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09 February 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports       Physical Sciences               Easily doped p-type, low hole effective mass, transparent oxides ▶     Nasrin Sarmadian, Rolando Saniz, Bart Partoens et al.     Fulfillment of the promise of transparent electronics has been hindered until now largely by the lack of semiconductors that can be doped p-type in a stable way, and that at the …             Spectroscopy of carrier multiplication in nanocrystals ▶     Benjamin Bruhn, Rens Limpens, Nguyen Xuan Chung et al.     Carrier multiplication in nanostructures promises great improvements in a number of widely used technologies, among others photodetectors and solar cells. The decade since its …             Tracking ink composition on Herculaneum papyrus scrolls: quantification and speciation of lead by X-ray based techniques and Monte Carlo simulations ▶     Pieter Tack, Marine Cotte, Stephen Bauters et al.     The writing in carbonized Herculaneum scrolls, covered and preserved by the pyroclastic events of the Vesuvius in 79 AD, was recently revealed using X-ray phase-contrast …             Robust superhydrophobic surface on Al substrate with durability, corrosion resistance and ice-phobicity ▶     Guoyong Wang, Shuai Liu, Sufeng Wei et al.     Practical application of superhydrophobic surfaces is limited by the fragility of nanoscale asperities. Combining chemical etching and anodization, microscale pits and nanoscale …             Corrigendum: Green synthesis of carbon-supported nanoparticle catalysts by physical vapor deposition on soluble powder substrates ▶     Hee-Young Park, Injoon Jang, Namgee Jung et al.                 Corrigendum: Graphene based flexible electrochromic devices ▶     Emre O. Polat, Osman Balcı, Coskun Kocabas                 Model predictions of features in microsaccade-related neural responses in a feedforward network with short-term synaptic depression ▶     Jian-Fang Zhou, Wu-Jie Yuan, Zhao Zhou et al.     Recently, the significant microsaccade-induced neural responses have been extensively observed in experiments. To explore the underlying mechanisms of the observed neural …             Thermoelectric Power in Bilayer Graphene Device with Ionic Liquid Gating ▶     Yung-Yu Chien, Hongtao Yuan, Chang-Ran Wang et al.     The quest for materials showing large thermoelectric power has long been one of the important subjects in material science and technology. Such materials have great potential for …             Differentially pumped spray deposition as a rapid screening tool for organic and perovskite solar cells ▶     Yen-Sook Jung, Kyeongil Hwang, Fiona H. Scholes et al.     We report a spray deposition technique as a screening tool for solution processed solar cells. A dual-feed spray nozzle is introduced to deposit donor and acceptor materials …             First-Principles Investigation to Ionization of Argon Under Conditions Close to Typical Sonoluminescence Experiments ▶     Wei Kang, Shijun Zhao, Shen Zhang et al.     Mott effect, featured by a sharp increase of ionization, is one of the unique properties of partially ionized plasmas, and thus of great interest to astrophysics and inertial …             Iron Pyrite/Titanium Dioxide Photoanode for Extended Near Infrared Light Harvesting in a Photoelectrochemical Cell ▶     Di-Yan Wang, Cheng-Hung Li, Shao-Sian Li et al.     The design of active and stable semiconducting composites with enhanced photoresponse from visible light to near infrared (NIR) is a key to improve solar energy harvesting for …             On the use of structured light in nonlinear optics studies of the symmetry group of a crystal ▶     Rocio Jáuregui, Juan P. Torres     We put forward a technique that allows to extract information about the symmetry group to which certain nonlinear crystals belong using a single illuminating beam. It provides …             Enhancing capacitance behaviour of CoOOH nanostructures using transition metal dopants by ambient oxidation ▶     Yanhui Chen, Junfeng Zhou, Pierce Maguire et al.     Cobalt hydrate and doped binary Co0.9M0.1OOH (M = Ni, Mn, Fe) nanorings of 100–300 nm were fabricated in solution through a facile ambient oxidation method. A transformation from …             Upward shift of the vortex solid phase in high-temperature-superconducting wires through high density nanoparticle addition ▶     Masashi Miura, Boris Maiorov, Fedor F. Balakirev et al.     We show a simple and effective way to improve the vortex irreversibility line up to very high magnetic fields (60T) by increasing the density of second phase BaZrO3 …             Significant improvements in InGaN/GaN nano-photoelectrodes for hydrogen generation by structure and polarization optimization ▶     Tao Tao, Ting Zhi, Bin Liu et al.     The photoelectrodes based on III-nitride semiconductors with high energy conversion efficiency especially for those self-driven ones are greatly desirable for hydrogen …             Sustainability of Transient Kinetic Regimes and Origins of Death ▶     Dmitry Yu. Zubarev, Leonardo A. Pachón     It is generally recognized that a distinguishing feature of life is its peculiar capability to avoid equilibration. The origin of this capability and its evolution along the …             Restoring a nearly free-standing character of graphene on Ru(0001) by oxygen intercalation ▶     Elena Voloshina, Nikolai Berdunov, Yuriy Dedkov     Realization of a free-standing graphene is always a demanding task. Here we use scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy to study the crystallographic structure and electronic …             Doubly Resonant Optical Periodic Structure ▶     G. Alagappan, C. E. Png     Periodic structures are well known in various branches of physics for their ability to provide a stopband. In this article, using optical periodic structures we showed that, when …             Artificial Life in Quantum Technologies ▶     Unai Alvarez-Rodriguez, Mikel Sanz, Lucas Lamata et al.     We develop a quantum information protocol that models the biological behaviours of individuals living in a natural selection scenario. The artificially engineered evolution of …             Moiré superlattices at the topological insulator Bi2Te3 ▶     Koen Schouteden, Zhe Li, Taishi Chen et al.     We report on the observation of complex superlattices at the surface of the topological insulator Bi2Te3. Scanning tunneling microscopy reveals the existence of two different …             Role of the Pinning Points in epitaxial Graphene Moiré Superstructures on the Pt(111) Surface ▶     José I. Martínez, Pablo Merino, Anna L. Pinardi et al.     