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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               Physical Sciences               Smart gating membranes with in situ self-assembled responsive nanogels as functional gates ▶     Feng Luo, Rui Xie, Zhuang Liu et al.     Smart gating membranes, inspired by the gating function of ion channels across cell membranes, are artificial membranes composed of non-responsive porous membrane substrates and …             Expansion dynamics in a one-dimensional hard-core boson model with three-body interactions ▶     Jie Ren, Yin-Zhong Wu, Xue-Fen Xu     Using the adaptive time-dependent density matrix renormalization group method, we numerically investigate the expansion dynamics of bosons in a one-dimensional hard-core boson …             A path to practical Solar Pumped Lasers via Radiative Energy Transfer ▶     Philip D. Reusswig, Sergey Nechayev, Jennifer M. Scherer et al.     The optical conversion of incoherent solar radiation into a bright, coherent laser beam enables the application of nonlinear optics to solar energy conversion and storage. Here, …             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 …             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 …             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, …             Design and fabrication of a metastable β-type titanium alloy with ultralow elastic modulus and high strength ▶     Shun Guo, Qingkun Meng, Xinqing Zhao et al.     Titanium and its alloys have become the most attractive implant materials due to their high corrosion resistance, excellent biocompatibility and relatively low elastic modulus. …             Multisource Synergistic Electrocatalytic Oxidation Effect of Strongly Coupled PdM (M = Sn, Pb)/N-doped Graphene Nanocomposite on Small Organic Molecules ▶     Peng Wu, Yiyin Huang, Longtian Kang et al.     A series of palladium-based catalysts of metal alloying (Sn, Pb) and/or (N-doped) graphene support with regular enhanced electrocatalytic activity were investigated. The peak …             Rapid low dose electron tomography using a direct electron detection camera ▶     Vadim Migunov, Henning Ryll, Xiaodong Zhuge et al.     We demonstrate the ability to record a tomographic tilt series containing 3487 images in only 3.5 s by using a direct electron detector in a transmission electron microscope. The …             Multilayer hexagonal silicon forming in slit nanopore ▶     Yezeng He, Hui Li, Yanwei Sui et al.     The solidification of two-dimensional liquid silicon confined to a slit nanopore has been studied using molecular dynamics simulations. The results clearly show that the system …             Time-of-Flight Microwave Camera ▶     Gregory Charvat, Andrew Temme, Micha Feigin et al.     Microwaves can penetrate many obstructions that are opaque at visible wavelengths, however microwave imaging is challenging due to resolution limits associated with relatively …             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 …             Determination of the hyperfine magnetic field in magnetic carbon-based materials: DFT calculations and NMR experiments ▶     Jair C. C. Freitas, Wanderlã L. Scopel, Wendel S. Paz et al.     The prospect of carbon-based magnetic materials is of immense fundamental and practical importance, and information on atomic-scale features is required for a better …             On the correlation between microscopic structural heterogeneity and embrittlement behavior in metallic glasses ▶     Weidong Li, Yanfei Gao, Hongbin Bei     In order to establish a relationship between microstructure and mechanical properties, we systematically annealed a Zr-based bulk metallic glass (BMG) at 100 ~ 300 °C and …             Phonon transport control by nanoarchitecture including epitaxial Ge nanodots for Si-based thermoelectric materials ▶     Shuto Yamasaka, Yoshiaki Nakamura, Tomohiro Ueda et al.     Phonon transport in Si films was controlled using epitaxially-grown ultrasmall Ge nanodots (NDs) with ultrahigh density for the purpose of developing Si-based thermoelectric …             Understanding Cooperative Behavior Based on the Coevolution of Game Strategy and Link Weight ▶     Keke Huang, Xiaoping Zheng, Zhijie Li et al.     In reality, the dependency relationship among individuals is heterogeneous and time-varying. Based on this fact, we present a new mechanism of coevolution of game strategy and …             Enhancement of the Si p-n diode NIR photoresponse by embedding β-FeSi2 nanocrystallites ▶     A. V. Shevlyagin, D. L. Goroshko, E. A. Chusovitin et al.     By using solid phase epitaxy of thin Fe films and molecular beam epitaxy of Si, a p+-Si/p-Si/β-FeSi2 nanocrystallites/n-Si(111) diode structure was fabricated. Transmission …             Strong magnetic frustration and anti-site disorder causing spin-glass behavior in honeycomb Li2RhO3 ▶     Vamshi M. Katukuri, Satoshi Nishimoto, Ioannis Rousochatzakis et al.     