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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           Physical Sciences               Room-temperature exciton-polaritons with two-dimensional WS2 ▶     L. C. Flatten, Z. He, D. M. Coles et al.     Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides exhibit strong optical transitions with significant potential for optoelectronic devices. In particular they are suited for …             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 …             Gain enhanced Fano resonance in a coupled photonic crystal cavity-waveguide structure ▶     Yanhui Zhao, Chenjiang Qian, Kangsheng Qiu et al.     Systems with coupled cavities and waveguides have been demonstrated as optical switches and optical sensors. To optimize the functionalities of these optical devices, Fano …             Omnidirectional and broadband absorption enhancement from trapezoidal Mie resonators in semiconductor metasurfaces ▶     Ragip A. Pala, Serkan Butun, Koray Aydin et al.     Light trapping in planar ultrathin-film solar cells is limited due to a small number of optical modes available in the thin-film slab. A nanostructured thin-film design could …             Controlling Directionality and Dimensionality of Radiation by Perturbing Separable Bound States in the Continuum ▶     Nicholas Rivera, Chia Wei Hsu, Bo Zhen et al.     A bound state in the continuum (BIC) is an unusual localized state that is embedded in a continuum of extended states. Here, we present the general condition for BICs to arise …             X-ray-generated heralded macroscopical quantum entanglement of two nuclear ensembles ▶     Wen-Te Liao, Christoph H. Keitel, Adriana Pálffy     Heralded entanglement between macroscopical samples is an important resource for present quantum technology protocols, allowing quantum communication over large distances. In …             Tin doped indium oxide anodes with artificially controlled nano-scale roughness using segregated Ag nanoparticles for organic solar cells ▶     Hyo-Joong Kim, Eun-Hye Ko, Yong-Jin Noh et al.     Nano-scale surface roughness in transparent ITO films was artificially formed by sputtering a mixed Ag and ITO layer and wet etching of segregated Ag nanoparticles from the …             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 …             Novel Solvent-free Perovskite Deposition in Fabrication of Normal and Inverted Architectures of Perovskite Solar Cells ▶     Bahram Abdollahi Nejand, Saba Gharibzadeh, Vahid Ahmadi et al.     We introduced a new approach to deposit perovskite layer with no need for dissolving perovskite precursors. Deposition of Solution-free perovskite (SFP) layer is a key method for …             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 …             Evidence for Bulk Ripplocations in Layered Solids ▶     Jacob Gruber, Andrew C. Lang, Justin Griggs et al.     Plastically anisotropic/layered solids are ubiquitous in nature and understanding how they deform is crucial in geology, nuclear engineering, microelectronics, among other …             Creep to inertia dominated stick-slip behavior in sliding friction modulated by tilted non-uniform loading ▶     Pengyi Tian, Dashuai Tao, Wei Yin et al.     Comprehension of stick-slip motion is very important for understanding tribological principles. The transition from creep-dominated to inertia-dominated stick-slip as the …             The Asymmetric Active Coupler: Stable Nonlinear Supermodes and Directed Transport ▶     Yannis Kominis, Tassos Bountis, Sergej Flach     We consider the asymmetric active coupler (AAC) consisting of two coupled dissimilar waveguides with gain and loss. We show that under generic conditions, not restricted by …             Hybrid bright-field and hologram imaging of cell dynamics ▶     Hyeokjun Byeon, Jaehyun Lee, Junsang Doh et al.     Volumetric observation is essential for understanding the details of complex biological phenomena. In this study, a bright-field microscope, which provides information on a …             Resolution criteria in double-slit microscopic imaging experiments ▶     Shangting You, Cuifang Kuang, Baile Zhang     Double-slit imaging is widely used for verifying the resolution of high-resolution and super-resolution microscopies. However, due to the fabrication limits, the slit width is …             Flexible Neural Electrode Array Based-on Porous Graphene for Cortical Microstimulation and Sensing ▶     Yichen Lu, Hongming Lyu, Andrew G. Richardson et al.     Neural sensing and stimulation have been the backbone of neuroscience research, brain-machine interfaces and clinical neuromodulation therapies for decades. To-date, most of the …             A mixed solution-processed gate dielectric for zinc-tin oxide thin-film transistor and its MIS capacitance ▶     Hunho Kim, Young-Jin Kwack, Eui-Jung Yun et al.     Solution-processed gate dielectrics were fabricated with the combined ZrO2 and Al2O3 (ZAO) in the form of mixed and stacked types for oxide thin film transistors (TFTs). ZAO thin …             Enhanced Crystallization Behaviors of Silicon-Doped Sb2Te Films: Optical Evidences ▶     Shuang Guo, Liping Xu, Jinzhong Zhang et al.     