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15 March 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports       Physical Sciences               Differences in the Abilities to Mechanically Eliminate Activation Energies for Unimolecular and Bimolecular Reactions ▶     Gurpaul S. Kochhar, Nicholas J. Mosey     Mechanochemistry, i.e. the application of forces, F, at the molecular level, has attracted significant interest as a means of controlling chemical reactions. The present study …             Microwave excitation of spin wave beams in thin ferromagnetic films ▶     P. Gruszecki, M. Kasprzak, A. E. Serebryannikov et al.     An inherent element of research and applications in photonics is a beam of light. In magnonics, which is the magnetic counterpart of photonics, where spin waves are used instead …             Repeated crack healing in MAX-phase ceramics revealed by 4D in situ synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy ▶     Willem G. Sloof, Ruizhi Pei, Samuel A. McDonald et al.     MAX phase materials are emerging as attractive engineering materials in applications where the material is exposed to severe thermal and mechanical conditions in an oxidative …             Magneto-optical imaging of thin magnetic films using spins in diamond ▶     David A. Simpson, Jean-Philippe Tetienne, Julia M. McCoey et al.     Imaging the fields of magnetic materials provides crucial insight into the physical and chemical processes surrounding magnetism, and has been a key ingredient in the spectacular …             High Efficiency CVD Graphene-lead (Pb) Cooper Pair Splitter ▶     I. V. Borzenets, Y. Shimazaki, G. F. Jones et al.     Generation and manipulation of quantum entangled electrons is an important concept in quantum mechanics, and necessary for advances in quantum information processing; but not yet …             Classification of Valleytronics in Thermoelectricity ▶     Payam Norouzzadeh, Daryoosh Vashaee     The theory of valleytronics as a material design tool for engineering both thermal and electrical transport properties is presented. It is shown that the interplay among the …             The role of ion exchange in the passivation of In(Zn)P nanocrystals with ZnS ▶     Deok-Yong Cho, Lifei Xi, Chris Boothroyd et al.     We have investigated the chemical state of In(Zn)P/ZnS core/shell nanocrystals (NCs) for color conversion applications using hard X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and …             Mechanism and modulation of terahertz generation from a semimetal - graphite ▶     Tong Ye, Sheng Meng, Jin Zhang et al.     Semi-metals might offer a stronger interaction and a better confinement for terahertz wave than semiconductors, while preserve tunability. Particularly, graphene-based materials …             Configurational space discretization and free energy calculation in complex molecular systems ▶     Kai Wang, Shiyang Long, Pu Tian     We sought to design a free energy calculation scheme with the hope of saving cost for generating dynamical information that is inherent in trajectories. We demonstrated that …             Bio-inspired, Moisture-Powered Hybrid Carbon Nanotube Yarn Muscles ▶     Shi Hyeong Kim, Cheong Hoon Kwon, Karam Park et al.     Hygromorph artificial muscles are attractive as self-powered actuators driven by moisture from the ambient environment. Previously reported hygromorph muscles have been largely …             Independent control of electrical and heat conduction by nanostructure designing for Si-based thermoelectric materials ▶     Shuto Yamasaka, Kentaro Watanabe, Shunya Sakane et al.     The high electrical and drastically-low thermal conductivities, a vital goal for high performance thermoelectric (TE) materials, are achieved in Si-based nanoarchitecture …             Terahertz Artificial Dielectric Lens ▶     Rajind Mendis, Masaya Nagai, Yiqiu Wang et al.     We have designed, fabricated, and experimentally characterized a lens for the THz regime based on artificial dielectrics. These are man-made media that mimic properties of …             Quantum probability assignment limited by relativistic causality ▶     Yeong Deok Han, Taeseung Choi     Quantum theory has nonlocal correlations, which bothered Einstein, but found to satisfy relativistic causality. Correlation for a shared quantum state manifests itself, in the …             Investigation and Manipulation of Different Analog Behaviors of Memristor as Electronic Synapse for Neuromorphic Applications ▶     Changhong Wang, Wei He, Yi Tong et al.     