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05 April 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Microsystems & Nanoengineering is a new online-only, open access, fully peer-reviewed journal which publishes original articles and reviews on cutting-edge and emerging topics in microsystems and nanoengineering.   Submit your manuscript                 Physical Sciences               A comprehensive strategy for the analysis of acoustic compressibility and optical deformability on single cells ▶     Tie Yang, Francesca Bragheri, Giovanni Nava et al.     We realized an integrated microfluidic chip that allows measuring both optical deformability and acoustic compressibility on single cells, by optical stretching and …             Experimental Realisation of High-sensitivity Laboratory X-ray Grating-based Phase-contrast Computed Tomography ▶     Lorenz Birnbacher, Marian Willner, Astrid Velroyen et al.     The possibility to perform high-sensitivity X-ray phase-contrast imaging with laboratory grating-based phase-contrast computed tomography (gbPC-CT) setups is of great interest …             3D Imaging of Water-Drop Condensation on Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces ▶     Tadashi Kajiya, Frank Schellenberger, Periklis Papadopoulos et al.     Condensation of water from the atmosphere on a solid surface is an ubiquitous phenomenon in nature and has diverse technological applications, e.g. in heat and mass transfer. We …             Extreme stiffness hyperbolic elastic metamaterial for total transmission subwavelength imaging ▶     Hyuk Lee, Joo Hwan Oh, Hong Min Seung et al.     Subwavelength imaging by metamaterials and extended work to pursue total transmission has been successfully demonstrated with electromagnetic and acoustic waves very recently. …             Intestinal Insulin Signaling Encodes Two Different Molecular Mechanisms for the Shortened Longevity Induced by Graphene Oxide in Caenorhabditis elegans ▶     Yunli Zhao, Ruilong Yang, Qi Rui et al.     Graphene oxide (GO) has been shown to cause multiple toxicities in various organisms. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms for GO-induced shortened longevity are still …             Optical Magnetic Induction Tomography of the Heart ▶     Luca Marmugi, Ferruccio Renzoni     Atrial Fibrillation (AF) affects a significant fraction of the ageing population, causing a high level of morbidity and mortality. Despite its significance, the causes of AF are …             Nanofaceting as a stamp for periodic graphene charge carrier modulations ▶     M. Vondráček, D. Kalita, M. Kučera et al.     The exceptional electronic properties of monatomic thin graphene sheets triggered numerous original transport concepts, pushing quantum physics into the realm of device …             Diastereomeric resolution directed towards chirality determination focussing on gas-phase energetics of coordinated sodium dissociation ▶     Osamu Kanie, Yuki Shioiri, Koji Ogata et al.     Defining chiral centres is addressed by introducing a pair of chiral auxiliary groups. Ions of diastereomeric pairs of molecules could be distinguished utilising energy-resolved …             Critical controllability in proteome-wide protein interaction network integrating transcriptome ▶     Masayuki Ishitsuka, Tatsuya Akutsu, Jose C. Nacher     Recently, the number of essential gene entries has considerably increased. However, little is known about the relationships between essential genes and their functional roles in …             Kurtosis fractional anisotropy, its contrast and estimation by proxy ▶     Brian Hansen, Sune Nørhøj Jespersen     The diffusion kurtosis observed with diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) may vary with direction. This directional variation is summarized in the scalar kurtosis …             Phonon-mediated generation of quantum correlations between quantum dot qubits ▶     Jan Krzywda, Katarzyna Roszak     We study the generation of quantum correlations between two excitonic quantum dot qubits due to their interaction with the same phonon environment. Such generation results from …             Highly efficient organic tandem solar cell with a SubPc interlayer based on TAPC:C70 bulk heterojunction ▶     Yuan Gao, Fangming Jin, Wenlian Li et al.     We report a small molecule tandem organic photovoltaic (OPV) cell with a high power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 7.27%. This cell contains two subcells with an identical mixed …             On the small angle twist sub-grain boundaries in Ti3AlC2 ▶     Hui Zhang, Chao Zhang, Tao Hu et al.     