The intrinsic atomic mechanisms responsible for electronic doping of epitaxial graphene Moirés on transition metal surfaces is still an open issue. To better understand this …             Oriented Nucleation of both Ge-Fresnoite and Benitoite/BaGe4O9 during the Surface Crystallisation of Glass Studied by Electron Backscatter Diffraction ▶     Wolfgang Wisniewski, Marek Patschger, Steliana Murdzheva et al.     Two glasses of the compositions 2 BaO - TiO2 - 2.75 GeO2 and 2 BaO – TiO2 –3.67 GeO2 (also known as BTG55) are annealed at temperatures from 680 to 970 °C to induce surface …             Direct observation of charge state in the quasi-one-dimensional conductor Li0.9Mo6O17 ▶     Guoqing Wu, Xiao-shan Ye, Xianghua Zeng et al.     The quasi-one-dimensional conductor Li0.9Mo6O17 has been of great interest because of its unusual properties. It has a conducting phase with properties different from a simple …             Probing of multiple magnetic responses in magnetic inductors using atomic force microscopy ▶     Seongjae Park, Hosung Seo, Daehee Seol et al.     Even though nanoscale analysis of magnetic properties is of significant interest, probing methods are relatively less developed compared to the significance of the technique, …             Theranostic Nanoseeds for Efficacious Internal Radiation Therapy of Unresectable Solid Tumors ▶     Sina Moeendarbari, Rakesh Tekade, Aditi Mulgaonkar et al.     Malignant tumors are considered “unresectable” if they are adhere to vital structures or the surgery would cause irreversible damages to the patients. Though a variety of …             First passage time distribution in heterogeneity controlled kinetics: going beyond the mean first passage time ▶     Aljaž Godec, Ralf Metzler     The first passage is a generic concept for quantifying when a random quantity such as the position of a diffusing molecule or the value of a stock crosses a preset threshold …             A physical mechanism of cancer heterogeneity ▶     Cong Chen, Jin Wang     We studied a core cancer gene regulatory network motif to uncover possible source of cancer heterogeneity from epigenetic sources. When the time scale of the protein regulation …             Co-delivery of VEGF and bFGF via a PLGA nanoparticle-modified BAM for effective contracture inhibition of regenerated bladder tissue in rabbits ▶     Xincheng Jiang, Houwei Lin, Dapeng Jiang et al.     Graft contracture is a common problem associated with the regeneration processes of tissue-engineered bladders. Currently, most strategies used for incorporating bioactive …             A Simple low-cost device enables four epi-illumination techniques on standard light microscopes ▶     Robert R. Ishmukhametov, Aidan N. Russell, Richard J. Wheeler et al.     Back-scattering darkfield (BSDF), epi-fluorescence (EF), interference reflection contrast (IRC), and darkfield surface reflection (DFSR) are advanced but expensive light …             Dramatic enhancement of supercontinuum generation in elliptically-polarized laser filaments ▶     Shermineh Rostami, Michael Chini, Khan Lim et al.     Broadband laser sources based on supercontinuum generation in femtosecond laser filamentation have enabled applications from stand-off sensing and spectroscopy to the generation …             Controlled gelation kinetics of cucurbit[7]uril-adamantane cross-linked supramolecular hydrogels with competing guest molecules ▶     Hao Chen, Shengzhen Hou, Haili Ma et al.     Gelation kinetics of hydrogels is closely linked to many applications such as the development of injectable and printable hydrogels. However, the control of gelation kinetics …             Localized Single Frequency Lasing States in a Finite Parity-Time Symmetric Resonator Chain ▶     Sendy Phang, Ana Vukovic, Stephen C. Creagh et al.     In this paper a practical case of a finite periodic Parity Time chain made of resonant dielectric cylinders is considered. The paper analyzes a more general case where PT …             Skyrmion motion driven by oscillating magnetic field ▶     Kyoung-Woong Moon, Duck-Ho Kim, Soong-Geun Je et al.     The one-dimensional magnetic skyrmion motion induced by an electric current has attracted much interest because of its application potential in next-generation magnetic memory …             Non-adiabatic holonomic quantum computation in linear system-bath coupling ▶     Chunfang Sun, Gangcheng Wang, Chunfeng Wu et al.     Non-adiabatic holonomic quantum computation in decoherence-free subspaces protects quantum information from control imprecisions and decoherence. For the non-collective …             Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion of 2707 Hyper-Duplex Stainless Steel by Marine Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm ▶     Huabing Li, Enze Zhou, Dawei Zhang et al.     Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC) is a serious problem in many industries because it causes huge economic losses. Due to its excellent resistance to chemical …             Solid-state optical refrigeration to sub-100 Kelvin regime ▶     Seth D. Melgaard, Alexander R. Albrecht, Markus P. Hehlen et al.     Since the first demonstration of net cooling twenty years ago, optical refrigeration of solids has progressed to outperform all other solid-state cooling processes. It has become …             From synchrotron radiation to lab source: advanced speckle-based X-ray imaging using abrasive paper ▶     Hongchang Wang, Yogesh Kashyap, Kawal Sawhney     X-ray phase and dark-field imaging techniques provide complementary and inaccessible information compared to conventional X-ray absorption or visible light imaging. However, such …             Vector cavity solitons in broad area Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers ▶     Etienne Averlant, Mustapha Tlidi, Hugo Thienpont et al.     We report the experimental observation of two-dimensional vector cavity solitons in a Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL) under linearly polarized optical injection …             Efficient Terahertz detection in black-phosphorus nano-transistors with selective and controllable plasma-wave, bolometric and thermoelectric response ▶     Leonardo Viti, Jin Hu, Dominique Coquillat et al.     