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08 March 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports       Physical Sciences               Corrigendum: Active layers of high-performance lead zirconate titanate at temperatures compatible with silicon nano- and microelectronic devices ▶     Iñigo Bretos, Ricardo Jiménez, Monika Tomczyk et al.                 An accuracy measurement method for star trackers based on direct astronomic observation ▶     Ting Sun, Fei Xing, Xiaochu Wang et al.     Star tracker is one of the most promising optical attitude measurement devices and it is widely used in spacecraft for its high accuracy. However, how to realize and verify such …             Absence of Exceptional Points in Square Waveguide Arrays with Apparently Balanced Gain and Loss ▶     Zhenzhen Liu, Qiang Zhang, Xiangli Liu et al.     The concept of parity-time (PT) symmetry in the field of optics has been intensively explored. This study shows the absence of exceptional points in a three-dimensional system …             Intercalation-assisted longitudinal unzipping of carbon nanotubes for green and scalable synthesis of graphene nanoribbons ▶     Yan-Sheng Li, Jia-Liang Liao, Shan-Yu Wang et al.     We have demonstrated an effective intercalation of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) for the green and scalable synthesis of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) using an …             Identifying the Assembly Configuration and Fluorescence Spectra of Nanoscale Zinc-Tetraphenylporphyrin Aggregates with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy ▶     Xiao-Lei Zhang, Jian-Wei Jiang, Yi-Ting Liu et al.     ZnTPP (Zinc-Tetraphenylporphyrin) is one of the most common nanostructured materials, having high stability and excellent optoelectronic properties. In this paper, the …             In-situ Observation of Cross-Sectional Microstructural Changes and Stress Distributions in Fracturing TiN Thin Film during Nanoindentation ▶     Angelika Zeilinger, Juraj Todt, Christina Krywka et al.     Load-displacement curves measured during indentation experiments on thin films depend on non-homogeneous intrinsic film microstructure and residual stress gradients as well as on …             Evidence for Tautomerisation of Glutamine in BLUF Blue Light Receptors by Vibrational Spectroscopy and Computational Chemistry ▶     Tatiana Domratcheva, Elisabeth Hartmann, Ilme Schlichting et al.     BLUF (blue light sensor using flavin) domains regulate the activity of various enzymatic effector domains in bacteria and euglenids. BLUF features a unique photoactivation …             One-Pot Solvothermal Synthesis of Bi4V2O11 as A New Solar Water Oxidation Photocatalyst ▶     Zaiyong Jiang, Yuanyuan Liu, Mengmeng Li et al.     Bi4V2O11 was prepared via a one-pot solvothermal method and characterized via XRD, Raman, XPS, Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. The as-prepared Bi4V2O11 sample displays …             Photo-induced transformation process at gold clusters-semiconductor interface: Implications for the complexity of gold clusters-based photocatalysis ▶     Siqi Liu, Yi-Jun Xu     The recent thrust in utilizing atomically precise organic ligands protected gold clusters (Au clusters) as photosensitizer coupled with semiconductors for nano-catalysts has led …             Design of a polarization-insensitive superconducting nanowire single photon detector with high detection efficiency ▶     Fan Zheng, Ruiying Xu, Guanghao Zhu et al.     Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) deliver superior performance over their competitors in the near-infrared regime. However, these detectors have an …             Transport in serial spinful multiple-dot systems: The role of electron-electron interactions and coherences ▶     Bahareh Goldozian, Fikeraddis A. Damtie, Gediminas Kiršanskas et al.     Quantum dots are nanoscopic systems, where carriers are confined in all three spatial directions. Such nanoscopic systems are suitable for fundamental studies of quantum …             Simultaneous expression and transportation of insulin by supramolecular polysaccharide nanocluster ▶     Yu-Hui Zhang, Ying-Ming Zhang, Qi-Hui Zhao et al.     Drug/gene transportation systems with stimuli-responsive release behaviors are becoming research hotspots in biochemical and biomedical fields. In this work, a glucose-responsive …             Targeting and Imaging of Cancer Cells via Monosaccharide-Imprinted Fluorescent Nanoparticles ▶     Shuangshou Wang, Danyang Yin, Wenjing Wang et al.     The recognition of cancer cells is a key for cancer diagnosis and therapy, but the specificity highly relies on the use of biorecognition molecules particularly antibodies. …             Novel Slide-Ring Material/Natural Rubber Composites with High Damping Property ▶     Wencai Wang, Detao Zhao, Jingna Yang et al.     A novel class of polymers called “slide-ring” (SR) materials with slideable junctions were used for high damping composites for the first time. The SR acts as the high damping …             Covalent immobilization of metal–organic frameworks onto the surface of nylon—a new approach to the functionalization and coloration of textiles ▶     Ming Yu, Wanxin Li, Ziqiang Wang et al.     The prevention of refractory organic pollution caused by conventional dyeing and the development of new fabrics with various functions are two issues to be solved urgently in the …             Second magnetization peak effect, vortex dynamics, and flux pinning in 112-type superconductor Ca0.8La0.2Fe1−xCoxAs2 ▶     Wei Zhou, Xiangzhuo Xing, Wenjuan Wu et al.     Investigation of vortex pinning and its relaxation is of great importance for both basic physics and technological applications in the field of superconductivity. We report a …             Full-scale computation for all the thermoelectric property parameters of half-Heusler compounds ▶     A. J. Hong, L. Li, R. He et al.     The thermoelectric performance of materials relies substantially on the band structures that determine the electronic and phononic transports, while the transport behaviors …             Imaging of electric and magnetic fields near plasmonic nanowires ▶     I. V. Kabakova, A. de Hoogh, R. E. C. van der Wel et al.     Near-field imaging is a powerful tool to investigate the complex structure of light at the nanoscale. Recent advances in near-field imaging have indicated the possibility for the …             Characterizing microscale aluminum composite layer properties on silicon solar cells with hybrid 3D scanning force measurements ▶     Sung-Kuk Bae, Beomjoon Choi, Haseung Chung et al.     This article presents a novel technique to estimate the mechanical properties of the aluminum composite layer on silicon solar cells by using a hybrid 3-dimensional laser …             Controllable chaos in hybrid electro-optomechanical systems ▶     Mei Wang, Xin-You Lü, Jin-Yong Ma et al.     