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20 October 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               Fluorescence polarization measures energy funneling in single light-harvesting antennas—LH2 vs conjugated polymers ▶     Rafael Camacho, Sumera Tubasum, June Southall et al.     Numerous approaches have been proposed to mimic natural photosynthesis using artificial antenna systems, such as conjugated polymers (CPs), dendrimers, and J-aggregates. As a …             Improved Slow Light Capacity In Graphene-based Waveguide ▶     Ran Hao, Xi-Liang Peng, Er-Ping Li et al.     We have systematically investigated the wideband slow light in two-dimensional material graphene, revealing that graphene exhibits much larger slow light capability than other …             Multi-phase functionalization of titanium for enhanced photon absorption in the vis-NIR region ▶     Pooja Thakur, Bo Tan, Krishnan Venkatakrishnan     Inadequate absorption of Near Infrared (NIR) photons by conventional silicon solar cells has been a major stumbling block towards the attainment of a high efficiency “full …             Transient dual-energy lasing in a semiconductor microcavity ▶     Feng-Kuo Hsu, Wei Xie, Yi-Shan Lee et al.     We demonstrate sequential lasing at two well-separated energies in a highly photoexcited planar microcavity at room temperature. Two spatially overlapped lasing states with …             Giant electro-optic effect in Ge/SiGe coupled quantum wells ▶     Jacopo Frigerio, Vladyslav Vakarin, Papichaya Chaisakul et al.     Silicon-based photonics is now considered as the photonic platform for the next generation of on-chip communications. However, the development of compact and low power …             Optimizing Field Emission Properties of the Hybrid Structures of Graphene Stretched on Patterned and Size-controllable SiNWs ▶     Shasha Lv, Zhengcao Li, Jiecui Liao et al.     Graphene is one of the ideal nanomaterials to be paired with silicon, and their complementary properties can be exploited in field emission (FE) devices. We reported an efficient …             Route to Topological Superconductivity via Magnetic Field Rotation ▶     Florian Loder, Arno P. Kampf, Thilo Kopp     The verification of topological superconductivity has become a major experimental challenge. Apart from the very few spin-triplet superconductors with p-wave pairing symmetry, …             Tunable optical limiting optofluidic device filled with graphene oxide dispersion in ethanol ▶     Chaolong Fang, Bo Dai, Ruijin Hong et al.     An optofluidic device with tunable optical limiting property is proposed and demonstrated. The optofluidic device is designed for adjusting the concentration of graphene oxide …             g-force induced giant efficiency of nanoparticles internalization into living cells ▶     Sandra M. Ocampo, Vanessa Rodriguez, Leonor de la Cueva et al.     Nanotechnology plays an increasingly important role in the biomedical arena. Iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs)-labelled cells is one of the most promising approaches for a fast …             Electronic Structure and Ferromagnetism Modulation in Cu/Cu2O Interface: Impact of Interfacial Cu Vacancy and Its Diffusion ▶     Hao-Bo Li, Weichao Wang, Xinjian Xie et al.     Cu/Cu2O composite structures have been discovered to show sizable ferromagnetism (FM) with the potential applications in spintronic devices. To date, there is no consensus on the …             Ultra-wideband microwave absorber by connecting multiple absorption bands of two different-sized hyperbolic metamaterial waveguide arrays ▶     Xiang Yin, Chang Long, Junhao Li et al.     Microwave absorbers have important applications in various areas including stealth, camouflage, and antenna. Here, we have designed an ultra-broadband light absorber by …             Highly Crystalline CVD-grown Multilayer MoSe2 Thin Film Transistor for Fast Photodetector ▶     Chulseung Jung, Seung Min Kim, Hyunseong Moon et al.     Hexagonal molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2) multilayers were grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). A relatively high pressure (>760 Torr) was used during the CVD growth to …             Thermodynamic holography ▶     Bo-Bo Wei, Zhan-Feng Jiang, Ren-Bao Liu     The holographic principle states that the information about a volume of a system is encoded on the boundary surface of the volume. Holography appears in many branches of physics, …             Optical coherency matrix tomography ▶     Kumel H. Kagalwala, H. Esat Kondakci, Ayman F. Abouraddy et al.     