Tilt-dominated grain boundaries have been investigated in depth in the deformation of MAX phases. In stark contrast, another important type of grain boundaries, twist grain …             Energy correlations of photon pairs generated by a silicon microring resonator probed by Stimulated Four Wave Mixing ▶     Davide Grassani, Angelica Simbula, Stefano Pirotta et al.     Compact silicon integrated devices, such as micro-ring resonators, have recently been demonstrated as efficient sources of quantum correlated photon pairs. The mass production of …             Switching Power Universality in Unipolar Resistive Switching Memories ▶     Jongmin Kim, Kyooho Jung, Yongmin Kim et al.     We investigate the resistive switching power from unipolar resistive switching current-voltage characteristics in various binary metal oxide films sandwiched by different metal …             Ambient air pollution, weather changes, and outpatient visits for allergic conjunctivitis: A retrospective registry study ▶     Jiaxu Hong, Taoling Zhong, Huili Li et al.     Allergic conjunctivitis is a common problem that significantly impairs patients’ quality of life. Whether air pollution serves as a risk factor for the development of allergic …             4D (x-y-z-t) imaging of thick biological samples by means of Two-Photon inverted Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy (2PE-iSPIM) ▶     Zeno Lavagnino, Giuseppe Sancataldo, Marta d’Amora et al.     In the last decade light sheet fluorescence microscopy techniques, such as selective plane illumination microscopy (SPIM), has become a well established method for developmental …             Circular polarization sensitive absorbers based on graphene ▶     Kunpeng Yang, Min Wang, Mingbo Pu et al.     It is well known that the polarization of a linearly polarized (LP) light would rotate after passing through a single layer graphene under the bias of a perpendicular …             Photo-induced reduction of graphene oxide coating on optical waveguide and consequent optical intermodulation ▶     W. Y. Chong, W. H. Lim, Y. K. Yap et al.     Increased absorption of transverse-magnetic (TM) - polarised light by a graphene-oxide (GO) coated polymer waveguide has been observed in the presence of transverse-electric (TE) …             Exchange Interactions on the Highest-Spin Reported Molecule: the Mixed-Valence Fe42 Complex ▶     Daniel Aravena, Diego Venegas-Yazigi, Eliseo Ruiz     The finding of high-spin molecules that could behave as conventional magnets has been one of the main challenges in Molecular Magnetism. Here, the exchange interactions, present …             A High Affinity Red Fluorescence and Colorimetric Probe for Amyloid β Aggregates ▶     K. Rajasekhar, Nagarjun Narayanaswamy, N. Arul Murugan et al.     A major challenge in the Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is its timely diagnosis. Amyloid β (Aβ) aggregates have been proposed as the most viable biomarker for the diagnosis of AD. …             Inherently-Forced Tensile Strain in Nanodiamond-Derived Onion-like Carbon: Consequences in Defect-Induced Electrochemical Activation ▶     Young-Jin Ko, Jung-Min Cho, Inho Kim et al.     We analyzed the nanodiamond-derived onion-like carbon (OLC) as function of synthesis temperature (1000~1400 °C), by high-resolution electron microscopy, electron energy loss …             Aqueous reactive species induced by a surface air discharge: Heterogeneous mass transfer and liquid chemistry pathways ▶     D. X. Liu, Z. C. Liu, C. Chen et al.     Plasma-liquid interaction is a critical area of plasma science and a knowledge bottleneck for many promising applications. In this paper, the interaction between a surface air …             Remote monitoring of building oscillation modes by means of real-time Mid Infrared Digital Holography ▶     Pasquale Poggi, Massimiliano Locatelli, Eugenio Pugliese et al.     Non-destructive measurements of deformations are a quite common application of holography but due to the intrinsic limits in the interferometric technique, those are generally …             Graphitic Carbon-Coated FeSe2 Hollow Nanosphere-Decorated Reduced Graphene Oxide Hybrid Nanofibers as an Efficient Anode Material for Sodium Ion Batteries ▶     Jung Sang Cho, Jung-Kul Lee, Yun Chan Kang     A novel one-dimensional nanohybrid comprised of conductive graphitic carbon (GC)-coated hollow FeSe2 nanospheres decorating reduced graphene oxide (rGO) nanofiber (hollow …             A partly-contacted epitaxial lateral overgrowth method applied to GaN material ▶     Ming Xiao, Jincheng Zhang, Xiaoling Duan et al.     