We investigate the nonlinear dynamics of a hybrid electro-optomechanical system (EOMS) that allows us to realize the controllable opto-mechanical nonlinearity by driving the …             Compact Feeding Network for Array Radiations of Spoof Surface Plasmon Polaritons ▶     Jun Jun Xu, Jia Yuan Yin, Hao Chi Zhang et al.     We propose a splitter feeding network for array radiations of spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), which are guided by ultrathin corrugated metallic strips. Based on the …             3D Binder-free MoSe2 Nanosheets/Carbon Cloth Electrodes for Efficient and Stable Hydrogen Evolution Prepared by Simple Electrophoresis Deposition Strategy ▶     Yundan Liu, Long Ren, Zhen Zhang et al.     We successfully developed a simple electrophoretic deposition (EPD) method to decorate the MoSe2 nanosheets on the carbon fiber surface of carbon cloth (MoSe2/CC). With this …             Fabrication of BiOBrxI1−x photocatalysts with tunable visible light catalytic activity by modulating band structures ▶     Xing Zhang, Chu-Ya Wang, Li-Wei Wang et al.     A series of BiOBrxI1−x solid solutions were explored as novel visible light-sensitive photocatalysts. These BiOBrxI1−x solid-solution photocatalysts grew into two-dimensional …             Mechanical insights into ribosomal progression overcoming RNA G-quadruplex from periodical translation suppression in cells ▶     Tamaki Endoh, Naoki Sugimoto     G-quadruplexes formed on DNA and RNA can be roadblocks to movement of polymerases and ribosome on template nucleotides. Although folding and unfolding processes of the …             Immobilizing photogenerated electrons from graphitic carbon nitride for an improved visible-light photocatalytic activity ▶     Han Sun, Yue Cao, Leiyu Feng et al.     Reducing the recombination probability of photogenerated electrons and holes is pivotal in enhancing the photocatalytic ability of graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4). Speeding the …             Tumour angiogenesis as a chemo-mechanical surface instability ▶     Chiara Giverso, Pasquale Ciarletta     The hypoxic conditions within avascular solid tumours may trigger the secretion of chemical factors, which diffuse to the nearby vasculature and promote the formation of new …             Intravascular optical imaging of high-risk plaques in vivo by targeting macrophage mannose receptors ▶     Ji Bak Kim, Kyeongsoon Park, Jiheun Ryu et al.     Macrophages mediate atheroma expansion and disruption, and denote high-risk arterial plaques. Therefore, they are substantially gaining importance as a diagnostic imaging target …             Corrigendum: Tuning the optical response of a dimer nanoantenna using plasmonic nanoring loads ▶     Anastasios H. Panaretos, Yu A. Yuwen, Douglas H. Werner et al.                 Microwave dielectric characterisation of 3D-printed BaTiO3/ABS polymer composites ▶     F. Castles, D. Isakov, A. Lui et al.     3D printing is used extensively in product prototyping and continues to emerge as a viable option for the direct manufacture of final parts. It is known that dielectric materials …             Corrigendum: Hinge-like structure induced unusual properties of black phosphorus and new strategies to improve the thermoelectric performance ▶     Guangzhao Qin, Qing-Bo Yan, Zhenzhen Qin et al.                 Probing the origin of excitonic states in monolayer WSe2 ▶     Jiani Huang, Thang B. Hoang, Maiken H. Mikkelsen     Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have spurred excitement for potential applications in optoelectronic and valleytronic devices; however, the origin of the …             Corrigendum: Indirect excitation of ultrafast demagnetization ▶     Boris Vodungbo, Bharati Tudu, Jonathan Perron et al.                 Integrated photonics with programmable non-volatile memory ▶     Jun-Feng Song, Xian-Shu Luo, Andy Eu-Jin Lim et al.     Silicon photonics integrated circuits (Si-PIC) with well-established active and passive building elements are progressing towards large-scale commercialization in optical …             Erratum: The Biosynthesis of Infrared-Emitting Quantum Dots in Allium Fistulosum ▶     M. Green, S. J. Haigh, E. A. Lewis et al.                 Erratum: How Do the Size, Charge and Shape of Nanoparticles Affect Amyloid β Aggregation on Brain Lipid Bilayer? ▶     Yuna Kim, Ji-Hyun Park, Hyojin Lee et al.                 Photodynamic killing of cancer cells by a Platinum(II) complex with cyclometallating ligand ▶     Rachel E. Doherty, Igor V. Sazanovich, Luke K. McKenzie et al.     Photodynamic therapy that uses photosensitizers which only become toxic upon light-irradiation provides a strong alternative to conventional cancer treatment due to its ability …             Reversible control of current across lipid membranes by local heating ▶     Patrick Urban, Silke R. Kirchner, Christian Mühlbauer et al.     Lipid membranes are almost impermeable for charged molecules and ions that can pass the membrane barrier only with the help of specialized transport proteins. Here, we report how …             Enhancement of artificial magnetism via resonant bianisotropy ▶     Dmitry Markovich, Kseniia Baryshnikova, Alexander Shalin et al.     All-dielectric “magnetic light” nanophotonics based on high refractive index nanoparticles allows controlling magnetic component of light at nanoscale without having high …             Detection of hydrogen cyanide from oral anaerobes by cavity ring down spectroscopy ▶     Wen Chen, Kajsa Roslund, Christopher L. Fogarty et al.     Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) has been recognized as a potential biomarker for non-invasive diagnosis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in the lung. However, the oral cavity is a …             A liquid-crystal-based DNA biosensor for pathogen detection ▶     Mashooq Khan, Abdur Rahim Khan, Jae-Ho Shin et al.     A liquid-crystal (LC)-filled transmission electron microscopy (TEM) grid cell coated with the cationic surfactant dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide (DTAB), to which a …             Discontinuous nature of the repulsive-to-attractive colloidal glass transition ▶     T. van de Laar, R. Higler, K. Schroën et al.     In purely repulsive colloidal systems a glass transition can be reached by increasing the particle volume fraction beyond a certain threshold. The resulting glassy state is …             Abnormal correlation between phase transformation and cooling rate for pure metals ▶     J. J. Han, C. P. Wang, X. J. Liu et al.     This work aims to achieve deep insight into the phenomenon of phase transformation upon rapid cooling in metal systems and reveal the physical meaning of scatter in the time …             Giant Controllable Magnetization Changes Induced by Structural Phase Transitions in a Metamagnetic Artificial Multiferroic ▶     S. P. Bennett, A. T. Wong, A. Glavic et al.     The realization of a controllable metamagnetic transition from AFM to FM ordering would open the door to a plethora of new spintronics based devices that, rather than reorienting …             Direct manufacturing of ultrathin graphite on three-dimensional nanoscale features ▶     Mercè Pacios, Peiman Hosseini, Ye Fan et al.     