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08 December 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Chemical Sciences               Tuning the properties of polyhydroxybutyrate films using acetic acid via solvent casting ▶     Preetam Anbukarasu, Dominic Sauvageau, Anastasia Elias     Biodegradable polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) films were fabricated using acetic acid as an alternative to common solvents such as chloroform. The PHB films were prepared using a …             Formation of Carbonized Polystyrene Sphere/hemisphere Shell Arrays by Ion Beam Irradiation and Subsequent Annealing or Chloroform Treatment ▶     Xianyin Song, Zhigao Dai, Xiangheng Xiao et al.     Heat-resistant two-dimensional (2D) sphere/hemisphere shell array is significant for the fabrication of novel nanostructures. Here large-area, well-ordered arrays of carbonized …             Effective directional self-gathering of drops on spine of cactus with splayed capillary arrays ▶     Chengcheng Liu, Yan Xue, Yuan Chen et al.     We report that the fast droplet transport without additional energy expenditure can be achieved on the spine of cactus (Gymnocalycium baldianum) with the assistance of its …             Three-dimensional Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Supported Molybdenum Disulfide Nanoparticles as an Advanced Catalyst for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction ▶     Haifeng Dong, Conghui Liu, Haitao Ye et al.     An efficient three-dimensional (3D) hybrid material of nitrogen-doped graphene sheets (N-RGO) supporting molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanoparticles with high-performance …             Integration of CdSe/CdSexTe1−x Type-II Heterojunction Nanorods into Hierarchically Porous TiO2 Electrode for Efficient Solar Energy Conversion ▶     Sangheon Lee, Joseph C. Flanagan, Joonhyeon Kang et al.     Semiconductor sensitized solar cells, a promising candidate for next-generation photovoltaics, have seen notable progress using 0-D quantum dots as light harvesting materials. …             The Comparative Studies of Binding Activity of Curcumin and Didemethylated Curcumin with Selenite: Hydrogen Bonding vs Acid-Base Interactions ▶     Jiahn-Haur Liao, Tzu-Hua Wu, Ming-Yi Chen et al.     In this report, the in vitro relative capabilities of curcumin (CCM) and didemethylated curcumin (DCCM) in preventing the selenite-induced crystallin aggregation were …             The Assembling of Poly (3-Octyl-Thiophene) on CVD Grown Single Layer Graphene ▶     Yanqiu Jiang, Ling Yang, Zongxia Guo et al.     The interface between organic semiconductor and graphene electrode, especially the structure of the first few molecular layers at the interface, is crucial for the device …             Variance-corrected Michaelis-Menten equation predicts transient rates of single-enzyme reactions and response times in bacterial gene-regulation ▶     Otto Pulkkinen, Ralf Metzler     Many chemical reactions in biological cells occur at very low concentrations of constituent molecules. Thus, transcriptional gene-regulation is often controlled by poorly …             Single Particle Dynamic Imaging and Fe3+ Sensing with Bright Carbon Dots Derived from Bovine Serum Albumin Proteins ▶     Qingxiu Yang, Lin Wei, Xuanfang Zheng et al.     In this work, we demonstrated a convenient and green strategy for the synthesis of highly luminescent and water-soluble carbon dots (Cdots) by carbonizing carbon precursors, …             Defective Ti2Nb10O27.1: an advanced anode material for lithium-ion batteries ▶     Chunfu Lin, Shu Yu, Hua Zhao et al.     To explore anode materials with large capacities and high rate performances for the lithium-ion batteries of electric vehicles, defective Ti2Nb10O27.1 has been prepared through a …             When cells divide: Label-free multimodal spectral imaging for exploratory molecular investigation of living cells during cytokinesis ▶     Jen-Fang Hsu, Pei-Ying Hsieh, Hsin-Yun Hsu et al.     In vivo, molecular-level investigation of cytokinesis, the climax of the cell cycle, not only deepens our understanding of how life continues, but it will also open up new …             Three-Dimensional Assignment of the Structures of Atomic Clusters: an Example of Au8M (M=Si, Ge, Sn) Anion Clusters ▶     Yi-Rong Liu, Teng Huang, Yan-Bo Gai et al.     Identification of different isomer structures of atomic and molecular clusters has long been a challenging task in the field of cluster science. Here we present a …             A small molecule inhibitor for ATPase activity of Hsp70 and Hsc70 enhances the immune response to protein antigens ▶     Kyung-Hwa Baek, Haiying Zhang, Bo Ryeong Lee et al.     