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09 June 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Chemical Sciences               Cu4 Cluster Doped Monolayer MoS2 for CO Oxidation ▶     Z. W. Chen, J. M. Yan, W. T. Zheng et al.     The catalytic oxidation of CO molecule on a thermodynamically stable Cu4 cluster doped MoS2 monolayer is investigated by density functional theory (DFT) where the reaction …             A Sweet Spot for Molecular Diagnostics: Coupling Isothermal Amplification and Strand Exchange Circuits to Glucometers ▶     Yan Du, Randall A. Hughes, Sanchita Bhadra et al.     Strand exchange nucleic acid circuitry can be used to transduce isothermal nucleic acid amplification products into signals that can be readable on an off-the-shelf glucometer. …             Multifunctional glucose biosensors from Fe3O4 nanoparticles modified chitosan/graphene nanocomposites ▶     Wenjing Zhang, Xiaojian Li, Ruitao Zou et al.     Novel water-dispersible and biocompatible chitosan-functionalized graphene (CG) has been prepared by a one-step ball milling of carboxylic chitosan and graphite. Presence of …             Investigation on Spin Dependent Transport Properties of Core-Shell Structural Fe3O4/ZnS Nanocomposites for Spintronic Application ▶     Er Liu, Honglei Yuan, Zhaoxia Kou et al.     The core-shell structural Fe3O4/ZnS nanocomposites with controllable shell thickness were well-fabricated via seed-mediate growth method. Structural and morphological …             An Effective Way to Optimize the Functionality of Graphene-Based Nanocomposite: Use of the Colloidal Mixture of Graphene and Inorganic Nanosheets ▶     Xiaoyan Jin, Kanyaporn Adpakpang, In Young Kim et al.     The best electrode performance of metal oxide–graphene nanocomposite material for lithium secondary batteries can be achieved by using the colloidal mixture of layered CoO2 and …             Multi-dimensional TOF-SIMS analysis for effective profiling of disease-related ions from the tissue surface ▶     Ji-Won Park, Hyobin Jeong, Byeongsoo Kang et al.     Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) emerges as a promising tool to identify the ions (small molecules) indicative of disease states from the surface of …             Unidirectional thermal expansion in edge-sharing BO4 tetrahedra contained KZnB3O6 ▶     Yanfang Lou, Dandan Li, Zhilin Li et al.     Borates are among a class of compounds that exhibit rich structural diversity and find wide applications. The formation of edge-sharing (es-) BO4 tetrahedra is extremely …             Noninvasive imaging of sialyltransferase activity in living cells by chemoselective recognition ▶     Lei Bao, Lin Ding, Min Yang et al.     To elucidate the biological and pathological functions of sialyltransferases (STs), intracellular ST activity evaluation is necessary. Focusing on the lack of noninvasive methods …             PAF-derived nitrogen-doped 3D Carbon Materials for Efficient Energy Conversion and Storage ▶     Zhonghua Xiang, Dan Wang, Yuhua Xue et al.     Owing to the shortage of the traditional fossil fuels caused by fast consumption, it is an urgent task to develop the renewable and clean energy sources. Thus, advanced …             On the Formation of Nanobubbles in Vycor Porous Glass during the Desorption of Halogenated Hydrocarbons ▶     A. C. Mitropoulos, K. L. Stefanopoulos, E. P. Favvas et al.     Vycor porous glass has long served as a model mesoporous material. During the physical adsorption of halogenated hydrocarbon vapours, such as dibromomethane, the adsorption …             Activated carbon for aerobic oxidation: Benign approach toward 2-benzoylbenzimidazoles and 2-benzoylbenzoxazoles synthesis ▶     Kai Bao, Fuqing Li, Hanjing Liu et al.     A general strategy involving a novel and highly efficient aerobic benzylic oxidation promoted by cheap, reusable activated carbon in water is developed. Application of this …             Molecular ion battery: a rechargeable system without using any elemental ions as a charge carrier ▶     Masaru Yao, Hikaru Sano, Hisanori Ando et al.     Is it possible to exceed the lithium redox potential in electrochemical systems? It seems impossible to exceed the lithium potential because the redox potential of the elemental …             Tungsten Doped TiO2 with Enhanced Photocatalytic and Optoelectrical Properties via Aerosol Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition ▶     Sanjayan Sathasivam, Davinder S. Bhachu, Yao Lu et al.     