There have been many successful attempts to grow high-quality large-area graphene on flat substrates. Doing so at the nanoscale has thus far been plagued by significant …             Tight-binding approach to penta-graphene ▶     T. Stauber, J. I. Beltrán, J. Schliemann     We introduce an effective tight-binding model to discuss penta-graphene and present an analytical solution. This model only involves the π-orbitals of the sp2-hybridized carbon …             Self-Locking Optoelectronic Tweezers for Single-Cell and Microparticle Manipulation across a Large Area in High Conductivity Media ▶     Yajia Yang, Yufei Mao, Kyeong-Sik Shin et al.     Optoelectronic tweezers (OET) has advanced within the past decade to become a promising tool for cell and microparticle manipulation. Its incompatibility with high conductivity …             Morphology controlling method for amorphous silica nanoparticles and jellyfish-like nanowires and their luminescence properties ▶     Haitao Liu, Zhaohui Huang, Juntong Huang et al.     Uniform silica nanoparticles and jellyfish-like nanowires were synthesized by a chemical vapour deposition method on Si substrates treated without and with Ni(NO3)2, using …             Outstanding supercapacitive properties of Mn-doped TiO2 micro/nanostructure porous film prepared by anodization method ▶     Xuewen Ning, Xixin Wang, Xiaofei Yu et al.     Mn-doped TiO2 micro/nanostructure porous film was prepared by anodizing a Ti-Mn alloy. The film annealed at 300 °C yields the highest areal capacitance of 1451.3 mF/cm2 at a …             Multi-layer topological transmissions of spoof surface plasmon polaritons ▶     Bai Cao Pan, Jie Zhao, Zhen Liao et al.     Spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in microwave frequency provide a high field confinement in subwavelength scale and low-loss and flexible transmissions, which have been …             Chaotic, informational and synchronous behaviour of multiplex networks ▶     M. S. Baptista, R. M. Szmoski, R. F. Pereira et al.     The understanding of the relationship between topology and behaviour in interconnected networks would allow to charac- terise and predict behaviour in many real complex networks …             The Elliott-Yafet theory of spin relaxation generalized for large spin-orbit coupling ▶     Annamária Kiss, Lénard Szolnoki, Ferenc Simon     We generalize the Elliott-Yafet (EY) theory of spin relaxation in metals with inversion symmetry for the case of large spin-orbit coupling (SOC). The EY theory treats the SOC to …             Vision-based Nano Robotic System for High-throughput Non-embedded Cell Cutting ▶     Wanfeng Shang, Haojian Lu, Wenfeng Wan et al.     Cell cutting is a significant task in biology study, but the highly productive non-embedded cell cutting is still a big challenge for current techniques. This paper proposes a …             Corrigendum: Role of transcription factor-mediated nucleosome disassembly in PHO5 gene expression ▶     Hungyo Kharerin, Paike J. Bhat, John F. Marko et al.                 Corrigendum: Chimera-like States in Modular Neural Networks ▶     Johanne Hizanidis, Nikos E. Kouvaris, Gorka Zamora-López et al.                 Dislocation-free Ge Nano-crystals via Pattern Independent Selective Ge Heteroepitaxy on Si Nano-Tip Wafers ▶     Gang Niu, Giovanni Capellini, Markus Andreas Schubert et al.     The integration of dislocation-free Ge nano-islands was realized via selective molecular beam epitaxy on Si nano-tip patterned substrates. The Si-tip wafers feature a rectangular …             Light-evoked hyperpolarization and silencing of neurons by conjugated polymers ▶     Paul Feyen, Elisabetta Colombo, Duco Endeman et al.     The ability to control and modulate the action potential firing in neurons represents a powerful tool for neuroscience research and clinical applications. While neuronal …             High-order random Raman lasing in a PM fiber with ultimate efficiency and narrow bandwidth ▶     Sergey A. Babin, Ekaterina A. Zlobina, Sergey I. Kablukov et al.     Random Raman lasers attract now a great deal of attention as they operate in non-active turbid or transparent scattering media. In the last case, single mode fibers with feedback …             A remote-controlled generation of gold@polydopamine (core@shell) nanoparticles via physical-chemical stimuli of polydopamine/gold composites ▶     Yi Seul Lee, Ji Young Bae, Hye Young Koo et al.     We present the synthesis of polydopamine particle-gold composites (PdopP-Au) and unique release of Au@Pdop core@shell nanoparticles (NPs) from the PdopP-Au upon external stimuli. …             An Unexpected Transient Breakdown of the Blood Brain Barrier Triggers Passage of Large Intravenously Administered Nanoparticles ▶     Nicole M. Smith, Ivana Gachulincova, Diwei Ho et al.     The highly restrictive blood-brain barrier (BBB) plays a critically important role in maintaining brain homeostasis and is pivotal for proper neuronal function. The BBB is …             Dimensionality Reduction Based Optimization Algorithm for Sparse 3-D Image Reconstruction in Diffuse Optical Tomography ▶     Tanmoy Bhowmik, Hanli Liu, Zhou Ye et al.     Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is a relatively low cost and portable imaging modality for reconstruction of optical properties in a highly scattering medium, such as human …             Age-associated metabolic dysregulation in bone marrow-derived macrophages stimulated with lipopolysaccharide ▶     Fan Fei, Keith M. Lee, Brian E. McCarry et al.     Macrophages are major contributors to age-associated inflammation. Metabolic processes such as oxidative phosphorylation, glycolysis and the urea cycle regulate inflammatory …             Mevalonate-derived quinonemethide triterpenoid from in vitro roots of Peritassa laevigata and their localization in root tissue by MALDI imaging ▶     Edieidia S. Pina, Denise B. Silva, Simone P. Teixeira et al.     Biosynthetic investigation of quinonemethide triterpenoid 22β-hydroxy-maytenin (2) from in vitro root cultures of Peritassa laevigata (Celastraceae) was conducted using 13…             Multisite silicon neural probes with integrated silicon nitride waveguides and gratings for optogenetic applications ▶     Euijae Shim, Yu Chen, Sotiris Masmanidis et al.     Optimal optogenetic perturbation of brain circuit activity often requires light delivery in a precise spatial pattern that cannot be achieved with conventional optical fibers. We …             Experimental quantification of useful and parasitic absorption of light in plasmon-enhanced thin silicon films for solar cells application ▶     Seweryn Morawiec, Jakub Holovský, Manuel J. Mendes et al.     