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04 October 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Physical Sciences               A Statistical Learning Framework for Materials Science: Application to Elastic Moduli of k-nary Inorganic Polycrystalline Compounds ▶     Maarten de Jong, Wei Chen, Randy Notestine et al.     Materials scientists increasingly employ machine or statistical learning (SL) techniques to accelerate materials discovery and design. Such pursuits benefit from pooling training …             Ultrastable glasses portray similar behaviour to ordinary glasses at high pressure ▶     C. Rodríguez-Tinoco, M. González-Silveira, M. Barrio et al.     Pressure experiments provide a unique opportunity to unravel new insights into glass-forming liquids by exploring its effect on the dynamics of viscous liquids and on the …             Adsorptive Removal of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products from Water with Functionalized Metal-organic Frameworks: Remarkable Adsorbents with Hydrogen-bonding Abilities ▶     Pill Won Seo, Biswa Nath Bhadra, Imteaz Ahmed et al.     Adsorption of typical pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) (such as naproxen, ibuprofen and oxybenzone) from aqueous solutions was studied by using the highly …             Efficient Synthesis of Ethanol from CH4 and Syngas on a Cu-Co/TiO2 Catalyst Using a Stepwise Reactor ▶     Zhi-Jun Zuo, Fen Peng, Wei Huang     Ethanol synthesis from CH4 and syngas on a Cu-Co/TiO2 catalyst is studied using experiments, density functional theory (DFT) and microkinetic modelling. The experimental results …             The origin of hyperferroelectricity in LiBO3 (B = V, Nb, Ta, Os) ▶     Pengfei Li, Xinguo Ren, Guang-Can Guo et al.     The electronic and structural properties of LiBO3 (B = V, Nb, Ta, Os) are investigated via first-principles methods. We show that LiBO3 belong to the recently proposed …             A sensitive electrochemical sensor for in vitro detection of parathyroid hormone based on a MoS2-graphene composite ▶     Hyeong-U Kim, Hye Youn Kim, Atul Kulkarni et al.     This paper reports a biosensor based on a MoS2-graphene (MG) composite that can measure the parathyroid hormone (PTH) concentration in serum samples from patients. The …             Revisit to three-dimensional percolation theory: Accurate analysis for highly stretchable conductive composite materials ▶     Sangwoo Kim, Seongdae Choi, Eunho Oh et al.     A percolation theory based on variation of conductive filler fraction has been widely used to explain the behavior of conductive composite materials under both small and large …             Effective pinning energy landscape perturbations for propagating magnetic domain walls ▶     D. M. Burn, D. Atkinson     The interaction between a magnetic domain wall and a pinning site is explored in a planar nanowire using micromagnetics to reveal perturbations of the pinning energetics for …             Real-space observation of magnetic excitations and avalanche behavior in artificial quasicrystal lattices ▶     V. Brajuskovic, F. Barrows, C. Phatak et al.     Artificial spin ice lattices have emerged as model systems for studying magnetic frustration in recent years. Most work to date has looked at periodic artificial spin ice …             Pulled microcapillary tube resonators with electrical readout for mass sensing applications ▶     Donghyuk Lee, Joonhui Kim, Nam-Joon Cho et al.     This paper reports a microfabrication-free approach to make hollow channel mass sensors by pulling a glass capillary and suspending it on top of a machined jig. A part of the …             Biomimetic Nanofibrillation in Two-Component Biopolymer Blends with Structural Analogs to Spider Silk ▶     Lan Xie, Huan Xu, Liang-Bin Li et al.     Despite the enormous potential in bioinspired fabrication of high-strength structure by mimicking the spinning process of spider silk, currently accessible routes (e.g., …             Novel optical gyroscope: proof of principle demonstration and future scope ▶     Shailesh Srivastava, Shreesha Rao D. S., Hari Nandakumar     We report the first proof-of-principle demonstration of the resonant optical gyroscope with reflector that we have recently proposed. The device is very different from …             Investigating enhanced mechanical properties in dual-phase Fe-Ga-Tb alloys ▶     Chongzheng Meng, Hui Wang, Yuye Wu et al.     Dual-phase (Fe83Ga17)100−xTbx alloys with 0 ≤ x ≤ 1 were synthesized by arc melting and homogenization treatment. The microstructures and the corresponding mechanical properties …             In Situ Growth of Highly Adhesive Surface Layer on Titanium Foil as Durable Counter Electrodes for Efficient Dye-sensitized Solar Cells ▶     Wantao Liu, Peng Xu, Yanjun Guo et al.     Counter electrodes (CEs) of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) are usually fabricated by depositing catalytic materials on substrates. The poor adhesion of the catalytic material …             Electrosprayed Multi-Core Alginate Microcapsules as Novel Self-Healing Containers ▶     Iee Lee Hia, Pooria Pasbakhsh, Eng-Seng Chan et al.     