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27 January 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               Infrared-induced variation of the magnetic properties of a magnetoplasmonic film with a 3D sub-micron periodic triangular roof-type antireflection structure ▶     Junlong Tian, Wang Zhang, Yiqiao Huang et al.     A carbon-matrix nickel composite magnetoplasmonic film with a 3D sub-micron periodic triangular roof-type antireflection structure (SPTAS) was fabricated via a simple and …             Uncertainty of Prebiotic Scenarios: The Case of the Non-Enzymatic Reverse Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle ▶     Dmitry Yu Zubarev, Dmitrij Rappoport, Alán Aspuru-Guzik     We consider the hypothesis of the primordial nature of the non-enzymatic reverse tricarboxylic acid (rTCA) cycle and describe a modeling approach to quantify the uncertainty of …             Spin and field squeezing in a spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate ▶     Yixiao Huang, Zheng-Da Hu     Recently, strong spin-orbit coupling with equal Rashba and Dresselhaus strength has been realized in neutral atomic Bose-Einstein condensates via a pair of Raman lasers. In this …             Directional learning and the provisioning of public goods ▶     Heinrich H. Nax, Matjaž Perc     We consider an environment where players are involved in a public goods game and must decide repeatedly whether to make an individual contribution or not. However, players lack …             Fracture mode control: a bio-inspired strategy to combat catastrophic damage ▶     Haimin Yao, Zhaoqian Xie, Chong He et al.     The excellent mechanical properties of natural biomaterials have attracted intense attention from researchers with focus on the strengthening and toughening mechanisms. …             Defects in Silicene: Vacancy Clusters, Extended Line Defects, and Di-adatoms ▶     Shuang Li, Yifeng Wu, Yi Tu et al.     Defects are almost inevitable during the fabrication process, and their existence strongly affects thermodynamic and (opto)electronic properties of two-dimensional materials. …             Electric-field-induced Shift in the Threshold Voltage in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Heterostructures ▶     Seong Keun Kim, Shin-Ik Kim, Hyungkwang Lim et al.     The two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) at the interface between insulating LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 is intriguing both as a fundamental science topic and for possible applications in …             A study of room-temperature LixMn1.5Ni0.5O4 solid solutions ▶     Kuppan Saravanan, Angelique Jarry, Robert Kostecki et al.     Understanding the kinetic implication of solid-solution vs. biphasic reaction pathways is critical for the development of advanced intercalation electrode materials. Yet this has …             Aspiration dynamics in structured population acts as if in a well-mixed one ▶     Jinming Du, Bin Wu, Long Wang     Understanding the evolution of human interactive behaviors is important. Recent experimental results suggest that human cooperation in spatial structured population is not …             Electrostatic doping as a source for robust ferromagnetism at the interface between antiferromagnetic cobalt oxides ▶     Zi-An Li, N. Fontaíña-Troitiño, A. Kovács et al.     Polar oxide interfaces are an important focus of research due to their novel functionality which is not available in the bulk constituents. So far, research has focused mainly on …             MBSTAR: multiple instance learning for predicting specific functional binding sites in microRNA targets ▶     Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Dip Ghosh, Ramkrishna Mitra et al.     MicroRNA (miRNA) regulates gene expression by binding to specific sites in the 3′untranslated regions of its target genes. Machine learning based miRNA target prediction …             Quantum Clock Synchronization with a Single Qudit ▶     Armin Tavakoli, Adán Cabello, Marek Żukowski et al.     Clock synchronization for nonfaulty processes in multiprocess networks is indispensable for a variety of technologies. A reliable system must be able to resynchronize the …             Dynamic Phases, Pinning, and Pattern Formation for Driven Dislocation Assemblies ▶     Caizhi Zhou, Charles Reichhardt, Cynthia J. Olson Reichhardt et al.     We examine driven dislocation assemblies and show that they can exhibit a set of dynamical phases remarkably similar to those of driven systems with quenched disorder such as …             Tunable pattern-free graphene nanoplasmonic waveguides on trenched silicon substrate ▶     Jiajiu Zheng, Longhai Yu, Sailing He et al.     