A combination of photocurrent and photothermal spectroscopic techniques is applied to experimentally quantify the useful and parasitic absorption of light in thin hydrogenated …             On the Dynamical Regimes of Pattern-Accelerated Electroconvection ▶     Scott M. Davidson, Matthias Wessling, Ali Mani     Recent research has established that electroconvection can enhance ion transport at polarized surfaces such as membranes and electrodes where it would otherwise be limited by …             Oxidized Monolayers of Epitaxial Silicene on Ag(111) ▶     Neil W. Johnson, David I. Muir, Alexander Moewes     The properties of epitaxial silicene monolayers on Ag(111) at various levels of oxidation are determined through complementary density functional theory calculations and soft …             Anderson Localization in Degenerate Spin-Orbit Coupled Fermi Gas with Disorder ▶     Sheng Liu, Xiang-Fa Zhou, Guang-Can Guo et al.     Competition between superconductivity and disorder plays an essential role in understanding the metal-insulator transition. Based on the Bogoliubov-de Gennes framework, we …             Stable room-temperature ferromagnetic phase at the FeRh(100) surface ▶     Federico Pressacco, Vojtěch Uhlίř, Matteo Gatti et al.     Interfaces and low dimensionality are sources of strong modifications of electronic, structural, and magnetic properties of materials. FeRh alloys are an excellent example …             Direct formation of peritectic phase but no primary phase appearance within Ni83.25Zr16.75 peritectic alloy during free fall ▶     P. Lü, H. P. Wang     Ni83.25Zr16.75 peritectic alloy was containerlessly solidified in a drop tube. When the droplet diameter exceeds a critical value (Dcrit), Ni7Zr2 phase primarily solidifies, …             Unconventional superconductivity and interaction induced Fermi surface reconstruction in the two-dimensional Edwards model ▶     Dai-Ning Cho, Jeroen van den Brink, Holger Fehske et al.     We study the competition between unconventional superconducting pairing and charge density wave (CDW) formation for the two-dimensional Edwards Hamiltonian at half filling, a …             Observing the interplay between surface and bulk optical nonlinearities in thin van der Waals crystals ▶     Skylar Deckoff-Jones, Jingjing Zhang, Christopher E. Petoukhoff et al.     Van der Waals materials, existing in a range of thicknesses from monolayer to bulk, allow for interplay between surface and bulk nonlinearities, which otherwise dominate only at …             Resonant X-ray emission with a standing wave excitation ▶     Kari O. Ruotsalainen, Ari-Pekka Honkanen, Stephen P. Collins et al.     The Borrmann effect is the anomalous transmission of x-rays in perfect crystals under diffraction conditions. It arises from the interference of the incident and diffracted …             An elegant route to overcome fundamentally-limited light extraction in AlGaN deep-ultraviolet light-emitting diodes: Preferential outcoupling of strong in-plane emission ▶     Jong Won Lee, Dong Yeong Kim, Jun Hyuk Park et al.     While there is an urgent need for semiconductor-based efficient deep ultraviolet (DUV) sources, the efficiency of AlGaN DUV light-emitting diodes (LEDs) remains very low because …             A Facile and Low-Cost Route to Heteroatom Doped Porous Carbon Derived from Broussonetia Papyrifera Bark with Excellent Supercapacitance and CO2 Capture Performance ▶     Tongye Wei, Qi Zhang, Xiaolin Wei et al.     In this work, we present a facile and low-cost approach to synthesize heteroatom doped porous carbon via hydrothermal treatment of stem bark of broussonetia papyrifera (BP) as …             Experimental demonstration of topological effects in bianisotropic metamaterials ▶     Alexey P. Slobozhanyuk, Alexander B. Khanikaev, Dmitry S. Filonov et al.     Existence of robust edge states at interfaces of topologically dissimilar systems is one of the most fascinating manifestations of a novel nontrivial state of matter, a …             Fully analogue photonic reservoir computer ▶     François Duport, Anteo Smerieri, Akram Akrout et al.     Introduced a decade ago, reservoir computing is an efficient approach for signal processing. State of the art capabilities have already been demonstrated with both computer …             Oscillation control of carbon nanotube mechanical resonator by electrostatic interaction induced retardation ▶     Masaaki Yasuda, Kuniharu Takei, Takayuki Arie et al.     Despite the superb intrinsic properties of carbon nanotube mechanical resonators, the quality factors at room temperature are 1,000 or less, even in vacuum, which is much lower …             Diagnosis of the phase function of random media from light reflectance ▶     Min Xu     Light reflectance has been widely used to diagnose random media in both in situ and in vivo applications. The quantification of the phase function of the medium from reflectance …             A combined method for synthesis of superconducting Cu doped Bi2Se3 ▶     Meng Wang, Yanru Song, Lixing You et al.     We present a two-step technique for the synthesis of superconducting CuxBi2Se3. Cu0.15Bi2Se3 single crystals were synthesized using the melt-growth method. Although these samples …             Integrated photonic emitter with a wide switching range of orbital angular momentum modes ▶     Yu Wang, Peng Zhao, Xue Feng et al.     Due to the nature of infinite dimensionality, the orbital angular momentum (OAM) has been considered as a new degree of freedom of light and widely expanded the scopes of …             Effects of local structure of Ce3+ ions on luminescent properties of Y3Al5O12:Ce nanoparticles ▶     Xiaowu He, Xiaofang Liu, Rongfeng Li et al.     Ce3+-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG:Ce) nanocrystals were successfully synthesized via a facile sol-gel method. Multiple characterization techniques were employed to study …             Understanding Ammonium Transport in Bioelectrochemical Systems towards its Recovery ▶     Ying Liu, Mohan Qin, Shuai Luo et al.     We report an integrated experimental and simulation study of ammonia recovery using microbial electrolysis cells (MECs). The transport of various species during the batch-mode …             Enhanced external quantum efficiency in GaN-based vertical-type light-emitting diodes by localized surface plasmons ▶     Yung-Chi Yao, Jung-Min Hwang, Zu-Po Yang et al.     Enhancement of the external quantum efficiency of a GaN-based vertical-type light emitting diode (VLED) through the coupling of localized surface plasmon (LSP) resonance with the …             Magnetoelectric relaxor and reentrant behaviours in multiferroic Pb(Fe2/3W1/3)O3 crystal ▶     Ling Chen, Alexei A. Bokov, Weimin Zhu et al.     Significant quenched disorder in crystal structure can break ferroic (magnetic or electric) long-range order, resulting in the development of ferroic glassy states at low …             Three-dimensionally Ordered Macroporous Structure Enabled Nanothermite Membrane of Mn2O3/Al ▶     Guoqiang Zheng, Wenchao Zhang, Ruiqi Shen et al.     