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21 October 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               Identifying tips for intramolecular NC-AFM imaging via in situ fingerprinting ▶     Hongqian Sang, Samuel P. Jarvis, Zhichao Zhou et al.     A practical experimental strategy is proposed that could potentially enable greater control of the tip apex in non-contact atomic force microscopy experiments. It is based on a …             Superconductivity in Strong Spin Orbital Coupling Compound Sb2Se3 ▶     P. P. Kong, F. Sun, L. Y. Xing et al.     Recently, A2B3 type strong spin orbital coupling compounds such as Bi2Te3, Bi2Se3 and Sb2Te3 were theoretically predicated to be topological insulators and demonstrated through …             Positive temperature coefficient thermistors based on carbon nanotube/polymer composites ▶     You Zeng, Guixia Lu, Han Wang et al.     In order to explore availability of carbon nanotube (CNT)-based positive temperature coefficient (PTC) thermistors in practical application, we prepared carbon nanotube (CNT) …             Tough Nanocomposite Ionogel-based Actuator Exhibits Robust Performance ▶     Xinhua Liu, Bin He, Zhipeng Wang et al.     Ionogel electrolytes can be fabricated for electrochemical actuators with many desirable advantages, including direct low-voltage control in air, high electrochemical and thermal …             Chip-integrated optical power limiter based on an all-passive micro-ring resonator ▶     Siqi Yan, Jianji Dong, Aoling Zheng et al.     Recent progress in silicon nanophotonics has dramatically advanced the possible realization of large-scale on-chip optical interconnects integration. Adopting photons as …             Graphene-based lateral heterostructure transistors exhibit better intrinsic performance than graphene-based vertical transistors as post-CMOS devices ▶     Demetrio Logoteta, Gianluca Fiori, Giuseppe Iannaccone     We investigate the intrinsic performance of vertical and lateral graphene-based heterostructure field-effect transistors, currently considered the most promising options to …             Layer-dependent Band Alignment and Work Function of Few-Layer Phosphorene ▶     Yongqing Cai, Gang Zhang, Yong-Wei Zhang     Using first-principles calculations, we study the electronic properties of few-layer phosphorene focusing on layer-dependent behavior of band gap, work function band alignment …             Tuning the hybridization of plasmonic and coupled dielectric nanowire modes for high-performance optical waveguiding at sub-diffraction-limited scale ▶     Yusheng Bian, Qihuang Gong     We report the realization of low-loss optical waveguiding at telecommunication wavelength by exploiting the hybridization of photonic modes guided by coupled all-dielectric …             Musical Interfaces: Visualization and Reconstruction of Music with a Microfluidic Two-Phase Flow ▶     Sze Yi Mak, Zida Li, Arnaud Frere et al.     Detection of sound wave in fluids can hardly be realized because of the lack of approaches to visualize the very minute sound-induced fluid motion. In this paper, we demonstrate …             Time-domain spectroscopy in the mid-infrared ▶     A. A. Lanin, A. A. Voronin, A. B. Fedotov et al.     When coupled to characteristic, fingerprint vibrational and rotational motions of molecules, an electromagnetic field with an appropriate frequency and waveform offers a highly …             Direct Laser Writing of Nanodiamond Films from Graphite under Ambient Conditions ▶     Qiong Nian, Yuefeng Wang, Yingling Yang et al.     Synthesis of diamond, a multi-functional material, has been a challenge due to very high activation energy for transforming graphite to diamond, and therefore, has been hindering …             Massive Interfacial Reconstruction at Misfit Dislocations in Metal/Oxide Interfaces ▶     Samrat Choudhury, Dane Morgan, Blas Pedro Uberuaga     Electronic structure calculations were performed to study the role of misfit dislocations on the structure and chemistry of a metal/oxide interface. We found that a chemical …             Cooling a Band Insulator with a Metal: Fermionic Superfluid in a Dimerized Holographic Lattice ▶     Arijit Haldar, Vijay B. Shenoy     A cold atomic realization of a quantum correlated state of many fermions on a lattice, eg. superfluid, has eluded experimental realization due to the entropy problem. Here we …             Ranking scientific publications: the effect of nonlinearity ▶     Liyang Yao, Tian Wei, An Zeng et al.     