The optical properties and structural variations of silicon (Si) doped Sb2Te (SST) films as functions of temperature (210–620 K) and Si concentration (0–33%) have been …             Three-dimensional bulk electronic structure of the Kondo lattice CeIn3 revealed by photoemission ▶     Yun Zhang, Haiyan Lu, Xiegang Zhu et al.     We show the three-dimensional electronic structure of the Kondo lattice CeIn3 using soft x-ray angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy in the paramagnetic state. For the first …             Hidden electronic rule in the “cluster-plus-glue-atom” model ▶     Jinglian Du, Chuang Dong, Roderick Melnik et al.     Electrons and their interactions are intrinsic factors to affect the structure and properties of materials. Based on the “cluster-cluster-plus-glue-atom” model, an electron …             Extraordinary transmission of gigahertz surface acoustic waves ▶     Sylvain Mezil, Kazuki Chonan, Paul H. Otsuka et al.     Extraordinary transmission of waves, i.e. a transmission superior to the amount predicted by geometrical considerations of the aperture alone, has to date only been studied in …             Effect of cation substitution on bridgmanite elasticity: A key to interpret seismic anomalies in the lower mantle ▶     Hiroshi Fukui, Akira Yoneda, Akihiko Nakatsuka et al.     Seismological observations show that, in some regions of the lower mantle, an increase in bulk sound velocity, interestingly, occurs in the same volume where there is a decrease …             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 …             Hierarchical nanoporosity enhanced reversible capacity of bicontinuous nanoporous metal based Li-O2 battery ▶     Xianwei Guo, Jiuhui Han, Pan Liu et al.     High-energy-density rechargeable Li-O2 batteries are one of few candidates that can meet the demands of electric drive vehicles and other high-energy applications because of the …             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 …             Estimating the palliative effect of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in an observational registry using principal stratification and generalized propensity scores ▶     Pallavi S. Mishra-Kalyani, Brent A. Johnson, Jonathan D. Glass et al.     Clinical disease registries offer a rich collection of valuable patient information but also pose challenges that require special care and attention in statistical analyses. The …             Förster resonance energy transfer and protein-induced fluorescence enhancement as synergetic multi-scale molecular rulers ▶     Evelyn Ploetz, Eitan Lerner, Florence Husada et al.     Advanced microscopy methods allow obtaining information on (dynamic) conformational changes in biomolecules via measuring a single molecular distance in the structure. It is, …             A combination hepatoma-targeted therapy based on nanotechnology: pHRE-Egr1-HSV-TK/131I-antiAFPMcAb-GCV/MFH ▶     Mei Lin, Junxing Huang, Xingmao Jiang et al.     Combination targeted therapy is a promising cancer therapeutic strategy. Here, using PEI-Mn0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 nanoparticles (PEI-MZF-NPs) as magnetic media for MFH (magnetic fluid …             Superfluidity enhanced by spin-flip tunnelling in the presence of a magnetic field ▶     Jun-Hui Zheng, Daw-Wei Wang, Gediminas Juzeliūnas     It is well-known that when the magnetic field is stronger than a critical value, the spin imbalance can break the Cooper pairs of electrons and hence hinder the superconductivity …             Experimental Trapped-ion Quantum Simulation of the Kibble-Zurek dynamics in momentum space ▶     Jin-Ming Cui, Yun-Feng Huang, Zhao Wang et al.     The Kibble-Zurek mechanism is the paradigm to account for the nonadiabatic dynamics of a system across a continuous phase transition. Its study in the quantum regime is hindered …             Viscoelastic properties and efficient acoustic damping in confined polymer nano-layers at GHz frequencies ▶     Mike Hettich, Karl Jacob, Oliver Ristow et al.     We investigate the viscoelastic properties of confined molecular nano-layers by time resolved optical pump-probe measurements. Access to the elastic properties is provided by the …             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, …             Molecularly Engineered Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite with Multiple Quantum Well Structure for Multicolored Light-Emitting Diodes ▶     Hongwei Hu, Teddy Salim, Bingbing Chen et al.     Organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites have the potential to be used as a new class of emitters with tunable emission, high color purity and good ease of fabrication. Recent …             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 …             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 …             High speed e-beam writing for large area photonic nanostructures — a choice of parameters ▶     Kezheng Li, Juntao Li, Christopher Reardon et al.     