We have discussed a new crystal epitaxial lateral overgrowth (ELO) method, partly-contacted ELO (PC-ELO) method, of which the overgrowth layer partly-contacts with underlying …             Forced transport of self-propelled particles in a two-dimensional separate channel ▶     Jian-chun Wu, Bao-quan Ai     Transport of self-propelled particles in a two-dimensional (2D) separate channel is investigated in the presence of the combined forces. By applying an ac force, the particles …             Broadband diffusion metasurface based on a single anisotropic element and optimized by the Simulated Annealing algorithm ▶     Yi Zhao, Xiangyu Cao, Jun Gao et al.     We propose a new strategy to design broadband and wide angle diffusion metasurfaces. An anisotropic structure which has opposite phases under x- and y-polarized incidence is …             Experimental investigation of the information entropic Bell inequality ▶     Lian-Zhen Cao, Jia-Qiang Zhao, Xia Liu et al.     Inequalities of information entropic play a fundamental role in information theory and have been employed effectively in finding bounds on optimal rates of various …             Leaky-Wave Radiations by Modulating Surface Impedance on Subwavelength Corrugated Metal Structures ▶     Ben Geng Cai, Yun Bo Li, Hui Feng Ma et al.     One-dimensional (1D) subwavelength corrugated metal structures has been described to support spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs). Here we demonstrate that a periodically …             Metal - Insulator Transition Driven by Vacancy Ordering in GeSbTe Phase Change Materials ▶     Valeria Bragaglia, Fabrizio Arciprete, Wei Zhang et al.     Phase Change Materials (PCMs) are unique compounds employed in non-volatile random access memory thanks to the rapid and reversible transformation between the amorphous and …             Preservation Macroscopic Entanglement of Optomechanical Systems in non-Markovian Environment ▶     Jiong Cheng, Wen-Zhao Zhang, Ling Zhou et al.     We investigate dynamics of an optomechanical system under the non-Markovian environment. In the weak optomechanical single-photon coupling regime, we provide an analytical …             Uniform and accelerated degradation of pure iron patterned by Pt disc arrays ▶     Tao Huang, Yufeng Zheng     Pure iron has been confirmed as a promising biodegradable metal. However, the degradation rate of pure iron should be accelerated to meet the clinical requirements. In this work, …             Large-scale Generation of Patterned Bubble Arrays on Printed Bi-functional Boiling Surfaces ▶     Chang-Ho Choi, Michele David, Zhongwei Gao et al.     Bubble nucleation control, growth and departure dynamics is important in understanding boiling phenomena and enhancing nucleate boiling heat transfer performance. We report a …             Phase transitions via selective elemental vacancy engineering in complex oxide thin films ▶     Sang A. Lee, Hoidong Jeong, Sungmin Woo et al.     Defect engineering has brought about a unique level of control for Si-based semiconductors, leading to the optimization of various opto-electronic properties and devices. With …             Applying Nanoscale Kirkendall Diffusion for Template-Free, Kilogram-Scale Production of SnO2 Hollow Nanospheres via Spray Drying System ▶     Jung Sang Cho, Hyeon Seok Ju, Yun Chan Kang     A commercially applicable and simple process for the preparation of aggregation-free metal oxide hollow nanospheres is developed by applying nanoscale Kirkendall diffusion to a …             Quantum oscillations from generic surface Fermi arcs and bulk chiral modes in Weyl semimetals ▶     Yi Zhang, Daniel Bulmash, Pavan Hosur et al.     We re-examine the question of quantum oscillations from surface Fermi arcs and chiral modes in Weyl semimetals. By introducing two tools - semiclassical phase-space quantization …             Effectiveness of the Young-Laplace equation at nanoscale ▶     Hailong Liu, Guoxin Cao     Using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, a new approach based on the behavior of pressurized water out of a nanopore (1.3–2.7 nm) in a flat plate is developed to calculate the …             Effect of solution treatment on the fatigue behavior of an as-forged Mg-Zn-Y-Zr alloy ▶     S. D. Wang, D. K. Xu, B. J. Wang et al.     Through investigating and comparing the fatigue behavior of an as-forged Mg-6.7Zn-1.3Y-0.6Zr (wt.%) alloy before and after solid solution treatment (T4) in laboratory air, the …             Conducting LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterointerfaces on atomically-flat substrates prepared by deionized-water ▶     J. G. Connell, J. Nichols, J. H. Gruenewald et al.     We have investigated how the recently-developed water-leaching method for atomically-flat SrTiO3 (STO) substrates affects the transport properties of LaAlO3 (LAO) and STO …             Extending the applicability of the Goldschmidt tolerance factor to arbitrary ionic compounds ▶     Toyoto Sato, Shigeyuki Takagi, Stefano Deledda et al.     