Low-power and high-density electronic synapse is an important building block of brain-inspired systems. The recent advancement in memristor has provided an opportunity to advance …             High-pressure Gas Activation for Amorphous Indium-Gallium-Zinc-Oxide Thin-Film Transistors at 100 °C ▶     Won-Gi Kim, Young Jun Tak, Byung Du Ahn et al.     We investigated the use of high-pressure gases as an activation energy source for amorphous indium-gallium-zinc-oxide (a-IGZO) thin film transistors (TFTs). High-pressure …             From Cellular Attractor Selection to Adaptive Signal Control for Traffic Networks ▶     Daxin Tian, Jianshan Zhou, Zhengguo Sheng et al.     The management of varying traffic flows essentially depends on signal controls at intersections. However, design an optimal control that considers the dynamic nature of a traffic …             Fabrication of a Functionally Graded Copper-Zinc Sulfide Phosphor ▶     Jehong Park, Kwangwon Park, Jongsu Kim et al.     Functionally graded materials (FGMs) are compositionally gradient materials. They can achieve the controlled distribution of the desired characteristics within the same bulk …             Influence of an embedded quantum dot on the Josephson effect in the topological superconducting junction with Majorana doublets ▶     Wei-Jiang Gong, Zhen Gao, Wan-Fei Shan et al.     One Majorana doublet can be realized at each end of the time-reversal-invariant Majorana nanowires. We investigate the Josephson effect in the Majorana-doublet-presented junction …             Monitoring temporal opacity fluctuations of large structures with muon radiography: a calibration experiment using a water tower ▶     Kevin Jourde, Dominique Gibert, Jacques Marteau et al.     Usage of secondary cosmic muons to image the geological structures density distribution significantly developed during the past ten years. Recent applications demonstrate the …             Holliday Junction Thermodynamics and Structure: Coarse-Grained Simulations and Experiments ▶     Wujie Wang, Laura M. Nocka, Brianne Z. Wiemann et al.     Holliday junctions play a central role in genetic recombination, DNA repair and other cellular processes. We combine simulations and experiments to evaluate the ability of the …             Optical responses of a metal with sub-nm gaps ▶     Sang Jun Park, Tae Yun Kim, Cheol-Hwan Park et al.     If the size of a metallic structure is reduced to be comparable to or even smaller than the typical quantum-mechanical lengths such as the Fermi wavelength or Thomas-Fermi …             Three-dimensional printing of continuous-fiber composites by in-nozzle impregnation ▶     Ryosuke Matsuzaki, Masahito Ueda, Masaki Namiki et al.     We have developed a method for the three-dimensional (3D) printing of continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastics based on fused-deposition modeling. The technique enables direct …             Superconductivity of novel tin hydrides (SnnHm) under pressure ▶     M. Mahdi Davari Esfahani, Zhenhai Wang, Artem R. Oganov et al.     With the motivation of discovering high-temperature superconductors, evolutionary algorithm USPEX is employed to search for all stable compounds in the Sn-H system. In addition …             High speed direct imaging of thin metal film ablation by movie-mode dynamic transmission electron microscopy ▶     Sahar Hihath, Melissa K. Santala, Xi Cen et al.     Obliteration of matter by pulsed laser beams is not only prevalent in science fiction movies, but finds numerous technological applications ranging from additive manufacturing …             Hierarchical TiO2 spheres as highly efficient polysulfide host for lithium-sulfur batteries ▶     Zhi-Zheng Yang, Hui-Yuan Wang, Lun Lu et al.     Hierarchical TiO2 micron spheres assembled by nano-plates were prepared through a facile hydrothermal route. Chemical tuning of the TiO2 through hydrogen reduction (H-TiO2) is …             Polarization induced Z2 and Chern topological phases in a periodically driving field ▶     Shu-Ting Pi, Sergey Savrasov     Z2 and Chern topological phases such as newly discovered quantum spin Hall and original quantum Hall states hardly both co–exist in a single material due to their contradictory …             Uncertainty-based Optimization Algorithms in Designing Fractionated Spacecraft ▶     Xin Ning, Jianping Yuan, Xiaokui Yue     A fractionated spacecraft is an innovative application of a distributive space system. To fully understand the impact of various uncertainties on its development, launch and …             Fluid dynamic lateral slicing of high tensile strength carbon nanotubes ▶     Kasturi Vimalanathan, Jason R. Gascooke, Irene Suarez-Martinez et al.     