The coherence of an optical beam having multiple degrees of freedom (DoFs) is described by a coherency matrix G spanning these DoFs. This optical coherency matrix has not been …             Transient unidirectional energy flow and diode-like phenomenon induced by non-Markovian environments ▶     Jun Jing, Dvira Segal, Baowen Li et al.     Relying on an exact time evolution scheme, we identify a novel transient energy transfer phenomenon in an exactly-solvable quantum microscopic model consisting of a three-level …             A new method for achieving enhanced dielectric response over a wide temperature range ▶     Deepam Maurya, Fu-Chang Sun, S. Pamir Alpay et al.     We report a novel approach for achieving high dielectric response over a wide temperature range. In this approach, multilayer ceramic heterostructures with constituent …             Going far beyond the near-field diffraction limit via plasmonic cavity lens with high spatial frequency spectrum off-axis illumination ▶     Zeyu Zhao, Yunfei Luo, Wei Zhang et al.     For near-field imaging optics, minimum resolvable feature size is highly constrained by the near-field diffraction limit associated with the illumination light wavelength and the …             Steady-state photoconductivity and multi-particle interactions in high-mobility organic semiconductors ▶     P. Irkhin, H. Najafov, V. Podzorov     Fundamental understanding of photocarrier generation, transport and recombination under a steady-state photoexcitation has been an important goal of organic electronics and …             Domain control of carrier density at a semiconductor-ferroelectric interface ▶     I. B. Misirlioglu, M. Yildiz, K. Sendur     Control of charge carrier distribution in a gated channel via a dielectric layer is currently the state of the art in the design of integrated circuits such as field effect …             Microwave axial dielectric properties of carbon fiber ▶     Wen Hong, Peng Xiao, Heng Luo et al.     Randomly distributed carbon fibers (CFs) reinforced epoxy resin composites are prepared by the pouring method, the dielectric properties of CF composites with different fiber …             Phase Transformation in Tantalum under Extreme Laser Deformation ▶     C.-H. Lu, E. N. Hahn, B. A. Remington et al.     The structural and mechanical response of metals is intimately connected to phase transformations. For instance, the product of a phase transformation (martensite) is responsible …             The Scaling of Human Contacts and Epidemic Processes in Metapopulation Networks ▶     Michele Tizzoni, Kaiyuan Sun, Diego Benusiglio et al.     We study the dynamics of reaction-diffusion processes on heterogeneous metapopulation networks where interaction rates scale with subpopulation sizes. We first present new …             Homophyly/Kinship Model: Naturally Evolving Networks ▶     Angsheng Li, Jiankou Li, Yicheng Pan et al.     It has been a challenge to understand the formation and roles of social groups or natural communities in the evolution of species, societies and real world networks. Here, we …             Hybrid Surface Acoustic Wave- Electrohydrodynamic Atomization (SAW-EHDA) For the Development of Functional Thin Films ▶     Kyung Hyun Choi, Hyun Bum Kim, Kamran Ali et al.     Conventional surface acoustic wave - electrostatic deposition (SAW-ED) technology is struggling to compete with other thin film fabrication technologies because of its limitation …             Differentiation of oral bacteria in in vitro cultures and human saliva by secondary electrospray ionization – mass spectrometry ▶     Lukas Bregy, Annick R. Müggler, Pablo Martinez-Lozano Sinues et al.     The detection of bacterial-specific volatile metabolites may be a valuable tool to predict infection. Here we applied a real-time mass spectrometric technique to investigate …             A scanning acoustic microscope discriminates cancer cells in fluid ▶     Katsutoshi Miura, Seiji Yamamoto     Scanning acoustic microscopy (SAM) discriminates lesions in sections by assessing the speed of sound (SOS) or attenuation of sound (AOS) through tissues within a few minutes …             Targeting autocrine HB-EGF signaling with specific ADAM12 inhibition using recombinant ADAM12 prodomain ▶     Miles A. Miller, Marcia L. Moss, Gary Powell et al.     Dysregulation of ErbB-family signaling underlies numerous pathologies and has been therapeutically targeted through inhibiting ErbB-receptors themselves or their cognate ligands. …             Resonance modulated amplified emission from CdSSe nanoribbons ▶     T. Wood, K. T. Cheung, Y. Foo et al.     We present evidence of amplified emission mediated by surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) from a CdS0.2Se0.8 nanoribbon (NR) supported on a gold-coated silicon substrate. Room …             Spin-current emission governed by nonlinear spin dynamics ▶     Takaharu Tashiro, Saki Matsuura, Akiyo Nomura et al.     