Photonic nanostructures are used for many optical systems and applications. However, some high-end applications require the use of electron-beam lithography (EBL) to generate …             Superconducting ferecrystals: turbostratically disordered atomic-scale layered (PbSe)1.14(NbSe2)n thin films ▶     Corinna Grosse, Matti B. Alemayehu, Matthias Falmbigl et al.     Hybrid electronic heterostructure films of semi- and superconducting layers possess very different properties from their bulk counterparts. Here, we demonstrate superconductivity …             Mechanisms Responsible for the Large Piezoelectricity at the Tetragonal-Orthorhombic Phase Boundary of (1-x)BaZr0.2Ti0.8O3-xBa0.7Ca0.3TiO3 System ▶     Tao Yang, Xiaoqin Ke, Yunzhi Wang     Recently it was found that in the lead-free (1-x)BaZr0.2Ti0.8O3-xBa0.7Ca0.3TiO3 (BZT-xBCT) system, the highest piezoelectric d33 coefficient appears at the tetragonal (T) – …             Memory-effect based deconvolution microscopy for super-resolution imaging through scattering media ▶     Eitan Edrei, Giuliano Scarcelli     High-resolution imaging through turbid media is a fundamental challenge of optical sciences that has attracted a lot of attention in recent years for its wide range of potential …             Direct theoretical evidence for weaker correlations in electron-doped and Hg-based hole-doped cuprates ▶     Seung Woo Jang, Hirofumi Sakakibara, Hiori Kino et al.     Many important questions for high-Tc cuprates are closely related to the insulating nature of parent compounds. While there has been intensive discussion on this issue, all …             Encoded diffractive optics for full-spectrum computational imaging ▶     Felix Heide, Qiang Fu, Yifan Peng et al.     Diffractive optical elements can be realized as ultra-thin plates that offer significantly reduced footprint and weight compared to refractive elements. However, such elements …             Observation of re-entrant spin reorientation in TbFe1−xMnxO3 ▶     Yifei Fang, Ya Yang, Xinzhi Liu et al.     We report a spin reorientation from Γ4(Gx, Ay, Fz) to Γ1(Ax, Gy, Cz) magnetic configuration near room temperature and a re-entrant transition from Γ1(Ax, Gy, Cz) to Γ4(Gx, Ay, Fz…             Lateral photovoltaic effect in flexible free-standing reduced graphene oxide film for self-powered position-sensitive detection ▶     In Kyu Moon, Bugeun Ki, Seonno Yoon et al.     Lightweight, simple and flexible self-powered photodetectors are urgently required for the development and application of advanced optical systems for the future of wearable …             The hidden hyperbolic geometry of international trade: World Trade Atlas 1870–2013 ▶     Guillermo García-Pérez, Marián Boguñá, Antoine Allard et al.     Here, we present the World Trade Atlas 1870–2013, a collection of annual world trade maps in which distance combines economic size and the different dimensions that affect …             An Object-Independent ENZ Metamaterial-Based Wideband Electromagnetic Cloak ▶     Sikder Sunbeam Islam, Mohammad Rashed Iqbal Faruque, Mohammad Tariqul Islam     A new, metamaterial-based electromagnetic cloaking operation is proposed in this study. The metamaterial exhibits a sharp transmittance in the C-band of the microwave spectrum …             Enhanced dielectric properties of poly(vinylidene fluoride) composites filled with nano iron oxide-deposited barium titanate hybrid particles ▶     Changhai Zhang, Qingguo Chi, Jiufeng Dong et al.     We report enhancement of the dielectric permittivity of poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) generated by depositing magnetic iron oxide (Fe3O4) nanoparticles on the surface of …             Retraction: Development of Alendronate-conjugated Poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid)-Dextran Nanoparticles for Active Targeting of Cisplatin in Osteosarcoma ▶     Ping Liu, Liang Sun, Dong-sheng Zhou et al.                 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 …             Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Assisted in vitro Electroporation: A Pilot Study ▶     Vitalij Novickij, Audrius Grainys, Eglė Lastauskienė et al.     Electroporation is a phenomenon occurring due to exposure of cells to Pulsed Electric Fields (PEF) which leads to increase of membrane permeability. Electroporation is used in …             Ultrasensitive and low-volume point-of-care diagnostics on flexible strips – a study with cardiac troponin biomarkers ▶     Nandhinee Radha Shanmugam, Sriram Muthukumar, Shalini Prasad     We demonstrate a flexible, mechanically stable, and disposable electrochemical sensor platform for monitoring cardiac troponins through the detection and quantification of …             Potential of in vivo real-time gastric gas profiling: a pilot evaluation of heat-stress and modulating dietary cinnamon effect in an animal model ▶     Jian Zhen Ou, Jeremy J. Cottrell, Nam Ha et al.     Gastroenterologists are still unable to differentiate between some of the most ordinary disorders of the gut and consequently patients are misdiagnosed. We have developed a …             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 …             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 …             Flat-Lens Focusing of Electron Beams in Graphene ▶     Yang Tang, Xiyuan Cao, Ran Guo et al.     