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26 May 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               CORRIGENDUM: Fault-tolerant quantum computation with a soft-decision decoder for error correction and detection by teleportation ▶     Hayato Goto, Hironori Uchikawa                 Partially Oxidized Sub-10 nm MnO Nanocrystals with High Activity for Water Oxidation Catalysis ▶     Kyoungsuk Jin, Arim Chu, Jimin Park et al.     The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is considered a major bottleneck in the overall water electrolysis process. In this work, highly active manganese oxide nano-catalysts were …             Simultaneous real-time visible and infrared video with single-pixel detectors ▶     Matthew. P. Edgar, Graham M. Gibson, Richard W. Bowman et al.     Conventional cameras rely upon a pixelated sensor to provide spatial resolution. An alternative approach replaces the sensor with a pixelated transmission mask encoded with a …             Robust Population Inversion by Polarization Selective Pulsed Excitation ▶     D. Mantei, J. Förstner, S. Gordon et al.     The coherent state preparation and control of single quantum systems is an important prerequisite for the implementation of functional quantum devices. Prominent examples for …             Observation of terahertz-radiation-induced ionization in a single nano island ▶     Minah Seo, Ji-Hun Kang, Hyo-Suk Kim et al.     Terahertz (THz) electromagnetic wave has been widely used as a spectroscopic probe to detect the collective vibrational mode in vast molecular systems and investigate dielectric …             Biomass-derived functional porous carbons as novel electrode material for the practical detection of biomolecules in human serum and snail hemolymph ▶     Vediyappan Veeramani, Rajesh Madhu, Shen-Ming Chen et al.     The biomass-derived activated carbons (ACs) have been prepared with high surface areas up to 793 m2 g−1 is by ZnCl2 activation at three different temperatures, viz. AC700, AC800, …             Nitrogen-doped Graphene-Supported Transition-metals Carbide Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction ▶     Minghua Chen, Jilei Liu, Weijiang Zhou et al.     A novel and facile two-step strategy has been designed to prepare high performance bi-transition-metals (Fe- and Mo-) carbide supported on nitrogen-doped graphene (FeMo-NG) as …             Electromagnetic Detection of a Perfect Carpet Cloak ▶     Xihang Shi, Fei Gao, Xiao Lin et al.     It has been shown that a spherical invisibility cloak originally proposed by Pendry et al. can be electromagnetically detected by shooting a charged particle through it, whose …             Spin-dependent Seebeck Effect, Thermal Colossal Magnetoresistance and Negative Differential Thermoelectric Resistance in Zigzag Silicene Nanoribbon Heterojunciton ▶     Hua-Hua Fu, Dan-Dan Wu, Zu-Quan Zhang et al.     Spin-dependent Seebeck effect (SDSE) is one of hot topics in spin caloritronics, which examine the relationships between spin and heat transport in materials. Meanwhile, it is …             Comprehensive analysis of individual pulp fiber bonds quantifies the mechanisms of fiber bonding in paper ▶     Ulrich Hirn, Robert Schennach     The process of papermaking requires substantial amounts of energy and wood consumption, which contributes to larger environmental costs. In order to optimize the production of …             Downscaling the Sample Thickness to Sub-Micrometers by Employing Organic Photovoltaic Materials as a Charge-Generation Layer in the Time-of-Flight Measurement ▶     Shun-Wei Liu, Chih-Chien Lee, Wei-Cheng Su et al.     Time-of-flight (TOF) measurements typically require a sample thickness of several micrometers for determining the carrier mobility, thus rendering the applicability inefficient …             Location and Electronic Nature of Phosphorus in the Si Nanocrystal − SiO2 System ▶     Dirk König, Sebastian Gutsch, Hubert Gnaser et al.     Up to now, no consensus exists about the electronic nature of phosphorus (P) as donor for SiO2-embedded silicon nanocrystals (SiNCs). Here, we report on hybrid density functional …             Enhanced multi-colour gating for the generation of high-power isolated attosecond pulses ▶     S. Haessler, T. Balčiūnas, G. Fan et al.     