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18 November 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               Route to optimal generation of soft X-ray high harmonics with synthesized two-color laser pulses ▶     Cheng Jin, Guoli Wang, Anh-Thu Le et al.     High harmonics extending to X-rays have been generated from gases by intense lasers. To establish these coherent broadband radiations as an all-purpose tabletop light source for …             Abnormal percolative transport and colossal electroresistance induced by anisotropic strain in (011)-Pr0.7(Ca0.6Sr0.4)0.3MnO3/PMN-PT heterostructure ▶     Ying-Ying Zhao, Jing Wang, Hao Kuang et al.     Abnormal percolative transport in inhomogeneous systems has drawn increasing interests due to its deviation from the conventional percolation picture. However, its nature is …             Including nonequilibrium interface kinetics in a continuum model for melting nanoscaled particles ▶     Julian M. Back, Scott W. McCue, Timothy J. Moroney     The melting temperature of a nanoscaled particle is known to decrease as the curvature of the solid-melt interface increases. This relationship is most often modelled by a …             ERRATUM: Identifying overlapping communities as well as hubs and outliers via nonnegative matrix factorization ▶     Xiaochun Cao, Xiao Wang, Di Jin et al.                 Understanding the Cu-Zn brass alloys using a short-range-order cluster model: significance of specific compositions of industrial alloys ▶     H. L. Hong, Q. Wang, C. Dong et al.     Metallic alloys show complex chemistries that are not yet understood so far. It has been widely accepted that behind the composition selection lies a short-range-order mechanism …             Investigating dynamic structural and mechanical changes of neuroblastoma cells associated with glutamate-mediated neurodegeneration ▶     Yuqiang Fang, Catherine Y. Y. Iu, Cathy N. P. Lui et al.     Glutamate-mediated neurodegeneration resulting from excessive activation of glutamate receptors is recognized as one of the major causes of various neurological disorders such as …             “Turn-on” fluorescence probe integrated polymer nanoparticles for sensing biological thiol molecules ▶     Chung Yen Ang, Si Yu Tan, Yunpeng Lu et al.     A “turn-on” thiol-responsive fluorescence probe was synthesized and integrated into polymeric nanoparticles for sensing intracellular thiols. There is a photo-induced electron …             Over-limiting Current and Control of Dendritic Growth by Surface Conduction in Nanopores ▶     Ji-Hyung Han, Edwin Khoo, Peng Bai et al.     Understanding over-limiting current (faster than diffusion) is a long-standing challenge in electrochemistry with applications in desalination and energy storage. Known …             Metal-organic framework based highly selective fluorescence turn-on probe for hydrogen sulphide ▶     Sanjog S. Nagarkar, Tanmoy Saha, Aamod V. Desai et al.     Hydrogen sulphide (H2S) is known to play a vital role in human physiology and pathology which stimulated interest in understanding complex behaviour of H2S. Discerning the …             Fabrication of thickness controllable free-standing sandwich-structured hybrid carbon film for high-rate and high-power supercapacitor ▶     Helin Wei, Sihang Wei, Weifeng Tian et al.     Hybrid carbon films composed of graphene film and porous carbon film may give full play to the advantages of both carbon materials, and have great potential for application in …             Phase-controlled synthesis of α-NiS nanoparticles confined in carbon nanorods for High Performance Supercapacitors ▶     Chencheng Sun, Mingze Ma, Jun Yang et al.     A facile and phase-controlled synthesis of α-NiS nanoparticles (NPs) embedded in carbon nanorods (CRs) is reported by in-situ sulfurating the preformed Ni/CRs. The nanopore …             Diverse Melting Modes and Structural Collapse of Hollow Bimetallic Core-Shell Nanoparticles: A Perspective from Molecular Dynamics Simulations ▶     Rao Huang, Gui-Fang Shao, Xiang-Ming Zeng et al.     Introducing hollow structures into metallic nanoparticles has become a promising route to improve their catalytic performances. A fundamental understanding of thermal stability …             Spatially embedded growing small-world networks ▶     Ari Zitin, Alexander Gorowara, Shane Squires et al.     Networks in nature are often formed within a spatial domain in a dynamical manner, gaining links and nodes as they develop over time. Motivated by the growth and development of …             Effects of Tet-mediated Oxidation Products of 5-Methylcytosine on DNA Transcription in vitro and in Mammalian Cells ▶     Changjun You, Debin Ji, Xiaoxia Dai et al.     5-methylcytosine (5-mC) is a well-characterized epigenetic regulator in mammals. Recent studies showed that Ten-eleven translocation (Tet) proteins can catalyze the stepwise …             High throughput secondary electron imaging of organic residues on a graphene surface ▶     Yangbo Zhou, Robert O'Connell, Pierce Maguire et al.     