Tungsten doped titanium dioxide films with both transparent conducting oxide (TCO) and photocatalytic properties were produced via aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition of …             Anomalies of a topologically ordered surface ▶     Deepnarayan Biswas, Sangeeta Thakur, Khadiza Ali et al.     Bulk insulators with strong spin orbit coupling exhibit metallic surface states possessing topological order protected by the time reversal symmetry. However, experiments show …             Lateral assembly of oxidized graphene flakes into large-scale transparent conductive thin films with a three-dimensional surfactant 4-sulfocalix[4]arene ▶     Ashok K. Sundramoorthy, Yilei Wang, Jing Wang et al.     Graphene is a promising candidate material for transparent conductive films because of its excellent conductivity and one-carbon-atom thickness. Graphene oxide flakes prepared by …             Hydrazine solution processed Sb2S3, Sb2Se3 and Sb2(S1−xSex)3 film: molecular precursor identification, film fabrication and band gap tuning ▶     Bo Yang, Ding-Jiang Xue, Meiying Leng et al.     Sb2(S1−xSex)3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) compounds have been proposed as promising light-absorbing materials for photovoltaic device applications. However, no systematic study on the synthesis …             Solid-state Reaction of Azolium Hydrohalogen Salts with Silver Dicyanamide – Unexpected Formation of Cyanoguanidine-azoles, Reaction Mechanism and Their Hypergolic Properties ▶     Wei Liu, Qiu-han Lin, Yu-chuan Li et al.     Cyanoguanidines as well as azoles are important bioactive groups, which play an important role in the medical application; meanwhile, the high nitrogen content makes them …             Suppressing of slow magnetic relaxation in tetracoordinate Co(II) field-induced single-molecule magnet in hybrid material with ferromagnetic barium ferrite ▶     Ivan Nemec, Radovan Herchel, Zdeněk Trávníček     The novel field-induced single-molecule magnet based on a tetracoordinate mononuclear heteroleptic Co(II) complex involving two heterocyclic benzimidazole (bzi) and two …             Dual yolk-shell structure of carbon and silica-coated silicon for high-performance lithium-ion batteries ▶     L. Y. Yang, H. Z. Li, J. Liu et al.     Silicon batteries have attracted much attention in recent years due to their high theoretical capacity, although a rapid capacity fade is normally observed, attributed mainly to …             Tuning Organic Carbon Dioxide Absorbents for Carbonation and Decarbonation ▶     Ramachandran Rajamanickam, Hyungsoo Kim, Ji-Woong Park     The reaction of carbon dioxide with a mixture of a superbase and alcohol affords a superbase alkylcarbonate salt via a process that can be reversed at elevated temperatures. To …             Three-dimensional digital microfluidic manipulation of droplets in oil medium ▶     Jiwoo Hong, Young Kwon Kim, Dong-Joon Won et al.     We here develop a three-dimensional DMF (3D DMF) platform with patterned electrodes submerged in an oil medium to provide fundamental solutions to the technical limitations of 2D …             Theoretical predictions on the electronic structure and charge carrier mobility in 2D Phosphorus sheets ▶     Jin Xiao, Mengqiu Long, Xiaojiao Zhang et al.     We have investigated the electronic structure and carrier mobility of four types of phosphorous monolayer sheet (α-P, β-P,γ-P and δ-P) using density functional theory combined …             CO2-Selective Nanoporous Metal-Organic Framework Microcantilevers ▶     Changyong Yim, Moonchan Lee, Minhyuk Yun et al.     Nanoporous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) microcantilevers are fabricated and MIL-53 (Al) metal-organic framework (MOF) layers are directly synthesized on each cantilever surface by …             Advanced aqueous rechargeable lithium battery using nanoparticulate LiTi2(PO4)3/C as a superior anode ▶     Dan Sun, Yifan Jiang, Haiyan Wang et al.     Poor cycling performance arising from the instability of anode is still a main challenge for aqueous rechargeable lithium batteries (ARLB). 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