Coupling electron beams carrying information into electronic units is fundamental in microelectronics. This requires precision manipulation of electron beams through a coupler …             Methane storage in nanoporous material at supercritical temperature over a wide range of pressures ▶     Keliu Wu, Zhangxin Chen, Xiangfang Li et al.     The methane storage behavior in nanoporous material is significantly different from that of a bulk phase, and has a fundamental role in methane extraction from shale and its …             Eddy, drift wave and zonal flow dynamics in a linear magnetized plasma ▶     H. Arakawa, S. Inagaki, M. Sasaki et al.     Turbulence and its structure formation are universal in neutral fluids and in plasmas. Turbulence annihilates global structures but can organize flows and eddies. The …             Experimental Realization of Tunable Metamaterial Hyper-transmitter ▶     Young Joon Yoo, Changhyun Yi, Ji Sub Hwang et al.     We realized the tunable metamaterial hyper-transmitter in the microwave range utilizing simple planar meta-structure. The single-layer metamaterial hyper-transmitter shows that …             Superconductor to Mott insulator transition in YBa2Cu3O7/LaCaMnO3 heterostructures ▶     B. A. Gray, S. Middey, G. Conti et al.     The superconductor-to-insulator transition (SIT) induced by means such as external magnetic fields, disorder or spatial confinement is a vivid illustration of a quantum phase …             Decoupling the refractive index from the electrical properties of transparent conducting oxides via periodic superlattices ▶     David Caffrey, Emma Norton, Cormac Ó Coileáin et al.     We demonstrate an alternative approach to tuning the refractive index of materials. Current methodologies for tuning the refractive index of a material often result in …             Efficient Radiation by Electrically Small Antennas made of Coupled Split-ring Resonators ▶     Liang Peng, Peiwei Chen, Aiting Wu et al.     In this paper, coupled split-ring resonators (SRRs) are used to construct the electrically small antennas. We show that through strong magnetic coupling, the coupled SRRs …             Solar-rechargeable battery based on photoelectrochemical water oxidation: Solar water battery ▶     Gonu Kim, Misol Oh, Yiseul Park     As an alternative to the photoelectrochemical water splitting for use in the fuel cells used to generate electrical power, this study set out to develop a solar energy …             Giant Two-photon Absorption in Circular Graphene Quantum Dots in Infrared Region ▶     Xiaobo Feng, Zhisong Li, Xin Li et al.     We investigate theoretically the two-photon absorption (TPA) for circular graphene quantum dots (GQDs) with the edge of armchair and zigzag on the basis of electronic energy …             Near-Field and Far-Field Directional Conversion of Spoof Surface Plasmon Polaritons ▶     Heng-He Tang, Yunhua Tan, Pu-Kun Liu     A compact metallic meta-structure is proposed to realize directional conversion between spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SSPPs) and propagating waves at millimeter wave and THz …             Micro-bubble emission boiling with the cavitation bubble blow pit ▶     Shigeaki Inada, Kazuaki Shinagawa, Suhaimi Bin Illias et al.     The miniaturization boiling (micro-bubble emission boiling [MEB]) phenomenon, with a high heat removal capacity that contributes considerably to the cooling of the divertor of …             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 …             High steady-state column density of I(2P3/2) atoms from I2 photodissociation at 532 nm: Towards parity non-conservation measurements ▶     G. E. Katsoprinakis, G. Chatzidrosos, J. A. Kypriotakis et al.     Steady-state column densities of 1017 cm−2 of I(2P3/2) atoms are produced from photodissociation of I2 vapour at 290.5 K using 5 W of 532 nm laser light. Recombination of the I(2P…             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 …             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 …             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 …             Absence of localization in disordered two-dimensional electron gas at weak magnetic field and strong spin-orbit coupling ▶     Ying Su, C. Wang, Y. Avishai et al.     The one-parameter scaling theory of localization predicts that all states in a disordered two-dimensional system with broken time reversal symmetry are localized even in the …             Dielectric relaxation and pinning phenomenon of (Sr,Pb)TiO3 ceramics for dielectric tunable device application ▶     Xian-Xiong Huang, Tian-Fu Zhang, Xin-Gui Tang et al.     The behavior of ferroelectric domain under applied electric field is very sensitive to point defects, which can lead to high temperature dielectric relaxation behaviors. In this …             Atomic and electronic structure of trilayer graphene/SiC(0001): Evidence of Strong Dependence on Stacking Sequence and charge transfer ▶     Debora Pierucci, Thomas Brumme, Jean-Christophe Girard et al.     