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20 September 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         Chemical Sciences               Linear biocompatible glyco-polyamidoamines as dual action mode virus infection inhibitors with potential as broad-spectrum microbicides for sexually transmitted diseases ▶     Nicolò Mauro, Paolo Ferruti, Elisabetta Ranucci et al.     The initial steps of viral infections are mediated by interactions between viral proteins and cellular receptors. Blocking the latter with high-affinity ligands may inhibit …             High Cycle-life Shape Memory Polymer at High Temperature ▶     Deyan Kong, Xinli Xiao     High cycle-life is important for shape memory materials exposed to numerous cycles, and here we report shape memory polyimide that maintained both high shape fixity (Rf) and …             Structural Analysis of the Hg(II)-Regulatory Protein Tn501 MerR from Pseudomonas aeruginosa ▶     Dan Wang, Shanqing Huang, Pingying Liu et al.     The metalloprotein MerR is a mercury(II)-dependent transcriptional repressor-activator that responds to mercury(II) with extraordinary sensitivity and selectivity. It’s widely …             A new insight into the immobilization mechanism of Zn on biochar: the role of anions dissolved from ash ▶     Tingting Qian, Yujun Wang, Tingting Fan et al.     Biochar is considered to be a promising material for heavy metal immobilization in soil. However, the immobilization mechanisms of Zn2+ on biochars derived from many common waste …             In Situ Nanopressing: A General Approach to Robust Nanoparticles-Polymer Surface Structures ▶     Xiaojie Zhang, Junhui He, Binbin Jin     We report a novel, facile and general approach, in situ nanopressing, to integrate nanoparticles and polymers in a thin film configuration, where both nanoparticles exposure and …             Single-Molecule Imaging Reveals the Activation Dynamics of Intracellular Protein Smad3 on Cell Membrane ▶     Nan Li, Yong Yang, Kangmin He et al.     Smad3 is an intracellular protein that plays a key role in propagating transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) signals from cell membrane to nucleus. However whether the transient …             Amino-Fe3O4 Microspheres Directed Synthesis of a Series of Polyaniline Hierarchical Nanostructures with Different Wettability ▶     Yong Ma, Yanhui Chen, Chunping Hou et al.     We demonstrated polyaniline (PANI) dimensional transformation by adding trace amino-Fe3O4 microspheres to aniline polymerization. Different PANI nanostructures (i.e., flowers, …             External cavity-quantum cascade laser infrared spectroscopy for secondary structure analysis of proteins at low concentrations ▶     Andreas Schwaighofer, Mirta R. Alcaráz, Can Araman et al.     Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy are analytical techniques employed for the analysis of protein secondary structure. The use of CD …             Highly efficient removal of lead and cadmium during wastewater irrigation using a polyethylenimine-grafted gelatin sponge ▶     Bingbing Li, Feng Zhou, Kai Huang et al.     Wastewater irrigation is a very important resource for heavy metal pollution in soil and then accumulation in vegetable crops. In this study, a polyethylenimine (PEI)-grafted …             Nitroaromatic explosives detection using electrochemically exfoliated graphene ▶     Ying Teng Yew, Adriano Ambrosi, Martin Pumera     Detection of nitroaromatic explosives is of paramount importance from security point of view. Graphene sheets obtained from the electrochemical anodic exfoliation of graphite …             Saddle point localization of molecular wavefunctions ▶     Georg Ch. Mellau, Alexandra A. Kyuberis, Oleg L. Polyansky et al.     The quantum mechanical description of isomerization is based on bound eigenstates of the molecular potential energy surface. For the near-minimum regions there is a …             Time-dependent effects of ultraviolet and nonthermal atmospheric pressure plasma on the biological activity of titanium ▶     Sung-Hwan Choi, Won-Seok Jeong, Jung-Yul Cha et al.     Here, we evaluated time-dependent changes in the effects of ultraviolet (UV) and nonthermal atmospheric pressure plasma (NTAPPJ) on the biological activity of titanium compared …             A novel insight into membrane fouling mechanism regarding gel layer filtration: Flory-Huggins based filtration mechanism ▶     Qian Lei, Meijia Zhang, Liguo Shen et al.     This study linked the chemical potential change to high specific filtration resistance (SFR) of gel layer, and then proposed a novel membrane fouling mechanism regarding gel …             Incorporation of Eu(III) into Calcite under Recrystallization conditions ▶     S. E. Hellebrandt, S. Hofmann, N. Jordan et al.     The interaction of calcite with trivalent europium under recrystallization conditions was studied on the molecular level using site-selective time-resolved laser fluorescence …             Synergistic effect of tartaric acid with 2,6-diaminopyridine on the corrosion inhibition of mild steel in 0.5 M HCl ▶     Yujie Qiang, Lei Guo, Shengtao Zhang et al.     The inhibitive ability of 2,6-diaminopyridine, tartaric acid and their synergistic effect towards mild steel corrosion in 0.5 M HCl solution was evaluated at various …             Study of the effect of excited state concentration on photodegradation of the p3ht polymer ▶     V. N. Peters, Rohan Alexander, D’Angelo A. Peters et al.     