Mn2O3 has been selected to realize nanothermite membrane for the first time in the literature. Mn2O3/Al nanothermite has been synthesized by magnetron sputtering a layer of Al …             Skyrmion Creation and Manipulation by Nano-Second Current Pulses ▶     H. Y. Yuan, X. R. Wang     Easy creation and manipulation of skyrmions is important in skyrmion based devices for data storage and information processing. We show that a nano-second current pulse alone is …             All-optical control of three-photon spectra and time asymmetry in a strongly coupled cavity polariton system ▶     X. Zhang, R. Li, Haibin Wu     Manipulating the nature of photons emission is one of the basic tasks in quantum optics and photonics. The ever growing list of quantum applications requires a robust means of …             In-situ Quasi-Instantaneous e-beam Driven Catalyst-Free Formation Of Crystalline Aluminum Borate Nanowires ▶     Ignacio G. Gonzalez-Martinez, Thomas Gemming, Rafael Mendes et al.     The catalyst-assisted nucleation and growth mechanisms for many kinds of nanowires and nanotubes are pretty well understood. At times, though, 1D nanostructures form without a …             Six Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible Models on Scale-free Networks ▶     Satoru Morita     Spreading phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and society. For example, disease and information spread over underlying social and information networks. It is well known that there …             Electronic structure and relaxation dynamics in a superconducting topological material ▶     Madhab Neupane, Yukiaki Ishida, Raman Sankar et al.     Topological superconductors host new states of quantum matter which show a pairing gap in the bulk and gapless surface states providing a platform to realize Majorana fermions. …             Deciphering DNA replication dynamics in eukaryotic cell populations in relation with their averaged chromatin conformations ▶     A. Goldar, A. Arneodo, B. Audit et al.     We propose a non-local model of DNA replication that takes into account the observed uncertainty on the position and time of replication initiation in eukaryote cell populations. …             Fingerprints of Multiple Electron Scatterings in Single-Layer Graphene ▶     Minbok Jung, So-Dam Sohn, Jonghyun Park et al.     The electrons in graphene exhibit unusual behaviours, which can be described by massless Dirac quasiparticles. Understanding electron scattering in graphene has been of …             Weak antilocalization in Cd3As2 thin films ▶     Bo Zhao, Peihong Cheng, Haiyang Pan et al.     Recently, it has been theoretically predicted that Cd3As2 is a three dimensional Dirac material, a new topological phase discovered after topological insulators, which exhibits a …             Bifunctional hairy silica nanoparticles as high-performance additives for lubricant ▶     Tianyi Sui, Baoyu Song, Yu-ho Wen et al.     Bifunctional hairy silica nanoparticles (BHSNs), which are silica nanoparticles covered with alkyl and amino organic chains, were prepared as high-performance additives for …             Maximum-Entropy Inference with a Programmable Annealer ▶     Nicholas Chancellor, Szilard Szoke, Walter Vinci et al.     Optimisation problems typically involve finding the ground state (i.e. the minimum energy configuration) of a cost function with respect to many variables. If the variables are …             Microwave Assisted Synthesis of Porous NiCo2O4 Microspheres: Application as High Performance Asymmetric and Symmetric Supercapacitors with Large Areal Capacitance ▶     Syed Khalid, Chuanbao Cao, Lin Wang et al.     Large areal capacitance is essentially required to integrate the energy storage devices at the microscale electronic appliances. Energy storage devices based on metal oxides are …             Cardiac Light-Sheet Fluorescent Microscopy for Multi-Scale and Rapid Imaging of Architecture and Function ▶     Peng Fei, Juhyun Lee, René R. Sevag Packard et al.     Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy (LSFM) enables multi-dimensional and multi-scale imaging via illuminating specimens with a separate thin sheet of laser. It allows rapid plane …             Probing Leader Cells in Endothelial Collective Migration by Plasma Lithography Geometric Confinement ▶     Yongliang Yang, Nima Jamilpour, Baoyin Yao et al.     When blood vessels are injured, leader cells emerge in the endothelium to heal the wound and restore the vasculature integrity. The characteristics of leader cells during …             Effect of weak measurement on entanglement distribution over noisy channels ▶     Xin-Wen Wang, Sixia Yu, Deng-Yu Zhang et al.     Being able to implement effective entanglement distribution in noisy environments is a key step towards practical quantum communication, and long-term efforts have been made on …             Topographic Cues Reveal Two Distinct Spreading Mechanisms in Blood Platelets ▶     Rabea Sandmann, Sarah Köster     Blood platelets are instrumental in blood clotting and are thus heavily involved in early wound closure. After adhering to a substrate they spread by forming protrusions like …             Directly Predicting Water Quality Criteria from Physicochemical Properties of Transition Metals ▶     Ying Wang, Fengchang Wu, Yunsong Mu et al.     Transition metals are a group of elements widespread in aquatic environments that can be hazardous when concentrations exceeding threshold values. Due to insufficient data, …             Predicted molecular signaling guiding photoreceptor cell migration following transplantation into damaged retina ▶     Uchenna John Unachukwu, Alice Warren, Ze Li et al.     To replace photoreceptors lost to disease or trauma and restore vision, laboratories around the world are investigating photoreceptor replacement strategies using subretinal …             Long-range doublon transfer in a dimer chain induced by topology and ac fields ▶     M. Bello, C. E. Creffield, G. Platero     The controlled transfer of particles from one site of a spatial lattice to another is essential for many tasks in quantum information processing and quantum communication. In …             Titanium trisulfide (TiS3): a 2D semiconductor with quasi-1D optical and electronic properties ▶     Joshua O. Island, Robert Biele, Mariam Barawi et al.     We present characterizations of few-layer titanium trisulfide (TiS3) flakes which, due to their reduced in-plane structural symmetry, display strong anisotropy in their …             Efficient upconversion luminescence from Ba5Gd8Zn4O21:Yb3+, Er3+ based on a demonstrated cross-relaxation process ▶     Chao Mi, Jianhong Wu, Yanmin Yang et al.     Under 971 nm excitation, bright green and red emissions from Yb3+/Er3+ co-doped Ba5Gd8Zn4O21 phosphor can be observed, especially the intense red emission in highly doped …             Top-emitting quantum dots light-emitting devices employing microcontact printing with electricfield-independent emission ▶     Shihao Liu, Wenbo Liu, Wenyu Ji et al.     Recent breakthroughs in quantum dot light-emitting devices (QD-LEDs) show their promise in the development of next-generation displays. However, the QD-LED with conventional …             Tunable nanoplasmonic sensor based on the asymmetric degree of Fano resonance in MDM waveguide ▶     Shiping Zhan, Yongyi Peng, Zhihui He et al.     