The ability to convert light into an electrical signal with high efficiencies and controllable dynamics, is a major need in photonics and optoelectronics. In the Terahertz (THz) …             Non-monotonic changes in critical solidification rates for stability of liquid-solid interfaces with static magnetic fields ▶     W. L. Ren, Y. F. Fan, J. W. Feng et al.     We report the magnetic field dependence of the critical solidification rate for the stability of liquid-solid interfaces. For a certain temperature gradient, the critical …             Transformation-optical Fan-beam Synthesis ▶     Rui Yang, Xianghui Kong, Hui Wang et al.     Gradient-index dielectric lenses are generated based on the coordinate transformation by compressing the homogeneous air spaces quasi-conformally towards and outwards the primary …             Silver Nanoclusters with Specific Ion Recognition Modulated by Ligand Passivation toward Fluorimetric and Colorimetric Copper Analysis and Biological Imaging ▶     Zongzhao Sun, Shuying Li, Yao Jiang et al.     Silver nanoclusters were synthesized and passivated by glutathione (GSH) ligand, with high aqueous stability and powerful red fluorescence and UV-vis yellow colour. Importantly, …             New ZrO2/Al2O3 Nanocomposite Fabricated from Hybrid Nanoparticles Prepared by CO2 Laser Co-Vaporization ▶     José F. Bartolomé, Anton Smirnov, Heinz-Dieter Kurland et al.     Alumina toughened zirconia (ATZ) and zirconia toughened alumina (ZTA) are currently the materials of choice to meet the need for tough, strong, and bioinert ceramics for medical …             Strong Photo-Amplification Effects in Flexible Organic Capacitors with Small Molecular Solid-State Electrolyte Layers Sandwiched between Photo-Sensitive Conjugated Polymer Nanolayers ▶     Hyena Lee, Jungnam Kim, Hwajeong Kim et al.     We demonstrate strong photo-amplification effects in flexible organic capacitors which consist of small molecular solid-state electrolyte layers sandwiched between …             Novel quantum description for nonadiabatic evolution of light wave propagation in time-dependent linear media ▶     Halim Lakehal, Mustapha Maamache, Jeong Ryeol Choi     A simple elegant expression of nonadiabatic light wave evolution is necessary in order to have a deeper insight for complicated optical phenomena in light science as well as in …             Dirac fermions at high-index surfaces of bismuth chalcogenide topological insulator nanostructures ▶     Naunidh Virk, Oleg V. Yazyev     Binary bismuth chalcogenides Bi2Se3, Bi2Te3, and related materials are currently being extensively investigated as the reference topological insulators (TIs) due to their simple …             From Allergens to Battery Anodes: Nature-Inspired, Pollen Derived Carbon Architectures for Room- and Elevated- Temperature Li-ion Storage ▶     Jialiang Tang, Vilas G. Pol     The conversion of allergic pollen grains into carbon microstructures was carried out through a facile, one-step, solid-state pyrolysis process in an inert atmosphere. The …             Unusual dimensionality effects and surface charge density in 2D Mg(OH)2 ▶     Aslihan Suslu, Kedi Wu, Hasan Sahin et al.     We present two-dimensional Mg(OH)2 sheets and their vertical heterojunctions with CVD-MoS2 for the first time as flexible 2D insulators with anomalous lattice vibration and …             New Flexible Channels for Room Temperature Tunneling Field Effect Transistors ▶     Boyi Hao, Anjana Asthana, Paniz Khanmohammadi Hazaveh et al.     Tunneling field effect transistors (TFETs) have been proposed to overcome the fundamental issues of Si based transistors, such as short channel effect, finite leakage current, …             The memory effect of magnetoelectric coupling in FeGaB/NiTi/PMN-PT multiferroic heterostructure ▶     Ziyao Zhou, Shishun Zhao, Yuan Gao et al.     Magnetoelectric coupling effect has provided a power efficient approach in controlling the magnetic properties of ferromagnetic materials. However, one remaining issue of …             Structures and Electronic Properties of Different CH3NH3PbI3/TiO2 Interface: A First-Principles Study ▶     Wei Geng, Chuan-Jia Tong, Jiang Liu et al.     Methylammonium lead iodide perovskite, CH3NH3PbI3, has attracted particular attention due to its fast increase in efficiency in dye sensitization TiO2 solid-state solar cells. We …             Ultraviolet Laser-induced ignition of RDX single crystal ▶     Zhonghua Yan, Chuanchao Zhang, Wei Liu et al.     The RDX single crystals are ignited by ultraviolet laser (355 nm, 6.4 ns) pulses. The laser-induced damage morphology consisted of two distinct regions: a core region of layered …             Self-organization of frozen light in near-zero-index media with cubic nonlinearity ▶     A. Marini, F. J. García de Abajo     Optical beams are generally unbound in bulk media, and propagate with a velocity approximately amounting to the speed of light in free-space. Guidance and full spatial …             Silver nanoparticles disrupt germline stem cell maintenance in the Drosophila testis ▶     Cynthia Ong, Qian Ying Lee, Yu Cai et al.     Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), one of the most popular nanomaterials, are commonly used in consumer products and biomedical devices, despite their potential toxicity. Recently, …             Multimodality hard-x-ray imaging of a chromosome with nanoscale spatial resolution ▶     Hanfei Yan, Evgeny Nazaretski, Kenneth Lauer et al.     We developed a scanning hard x-ray microscope using a new class of x-ray nano-focusing optic called a multilayer Laue lens and imaged a chromosome with nanoscale spatial …             Visualising inter-subject variability in fMRI using threshold-weighted overlap maps ▶     Mohamed L. Seghier, Cathy J. Price     Functional neuroimaging studies are revealing the neural systems sustaining many sensory, motor and cognitive abilities. A proper understanding of these systems requires an …             Establishment of feeder-free culture system for human induced pluripotent stem cell on DAS nanocrystalline graphene ▶     Hyunah Lee, Donggyu Nam, Jae-Kyung Choi et al.     The maintenance of undifferentiated human pluripotent stem cells (hPSC) under xeno-free condition requires the use of human feeder cells or extracellular matrix (ECM) coating. …             Color tunable low cost transparent heat reflector using copper and titanium oxide for energy saving application ▶     Goutam Kumar Dalapati, Saeid Masudy-Panah, Sing Teng Chua et al.     Multilayer coating structure comprising a copper (Cu) layer sandwiched between titanium dioxide (TiO2) were demonstrated as a transparent heat reflecting (THR) coating on glass …             Nanoparticle Decorated Ultrathin Porous Nanosheets as Hierarchical Co3O4 Nanostructures for Lithium Ion Battery Anode Materials ▶     Jawayria Mujtaba, Hongyu Sun, Guoyong Huang et al.     