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14 April 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         Open for Submissions A new open access, online-only, multidisciplinary research journal dedicated to publishing the most important scientific advances in the life sciences, physical sciences, and engineering fields that are facilitated by spaceflight and analogue platforms.   Explore the benefits of submitting your next research article:           Physical Sciences               Non-equilibrium scale invariance and shortcuts to adiabaticity in a one-dimensional Bose gas ▶     W. Rohringer, D. Fischer, F. Steiner et al.     We present experimental evidence for scale invariant behaviour of the excitation spectrum in phase-fluctuating quasi-1d Bose gases after a rapid change of the external trapping …             Waveform Selectivity at the Same Frequency ▶     Hiroki Wakatsuchi, Daisuke Anzai, Jeremiah J. Rushton et al.     Electromagnetic properties depend on the composition of materials, i.e. either angstrom scales of molecules or, for metamaterials, subwavelength periodic structures. Each material …             Fabrication of Ordered Mullite Nanowhisker Array with Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Effect ▶     Tao Yang, Enhui Wang, Fuqiang Wang et al.     Mullite nanowhiskers are prepared by a facile technique at low temperature using mica and AlF3 as raw material. Mica acts as reactant as well as substrate. By controlling the …             A Novel 96well-formatted Micro-gap Plate Enabling Drug Response Profiling on Primary Tumour Samples ▶     Wei-Yuan Ma, Lo-Chang Hsiung, Chen-Ho Wang et al.     Drug-based treatments are the most widely used interventions for cancer management. Personalized drug response profiling remains inherently challenging with low cell count …             High aspect ratio 10-nm-scale nanoaperture arrays with template-guided metal dewetting ▶     Ying Min Wang, Liangxing Lu, Bharathi Madurai Srinivasan et al.     We introduce an approach to fabricate ordered arrays of 10-nm-scale silica-filled apertures in a metal film without etching or liftoff. Using low temperature (<400°C) thermal …             All-Dielectric Multilayer Cylindrical Structures for Invisibility Cloaking ▶     Ali Mirzaei, Andrey E. Miroshnichenko, Ilya V. Shadrivov et al.     We study optical response of all-dielectric multilayer structures and demonstrate that the total scattering of such structures can be suppressed leading to optimal invisibility …             Copper Salts Mediated Morphological Transformation of Cu2O from Cubes to Hierarchical Flower-like or Microspheres and Their Supercapacitors Performances ▶     Liang Chen, Yu Zhang, Pengli Zhu et al.     Monodisperse Cu2O of different microstructures, such as cubes, flower-like, and microspheres, have been extensively synthesized by a simple polyol reduction method using different …             Electronic transport in two-dimensional high dielectric constant nanosystems ▶     M. Ortuño, A. M. Somoza, V. M. Vinokur et al.     There has been remarkable recent progress in engineering high-dielectric constant two dimensional (2D) materials, which are being actively pursued for applications in …             Chemical Analysis of the Chinese Liquor Luzhoulaojiao by Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography/Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry ▶     Feng Yao, Bin Yi, Caihong Shen et al.     Luzhoulaojiao liquor is a type of Chinese liquor that dates back hundreds of years, but whose precise chemical composition remains unknown. This paper describes the screening of …             Exposure Medium: Key in Identifying Free Ag+ as the Exclusive Species of Silver Nanoparticles with Acute Toxicity to Daphnia magna ▶     Mo-Hai Shen, Xiao-Xia Zhou, Xiao-Ya Yang et al.     It is still not very clear what roles the various Ag species play in the toxicity of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). In this study, we found that traditional exposure media result …             Synthesis of Aromatic Aza-metallapentalenes from Metallabenzene via Sequential Ring Contraction/Annulation ▶     Tongdao Wang, Feifei Han, Haiping Huang et al.     The concept of aromaticity has long played an important role in chemistry and continues to fascinate both experimentalists and theoreticians. Among the archetypal aromatic …             Crystal structure and Temperature-Dependent Luminescence Characteristics of KMg4(PO4)3:Eu2+ phosphor for White Light-emitting diodes ▶     Jian Chen, Yangai Liu, Lefu Mei et al.     The KMg4(PO4)3:Eu2 phosphor was prepared by the conventional high temperature solid-state reaction. The crystal structure, luminescence and reflectance spectra, thermal stability, …             Plasmonic eigenmodes in individual and bow-tie graphene nanotriangles ▶     Weihua Wang, Thomas Christensen, Antti-Pekka Jauho et al.     In classical electrodynamics, nanostructured graphene is commonly modeled by the computationally demanding problem of a three-dimensional conducting film of atomic-scale …             Approaching the alloy limit of thermal conductivity in single-crystalline Si-based thermoelectric nanocomposites: A molecular dynamics investigation ▶     Ruiqiang Guo, Baoling Huang     Single-crystalline Si-based nanocomposites have become promising candidates for thermoelectric applications due to their prominent merits. Reducing the thermal conductivity κ …             A new insight into ductile fracture of ultrafine-grained Al-Mg alloys ▶     Hailiang Yu, A. Kiet Tieu, Cheng Lu et al.     It is well known that when coarse-grained metals undergo severe plastic deformation to be transformed into nano-grained metals, their ductility is reduced. However, there are no …             A novel autonomous real-time position method based on polarized light and geomagnetic field ▶     Yinlong Wang, Jinkui Chu, Ran Zhang et al.     Many animals exploit polarized light in order to calibrate their magnetic compasses for navigation. For example, some birds are equipped with biological magnetic and celestial …             Polymer-Derived Ceramic Functionalized MoS2 Composite Paper as a Stable Lithium-Ion Battery Electrode ▶     L. David, R. Bhandavat, U. Barrera et al.     A facile process is demonstrated for the synthesis of layered SiCN-MoS2 structure via pyrolysis of polysilazane functionalized MoS2 flakes. The layered morphology and polymer to …             A Photochromic Sensor Microchip for High-performance Multiplex Metal Ions Detection ▶     Yu Huang, Fengyu Li, Changqing Ye et al.     Current multi-analytes chips are limited with requiring numbers of sensors, complex synthesis and compounds screen. It is expected to develop new principles and techniques to …             Current rectifying and resistive switching in high density BiFeO3 nanocapacitor arrays on Nb-SrTiO3 substrates ▶     Lina Zhao, Zengxing Lu, Fengyuan Zhang et al.     Ultrahigh density well-registered oxide nanocapacitors are very essential for large scale integrated microelectronic devices. We report the fabrication of well-ordered …             Luminescence studies on green emitting InGaN/GaN MQWs implanted with nitrogen ▶     Marco A. Sousa, Teresa C. Esteves, Nabiha Ben Sedrine et al.     We studied the optical properties of metalorganic chemical vapour deposited (MOCVD) InGaN/GaN multiple quantum wells (MQW) subjected to nitrogen (N) implantation and post-growth …             Combined Hydrophobicity and Mechanical Durability through Surface Nanoengineering ▶     Paul R. Elliott, Stephen P. Stagon, Hanchen Huang et al.     This paper reports combined hydrophobicity and mechanical durability through the nanoscale engineering of surfaces in the form of nanorod-polymer composites. Specifically, the …             Network Modularity is essential for evolution of cooperation under uncertainty ▶     David A. Gianetto, Babak Heydari     Cooperative behavior, which pervades nature, can be significantly enhanced when agents interact in a structured rather than random way; however, the key structural factors that …                 npj Quantum Information   An online open access journal providing a platform for the latest important research on quantum information, including quantum computing, quantum communications and quantum information theory.The Journal is now open for submissions. 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