Crystal structure determination is essential for characterizing materials and their properties, and can be facilitated by various tools and indicators. For instance, the …             Key role of lattice symmetry in the metal-insulator transition of NdNiO3 films ▶     Jack Y. Zhang, Honggyu Kim, Evgeny Mikheev et al.     Bulk NdNiO3 exhibits a metal-to-insulator transition (MIT) as the temperature is lowered that is also seen in tensile strained films. In contrast, films that are under a large …             Heat Management in Thermoelectric Power Generators ▶     M. Zebarjadi     Thermoelectric power generators are used to convert heat into electricity. Like any other heat engine, the performance of a thermoelectric generator increases as the temperature …             Molecular Dynamics Simulations Reveal the Mechanisms of Allosteric Activation of Hsp90 by Designed Ligands ▶     Gerolamo Vettoretti, Elisabetta Moroni, Sara Sattin et al.     Controlling biochemical pathways through chemically designed modulators may provide novel opportunities to develop therapeutic drugs and chemical tools. The underlying challenge …             Engineering entangled microwave photon states through multiphoton interactions between two cavity fields and a superconducting qubit ▶     Yan-Jun Zhao, Changqing Wang, Xiaobo Zhu et al.     It has been shown that there are not only transverse but also longitudinal couplings between microwave fields and a superconducting qubit with broken inversion symmetry of the …             Imbalance in chemical space: How to facilitate the identification of protein-protein interaction inhibitors ▶     Mélaine A. Kuenemann, Céline M. Labbé, Adrien H. Cerdan et al.     Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play vital roles in life and provide new opportunities for therapeutic interventions. In this large data analysis, 3,300 inhibitors of PPIs …             Two-photon excited photoconversion of cyanine-based dyes ▶     Sheldon J. J. Kwok, Myunghwan Choi, Brijesh Bhayana et al.     The advent of phototransformable fluorescent proteins has led to significant advances in optical imaging, including the unambiguous tracking of cells over large spatiotemporal …             Dynamic in situ observation of voltage-driven repeatable magnetization reversal at room temperature ▶     Ya Gao, Jia-Mian Hu, C. T. Nelson et al.     Purely voltage-driven, repeatable magnetization reversal provides a tantalizing potential for the development of spintronic devices with a minimum amount of power consumption. …             Decoherence spectroscopy with individual two-level tunneling defects ▶     Jürgen Lisenfeld, Alexander Bilmes, Shlomi Matityahu et al.     Recent progress with microfabricated quantum devices has revealed that an ubiquitous source of noise originates in tunneling material defects that give rise to a sparse bath of …             Conductivity tensor of graphene dominated by spin-orbit coupling scatterers: A comparison between the results from Kubo and Boltzmann transport theories ▶     Zhe Liu, Liwei Jiang, Yisong Zheng     The diagonal and Hall conductivities of graphene arising from the spin-orbit coupling impurity scattering are theoretically studied. Based on the continuous model, i.e. the …             A new insight into high-strength Ti62Nb12.2Fe13.6Co6.4Al5.8 alloys with bimodal microstructure fabricated by semi-solid sintering ▶     L. H. Liu, C. Yang, L. M. Kang et al.     It is well known that semi-solid forming could only obtain coarse-grained microstructure in a few alloy systems with a low melting point, such as aluminum and magnesium alloys. …             Scaling Laws for Thin Films near the Superconducting-to-Insulating Transition ▶     Yong Tao     We propose a Lagrangian function, which combines Landau-Ginzburg term and Chern-Simons term, for describing the competition between disorder and superconductivity. To describe …             Effective heterogeneous transition metal glycerolates catalysts for one-step biodiesel production from low grade non-refined Jatropha oil and crude aqueous bioethanol ▶     Pak-Chung Lau, Tsz-Lung Kwong, Ka-Fu Yung     The utilization of bioethanol as the alcohol source for biodiesel production is more environmentally advantageous over methanol owing to its lower toxicity, lower flammability …             Effects of conformational ordering on protein/polyelectrolyte electrostatic complexation: ionic binding and chain stiffening ▶     Yiping Cao, Yapeng Fang, Katsuyoshi Nishinari et al.     Coupling of electrostatic complexation with conformational transition is rather general in protein/polyelectrolyte interaction and has important implications in many biological …             Investigation of Y/SBA Composite Molecular Sieves Morphology Control and Catalytic Performance for n-Pentane Aromatization ▶     Chun-Wei Shi, Wen-Yuan Wu, Shuai Li et al.     