We report a facile synthesis of a novel cobalt oxide (Co3O4) hierarchical nanostructure, in which crystalline core-amorphous shell Co3O4 nanoparticles with a bimodal size …             Novel water filtration of saline water in the outermost layer of mangrove roots ▶     Kiwoong Kim, Eunseok Seo, Suk-Kyu Chang et al.     The scarcity of fresh water is a global challenge faced at present. Several desalination methods have been suggested to secure fresh water from sea water. However, conventional …             Direct anodic hydrochloric acid and cathodic caustic production during water electrolysis ▶     Hui-Wen Lin, Rocío Cejudo-Marín, Adriaan W. Jeremiasse et al.     Hydrochloric acid (HCl) and caustic (NaOH) are among the most widely used chemicals by the water industry. Direct anodic electrochemical HCl production by water electrolysis has …             Anthropogenic sources of underwater sound can modify how sediment-dwelling invertebrates mediate ecosystem properties ▶     Martin Solan, Chris Hauton, Jasmin A. Godbold et al.     Coastal and shelf environments support high levels of biodiversity that are vital in mediating ecosystem processes, but they are also subject to noise associated with mounting …             Exploration of multiple Sortase A protein conformations in virtual screening ▶     Chunxia Gao, Ivana Uzelac, Johan Gottfries et al.     Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has become a major health concern which has brought about an urgent need for new therapeutic agents. As the S. aureus Sortase A …             The well-designed hierarchical structure of Musa basjoo for supercapacitors ▶     Kaiwen Zheng, Xiaorong Fan, Yingzhu Mao et al.     Application of biological structure is one of the hottest topics in the field of science and technology. The unimaginable and excellent architectures of living beings supporting …             Hybrid magnetoresistance in Pt-based multilayers: Effect originated from strong interfacial spin-orbit coupling ▶     Kangkang Meng, Jiaxing Xiao, Yong Wu et al.     The hybrid magnetoresistance (MR) behaviors in Pt/Co90Fe10/Pt, Mn1.5Ga/Pt and Mn1.5Ga/Pt/Co90Fe10/Pt multilayers have been investigated. Both planer Hall effect (PHE) and …             Exact quantum Bayesian rule for qubit measurements in circuit QED ▶     Wei Feng, Pengfei Liang, Lupei Qin et al.     Developing efficient framework for quantum measurements is of essential importance to quantum science and technology. In this work, for the important superconducting circuit-QED …             Creep turns linear in narrow ferromagnetic nanostrips ▶     Jonathan Leliaert, Ben Van de Wiele, Arne Vansteenkiste et al.     The motion of domain walls in magnetic materials is a typical example of a creep process, usually characterised by a stretched exponential velocity-force relation. By performing …             Backward spoof surface wave in plasmonic metamaterial of ultrathin metallic structure ▶     Xiaoyong Liu, Yijun Feng, Bo Zhu et al.     Backward wave with anti-parallel phase and group velocities is one of the basic properties associated with negative refraction and sub-diffraction image that have attracted …             Introducing Discrete Frequency Infrared Technology for High-Throughput Biofluid Screening ▶     Caryn Hughes, Graeme Clemens, Benjamin Bird et al.     Accurate early diagnosis is critical to patient survival, management and quality of life. Biofluids are key to early diagnosis due to their ease of collection and intimate …             Massive and massless Dirac fermions in Pb1−xSnxTe topological crystalline insulator probed by magneto-optical absorption ▶     B.A. Assaf, T. Phuphachong, V.V. Volobuev et al.     Dirac fermions in condensed matter physics hold great promise for novel fundamental physics, quantum devices and data storage applications. IV-VI semiconductors, in the inverted …             A SPION-eicosane protective coating for water soluble capsules: Evidence for on-demand drug release triggered by magnetic hyperthermia ▶     Laili Che Rose, Joseph C. Bear, Paul D. McNaughter et al.     An orally-administered system for targeted, on-demand drug delivery to the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is highly desirable due to the high instances of diseases of that organ …             Plasmon-assisted trapping of nanoparticles using a silver-nanowire-embedded PMMA nanofiber ▶     Chang Cheng, Xiaohao Xu, Hongxiang Lei et al.     The integration of surface plasmon with waveguide is a strategy for lab-on-a-chip compatible optical trapping. Here, we report a method for trapping of nanoparticles using a …             Preparation and Characterization of Immobilized Lipase from Pseudomonas Cepacia onto Magnetic Cellulose Nanocrystals ▶     Shi-Lin Cao, Yu-Mei Huang, Xue-Hui Li et al.     Magnetic cellulose nanocrystals (MCNCs) were prepared and used as an enzyme support for immobilization of Pseudomonas cepacialipase (PCL). PCL was successfully immobilized onto …             Hybrid coordination-network-engineering for bridging cascaded channels to activate long persistent phosphorescence in the second biological window ▶     Xixi Qin, Yang Li, Ruili Zhang et al.     We present a novel “Top-down” strategy to design the long phosphorescent phosphors in the second biological transparency window via energy transfer. Inherence in this approach to …             Tensile Characterization of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Helical Structural Defects ▶     Young I. Jhon, Chulki Kim, Minah Seo et al.     Recently, evidence was presented that certain single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) possess helical defective traces, exhibiting distinct cleaved lines, yet their mechanical …             A Sheet-like Carbon Matrix Hosted Sulfur as Cathode for High-performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries ▶     Songtao Lu, Yan Chen, Jia Zhou et al.     Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries are a promising candidate of next generation energy storage systems owing to its high theoretical capacity and energy density. However, to date, …             One-step Preparation of Nanoarchitectured TiO2 on Porous Al as Integrated Anode for High-performance Lithium-ion Batteries ▶     Xianfeng Du, Qianwen Wang, Tianyu Feng et al.     Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is an attractive anode material for energy storage devices due to its low-volume-change and high safety. However, TiO2 anodes usually suffer from poor …             Novel pseudo-random number generator based on quantum random walks ▶     Yu-Guang Yang, Qian-Qian Zhao     In this paper, we investigate the potential application of quantum computation for constructing pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) and further construct a novel PRNG based …             Pure & crystallized 2D Boron Nitride sheets synthesized via a novel process coupling both PDCs and SPS methods ▶     Sheng Yuan, Sébastien Linas, Catherine Journet et al.     Within the context of emergent researches linked to graphene, it is well known that h-BN nanosheets (BNNSs), also referred as 2D BN, are considered as the best candidate for …             Facile and Chemically Pure Preparation of YVO4:Eu3+ Colloid with Novel Nanostructure via Laser Ablation in Water ▶     Haohao Wang, Osamu Odawara, Hiroyuki Wada     A YVO4:Eu3+ colloid with an interesting nanostructure was formed by pulsed laser ablation in deionized water without any additives or surfactants. Analyses of particle …             Catenary nanostructures as compact Bessel beam generators ▶     Xiong Li, Mingbo Pu, Zeyu Zhao et al.     Non-diffracting Bessel beams, including zero-order and high-order Bessel Beams which carry orbital angular momentum (OAM), enable a variety of important applications in optical …             Multipartite entanglement indicators based on monogamy relations of n-qubit symmetric states ▶     Feng Liu, Fei Gao, Su-Juan Qin et al.     Constructed from Bai-Xu-Wang-class monogamy relations, multipartite entanglement indicators can detect the entanglement not stored in pairs of the focus particle and the other …             Individual speckle diffraction based 1D and 2D Random Grating Fabrication for detector and solar energy harvesting applications ▶     Jayachandra Bingi, Vadakke Matham Murukeshan     Laser speckles and speckle patterns, which are formed by the random interference of scattered waves from optically rough surfaces, have found tremendous applications in a wide …             A multi-zoned white organic light-emitting diode with high CRI and low color temperature ▶     Tao Zhang, Shou-Jie He, Deng-Ke Wang et al.     White organic light emitting diodes (WOLEDs) is becoming a new platform technology for a range of applications such as flat-panel displays, solid-state lightings etc., and are …             Growing Embossed Nanostructures of Polymer Brushes on Wet-Etched Silicon Templated via Block Copolymers ▶     Xiaobin Lu, Qin Yan, Yinzhou Ma et al.     Block copolymer nanolithography has attracted enormous interest in chip technologies, such as integrated silicon chips and biochips, due to its large-scale and mass production of …             Multifunctional Nanocarpets for Cancer Theranostics: Remotely Controlled Graphene Nanoheaters for Thermo-Chemosensitisation and Magnetic Resonance Imaging ▶     Arathyram Ramachandra Kurup Sasikala, Reju George Thomas, Afeesh Rajan Unnithan et al.     A new paradigm in cancer theranostics is enabled by safe multifunctional nanoplatform that can be applied for therapeutic functions together with imaging capabilities. Herein, we …             A Porous Aromatic Framework Constructed from Benzene Rings Has a High Adsorption Capacity for Perfluorooctane Sulfonate ▶     Qin Luo, Changwei Zhao, Guixia Liu et al.     A low-cost and easily constructed porous aromatic framework (PAF-45) was successfully prepared using the Scholl reaction. PAF-45 was, for the first time, used to remove …             Three-Dimensional Gene Map of Cancer Cell Types: Structural Entropy Minimisation Principle for Defining Tumour Subtypes ▶     Angsheng Li, Xianchen Yin, Yicheng Pan     In this study, we propose a method for constructing cell sample networks from gene expression profiles, and a structural entropy minimisation principle for detecting natural …             High production of CH4 and H2 by reducing PET waste water using a non-diaphragm-based electrochemical method ▶     Nam-Gyu Kim, Kwang-Jin Yim, Chan-Soo Kim et al.     In recent years, the worldwide use of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) has increased exponentially. PET wastewater contains ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). In …             Portable Wideband Microwave Imaging System for Intracranial Hemorrhage Detection Using Improved Back-projection Algorithm with Model of Effective Head Permittivity ▶     Ahmed Toaha Mobashsher, A. Mahmoud, A. M. Abbosh     Intracranial hemorrhage is a medical emergency that requires rapid detection and medication to restrict any brain damage to minimal. Here, an effective wideband microwave head …             High resolution Physio-chemical Tissue Analysis: Towards Non-invasive In Vivo Biopsy ▶     Guan Xu, Zhuo-xian Meng, Jian-die Lin et al.     Conventional gold standard histopathologic diagnosis requires information of both high resolution structural and chemical changes in tissue. Providing optical information at …             Bioelectrical Signals and Ion Channels in the Modeling of Multicellular Patterns and Cancer Biophysics ▶     Javier Cervera, Antonio Alcaraz, Salvador Mafe     Bioelectrical signals and ion channels are central to spatial patterns in cell ensembles, a problem of fundamental interest in positional information and cancer processes. We …             Exploring Carbon Nanomaterial Diversity for Nucleation of Protein Crystals ▶     Lata Govada, Hannah S. Leese, Emmanuel Saridakis et al.     Controlling crystal nucleation is a crucial step in obtaining high quality protein crystals for structure determination by X-ray crystallography. Carbon nanomaterials (CNMs) …             Linking suckling biomechanics to the development of the palate ▶     Jingtao Li, Chelsey A. Johnson, Andrew A. Smith et al.     Skulls are amongst the most informative documents of evolutionary history but a complex geometry, coupled with composite material properties and complicated biomechanics, have …             Direct and sustained intracellular delivery of exogenous molecules using acoustic-transfection with high frequency ultrasound ▶     Sangpil Yoon, Min Gon Kim, Chi Tat Chiu et al.     Controlling cell functions for research and therapeutic purposes may open new strategies for the treatment of many diseases. An efficient and safe introduction of membrane …             Thermoreversible (Ionic-Liquid-Based) Aqueous Biphasic Systems ▶     Helena Passos, Andreia Luís, João A. P. Coutinho et al.     