Lateral slicing of micron length carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is effective on laser irradiation of the materials suspended within dynamic liquid thin films in a microfluidic vortex …             Precession and nutation dynamics of nonlinearly coupled non-coaxial three-dimensional matter wave vortices ▶     R. Driben, V. V. Konotop, T. Meier     Nonlinearity is the driving force for numerous important effects in nature typically showing transitions between different regimes, regular, chaotic or catastrophic behavior. …             Experimental phase determination of the structure factor from Kossel line profile ▶     G. Faigel, G. Bortel, M. Tegze     Kossel lines are formed when radiation from point x-ray sources inside a single crystal are diffracted by the crystal itself. In principle, Kossel line patterns contain full …             Localized surface plasmon resonances dominated giant lateral photovoltaic effect observed in ZnO/Ag/Si nanostructure ▶     Ke Zhang, Hui Wang, Zhikai Gan et al.     We report substantially enlarged lateral photovoltaic effect (LPE) in the ZnO/Ag/Si nanostructures. The maximum LPE sensitivity (55.05 mv/mm) obtained in this structure is about …             Hot electron induced NIR detection in CdS films ▶     Alka Sharma, Rahul Kumar, Biplab Bhattacharyya et al.     We report the use of random Au nanoislands to enhance the absorption of CdS photodetectors at wavelengths beyond its intrinsic absorption properties from visible to NIR spectrum …             General Strategy for Broadband Coherent Perfect Absorption and Multi-wavelength All-optical Switching Based on Epsilon-Near-Zero Multilayer Films ▶     Tae Young Kim, Md. Alamgir Badsha, Junho Yoon et al.     We propose a general, easy-to-implement scheme for broadband coherent perfect absorption (CPA) using epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) multilayer films. Specifically, we employ indium tin …             An organizing principle for two-dimensional strongly correlated superconductivity ▶     L. Fratino, P. Sémon, G. Sordi et al.     Superconductivity in the cuprates exhibits many unusual features. We study the two-dimensional Hubbard model with plaquette dynamical mean-field theory to address these unusual …             Propagation phasor approach for holographic image reconstruction ▶     Wei Luo, Yibo Zhang, Zoltán Göröcs et al.     To achieve high-resolution and wide field-of-view, digital holographic imaging techniques need to tackle two major challenges: phase recovery and spatial undersampling. …             Directly tailoring photon-electron coupling for sensitive photoconductance ▶     Zhiming Huang, Wei Zhou, Jingguo Huang et al.     The coupling between photons and electrons is at the heart of many fundamental phenomena in nature. Despite tremendous advances in controlling electrons by photons in engineered …             Evolution of conditional cooperation under multilevel selection ▶     Huanren Zhang, Matjaž Perc     We study the emergence of conditional cooperation in the presence of both intra-group and inter-group selection. Individuals play public goods games within their groups using …             An implantable compound-releasing capsule triggered on demand by ultrasound ▶     Olga Ordeig, Sau Yin Chin, Sohyun Kim et al.     Implantable devices have a large potential to improve human health, but they are often made of biofouling materials that necessitate special coatings, rely on electrical …             GIS-NaP1 zeolite microspheres as potential water adsorption material: Influence of initial silica concentration on adsorptive and physical/topological properties ▶     Pankaj Sharma, Ju-Sub Song, Moon Hee Han et al.     GIS-NaP1 zeolite samples were synthesized using seven different Si/Al ratios (5–11) of the hydrothermal reaction mixtures having chemical composition Al2O3:xSiO2:14Na2O:840H2O to …             Corrigendum: Observation of strongly enhanced photoluminescence from inverted cone-shaped silicon nanostructures ▶     Sebastian W. Schmitt, George Sarau, Silke Christiansen                 Large Optical Gain AlInN-Delta-GaN Quantum Well for Deep Ultraviolet Emitters ▶     Chee-Keong Tan, Wei Sun, Damir Borovac et al.     The optical gain and spontaneous emission characteristics of low In-content AlInN-delta-GaN quantum wells (QWs) are analyzed for deep ultraviolet (UV) light emitting diodes …             Twin Boundaries merely as Intrinsically Kinematic Barriers for Screw Dislocation Motion in FCC Metals ▶     Jiayong Zhang, Hongwu Zhang, Hongfei Ye et al.     