The transport properties of few-layer graphene are the directly result of a peculiar band structure near the Dirac point. Here, for epitaxial graphene grown on SiC, we determine …             The Lattice Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation of Atomic Diffusion and Structural Transition for Gold ▶     Xiang He, Feng Cheng, Zhao-Xu Chen     For the kinetic simulation of metal nanoparticles, we developed a self-consistent coordination-averaged energies for Au atoms based on energy properties of gold bulk phases. The …             Diverse ruthenium nitrides stabilized under pressure: a theoretical prediction ▶     Yunkun Zhang, Lailei Wu, Biao Wan et al.     First-principles calculations were performed to understand the structural stability, synthesis routes, mechanical and electronic properties of diverse ruthenium nitrides. RuN …             Blue-green tunable color of Ce3+/Tb3+ coactivated NaBa3La3Si6O20 phosphor via energy transfer ▶     Zhen Jia, Mingjun Xia     A series of color tunable phosphors NaBa3La3Si6O20:Ce3+, Tb3+ were synthesized via the high-temperature solid-state method. NaBa3La3Si6O20 crystallizes in noncentrosymmetric …             Addition of P3HT-grafted Silica nanoparticles improves bulk-heterojunction morphology in P3HT-PCBM blends ▶     Mohit Garg, Venkat Padmanabhan     We present molecular dynamics simulations of a ternary blend of P3HT, PCBM and P3HT-grafted silica nanoparticles (SiNP) for applications in polymer-based solar cells. Using …             Charge transport mechanism in lead oxide revealed by CELIV technique ▶     O. Semeniuk, G. Juska, J.-O. Oelerich et al.     Although polycrystalline lead oxide (PbO) belongs to the most promising photoconductors for optoelectronic and large area detectors applications, the charge transport mechanism …             Controllable quantum dynamics of inhomogeneous nitrogen-vacancy center ensembles coupled to superconducting resonators ▶     Wan-lu Song, Wan-li Yang, Zhang-qi Yin et al.     We explore controllable quantum dynamics of a hybrid system, which consists of an array of mutually coupled superconducting resonators (SRs) with each containing a …             Engineering optical mode ferromagnetic resonance in FeCoB films with ultrathin Ru insertion ▶     Shandong Li, Cuiling Wang, Xian-Ming Chu et al.     Ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) in soft magnetic films (SMFs) to a large extent determines the maximum working frequency of magnetic devices. The FMR frequency (fr) in an optical …             Simulation Study of CO2-EOR in Tight Oil Reservoirs with Complex Fracture Geometries ▶     Pavel Zuloaga-Molero, Wei Yu, Yifei Xu et al.     The recent development of tight oil reservoirs has led to an increase in oil production in the past several years due to the progress in horizontal drilling and hydraulic …             Multifunctional 3D printing of heterogeneous hydrogel structures ▶     Ali Nadernezhad, Navid Khani, Gözde Akdeniz Skvortsov et al.     Multimaterial additive manufacturing or three-dimensional (3D) printing of hydrogel structures provides the opportunity to engineer geometrically dependent functionalities. …             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 …             Super flame-retardant lightweight rime-like carbon-phenolic nanofoam ▶     Haiming Cheng, Changqing Hong, Xinghong Zhang et al.     The desire for lightweight nanoporous materials with high-performance thermal insulation and efficient anti-ablation resistance for energy conservation and thermal …             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 …             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 …             Focused Ultrasound-Induced Blood-Brain Barrier Opening: Association with Mechanical Index and Cavitation Index Analyzed by Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic-Resonance Imaging ▶     Po-Chun Chu, Wen-Yen Chai, Chih-Hung Tsai et al.     Focused ultrasound (FUS) with microbubbles can temporally open the blood-brain barrier (BBB), and the cavitation activities of microbubbles play a key role in the BBB-opening …             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 …             Light-tunable Fano resonance in metal-dielectric multilayer structures ▶     S. Hayashi, D. V. Nesterenko, A. Rahmouni et al.     High-Q optical Fano resonances realized in a variety of plasmonic nanostructures and metamaterials are very much promising for the development of new potent photonic devices, …             Topological phase transition and quantum spin Hall edge states of antimony few layers ▶     Sung Hwan Kim, Kyung-Hwan Jin, Joonbum Park et al.     While two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators (TI’s) initiated the field of topological materials, only very few materials were discovered to date and the direct access to …             Corrigendum: Ultra-low Thermal Conductivity in Si/Ge Hierarchical Superlattice Nanowire ▶     Xin Mu, Lili Wang, Xueming Yang et al.                 Flash (Ultra-Rapid) Spark-Plasma Sintering of Silicon Carbide ▶     Eugene A. Olevsky, Stephen M. Rolfing, Andrey L. Maximenko     A new ultra-rapid process of flash spark plasma sintering is developed. The idea of flash spark plasma sintering (or flash hot pressing - FHP) stems from the conducted …             Mesoporous Non-stacked Graphene-receptor Sensor for Detecting Nerve Agents ▶     Hee Min Hwang, Eunhee Hwang, Doyoung Kim et al.     