The ability to induce reversible phase transitions between homogeneous solutions and biphasic liquid-liquid systems, at pre-defined and suitable operating temperatures, is of …             Role of transcription factor-mediated nucleosome disassembly in PHO5 gene expression ▶     Hungyo Kharerin, Paike J. Bhat, John F. Marko et al.     Studying nucleosome dynamics in promoter regions is crucial for understanding gene regulation. Nucleosomes regulate gene expression by sterically occluding transcription factors …             Atomic structures and oxygen dynamics of CeO2 grain boundaries ▶     Bin Feng, Issei Sugiyama, Hajime Hojo et al.     Material performance is significantly governed by grain boundaries (GBs), a typical crystal defects inside, which often exhibit unique properties due to the structural and …             Reconfigurable logic via gate controlled domain wall trajectory in magnetic network structure ▶     C. Murapaka, P. Sethi, S. Goolaup et al.     An all-magnetic logic scheme has the advantages of being non-volatile and energy efficient over the conventional transistor based logic devices. In this work, we present a …             Control of electronic transport in graphene by electromagnetic dressing ▶     K. Kristinsson, O. V. Kibis, S. Morina et al.     We demonstrated theoretically that the renormalization of the electron energy spectrum near the Dirac point of graphene by a strong high-frequency electromagnetic field (dressing …             Steady State Vapor Bubble in Pool Boiling ▶     An Zou, Ashish Chanana, Amit Agrawal et al.     Boiling, a dynamic and multiscale process, has been studied for several decades; however, a comprehensive understanding of the process is still lacking. The bubble ebullition …             Active layers of high-performance lead zirconate titanate at temperatures compatible with silicon nano- and microelecronic devices ▶     Iñigo Bretos, Ricardo Jiménez, Monika Tomczyk et al.     Applications of ferroelectric materials in modern microelectronics will be greatly encouraged if the thermal incompatibility between inorganic ferroelectrics and semiconductor …             Optical properties of drug metabolites in latent fingermarks ▶     Yao Shen, Qing Ai     Drug metabolites usually have structures of split-ring resonators (SRRs), which might lead to negative permittivity and permeability in electromagnetic field. As a result, in the …             Crossover from polariton lasing to exciton lasing in a strongly coupled ZnO microcavity ▶     Ying-Yu Lai, Yu-Hsun Chou, Yu-Pin Lan et al.     Unlike conventional photon lasing, in which the threshold is limited by the population inversion of the electron-hole plasma, the exciton lasing generated by exciton-exciton …             Hemoglobin-carbon nanotube derived noble-metal-free Fe5C2-based catalyst for highly efficient oxygen reduction reaction ▶     Varun Vij, Jitendra N. Tiwari, Wang-Geun Lee et al.     High performance non-precious cathodic catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) are vital for the development of energy materials and devices. Here, we report an noble metal …             Ferroelectric Metal in Tetragonal BiCoO3/BiFeO3 Bilayers and Its Electric Field Effect ▶     Li Yin, Wenbo Mi, Xiaocha Wang     By first-principles calculations we investigate the electronic structure of tetragonal BiCoO3/BiFeO3 bilayers with different terminations. The multiferroic insulator BiCoO3 and …             Preparation and application of conducting polymer/Ag/clay composite nanoparticles formed by in situ UV-induced dispersion polymerization ▶     Limin Zang, Jianhui Qiu, Chao Yang et al.     In this work, composite nanoparticles containing polypyrrole, silver and attapulgite (PPy/Ag/ATP) were prepared via UV-induced dispersion polymerization of pyrrole using ATP clay …             Powder metallurgy inspired low-temperature fabrication of high-performance stereocomplexed polylactide products with good optical transparency ▶     Dongyu Bai, Huili Liu, Hongwei Bai et al.     Stereocomplexation between enantiomeric poly(l-lactide) (PLLA) and poly(d-lactide) (PDLA) provides an avenue to greatly enhance performance of eco-friendly polylactide (PLA). Un…             Controllable band structure and topological phase transition in two-dimensional hydrogenated arsenene ▶     Ya-ping Wang, Wei-xiao Ji, Chang-wen Zhang et al.     Discovery of two-dimensional (2D) topological insulator such as group-V films initiates challenges in exploring exotic quantum states in low dimensions. Here, we perform …             Fluid leakage near the percolation threshold ▶     Wolf B. Dapp, Martin H. Müser     Percolation is a concept widely used in many fields of research and refers to the propagation of substances through porous media (e.g., coffee filtering), or the behaviour of …             Insensitivity to Flaws Leads to Damage Tolerance in Brittle Architected Meta-Materials ▶     L. C. Montemayor, W. H. Wong, Y.-W. Zhang et al.     Cellular solids are instrumental in creating lightweight, strong, and damage-tolerant engineering materials. By extending feature size down to the nanoscale, we simultaneously …             Controlled Unusual Stiffness of Mechanical Metamaterials ▶     Wooju Lee, Da-Young Kang, Jihwan Song et al.     Mechanical metamaterials that are engineered with sub-unit structures present unusual mechanical properties depending on the loading direction. Although they show promise, their …             The simultaneous enhancement of photorefraction and optical damage resistance in MgO and Bi2O3 co-doped LiNbO3 crystals ▶     Dahuai Zheng, Yongfa Kong, Shiguo Liu et al.     For a long time that optical damage was renamed as photorefraction, here we find that the optical damage resistance and photorefraction can be simultaneously enhanced in MgO and …             Simple understanding of quantum weak values ▶     Lupei Qin, Wei Feng, Xin-Qi Li     In this work we revisit the important and controversial concept of quantum weak values, aiming to provide a simplified understanding to its associated physics and the origin of …             Lignocellulosic ethanol production by starch-base industrial yeast under PEG detoxification ▶     Xiumei Liu, Wenjuan Xu, Liaoyuan Mao et al.     Cellulosic ethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass offers a sustainable solution for transition from fossil based fuels to renewable alternatives. However, a few …             Regulating wave front dynamics from the strongly discrete to the continuum limit in magnetically driven colloidal systems ▶     Fernando Martinez-Pedrero, Pietro Tierno, Tom H. Johansen et al.     