Coupling between conduction electrons and localized magnetization is responsible for a variety of phenomena in spintronic devices. This coupling enables to generate spin currents …             Ruthenium nanoparticles confined in SBA-15 as highly efficient catalyst for hydrolytic dehydrogenation of ammonia borane and hydrazine borane ▶     Qilu Yao, Zhang-Hui Lu, Kangkang Yang et al.     Ultrafine ruthenium nanoparticles (NPs) within the mesopores of the SBA-15 have been successfully prepared by using a “double solvents” method, in which n-hexane is used as a …             Observation of tunable electrical bandgap in large-area twisted bilayer graphene synthesized by chemical vapor deposition ▶     Jing-Bo Liu, Ping-Jian Li, Yuan-Fu Chen et al.     Although there are already many efforts to investigate the electronic structures of twisted bilayer graphene, a definitive conclusion has not yet been reached. In particular, it …             Density Functional Theory for Steady-State Nonequilibrium Molecular Junctions ▶     Shuanglong Liu, Argo Nurbawono, Chun Zhang     We present a density functional theory (DFT) for steady-state nonequilibrium quantum systems such as molecular junctions under a finite bias. Based on the steady-state …             Artificial Gauge Field and Topological Phase in a Conventional Two-dimensional Electron Gas with Antidot Lattices ▶     Likun Shi, Wenkai Lou, F. Cheng et al.     Based on the Born-Oppemheimer approximation, we divide the total electron Hamiltonian in a spin-orbit coupled system into the slow orbital motion and the fast interband …             Gold nanoparticles assembled with dithiocarbamate-anchored molecular wires ▶     Nini E. A. Reeler, Knud A. Lerstrup, Walter Somerville et al.     A protocol for the bottom-up self-assembly of nanogaps is developed through molecular linking of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). Two π-conjugated oligo(phenylene ethynylene) …             High nitrogen-containing cotton derived 3D porous carbon frameworks for high-performance supercapacitors ▶     Li-Zhen Fan, Tian-Tian Chen, Wei-Li Song et al.     Supercapacitors fabricated by 3D porous carbon frameworks, such as graphene- and carbon nanotube (CNT)-based aerogels, have been highly attractive due to their various …             Anodic Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence of Ru(bpy)32+ with CdSe Quantum Dots as Coreactant and Its Application in Quantitative Detection of DNA ▶     Yong-Ping Dong, Ting-Ting Gao, Ying Zhou et al.     In the present paper, we report that CdSe quantum dots (QDs) can act as the coreactant of Ru(bpy)32+ electrogenerated chemiluminescence (ECL) in neutral condition. Strong anodic …             Dynamic manipulation of particles via transformative optofluidic waveguides ▶     Kang Soo Lee, Kyung Heon Lee, Sang Bok Kim et al.     Optofluidics is one of the most remarkable areas in the field of microfluidic research. Particle manipulation with optofluidic platforms has become central to optical …             Finite-key security analyses on passive decoy-state QKD protocols with different unstable sources ▶     Ting-Ting Song, Su-Juan Qin, Qiao-Yan Wen et al.     In quantum communication, passive decoy-state QKD protocols can eliminate many side channels, but the protocols without any finite-key analyses are not suitable for in practice. …             Hollow ZIF-8 Nanoworms from Block Copolymer Templates ▶     Haizhou Yu, Xiaoyan Qiu, Pradeep Neelakanda et al.     Recently two quite different types of “nano-containers” have been recognized as attractive potential drug carriers; these are wormlike filamenteous micelles (“filomicelles”) on …             Possible Demonstration of a Polaronic Bose-Einstein(-Mott) Condensate in UO2(+x) by Ultrafast THz Spectroscopy and Microwave Dissipation ▶     Steven D. Conradson, Steven M. Gilbertson, Stephanie L. Daifuku et al.     Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) composed of polarons would be an advance because they would combine coherently charge, spin, and a crystal lattice. Following our earlier report …             Phase Equilibria, Crystal Structure and Hydriding/Dehydriding Mechanism of Nd4Mg80Ni8 Compound ▶     Qun Luo, Qin-Fen Gu, Jie-Yu Zhang et al.     In order to find out the optimal composition of novel Nd-Mg-Ni alloys for hydrogen storage, the isothermal section of Nd-Mg-Ni system at 400 °C is established by examining the …             Manganese-Mediated Coupling Reaction of Vinylarenes and Aliphatic Alcohols ▶     Wei Zhang, Nai-Xing Wang, Cui-Bing Bai et al.     