Using Y molecular sieve as the core, Y/SBA-15 composite molecular sieves were prepared by different crystallization methods in the paper. The growth process and morphologies of …             In-situ Observation of Size and Irradiation Effects on Thermoelectric Properties of Bi-Sb-Te Nanowire in FIB Trimming ▶     Chia-Hua Chien, Ping-Chung Lee, Wei-Han Tsai et al.     In this report, the thermoelectric properties of a Bi0.8Sb1.2Te2.9 nanowire (NW) were in-situ studied as it was trimmed from 750 down to 490 and 285 nm in diameter by a focused …             Single crystalline cylindrical nanowires – toward dense 3D arrays of magnetic vortices ▶     Yurii P. Ivanov, Andrey Chuvilin, Laura G. Vivas et al.     Magnetic vortex-based media have recently been proposed for several applications of nanotechnology; however, because lithography is typically used for their preparation, their …             Large and Anisotropic Linear Magnetoresistance in Single Crystals of Black Phosphorus Arising From Mobility Fluctuations ▶     Zhipeng Hou, Bingchao Yang, Yue Wang et al.     Black Phosphorus (BP) is presently attracting immense research interest on the global level due to its high mobility and suitable band gap for potential application in …             Interface failure modes explain non-monotonic size-dependent mechanical properties in bioinspired nanolaminates ▶     Z. Q. Song, Y. Ni, L. M. Peng et al.     Bioinspired discontinuous nanolaminate design becomes an efficient way to mitigate the strength-ductility tradeoff in brittle materials via arresting the crack at the interface …             Field-driven domain wall motion under a bias current in the creep and flow regimes in Pt/[CoSiB/Pt]N nanowires ▶     Y. H. Choi, Y. Yoshimura, K.-J. Kim et al.     The dynamics of magnetic domain wall (DW) in perpendicular magnetic anisotropy Pt/[CoSiB/Pt]N nanowires was studied by measuring the DW velocity under a magnetic field (H) and an …             The influence of polymer purification on the efficiency of poly(3-hexylthiophene):fullerene organic solar cells ▶     James H. Bannock, Neil D. Treat, Michael Chabinyc et al.     We report the influence of different polymer purification procedures on the photovoltaic performance of bulk heterojunction solar cells formed from binary blends of …             Tuning the photo-response in monolayer MoS2 by plasmonic nano-antenna ▶     Jiu Li, Qingqing Ji, Saisai Chu et al.     Monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has recently attracted intense interests due to its remarkable optical properties of valley-selected optical response, strong nonlinear wave …             Contagion on complex networks with persuasion ▶     Wei-Min Huang, Li-Jie Zhang, Xin-Jian Xu et al.     The threshold model has been widely adopted as a classic model for studying contagion processes on social networks. We consider asymmetric individual interactions in social …             Multiplex congruence network of natural numbers ▶     Xiao-Yong Yan, Wen-Xu Wang, Guan-Rong Chen et al.     Congruence theory has many applications in physical, social, biological and technological systems. Congruence arithmetic has been a fundamental tool for data security and …             ‘Crystal Genes’ in Metallic Liquids and Glasses ▶     Yang Sun, Feng Zhang, Zhuo Ye et al.     We analyze the underlying structural order that transcends liquid, glass and crystalline states in metallic systems. A genetic algorithm is applied to search for the most common …             Intrinsic temperature-dependent evolutions in the electron-boson spectral density obtained from optical data ▶     Jungseek Hwang     We investigate temperature smearing effects on the electron-boson spectral density function (I2χ(ω)) obtained from optical data using a maximum entropy inversion method. We start …             Using higher-order Markov models to reveal flow-based communities in networks ▶     Vsevolod Salnikov, Michael T. Schaub, Renaud Lambiotte     Complex systems made of interacting elements are commonly abstracted as networks, in which nodes are associated with dynamic state variables, whose evolution is driven by …             Direct observation of intermediate states in model membrane fusion ▶     Andrea Keidel, Tobias F. Bartsch, Ernst-Ludwig Florin     We introduce a novel assay for membrane fusion of solid supported membranes on silica beads and on coverslips. Fusion of the lipid bilayers is induced by bringing an optically …             Bioengineering of Tobacco Mosaic Virus to Create a Non-Infectious Positive Control for Ebola Diagnostic Assays ▶     Patricia Lam, Neetu M. Gulati, Phoebe L. Stewart et al.     