The emergence of wave fronts in dissipative driven systems is a fascinating phenomenon which can be found in a broad range of physical and biological disciplines. Here we report …             Electric Control of the Hall effect in Pt/Bi0.9La0.1FeO3 bilayers ▶     Rongli Gao, Chunlin Fu, Wei Cai et al.     Platinum metal, being nonmagnetic and with a strong spin-orbit coupling interaction, has been deposited on weak ferromagnetic Bi0.9La0.1FeO3 thin films. The Hall effect is …             Significant enhancement of magnetoresistance with the reduction of particle size in nanometer scale ▶     Kalipada Das, P. Dasgupta, A. Poddar et al.     The Physics of materials with large magnetoresistance (MR), defined as the percentage change of electrical resistance with the application of external magnetic field, has been an …             Ultra-low Doping on Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides using DNA Nanostructure Doped by a Combination of Lanthanide and Metal Ions ▶     Dong-Ho Kang, Sreekantha Reddy Dugasani, Hyung-Youl Park et al.     Here, we propose a novel DNA-based doping method on MoS2 and WSe2 films, which enables ultra-low n- and p-doping control and allows for proper adjustments in device performance. …             Quantum dots-based double imaging combined with organic dye imaging to establish an automatic computerized method for cancer Ki67 measurement ▶     Lin-Wei Wang, Ai-Ping Qu, Wen-Lou Liu et al.     As a widely used proliferative marker, Ki67 has important impacts on cancer prognosis, especially for breast cancer (BC). However, variations in analytical practice make it …             Low lattice thermal conductivity of stanene ▶     Bo Peng, Hao Zhang, Hezhu Shao et al.     A fundamental understanding of phonon transport in stanene is crucial to predict the thermal performance in potential stanene-based devices. By combining first-principle …             How to unveil self-quenched fluorophores and subsequently map the subcellular distribution of exogenous peptides ▶     Jean-Marie Swiecicki, Frédéric Thiebaut, Margherita Di Pisa et al.     Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) is the most popular technique for mapping the subcellular distribution of a fluorescent molecule and is widely used to investigate the …             Mathematical modelling of phenotypic plasticity and conversion to a stem-cell state under hypoxia ▶     Andrew Dhawan, Seyed Ali Madani Tonekaboni, Joseph H. Taube et al.     Hypoxia, or oxygen deficiency, is known to be associated with breast tumour progression, resistance to conventional therapies and poor clinical prognosis. The …             Peculiar liquid-feeding and pathogen transmission behavior of Aedes togoi and comparison with Anopheles sinensis ▶     Sang Joon Lee, Dooho Kang, Seung Chul Lee et al.     Female mosquitoes transmit various diseases as vectors during liquid-feeding. Identifying the determinants of vector efficiency is a major scientific challenge in establishing …             Towards a Physarum learning chip ▶     James G. H. Whiting, Jeff Jones, Larry Bull et al.     Networks of protoplasmic tubes of organism Physarum polycehpalum are macro-scale structures which optimally span multiple food sources to avoid repellents yet maximize coverage …             Metabolism and Disposition of Aditoprim in Swine, Broilers, Carp and Rats ▶     Liye Wang, Lingli Huang, Yuanhu Pan et al.     Aditoprim (ADP) is a newly developed antibacterial agent in veterinary medicine. The metabolism and disposition of ADP in swine, broilers, carp and rats were investigated by …             Cold atmospheric plasma jet-generated RONS and their selective effects on normal and carcinoma cells ▶     Sun Ja Kim, T. H. Chung     Cold atmospheric helium plasma jets were fabricated and utilized for plasma–cell interactions. The effect of operating parameters and jet design on the generation of specific …             Real Time Imaging of Deuterium in a Duplex Stainless Steel Microstructure by Time-of-Flight SIMS ▶     O. Sobol, F. Straub, Th. Wirth et al.     For more than one century, hydrogen assisted degradation of metallic microstructures has been identified as origin for severe technical component failures but the mechanisms …             Voltage divider effect for the improvement of variability and endurance of TaOx memristor ▶     Kyung Min Kim, J. Joshua Yang, John Paul Strachan et al.     The impact of a series resistor (RS) on the variability and endurance performance of memristor was studied in the TaOx memristive system. A dynamic voltage divider between the RS …             Krypton oxides under pressure ▶     Patryk Zaleski-Ejgierd, Pawel M. Lata     Under high pressure, krypton, one of the most inert elements is predicted to become sufficiently reactive to form a new class of krypton compounds; krypton oxides. Using modern …             Enhancement of oxidation resistance via a self-healing boron carbide coating on diamond particles ▶     Youhong Sun, Qingnan Meng, Ming Qian et al.     A boron carbide coating was applied to diamond particles by heating the particles in a powder mixture consisting of H3BO3, B and Mg. The composition, bond state and coverage …             Universal anyons at the irradiated surface of topological insulator ▶     Rui Wang, Wei Chen, Baigeng Wang et al.     Anyons have recently received great attention due to their promising application in topological quantum computation. The best validated system that enjoys the anyonic excitations …             Dielectric singularity in hyperbolic metamaterials: the inversion point of coexisting anisotropies ▶     V. Caligiuri, R. Dhama, K. V. Sreekanth et al.     Hyperbolic Metamaterials are artificially engineered materials whose optical properties can be specifically tailored to manifest an extremely high level of anisotropy. Due to …             Erratum: Griffiths phase behaviour in a frustrated antiferromagnetic intermetallic compound ▶     Krishanu Ghosh, Chandan Mazumdar, R. Ranganathan et al.                 Multiple exciton generation induced enhancement of the photoresponse of pulsed-laser-ablation synthesized single-wall-carbon-nanotube/PbS-quantum-dots nanohybrids ▶     Ibrahima Ka, Vincent Le Borgne, Kazunori Fujisawa et al.     