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07 October 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               Mechanically Modulated Dewetting by Atomic Force Microscope for Micro- and Nano- Droplet Array Fabrication ▶     Feifei Wang, Pan Li, Dong Wang et al.     Organizing a material into well-defined patterns during the dewetting process provides an attractive micro-/nano-fabrication method without using a conventional lithographic …             In-situ observation and atomic resolution imaging of the ion irradiation induced amorphisation of graphene ▶     C.-T. Pan, J. A. Hinks, Q. M. Ramasse et al.     Ion irradiation has been observed to induce a macroscopic flattening and in-plane shrinkage of graphene sheets without a complete loss of crystallinity. Electron diffraction …             From sphere to polyhedron: A hypothesis on the formation of high-index surfaces in nanocrystals ▶     Yan Zhou, Junyan Zhang, Gang Su et al.     The morphology of tetrahexahedral nanocrystals could be understood on the basis of a hypothesis that the atoms or molecules on or near spherical surfaces can migrate till …             How fragility makes phase-change data storage robust: insights from ab initio simulations ▶     Wei Zhang, Ider Ronneberger, Peter Zalden et al.     Phase-change materials are technologically important due to their manifold applications in data storage. Here we report on ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of …             Coupled ferroelectric polarization and magnetization in spinel FeCr2S4 ▶     L. Lin, H. X. Zhu, X. M. Jiang et al.     One of the core issues for multiferroicity is the strongly coupled ferroelectric polarization and magnetization, while so far most multiferroics have antiferromagnetic order with …             Mesoporous hexagonal Co3O4 for high performance lithium ion batteries ▶     Dawei Su, Xiuqiang Xie, Paul Munroe et al.     Mesoporous Co3O4 nanoplates were successfully prepared by the conversion of hexagonal β-Co(OH)2 nanoplates. TEM, HRTEM and N2 sorption analysis confirmed the facet crystal …             Evidence of Type-II Band Alignment in III-nitride Semiconductors: Experimental and theoretical investigation for In0.17Al0.83N/GaN heterostructures ▶     Jiaming Wang, Fujun Xu, Xia Zhang et al.     Type-II band alignment structure is coveted in the design of photovoltaic devices and detectors, since it is beneficial for the transport of photogenerated carriers. Regrettably, …             Low-temperature excess heat capacity in fresnoite glass and crystal ▶     Kensaku Nakamura, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Takumi Fujiwara     The effect of thermal annealing on low-temperature excess heat capacity was investigated in fresnoite (Ba2TiSi2O8) glass. The amplitudes of the excess heat capacity decreased, …             Microfluidic control of axonal guidance ▶     Ling Gu, Bryan Black, Simon Ordonez et al.     The precision of axonal pathfinding and the accurate formation of functional neural circuitry are crucial for an organism during development as well as during adult central and …             Fractal multi-level organisation of human groups in a virtual world ▶     Benedikt Fuchs, Didier Sornette, Stefan Thurner     Humans are fundamentally social. They form societies which consist of hierarchically layered nested groups of various quality, size, and structure. The anthropologic literature …             Highly effective heterogeneous chemosensors of luminescent silica@coordination polymer core-shell micro-structures for metal ion sensing ▶     Won Cho, Hee Jung Lee, Sora Choi et al.     Heterogeneous solid sensors are regarded as promising next-generation sensor due to their excellent chemical stability, low contamination, and excellent recyclability, despite …             Stretchable and High-Performance Supercapacitors with Crumpled Graphene Papers ▶     Jianfeng Zang, Changyong Cao, Yaying Feng et al.     Fabrication of unconventional energy storage devices with high stretchability and performance is challenging, but critical to practical operations of fully power-independent …             Anomalous refraction of airborne sound through ultrathin metasurfaces ▶     Kun Tang, Chunyin Qiu, Manzhu Ke et al.     Similar to their optic counterparts, acoustic components are anticipated to flexibly tailor the propagation of sound. However, the practical applications, e.g. for audible sound …             Mechanical properties of carbon nanotube/polymer composites ▶     B. Arash, Q. Wang, V. K. Varadan     The remarkable mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes, such as high elastic modulus and tensile strength, make them the most ideal and promising reinforcements in …             Graphene based flexible electrochromic devices ▶     Emre O. Polat, Osman Balcı, Coskun Kocabas     Graphene emerges as a viable material for optoelectronics because of its broad optical response and gate-tunable properties. For practical applications, however, single layer …             Accessing thermoplastic processing windows in metallic glasses using rapid capacitive discharge ▶     Georg Kaltenboeck, Thomas Harris, Kerry Sun et al.     