With large spin-orbit coupling, the electron configuration in d-metal oxides is prone to highly anisotropic exchange interactions and exotic magnetic properties. In 5d5 …             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, …             Corrigendum: Sound Packing DNA: packing open circular DNA with low-intensity ultrasound ▶     DongHee Park, Bong-Kwang Jung, Hyunjin Park et al.                 The importance of spatial heterogeneity and self-restraint on mutualism stability - a quantitative review ▶     Rui-Wu Wang, Derek W. Dunn, Jun Luo et al.     Understanding the factors that enable mutualisms to evolve and to subsequently remain stable over time, is essential to fully understand patterns of global biodiversity and for …             Distinguishing time-delayed causal interactions using convergent cross mapping ▶     Hao Ye, Ethan R. Deyle, Luis J. Gilarranz et al.     An important problem across many scientific fields is the identification of causal effects from observational data alone. Recent methods (convergent cross mapping, CCM) have made …             The enhanced information flow from visual cortex to frontal area facilitates SSVEP response: evidence from model-driven and data-driven causality analysis ▶     Fali Li, Yin Tian, Yangsong Zhang et al.     The neural mechanism of steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEP) is still not clearly understood. Especially, only certain frequency stimuli can evoke SSVEP. Our previous …             Corrigendum: Lattice Distortion in In3SbTe2 Phase Change Material with Substitutional Bi ▶     Minho Choi, Heechae Choi, Seungchul Kim et al.                 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 …             Bootstrap percolation on spatial networks ▶     Jian Gao, Tao Zhou, Yanqing Hu     Bootstrap percolation is a general representation of some networked activation process, which has found applications in explaining many important social phenomena, such as the …             Demonstration of self-truncated ionization injection for GeV electron beams ▶     M. Mirzaie, S. Li, M. Zeng et al.     Ionization-induced injection mechanism was introduced in 2010 to reduce the laser intensity threshold for controllable electron trapping in laser wakefield accelerators (LWFA). …             Giant Optical Activity of Quantum Dots, Rods, and Disks with Screw Dislocations ▶     Anvar S. Baimuratov, Ivan D. Rukhlenko, Roman E. Noskov et al.     For centuries mankind has been modifying the optical properties of materials: first, by elaborating the geometry and composition of structures made of materials found in nature, …             Quantitative electron phase imaging with high sensitivity and an unlimited field of view ▶     A. M. Maiden, M. C. Sarahan, M. D. Stagg et al.     As it passes through a sample, an electron beam scatters, producing an exit wavefront rich in information. A range of material properties, from electric and magnetic field …             Optimizing plasmonic nanoantennas via coordinated multiple coupling ▶     Linhan Lin, Yuebing Zheng     Plasmonic nanoantennas, which can efficiently convert light from free space into sub-wavelength scale with the local field enhancement, are fundamental building blocks for …             Fabrication of 3-nm-thick Si3N4 membranes for solid-state nanopores using the poly-Si sacrificial layer process ▶     Itaru Yanagi, Takeshi Ishida, Koji Fujisaki et al.     To improve the spatial resolution of solid-state nanopores, thinning the membrane is a very important issue. The most commonly used membrane material for solid-state nanopores is …             Creation of identical multiple focal spots with prescribed axial distribution ▶     Yanzhong Yu, Qiwen Zhan     We present a scheme for the construction of coaxially equidistant multiple focal spots with identical intensity profiles for each individual focus and a predetermined number and …             Electric-field-induced local and mesoscale structural changes in polycrystalline dielectrics and ferroelectrics ▶     Tedi-Marie Usher, Igor Levin, John E. Daniels et al.     The atomic-scale response of dielectrics/ferroelectrics to electric fields is central to their functionality. Here we introduce an in situ characterization method that reveals …             Piezoresistive effects in controllable defective HFTCVD graphene-based flexible pressure sensor ▶     Muhammad Aniq Shazni Mohammad Haniff, Syed Muhammad Hafiz, Khairul Anuar Abd Wahid et al.     In this work, the piezoresistive effects of defective graphene used on a flexible pressure sensor are demonstrated. The graphene used was deposited at substrate temperatures of …             Ultralow temperature terahertz magnetic thermodynamics of perovskite-like SmFeO3 ceramic ▶     Xiaojian Fu, Xinxi Zeng, Dongyang Wang et al.     