A novel gas sensor consisting of porous, non-stacked reduced graphene oxide (NSrGO)-heaxfluorohydoroxypropanyl benzene (HFHPB) nanosheets was successfully fabricated, allowing …             Topological band-order transition and quantum spin Hall edge engineering in functionalized X-Bi(111) (X = Ga, In, and Tl) bilayer ▶     Youngjae Kim, Won Seok Yun, J. D. Lee     Functionalized X-Bi bilayers (X = Ga, In, and Tl) with halogens bonded on their both sides have been recently claimed to be the giant topological insulators due to the strong …             Enhanced Amplification and Fan-Out Operation in an All-Magnetic Transistor ▶     Saswati Barman, Susmita Saha, Sucheta Mondal et al.     Development of all-magnetic transistor with favorable properties is an important step towards a new paradigm of all-magnetic computation. Recently, we showed such possibility in …             Emergence of event cascades in inhomogeneous networks ▶     Tomokatsu Onaga, Shigeru Shinomoto     There is a commonality among contagious diseases, tweets, and neuronal firings that past events facilitate the future occurrence of events. The spread of events has been …             Ultra-strong and damage tolerant metallic bulk materials: A lesson from nanostructured pearlitic steel wires ▶     A. Hohenwarter, B. Völker, M. W. Kapp et al.     Structural materials used for safety critical applications require high strength and simultaneously high resistance against crack growth, referred to as damage tolerance. …             Optical thermometry based on level anticrossing in silicon carbide ▶     A. N. Anisimov, D. Simin, V. A. Soltamov et al.     We report a giant thermal shift of 2.1 MHz/K related to the excited-state zero-field splitting in the silicon vacancy centers in 4H silicon carbide. It is obtained from the …             Folding to Curved Surfaces: A Generalized Design Method and Mechanics of Origami-based Cylindrical Structures ▶     Fei Wang, Haoran Gong, Xi Chen et al.     Origami structures enrich the field of mechanical metamaterials with the ability to convert morphologically and systematically between two-dimensional (2D) thin sheets and …             Robust entanglement between a movable mirror and atomic ensemble and entanglement transfer in coupled optomechanical system ▶     Cheng-Hua Bai, Dong-Yang Wang, Hong-Fu Wang et al.     We propose a scheme for the creation of robust entanglement between a movable mirror and atomic ensemble at the macroscopic level in coupled optomechanical system. We numerically …             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 …             Two-Dimensional Fluorescence Difference Spectroscopy to Characterize Nanoparticles and their Interactions ▶     Miranda N. Hurst, Robert K. DeLong     Two dimensional fluorescence difference spectroscopy (2D FDS) detects nanoparticle interactions following surface functionalization and biomolecule loading by generating a …             Isogyres – Manifestation of Spin-orbit interaction in uniaxial crystal: A closed-fringe Fourier analysis of conoscopic interference ▶     C. T. Samlan, Dinesh N. Naik, Nirmal K. Viswanathan     Discovered in 1813, the conoscopic interference pattern observed due to light propagating through a crystal, kept between crossed polarizers, shows isochromates and isogyres, …             Multipolar, time-dynamical model for the loss compensation and lasing of a spherical plasmonic nanoparticle spaser immersed in an active gain medium ▶     Alessandro Veltri, Arkadi Chipouline, Ashod Aradian     The plasmonic response of a metal nanoparticle in the presence of surrounding gain elements is studied, using a space and time-dependent model, which integrates a quantum …             Application of Species Distribution Modeling for Avian Influenza surveillance in the United States considering the North America Migratory Flyways ▶     Jaber Belkhiria, Moh A. Alkhamis, Beatriz Martínez-López     Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) has recently (2014–2015) re-emerged in the United States (US) causing the largest outbreak in US history with 232 outbreaks and an …             Doped Graphene for DNA Analysis: the Electrochemical Signal is Strongly Influenced by the Kind of Dopant and the Nucleobase Structure ▶     Huidi Tian, Lu Wang, Zdenek Sofer et al.     Doping graphene with heteroatoms can alter the electronic and electrochemical properties of the starting material. Contrasting properties should be expected when the doping is …             Acetazolamide Mitigates Astrocyte Cellular Edema Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury ▶     Nasya M. Sturdivant, Sean G. Smith, Syed F. Ali et al.     Non-penetrating or mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is commonly experienced in accidents, the battlefield and in full-contact sports. Astrocyte cellular edema is one of the …             Residue Geometry Networks: A Rigidity-Based Approach to the Amino Acid Network and Evolutionary Rate Analysis ▶     Alexander S. Fokas, Daniel J. Cole, Sebastian E. Ahnert et al.     