The ability of the rapid-capacitive discharge approach to access optimal viscosity ranges in metallic glasses for thermoplastic processing is explored. Using high-speed thermal …             Elementary depinning processes of magnetic domain walls under fields and currents ▶     V. D. Nguyen, W. Savero Torres, P. Laczkowski et al.     The probability laws associated to domain wall depinning under fields and currents have been studied in NiFe and FePt nanowires. Three basic domain wall depinning processes, …             Pre-treatment for ultrafiltration: effect of pre-chlorination on membrane fouling ▶     Wenzheng Yu, Lei Xu, Nigel Graham et al.     Microbial effects are believed to be a major contributor to membrane fouling in drinking water treatment. Sodium hypochlorite (NaClO) is commonly applied in membrane cleaning, …             Optical trapping reveals propulsion forces, power generation and motility efficiency of the unicellular parasites Trypanosoma brucei brucei ▶     Eric Stellamanns, Sravanti Uppaluri, Axel Hochstetter et al.     Unicellular parasites have developed sophisticated swimming mechanisms to survive in a wide range of environments. Cell motility of African trypanosomes, parasites responsible …             Tuning the Growth Pattern in 2D Confinement Regime of Sm2O3 and the Emerging Room Temperature Unusual Superparamagnetism ▶     Amit K. Guria, Koushik Dey, Suresh Sarkar et al.     Programming the reaction chemistry for superseding the formation of Sm2O3 in a competitive process of formation and dissolution, the crystal growth patterns are varied and two …             Superlattice valley engineering for designer topological insulators ▶     Xiao Li, Fan Zhang, Qian Niu et al.     A topological insulator is a novel state of quantum matter, characterized by symmetry-protected Dirac interfacial states within its bulk gap. Tremendous effort has been invested …             Bifunctional Organic Polymeric Catalysts with a Tunable Acid-Base Distance and Framework Flexibility ▶     Huanhui Chen, Yanan Wang, Qunlong Wang et al.     Acid-base bifunctional organic polymeric catalysts were synthesized with tunable structures. we demonstrated two synthesis approaches for structural fine-tune. In the first case, …             Energy dissipation of nanoconfined hydration layer: Long-range hydration on the hydrophilic solid surface ▶     Bongsu Kim, Soyoung Kwon, Hyosik Mun et al.     The hydration water layer (HWL), a ubiquitous form of water on the hydrophilic surfaces, exhibits anomalous characteristics different from bulk water and plays an important role …             Strain-enhanced tunneling magnetoresistance in MgO magnetic tunnel junctions ▶     Li Ming Loong, Xuepeng Qiu, Zhi Peng Neo et al.     While the effects of lattice mismatch-induced strain, mechanical strain, as well as the intrinsic strain of thin films are sometimes detrimental, resulting in mechanical …             Phase transition and phase separation in multiferroic orthorhombic Dy1−xHoxMnO3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) ▶     Na Zhang, Shuai Dong, Zhaoming Fu et al.     We report on structural, magnetic, ferroelectric, and thermodynamic properties of polycrystalline orthorhombic manganites Dy1−xHoxMnO3 for Ho substitution levels 0 ≤ x ≤ 1. This …             Micro-to-nano-scale deformation mechanisms of a bimodal ultrafine eutectic composite ▶     Seoung Wan Lee, Jeong Tae Kim, Sung Hwan Hong et al.     The outstading mechanical properties of bimodal ultrafine eutectic composites (BUECs) containing length scale hierarchy in eutectic structure were demonstrated by using AFM …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       postdoctoral fellow     Massachusetts General Hospital            Postdoctoral Scientist     Medical Research Council            Multiple 4-year PhD studentships     The University of Manchester            PhD Position     University of Fribourg            Research Assistant     Eastern Virginia Medical School            Postdoctoral Researcher     NUI Maynooth            PhD CASE Studentship     University of Birmingham            Postdoctoral Research Fellow     MD Anderson Cancer Center            Francis Crick Institute Four Year PhD Studentships 2015     Francis Crick Institute            Postdoctoral Fellow     Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience          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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