Alcohols and alkenes are the most abundant and commonly used organic building blocks in the large-scale chemical synthesis. Herein, this is the first time to report a novel and …             The start of lightning: Evidence of bidirectional lightning initiation ▶     Joan Montanyà, Oscar van der Velde, Earle R. Williams     Lightning flashes are known to initiate in regions of strong electric fields inside thunderstorms, between layers of positively and negatively charged precipitation particles. …             Mass Spectrometric and Spectrofluorometric Studies of the Interaction of Aristolochic Acids with Proteins ▶     Weiwei Li, Qin Hu, Wan Chan     Aristolochic acid (AA) is a potent carcinogen and nephrotoxin and is associated with the development of “Chinese herb nephropathy” and Balkan endemic nephropathy. Despite decades …             Biophysical optimality of the golden angle in phyllotaxis ▶     Takuya Okabe     Plant leaves are arranged around a stem axis in a regular pattern characterized by common fractions, a phenomenon known as phyllotaxis or phyllotaxy. As plants grow, these …             Three-dimensional chemotaxis-driven aggregation of tumor cells ▶     Alberto Puliafito, Alessandro De Simone, Giorgio Seano et al.     One of the most important steps in tumor progression involves the transformation from a differentiated epithelial phenotype to an aggressive, highly motile phenotype, where tumor …             Chitosan nanoparticles: A positive modulator of innate immune responses in plants ▶     Swarnendu Chandra, Nilanjan Chakraborty, Adhiraj Dasgupta et al.     The immunomodulatory role of the natural biopolymer, chitosan, has already been demonstrated in plants, whilst its nanoparticles have only been examined for biomedical …             Corrigendum: AGM2015: Antineutrino Global Map 2015 ▶     S. M. Usman, G. R. Jocher, S. T. Dye et al.                 Enhanced electron-phonon coupling for a semiconductor charge qubit in a surface phonon cavity ▶     J. C. H. Chen, Y. Sato, R. Kosaka et al.     Electron-phonon coupling is a major decoherence mechanism, which often causes scattering and energy dissipation in semiconductor electronic systems. However, this electron-phonon …             Observation of quantum recoherence of photons by spatial propagation ▶     Frédéric Bouchard, Jérémie Harris, Harjaspreet Mand et al.     Entanglement is at the heart of many unusual and counterintuitive features of quantum mechanics. Once two quantum subsystems have become entangled, it is no longer possible to …             Optical design of nanowire absorbers for wavelength selective photodetectors ▶     S. Mokkapati, D. Saxena, H. H. Tan et al.     We propose the optical design for the absorptive element of photodetectors to achieve wavelength selective photo response based on resonant guided modes supported in …             Toward Improved Lifetimes of Organic Solar Cells under Thermal Stress: Substrate-Dependent Morphological Stability of PCDTBT:PCBM Films and Devices ▶     Zhe Li, Kar Ho Chiu, Raja Shahid Ashraf et al.     Morphological stability is a key requirement for outdoor operation of organic solar cells. We demonstrate that morphological stability and lifetime of polymer/fullerene based …             The effect of enamel proteins on erosion ▶     T. Baumann, T. S. Carvalho, A. Lussi     Enamel proteins form a scaffold for growing hydroxyapatite crystals during enamel formation. They are then almost completely degraded during enamel maturation, resulting in a …             Transmission of Hundred-keV Protons through Insulating Nanocapillaries: Charge-patch-assisted Specular Reflections ▶     G. Y. Wang, J. X. Shao, Q. Song et al.     In this work, we measured the time evolution of the transmission features of 10–100 keV protons transmitted through nanocapillaries in a polycarbonate (PC) membrane. After …             High Elastic Moduli of a 54Al2O3-46Ta2O5 Glass Fabricated via Containerless Processing ▶     Gustavo A. Rosales-Sosa, Atsunobu Masuno, Yuji Higo et al.     Glasses with high elastic moduli have been in demand for many years because the thickness of such glasses can be reduced while maintaining its strength. Moreover, thinner and …             Structure and Properties of Silica Glass Densified in Cold Compression and Hot Compression ▶     Michael Guerette, Michael R. Ackerson, Jay Thomas et al.     