The pulsed laser deposition method was used to decorate appropriately single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) with PbS quantum dots (QDs), leading to the formation of a novel class …             Corrigendum: Direct Observation of Long Electron-Hole Diffusion Distance in CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite Thin Film ▶     Yu Li, Weibo Yan, Yunlong Li et al.                 In Situ Study of Strain-Dependent Ion Conductivity of Stretchable Polyethylene Oxide Electrolyte ▶     Taylor Kelly, Bahar Moradi Ghadi, Sean Berg et al.     There is a strong need in developing stretchable batteries that can accommodate stretchable or irregularly shaped applications including medical implants, wearable devices and …             Continuous Magnetoelectric Control in Multiferroic DyMnO3 Films with Twin-like Domains ▶     Chengliang Lu, Hakan Deniz, Xiang Li et al.     The magnetic control of ferroelectric polarization is currently a central topic in the multiferroic researches, owing to the related gigantic magnetoelectric coupling and …             Partitioned airs at microscale and nanoscale: thermal diffusivity in ultrahigh porosity solids of nanocellulose ▶     Koh Sakai, Yuri Kobayashi, Tsuguyuki Saito et al.     High porosity solids, such as plastic foams and aerogels, are thermally insulating. Their insulation performance strongly depends on their pore structure, which dictates the heat …             Sorting of Single Biomolecules based on Fourier Polar Representation of Surface Enhanced Raman Spectra ▶     Aymeric Leray, Thibault Brulé, Mickael Buret et al.     Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy becomes increasingly used in biosensors for its capacity to detect and identify single molecules. In practice, a large …             Phase transition in multimode nonlinear parity-time-symmetric waveguide couplers ▶     Wiktor Walasik, Natalia M. Litchinitser     Parity-time-symmetric (-symmetric) optical waveguide couplers offer new possibilities for fast, ultracompact, configurable, all-optical signal processing. Here, we study …             Raman-Enhanced Phase-Sensitive Fibre Optical Parametric Amplifier ▶     Xuelei Fu, Xiaojie Guo, Chester Shu     Phase-sensitive amplification is of great research interest owing to its potential in noiseless amplification. One key feature in a phase-sensitive amplifier is the gain …             Unexpected Giant-Gap Quantum Spin Hall Insulator in Chemically Decorated Plumbene Monolayer ▶     Hui Zhao, Chang-wen Zhang, Wei-xiao Ji et al.     Quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect of two-dimensional (2D) materials features edge states that are topologically protected from backscattering by time-reversal symmetry. However, the …             A micro-scale simulation of red blood cell passage through symmetric and asymmetric bifurcated vessels ▶     Tong Wang, Uwitije Rongin, Zhongwen Xing     Blood exhibits a heterogeneous nature of hematocrit, velocity, and effective viscosity in microcapillaries. Microvascular bifurcations have a significant influence on the …             Multivariate multiscale complex network analysis of vertical upward oil-water two-phase flow in a small diameter pipe ▶     Zhong-Ke Gao, Yu-Xuan Yang, Lu-Sheng Zhai et al.     High water cut and low velocity vertical upward oil-water two-phase flow is a typical complex system with the features of multiscale, unstable and non-homogenous. We first …             Photonic-assisted microwave signal multiplication and modulation using a silicon Mach–Zehnder modulator ▶     Yun Long, Linjie Zhou, Jian Wang     Photonic generation of microwave signal is obviously attractive for many prominent advantages, such as large bandwidth, low loss, and immunity to electromagnetic interference. …             Preparation and investigation of nano-thick FTO/Ag/FTO multilayer transparent electrodes with high figure of merit ▶     Shihui Yu, Lingxia Li, Xiaosong Lyu et al.     In order to improve the conductivity of the single–layered nano-thick F doped SnO2 (FTO) thin films, an Ag mid–layer is embedded between the FTO layers. In our work, the effects …             Preparation of Aluminum Nanomesh Thin Films from an Anodic Aluminum Oxide Template as Transparent Conductive Electrodes ▶     Yiwen Li, Yulong Chen, Mingxia Qiu et al.     We have employed anodic aluminum oxide as a template to prepare ultrathin, transparent, and conducting Al films with a unique nanomesh structure for transparent conductive …             Low-dose carbon-based nanoparticle-induced effects in A549 lung cells determined by biospectroscopy are associated with increases in genomic methylation ▶     Junyi Li, Meiping Tian, Li Cui et al.     Nanotechnology has introduced many manufactured carbon-based nanoparticles (CNPs) into our environment, generating a debate into their risks and benefits. Numerous nanotoxicology …             Resistance switching behavior of atomic layer deposited SrTiO3 film through possible formation of Sr2Ti6O13 or Sr1Ti11O20 phases ▶     Woongkyu Lee, Sijung Yoo, Kyung Jean Yoon et al.     Identification of microstructural evolution of nanoscale conducting phase, such as conducting filament (CF), in many resistance switching (RS) devices is a crucial factor to …             Graphene Oxide Quantum Dots Covalently Functionalized PVDF Membrane with Significantly-Enhanced Bactericidal and Antibiofouling Performances ▶     Zhiping Zeng, Dingshan Yu, Ziming He et al.     Covalent bonding of graphene oxide quantum dots (GOQDs) onto amino modified polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membrane has generated a new type of nano-carbon functionalized …             Additive enhancement of wound healing in diabetic mice by low level light and topical CoQ10 ▶     Zhigang Mao, Jeffrey H. Wu, Tingting Dong et al.     Diabetes, a highly prevalent disease that affects 9.3% of Americans, often leads to severe complications and slow wound healing. Preclinical studies have suggested that low level …             Molecular mechanisms of ionic liquid cytotoxicity probed by an integrated experimental and computational approach ▶     Brian Yoo, Benxin Jing, Stuart E. Jones et al.     Ionic liquids (ILs) are salts that remain liquid down to low temperatures, and sometimes well below room temperature. ILs have been called “green solvents” because of their …             Integrated Microfluidic Lectin Barcode Platform for High-Performance Focused Glycomic Profiling ▶     Yuqin Shang, Yun Zeng, Yong Zeng     Protein glycosylation is one of the key processes that play essential roles in biological functions and dysfunctions. 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