Alginate microcapsules containing epoxy resin were developed through electrospraying method and embedded into epoxy matrix to produce a capsule-based self-healing composite …             Statistical Analysis of Main and Interaction Effects on Cu(II) and Cr(VI) Decontamination by Nitrogen–Doped Magnetic Graphene Oxide ▶     Xinjiang Hu, Hui Wang, Yunguo Liu     A nitrogen–doped magnetic graphene oxide (NMGO) was synthesized and applied as an adsorbent to remove Cu(II) and Cr(VI) ions from aqueous solutions. The individual and combined …             Hydrodynamic role of longitudinal dorsal ridges in a leatherback turtle swimming ▶     Kyeongtae Bang, Jooha Kim, Sang-Im Lee et al.     Leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) are known to have a superior diving ability and be highly adapted to pelagic swimming. They have five longitudinal ridges on their …             Prediction of postoperative liver regeneration from clinical information using a data-led mathematical model ▶     Kimiyo N. Yamamoto, Masatsugu Ishii, Yoshihiro Inoue et al.     Although the capacity of the liver to recover its size after resection has enabled extensive liver resection, post-hepatectomy liver failure remains one of the most lethal …             High sensitivity of gold nanoparticles co-doped with Gd2O3 mesoporous silica nanocomposite to nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells ▶     Hui Wang, Songjin Zhang, Xiumei Tian et al.     Nanoprobes for combined optical and magnetic resonance imaging have tremendous potential in early cancer diagnosis. Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) co-doped with Gd2O3 mesoporous …             Erratum: Shear-mediated contributions to the effective properties of soft acoustic metamaterials including negative index ▶     Derek Michael Forrester, Valerie J. Pinfield                 Flexible all-polymer waveguide for low threshold amplified spontaneous emission ▶     José R. Castro Smirnov, Qi Zhang, Reinhold Wannemacher et al.     The fabrication of all polymer optical waveguides, based on a highly fluorescent conjugated polymer (CP) poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene-alt-benzothiadiazole) (F8BT) and a mechanically …             Hydrogenation-controlled phase transition on two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides and their unique physical and catalytic properties ▶     Yuanju Qu, Hui Pan, Chi Tat Kwok     Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have been widely used from nanodevices to energy harvesting/storage because of their tunable physical and chemical …             Frequency-time coherence for all-optical sampling without optical pulse source ▶     Stefan Preußler, Gilda Raoof Mehrpoor, Thomas Schneider     Sampling is the first step to convert an analogue optical signal into a digital electrical signal. The latter can be further processed and analysed by well-known electrical …             Corrigendum: Novel technique to suppress hydrocarbon contamination for high accuracy determination of carbon content in steel by FE-EPMA ▶     Takako Yamashita, Yuji Tanaka, Masayasu Nagoshi et al.                 Carrier Localization Effects in InGaN/GaN Multiple-Quantum-Wells LED Nanowires: Luminescence Quantum Efficiency Improvement and “Negative” Thermal Activation Energy ▶     Wei Bao, Zhicheng Su, Changcheng Zheng et al.     Two-dimensional InGaN/GaN multiple-quantum-wells (MQW) LED structure was nanotextured into quasi-one-dimensional nanowires (NWs) with different average diameters with a …             Material gain engineering in GeSn/Ge quantum wells integrated with an Si platform ▶     H. S. Mączko, R. Kudrawiec, M. Gladysiewicz     It is shown that compressively strained Ge1−xSnx/Ge quantum wells (QWs) grown on a Ge substrate with 0.1 ≤ x ≤ 0.2 and width of 8 nm ≤ d ≤ 14 nm are a very promising gain medium …             Use of Single-Layer g-C3N4/Ag Hybrids for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) ▶     Jizhou Jiang, Jing Zou, Andrew Thye Shen Wee et al.     Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates with high activity and stability are desirable for SERS sensing. Here, we report a new single atomic layer graphitic-C3N4 …             High-mechanical-frequency characteristics of optomechanical crystal cavity with coupling waveguide ▶     Zhilei Huang, Kaiyu Cui, Guoren Bai et al.     Optomechanical crystals have attracted great attention recently for their ability to realize strong photon-phonon interaction in cavity optomechanical systems. By far, the …             Sharp transitions in low-number quantum dots Bayesian magnetometry ▶     Paweł Mazurek, Michał Horodecki, Łukasz Czekaj et al.     We consider Bayesian estimate of static magnetic field, characterized by a prior Gaussian probability distribution, in systems of a few electron quantum dot spins interacting …             Europium (III) Organic Complexes in Porous Boron Nitride Microfibers: Efficient Hybrid Luminescent Material ▶     Jing Lin, Congcong Feng, Xin He et al.     We report the design and synthesis of a novel kind of organic-inorganic hybrid material via the incorporation of europium (III) β-diketonate complexes (Eu(TTA)3, …             Phase-matched second harmonic generation with on-chip GaN-on-Si microdisks ▶     I. Roland, M. Gromovyi, Y. Zeng et al.     We demonstrate phase-matched second harmonic generation in gallium nitride on silicon microdisks. The microdisks are integrated with side-coupling bus waveguides in a …             Unique magnetostriction of Fe68.8Pd31.2 attributable to twinning ▶     Jake Steiner, Abdellah Lisfi, Tomoyuki Kakeshita et al.     