exploiting precisely size-controlled hemispherical superparamagnetic microparticles. A three-layered structure of a 2-nm nickel …             Majorana modes in a topological insulator/s-wave superconductor heterostructure ▶     Zheng-Zao Li, Fu-Chun Zhang, Qiang-Hua Wang     In a recent experiment, signatures of Majorana fermion (MF) were found in the vortex core threading a heterostructure composed of n layers of topological insulator (TI) deposited …             Evidence of dislocation cross-slip in MAX phase deformed at high temperature ▶     Antoine Guitton, Anne Joulain, Ludovic Thilly et al.     Ti2AlN nanolayered ternary alloy has been plastically deformed under confining pressure at 900°C. The dislocation configurations of the deformed material have been analyzed by …             Near-space flight of a correlated photon system ▶     Zhongkan Tang, Rakhitha Chandrasekara, Yau Yong Sean et al.     We report the successful test flight of a device for generating and monitoring correlated photon pairs under near-space conditions up to 35.5 km altitude. Data from ground based …             Randomness and preserved patterns in cancer network ▶     Aparna Rai, A. Vipin Menon, Sarika Jalan     Breast cancer has been reported to account for the maximum cases among all female cancers till date. In order to gain a deeper insight into the complexities of the disease, we …             Laser Modified ZnO/CdSSe Core-Shell Nanowire Arrays for Micro-Steganography and Improved Photoconduction ▶     Junpeng Lu, Hongwei Liu, Minrui Zheng et al.     Arrays of ZnO/CdSSe core/shell nanowires with shells of tunable band gaps represent a class of interesting hybrid nanomaterials with unique optical and photoelectrical properties …             Cascades on a stochastic pulse-coupled network ▶     C. M. Wray, S. R. Bishop     While much recent research has focused on understanding isolated cascades of networks, less attention has been given to dynamical processes on networks exhibiting repeated …             Ytterbium-doped fiber laser passively mode locked by few-layer Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2) saturable absorber functioned with evanescent field interaction ▶     Juan Du, Qingkai Wang, Guobao Jiang et al.     By coupling few-layer Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2) with fiber-taper evanescent light field, a new type of MoS2 based nonlinear optical modulating element had been successfully …             Design and Fabrication of Hierarchically Porous Carbon with a Template-free Method ▶     Yutong Gong, Zhongzhe Wei, Jing Wang et al.     Fabrication of hierarchically porous carbon materials (HPCs) with high surface area and pore volume has always been pursued. However, the currently effective template methods and …             Male motion coordination in anopheline mating swarms ▶     Daigo Shishika, Nicholas C. Manoukis, Sachit Butail et al.     The Anopheles gambiae species complex comprises the primary vectors of malaria in much of sub-Saharan Africa. Most of the mating in these species occurs in swarms composed almost …             Micromechanics of ultra-toughened electrospun PMMA/PEO fibres as revealed by in-situ tensile testing in an electron microscope ▶     Richard L. Andersson, Valter Ström, Ulf W. Gedde et al.     A missing cornerstone in the development of tough micro/nano fibre systems is an understanding of the fibre failure mechanisms, which stems from the limitation in observing the …             Optical Activity Enhanced by Strong Inter-molecular Coupling in Planar Chiral Metamaterials ▶     Teun-Teun Kim, Sang Soon Oh, Hyun-Sung Park et al.     The polarization of light can be rotated in materials with an absence of molecular or structural mirror symmetry. While this rotating ability is normally rather weak in naturally …             Optical Peaking Enhancement in High-Speed Ring Modulators ▶     J. Müller, F. Merget, S. Sharif Azadeh et al.     Ring resonator modulators (RRM) combine extreme compactness, low power consumption and wavelength division multiplexing functionality, making them a frontrunner for addressing the …             High-Polarization-Discriminating Infrared Detection Using a Single Quantum Well Sandwiched in Plasmonic Micro-Cavity ▶     Qian Li, ZhiFeng Li, Ning Li et al.     Polarimetric imaging has proved its value in medical diagnostics, bionics, remote sensing, astronomy, and in many other wide fields. Pixel-level solid monolithically integrated …             Planar super-oscillatory lens for sub-diffraction optical needles at violet wavelengths ▶     Guanghui Yuan, Edward T. F. Rogers, Tapashree Roy et al.     Planar optical lenses are fundamental elements of miniaturized photonic devices. However, conventional planar optical lenses are constrained by the diffraction limit in the …             Large spontaneous emission rate enhancement in grating coupled hyperbolic metamaterials ▶     Kandammathe Valiyaveedu Sreekanth, Koduru Hari Krishna, Antonio De Luca et al.     Hyperbolic metamaterial (HMM), a sub-wavelength periodic artificial structure with hyperbolic dispersion, can enhance the spontaneous emission of quantum emitters. Here, we …             Non-commutativity and Local Indistinguishability of Quantum States ▶     Teng Ma, Ming-Jing Zhao, Yao-Kun Wang et al.     We study the local indistinguishability problem of quantum states. By introducing an easily calculated quantity, non-commutativity, we present an criterion which is both necessary …             Locality and universality of quantum memory effects ▶     B.-H. Liu, S. Wißmann, X.-M. Hu et al.     The modeling and analysis of the dynamics of complex systems often requires to employ non-Markovian stochastic processes. While there is a clear and well-established mathematical …             Highly-dispersed Boron-doped Graphene Nanosheets Loaded with TiO2 Nanoparticles for Enhancing CO2 Photoreduction ▶     Mingyang Xing, Fan Shen, Bocheng Qiu et al.     