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22 September 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Chemical Sciences               The MIL-88A-Derived Fe3O4-Carbon Hierarchical Nanocomposites for Electrochemical Sensing ▶     Li Wang, Yayun Zhang, Xia Li et al.     Metal or metal oxides/carbon nanocomposites with hierarchical superstructures have become one of the most promising functional materials in sensor, catalysis, energy conversion, …             An Abiotic Glass-Bead Collector Exhibiting Active Transport ▶     Youhei Goto, Masato Kanda, Daigo Yamamoto et al.     Animals relocate objects as needed by active motion. Active transport is ubiquitous in living organisms but has been difficult to realize in abiotic systems. Here we show that a …             Shape memory polymers with high and low temperature resistant properties ▶     Xinli Xiao, Deyan Kong, Xueying Qiu et al.     High temperature shape memory polymers that can withstand the harsh temperatures for durable applications are synthesized, and the aromatic polyimide chains with flexible …             Unprecedented reactions: from epichlorohydrin to epoxyglycidyl substituted divinyl ether and its conversion into epoxyglycidyl propargyl ether ▶     Yiwu Yao, Zheng Li, Yatao Qiu et al.     The reaction of epichlorohydrin with concentrated sodium hydroxide in hexane under phase transfer conditions has surprisingly led to the formation of the symmetrical …             Green synthesis of carbon-supported nanoparticle catalysts by physical vapor deposition on soluble powder substrates ▶     Hee-Young Park, Injoon Jang, Namgee Jung et al.     Metal and metal oxide nanoparticles (NPs) supported on high surface area carbon (NP/Cs) were prepared by the physical vapor deposition of bulk materials on an α-D-glucose (Glu) …             Anion-Tunable Properties and Electrochemical Performance of Functionalized Ferrocene Compounds ▶     Lelia Cosimbescu, Xiaoliang Wei, M. Vijayakumar et al.     We report a series of ionically modified ferrocene compounds for hybrid lithium-organic non-aqueous redox flow batteries, based on the ferrocene/ferrocenium redox couple as the …             Tailoring the Synergistic Bronsted-Lewis acidic effects in Heteropolyacid catalysts: Applied in Esterification and Transesterification Reactions ▶     Meilin Tao, Lifang Xue, Zhong Sun et al.     In order to investigate the influences of Lewis metals on acidic properties and catalytic activities, a series of Keggin heteropolyacid (HPA) catalysts, HnPW11MO39 (M = TiIV, CuII…             Shape-controlled synthesis and influence of W doping and oxygen nonstoichiometry on the phase transition of VO2 ▶     Ru Chen, Lei Miao, Chengyan Liu et al.     Monoclinic VO2(M) in nanostructure is a prototype material for interpreting correlation effects in solids with fully reversible phase transition and for the advanced applications …             Membranes of MnO Beading in Carbon Nanofibers as Flexible Anodes for High-Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries ▶     Xin Zhao, Yuxuan Du, Lei Jin et al.     Freestanding yet flexible membranes of MnO/carbon nanofibers are successfully fabricated through incorporating MnO2 nanowires into polymer solution by a facile electrospinning …             Self-sorting heterodimeric coiled coil peptides with defined and tuneable self-assembly properties ▶     Christopher Aronsson, Staffan Dånmark, Feng Zhou et al.     Coiled coils with defined assembly properties and dissociation constants are highly attractive components in synthetic biology and for fabrication of peptide-based hybrid …             Supramolecular One-Dimensional n/p-Nanofibers ▶     Alberto Insuasty, Carmen Atienza, Juan Luis López et al.     Currently, there is a broad interest in the control over creating ordered electroactive nanostructures, in which electron donors and acceptors are organized at similar length …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Postdoctoral Scientist     Medical Research Council - Laboratory of Molecular Biology            Research Technician     University of Bristol            PhD student Position (m / f)     University of Cologne            Postdoctoral fellow     Johns Hopkins University            Two Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Positions     The University of Windsor            Group Leader(s)     University of Cambridge            Research Fellows x 3     University of Leeds            Postdoctoral Researcher     Imperial College London            Assistant Scientist     Texas Biomedical Research Institute            Faculty position     Sabanci University          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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