The 2014 Ebola epidemic is the largest to date. There is no cure or treatment for this deadly disease; therefore there is an urgent need to develop new diagnostics to accurately …             A computational simulation of the effect of hybrid treatment for thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm on the hemodynamics of abdominal aorta ▶     Jun Wen, Ding Yuan, Qingyuan Wang et al.     Hybrid visceral-renal debranching procedures with endovascular repair have been proposed as an appealing technique to treat conventional thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA). …             Quantum stochastic walks on networks for decision-making ▶     Ismael Martínez-Martínez, Eduardo Sánchez-Burillo     Recent experiments report violations of the classical law of total probability and incompatibility of certain mental representations when humans process and react to information. …             On the dynamics of Liesegang-type pattern formation in a gaseous system ▶     Elizeth Ramírez-Álvarez, Fernando Montoya, Thomas Buhse et al.     Liesegang pattern formations are widely spread in nature. In spite of a comparably simple experimental setup under laboratory conditions, a variety of spatio-temporal structures …             Mechanisms-based viscoplasticity: Theoretical approach and experimental validation for steel 304L ▶     Aleksander Zubelewicz, Wiera Oliferuk     We propose a mechanisms-based viscoplasticity approach for metals and alloys. First, we derive a stochastic model for thermally-activated motion of dislocations and, then, …             Triangular Black Phosphorus Atomic Layers by Liquid Exfoliation ▶     Soonjoo Seo, Hyun Uk Lee, Soon Chang Lee et al.     Few-layer black phosphorus (BP) is the most promising material among the two-dimensional materials due to its layered structure and the excellent semiconductor properties. …             Characterization and compression of dissipative-soliton-resonance pulses in fiber lasers ▶     Daojing Li, Lei Li, Junyu Zhou et al.     We report numerical and experimental studies of dissipative-soliton-resonance (DSR) in a fiber laser with a nonlinear optical loop mirror. The DSR pulse presents temporally a …             Perversions with a twist ▶     Pedro E. S. Silva, Joao L. Trigueiros, Ana C. Trindade et al.     Perversions connecting two helices with symmetric handedness are a common occurrence in nature, for example in tendrils. These defects can be found in our day life decorating …             Electric-field-induced AFE-FE transitions and associated strain/preferred orientation in antiferroelectric PLZST ▶     Teng Lu, Andrew J. Studer, Lasse Noren et al.     Electric-field-induced, antiferroelectric-ferroelectric (AFE-FE) phase transitions are common for AFE materials. To date, the strain and preferred orientation evolution as well …             Retrieving transient conformational molecular structure information from inner-shell photoionization of laser-aligned molecules ▶     Xu Wang, Anh-Thu Le, Chao Yu et al.     We discuss a scheme to retrieve transient conformational molecular structure information using photoelectron angular distributions (PADs) that have averaged over partial …             Photo-activation of Single Molecule Magnet Behavior in a Manganese-based Complex ▶     Ahmed Fetoh, Goulven Cosquer, Masakazu Morimoto et al.     A major roadblock to fully realizing molecular electronic devices is the ability to control the properties of each molecule in the device. Herein we report the control of the …             Sub-10 nm feature chromium photomasks for contact lithography patterning of square metal ring arrays ▶     Woongkyu Park, Jiyeah Rhie, Na Yeon Kim et al.     Advances in photolithographic processes have allowed semiconductor industries to manufacture smaller and denser chips. As the feature size of integrated circuits becomes smaller, …             Optical and magneto-optical behavior of Cerium Yttrium Iron Garnet thin films at wavelengths of 200–1770 nm ▶     Mehmet C. Onbasli, Lukáš Beran, Martin Zahradník et al.     Magneto-optical cerium-substituted yttrium iron garnet (Ce:YIG) thin films display Faraday and Kerr rotation (rotation of light polarisation upon transmission and reflection, …             Hydrogenations and electric field induced magnetic behaviors in armchair silicene nanoribbons ▶     Dan Zhang, Mengqiu Long, Fang Xie et al.     