Silica glass has been shown in numerous studies to possess significant capacity for permanent densification under pressure at different temperatures to form high density …             Harmonizing HeLa cell cytoskeleton behavior by multi-Ti oxide phased nanostructure synthesized through ultrashort pulsed laser ▶     Chandramouli Chinnakkannu Vijayakumar, Krishnan Venkatakrishnan, Bo Tan     Knowledge about cancer cell behavior on heterogeneous nanostructures is relevant for developing a distinct biomaterial that can actuate cancer cells. In this manuscript, we have …             Microwave field frequency and current density modulated skyrmion-chain in nanotrack ▶     Fusheng Ma, Motohiko Ezawa, Yan Zhou     Magnetic skyrmions are promising candidates as information carriers for the next-generation spintronic devices because of their small size, facile current-driven motion and …             Quantification of Interfibrillar Shear Stress in Aligned Soft Collagenous Tissues via Notch Tension Testing ▶     Spencer E. Szczesny, Jeffrey L. Caplan, Pal Pedersen et al.     The mechanical function of soft collagenous tissues is largely determined by their hierarchical organization of collagen molecules. While collagen fibrils are believed to be …             Simultaneous excitation and emission enhancements in upconversion luminescence using plasmonic double-resonant gold nanorods ▶     Xin Liu, Dang Yuan Lei     The geometry and dimension of a gold nanorod (GNR) are optimally designed to enhance the fluorescence intensity of a lanthanide-doped upconversion nanocrystal placed in close …             Electronic Structures of Clusters of Hydrogen Vacancies on Graphene ▶     Bi-Ru Wu, Chih-Kai Yang     Hydrogen vacancies in graphane are products of incomplete hydrogenation of graphene. The missing H atoms can alter the electronic structure of graphane and therefore tune the …             Qubit-Programmable Operations on Quantum Light Fields ▶     Marco Barbieri, Nicolò Spagnolo, Franck Ferreyrol et al.     Engineering quantum operations is a crucial capability needed for developing quantum technologies and designing new fundamental physics tests. Here we propose a scheme for …             Stacking sequence determines Raman intensities of observed interlayer shear modes in 2D layered materials – A general bond polarizability model ▶     Xin Luo, Xin Lu, Chunxiao Cong et al.     2D layered materials have recently attracted tremendous interest due to their fascinating properties and potential applications. The interlayer interactions are much weaker than …             Experimental Realization of a Quantum Pentagonal Lattice ▶     Hironori Yamaguchi, Tsuyoshi Okubo, Shunichiro Kittaka et al.     Geometric frustration, in which competing interactions give rise to degenerate ground states, potentially induces various exotic quantum phenomena in magnetic materials. Minimal …             Zeta-Fe2O3 – A new stable polymorph in iron(III) oxide family ▶     Jiří Tuček, Libor Machala, Shigeaki Ono et al.     Iron(III) oxide shows a polymorphism, characteristic of existence of phases with the same chemical composition but distinct crystal structures and, hence, physical properties. …             Origin of metallic behavior in NiCo2O4 ferrimagnet ▶     Yugandhar Bitla, Yi-Ying Chin, Jheng-Cyuan Lin et al.     Predicting and understanding the cation distribution in spinels has been one of the most interesting problems in materials science. The present work investigates the effect of …             The strength of electron electron correlation in Cs3C60 ▶     L. Baldassarre, A. Perucchi, M. Mitrano et al.     Cs3C60 is an antiferromagnetic insulator that under pressure (P) becomes metallic and superconducting below Tc = 38 K. The superconducting dome present in the T − P phase diagram …             Superconducting/magnetic Three-state Nanodevice for Memory and Reading Applications ▶     J. del Valle, A. Gomez, E. M. Gonzalez et al.     We present a simple nanodevice that can operate in two modes: i) non-volatile three-state memory and ii) reading device. The nanodevice can retain three well defined states −1, 0 …             In situ X-ray nanotomography of metal surfaces during electropolishing ▶     Maryana I. Nave, Jason P. Allen, Yu-chen Karen Chen-Wiegart et al.     A low voltage electropolishing of metal wires is attractive for nanotechnology because it provides centimeter long and micrometer thick probes with the tip radius of tens of …             Co/Mo bimetallic addition to electrolytic manganese dioxide for oxygen generation in acid medium ▶     Dario Delgado, Manickam Minakshi, Justin McGinnity et al.     An efficient electrocatalyst comprising inexpensive and earth-abundant materials for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is crucial for the development of water electrolysis. In …             Efficient Photocatalytic Activities of TiO2 Hollow Fibers with Mixed Phases and Mesoporous Walls ▶     Huilin Hou, Minghui Shang, Lin Wang et al.     