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14 October 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               Tuning the metal-insulator crossover and magnetism in SrRuO3 by ionic gating ▶     Hee Taek Yi, Bin Gao, Wei Xie et al.     Reversible control of charge transport and magnetic properties without degradation is a key for device applications of transition metal oxides. Chemical doping during the growth …             Transformation magneto-statics and illusions for magnets ▶     Fei Sun, Sailing He     Based on the form-invariant of Maxwell's equations under coordinate transformations, we extend the theory of transformation optics to transformation magneto-statics, which can …             Hierarchical Porous Li2Mg(NH)2@C Nanowires with Long Cycle Life Towards Stable Hydrogen Storage ▶     Guanglin Xia, Yingbin Tan, Dan Li et al.     The hierarchical porous Li2Mg(NH)2@C nanowires full of micropores, mesopores, and macropores are successfully fabricated via a single-nozzle electrospinning technique combined …             Insights into carbon nanotube nucleation: Cap formation governed by catalyst interfacial step flow ▶     Rahul Rao, Renu Sharma, Frank Abild-Pedersen et al.     In order to accommodate an increasing demand for carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with desirable characteristics one has to understand the origin of helicity of their structures. Here, …             Zwitterionic versus canonical amino acids over the various defects in zeolites: A two-layer ONIOM calculation ▶     Gang Yang, Lijun Zhou     Defects are often considered as the active sites for chemical reactions. Here a variety of defects in zeolites are used to stabilize zwitterionic glycine that is not self-stable …             Reconstructing high-dimensional two-photon entangled states via compressive sensing ▶     Francesco Tonolini, Susan Chan, Megan Agnew et al.     Accurately establishing the state of large-scale quantum systems is an important tool in quantum information science; however, the large number of unknown parameters hinders the …             Optical breathing of nano-porous antireflective coatings through adsorption and desorption of water ▶     Karsten H. Nielsen, Thomas Kittel, Katrin Wondraczek et al.     We report on the direct consequences of reversible water adsorption on the optical performance of silica-based nanoporous antireflective (AR) coatings as they are applied on …             Adiabatic Quantum Simulation of Quantum Chemistry ▶     Ryan Babbush, Peter J. Love, Alán Aspuru-Guzik     We show how to apply the quantum adiabatic algorithm directly to the quantum computation of molecular properties. We describe a procedure to map electronic structure Hamiltonians …             Practical Implementation, Characterization and Applications of a Multi-Colour Time-Gated Luminescence Microscope ▶     Lixin Zhang, Xianlin Zheng, Wei Deng et al.     Time-gated luminescence microscopy using long-lifetime molecular probes can effectively eliminate autofluorescence to enable high contrast imaging. Here we investigate a new …             Memory effect of the online user preference ▶     Lei Hou, Xue Pan, Qiang Guo et al.     The mechanism of the online user preference evolution is of great significance for understanding the online user behaviors and improving the quality of online services. Since …             A green approach to the synthesis of novel “Desert rose stone”-like nanobiocatalytic system with excellent enzyme activity and stability ▶     Min Wang, Wen-Jing Bao, Jiong Wang et al.     3D hierarchical layer double hydroxides (LDHs) have attracted extensive interest due to their unique electronic and catalytic properties. Unfortunately, the existing preparation …             Collective Structural Changes in Vermiculite Clay Suspensions Induced by Cesium Ions ▶     Ryuhei Motokawa, Hitoshi Endo, Shingo Yokoyama et al.     Following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011, Cs radioisotopes have been dispersed over a wide area. Most of the Cs has remained on the surface of the soil because Cs …             Atomic-scale control of TiO6 octahedra through solution chemistry towards giant dielectric response ▶     Wanbiao Hu, Liping Li, Guangshe Li et al.     The structures of many important functional oxides contain networks of metal-oxygen polyhedral units i.e. MOn. The correlation between the configurations and connectivities of …             Optical spectrum of bottom-up graphene nanoribbons: towards efficient atom-thick excitonic solar cells ▶     Cesar E. P. Villegas, P. B. Mendonça, A. R. Rocha     Recently, atomically well-defined cove-shaped graphene nanoribbons have been obtained using bottom-up synthesis. These nanoribbons have an optical gap in the visible range of the …             Non-contact fiber-optical trapping of motile bacteria: dynamics observation and energy estimation ▶     Hongbao Xin, Qingyuan Liu, Baojun Li     The dynamics and energy conversion of bacteria are strongly associated with bacterial activities, such as survival, spreading of bacterial diseases and their pathogenesis. …             Quantum percolation and transition point of a directed discrete-time quantum walk ▶     C. M. Chandrashekar, Th. Busch     Quantum percolation describes the problem of a quantum particle moving through a disordered system. While certain similarities to classical percolation exist, the quantum case …             Growth mechanism of metal-oxide nanowires synthesized by electron beam evaporation: A self-catalytic vapor-liquid-solid process ▶     Hak Ki Yu, Jong-Lam Lee     We report the growth mechanism of metal oxide nanostructures synthesized by electron beam evaporation. The condensed electron beam can easily decompose metal oxide sources that …             Extracting climate memory using Fractional Integrated Statistical Model: A new perspective on climate prediction ▶     Naiming Yuan, Zuntao Fu, Shida Liu     Long term memory (LTM) in climate variability is studied by means of fractional integral techniques. By using a recently developed model, Fractional Integral Statistical Model …             Nanosecond light induced, thermally tunable transient dual absorption bands in a-Ge5As30Se65 thin film ▶     Pritam Khan, Tarun Saxena, H. Jain et al.     