Isolated attosecond pulses (IAP) generated by high-order harmonic generation are valuable tools that enable dynamics to be studied on the attosecond time scale. The applicability …             Generalized-stacking-fault energy and twin-boundary energy of hexagonal close-packed Au: A first-principles calculation ▶     Cheng Wang, Huiyuan Wang, Tianlong Huang et al.     Although solid Au is usually most stable as a face-centered cubic (fcc) structure, pure hexagonal close-packed (hcp) Au has been successfully fabricated recently. However, the …             Micro/Nano Gas Sensors: A New Strategy Towards In-Situ Wafer-Level Fabrication of High-Performance Gas Sensing Chips ▶     Lei Xu, Zhengfei Dai, Guotao Duan et al.     Nano-structured gas sensing materials, in particular nanoparticles, nanotubes, and nanowires, enable high sensitivity at a ppb level for gas sensors. For practical applications, …             High rate and durable, binder free anode based on silicon loaded MoO3 nanoplatelets ▶     Alejandro Martinez-Garcia, Arjun Kumar Thapa, Ruvini Dharmadasa et al.     In order to make fast-charging batteries a reality for electric vehicles, durable, more energy dense and high-current density resistant anodes need to be developed. With such …             Simultaneous Improvement of Hole and Electron Injection in Organic Field-effect Transistors by Conjugated Polymer-wrapped Carbon Nanotube Interlayers ▶     Seung-Hoon Lee, Dongyoon Khim, Yong Xu et al.     Efficient charge injection is critical for flexible organic electronic devices such as organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and field-effect transistors (OFETs). Here, we …             Rapid degradation of methylene blue in a novel heterogeneous Fe3O4 @rGO@TiO2-catalyzed photo-Fenton system ▶     Xiaoling Yang, Wei Chen, Jianfei Huang et al.     Herein, a ternary nanocomposite with TiO2 nanoparticles anchored on reduced graphene oxide (rGO)-encapsulated Fe3O4 spheres (Fe3O4@rGO@TiO2) is presented as a high efficient …             Intrinsically Disordered Energy Landscapes ▶     Yassmine Chebaro, Andrew J. Ballard, Debayan Chakraborty et al.     Analysis of an intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) reveals an underlying multifunnel structure for the energy landscape. We suggest that such ‘intrinsically disordered’ …             Microfluidic squeezing for intracellular antigen loading in polyclonal B-cells as cellular vaccines ▶     Gregory Lee Szeto, Debra Van Egeren, Hermoon Worku et al.     B-cells are promising candidate autologous antigen-presenting cells (APCs) to prime antigen-specific T-cells both in vitro and in vivo. However to date, a significant barrier to …             Reactively sputtered nickel nitride as electrocatalytic counter electrode for dye- and quantum dot-sensitized solar cells ▶     Jin Soo Kang, Min-Ah Park, Jae-Yup Kim et al.     Nickel nitride electrodes were prepared by reactive sputtering of nickel under a N2 atmosphere at room temperature for application in mesoscopic dye- or quantum dot- sensitized …             On-chip optical mode conversion based on dynamic grating in photonic-phononic hybrid waveguide ▶     Guodong Chen, Ruiwen Zhang, Junqiang Sun     We present a scheme for reversible and tunable on-chip optical mode conversion based on dynamic grating in a hybrid photonic-phononic waveguide. The dynamic grating is built up …             Direct Visualization of the Hydration Layer on Alumina Nanoparticles with the Fluid Cell STEM in situ ▶     Emre Firlar, Simge Çınar, Sanjay Kashyap et al.     Rheological behavior of aqueous suspensions containing nanometer-sized powders is of relevance to many branches of industry. Unusually high viscosities observed for suspensions of …             Field-Induced Crystalline-to-Amorphous Phase Transformation on the Si Nano-Apex and the Achieving of Highly Reliable Si Nano-Cathodes ▶     Yifeng Huang, Zexiang Deng, Weiliang Wang et al.     Nano-scale vacuum channel transistors possess merits of higher cutoff frequency and greater gain power as compared with the conventional solid-state transistors. The improvement …             Interaction-induced singular Fermi surface in a high-temperature oxypnictide superconductor ▶     A. Charnukha, S. Thirupathaiah, V. B. Zabolotnyy et al.     