Ranking the significance of scientific publications is a long-standing challenge. The network-based analysis is a natural and common approach for evaluating the scientific credit …             Laser Hybrid Micro/nano-structuring of Si Surfaces in Air and its Applications for SERS Detection ▶     Jing Yang, Jiabao Li, Zheren Du et al.     Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has been widely investigated as an effective technique for low-concentration bio-chemical molecules detection. A rapid two-step …             Line-patterning of polyaniline coated MWCNT on stepped substrates using DC electric field ▶     Young Gun Ko, Tae Gu, Hyun Chul Oh et al.     Printing electronic components on a chip edge and a stepped substrate with functional inks are an attractive approach for achieving flexible and inexpensive circuits for …             Profiling individual human red blood cells using common-path diffraction optical tomography ▶     Youngchan Kim, Hyoeun Shim, Kyoohyun Kim et al.     Due to its strong correlation with the pathophysiology of many diseases, information about human red blood cells (RBCs) has a crucial function in hematology. Therefore, measuring …             The Role of Surface Chemistry in Adhesion and Wetting of Gecko Toe Pads ▶     Ila Badge, Alyssa Y. Stark, Eva L. Paoloni et al.     An array of micron-sized setal hairs offers geckos a unique ability to walk on vertical surfaces using van der Waals interactions. Although many studies have focused on the role …             Spectrally-selective all-inorganic scattering luminophores for solar energy-harvesting clear glass windows ▶     Ramzy Alghamedi, Mikhail Vasiliev, Mohammad Nur-E-Alam et al.     All-inorganic visibly-transparent energy-harvesting clear laminated glass windows are the most practical solution to boosting building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) energy …             Probing excitonic states in suspended two-dimensional semiconductors by photocurrent spectroscopy ▶     A. R. Klots, A. K. M. Newaz, Bin Wang et al.     The optical response of semiconducting monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) is dominated by strongly bound excitons that are stable even at room temperature. …             Uncoupled surface spin induced exchange bias in α-MnO2 nanowires ▶     Wenxian Li, Rong Zeng, Ziqi Sun et al.     We have studied the microstructure, surface states, valence fluctuations, magnetic properties, and exchange bias effect in MnO2 nanowires. High purity α-MnO2 rectangular …             Electrostatic field-exposed water in nanotube at constant axial pressure ▶     Yuchi He, Gang Sun, Kenichiro Koga et al.     Water confined within nanoscale geometries under external field has many interesting properties which is very important for its application in biological processes and …             Complete power concentration into a single waveguide in large-scale waveguide array lenses ▶     Peter B. Catrysse, Victor Liu, Shanhui Fan     Waveguide array lenses are waveguide arrays that focus light incident on all waveguides at the input side into a small number of waveguides at the output side. Ideal waveguide …             On-site Rapid Detection of Trace Non-volatile Inorganic Explosives by Stand-alone Ion Mobility Spectrometry via Acid-enhanced Evaporization ▶     Liying Peng, Lei Hua, Weiguo Wang et al.     New techniques for the field detection of inorganic improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are urgently developed. Although ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) has been proved to be the …             In situ Nanoindentation Study of Plastic Co-deformation in Al-TiN Nanocomposites ▶     N. Li, H. Wang, A. Misra et al.     We performed in situ indentation in a transmission electron microscope on Al-TiN multilayers with individual layer thicknesses of 50 nm, 5 nm and 2.7 nm to explore the effect of …             Effect of additive oxygen gas on cellular response of lung cancer cells induced by atmospheric pressure helium plasma jet ▶     Hea Min Joh, Ji Ye Choi, Sun Ja Kim et al.     