We first report a simple nanoplasmonic sensor for both universal and slow-light sensing in a Fano resonance-based waveguide system. A theoretical model based on the coupling of …             Quantitatively probing the magnetic behavior of individual nanoparticles by an AC field-modulated magnetic force microscopy ▶     Xiang Li, Wei Lu, Yiming Song et al.     Despite decades of advances in magnetic imaging, obtaining direct, quantitative information with nanometer scale spatial resolution remains an outstanding challenge. Current …             Conduction Threshold in Accumulation-Mode InGaZnO Thin Film Transistors ▶     Sungsik Lee, Arokia Nathan     The onset of inversion in the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) takes place when the surface potential is approximately twice the bulk potential. In …             Phase Conjugated and Transparent Wavelength Conversions of Nyquist 16-QAM Signals Employing a Single-Layer Graphene Coated Fiber Device ▶     Xiao Hu, Mengqi Zeng, Yun Long et al.     We fabricate a nonlinear optical device based on a fiber pigtail cross-section coated with a single-layer graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method. Using the …             Y-shaped ZnO Nanobelts Driven from Twinned Dislocations ▶     Yuan Shi, Shuhan Bao, Run Shi et al.     Y-shaped ZnO nanobelts are fabricated by a simple thermal evaporation method. Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) investigation shows that these ZnO nanobelts are crystals …             Spin Circuit Model for 2D Channels with Spin-Orbit Coupling ▶     Seokmin Hong, Shehrin Sayed, Supriyo Datta     In this paper we present a general theory for an arbitrary 2D channel with “spin momentum locking” due to spin-orbit coupling. It is based on a semiclassical model that …             Ultrafast Microwave Nano-manufacturing of Fullerene-Like Metal Chalcogenides ▶     Zhen Liu, Lin Zhang, Ruigang Wang et al.     Metal Chalcogenides (MCs) have emerged as an extremely important class of nanomaterials with applications ranging from lubrication to energy storage devices. Here we report our …             The energy-level crossing behavior and quantum Fisher information in a quantum well with spin-orbit coupling ▶     Z. H. Wang, Q. Zheng, Xiaoguang Wang et al.     We study the energy-level crossing behavior in a two-dimensional quantum well with the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings (SOCs). By mapping the SOC Hamiltonian onto an …             Shock Wave Response of Iron-based In Situ Metallic Glass Matrix Composites ▶     Gauri R. Khanolkar, Michael B. Rauls, James P. Kelly et al.     The response of amorphous steels to shock wave compression has been explored for the first time. Further, the effect of partial devitrification on the shock response of bulk …             Towards an understanding of tensile deformation in Ti-based bulk metallic glass matrix composites with BCC dendrites ▶     Joanna A Kolodziejska, Henry Kozachkov, Kelly Kranjc et al.     The microstructure and tension ductility of a series of Ti-based bulk metallic glass matrix composite (BMGMC) is investigated by changing content of the β stabilizing element …             Magnetic ordering temperature of nanocrystalline Gd: enhancement of magnetic interactions via hydrogenation-induced “negative” pressure ▶     E. A. Tereshina, S. Khmelevskyi, G. Politova et al.     Gadolinium is a nearly ideal soft-magnetic material. However, one cannot take advantage of its properties at temperatures higher than the room temperature where Gd loses the …             Antiferromagnetic proximity effect in epitaxial CoO/NiO/MgO(001) systems ▶     Q. Li, J. H. Liang, Y. M. Luo et al.     Magnetic proximity effect between two magnetic layers is an important focus of research for discovering new physical properties of magnetic systems. Antiferromagnets (AFMs) are …             Collective modes in three-dimensional magnonic vortex crystals ▶     Max Hänze, Christian F. Adolff, Benedikt Schulte et al.     Collective modes in three-dimensional crystals of stacked permalloy disks with magnetic vortices are investigated by ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy and scanning …             Fast generation of three-atom singlet state by transitionless quantum driving ▶     Zhen Chen, Ye-Hong Chen, Yan Xia et al.     Motivated by “transitionless quantum driving”, we construct shortcuts to adiabatic passage in a three-atom system to create a singlet state with the help of quantum zeno dynamics …             Rapid and Checkable Electrical Post-Treatment Method for Organic Photovoltaic Devices ▶     Sangheon Park, Yu-Seong Seo, Won Suk Shin et al.     Post-treatment processes improve the performance of organic photovoltaic devices by changing the microscopic morphology and configuration of the vertical phase separation in the …             Low-Power Light Guiding and Localization in Optoplasmonic Chains Obtained by Directed Self-Assembly ▶     Wonmi Ahn, Xin Zhao, Yan Hong et al.     Optoplasmonic structures contain plasmonic components embedded in a defined photonic environment to create synergistic interactions between photonic and plasmonic components. …             Robust ultrasensitive tunneling-FET biosensor for point-of-care diagnostics ▶     Anran Gao, Na Lu, Yuelin Wang et al.     For point-of-care (POC) applications, robust, ultrasensitive, small, rapid, low-power, and low-cost sensors are highly desirable. Here, we present a novel biosensor based on a …             A novel dinuclear iridium(III) complex as a G-quadruplex-selective probe for the luminescent switch-on detection of transcription factor HIF-1α ▶     Lihua Lu, Modi Wang, Zhifeng Mao et al.     A novel dinuclear Ir(III) complex 5 was discovered to be specific to G-quadruplex DNA, and was utilized in a label-free G-quadruplex-based detection platform for transcription …             Quantifying Demyelination in NK venom treated nerve using its electric circuit model ▶     H. K. Das, D. Das, R. Doley et al.     Reduction of myelin in peripheral nerve causes critical demyelinating diseases such as chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, Guillain-Barre syndrome, etc. Clinical …             Hydrogen Sulfide Recruits Macrophage Migration by Integrin β1-Src-FAK/Pyk2-Rac Pathway in Myocardial Infarction ▶     Lei Miao, Xiaoming Xin, Hong Xin et al.     Myocardial infarction (MI) triggers an inflammatory reaction, in which macrophages are of key importance for tissue repairing. Infiltration and/or migration of macrophages into …             Restricted mobility of specific functional groups reduces anti-cancer drug activity in healthy cells ▶     Murillo L. Martins, Rosanna Ignazzi, Juergen Eckert et al.     The most common cancer treatments currently available are radio- and chemo-therapy. These therapies have, however, drawbacks, such as, the reduction in quality of life and the …             Effect of intermittent feedback control on robustness of human-like postural control system ▶     Hiroko Tanabe, Keisuke Fujii, Yasuyuki Suzuki et al.     