In the family of iron-based superconductors, LaFeAsO-type materials possess the simplest electronic structure due to their pronounced two-dimensionality. And yet they host …             Pressure-induced normal-incommensurate and incommensurate-commensurate phase transitions in CrOCl ▶     Maxim Bykov, Elena Bykova, Leonid Dubrovinsky et al.     The high-pressure behavior of layered CrOCl is shown to be governed by non-bonded interactions between chlorine atoms in relation to a rigid framework composed of Cr and O atoms. …             Bridge- and Solvent-Mediated Intramolecular Electronic Communications in Ubiquinone-Based Biomolecular Wires ▶     Xiao-Yuan Liu, Wei Ma, Hao Zhou et al.     Intramolecular electronic communications of molecular wires play a crucial role for developing molecular devices. In the present work, we describe different degrees of …             Effect of Au nano-particle aggregation on the deactivation of the AuCl3/AC catalyst for acetylene hydrochlorination ▶     Bin Dai, Qinqin Wang, Feng Yu et al.     A detailed study of the valence state and distribution of the AuCl3/AC catalyst during the acetylene hydrochlorination deactivation process is described and discussed. …             Opening of triangular hole in triangular-shaped chemical vapor deposited hexagonal boron nitride crystal ▶     Subash Sharma, Golap Kalita, Riteshkumar Vishwakarma et al.     In-plane heterostructure of monolayer hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and graphene is of great interest for its tunable bandgap and other unique properties. Here, we reveal a H2…             Mode-matching metasurfaces: coherent reconstruction and multiplexing of surface waves ▶     Jiao Lin, Qian Wang, Guanghui Yuan et al.     Metasurfaces are promising two-dimensional metamaterials that are engineered to provide unique properties or functionalities absent in naturally occurring homogeneous surfaces. …             Physiologically motivated multiplex Kuramoto model describes phase diagram of cortical activity ▶     Maximilian Sadilek, Stefan Thurner     We derive a two-layer multiplex Kuramoto model from Wilson-Cowan type physiological equations that describe neural activity on a network of interconnected cortical regions. This …             Synergetic antibacterial activity of reduced graphene oxide and boron doped diamond anode in three dimensional electrochemical oxidation system ▶     Xiujuan Qi, Ting Wang, Yujiao Long et al.     A 100% increment of antibacterial ability has been achieved due to significant synergic effects of boron-doped diamond (BDD) anode and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) coupled in a …             High-speed roll-to-roll manufacturing of graphene using a concentric tube CVD reactor ▶     Erik S. Polsen, Daniel Q. McNerny, B. Viswanath et al.     We present the design of a concentric tube (CT) reactor for roll-to-roll chemical vapor deposition (CVD) on flexible substrates, and its application to continuous production of …             Sandwiched confinement of quantum dots in graphene matrix for efficient electron transfer and photocurrent production ▶     Nan Zhu, Kaibo Zheng, Khadga J. Karki et al.     Quantum dots (QDs) and graphene are both promising materials for the development of new-generation optoelectronic devices. Towards this end, synergic assembly of these two …             MoS2 Surface Structure Tailoring via Carbonaceous Promoter ▶     Yumeng Shi, Henan Li, Jen It Wong et al.     Atomically thin semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenides have been attracting lots of attentions, particularly, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) monolayers show promising …             Magnetization Reversal by Out-of-plane Voltage in BiFeO3-based Multiferroic Heterostructures ▶     J. J. Wang, J.M. Hu, Ren-Ci Peng et al.     Voltage controlled 180° magnetization reversal has been achieved in BiFeO3-based multiferroic heterostructures, which is promising for the future development of low-power …             A new look at the essence of the imaging photoplethysmography ▶     Alexei A. Kamshilin, Ervin Nippolainen, Igor S. Sidorov et al.     Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a noninvasive optical method accepted in the clinical use for measurements of arterial oxygen saturation. It is widely believed that the light …             Granger causal time-dependent source connectivity in the somatosensory network ▶     Lin Gao, Linda Sommerlade, Brian Coffman et al.     Exploration of transient Granger causal interactions in neural sources of electrophysiological activities provides deeper insights into brain information processing mechanisms. …             Complex network models reveal correlations among network metrics, exercise intensity and role of body changes in the fatigue process ▶     Vanessa Helena Pereira, Maria Carolina Traina Gama, Filipe Antônio Barros Sousa et al.     The aims of the present study were analyze the fatigue process at distinct intensity efforts and to investigate its occurrence as interactions at distinct body changes during …             Emergent rogue wave structures and statistics in spontaneous modulation instability ▶     Shanti Toenger, Thomas Godin, Cyril Billet et al.     The nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) is a seminal equation of nonlinear physics describing wave packet evolution in weakly-nonlinear dispersive media. The NLSE is especially …             A bifractal nature of reticular patterns induced by oxygen plasma on polymer films ▶     Junwan Bae, I. J. Lee     Plasma etching was demonstrated to be a promising tool for generating self-organized nano-patterns on various commercial films. Unfortunately, dynamic scaling approach toward …             High Q-factor microring resonator wrapped by the curved waveguide ▶     Dong-Po Cai, Jyun-Hong Lu, Chii-Chang Chen et al.     In this work, we study the performances of ring resonators of different type by analyzing the bending loss and the condition of the critical coupling. We propose that the bending …             Laser Shock Peening on Zr-based Bulk Metallic Glass and Its Effect on Plasticity: Experiment and Modeling ▶     Yunfeng Cao, Xie Xie, James Antonaglia et al.     The Zr-based bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) are a new family of attractive materials with good glass-forming ability and excellent mechanical properties, such as high strength and …             Compressive Optical Image Encryption ▶     Jun Li, Jiao Sheng Li, Yang Yang Pan et al.     An optical image encryption technique based on compressive sensing using fully optical means has been proposed. An object image is first encrypted to a white-sense stationary …             Effects and Mechanism of Atmospheric-Pressure Dielectric Barrier Discharge Cold Plasma on Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH) Enzyme ▶     Hao Zhang, Zimu Xu, Jie Shen et al.     Proteins are carriers of biological functions and the effects of atmospheric-pressure non-thermal plasmas on proteins are important to applications such as sterilization and …             SnO2 Nanosheet/Nanoparticle Detector for the Sensing of 1-Nonanal Gas Produced by Lung Cancer ▶     Yoshitake Masuda, Toshio Itoh, Woosuck Shin et al.     A sensor has been developed for detecting 1-nonanal gas present in the breath of lung cancer patients by combining SnO2 nanosheets with SnO2 nanoparticles and noble metal …             Novel rare-earth-free yellow Ca5Zn3.92In0.08(V0.99Ta0.01O4)6 phosphors for dazzling white light-emitting diodes ▶     E. Pavitra, G. Seeta Rama Raju, Jin Young Park et al.     White light-emitting diode (WLED) products currently available on the market are based on the blue LED combined with yellow phosphor approach. However, these WLEDs are still …             NEMS With Broken T Symmetry: Graphene Based Unidirectional Acoustic Transmission Lines ▶     Mehdi B. Zanjani, Arthur R. Davoyan, Nader Engheta et al.     In this work we discuss the idea of one-way acoustic signal isolation in low dimensional nanoelectromechanical oscillators. We report a theoretical study showing that one-way …             Optical pumping and readout of bismuth hyperfine states in silicon for atomic clock applications ▶     K. Saeedi, M. Szech, P. Dluhy et al.     