The ATPase activities of Hsp70 and Hsc70 are known to be responsible for regulation of various biological processes. However, little is known about the roles of Hsp70 and Hsc70 …             How silicene on Ag(111) oxidizes: microscopic mechanism of the reaction of O2 with silicene ▶     Tetsuya Morishita, Michelle J.S. Spencer     We demonstrate, using first-principles molecular-dynamics simulations, that oxidation of silicene can easily take place either at low or high oxygen doses, which importantly …             Anti-sense DNA d(GGCCCC)n expansions in C9ORF72 form i-motifs and protonated hairpins ▶     Anja Kovanda, Matja Zalar, Primož Šket et al.     The G4C2 hexanucleotide repeat expansion mutation (HREM) in C9ORF72, represents the most common mutation associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal …             Hierarchical One-Dimensional Ammonium Nickel Phosphate Microrods for High-Performance Pseudocapacitors ▶     Kumar Raju, Kenneth I. Ozoemena     High-performance electrochemical capacitors will drive the next-generation portable, flexible and wearable electronics. Unlike the conventional all-carbon supercapacitors …             Ultrafine ferroferric oxide nanoparticles embedded into mesoporous carbon nanotubes for lithium ion batteries ▶     Guo Gao, Qiang Zhang, Xin-Bing Cheng et al.     An effective one-pot hydrothermal method for in situ filling of multi-wall carbon nanotubes (CNT, diameter of 20–40 nm, length of 30–100 μm) with ultrafine ferroferric oxide (Fe3O…             Flower-like PEGylated MoS2 nanoflakes for near-infrared photothermal cancer therapy ▶     Wei Feng, Liang Chen, Ming Qin et al.     Photothermal cancer therapy has attracted considerable interest for cancer treatment in recent years, but the effective photothermal agents remain to be explored before this …             Cation-cation clusters in ionic liquids: Cooperative hydrogen bonding overcomes like-charge repulsion ▶     Anne Knorr, Ralf Ludwig     Direct spectroscopic evidence for H-bonding between like-charged ions is reported for the ionic liquid, 1-(2-hydroxyethyl)-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate. New infrared …             Visible light photoactivity of Polypropylene coated Nano-TiO2 for dyes degradation in water ▶     R. Giovannetti, C. A. D’ Amato, M. Zannotti et al.     The use of Polypropylene as support material for nano-TiO2 photocatalyst in the photodegradation of Alizarin Red S in water solutions under the action of visible light was …             Saltwater icephobicity: Influence of surface chemistry on saltwater icing ▶     Katherine Carpenter, Vaibhav Bahadur     Most studies on icephobicity focus on ice formation with pure water. This manuscript presents studies to understand the influence of surfaces on saltwater ice nucleation and …             Controllable Phase Separation by Boc-Modified Lipophilic Acid as a Multifunctional Extractant ▶     Kai Tao, Lihi Adler-Abramovich, Ehud Gazit     While phase separation of immiscible liquid-liquid systems has become increasingly significant in diverse areas, the irreversible nature limits their further application in …             ICE1 of Pyrus ussuriensis functions in cold tolerance by enhancing PuDREBa transcriptional levels through interacting with PuHHP1 ▶     Xiaosan Huang, Kongqing Li, Cong Jin et al.     ICE1 transcription factor plays an important role in plant cold stress via regulating the expression of stress-responsive genes. In this study, a PuICE1 gene isolated from Pyrus …             Tuning of nanoparticle biological functionality through controlled surface chemistry and characterisation at the bioconjugated nanoparticle surface ▶     Delyan R. Hristov, Louise Rocks, Philip M. Kelly et al.     We have used a silica – PEG based bionanoconjugate synthetic scheme to study the subtle connection between cell receptor specific recognition and architecture of surface …             Facile Synthesis of Coaxial CNTs/MnOx-Carbon Hybrid Nanofibers and Their Greatly Enhanced Lithium Storage Performance ▶     Zunxian Yang, Jun Lv, Haidong Pang et al.     Carbon nanotubes (CNTs)/MnOx-Carbon hybrid nanofibers have been successfully synthesized by the combination of a liquid chemical redox reaction (LCRR) and a subsequent …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Clinical Research Fellow     Imperial College London            3 PhD positions - Research Assistant     Technische Universität Berlin            Research Fellow     Queen's University Belfast            Staff Associate     Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center            Senior Bioinformatician Band 6     Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation            Postdoctoral Fellow     Rutgers New Jersey Medical School            Young Researchers     Wallenberg Academy Fellows - Swedish university            Postdoc Positions     University of Texas            Research Fellow Job     Mayo Clinic            Tenure-Track Faculty Position     Ohio State 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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