We have studied photoinduced reduction of absorption and emission in p3ht, a semiconducting polymer, and found that the rate of photodegradation (destruction of the constituent …             Palladium-catalyzed direct arylation and cyclization of o-iodobiaryls to a library of tetraphenylenes ▶     Chendan Zhu, Yue Zhao, Di Wang et al.     Aryl–aryl bond formation constitutes one of the most important subjects in organic synthesis. The recent developments in direct arylation reactions forming aryl–aryl bond have …             Building better lithium-sulfur batteries: from LiNO3 to solid oxide catalyst ▶     Ning Ding, Lan Zhou, Changwei Zhou et al.     Lithium nitrate (LiNO3) is known as an important electrolyte additive in lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries. The prevailing understanding is that LiNO3 reacts with metallic lithium …             The electron donating capacity of biochar is dramatically underestimated ▶     Antonin Prévoteau, Frederik Ronsse, Inés Cid et al.     Biochars have gathered considerable interest for agronomic and engineering applications. In addition to their high sorption ability, biochars have been shown to accept or donate …             Oncogenic Mutations Differentially Affect Bax Monomer, Dimer, and Oligomeric Pore Formation in the Membrane ▶     Mingzhen Zhang, Jie Zheng, Ruth Nussinov et al.     Dysfunction of Bax, a pro-apoptotic regulator of cellular metabolism is implicated in neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. We have constructed the first atomistic models of the …             Comprehensive approach for predicting toxicological effects of ionic liquids on several biological systems using unified descriptors ▶     Chul-Woong Cho, Stefan Stolte, Yeoung-Sang Yun     The challenge and opportunity for design of environmentally-benign ionic liquids (ILs) would start from prediction of their toxicological effects on several endpoints solely …             Generation of self-clusters of galectin-1 in the farnesyl-bound form ▶     Kazumi Yamaguchi, Yusuke Niwa, Takakazu Nakabayashi et al.     Ras protein is involved in a signal transduction cascade in cell growth, and cluster formation of H-Ras and human galectin-1 (Gal-1) complex is considered to be crucial to …             Trp53 deficient mice predisposed to preterm birth display region-specific lipid alterations at the embryo implantation site ▶     Ingela Lanekoff, Jeeyeon Cha, Jennifer E. Kyle et al.     Here we demonstrate that conditional deletion of mouse uterine Trp53 (p53d/d), molecularly linked to mTORC1 activation and causally linked to premature uterine senescence and …             Facile synthesis of pristine graphene-palladium nanocomposites with extraordinary catalytic activities using swollen liquid crystals ▶     T. Vats, S. Dutt, R. Kumar et al.     Amazing conductivity, perfect honeycomb sp2 arrangement and the high theoretical surface area make pristine graphene as one of the best materials suited for application as …             High-effective approach from amino acid esters to chiral amino alcohols over Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalyst and its catalytic reaction mechanism ▶     Shuangshuang Zhang, Jun Yu, Huiying Li et al.     Developing the high-efficient and green synthetic method for chiral amino alcohols is an intriguing target. We have developed the Mg2+-doped Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalyst for …             Reproducible Ultrahigh SERS Enhancement in Single Deterministic Hotspots Using Nanosphere-Plane Antennas Under Radially Polarized Excitation ▶     Jing Long, Hui Yi, Hongquan Li et al.     Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) in a nanometer size hotspot has empowered the investigation of chemical structures and dynamic behaviors of one and a few molecules. …             Two-dimensional artificial light-harvesting antennae with predesigned high-order structure and robust photosensitising activity ▶     Xiao Feng, Xuesong Ding, Long Chen et al.     Highly ordered discrete assemblies of chlorophylls that are found in natural light-harvesting antennae are key to photosynthesis, which converts light energy to chemical energy …             Light effect on Click reaction: Role of photonic quantum dot catalyst ▶     Debkumar Nandi, Abu Taher, Rafique Ul Islam et al.     Due to the light excitation, the valence band electron of the copper (I) sulfide quantum dot transfer to the conduction band and act as a scavenger of the terminal proton of the …             Augmented 3D super-resolution of fluorescence-free nanoparticles using enhanced dark-field illumination based on wavelength-modulation and a least-cubic algorithm ▶     Peng Zhang, Kyungsoo Kim, Seungah Lee et al.     Augmented three-dimensional (3D) subdiffraction-limited resolution of fluorescence-free single-nanoparticles was achieved with wavelength-dependent enhanced dark-field (EDF) …             Fluorescence imaging of chromosomal DNA using click chemistry ▶     Takumi Ishizuka, Hong Shan Liu, Kenichiro Ito et al.     Chromosome visualization is essential for chromosome analysis and genetic diagnostics. 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