The push for a semiconductor-based quantum information technology has renewed interest in the spin states and optical transitions of shallow donors in silicon, including the …             Effect of uniaxial strain on the site occupancy of hydrogen in vanadium from density-functional calculations ▶     Robert Johansson, Rajeev Ahuja, Olle Eriksson et al.     We investigate the influence of uniaxial strain on the site occupancy of hydrogen in vanadium, using density functional theory. The site occupancy is found to be strongly …             Negative Differential Resistance in Boron Nitride Graphene Heterostructures: Physical Mechanisms and Size Scaling Analysis ▶     Y. Zhao, Z. Wan, X. Xu et al.     Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is drawing increasing attention as an insulator and substrate material to develop next generation graphene-based electronic devices. In this paper, …             Layer dependence and gas molecule absorption property in MoS2 Schottky diode with asymmetric metal contacts ▶     Hyong Seo Yoon, Hang-Eun Joe, Sun Jun Kim et al.     Surface potential measurement on atomically thin MoS2 flakes revealed the thickness dependence in Schottky barriers formed between high work function metal electrodes and MoS2 …             Physical Sensing of Surface Properties by Microswimmers – Directing Bacterial Motion via Wall Slip ▶     Jinglei Hu, Adam Wysocki, Roland G. Winkler et al.     Bacteria such as Escherichia coli swim along circular trajectories adjacent to surfaces. Thereby, the orientation (clockwise, counterclockwise) and the curvature depend on the …             Influence of sociodemographics on human mobility ▶     Maxime Lenormand, Thomas Louail, Oliva G. Cantú-Ros et al.     Human mobility has been traditionally studied using surveys that deliver snapshots of population displacement patterns. The growing accessibility to ICT information from portable …             G-quadruplex induced chirality of methylazacalix[6]pyridine via unprecedented binding stoichiometry: en route to multiplex controlled molecular switch ▶     Ai-Jiao Guan, Meng-Jie Shen, Jun-Feng Xiang et al.     Nucleic acid based molecular device is a developing research field which attracts great interests in material for building machinelike nanodevices. G-quadruplex, as a new type of …             Selectively manipulable acoustic-powered microswimmers ▶     Daniel Ahmed, Mengqian Lu, Amir Nourhani et al.     Selective actuation of a single microswimmer from within a diverse group would be a first step toward collaborative guided action by a group of swimmers. Here we describe a new …             Indian Hedgehog signaling pathway members are associated with magnetic resonance imaging manifestations and pathological scores in lumbar facet joint osteoarthritis ▶     Feng Shuang, Ying Zhou, Shu-Xun Hou et al.     Indian Hedgehog (HH) has been shown to be involved in osteoarthritis (OA) in articular joints, where there is evidence that Indian HH blockade could ameliorate OA. It seems to …             High accuracy thermal conductivity measurement of aqueous cryoprotective agents and semi-rigid biological tissues using a microfabricated thermal sensor ▶     Xin M. Liang, Praveen K. Sekar, Gang Zhao et al.     An improved thermal-needle approach for accurate and fast measurement of thermal conductivity of aqueous and soft biomaterials was developed using microfabricated thermal …             Predicting disease progression from short biomarker series using expert advice algorithm ▶     Kai Morino, Yoshito Hirata, Ryota Tomioka et al.     Well-trained clinicians may be able to provide diagnosis and prognosis from very short biomarker series using information and experience gained from previous patients. Although …             Accuracy and Precision of Silicon Based Impression Media for Quantitative Areal Texture Analysis ▶     Robert H. Goodall, Laurent P. Darras, Mark A. Purnell     Areal surface texture analysis is becoming widespread across a diverse range of applications, from engineering to ecology. In many studies silicon based impression media are used …             A high-performance white-light-emitting-diodes based on nano-single crystal divanadates quantum dots ▶     Weiqing Yang, Zhongli Liu, Jun Chen et al.     