Graphene has emerged as a promising material for active plasmonic devices in the mid-infrared (MIR) region owing to its fast tunability, strong mode confinement, and long-lived …             Achieving planar plasmonic subwavelength resolution using alternately arranged insulator-metal and insulator-insulator-metal composite structures ▶     Bo Han Cheng, Kai Jiun Chang, Yung-Chiang Lan et al.     This work develops and analyzes a planar subwavelength device with the ability of one-dimensional resolution at visible frequencies that is based on alternately arranged …             Thermal conductivity of skutterudite CoSb3 from first principles: Substitution and nanoengineering effects ▶     Ruiqiang Guo, Xinjiang Wang, Baoling Huang     CoSb3-based skutterudites are promising intermediate-temperature thermoelectric materials and fundamental understanding of the thermal transport in CoSb3 is crucial for further …             ERRATUM: Shaping complex microwave fields in reverberating media with binary tunable metasurfaces ▶     Nadège Kaina, Matthieu Dupré, Geoffroy Lerosey et al.                 Distinct itinerant spin-density waves and local-moment antiferromagnetism in an intermetallic ErPd2Si2 single crystal ▶     Hai-Feng Li, Chongde Cao, Andrew Wildes et al.     Identifying the nature of magnetism, itinerant or localized, remains a major challenge in condensed-matter science. Purely localized moments appear only in magnetic insulators, …             Te/C nanocomposites for Li-Te Secondary Batteries ▶     Jeong-Uk Seo, Gun-Kyu Seong, Cheol-Min Park     New battery systems having high energy density are actively being researched in order to satisfy the rapidly developing market for longer-lasting mobile electronics and hybrid …             Development of n-type cobaltocene-encapsulated carbon nanotubes with remarkable thermoelectric property ▶     Takahiro Fukumaru, Tsuyohiko Fujigaya, Naotoshi Nakashima     Direct conversion from heat to electricity is one of the important technologies for a sustainable society since large quantities of energy are wasted as heat. We report the …             Determination of the quantized topological magneto-electric effect in topological insulators from Rayleigh scattering ▶     Lixin Ge, Tianrong Zhan, Dezhuan Han et al.     Topological insulators (TIs) exhibit many exotic properties. In particular, a topological magneto-electric (TME) effect, quantized in units of the fine structure constant, exists …             Assessing Cholesterol Storage in Live Cells and C. elegans by Stimulated Raman Scattering Imaging of Phenyl-Diyne Cholesterol ▶     Hyeon Jeong Lee, Wandi Zhang, Delong Zhang et al.     We report a cholesterol imaging method using rationally synthesized phenyl-diyne cholesterol (PhDY-Chol) and stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscope. The phenyl-diyne group …             Surface Enhanced Electrochemiluminescence of Ru(bpy)32+ ▶     Daifang Wang, Longhua Guo, Rong Huang et al.     Surface enhanced spectroscopy such as surface enhanced Raman spectrum (SERS) and surface enhanced fluorescence have been investigated extensively in the past two decades. Herein, …             WS2 mode-locked ultrafast fiber laser ▶     Dong Mao, Yadong Wang, Chaojie Ma et al.     Graphene-like two dimensional materials, such as WS2 and MoS2, are highly anisotropic layered compounds that have attracted growing interest from basic research to practical …             Relativistic Quantum Metrology in Open System Dynamics ▶     Zehua Tian, Jieci Wang, Heng Fan et al.     Quantum metrology studies the ultimate limit of precision in estimating a physical quantity if quantum strategies are exploited. Here we investigate the evolution of a two-level …             Formation of Stoichiometric CsFn Compounds ▶     Qiang Zhu, Artem R. Oganov, Qingfeng Zeng     Alkali halides MX, have been viewed as typical ionic compounds, characterized by 1:1 ratio necessary for charge balance between M and X−. It was proposed that group I elements …             Magnetic Imaging: a New Tool for UK National Nuclear Security ▶     Brendan J. Darrer, Joe C. Watson, Paul Bartlett et al.     Combating illicit trafficking of Special Nuclear Material may require the ability to image through electromagnetic shields. This is the case when the trafficking involves cargo …             Cloud computing approaches for prediction of ligand binding poses and pathways ▶     Morgan Lawrenz, Diwakar Shukla, Vijay S. Pande     We describe an innovative protocol for ab initio prediction of ligand crystallographic binding poses and highly effective analysis of large datasets generated for protein-ligand …             Modulation of microporous/mesoporous structures in self-templated cobalt-silica ▶     Dana L. Martens, David K. Wang, Julius Motuzas et al.     