Amino acid networks (AANs) abstract the protein structure by recording the amino acid contacts and can provide insight into protein function. Herein, we describe a novel AAN …             Mechanistic Modelling of DNA Repair and Cellular Survival Following Radiation-Induced DNA Damage ▶     Stephen J. McMahon, Jan Schuemann, Harald Paganetti et al.     Characterising and predicting the effects of ionising radiation on cells remains challenging, with the lack of robust models of the underlying mechanism of radiation responses …             Creation of an anti-imaging system using binary optics ▶     Haifeng Wang, Jian Lin, Dawei Zhang et al.     We present a concealing method in which an anti-point spread function (APSF) is generated using binary optics, which produces a large-scale dark area in the focal region that can …             Morphology and Electric Conductance Change Induced by Voltage Pulse Excitation in (GeTe)2/Sb2Te3 Superlattices ▶     Leonid Bolotov, Yuta Saito, Tetsuya Tada et al.     Chalcogenide superlattice (SL) phase-change memory materials are leading candidates for non-volatile, energy-efficient electric memory where the electric conductance switching is …             Precise Characterisation of Molecular Orientation in a Single Crystal Field-Effect Transistor Using Polarised Raman Spectroscopy ▶     Sebastian Wood, Grigorios-Panagiotis Rigas, Alina Zoladek-Lemanczyk et al.     Charge transport in organic semiconductors is strongly dependent on the molecular orientation and packing, such that manipulation of this molecular packing is a proven technique …             Aspect-ratio driven evolution of high-order resonant modes and near-field distributions in localized surface phonon polariton nanostructures ▶     Chase T. Ellis, Joseph G. Tischler, Orest J. Glembocki et al.     Polar dielectrics have garnered much attention as an alternative to plasmonic metals in the mid- to long-wave infrared spectral regime due to their low optical losses. As such, …             Near-field focus steering along arbitrary trajectory via multi-lined distributed nanoslits ▶     Gun-Yeal Lee, Seung-Yeol Lee, Hansik Yun et al.     The modulation of near-field signals has recently attracted considerable interest because of demands for the development of nano-scale optical devices that are capable of …             From Biological Cilia to Artificial Flow Sensors: Biomimetic Soft Polymer Nanosensors with High Sensing Performance ▶     Mohsen Asadnia, Ajay Giri Prakash Kottapalli, K. Domenica Karavitaki et al.     We report the development of a new class of miniature all-polymer flow sensors that closely mimic the intricate morphology of the mechanosensory ciliary bundles in biological …             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. …             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 …             Emission wavelength tuning of fluorescence by fine structural control of optical metamaterials with Fano resonance ▶     Y. Moritake, Y. Kanamori, K. Hane     We demonstrated fine emission wavelength tuning of quantum dot (QD) fluorescence by fine structural control of optical metamaterials with Fano resonance. An asymmetric-double-bar …             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 …             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 …             One-Step Synthesis of Pt/Graphene Composites from Pt Acid Dissolved Ethanol via Microwave Plasma Spray Pyrolysis ▶     Eun Hee Jo, Hankwon Chang, Sun Kyung Kim et al.     Pt nanoparticles-laden graphene (Pt/GR) composites were synthesized in the gas phase from a mixture of ethanol and Pt precursor by microwave plasma spray pyrolysis. The …             Optimized holographic femtosecond laser patterning method towards rapid integration of high-quality functional devices in microchannels ▶     Chenchu Zhang, Yanlei Hu, Wenqiang Du et al.     Rapid integration of high-quality functional devices in microchannels is in highly demand for miniature lab-on-a-chip applications. This paper demonstrates the embellishment of …             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) …             Nanoscale Chemical and Electrical Stabilities of Graphene-covered Silver Nanowire Networks for Transparent Conducting Electrodes ▶     Seong Heon Kim, Woon Ih Choi, Kwang Hee Kim et al.     The hybrid structure of Ag nanowires (AgNWs) covered with graphene (Gr) shows synergetic effects on the performance of transparent conducting electrodes (TCEs). However, these …             Discriminating Bio-aerosols from Non-Bio-aerosols in Real-Time by Pump-Probe Spectroscopy ▶     Gustavo Sousa, Geoffrey Gaulier, Luigi Bonacina et al.     The optical identification of bioaerosols in the atmosphere and its discrimination against combustion related particles is a major issue for real-time, field compatible …             Failure mechanism of monolayer graphene under hypervelocity impact of spherical projectile ▶     Kang Xia, Haifei Zhan, De’an Hu et al.     