Metals with nanoscale twins have shown ultrahigh strength and excellent ductility, attributed to the role of twin boundaries (TBs) as strong barriers for the motion of lattice …             Corrigendum: Can silicon carbide serve as a saturable absorber for passive mode-locked fiber lasers? ▶     Chih-Hsien Cheng, Yung-Hsiang Lin, Ting-Hui Chen et al.                 Corrigendum: Studying biological membranes with extended range high-speed atomic force microscopy ▶     Adrian P. Nievergelt, Blake W. Erickson, Nahid Hosseini et al.                 Predicting missing links and identifying spurious links via likelihood analysis ▶     Liming Pan, Tao Zhou, Linyuan Lü et al.     Real network data is often incomplete and noisy, where link prediction algorithms and spurious link identification algorithms can be applied. Thus far, it lacks a general method …             Growth of high quality and uniformity AlGaN/GaN heterostructures on Si substrates using a single AlGaN layer with low Al composition ▶     Jianpeng Cheng, Xuelin Yang, Ling Sang et al.     By employing a single AlGaN layer with low Al composition, high quality and uniformity AlGaN/GaN heterostructures have been successfully grown on Si substrates by metal-organic …             Metal-Diazo Radicals of α-Carbonyl Diazomethanes ▶     Feifei Li, Longqiang Xiao, Lijian Liu     Metal-diazo radicals of α-carbonyl diazomethanes are new members of the radical family and are precursors to metal-carbene radicals. Herein, using electron paramagnetic resonance …             Pt-Free Counter Electrodes with Carbon Black and 3D Network Epoxy Polymer Composites ▶     Gyeongho Kang, Jongmin Choi, Taiho Park     Carbon black (CB) and a 3D network epoxy polymer composite, representing dual functions for conductive corrosion protective layer (CCPL) and catalytic layer (CL) by the control …             Stability of titania nanotube arrays in aqueous environment and the related factors ▶     Can Cao, Jun Yan, Yumei Zhang et al.     Titania nanotube arrays (NTAs) on titanium (Ti) fabricated by electrochemical anodization have attracted tremendous interest for diverse applications, of which most perform in …             Graphene growth from reduced graphene oxide by chemical vapour deposition: seeded growth accompanied by restoration ▶     Sung-Jin Chang, Moon Seop Hyun, Sung Myung et al.     Understanding the underlying mechanisms involved in graphene growth via chemical vapour deposition (CVD) is critical for precise control of the characteristics of graphene. …             A novel method for correcting scanline-observational bias of discontinuity orientation ▶     Lei Huang, Huiming Tang, Qinwen Tan et al.     Scanline observation is known to introduce an angular bias into the probability distribution of orientation in three-dimensional space. In this paper, numerical solutions …             Atomic structures of a liquid-phase bonded metal/nitride heterointerface ▶     Akihito Kumamoto, Naoya Shibata, Kei-ichiro Nayuki et al.     Liquid-phase bonding is a technologically important method to fabricate high-performance metal/ceramic heterostructures used for power electronic devices. However, the …             In-situ preparation of functionalized molecular sieve material and a methodology to remove template ▶     Rekha Yadav, Maqsood Ahmed, Arvind Kumar Singh et al.     A series of diaminosilane-functionalized silicoaluminophosphate molecular sieve (SAPO-37) was prepared by in-situ synthesis, and a novel method was developed for the selective …             Multistable internal resonance in electroelastic crystals with nonlinearly coupled modes ▶     Christopher R. Kirkendall, Jae W. Kwon     Nonlinear modal interactions have recently become the focus of intense research in micro- and nanoscale resonators for their use to improve oscillator performance and probe the …             Conformal Invariance of Graphene Sheets ▶     I. Giordanelli, N. Posé, M. Mendoza et al.     Suspended graphene sheets exhibit correlated random deformations that can be studied under the framework of rough surfaces with a Hurst (roughness) exponent 0.72 ± 0.01. Here, we …             Continuous variable quantum optical simulation for time evolution of quantum harmonic oscillators ▶     Xiaowei Deng, Shuhong Hao, Hong Guo et al.     Quantum simulation enables one to mimic the evolution of other quantum systems using a controllable quantum system. Quantum harmonic oscillator (QHO) is one of the most important …             Experimental Investigation of Temperature-Dependent Gilbert Damping in Permalloy Thin Films ▶     Yuelei Zhao, Qi Song, See-Hun Yang et al.     