Boron doped graphene nanosheets (B-GR) as a p-type semiconductor, provides much more edges to facilitate the loading of TiO2 nanoparticles (P25). Highly-dispersed P25/B-GR …             Novel Friction Law for the Static Friction Force based on Local Precursor Slipping ▶     Yu Katano, Ken Nakano, Michio Otsuki et al.     The sliding of a solid object on a solid substrate requires a shear force that is larger than the maximum static friction force. It is commonly believed that the maximum static …             Emergent Chiral Spin Liquid: Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in a Kagome Heisenberg Model ▶     Shou-Shu Gong, Wei Zhu, D. N. Sheng     The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) realized in two-dimensional electron systems under a magnetic field is one of the most remarkable discoveries in condensed matter …             Insights into the electrocatalysis of nitrobenzene using chemically-modified carbon nanotube electrodes ▶     Yutao Sang, Baoyan Wang, Qinchao Wang et al.     The electrochemical behavior of nitrobenzene and its derivatives at chemically-functionalized multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) modified electrodes was studied. Experimental …             Characterization of argon direct-current glow discharge with a longitudinal electric field applied at ambient air ▶     Weiman Jiang, Jie Tang, Yishan Wang et al.     A direct-current-driven plasma jet is developed by applying a longitudinal electric field on the flowing argon at ambient air. This plasma shows a torch shape with its …             Voltage-driven spintronic logic gates in graphene nanoribbons ▶     WenXing Zhang     Electronic devices lose efficacy due to quantum effect when the line-width of gate decreases to sub-10 nm. Spintronics overcome this bottleneck and logic gates are building blocks …             Optical coherence tomography: A new strategy to image planarian regeneration ▶     Yu-Sheng Lin, Chin-Chou Chu, Jen-Jen Lin et al.     The planarian is widely used as a model for studying tissue regeneration. In this study, we used optical coherence tomography (OCT) for the real-time, high-resolution imaging of …             Remote Control of Tissue Interactions via Engineered Photo-switchable Cell Surfaces ▶     Wei Luo, Abigail Pulsipher, Debjit Dutta et al.     We report a general cell surface molecular engineering strategy via liposome fusion delivery to create a dual photo-active and bio-orthogonal cell surface for remote controlled …             Low Al-composition p-GaN/Mg-doped Al0.25Ga0.75N/n+-GaN polarization-induced backward tunneling junction grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition on sapphire substrate ▶     Kexiong Zhang, Hongwei Liang, Yang Liu et al.     Low Al-composition p-GaN/Mg-doped Al0.25Ga0.75N/n-GaN polarization-induced backward tunneling junction (PIBTJ) was grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition on sapphire …             Live cell imaging of membrane / cytoskeleton interactions and membrane topology ▶     Luca Chierico, Adrian S. Joseph, Andrew L. Lewis et al.     We elucidate the interaction between actin and specific membrane components, using real time live cell imaging, by delivering probes that enable access to components, that cannot …             Dominating Scale-Free Networks Using Generalized Probabilistic Methods ▶     F. Molnár, Jr., N. Derzsy, É. Czabarka et al.     We study ensemble-based graph-theoretical methods aiming to approximate the size of the minimum dominating set (MDS) in scale-free networks. We analyze both analytical upper …             Message spreading in networks with stickiness and persistence: Large clustering does not always facilitate large-scale diffusion ▶     Pengbi Cui, Ming Tang, Zhi-Xi Wu     Recent empirical studies have confirmed the key roles of complex contagion mechanisms such as memory, social reinforcement, and decay effects in information diffusion and behavior …             Controlling the efficiency of trapping in a scale-free small-world network ▶     Yuan Lin, Zhongzhi Zhang     Designing appropriate techniques to effectively control the trapping process in complex systems towards desirable efficiency is of paramount importance in the study of trapping …             Controlled synthesis and visible light photocatalytic activity of Bi12GeO20 uniform microcrystals ▶     Zhen Wan, Gaoke Zhang     We successfully synthesized uniform Bi12GeO20 microspheres and microtetrahedrons enclosed by four {111} facets using a controlled hydrothermal method for the first time. The …             Chemical dechlorination of hexachlorobenzene with polyethylene glycol and hydroxide: Dominant effect of temperature and ionic potential ▶     Ye Xiao, Jianguo Jiang, Hai Huang     Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) originating from POP waste are playing an increasingly important role in the elevation of regional POP levels. In this study we realized the …             Single-photon quadratic optomechanics ▶     Jie-Qiao Liao, Franco Nori     We present exact analytical solutions to study the coherent interaction between a single photon and the mechanical motion of a membrane in quadratic optomechanics. We consider …             A universal electromagnetic energy conversion adapter based on a metamaterial absorber ▶     Yunsong Xie, Xin Fan, Jeffrey D. Wilson et al.     On the heels of metamaterial absorbers (MAs) which produce near perfect electromagnetic (EM) absorption and emission, we propose a universal electromagnetic energy conversion …             Dew inspired breathing-based detection of genetic point mutation visualized by naked eye ▶     Liping Xie, Tongzhou Wang, Tianqi Huang et al.     A novel label-free method based on breathing-induced vapor condensation was developed for detection of genetic point mutation. 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