In this article, we report the first observation of nanosecond laser induced transient dual absorption bands, one in the bandgap (TA1) and another in the sub-bandgap (TA2) …             Ultrathin Polyaniline-based Buffer Layer for Highly Efficient Polymer Solar Cells with Wide Applicability ▶     Wenchao Zhao, Long Ye, Shaoqing Zhang et al.     Interfacial buffer layers often attribute the improved device performance in organic optoelectronic device. Herein, a water-soluble hydrochloric acid doped polyanilines (HAPAN) …             Optimization of Evans blue quantitation in limited rat tissue samples ▶     Hwai-Lee Wang, Ted Weita Lai     Evans blue dye (EBD) is an inert tracer that measures plasma volume in human subjects and vascular permeability in animal models. Quantitation of EBD can be difficult when dye …             Continuous engineering of nano-cocrystals for medical and energetic applications ▶     D. Spitzer, B. Risse, F. Schnell et al.     Cocrystals, solid mixtures of different molecules on molecular scale, are supposed to be tailor made materials with improved employability compared to their pristine individual …             Fracture-induced amorphization of polycrystalline SiO2 stishovite: a potential platform for toughening in ceramics ▶     Norimasa Nishiyama, Fumihiro Wakai, Hiroaki Ohfuji et al.     Silicon dioxide has eight stable crystalline phases at conditions of the Earth's rocky parts. Many metastable phases including amorphous phases have been known, which indicates …             Na-Faraday rotation filtering: The optimal point ▶     Wilhelm Kiefer, Robert Löw, Jörg Wrachtrup et al.     Narrow-band optical filtering is required in many spectroscopy applications to suppress unwanted background light. One example is quantum communication where the fidelity is …             Rare-Earth Doped Particles as Dual-Modality Contrast Agent for Minimally-Invasive Luminescence and Dual-Wavelength Photoacoustic Imaging ▶     Yang Sheng, Lun-De Liao, Nitish Thakor et al.     Multi-modal imaging is an emerging area that integrates multiple imaging modalities to simultaneously capture visual information over many spatial scales. Complementary contrast …             Graphene surface plasmons at the near-infrared optical regime ▶     Qiming Zhang, Xiangping Li, Md Muntasir Hossain et al.     Graphene has been identified as an emerging horizon for a nanoscale photonic platform because the Fermi level of intrinsic graphene can be engineered to support surface plasmons …             Self-cleaning Metal Organic Framework (MOF) based ultra filtration membranes - A solution to bio-fouling in membrane separation processes ▶     J. A. Prince, S. Bhuvana, V. Anbharasi et al.     Bio-fouling is a serious problem in many membrane-based separation processes for water and wastewater treatment. Current state of the art methods to overcome this are to modify …             Nanostructured organosilicon luminophores and their application in highly efficient plastic scintillators ▶     Sergei A. Ponomarenko, Nikolay M. Surin, Oleg V. Borshchev et al.     Organic luminophores are widely used in various optoelectronic devices, which serve for photonics, nuclear and particle physics, quantum electronics, medical diagnostics and many …             Time-dependent Gas-liquid Interaction in Molecular-sized Nanopores ▶     Yueting Sun, Penghui Li, Yu Qiao et al.     Different from a bulk phase, a gas nanophase can have a significant effect on liquid motion. Herein we report a series of experimental results on molecular behaviors of water in …             Spin-orbit torque in a bulk perpendicular magnetic anisotropy Pd/FePd/MgO system ▶     Hwang-Rae Lee, Kyujoon Lee, Jaehun Cho et al.     Spin-orbit torques, including the Rashba and spin Hall effects, have been widely observed and investigated in various systems. Since interesting spin-orbit torque (SOT) arises at …             In Situ Atom Scale Visualization of Domain Wall Dynamics in VO2 Insulator-Metal Phase Transition ▶     Xinfeng He, Tao Xu, Xiaofeng Xu et al.     A domain wall, as a device, can bring about a revolution in developing manipulation of semiconductor heterostructures devices at the atom scale. However, it is a challenge for …             Site specific spin dynamics in BaFe2As2: tuning the ground state by orbital differentiation ▶     P. F. S. Rosa, C. Adriano, T. M. Garitezi et al.     The role of orbital differentiation on the emergence of superconductivity in the Fe-based superconductors remains an open question to the scientific community. In this …             Formation of Graphene Grain Boundaries on Cu(100) Surface and a Route Towards Their Elimination in Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth ▶     Qinghong Yuan, Guangyao Song, Deyan Sun et al.     Grain boundaries (GBs) in graphene prepared by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) greatly degrade the electrical and mechanical properties of graphene and thus hinder the …             FFLO Superfluids in 2D Spin-Orbit Coupled Fermi Gases ▶     Zhen Zheng, Ming Gong, Yichao Zhang et al.     We show that the combination of spin-orbit coupling and in-plane Zeeman field in a two-dimensional degenerate Fermi gas can lead to a larger parameter region for …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       postdoctoral fellow     McGill University            Doctoral student     University of Jyvaskyla, Finland            Postdoctoral Researcher     John Innes Centre (JIC)            PhD Scholarships 2015 – NEW AND REDEVELOPED     Arthritis Research UK            Research Technician     European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)            Post Doctoral Research Fellow     Columbia University            Doctoral Researcher     KU Leuven            Postdoctoral Research Associate     University of Oxford            Four-Year Science PhD Studentships     Institute of Cancer Research (ICR)            Postdoctoral Fellow     San Diego Biomedical Research Institute          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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