The Gilbert damping of ferromagnetic materials is arguably the most important but least understood phenomenological parameter that dictates real-time magnetization dynamics. Un…             Efficient network disintegration under incomplete information: the comic effect of link prediction ▶     Suo-Yi Tan, Jun Wu, Linyuan Lü et al.     The study of network disintegration has attracted much attention due to its wide applications, including suppressing the epidemic spreading, destabilizing terrorist network, …             Percolation, sliding, localization and relaxation in topologically closed circuits ▶     Daniel Hurowitz, Doron Cohen     Considering a random walk in a random environment in a topologically closed circuit, we explore the implications of the percolation and sliding transitions for its relaxation …             Asymmetrical Deterministic Lateral Displacement Gaps for Dual Functions of Enhanced Separation and Throughput of Red Blood Cells ▶     Kerwin Kwek Zeming, Thoriq Salafi, Chia-Hung Chen et al.     Deterministic lateral displacement (DLD) method for particle separation in microfluidic devices has been extensively used for particle separation in recent years due to its high …             Colour-Difference Measurement Method for Evaluation of Quality of Electrolessly Deposited Copper on Polymer after Laser-Induced Selective Activation ▶     Mindaugas Gedvilas, Karolis Ratautas, Elif Kacar et al.     In this work a novel colour-difference measurement method for the quality evaluation of copper deposited on a polymer is proposed. Laser-induced selective activation (LISA) was …             General solution of 2D and 3D superconducting quasiclassical systems: coalescing vortices and nanoisland geometries ▶     Morten Amundsen, Jacob Linder     An extension of quasiclassical Keldysh-Usadel theory to higher spatial dimensions than one is crucial in order to describe physical phenomena like charge/spin Hall effects and …             Corrigendum: X-ray Scatter Imaging of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Mouse Model Using Nanoparticle Contrast Agents ▶     Danielle Rand, Zoltan Derdak, Rolf Carlson et al.                 In vivo cross-sectional imaging of the phonating larynx using long-range Doppler optical coherence tomography ▶     Carolyn A. Coughlan, Li-dek Chou, Joseph C. Jing et al.     Diagnosis and treatment of vocal fold lesions has been a long-evolving science for the otolaryngologist. Contemporary practice requires biopsy of a glottal lesion in the …             Intracellular nanoparticles mass quantification by near-edge absorption soft X-ray nanotomography ▶     Jose Javier Conesa, Joaquín Otón, Michele Chiappi et al.     We used soft X-ray three-dimensional imaging to quantify the mass of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPION) within whole cells, by exploiting the iron oxide …             Gradients in pore size enhance the osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stromal cells in three-dimensional scaffolds ▶     Andrea Di Luca, Barbara Ostrowska, Ivan Lorenzo-Moldero et al.     Small fractures in bone tissue can heal by themselves, but in case of larger defects current therapies are not completely successful due to several drawbacks. A possible strategy …             A systematic study on drug-response associated genes using baseline gene expressions of the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia ▶     Xiaoming Liu, Jiasheng Yang, Yi Zhang et al.     We have studied drug-response associated (DRA) gene expressions by applying a systems biology framework to the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia data. More than 4,000 genes are …             Tunable high-order sideband spectra generation using a photonic molecule optomechanical system ▶     Cong Cao, Si-Chen Mi, Yong-Pan Gao et al.     A tunable high-order sideband spectra generation scheme is presented by using a photonic molecule optomechanical system coupled to a waveguide beyond the perturbation regime. The …             Phosphorus Doping in Si Nanocrystals/SiO2 msultilayers and Light Emission with Wavelength compatible for Optical Telecommunication ▶     Peng Lu, Weiwei Mu, Jun Xu et al.     Doping in semiconductors is a fundamental issue for developing high performance devices. However, the doping behavior in Si nanocrystals (Si NCs) has not been fully understood so …             PEGylated substrates of NSP4 protease: A tool to study protease specificity ▶     Magdalena Wysocka, Natalia Gruba, Renata Grzywa et al.     