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02 August 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               npj Clean Water: open for submissions  An open access, online-only journal, dedicated to publishing high-quality papers that describe the significant and cutting-edge research that continues to ensure the supply of clean water to populations.   Explore the benefits of submitting your next manuscript.                 Chemical Sciences               Facile fabrication of high-quality Ag/PS coaxial nanocables based on the mixed mode of soft/hard templates ▶     Mimi Wan, Wenbo Zhao, Fang Peng et al.     A new kind of high-quality Ag/PS coaxial nanocables can be facilely synthesized by using soft/hard templates method. In order to effectively introduce Ag sources into porous …             Binding Characteristics of Sphingosine-1-Phosphate to ApoM hints to Assisted Release Mechanism via the ApoM Calyx-Opening ▶     Hansi Zhang, Kristyna Pluhackova, Zhenyan Jiang et al.     Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) is a lysophospholipid mediator carried by the HDL-associated apoM protein in blood, regulating many physiological processes by activating the G …             Unusual sequence length-dependent gold nanoparticles aggregation of the ssDNA sticky end and its application for enzyme-free and signal amplified colorimetric DNA detection ▶     Hongfei He, Jianyuan Dai, Zhijuan Duan et al.     It is known that the adsorption of short single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) on unmodified gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) is much faster than that for long ssDNA, and thus leads to …             Preparation and Catalytic Activity for Aerobic Glucose Oxidation of Crown Jewel Structured Pt/Au Bimetallic Nanoclusters ▶     Haijun Zhang, Liqiong Wang, Lilin Lu et al.     Understanding of the “structure-activity” relations for catalysts at an atomic level has been regarded as one of the most important objectives in catalysis studies. Bimetallic …             What is the mechanism of formation of hydroxyaluminosilicates? ▶     James Beardmore, Xabier Lopez, Jon I. Mujika et al.     The formation of hydroxyaluminosilicates is integral to the biogeochemical cycles of aluminium and silicon. The unique inorganic chemistry which underlies their formation …             Peptides interfering with protein-protein interactions in the ethylene signaling pathway delay tomato fruit ripening ▶     Melanie M. A. Bisson, Mareike Kessenbrock, Lena Müller et al.     The plant hormone ethylene is involved in the regulation of several processes with high importance for agricultural applications, e.g. ripening, aging and senescence. Previous …             Discovery of a new function of curcumin which enhances its anticancer therapeutic potency ▶     Koji Nagahama, Tomoya Utsumi, Takayuki Kumano et al.     Curcumin has received immense attention over the past decades because of its diverse biological activities and recognized as a promising drug candidate in a large number of …             Self-assembled monolayers of alendronate on Ti6Al4V alloy surfaces enhance osteogenesis in mesenchymal stem cells ▶     Luis Rojo, Borzo Gharibi, Robert McLister et al.     Phosphonates have emerged as an alternative for functionalization of titanium surfaces by the formation of homogeneous self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) via Ti-O-P linkages. This …             In vitro synthesis of linear α-1,3-glucan and chemical modification to ester derivatives exhibiting outstanding thermal properties ▶     Sakarin Puanglek, Satoshi Kimura, Yukiko Enomoto-Rogers et al.     Bio-based polymer is considered as one of potentially renewable materials to reduce the consumption of petroleum resources. We report herein on the one-pot synthesis and …             Cu isotopic signature in blood serum of liver transplant patients: a follow-up study ▶     Sara Lauwens, Marta Costas-Rodríguez, Hans Van Vlierberghe et al.     End-stage liver disease (ESLD) is life-threatening and liver transplantation (LTx) is the definitive treatment with good outcomes. Given the essential role of hepatocytes in Cu …             Antiferroelectric Nature of CH3NH3PbI3−xClx Perovskite and Its Implication for Charge Separation in Perovskite Solar Cells ▶     Galhenage A. Sewvandi, Kei Kodera, Hao Ma et al.     Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have been attracted scientific interest due to high performance. Some researchers have suggested anomalous behavior of PSCs to the polarizations due …             Consecutive Reaction to Construct Hierarchical Nanocrystalline CuS “Branch” with Tunable Catalysis Properties ▶     Xiangdan Zhang, Feifei Yang, Shizhong Cui et al.     New CuS nanocrystals with a 3D hierarchical branched structure are successfully synthesized through in situ consecutive reaction method with copper foam as template. The …             A Decentralized Approach to the Formulation of Hypotheses: A Hierarchical Structural Model for a Prion Self-Assembled System ▶     Mingyang Wang, Feifei Zhang, Chao Song et al.     Innovation in hypotheses is a key transformative driver for scientific development. The conventional centralized hypothesis formulation approach, where a dominant hypothesis is …             In situ decoration of graphene sheets with gold nanoparticles synthetized by pulsed laser ablation in liquids ▶     Rafael Torres-Mendieta, David Ventura-Espinosa, Sara Sabater et al.     The demand for nanocomposites of graphene and carbonaceous materials decorated with metallic nanoparticles is increasing on account of their applications in science and …             Polyhydroquinone-graphene composite as new redox species for sensitive electrochemical detection of cytokeratins antigen 21-1 ▶     Huiqiang Wang, Qinfeng Rong, Zhanfang Ma     Polyhydroquinone-graphene composite as a new redox species was synthesized simply by a microwave-assisted one-pot method through oxidative polymerization of hydroquinone by …             A Heterojunction Design of Single Layer Hole Tunneling ZnO Passivation Wrapping around TiO2Nanowires for Superior Photocatalytic Performance ▶     Amir Ghobadi, T. Gamze Ulusoy, Ruslan Garifullin et al.     Nanostructured hybrid heterojunctions have been studied widely for photocatalytic applications due to their superior optical and structural properties. In this work, the impact …             Ligubenzocycloheptanone A, a Novel Tricyclic Butenolide with a 6/7/5 Skeleton from Ligusticum chuanxiong ▶     Bing Han, Xu Zhang, Zi-Ming Feng et al.     Ligubenzocycloheptanone A (1), a novel tricyclic butenolide with a 6/7/5-membered ring skeleton, was isolated from the rhizome of Ligusticum chuanxiong. Its unusual structure was …             Spontaneous formation of spiral-like patterns with distinct periodic physical properties by confined electrodeposition of Co-In disks ▶     Irati Golvano-Escobal, Juan Carlos Gonzalez-Rosillo, Neus Domingo et al.     Spatio-temporal patterns are ubiquitous in different areas of materials science and biological systems. However, typically the motifs in these types of systems present a random …             Underdamped scaled Brownian motion: (non-)existence of the overdamped limit in anomalous diffusion ▶     Anna S. Bodrova, Aleksei V. Chechkin, Andrey G. Cherstvy et al.     It is quite generally assumed that the overdamped Langevin equation provides a quantitative description of the dynamics of a classical Brownian particle in the long time limit. …             Changes in the folding landscape of the WW domain provide a molecular mechanism for an inherited genetic syndrome ▶     Encarna Pucheta-Martinez, Nicola D’Amelio, Moreno Lelli et al.     WW domains are small domains present in many human proteins with a wide array of functions and acting through the recognition of proline-rich sequences. The WW domain belonging …             Role of Kekulé and Non-Kekulé Structures in the Radical Character of Alternant Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: A TAO-DFT Study ▶     Chia-Nan Yeh, Jeng-Da Chai     We investigate the role of Kekulé and non-Kekulé structures in the radical character of alternant polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) using thermally-assisted-occupation …             Structure-Activity Analysis of Gram-positive Bacterium-producing Lasso Peptides with Anti-mycobacterial Activity ▶     Junji Inokoshi, Nobuhiro Koyama, Midori Miyake et al.     Lariatin A, an 18-residue lasso peptide encoded by the five-gene cluster larABCDE, displays potent and selective anti-mycobacterial activity. The structural feature is an N…             A paper/polymer hybrid microfluidic microplate for rapid quantitative detection of multiple disease biomarkers ▶     Sharma T. Sanjay, Maowei Dou, Jianjun Sun et al.     Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is one of the most widely used laboratory disease diagnosis methods. 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