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12 January 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         All content now open access including archives! Nature Communications is an open access journal that publishes high-quality research from all areas of the natural sciences. Papers published by the journal represent important advances of significance to specialists within each subject area including chemistry. Visit the website to explore ALL the content available within your field.           Chemical Sciences               Bright and photostable push-pull pyrene dye visualizes lipid order variation between plasma and intracellular membranes ▶     Yosuke Niko, Pascal Didier, Yves Mely et al.     Imaging lipid organization in cell membranes requires advanced fluorescent probes. Here, we show that a recently synthesized push-pull pyrene (PA), similarly to popular probe …             Extraction, purification and anti-fatigue activity of γ-aminobutyric acid from mulberry (Morus alba L.) leaves ▶     Hengwen Chen, Xuanhui He, Yan Liu et al.     Mulberry (Morus alba L.) is a tree species of Moraceae widely distributed in Southern China. In the present study, the white crystal of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) was purified …             Directional Movement of Droplets in Grooves: Suspended or Immersed? ▶     Wei Xu, Zhong Lan, Benli Peng et al.     The behavior of droplets trapped in geometric structures is essential to droplet manipulation applications such as for droplet transport. Here we show that directional droplet …             Surfactants for Bubble Removal against Buoyancy ▶     Md. Qaisar Raza, Nirbhay Kumar, Rishi Raj     The common phenomenon of buoyancy-induced vapor bubble lift-off from a heated surface is of importance to many areas of science and technology. In the absence of buoyancy in zero …             Metal-free organic dyes for TiO2 and ZnO dye-sensitized solar cells ▶     Gurpreet Singh Selopal, Hui-Ping Wu, Jianfeng Lu et al.     We report the synthesis and characterization of new metal-free organic dyes (namely B18, BTD-R, and CPTD-R) which designed with D-π-A concept to extending the light absorption …             Improved Li storage performance in SnO2 nanocrystals by a synergetic doping ▶     Ning Wan, Xia Lu, Yuesheng Wang et al.     Tin dioxide (SnO2) is a widely investigated lithium (Li) storage material because of its easy preparation, two-step storage mechanism and high specific capacity for lithium-ion …             A new way to synthesize superconducting metal-intercalated C60 and FeSe ▶     Yuuki Takahei, Keitaro Tomita, Yugo Itoh et al.     Doping with the optimum concentration of carriers (electrons or holes) can modify the physical properties of materials. Therefore, improved ways to achieve carrier doping have …             Rubber-like Quasi-thermosetting Polyetheramine-cured Epoxy Asphalt Composites Capable of Being Opened to Traffic Immediately ▶     Yang Kang, Qiang Wu, Rui Jin et al.     This paper reports the facile preparation, mechanical performance and linear viscoelasticity of polyetheramine-cured rubber-like epoxy asphalt composites (EACs) with different …             Size-dependent redox behavior of iron observed by in-situ single nanoparticle spectro-microscopy on well-defined model systems ▶     Waiz Karim, Armin Kleibert, Urs Hartfelder et al.     Understanding the chemistry of nanoparticles is crucial in many applications. Their synthesis in a controlled manner and their characterization at the single particle level is …             Aspergillus flavus Conidia-derived Carbon/Sulfur Composite as a Cathode Material for High Performance Lithium–Sulfur Battery ▶     Maowen Xu, Min Jia, Cuiping Mao et al.     A novel approach was developed to prepare porous carbon materials with an extremely high surface area of 2459.6 m2g−1 by using Aspergillus flavus conidia as precursors. The …             NIR Electrofluorochromic Properties of Aza-Boron-dipyrromethene Dyes ▶     Hanwhuy Lim, Seogjae Seo, Simon Pascal et al.     The photophysical properties of near-infrared (NIR) emissive aza-boron-dipyrromethene (aza-BDP) dyes incorporating nitrofluorene and alkoxy decorations were intensively …             Probing the molecular design of hyper-branched aryl polyesters towards lubricant applications ▶     Joshua W. Robinson, Yan Zhou, Priyanka Bhattacharya et al.     We report novel polymeric materials that may be used as viscosity index improvers (VII) for lubricant applications. Our efforts included probing the comb-burst hyper-branched …             Ultrahigh Performance of Novel Capacitive Deionization Electrodes based on A Three-Dimensional Graphene Architecture with Nanopores ▶     Wenhui Shi, Haibo Li, Xiehong Cao et al.     In order to achieve optimal desalination during capacitive deionization (CDI), CDI electrodes should possess high electrical conductivity, large surface area, good wettability to …             Direct ultrasensitive electrochemical biosensing of pathogenic DNA using homogeneous target-initiated transcription amplification ▶     Yurong Yan, Shijia Ding, Dan Zhao et al.     Sensitive and specific methodologies for detection of pathogenic gene at the point-of-care are still urgent demands in rapid diagnosis of infectious diseases. This work develops …             Gold nanoparticles supported on mesoporous silica: origin of high activity and role of Au NPs in selective oxidation of cyclohexane ▶     Pingping Wu, Peng Bai, Zifeng Yan et al.     Homogeneous immobilization of gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) on mesoporous silica has been achieved by using a one-pot synthesis method in the presence of organosilane …             Supramolecular polymerization of a prebiotic nucleoside provides insights into the creation of sequence-controlled polymers ▶     Jun Wang, Peter V. Bonnesen, E. Rangel et al.     Self-assembly of a nucleoside on Au(111) was studied to ascertain whether polymerization on well-defined substrates constitutes a promising approach for making …             Large and pristine films of reduced graphene oxide ▶     Sung Il Ahn, Kukjoo Kim, Jura Jung et al.     A new self-assembly concept is introduced to form large and pristine films (15 cm in diameter) of reduced graphene oxide (RGO). The resulting film has different degrees of …             Quantifying electron transfer reactions in biological systems: what interactions play the major role? ▶     Emil Sjulstok, Jógvan Magnus Haugaard Olsen, Ilia A. Solov’yov     Various biological processes involve the conversion of energy into forms that are usable for chemical transformations and are quantum mechanical in nature. Such processes involve …             Prediction of novel stable compounds in the Mg-Si-O system under exoplanet pressures ▶     Haiyang Niu, Artem R. Oganov, Xing-Qiu Chen et al.     The Mg-Si-O system is the major Earth and rocky planet-forming system. Here, through quantum variable-composition evolutionary structure explorations, we have discovered several …             HIV-1 Protease Dimerization Dynamics Reveals a Transient Druggable Binding Pocket at the Interface ▶     Fabio Pietrucci, Attilio Vittorio Vargiu, Agata Kranjc     The binding mechanism of HIV-1 protease monomers leading to the catalytically competent dimeric enzyme has been investigated by means of state-of-the-art atomistic simulations. …             Global insights into acetic acid resistance mechanisms and genetic stability of Acetobacter pasteurianus strains by comparative genomics ▶     Bin Wang, Yanchun Shao, Tao Chen et al.     Acetobacter pasteurianus (Ap) CICC 20001 and CGMCC 1.41 are two acetic acid bacteria strains that, because of their strong abilities to produce and tolerate high concentrations …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       MRC Postdoctoral Scientist (CSC 74)     Medical Research Council            Biostatistician     The Henry M.Jackson Foundation            Postdoctoral Fellow / Doctoral Student     Helmholtz Association            Research Associate     University College London (UCL)            Charity Officer     Myrovlytis Trust            Research Associate (Fixed Term)     University of Cambridge            Postdoctoral Fellow     Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute            Postdoc Position     Weill Cornell College of Medicine            Postdoctoral Researcher     INSERM U1100            Research Scientist     MIT          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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