Herein we present the synthesis of a novel type of peptidomimetics composed of repeating diaminopropionic acid residues modified with structurally diverse heterobifunctional …             Atomic-Scale Engineering of Abrupt Interface for Direct Spin Contact of Ferromagnetic Semiconductor with Silicon ▶     Dmitry V. Averyanov, Christina G. Karateeva, Igor A. Karateev et al.     Control and manipulation of the spin of conduction electrons in industrial semiconductors such as silicon are suggested as an operating principle for a new generation of …             Full Polarization Conical Dispersion and Zero-Refractive-Index in Two-Dimensional Photonic Hypercrystals ▶     Jia-Rong Wang, Xiao-Dong Chen, Fu-Li Zhao et al.     Photonic conical dispersion has been found in either transverse magnetic or transverse electric polarization, and the predominant zero-refractive-index behavior in a …             Controlled Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Fano Resonances in Hybrid BEC-Optomechanics ▶     Kashif Ammar Yasir, Wu-Ming Liu     Cavity-optomechanics, a tool to manipulate mechanical effects of light to couple optical field with other physical objects, is the subject of increasing investigations, …             Correlation of p-doping in CVD Graphene with Substrate Surface Charges ▶     S. Goniszewski, M. Adabi, O. Shaforost et al.     Correlations between the level of p-doping exhibited in large area chemical vapour deposition (CVD) graphene field effect transistor structures (gFETs) and residual charges …             Model of THz Magnetization Dynamics ▶     Lars Bocklage     Magnetization dynamics can be coherently controlled by THz laser excitation, which can be applied in ultrafast magnetization control and switching. Here, transient magnetization …             Heterogeneous grain-scale response in ferroic polycrystals under electric field ▶     John E. Daniels, Marta Majkut, Qingua Cao et al.     Understanding coupling of ferroic properties over grain boundaries and within clusters of grains in polycrystalline materials is hindered due to a lack of direct experimental …             Oxidation Effects in Rare Earth Doped Topological Insulator Thin Films ▶     A. I. Figueroa, G. van der Laan, S. E. Harrison et al.     The breaking of time-reversal symmetry (TRS) in topological insulators is a prerequisite for unlocking their exotic properties and for observing the quantum anomalous Hall effect …             Short range magnetic exchange interaction favors ferroelectricity ▶     Xiangang Wan, Hang-Chen Ding, Sergey Y. Savrasov et al.     Multiferroics, where two or more ferroic order parameters coexist, is one of the hottest fields in condensed matter physics and materials science. To search multiferroics, …             Dislocation “Bubble-Like-Effect” and the Ambient Temperature Super-plastic Elongation of Body-centred Cubic Single Crystalline Molybdenum ▶     Yan Lu, Sisi Xiang, Lirong Xiao et al.     With our recently developed deformation device, the in situ tensile tests of single crystal molybdenum nanowires with various size and aspect ratio were conducted inside a …             Hydrophobic and Metallophobic Surfaces: Highly Stable Non-wetting Inorganic Surfaces Based on Lanthanum Phosphate Nanorods ▶     Sasidharan Sankar, Balagopal N. Nair, Takehiro Suzuki et al.     Metal oxides, in general, are known to exhibit significant wettability towards water molecules because of the high feasibility of synergetic hydrogen-bonding interactions …             Experiments testing macroscopic quantum superpositions must be slow ▶     Andrea Mari, Giacomo De Palma, Vittorio Giovannetti     We consider a thought experiment where the preparation of a macroscopically massive or charged particle in a quantum superposition and the associated dynamics of a distant test …             Recovery of Interdependent Networks ▶     M. A. Di Muro, C. E. La Rocca, H. E. Stanley et al.     Recent network research has focused on the cascading failures in a system of interdependent networks and the necessary preconditions for system collapse. An important question …             A Facile Strategy to Prepare Dendrimer-stabilized Gold Nanorods with Sub-10-nm Size for Efficient Photothermal Cancer Therapy ▶     Xinyu Wang, Hanling Wang, Yitong Wang et al.     Gold (Au) nanoparticles are promising photothermal agents with the potential of clinical translation. However, the safety concerns of Au photothermal agents including the …             Behaviour of one-step spray-coated carbon nanotube supercapacitor in ambient light harvester circuit with printed organic solar cell and electrochromic display ▶     Sampo Tuukkanen, Marja Välimäki, Suvi Lehtimäki et al.     