The terahertz magnetic properties of perovskite-like SmFeO3 ceramic are investigated over a broad temperature range, especially at ultralow temperatures, using terahertz …             Molecular Insights into Aqueous NaCl Electrolytes Confined within Vertically-oriented Graphenes ▶     Zheng Bo, Huachao Yang, Shuo Zhang et al.     Vertically-oriented graphenes (VGs) are promising active materials for electric double layer capacitors (EDLCs) due to their unique morphological and structural features. This …             Large spin Hall magnetoresistance and its correlation to the spin-orbit torque in W/CoFeB/MgO structures ▶     Soonha Cho, Seung-heon Chris Baek, Kyeong-Dong Lee et al.     The phenomena based on spin-orbit interaction in heavy metal/ferromagnet/oxide structures have been investigated extensively due to their applicability to the manipulation of the …             Hierarchical ferroelectric and ferrotoroidic polarizations coexistent in nano-metamaterials ▶     Takahiro Shimada, Le Van Lich, Koyo Nagano et al.     Tailoring materials to obtain unique, or significantly enhanced material properties through rationally designed structures rather than chemical constituents is principle of …             Resonant Scanning with Large Field of View Reduces Photobleaching and Enhances Fluorescence Yield in STED Microscopy ▶     Yong Wu, Xundong Wu, Rong Lu et al.     Photobleaching is a major limitation of superresolution Stimulated Depletion Emission (STED) microscopy. Fast scanning has long been considered an effective means to reduce …             Multiple effect of social influence on cooperation in interdependent network games ▶     Luo-Luo Jiang, Wen-Jing Li, Zhen Wang     The social influence exists widely in the human society, where individual decision-making process (from congressional election to electronic commerce) may be affected by the …             Ionic Driven Embedment of Hyaluronic Acid Coated Liposomes in Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Films for Local Therapeutic Delivery ▶     Stephen L. Hayward, David M. Francis, Matthew J. Sis et al.     The ability to control the spatial distribution and temporal release of a therapeutic remains a central challenge for biomedical research. Here, we report the development and …             Numerical study of achiral phase-change metamaterials for ultrafast tuning of giant circular conversion dichroism ▶     Tun Cao, Chenwei Wei, Libang Mao     Control of the polarization of light is highly desirable for detection of material’s chirality since biomolecules have vibrational modes in the optical region. Here, we report an …             Stroboscopic phenomena in superconductors with dynamic pinning landscape ▶     Ž. L. Jelić, M. V. Milošević, J. Van de Vondel et al.     Introducing artificial pinning centers is a well established strategy to trap quantum vortices and increase the maximal magnetic field and applied electric current that a …             Natural occurrence of pure nano-polycrystalline diamond from impact crater ▶     Hiroaki Ohfuji, Tetsuo Irifune, Konstantin D. Litasov et al.     Consolidated bodies of polycrystalline diamond with grain sizes less than 100 nm, nano-polycrystalline diamond (NPD), has been experimentally produced by direct conversion of …             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 …             Three-dimensional matrix fiber alignment modulates cell migration and MT1-MMP utility by spatially and temporally directing protrusions ▶     Stephanie I. Fraley, Pei-hsun Wu, Lijuan He et al.     Multiple attributes of the three-dimensional (3D) extracellular matrix (ECM) have been independently implicated as regulators of cell motility, including pore size, crosslink …             Electronic Topological Transition in Ag2Te at High-pressure ▶     Yuhang Zhang, Yan Li, Yanmei Ma et al.     Recently, Ag2Te was experimentally confirmed to be a 3D topological insulator (TI) at ambient pressure. However, the high-pressure behaviors and properties of Ag2Te were rarely …             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 …             Spoof localized surface plasmons on ultrathin textured MIM ring resonator with enhanced resonances ▶     Yong Jin Zhou, Qian Xun Xiao, Bao Jia Yang     We numerically demonstrate that spoof localized surface plasmons (LSPs) resonant modes can be enhanced based on ultrathin corrugated metal-insulator-metal (MIM) ring resonator. …             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 …             Mode-resolved frequency comb interferometry for high-accuracy long distance measurement ▶     Steven. A. van den Berg, Sjoerd van Eldik, Nandini Bhattacharya     Optical frequency combs have developed into powerful tools for distance metrology. In this paper we demonstrate absolute long distance measurement using a single femtosecond …             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) …             Dynamic scaling for the growth of non-equilibrium fluctuations during thermophoretic diffusion in microgravity ▶     Roberto Cerbino, Yifei Sun, Aleksandar Donev et al.     