Currently, Degussa P25, with the typical mixed phases of anatase and rutile TiO2, is widely applied as the commercial photocatalysts. However, there are still some of obstacles …             Using AIE Luminogen for Long-term and Low-background Three-Photon Microscopic Functional Bioimaging ▶     Zhenfeng Zhu, Chris W. T. Leung, Xinyuan Zhao et al.     Fluorescent probes are one of the most popularly used bioimaging markers to monitor metabolic processes of living cells. However, long-term light excitation always leads to …             Repeated Solid-state Dewetting of Thin Gold Films for Nanogap-rich Plasmonic Nanoislands ▶     Minhee Kang, Sang-Gil Park, Ki-Hun Jeong     This work reports a facile wafer-level fabrication for nanogap-rich gold nanoislands for highly sensitive surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) by repeating solid-state …             Low-Cost High-Performance MRI ▶     Mathieu Sarracanie, Cristen D. LaPierre, Najat Salameh et al.     Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is unparalleled in its ability to visualize anatomical structure and function non-invasively with high spatial and temporal resolution. Yet to …             Water adsorption on TiO2 surfaces probed by soft X-ray spectroscopies: bulk materials vs. isolated nanoparticles ▶     Safia Benkoula, Olivier Sublemontier, Minna Patanen et al.     We describe an experimental method to probe the adsorption of water at the surface of isolated, substrate-free TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) based on soft X-ray spectroscopy in the …             Boosting thermoelectric efficiency using time-dependent control ▶     Hangbo Zhou, Juzar Thingna, Peter Hänggi et al.     Thermoelectric efficiency is defined as the ratio of power delivered to the load of a device to the rate of heat flow from the source. Till date, it has been studied in presence …             Capturing ultrafast photoinduced local structural distortions of BiFeO3 ▶     Haidan Wen, Michel Sassi, Zhenlin Luo et al.     The interaction of light with materials is an intensively studied research forefront, in which the coupling of radiation energy to selective degrees of freedom offers …             Dressed Gain from the Parametrically Amplified Four-Wave Mixing Process in an Atomic Vapor ▶     Zhaoyang Zhang, Feng Wen, Junling Che et al.     With a forward cone emitting from the strong pump laser in a thermal rubidium atomic vapor, we investigate the non-degenerate parametrically amplified four-wave mixing (PA-FWM) …             Width-controlled M-type hexagonal strontium ferrite (SrFe12O19) nanoribbons with high saturation magnetization and superior coercivity synthesized by electrospinning ▶     Panpan Jing, Jinlu Du, Jianbo Wang et al.     Width-controlled M-type hexagonal SrFe12O19 nanoribbons were synthesized for the first time via polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) sol assisted electrospinning followed by heat treatment …             Writable electrochemical energy source based on graphene oxide ▶     Di Wei     Graphene oxide (GO) was mainly used as raw material for various types of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) as a cost effective method to make graphene like materials. However, …             First-Principles Determination of Ultralow Thermal Conductivity of monolayer WSe2 ▶     Wu-Xing Zhou, Ke-Qiu Chen     By using first-principles calculations combined with the phonon Boltzmann transport equation, we systematically investigate the phonon transport of monolayer WSe2. Compared with …             A combined experimental-numerical approach for determining mechanical properties of aluminum subjects to nanoindentation ▶     Mao Liu, Cheng Lu, Kiet Anh Tieu et al.     A crystal plasticity finite element method (CPFEM) model has been developed to investigate the mechanical properties and micro-texture evolution of single-crystal aluminum …             An improved scheme on decoy-state method for measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution ▶     Dong Wang, Mo Li, Guang-Can Guo et al.     Quantum key distribution involving decoy-states is a significant application of quantum information. By using three-intensity decoy-states of single-photon-added coherent …             Stability and conductivity of self assembled wires in a transverse electric field ▶     C. Stephenson, A. Hubler     Self assembling wire networks typically evolve to minimize the resistance across electrical contacts which are frequently used in a manner comparable to Hebbian learning. In this …             A Simple Approach to Characterize Gas-Aqueous Liquid Two-phase Flow Configuration Based on Discrete Solid-Liquid Contact Electrification ▶     Dongwhi Choi, Donghyeon Lee, Dong Sung Kim     In this study, we first suggest a simple approach to characterize configuration of gas-aqueous liquid two–phase flow based on discrete solid-liquid contact electrification, which …             Regulating Biocompatibility of Carbon Spheres via Defined Nanoscale Chemistry and a Careful Selection of Surface Functionalities ▶     Santosh K. Misra, Huei-Huei Chang, Prabuddha Mukherjee et al.     