A printed energy harvesting and storage circuit powered by ambient office lighting and its use to power a printed display is reported. The autonomous device is composed of three …             Response of Human Osteoblast to n-HA/PEEK—Quantitative Proteomic Study of Bio-effects of Nano-Hydroxyapatite Composite ▶     Minzhi Zhao, Haiyun Li, Xiaochen Liu et al.     Nano-sized hydroxyapatite (n-HA) is considered as a bio-active material, which is often mixed into bone implant material, polyetheretherketone (PEEK). To reveal the global …             Silver nanoparticle-enriched diamond-like carbon implant modification as a mammalian cell compatible surface with antimicrobial properties ▶     Christian Gorzelanny, Ralf Kmeth, Andreas Obermeier et al.     The implant-bone interface is the scene of competition between microorganisms and distinct types of tissue cells. In the past, various strategies have been followed to support …             Element substitution by living organisms: the case of manganese in mollusc shell aragonite ▶     Analia L. Soldati, Dorrit E. Jacob, Pieter Glatzel et al.     Determining the manganese concentration in shells of freshwater bivalves provides a unique way to obtain information about climate and environmental changes during time-intervals …             Inter-molecular β-sheet structure facilitates lung-targeting siRNA delivery ▶     Jihan Zhou, Dong Li, Hao Wen et al.     Size-dependent passive targeting based on the characteristics of tissues is a basic mechanism of drug delivery. While the nanometer-sized particles are efficiently captured by …             All together now: Analogies between chimera state collapses and epileptic seizures ▶     Ralph G. Andrzejak, Christian Rummel, Florian Mormann et al.     Conceptually and structurally simple mathematical models of coupled oscillator networks can show a rich variety of complex dynamics, providing fundamental insights into many …             Simulating the Kibble-Zurek mechanism of the Ising model with a superconducting qubit system ▶     Ming Gong, Xueda Wen, Guozhu Sun et al.     The Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) predicts the density of topological defects produced in the dynamical processes of phase transitions in systems ranging from cosmology to …             Direct Visualization of the Two-step Nucleation Model by Fluorescence Color Changes during Evaporative Crystallization from Solution ▶     Fuyuki Ito, Yukino Suzuki, Jun-ichi Fujimori et al.     The two-step nucleation model for crystal nuclei formation explains several experimental and theoretical results better than the classical nucleation theory. We report here …             Photomodulation of fluoride ion binding through anion-π interactions using a photoswitchable azobenzene system ▶     Anushri Rananaware, Mousumi Samanta, Rajesh S. Bhosale et al.     The discovery of photoswitchable azobenzene-systems that undergo trans-to-cis photoisomerisation was a milestone in supramolecular chemistry. Such photoswitches have possible …             Strain-induced water dissociation on supported ultrathin oxide films ▶     Zhenjun Song, Jing Fan, Hu Xu     Controlling the dissociation of single water molecule on an insulating surface plays a crucial role in many catalytic reactions. In this work, we have identified the enhanced …             Layered Double Hydroxide Nanoplatelets with Excellent Tribological Properties under High Contact Pressure as Water-Based Lubricant Additives ▶     Hongdong Wang, Yuhong Liu, Zhe Chen et al.     High efficient and sustainable utilization of water-based lubricant is essential for saving energy. In this paper, a kind of layered double hydroxide (LDH) nanoplatelets is …             Polarization-dependent interfacial coupling modulation of ferroelectric photovoltaic effect in PZT-ZnO heterostructures ▶     Dan-Feng Pan, Gui-Feng Bi, Guang-Yi Chen et al.     Recently, ferroelectric perovskite oxides have drawn much attention due to potential applications in the field of solar energy conversion. However, the power conversion …             Optically tuned terahertz modulator based on annealed multilayer MoS2 ▶     Yapeng Cao, Sheng Gan, Zhaoxin Geng et al.     Controlling the propagation properties of terahertz waves is very important in terahertz technologies applied in high-speed communication. Therefore a new-type optically tuned …             Spatially multiplexed dark-field microspectrophotometry for nanoplasmonics ▶     V. Pini, P. M. Kosaka, J. J. 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