We report a high-performance phosphors-free white light-emitting-diodes (w-LEDs) using Ba2V2O7 or Sr2V2O7 quantum dots that directly heteroepitaxially grown on common quartz …             Bauxite-supported Transition Metal Oxides: Promising Low-temperature and SO2-tolerant Catalysts for Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx ▶     Xiuyun Wang, Wen Wu, Zhilin Chen et al.     In order to develop low-temperature (below 200 °C) and SO2-tolerant catalysts for selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NOx, a series of cheap M/bauxite (M=Mn, Ni and Cu) …             Investigation of Second- and Third-Harmonic Generation in Few-Layer Gallium Selenide by Multiphoton Microscopy ▶     Lasse Karvonen, Antti Säynätjoki, Soroush Mehravar et al.     Gallium selenide (GaSe) is a layered semiconductor and a well-known nonlinear optical crystal. The discovery of graphene has created a new vast research field focusing on …             The production of information in the attention economy ▶     Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer     Online traces of human activity offer novel opportunities to study the dynamics of complex knowledge exchange networks, in particular how emergent patterns of collective attention …             Resonant light scattering from a single dielectric nano-antenna formed by electron beam-induced deposition ▶     Eun-Khwang Lee, Jung-Hwan Song, Kwang-Yong Jeong et al.     Dielectric nano-antennas are promising elements in nanophotonics due to their low material loss and strong leaky-mode optical resonances. In particular, light scattering can be …             Enhanced emission of charged-exciton polaritons from colloidal quantum dots on a SiN/SiO2 slab waveguide ▶     Xingsheng Xu, Xingyun Li     We investigate the photoluminescence (PL) spectra and the time-resolved PL decay process from colloidal quantum dots on SiN/SiO2 wet etched via BOE (HF:NH4F:H2O). The spectrum …             Adaptive power-controllable orbital angular momentum (OAM) multicasting ▶     Shuhui Li, Jian Wang     We report feedback-assisted adaptive multicasting from a single Gaussian mode to multiple orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes using a single phase-only spatial light modulator …             Super-long life time for 2D cyclotron spin-flip excitons ▶     L. V. Kulik, A. V. Gorbunov, A. S. Zhuravlev et al.     An experimental technique for the indirect manipulation and detection of electron spins entangled in two-dimensional magnetoexcitons has been developed. The kinetics of the spin …             Motion and gravity effects in the precision of quantum clocks ▶     Joel Lindkvist, Carlos Sabín, Göran Johansson et al.     We show that motion and gravity affect the precision of quantum clocks. We consider a localised quantum field as a fundamental model of a quantum clock moving in spacetime and …             A planar chiral meta-surface for optical vortex generation and focusing ▶     Xiaoliang Ma, Mingbo Pu, Xiong Li et al.     Data capacity is rapidly reaching its limit in modern optical communications. Optical vortex has been explored to enhance the data capacity for its extra degree of freedom of …             Hydrothermally Grown In-doped ZnO Nanorods on p-GaN Films for Color-tunable Heterojunction Light-emitting-diodes ▶     Geun Chul Park, Soo Min Hwang, Seung Muk Lee et al.     The incorporation of doping elements in ZnO nanostructures plays an important role in adjusting the optical and electrical properties in optoelectronic devices. In the present …             Effect of Surface States on Terahertz Emission from the Bi2Se3 Surface ▶     Li-Guo Zhu, Brian Kubera, Kin Fai Mak et al.     Three-dimensional topological insulators are materials that behave as an insulator in the interior, but as a metal on the surface with Dirac surface states protected by the …             Direct laser-writing of ferroelectric single-crystal waveguide architectures in glass for 3D integrated optics ▶     Adam Stone, Himanshu Jain, Volkmar Dierolf et al.     