Surface organic residues inhibit the extraordinary electronic properties of graphene, hindering the development of graphene electronics. However, fundamental understanding of the …             Acoustic rainbow trapping by coiling up space ▶     Xu Ni, Ying Wu, Ze-Guo Chen et al.     We numerically realize the acoustic rainbow trapping effect by tapping an air waveguide with space-coiling metamaterials. Due to the high refractive-index of the space-coiling …             Thermal Expansion Anomaly Regulated by Entropy ▶     Zi-Kui Liu, Yi Wang, ShunLi Shang     Thermal expansion, defined as the temperature dependence of volume under constant pressure, is a common phenomenon in nature and originates from anharmonic lattice dynamics. …             Effect of absorption recovery in bismuth-doped silica glass at 1450 nm on soliton grouping in fiber laser ▶     R. Gumenyuk, M. A. Melkumov, V. F. Khopin et al.     Saturable absorption in bismuth-doped glasses was found to have a noticeable influence on soliton interaction and group formation. This phenomenon, observed in 1450 nm …             Prediction of Giant Thermoelectric Power Factor in Type-VIII Clathrate Si46 ▶     Payam Norouzzadeh, Charles W. Myles, Daryoosh Vashaee     Clathrate materials have been the subject of intense interest and research for thermoelectric application. Nevertheless, from the very large number of conceivable clathrate …             Quick and Facile Preparation of Visible light-Driven TiO2 Photocatalyst with High Absorption and Photocatalytic Activity ▶     Yucheng Yang, Ting Zhang, Ling Le et al.     Self-doping TiO2 has recently attracted considerable attention for its high photocatalytic activity under visible-light irradiation. However, the literature reported synthetic …             Relative importance of grain boundaries and size effects in thermal conductivity of nanocrystalline materials ▶     Huicong Dong, Bin Wen, Roderick Melnik     A theoretical model for describing effective thermal conductivity (ETC) of nanocrystalline materials has been proposed, so that the ETC can be easily obtained from its grain …             In-situ One-step Hydrothermal Synthesis of a Lead Germanate-Graphene Composite as a Novel Anode Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries ▶     Jun Wang, Chuan-qi Feng, Zi-qi Sun et al.     Lead germanate-graphene nanosheets (PbGeO3-GNS) composites have been prepared by an efficient one-step, in-situ hydrothermal method and were used as anode materials for Li-ion …             Morphing and vectoring impacting droplets by means of wettability-engineered surfaces ▶     Thomas M. Schutzius, Gustav Graeber, Mohamed Elsharkawy et al.     Driven by its importance in nature and technology, droplet impact on solid surfaces has been studied for decades. To date, research on control of droplet impact outcome has …             Theoretical design of multi-colored semi-transparent organic solar cells with both efficient color filtering and light harvesting ▶     Long Wen, Qin Chen, Fuhe Sun et al.     Solar cells incorporated with multi-coloring capability not only offer an aesthetic solution to bridge the gap between solar modules and building decorations but also open up the …             Radio frequency radiation-induced hyperthermia using Si nanoparticle-based sensitizers for mild cancer therapy ▶     Konstantin P. Tamarov, Liubov A. Osminkina, Sergey V. Zinovyev et al.     Offering mild, non-invasive and deep cancer therapy modality, radio frequency (RF) radiation-induced hyperthermia lacks for efficient biodegradable RF sensitizers to selectively …             Customized patterned substrates for highly versatile correlative light-scanning electron microscopy ▶     Lorena Benedetti, Elisa Sogne, Simona Rodighiero et al.     Correlative light electron microscopy (CLEM) combines the advantages of light and electron microscopy, thus making it possible to follow dynamic events in living cells at …             Predictive supracolloidal helices from patchy particles ▶     Ruohai Guo, Jian Mao, Xu-Ming Xie et al.     A priori prediction of supracolloidal architectures from nanoparticle and colloidal assembly is a challenging goal in materials chemistry and physics. Despite intense research in …             Ion-activated attractive patches as a mechanism for controlled protein interactions ▶     Felix Roosen-Runge, Fajun Zhang, Frank Schreiber et al.     The understanding of protein interactions to control phase and nucleation behavior of protein solutions is an important challenge for soft matter, biological and medical …             Hybridization approach to in-line and off-axis (electron) holography for superior resolution and phase sensitivity ▶     C. Ozsoy-Keskinbora, C. B. Boothroyd, R. E. Dunin-Borkowski et al.     Holography - originally developed for correcting spherical aberration in transmission electron microscopes - is now used in a wide range of disciplines that involve the …             Magnetic and transport properties of epitaxial thin film MgFe2O4 grown on MgO (100) by molecular beam epitaxy ▶     Han-Chun Wu, Ozhet Mauit, Cormac Ó Coileáin et al.     Magnesium ferrite is a very important magnetic material due to its interesting magnetic and electrical properties and its chemical and thermal stability. Here we report on the …             Ferromagnetism of Fe3Sn and Alloys ▶     Brian C. Sales, Bayrammurad Saparov, Michael A. McGuire et al.     