The excellent mechanical properties of graphene have enabled it as appealing candidate in the field of impact protection or protective shield. By considering a monolayer graphene …             Heptagraphene: Tunable Dirac Cones in a Graphitic Structure ▶     Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla, Ivar Martin, Peter B. Littlewood     We predict the existence and dynamical stability of heptagraphene, a new graphitic structure formed of rings of 10 carbon atoms bridged by carbene groups yielding seven-membered …             Magnetic field sensing subject to correlated noise with a ring spin chain ▶     Li-Sha Guo, Bao-Ming Xu, Jian Zou et al.     In this paper, we focus on the magnetic field sensing subject to a correlated noise. We use a ring spin chain with only the nearest neighbor interactions as our probe to estimate …             Controllable two-scale network architecture and enhanced mechanical properties of (Ti5Si3+TiBw)/Ti6Al4V composites ▶     Y. Jiao, L. J. Huang, T. B. Duan et al.     Novel Ti6Al4V alloy matrix composites with a controllable two-scale network architecture were successfully fabricated by reaction hot pressing (RHP). TiB whiskers (TiBw) were …             Establishing nonlinearity thresholds with ultraintense X-ray pulses ▶     Jakub Szlachetko, Joanna Hoszowska, Jean-Claude Dousse et al.     X-ray techniques have evolved over decades to become highly refined tools for a broad range of investigations. Importantly, these approaches rely on X-ray measurements that …             Maze learning by a hybrid brain-computer system ▶     Zhaohui Wu, Nenggan Zheng, Shaowu Zhang et al.     The combination of biological and artificial intelligence is particularly driven by two major strands of research: one involves the control of mechanical, usually prosthetic, …             From Zirconium Nanograins to Zirconia Nanoneedles ▶     E. Zalnezhad, A. M. S. Hamouda, J. Jaworski et al.     Combinations of three simple techniques were utilized to gradually form zirconia nanoneedles from zirconium nanograins. First, a physical vapor deposition magnetron sputtering …             Influence of curvature strain and Van der Waals force on the inter-layer vibration mode of WS2 nanotubes: A confocal micro-Raman spectroscopic study ▶     Xiao Hu Wang, Chang Cheng Zheng, Ji Qiang Ning     Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) nanostructures including nanotubes and monolayers have attracted great interests in materials science, chemistry to condensed matter …             Magneto-Optical Study of Defect Induced Sharp Photoluminescence in LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 ▶     Soumya Sarkar, Surajit Saha, M. R. Motapothula et al.     Strongly correlated electronic systems such as Transition Metal Oxides often possess various mid-gap states originating from intrinsic defects in these materials. In this paper, …             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 …             Dispersion of nonresonant third-order nonlinearities in GeSiSn ternary alloys ▶     Francesco De Leonardis, Benedetto Troia, Richard A. Soref et al.     Silicon (Si), tin (Sn), and germanium (Ge) alloys have attracted research attention as direct band gap semiconductors with applications in electronics and optoelectronics. In …             Lipid membrane-mediated attraction between curvature inducing objects ▶     Casper van der Wel, Afshin Vahid, Anđela Šarić et al.     The interplay of membrane proteins is vital for many biological processes, such as cellular transport, cell division, and signal transduction between nerve cells. Theoretical …             Annual and seasonal spatial models for nitrogen oxides in Tehran, Iran ▶     Heresh Amini, Seyed-Mahmood Taghavi-Shahri, Sarah B. Henderson et al.     Very few land use regression (LUR) models have been developed for megacities in low- and middle-income countries, but such models are needed to facilitate epidemiologic research …             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. Here, we developed a click chemistry approach for multicolor imaging of chromosomal DNA …             Real-time Functional Analysis of Inertial Microfluidic Devices via Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography ▶     Biqin Dong, Siyu Chen, Fan Zhou et al.     We report the application of spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) technology that enables real-time functional analysis of sorting microparticles and cells in an …             Conformational Ensemble of hIAPP Dimer: Insight into the Molecular Mechanism by which a Green Tea Extract inhibits hIAPP Aggregation ▶     Yuxiang Mo, Jiangtao Lei, Yunxiang Sun et al.     Small oligomers formed early along human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP) aggregation is responsible for the cell death in Type II diabetes. The epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), …             An Auditory BCI System for Assisting CRS-R Behavioral Assessment in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness ▶     Jun Xiao, Qiuyou Xie, Yanbin He et al.     The Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R) is a consistent and sensitive behavioral assessment standard for disorders of consciousness (DOC) patients. 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