A plethora of nanoarchitectures have been evaluated preclincially for applications in early detection and treatment of diseases at molecular and cellular levels resulted in …             Generation of three-dimensional multiple spheroid model of olfactory ensheathing cells using floating liquid marbles ▶     Raja K. Vadivelu, Chin H. Ooi, Rebecca-Qing Yao et al.     We describe a novel protocol for three-dimensional culturing of olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs), which can be used to understand how OECs interact with other cells in three …             Reference of Temperature and Time during tempering process for non-stoichiometric FTO films ▶     J. K. Yang, B. Liang, M. J. Zhao et al.     In order to enhance the mechanical strength of Low-E glass, Fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) films have to be tempered at high temperatures together with glass substrates. The …             Progressive structural changes of Avicel, bleached softwood, and bacterial cellulose during enzymatic hydrolysis ▶     Kabindra Kafle, Heenae Shin, Christopher M. Lee et al.     A comprehensive picture of structural changes of cellulosic biomass during enzymatic hydrolysis is essential for a better understanding of enzymatic actions and development of …             On-chip Extraction of Intracellular Molecules in White Blood Cells from Whole Blood ▶     Jongchan Choi, Ji-chul Hyun, Sung Yang     The extraction of virological markers in white blood cells (WBCs) from whole blood—without reagents, electricity, or instruments—is the most important first step for diagnostic …             Real time unsupervised learning of visual stimuli in neuromorphic VLSI systems ▶     Massimiliano Giulioni, Federico Corradi, Vittorio Dante et al.     Neuromorphic chips embody computational principles operating in the nervous system, into microelectronic devices. In this domain it is important to identify computational …             Design Principles of Inert Substrates for Exploiting Gold Clusters’ Intrinsic Catalytic Reactivity ▶     Wang Gao, Ting Ting Cui, Yong Fu Zhu et al.     Ultralow stability of gold clusters prohibits the understanding of their intrinsic reactivity (that is vital for revealing the origin of gold’s catalytic properties). Using …             Nickel clusters embedded in carbon nanotubes as high performance magnets ▶     Hidetsugu Shiozawa, Antonio Briones-Leon, Oleg Domanov et al.     Ensembles of fcc nickel nanowires have been synthesized with defined mean sizes in the interior of single-wall carbon nanotubes. The method allows the intrinsic nature of …             Time-lapse contact microscopy of cell cultures based on non-coherent illumination ▶     Marion Gabriel, Dorothée Balle, Stéphanie Bigault et al.     Video microscopy offers outstanding capabilities to investigate the dynamics of biological and pathological mechanisms in optimal culture conditions. Contact imaging is one of …             Photothermally driven fast responding photo-actuators fabricated with comb-type hydrogels and magnetite nanoparticles ▶     Eunsu Lee, Dowan Kim, Haneul Kim et al.     To overcome the slow kinetics of the volume phase transition of stimuli-responsive hydrogels as platforms for soft actuators, thermally responsive comb-type hydrogels were …             Light-induced atomic desorption in a compact system for ultracold atoms ▶     Lara Torralbo-Campo, Graham D. Bruce, Giuseppe Smirne et al.     In recent years, light-induced atomic desorption (LIAD) of alkali atoms from the inner surface of a vacuum chamber has been employed in cold atom experiments for the purpose of …             Wettability and Coalescence of Cu Droplets Subjected to Two-Wall Confinement ▶     Xiongying Li, Hongru Ren, Weikang Wu et al.     Controlling droplet dynamics via wettability or movement at the nanoscale is a significant goal of nanotechnology. By performing molecular dynamics simulations, we study the …             Direct frequency comb optical frequency standard based on two-photon transitions of thermal atoms ▶     S. Y. Zhang, J. T. Wu, Y. L. Zhang et al.     Optical clocks have been the focus of science and technology research areas due to their capability to provide highest frequency accuracy and stability to date. Their superior …             Towards the Knittability of Graphene Oxide Fibres ▶     Shayan Seyedin, Mark S. Romano, Andrew I. Minett et al.     