Humans have to acquire postural robustness to maintain stability against internal and external perturbations. Human standing has been recently modelled using an intermittent …             Gut microbiota-involved mechanisms in enhancing systemic exposure of ginsenosides by coexisting polysaccharides in ginseng decoction ▶     Shan-Shan Zhou, Jun Xu, He Zhu et al.     Oral decoctions of traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) serve for therapeutic and prophylactic management of diseases for centuries. Small molecules and polysaccharides are the …             Influence of plasma-activated compounds on melanogenesis and tyrosinase activity ▶     Anser Ali, Zaman Ashraf, Naresh Kumar et al.     Many organic chemists around the world synthesize medicinal compounds or extract multiple compounds from plants in order to increase the activity and quality of medicines. In …             Natural Silk as a Photonics Component: a Study on Its Light Guiding and Nonlinear Optical Properties ▶     Sami Kujala, Anna Mannila, Lasse Karvonen et al.     Silk fibers are expected to become a pathway to biocompatible and bioresorbable waveguides, which could be used to deliver localized optical power for various applications, e.g., …             Low internal pressure in femtoliter water capillary bridges reduces evaporation rates ▶     Kun Cho, In Gyu Hwang, Yeseul Kim et al.     Capillary bridges are usually formed by a small liquid volume in a confined space between two solid surfaces. They can have a lower internal pressure than the surrounding …             A novel approach of chemical mechanical polishing using environment-friendly slurry for mercury cadmium telluride semiconductors ▶     Zhenyu Zhang, Bo Wang, Ping Zhou et al.     A novel approach of chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) is developed for mercury cadmium telluride (HgCdTe or MCT) semiconductors. Firstly, fixed-abrasive lapping is used to …             Microfluidic colloid filtration ▶     John Linkhorst, Torsten Beckmann, Dennis Go et al.     Filtration of natural and colloidal matter is an essential process in today’s water treatment processes. The colloidal matter is retained with the help of micro- and nanoporous …             Thermal Conductivity of Wurtzite Zinc-Oxide from First-Principles Lattice Dynamics – a Comparative Study with Gallium Nitride ▶     Xufei Wu, Jonghoon Lee, Vikas Varshney et al.     Wurtzite Zinc-Oxide (w-ZnO) is a wide bandgap semiconductor that holds promise in power electronics applications, where heat dissipation is of critical importance. However, large …             A new type of vanadium carbide V5C3 and its hardening by tuning Fermi energy ▶     Wandong Xing, Fanyan Meng, Rong Yu     Transition metal compounds usually have various stoichiometries and crystal structures due to the coexistence of metallic, covalent, and ionic bonds in them. This flexibility …             Plasmonic and silicon spherical nanoparticle antireflective coatings ▶     K. V. Baryshnikova, M. I. Petrov, V. E. Babicheva et al.     Over the last decade, plasmonic antireflecting nanostructures have been extensively studied to be utilized in various optical and optoelectronic systems such as lenses, solar …             Few-layer HfS2 transistors ▶     Toru Kanazawa, Tomohiro Amemiya, Atsushi Ishikawa et al.     HfS2 is the novel transition metal dichalcogenide, which has not been experimentally investigated as the material for electron devices. As per the theoretical calculations, HfS2 …             Micro solid oxide fuel cell fabricated on porous stainless steel: a new strategy for enhanced thermal cycling ability ▶     Kun Joong Kim, Byung Hyun Park, Sun Jae Kim et al.     Miniaturized solid oxide fuel cells (micro-SOFCs) are being extensively studied as a promising alternative to Li batteries for next generation portable power. A new micro-SOFC is …             Energy scavenging based on a single-crystal PMN-PT nanobelt ▶     Fan Wu, Wei Cai, Yao-Wen Yeh et al.     Self-powered nanodevices scavenging mechanical energy require piezoelectric nanostructures with high piezoelectric coefficients. Here we report the fabrication of a …             Strong orbital interaction in a weak CH-π hydrogen bonding system ▶     Jianfu Li, Rui-Qin Zhang     For the first time, the intermolecular orbital interaction between benzene and methane in the benzene-methane complex, a representative of weak interaction system, has been …             Lightwave Circuits in Lithium Niobate through Hybrid Waveguides with Silicon Photonics ▶     Peter O. Weigel, Marc Savanier, Christopher T. DeRose et al.     We demonstrate a photonic waveguide technology based on a two-material core, in which light is controllably and repeatedly transferred back and forth between sub-micron thickness …             New type of Al-based decagonal quasicrystal in Al60Cr20Fe10Si10 alloy ▶     Zhanbing He, Haikun Ma, Hua Li et al.     A new kind of decagonal quasicrystal (DQC) with a periodicity of 1.23 nm was observed in the as-cast quaternary Al60Cr20Fe10Si10 alloy. The intensity distribution of some spots …             Strain-Engineered Graphene Grown on Hexagonal Boron Nitride by Molecular Beam Epitaxy ▶     Alex Summerfield, Andrew Davies, Tin S. Cheng et al.     Graphene grown by high temperature molecular beam epitaxy on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) forms continuous domains with dimensions of order 20 μm, and exhibits moiré patterns …             Coherent phonon control via electron-lattice interaction in ferromagnetic Co/Pt multilayers ▶     Chul Hoon Kim, Je-Ho Shim, Kyung Min Lee et al.     The manipulation of coherent phonons in condensed systems has attracted fundamental interest, particularly for its applications to future devices. We demonstrate that a coherent …             Discovering communities in complex networks by edge label propagation ▶     Wei Liu, Xingpeng Jiang, Matteo Pellegrini et al.     The discovery of the community structure of real-world networks is still an open problem. Many methods have been proposed to shed light on this problem, and most of these have …             A programmable nanoreplica molding for the fabrication of nanophotonic devices ▶     Longju Liu, Jingxiang Zhang, Mohsin Ali Badshah et al.     The ability to fabricate periodic structures with sub-wavelength features has a great potential for impact on integrated optics, optical sensors, and photovoltaic devices. Here, …             Revisiting the Local Structure in Ge-Sb-Te based Chalcogenide Superlattices ▶     Barbara Casarin, Antonio Caretta, Jamo Momand et al.     The technological success of phase-change materials in the field of data storage and functional systems stems from their distinctive electronic and structural peculiarities on …             Operational stability enhancement in organic light-emitting diodes with ultrathin Liq interlayers ▶     Daniel Ping-Kuen Tsang, Chihaya Adachi     Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) under constant current operation suffer from a decrease of luminance accompanied by an increase of driving voltage. We report a way to …             Twinning-mediated formability in Mg alloys ▶     Byeong-Chan Suh, Jae H. Kim, Ji Hyun Hwang et al.     