Hexagonal Fe3Sn has many of the desirable properties for a new permanent magnet phase with a Curie temperature of 725 K, a saturation moment of 1.18 MA/m. and anisotropy energy, K…             Shape-Engineering of Self-Assembled Organic Single Microcrystal as Optical Microresonator for laser Applications ▶     Xuedong Wang, Qing Liao, Xiaomei Lu et al.     Single micro/nanocrystals based on π-conjugated organic molecules have caused tremendous interests in the optoelectronic applications in laser, optical waveguide, nonlinear …             Self-doping processes between planes and chains in the metal-to-superconductor transition of YBa2Cu3O6.9 ▶     M. Magnuson, T. Schmitt, V. N. Strocov et al.     The interplay between the quasi 1-dimensional CuO-chains and the 2-dimensional CuO2 planes of YBa2Cu3O6x (YBCO) has been in focus for a long time. Although the CuO-chains are …             The stability and electronic properties of novel three-dimensional graphene-MoS2 hybrid structure ▶     Zhen-Kun Tang, Yan-Ning Zhang, Deng-Yu Zhang et al.     Three-dimensional (3D) hybrid layered materials receive a lot of attention because of their outstanding intrinsic properties and wide applications. In this work, the stability …             Novel multiferroicity in GdMnO3 thin films with self-assembled nano-twinned domains ▶     Xiang Li, Chengliang Lu, Jiyan Dai et al.     There have been many interests in exploring multiferroic materials with superior ferroelectric and magnetic properties for the purpose of developing multifunctional devices. …             Study of Sequential Dexter Energy Transfer in High Efficient Phosphorescent White Organic Light-Emitting Diodes with Single Emissive Layer ▶     Jin Wook Kim, Seung Il You, Nam Ho Kim et al.     In this study, we report our effort to realize high performance single emissive layer three color white phosphorescent organic light emitting diodes (PHOLEDs) through sequential …             Quantum Chemical Approach to Estimating the Thermodynamics of Metabolic Reactions ▶     Adrian Jinich, Dmitrij Rappoport, Ian Dunn et al.     Thermodynamics plays an increasingly important role in modeling and engineering metabolism. We present the first nonempirical computational method for estimating standard Gibbs …             Spatial patterns of close relationships across the lifespan ▶     Hang-Hyun Jo, Jari Saramäki, Robin I. M. Dunbar et al.     The dynamics of close relationships is important for understanding the migration patterns of individual life-courses. The bottom-up approach to this subject by social scientists …             Magnetically tunable Mie resonance-based dielectric metamaterials ▶     Ke Bi, Yunsheng Guo, Xiaoming Liu et al.     Electromagnetic materials with tunable permeability and permittivity are highly desirable for wireless communication and radar technology. However, the tunability of …             Designer self-assembling hydrogel scaffolds can impact skin cell proliferation and migration ▶     Michael Bradshaw, Diwei Ho, Mark W. Fear et al.     There is a need to develop economical, efficient and widely available therapeutic approaches to enhance the rate of skin wound healing. The optimal outcome of wound healing is …             A Novel Stable Binary BeB2 phase ▶     Changzeng Fan, Ye Jin, Jian Li et al.     Potential crystal structures of BeB2 were explored using ab initio evolutionary simulations. A new phase with a Cmcm space group was uncovered. It was determined that the Cmcm …             Maxwell's Daemon: Information versus Particle Statistics ▶     Martin Plesch, Oscar Dahlsten, John Goold et al.     Maxwell's daemon is a popular personification of a principle connecting information gain and extractable work in thermodynamics. A Szilard Engine is a particular hypothetical …             Solution-Processed VO2-SiO2 Composite Films with Simultaneously Enhanced Luminous Transmittance, Solar Modulation Ability and Anti-Oxidation property ▶     Lili Zhao, Lei Miao, Chengyan Liu et al.     Recently, researchers spare no efforts to fabricate desirable vanadium dioxide (VO2) film which provides simultaneously high luminous transmittance and outstanding solar …             Relative Ordering between Bright and Dark Excitons in Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes ▶     Weihang Zhou, Daisuke Nakamura, Huaping Liu et al.     The ordering and relative energy splitting between bright and dark excitons are critical to the optical properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), as they eventually …             Electric field manipulation of magnetic and transport properties in SrRuO3/Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 heterostructure ▶     W. P. Zhou, Q. Li, Y. Q. Xiong et al.     The electric field manipulation of magnetic properties is currently of great interest for the opportunities provided in low-energy-consuming spintronics devices. Here, we report …             Mechanism of spin crossover in LaCoO3 resolved by shape magnetostriction in pulsed magnetic fields ▶     M. Rotter, Z.-S. Wang, A. T. 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