Direct three-dimensional laser writing of amorphous waveguides inside glass has been studied intensely as an attractive route for fabricating photonic integrated circuits. …             Improving Network Structure can lead to Functional Failures ▶     Jan Philipp Pade, Tiago Pereira     In many real-world networks the ability to synchronize is a key property for their performance. Recent work on undirected networks with diffusive interaction revealed that …             Digital Ecology: Coexistence and Domination among Interacting Networks ▶     Kaj-Kolja Kleineberg, Marián Boguñá     The overwhelming success of Web 2.0, within which online social networks are key actors, has induced a paradigm shift in the nature of human interactions. The user-driven …             Three Temperature Regimes in Superconducting Photon Detectors: Quantum, Thermal and Multiple Phase-Slips as Generators of Dark Counts ▶     Andrew Murphy, Alexander Semenov, Alexander Korneev et al.     We perform measurements of the switching current distributions of three w ≈ 120 nm wide, 4 nm thick NbN superconducting strips which are used for single-photon detectors. These …             Multiplexed Millimeter Wave Communication with Dual Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) Mode Antennas ▶     Xiaonan Hui, Shilie Zheng, Yiling Chen et al.     Communications using the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of radio waves have attracted much attention in recent years. In this paper, a novel millimeter-wave dual OAM mode antenna …             Eutectic Nano-Droplet Template Injection into Bulk Silicon to Construct Porous Frameworks with Concomitant Conformal Coating as Anodes for Li-Ion Batteries ▶     Fei Qu, Chilin Li, Zumin Wang et al.     Building porosity in monolithic materials is highly desired to design 3D electrodes, however ex-situ introduction or in-situ generation of nano-scale sacrificial template is …             Scaling for quantum tunneling current in nano- and subnano-scale plasmonic junctions ▶     Peng Zhang     When two conductors are separated by a sufficiently thin insulator, electrical current can flow between them by quantum tunneling. This paper presents a self-consistent model of …             An embryo of protocells: The capsule of graphene with selective ion channels ▶     Zhan Li, Chunmei Wang, Longlong Tian et al.     The synthesis of artificial cell is a route for searching the origin of protocell. Here, we create a novel cell model of graphene capsules with selective ion channels, indicating …             Effect of divalent Ba cation substitution with Sr on coupled ‘multiglass’ state in the magnetoelectric multiferroic compound Ba3NbFe3Si2O14 ▶     Satyapal Singh Rathore, Satish Vitta     (Ba/Sr)3NbFe3Si2O14 is a magneto-electric multiferroic with an incommensurate antiferromagnetic spiral magnetic structure which induces electric polarization at 26 K. Structural …             How does public opinion become extreme? ▶     Marlon Ramos, Jia Shao, Saulo D. S. Reis et al.     We investigate the emergence of extreme opinion trends in society by employing statistical physics modeling and analysis on polls that inquire about a wide range of issues such …             New ambuic acid derivatives from the solid culture of Pestalotiopsis neglecta and their nitric oxide inhibitory activity ▶     Qiu-Yue Qi, Er-Wei Li, Jun-Jie Han et al.     Four new ambuic acid derivatives (1–4), and four known derivatives (5–8), were isolated from the solid culture of a plant pathogenic fungus Pestalotiopsis neglecta. Their …             Punitive preferences, monetary incentives and tacit coordination in the punishment of defectors promote cooperation in humans ▶     Andreas Diekmann, Wojtek Przepiorka     Peer-punishment is effective in promoting cooperation, but the costs associated with punishing defectors often exceed the benefits for the group. It has been argued that …             Longitudinal in vivo evaluation of bone regeneration by combined measurement of multi-pinhole SPECT and micro-CT for tissue engineering ▶     Philipp S. Lienemann, Stéphanie Metzger, Anna-Sofia Kiveliö et al.     Over the last decades, great strides were made in the development of novel implants for the treatment of bone defects. 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