Mg alloys are promising candidates for automotive applications due to their low density and high specific strength. However, their widespread applications have not been realized …             In situ Microscopic Observation of Sodium Deposition/Dissolution on Sodium Electrode ▶     Yuhki Yui, Masahiko Hayashi, Jiro Nakamura     Electrochemical sodium deposition/dissolution behaviors in propylene carbonate-based electrolyte solution were observed by means of in situ light microscopy. First, granular …             Mode-Division-Multiplexing of Multiple Bessel-Gaussian Beams Carrying Orbital-Angular-Momentum for Obstruction-Tolerant Free-Space Optical and Millimetre-Wave Communication Links ▶     Nisar Ahmed, Zhe Zhao, Long Li et al.     We experimentally investigate the potential of using ‘self-healing’ Bessel-Gaussian beams carrying orbital-angular-momentum to overcome limitations in obstructed free-space …             Insulating phase at low temperature in ultrathin La0.8Sr0.2MnO3 films ▶     Yaqing Feng, Kui-juan Jin, Lin Gu et al.     Metal-insulator transition is observed in the La0.8Sr0.2MnO3 thin films with thickness larger than 5 unit cells. Insulating phase at lower temperature appeared in the ultrathin …             The electronic, structural and magnetic properties of La1−1/3Sr1/3MnO3 film with oxygen vacancy: a first principles investigation ▶     Jia Li     We have systematically investigated the influence of oxygen vacancy defects on the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of La1−xSrxMnO3 (x = 1/3) film by means of ab …             Dark state population determines magnetic sensitivity in radical pair magnetoreception model ▶     Bao-Ming Xu, Jian Zou     What is the real role of the quantum coherence and entanglement in the radical pair (RP) compass, and what determines the singlet yield have not been fully understood. In this …             General immunity and superadditivity of two-way Gaussian quantum cryptography ▶     Carlo Ottaviani, Stefano Pirandola     We consider two-way continuous-variable quantum key distribution, studying its security against general eavesdropping strategies. Assuming the asymptotic limit of many signals …             Google Glass-Directed Monitoring and Control of Microfluidic Biosensors and Actuators ▶     Yu Shrike Zhang, Fabio Busignani, João Ribas et al.     Google Glass is a recently designed wearable device capable of displaying information in a smartphone-like hands-free format by wireless communication. The Glass also provides …             The Ground State of Monolayer Graphene in a Strong Magnetic Field ▶     Lian-Ao Wu, Mike Guidry     Experiments indicate that the ground state of graphene in a strong magnetic field exhibits spontaneous breaking of SU(4) symmetry. However, the nature of the corresponding …             Evidence for lattice-polarization-enhanced field effects at the SrTiO3-based heterointerface ▶     Y. Li, H. R. Zhang, Y. Lei et al.     Electrostatic gating provides a powerful approach to tune the conductivity of the two-dimensional electron liquid between two insulating oxides. For the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 (LAO/STO) …             A triterpenoid from wild bitter gourd inhibits breast cancer cells ▶     Li-Yuan Bai, Chang-Fang Chiu, Po-Chen Chu et al.     The antitumor activity of 3β,7β,25-trihydroxycucurbita-5,23(E)-dien-19-al (TCD), a triterpenoid isolated from wild bitter gourd, in breast cancer cells was investigated. TCD …             Engineering Dark Chromoprotein Reporters for Photoacoustic Microscopy and FRET Imaging ▶     Yan Li, Alex Forbrich, Jiahui Wu et al.     A subset of the family of fluorescent proteins are the non-fluorescent chromoproteins which are promising probe molecules for use in photoacoustic imaging and as acceptor …             Effects of ultrasonication on increased germination and improved seedling growth of aged grass seeds of tall fescue and Russian wildrye ▶     Juan Liu, Quanzhen Wang, Đura Karagić et al.     The effects of ultrasonic treatments on the germination and seedling growth of aged tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea) and Russian wild rye (Psathyrostaehys juncea Nevski) seeds …             Amino acids-incorporated nanoflowers with an intrinsic peroxidase-like activity ▶     Zhuo-Fu Wu, Zhi Wang, Ye Zhang et al.     Functional molecules synthesized by self-assembly between inorganic salts and amino acids have attracted much attention in recent years. A simple method is reported here for …             Improved estimation of hydraulic conductivity by combining stochastically simulated hydrofacies with geophysical data ▶     Lin Zhu, Huili Gong, Yun Chen et al.     Hydraulic conductivity is a major parameter affecting the output accuracy of groundwater flow and transport models. The most commonly used semi-empirical formula for estimating …             All-atom simulations and free-energy calculations of coiled-coil peptides with lipid bilayers: binding strength, structural transition, and effect on lipid dynamics ▶     Sun Young Woo, Hwankyu Lee     Peptides E and K, which are synthetic coiled-coil peptides for membrane fusion, were simulated with lipid bilayers composed of lipids and cholesterols at different ratios using …             Interfacial Properties of Monolayer and Bilayer MoS2 Contacts with Metals: Beyond the Energy Band Calculations ▶     Hongxia Zhong, Ruge Quhe, Yangyang Wang et al.     Although many prototype devices based on two-dimensional (2D) MoS2 have been fabricated and wafer scale growth of 2D MoS2 has been realized, the fundamental nature of 2D MoS2…             How Inhomogeneous Site Percolation Works on Bethe Lattices: Theory and Application ▶     Jingli Ren, Liying Zhang, Stefan Siegmund     Inhomogeneous percolation, for its closer relationship with real-life, can be more useful and reasonable than homogeneous percolation to illustrate the critical phenomena and …               • Careers & Jobs         naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       PhD students and Postdocs     Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).            Senior Researcher     Kew Gardens            Research Fellow     New York Blood Center            Research Associate     University of Bristol            Research Fellow     Boston Children's Hospital; Harvard Medical School            Postdoctoral Research Fellow     Thomas Jefferson University (TJU)            Postdoctoral Training Fellow     The Francis Crick Institute            Senior Research Associate Ref: RA1273     University of East Anglia (UEA)            Senior Research Associate     The Babraham Institute            Research Associate Position     University of Zurich          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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