Using the first-principles calculations, we investigate the geometric, electronic and magnetic properties of armchair silicene nanoribbons with different edge hydrogenations. Our …             Geometry- and Length Scale-Dependent Deformation and Recovery on Micro- and Nanopatterned Shape Memory Polymer Surfaces ▶     Wei Li Lee, Hong Yee Low     Micro- and nanoscale surface textures, when optimally designed, present a unique approach to improve surface functionalities. Coupling surface texture with shape memory polymers …             Transmission-Type 2-Bit Programmable Metasurface for Single-Sensor and Single-Frequency Microwave Imaging ▶     Yun Bo Li, Lian Lin Li, Bai Bing Xu et al.     The programmable and digital metamaterials or metasurfaces presented recently have huge potentials in designing real-time-controlled electromagnetic devices. Here, we propose the …             Charge carrier coherence and Hall effect in organic semiconductors ▶     H. T. Yi, Y. N. Gartstein, V. Podzorov     Hall effect measurements are important for elucidating the fundamental charge transport mechanisms and intrinsic mobility in organic semiconductors. However, Hall effect studies …             Layered transition metal dichalcogenides: promising near-lattice-matched substrates for GaN growth ▶     Priti Gupta, A. A. Rahman, Shruti Subramanian et al.     Most III-nitride semiconductors are grown on non-lattice-matched substrates like sapphire or silicon due to the extreme difficulty of obtaining a native GaN substrate. We show …             X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Study of the Effect of Rh doping in Sr2IrO4 ▶     C. H. Sohn, Deok-Yong Cho, C.-T. Kuo et al.     We investigate the effect of Rh doping in Sr2IrO4 using X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). We observed appearance of new electron-addition states with increasing Rh …             Boosting the power performance of multilayer graphene as lithium-ion battery anode via unconventional doping with in-situ formed Fe nanoparticles ▶     Rinaldo Raccichini, Alberto Varzi, Venkata Sai Kiran Chakravadhanula et al.     Graphene is extensively investigated and promoted as a viable replacement for graphite, the state-of-the-art material for lithium-ion battery (LIB) anodes, although no clear …             Regioselective self-acylating cyclodextrins in organic solvent ▶     Eunae Cho, Deokgyu Yun, Daham Jeong et al.     Amphiphilic cyclodextrins have been synthesized with self-acylating reaction using vinyl esters in dimethylformamide. In the present study no base, catalyst, or enzyme was used, …             Super-flat supercontinuum generation from a Tm-doped fiber amplifier ▶     Mengmeng Tao, Ting Yu, Zhenbao Wang et al.     Super-flat supercontinua are generated from a double clad Tm-doped fiber amplifier. Two different laser configurations are investigated and compared. In the direct-output …             Ti3+-self doped brookite TiO2 single-crystalline nanosheets with high solar absorption and excellent photocatalytic CO2 reduction ▶     Xiaoye Xin, Tao Xu, Lan Wang et al.     Black brookite TiO2 single-crystalline nanosheets with outstanding photocatalytic activity toward CO2 reduction is prepared by a facile oxidation-based hydrothermal reaction …             Electronic origins of photocatalytic activity in d0 metal organic frameworks ▶     Maxim A. Nasalevich, Christopher H. Hendon, Jara G. Santaclara et al.     Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) containing d0 metals such as NH2-MIL-125(Ti), NH2-UiO-66(Zr) and NH2-UiO-66(Hf) are among the most studied MOFs for photocatalytic applications. …             One-pot synthesis and in-vitro anticancer evaluation of 5-(2′-indolyl)thiazoles ▶     Buchi Reddy Vaddula, Mukund P. Tantak, Rachana Sadana et al.     A series of 5-(2′-indolyl)thiazoles were synthesized and evaluated for their cytotoxicity against selected human cancer cell lines. The reaction of thioamides 3 with …             Highly-Sensitive Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS)-based Chemical Sensor using 3D Graphene Foam Decorated with Silver Nanoparticles as SERS substrate ▶     Chavis Srichan, Mongkol Ekpanyapong, Mati Horprathum et al.     In this work, a novel platform for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)-based chemical sensors utilizing three-dimensional microporous graphene foam (GF) decorated with …             NiO-PTA supported on ZIF-8 as a highly effective catalyst for hydrocracking of Jatropha oil ▶     Jing Liu, Jing He, Luying Wang et al.     Nickel oxide (NiO) and phosphotungstic acid (PTA) supported on a ZIF-8 (NiO-PTA/ZIF-8) catalyst was first synthesized and it showed high activity and good selectivity for the …             Active control on high-order coherence and statistic characterization on random phase fluctuation of two classical point sources ▶     Peilong Hong, Liming Li, Jianji Liu et al.     