Finite control of pore size distributions is a highly desired attribute when producing porous materials. While many methodologies strive to produce such materials through one-pot …             A “green” strategy to construct non-covalent, stable and bioactive coatings on porous MOF nanoparticles ▶     V. Agostoni, P. Horcajada, M. Noiray et al.     Nanoparticles made of metal-organic frameworks (nanoMOFs) attract a growing interest in gas storage, separation, catalysis, sensing and more recently, biomedicine. Achieving …             Fast optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy using a 2-axis water-proofing MEMS scanner ▶     Jin Young Kim, Changho Lee, Kyungjin Park et al.     Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy (OR-PAM) is a novel label-free microscopic imaging tool to provide in vivo optical absorbing contrasts. Specially, it is crucial to …             Modification of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and domain wall velocity in Pt/Co/Pt by voltage-induced strain ▶     P. M. Shepley, A. W. Rushforth, M. Wang et al.     The perpendicular magnetic anisotropy Keff, magnetization reversal, and field-driven domain wall velocity in the creep regime are modified in Pt/Co(0.85–1.0 nm)/Pt thin films by …             Unusual ferromagnetic critical behavior owing to short-range antiferromagnetic correlations in antiperovskite Cu1-xNMn3+x (0.1 ≤ x ≤ 0.4) ▶     Jianchao Lin, Peng Tong, Dapeng Cui et al.     For ferromagnets, varying from simple metals to strongly correlated oxides,the critical behaviors near the Curie temperature (TC) can be grouped into several universal classes. …             Intrinsic Topological Insulator Bi1.5Sb0.5Te3-xSex Thin Crystals ▶     Wei Wang, Li Li, Wenqin Zou et al.     The quaternary topological insulator (Bi,Sb)2(Te,Se)3 has demonstrated topological surface states with an insulating bulk. Scientists have identified an optimized composition of …             Photothermoelectric and photovoltaic effects both present in MoS2 ▶     Youwei Zhang, Hui Li, Lu Wang et al.     As a finite-energy-bandgap alternative to graphene, semiconducting molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has recently attracted extensive interest for energy and sensor applications. In …             Hierarchically porous silicon–carbon–nitrogen hybrid materials towards highly efficient and selective adsorption of organic dyes ▶     Lala Meng, Xiaofei Zhang, Yusheng Tang et al.     The hierarchically macro/micro-porous silicon–carbon–nitrogen (Si–C–N) hybrid material was presented with novel functionalities of totally selective and highly efficient …             Highly Sensitive and Multifunctional Tactile Sensor Using Free-standing ZnO/PVDF Thin Film with Graphene Electrodes for Pressure and Temperature Monitoring ▶     James S. Lee, Keun-Young Shin, Oug Jae Cheong et al.     We demonstrate an 80-μm-thick film (which is around 15% of the thickness of the human epidermis), which is a highly sensitive hybrid functional gauge sensor, and was fabricated …             CORRIGENDUM: Computational Study of In-Plane Phonon Transport in Si Thin Films ▶     Xinjiang Wang, Baoling Huang                 Origin of Degradation Phenomenon under Drain Bias Stress for Oxide Thin Film Transistors using IGZO and IGO Channel Layers ▶     Jun Yong Bak, Youngho Kang, Shinhyuk Yang et al.     Top-gate structured thin film transistors (TFTs) using In-Ga-Zn-O (IGZO) and In-Ga-O (IGO) channel compositions were investigated to reveal a feasible origin for degradation …             Effective medium theory for anisotropic metamaterials ▶     Xiujuan Zhang, Ying Wu     Materials with anisotropic material parameters can be utilized to fabricate many fascinating devices, such as hyperlenses, metasolids, and one-way waveguides. In this study, we …             Dynamic properties of excitons in ZnO/AlGaN/GaN hybrid nanostructures ▶     Mathias Forsberg, Carl Hemmingsson, Hiroshi Amano et al.     Hybrid samples based on ZnO colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) deposited on AlGaN/GaN quantum well (QW) structures with different top barrier thickness d=3, 6 and 9 nm are studied by …             Aqueous Black Colloids of Reticular Nanostructured Gold ▶     S. E. Stanca, W. Fritzsche, J. Dellith et al.     Since ancient times, noble gold has continuously contributed to several aspects of life from medicine to electronics. It perpetually reveals its new features. We report the …             High performance organic-inorganic perovskite-optocoupler based on low-voltage and fast response perovskite compound photodetector ▶     Dong Li, Guifang Dong, Wenzhe Li et al.     