Diffusion processes are widespread in biological and chemical systems, where they play a fundamental role in the exchange of substances at the cellular level and in determining …             Logical error rate in the Pauli twirling approximation ▶     Amara Katabarwa, Michael R. Geller     The performance of error correction protocols are necessary for understanding the operation of potential quantum computers, but this requires physical error models that can be …             Electric control of topological phase transitions in Dirac semimetal thin films ▶     Hui Pan, Meimei Wu, Ying Liu et al.     Dirac semimetals host three-dimensional (3D) Dirac fermion states in the bulk of crystalline solids, which can be viewed as 3D analogs of graphene. Owing to their relativistic …             On the thermodynamically stable amorphous phase of polymer-derived silicon oxycarbide ▶     Liping Yu, Rishi Raj     A model for the thermodynamic stability of amorphous silicon oxycarbide (SiCO) is presented. It builds upon the reasonably accepted model of SiCO which is conceived as a …             ZnO@SnO2 engineered composite photoanodes for dye sensitized solar cells ▶     R. Milan, G. S. Selopal, M. Epifani et al.     Layered multi-oxide concept was applied for fabrication of photoanodes for dye-sensitized solar cells based on ZnO and SnO2, capitalizing on the beneficial properties of each …             25 MHz clock continuous-variable quantum key distribution system over 50 km fiber channel ▶     Chao Wang, Duan Huang, Peng Huang et al.     In this paper, a practical continuous-variable quantum key distribution system is developed and it runs in the real-world conditions with 25 MHz clock rate. To reach high-rate, …             Flexible nanoporous tunable electrical double layer biosensors for sweat diagnostics ▶     Rujuta D. Munje, Sriram Muthukumar, Anjan Panneer Selvam et al.     An ultra-sensitive and highly specific electrical double layer (EDL) modulated biosensor, using nanoporous flexible substrates for wearable diagnostics is demonstrated with the …             Proposal for a Domain Wall Nano-Oscillator driven by Non-uniform Spin Currents ▶     Sanchar Sharma, Bhaskaran Muralidharan, Ashwin Tulapurkar     We propose a new mechanism and a related device concept for a robust, magnetic field tunable radio-frequency (rf) oscillator using the self oscillation of a magnetic domain wall …             Visible-light-accelerated oxygen vacancy migration in strontium titanate ▶     Y. Li, Y. Lei, B. G. Shen et al.     Strontium titanate is a model transition metal oxide that exhibits versatile properties of special interest for both fundamental and applied researches. There is evidence that …             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 …             Seed priming with polyethylene glycol regulating the physiological and molecular mechanism in rice (Oryza sativa L.) under nano-ZnO stress ▶     Sheteiwy Mohamed Salah, Guan Yajing, Cao Dongdong et al.     The present study was designed to highlight the impact of seed priming with polyethylene glycol on physiological and molecular mechanism of two cultivars of Oryza sativa L. under …             Tuning all-Optical Analog to Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in nanobeam cavities using nanoelectromechanical system ▶     Peng Shi, Guangya Zhou, Jie deng et al.     We report the observations of all-optical electromagnetically induced transparency in nanostructures using waveguide side-coupled with photonic crystal nanobeam cavities, which …             Novel non-local effects in three-terminal hybrid devices with quantum dot ▶     G. Michałek, T. Domański, B.R. Bułka et al.     We predict non-local effect in the three-terminal hybrid device consisting of the quantum dot (QD) tunnel coupled to two normal and one superconducting reservoirs. It manifests …             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 …             Optical Limiting and Theoretical Modelling of Layered Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanosheets ▶     Ningning Dong, Yuanxin Li, Yanyan Feng et al.     Nonlinear optical property of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) nanosheet dispersions, including MoS2, MoSe2, WS2, and WSe2, was performed by using Z-scan technique with ns …             Vertical transport in graphene-hexagonal boron nitride heterostructure devices ▶     Samantha Bruzzone, Demetrio Logoteta, Gianluca Fiori et al.     Research in graphene-based electronics is recently focusing on devices based on vertical heterostructures of two-dimensional materials. Here we use density functional theory and …             Longitudinal domain wall formation in elongated assemblies of ferromagnetic nanoparticles ▶     Miriam Varón, Marco Beleggia, Jelena Jordanovic et al.     