Young’s double-slit or two-beam interference is of fundamental importance to understand various interference effects, in which the stationary phase difference between two beams …             CO2-breathing and piercing polymersomes as tunable and reversible nanocarriers ▶     Anchao Feng, Jiamei Liang, Jinzhao Ji et al.     Despite numerous studies on utilizing polymeric vesicles as nanocapsules, fabrication of tunable molecular pathways on transportable vesicle walls remains challenging. …             Corrigendum: Giant barocaloric effect in hexagonal Ni2In-type Mn-Co-Ge-In compounds around room temperature ▶     Rong-Rong Wu, Li-Fu Bao, Feng-Xia Hu et al.                 P-Channel InGaN/GaN heterostructure metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor based on polarization-induced two-dimensional hole gas ▶     Kexiong Zhang, Masatomo Sumiya, Meiyong Liao et al.     The concept of p-channel InGaN/GaN heterostructure field effect transistor (FET) using a two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) induced by polarization effect is demonstrated. The …             Dental MRI using wireless intraoral coils ▶     Ute Ludwig, Anne-Katrin Eisenbeiss, Christian Scheifele et al.     Currently, the gold standard for dental imaging is projection radiography or cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). These methods are fast and cost-efficient, but exhibit poor …             Surface degeneration of W crystal irradiated with low-energy hydrogen ions ▶     Hongyu Fan, Yuwei You, Weiyuan Ni et al.     The damage layer of a W (100) crystal irradiated with 120 eV hydrogen ions at a fluence of up to 1.5 × 1025/m2 was investigated by scanning electron microscopy and conductive …             Synchronous slowing down in coupled logistic maps via random network topology ▶     Sheng-Jun Wang, Ru-Hai Du, Tao Jin et al.     The speed and paths of synchronization play a key role in the function of a system, which has not received enough attention up to now. In this work, we study the synchronization …             All-solid-state high performance asymmetric supercapacitors based on novel MnS nanocrystal and activated carbon materials ▶     Teng Chen, Yongfu Tang, Yuqing Qiao et al.     All-solid-state high-performance asymmetric supercapacitors (ASCs) are fabricated using γ-MnS as positive electrode and porous eggplant derived activated carbon (EDAC) as …             Observation of momentum-resolved charge fluctuations proximate to the charge-order phase using resonant inelastic x-ray scattering ▶     M. Yoshida, K. Ishii, M. Naka et al.     In strongly correlated electron systems, enhanced fluctuations in the proximity of the ordered states of electronic degrees of freedom often induce anomalous electronic …             Corrigendum: Isolation of exosomes by differential centrifugation: Theoretical analysis of a commonly used protocol ▶     Mikhail A. Livshits, Elena Khomyakova, Evgeniy G. 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Titanium (Ti) and titanium alloys have …             The sympathy of two pendulum clocks: beyond Huygens’ observations ▶     Jonatan Peña Ramirez, Luis Alberto Olvera, Henk Nijmeijer et al.     This paper introduces a modern version of the classical Huygens’ experiment on synchronization of pendulum clocks. The version presented here consists of two monumental pendulum …             Identification of a new hominin bone from Denisova Cave, Siberia using collagen fingerprinting and mitochondrial DNA analysis ▶     Samantha Brown, Thomas Higham, Viviane Slon et al.     DNA sequencing has revolutionised our understanding of archaic humans during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic. Unfortunately, while many Palaeolithic sites contain large numbers …             Improving Automated Annotation of Benthic Survey Images Using Wide-band Fluorescence ▶     Oscar Beijbom, Tali Treibitz, David I. Kline et al.     Large-scale imaging techniques are used increasingly for ecological surveys. However, manual analysis can be prohibitively expensive, creating a bottleneck between collected …             Control strategies of 3-cell Central Pattern Generator via global stimuli ▶     Álvaro Lozano, Marcos Rodríguez, Roberto Barrio     The study of the synchronization patterns of small neuron networks that control several biological processes has become an interesting growing discipline. Some of these …             Impact of Adsorption on Gas Transport in Nanopores ▶     Tianhao Wu, Dongxiao Zhang     Given the complex nature of the interaction between gas and solid atoms, the development of nanoscale science and technology has engendered a need for further understanding of …                       npj Quantum Information is an online-only, open access journal providing important updates on quantum information research and theory. 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