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06 October 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Chemical Sciences               Azobenzene Modified Imidacloprid Derivatives as Photoswitchable Insecticides: Steering Molecular Activity in a Controllable Manner ▶     Zhiping Xu, Lina Shi, Danping Jiang et al.     Incorporating the photoisomerizable azobenzene into imidacloprid produced a photoswitchable insecticidal molecule as the first neonicotinoid example of remote control insecticide …             Control of a chemical reaction (photodegradation of the p3ht polymer) with nonlocal dielectric environments ▶     V. N. Peters, T. U. Tumkur, G. Zhu et al.     Proximity to metallic surfaces, plasmonic structures, cavities and other inhomogeneous dielectric environments is known to control spontaneous emission, energy transfer, …             Hofmeister effect of anions on calcium translocation by sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase ▶     Francesco Tadini-Buoninsegni, Maria Rosa Moncelli, Niccolò Peruzzi et al.     The occurrence of Hofmeister (specific ion) effects in various membrane-related physiological processes is well documented. For example the effect of anions on the transport …             A new potential energy surface for the H2S system and dynamics study on the S(1D) + H2(X1Σg+) reaction ▶     Jiuchuang Yuan, Di He, Maodu Chen     We constructed a new global potential energy surface (PES) for the electronic ground state (1A′) of H2S based on 21,300 accurate ab initio energy points over a large …             Germanium: a new catalyst for diamond synthesis and a new optically active impurity in diamond ▶     Yuri N. Palyanov, Igor N. Kupriyanov, Yuri M. Borzdov et al.     Diamond attracts considerable attention as a versatile and technologically useful material. For many demanding applications, such as recently emerged quantum optics and sensing, …             Origin of Self-preservation Effect for Hydrate Decomposition: Coupling of Mass and Heat Transfer Resistances ▶     Dongsheng Bai, Diwei Zhang, Xianren Zhang et al.     Gas hydrates could show an unexpected high stability at conditions out of thermodynamic equilibrium, which is called the self-preservation effect. The mechanism of the effect for …             Azo-Based Iridium(III) Complexes as Multicolor Phosphorescent Probes to Detect Hypoxia in 3D Multicellular Tumor Spheroids ▶     Lingli Sun, Guanying Li, Xiang Chen et al.     Hypoxia is an important characteristic of malignant solid tumors and is considered as a possible causative factor for serious resistance to chemo- and radiotherapy. The …             Inhibition of Beta-Amyloid Fibrillation by Luminescent Iridium(III) Complex Probes ▶     Lihua Lu, Hai-Jing Zhong, Modi Wang et al.     We report herein the application of kinetically inert luminescent iridium(III) complexes as dual inhibitors and probes of beta-amyloid fibrillogenesis. These iridium(III) …             Corrigendum: Unravelling the origin of the giant Zn deficiency in wurtzite type ZnO nanoparticles ▶     Adèle Renaud, Laurent Cario, Xavier Rocquefelte et al.                 Ultrafast Fabrication of Flexible Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Ultrasonic Spray-Coating Technology ▶     Hyun-Gyu Han, Hashitha C. Weerasinghe, Kwang Min Kim et al.     This study investigates novel deposition techniques for the preparation of TiO2 electrodes for use in flexible dye-sensitized solar cells. These proposed new methods, namely …             25OHD analogues and vacuum blood collection tubes dramatically affect the accuracy of automated immunoassays ▶     Songlin Yu, Xinqi Cheng, Huiling Fang et al.     Variations in vitamin D quantification methods are large, and influences of vitamin D analogues and blood collection methods have not been systematically examined. We evaluated …             Precise colloids with tunable interactions for confocal microscopy ▶     Thomas E. Kodger, Rodrigo E. Guerra, Joris Sprakel     Model colloidal systems studied with confocal microscopy have led to numerous insights into the physics of condensed matter. Though confocal microscopy is an extremely powerful …             Bio-Derived, Binderless, Hierarchically Porous Carbon Anodes for Li-ion Batteries ▶     Brennan Campbell, Robert Ionescu, Zachary Favors et al.     Here we explore the electrochemical performance of pyrolyzed skins from the species A. bisporus, also known as the Portobello mushroom, as free-standing, binder-free, and current …             Flower-like supramolecular self-assembly of phosphonic acid appended naphthalene diimide and melamine ▶     Rajesh S Bhosale, Mohammad Al Kobaisi, Sidhanath V. Bhosale et al.     Diverse supramolecular assemblies ranging from nanometres to micrometers of small aromatic π-conjugated functional molecules have attracted enormous research interest in light of …             Role of TBATB in nano indium oxide catalyzed C-S bond formation ▶     Prasanta Gogoi, Sukanya Hazarika, Pranjit Barman     Nano sized indium oxide is found to be an efficient catalyst for the conversion of thiols to sulfides using Na2CO3 as base and TBATB as reagent in DMSO at 110 °C. Here in situ …                 npj Systems Biology and Applications - first articles published Publishing the finest research on systems biology and its approaches, npj Systems Biology and Applications has now published its first content. 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