Recent developments in graphene oxide fibre (GO) processing include exciting demonstrations of hand woven textile structures. However, it is uncertain whether the fibres produced …             A dye sensitized solar cell using natural counter electrode and natural dye derived from mangosteen peel waste ▶     Wasan Maiaugree, Seksan Lowpa, Madsakorn Towannang et al.     Mangosteen peel is an inedible portion of a fruit. We are interested in using these residues as components of a dye sensitized solar cell (DSSC). Carbonized mangosteen peel was …             Quantifying dynamical spillover in co-evolving multiplex networks ▶     Vikram S. Vijayaraghavan, Pierre-André Noël, Zeev Maoz et al.     Multiplex networks (a system of multiple networks that have different types of links but share a common set of nodes) arise naturally in a wide spectrum of fields. Theoretical …             Mechanically Flexible and High-Performance CMOS Logic Circuits ▶     Wataru Honda, Takayuki Arie, Seiji Akita et al.     Low-power flexible logic circuits are key components required by the next generation of flexible electronic devices. For stable device operation, such components require a high …             Interface designed MoS2/GaAs heterostructure solar cell with sandwich stacked hexagonal boron nitride ▶     Shisheng Lin, Xiaoqiang Li, Peng Wang et al.     MoS2 is a layered two-dimensional semiconductor with a direct band gap of 1.8 eV. The MoS2/bulk semiconductor system offers a new platform for solar cell device design. Different …             Imaging of current density distributions with a Nb weak-link scanning nano-SQUID microscope ▶     Yusuke Shibata, Shintaro Nomura, Hiromi Kashiwaya et al.     Superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) are accepted as one of the highest magnetic field sensitive probes. There are increasing demands to image local magnetic …             Signature of a polyamorphic transition in the THz spectrum of vitreous GeO2 ▶     Alessandro Cunsolo, Yan Li, Chaminda N. Kodituwakku et al.     The THz spectrum of density fluctuations, S(Q, ω), of vitreous GeO2 at ambient temperature was measured by inelastic x-ray scattering from ambient pressure up to pressures well …             Non-blinking (Zn)CuInS/ZnS Quantum Dots Prepared by In Situ Interfacial Alloying Approach ▶     Aidi Zhang, Chaoqing Dong, Liang Li et al.     Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are very important optical nanomaterials with a wide range of potential applications. However, blinking behavior of single QD is an intrinsic …             Bursts of Bipolar Microsecond Pulses Inhibit Tumor Growth ▶     Michael B. Sano, Christopher B. Arena, Katelyn R. Bittleman et al.     Irreversible electroporation (IRE) is an emerging focal therapy which is demonstrating utility in the treatment of unresectable tumors where thermal ablation techniques are …             Sequence-specific RNA Photocleavage by Single-stranded DNA in Presence of Riboflavin ▶     Yongyun Zhao, Gangyi Chen, Yi Yuan et al.     Constant efforts have been made to develop new method to realize sequence-specific RNA degradation, which could cause inhibition of the expression of targeted gene. Herein, by …             The onset of faba bean farming in the Southern Levant ▶     Valentina Caracuta, Omry Barzilai, Hamudi Khalaily et al.     Even though the faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is among the most ubiquitously cultivated crops, very little is known about its origins. Here, we report discoveries of charred faba …             Three plasma metabolite signatures for diagnosing high altitude pulmonary edema ▶     Li Guo, Guangguo Tan, Ping Liu et al.     High-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) is a potentially fatal condition, occurring at altitudes greater than 3,000 m and affecting rapidly ascending, non-acclimatized healthy …             Determining Associations between Human Diseases and non-coding RNAs with Critical Roles in Network Control ▶     Haruna Kagami, Tatsuya Akutsu, Shingo Maegawa et al.     Deciphering the association between life molecules and human diseases is currently an important task in systems biology. Research over the past decade has unveiled that the human …             Sensitive Determination of Onco-metabolites of D- and L-2-hydroxyglutarate Enantiomers by Chiral Derivatization Combined with Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry Analysis ▶     Qing-Yun Cheng, Jun Xiong, Wei Huang et al.     2-hydroxyglutarate (2HG) is a potent competitor of α-ketoglutarate (α-KG) and can inhibit multiple α-KG dependent dioxygenases that function on the epigenetic modifications. 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