The atmospheric pressure helium plasma jet driven by pulsed dc voltage was utilized to treat human lung cancer cells in vitro. The properties of plasma plume were adjusted by the …             Nanoparticle role on the repeatability of stimuli-responsive nanocomposites ▶     Sungsook Ahn, Sang Joon Lee     Repeatability of the responsiveness with time is one important concern for effective durable functions of stimuli-responsive materials. Although the increase in the yield and …             A new approach for highly accurate, remote temperature probing using magnetic nanoparticles ▶     Jing Zhong, Wenzhong Liu, Li Kong et al.     In this study, we report on a new approach for remote temperature probing that provides accuracy as good as 0.017°C (0.0055% accuracy) by measuring the magnetisation curve of …             Surface Engineered Doping of Hematite Nanorod Arrays for Improved Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting ▶     Shaohua Shen, Jigang Zhou, Chung-Li Dong et al.     Given the narrow band gap enabling excellent optical absorption, increased charge carrier density and accelerated surface oxidation reaction kinetics become the key points for …             A universal quantum information processor for scalable quantum communication and networks ▶     Xihua Yang, Bolin Xue, Junxiang Zhang et al.     Entanglement provides an essential resource for quantum computation, quantum communication, and quantum networks. How to conveniently and efficiently realize the generation, …             Delivering Sound Energy along an Arbitrary Convex Trajectory ▶     Sipei Zhao, Yuxiang Hu, Jing Lu et al.     Accelerating beams have attracted considerable research interest due to their peculiar properties and various applications. Although there have been numerous research on the …             Introduction of impermeable actin-staining molecules to mammalian cells by optoporation ▶     Kamal Dhakal, Bryan Black, Samarendra Mohanty     The selective insertion of foreign materials, such as fluorescent markers or plasmids, into living cells has been a challenging problem in cell biology due to the cell membrane's …             Improving femtosecond laser pulse delivery through a hollow core photonic crystal fiber for temporally focused two-photon endomicroscopy ▶     Heejin Choi, Peter T. C. So     In this paper, we present a strategy to improve delivery of femtosecond laser pulses from a regenerative amplifier through a hollow core photonic crystal fiber for temporally …             CORRIGENDUM: Room temperature electrical spin injection into GaAs by an oxide spin injector ▶     Shwetha G. Bhat, P. S. Anil Kumar                 Positive temperature coefficient of magnetic anisotropy in polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)-based magnetic composites ▶     Yiwei Liu, Baomin Wang, Qingfeng Zhan et al.     The magnetic anisotropy is decreased with increasing temperature in normal magnetic materials, which is harmful to the thermal stability of magnetic devices. Here, we report the …             In situ drug-receptor binding kinetics in single cells: a quantitative label-free study of anti-tumor drug resistance ▶     Wei Wang, Linliang Yin, Laura Gonzalez-Malerva et al.     Many drugs are effective in the early stage of treatment, but patients develop drug resistance after a certain period of treatment, causing failure of the therapy. An important …             Nondestructive natural gas hydrate recovery driven by air and carbon dioxide ▶     Hyery Kang, Dong-Yeun Koh, Huen Lee     Current technologies for production of natural gas hydrates (NGH), which include thermal stimulation, depressurization and inhibitor injection, have raised concerns over …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Fellowships of NCT Heidelberg School of Oncology (NCT HSO)     National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg             Two PhD Positions     ETH Zurich            Postdoctoral Researcher     NUI Galway            Post-Doctoral Fellowship : Clinical Genomics     CEA French Atomic and Alternative Energies Commission            Investigator Scientist     Medical Research Council - Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit            Research Associate     New York University Langone Medical Center            Postdoctoral Research Fellow     University of California - Irvine            Research Fellow     University of Leeds            Tenure-Track Assistant Professor     University of Chicago            Postdoctoral Researcher     UT Southwestern Medical Center          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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