Organic-inorganic hybrid photodetectors attract considerable attention because they can combine the advantages of both organic and inorganic systems. Here, a perovskite compound …             Electronic Structure Engineering of Cu2O Film/ZnO Nanorods Array All-Oxide p-n Heterostructure for Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Property and Self-powered Biosensing Application ▶     Zhuo Kang, Xiaoqin Yan, Yunfei Wang et al.     We have engineered the electronic structure at the interface between Cu2O and ZnO nanorods (NRs) array, through adjusting the carrier concentration of Cu2O. The electrodeposition …             High-temperature supercapacitor with a proton-conducting metal pyrophosphate electrolyte ▶     Takashi Hibino, Kazuyo Kobayashi, Masahiro Nagao et al.     Expanding the range of supercapacitor operation to temperatures above 100°C is important because this would enable capacitors to operate under the severe conditions required for …             Magnetization reversal using excitation of collective modes in nanodot matrices ▶     Mehrdad Elyasi, Charanjit S. Bhatia, Hyunsoo Yang     The large arrays of magnetic dots are the building blocks of magnonic crystals and the emerging bit patterned media for future recording technology. In order to fully utilize the …             Spin pumping in Ferromagnet-Topological Insulator-Ferromagnet Heterostructures ▶     A. A. Baker, A. I. Figueroa, L. J. Collins-McIntyre et al.     Topological insulators (TIs) are enticing prospects for the future of spintronics due to their large spin-orbit coupling and dissipationless, counter-propagating conduction …             Control of orbital reconstruction in (LaAlO3)M/(SrTiO3)N(001) quantum wells by strain and confinement ▶     David Doennig, Rossitza Pentcheva     The diverse functionality emerging at oxide interfaces calls for a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms and control parameters of electronic reconstructions. Here, we …             Strain-induced significant increase in metal-insulator transition temperature in oxygen-deficient Fe oxide epitaxial thin films ▶     Kei Hirai, Daisuke Kan, Noriya Ichikawa et al.     Oxygen coordination of transition metals is a key for functional properties of transition-metal oxides, because hybridization of transition-metal d and oxygen p orbitals …             Anisotropic Quantum Confinement Effect and Electric Control of Surface States in Dirac Semimetal Nanostructures ▶     Xianbo Xiao, Shengyuan A. Yang, Zhengfang Liu et al.     The recent discovery of Dirac semimetals represents a new achievement in our fundamental understanding of topological states of matter. Due to their topological surface states, …             The generation of Continuous-Variable Entanglement Frequency Comb ▶     Youbin Yu, Xiaomin Cheng, Huaijun Wang et al.     Continuous-variable (CV) entanglement frequency comb can be produced by enhanced Raman scattering in an above-threshold optical oscillator cavity in which a hexagonally-poled …             Functional Loop Dynamics of the Streptavidin-Biotin Complex ▶     Jianing Song, Yongle Li, Changge Ji et al.     Accelerated molecular dynamics (aMD) simulation is employed to study the functional dynamics of the flexible loop3-4 in the strong-binding streptavidin-biotin complex system. …             Characterising two-pathogen competition in spatially structured environments ▶     Chiara Poletto, Sandro Meloni, Ashleigh Van Metre et al.     Different pathogens spreading in the same host population often generate complex co-circulation dynamics because of the many possible interactions between the pathogens and the …             Interplay of relativistic and nonrelativistic transport in atomically precise segmented graphene nanoribbons ▶     Constantine Yannouleas, Igor Romanovsky, Uzi Landman     Graphene's isolation launched explorations of fundamental relativistic physics originating from the planar honeycomb lattice arrangement of the carbon atoms, and of potential …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Senior Research Fellow     University of Portsmouth, UK            Postdoctoral Researcher     Lehigh University            PhD studentship     Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)            Postdoc Position     University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)            PhD-student     Georg-August-Universität Göttingen            Clinical Trial Manager     Institute of Cancer Research (ICR)            Postdoctoral Associates     Sanford Bunrham Medical Research Institute            Bioinformatics Specialist II     Massachusetts General Hospital            Associate Research Fellow     University of Exeter            Postdoctoral Fellow     Cleveland Clinic Lerner 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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