Through evaporation of dense colloids of ferromagnetic ~13 nm ε-Co particles onto carbon substrates, anisotropic magnetic dipolar interactions can support formation of elongated …             The role of shear in crystallization kinetics: From suppression to enhancement ▶     David Richard, Thomas Speck     In many technical applications crystallization proceeds in the presence of stresses and flows, hence the importance to understand the crystallization mechanism in simple …             Full-color structured illumination optical sectioning microscopy ▶     Jia Qian, Ming Lei, Dan Dan et al.     In merits of super-resolved resolution and fast speed of three-dimensional (3D) optical sectioning capability, structured illumination microscopy (SIM) has found variety of …             Synergy of multi-scale toughening and protective mechanisms at hierarchical branch-stem interfaces ▶     Ulrich Müller, Wolfgang Gindl-Altmutter, Johannes Konnerth et al.     Biological materials possess a variety of artful interfaces whose size and properties are adapted to their hierarchical levels and functional requirements. Bone, nacre, and wood …             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 …             Fast probe of local electronic states in nanostructures utilizing a single-lead quantum dot ▶     Tomohiro Otsuka, Shinichi Amaha, Takashi Nakajima et al.     Transport measurements are powerful tools to probe electronic properties of solid-state materials. To access properties of local electronic states in nanostructures, such as …             Direct Observation of Long Electron-Hole Diffusion Distance in CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite Thin Film ▶     Yu Li, Weibo Yan, Yunlong Li et al.     In high performance perovskite based solar cells, CH3NH3PbI3 is the key material. We carried out a study on charge diffusion in spin-coated CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite thin film by …             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 …             Vacuum-and-solvent-free fabrication of organic semiconductor layers for field-effect transistors ▶     Toshinori Matsushima, Atula S. D. Sandanayaka, Yu Esaki et al.     We demonstrate that cold and hot isostatic pressing (CIP and HIP) is a novel, alternative method for organic semiconductor layer fabrication, where organic powder is compressed …             Magnetically-induced ferroelectricity in the (ND4)2[FeCl5(D2O)] molecular compound ▶     José Alberto Rodríguez-Velamazán, Óscar Fabelo, Ángel Millán et al.     The number of magnetoelectric multiferroic materials reported to date is scarce, as magnetic structures that break inversion symmetry and induce an improper ferroelectric …             On/off-switchable anti-neoplastic nanoarchitecture ▶     Hirak K. Patra, Roghayeh Imani, Jaganmohan R. Jangamreddy et al.     Throughout the world, there are increasing demands for alternate approaches to advanced cancer therapeutics. Numerous potentially chemotherapeutic compounds are developed every …             Oxidative Etching of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Toward Nanosheets with Defined Edges and Holes ▶     Yunlong Liao, Kaixiong Tu, Xiaogang Han et al.     Lateral surface etching of two-dimensional (2D) nanosheets results in holey 2D nanosheets that have abundant edge atoms. Recent reports on holey graphene showed that holey 2D …             A new nanocomposite forward osmosis membrane custom-designed for treating shale gas wastewater ▶     Detao Qin, Zhaoyang Liu, Darren Delai Sun et al.     Managing the wastewater discharged from oil and shale gas fields is a big challenge, because this kind of wastewater is normally polluted by high contents of both oils and salts. …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Junior Research Chairs at Postdoctoral Level     International Centre for Fundamental Physics - Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS-ICFP)            Post Doctoral Research Associate     Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso            Senior Research Scientist     California Institute of Technology            PhD-scholarships     Aarhus University            Research Assistant     University of Bristol            Assistant Professor     California Lutheran University            Postdoctoral Position     University of Geneva Medical School            Postdoctoral Fellow     Brigham & Women's Hospital - Harvard Medical School            Research Associate – Pancreatic Cancer Modelling     University College London (UCL)            Lecturer (Assistant Professor)     University of Bath          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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