Fe68.8Pd31.2 exhibits an anomalously large magnetostriction of ~400 ppm at room temperature as well as linear, isotropic, and hysteresis free magnetization behavior. This near …             Kinetic ways of tailoring phases in high entropy alloys ▶     Feng He, Zhijun Wang, Yiyan Li et al.     The comprehensive performance of high entropy alloys (HEAs) depends on the phase selection significantly. However, up to now, investigations of the phase selection in HEAs mainly …             Columnar structured FePt films epitaxially grown on large lattice mismatched intermediate layer ▶     K. F. Dong, J. Y. Deng, Y. G. Peng et al.     The microstructure and magnetic properties of the FePt films grown on large mismatched ZrN (15.7%) intermediate layer were investigated. With using ZrN intermediate layer, FePt …             Various nanoparticle morphologies and surface properties of waterborne polyurethane controlled by water ▶     Xing Zhou, Changqing Fang, Wanqing Lei et al.     Water plays important roles in organic reactions such as polyurethane synthesis, and the aqueous solution environment affects polymer morphology and other properties. This paper …             Observation of orbital two-channel Kondo effect in a ferromagnetic L10-MnGa film ▶     Lijun Zhu, Georg Woltersdorf, Jianhua Zhao     The experimental existence and stability of the fixed point of the two-channel Kondo (2CK) effect displaying exotic non-Fermi liquid physics have been buried in persistent …             Identification and impact of discoverers in online social systems ▶     Matúš Medo, Manuel S. Mariani, An Zeng et al.     Understanding the behavior of users in online systems is of essential importance for sociology, system design, e-commerce, and beyond. Most existing models assume that …             Collective modes in multi-Weyl semimetals ▶     Seongjin Ahn, E. H. Hwang, Hongki Min     We investigate collective modes in three dimensional (3D) gapless multi-Weyl semimetals with anisotropic energy band dispersions (i.e., with a positive integer J). For …             Efficient exciton generation in atomic passivated CdSe/ZnS quantum dots light-emitting devices ▶     Byoung-Ho Kang, Jae-Sung Lee, Sang-Won Lee et al.     We demonstrate the first-ever surface modification of green CdSe/ZnS quantum dots (QDs) using bromide anions (Br-) in cetyl trimethylammonium bromide (CTAB). The Br- ions reduced …             Proton Conducting Graphene Oxide/Chitosan Composite Electrolytes as Gate Dielectrics for New-Concept Devices ▶     Ping Feng, Peifu Du, Changjin Wan et al.     New-concept devices featuring the characteristics of ultralow operation voltages and low fabrication cost have received increasing attention recently because they can supplement …             Adhesive ligand tether length affects the size and length of focal adhesions and influences cell spreading and attachment ▶     Simon J. Attwood, Ernesto Cortes, Alexander William M. Haining et al.     Cells are known to respond to physical cues from their microenvironment such as matrix rigidity. Discrete adhesive ligands within flexible strands of fibronectin connect cell …             PLGA nanoparticle encapsulation reduces toxicity while retaining the therapeutic efficacy of EtNBS-PDT in vitro ▶     Hsin-I Hung, Oliver J. Klein, Sam W. Peterson et al.     Photodynamic therapy regimens, which use light-activated molecules known as photosensitizers, are highly selective against many malignancies and can bypass certain challenging …             A High-Throughput, Arbitrary-Waveform, MPI Spectrometer and Relaxometer for Comprehensive Magnetic Particle Optimization and Characterization ▶     Zhi Wei Tay, Patrick W. Goodwill, Daniel W. Hensley et al.     Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) is a promising new tracer modality with zero attenuation deep in tissue, high contrast and sensitivity, and an excellent safety profile. However, …             Process-based design of dynamical biological systems ▶     Jovan Tanevski, Ljupčo Todorovski, Sašo Džeroski     The computational design of dynamical systems is an important emerging task in synthetic biology. Given desired properties of the behaviour of a dynamical system, the task of …             Rotational friction of dipolar colloids measured by driven torsional oscillations ▶     Gabi Steinbach, Sibylle Gemming, Artur Erbe     Despite its prominent role in the dynamics of soft materials, rotational friction remains a quantity that is difficult to determine for many micron-sized objects. Here, we …             Quantum walks of interacting fermions on a cycle graph ▶     Alexey A. Melnikov, Leonid E. Fedichkin     Quantum walks have been employed widely to develop new tools for quantum information processing recently. A natural quantum walk dynamics of interacting particles can be used to …             Unsupervised Data Mining in nanoscale X-ray Spectro-Microscopic Study of NdFeB Magnet ▶     Xiaoyue Duan, Feifei Yang, Erin Antono et al.     Novel developments in X-ray based spectro-microscopic characterization techniques have increased the rate of acquisition of spatially resolved spectroscopic data by several …             All Photons Imaging Through Volumetric Scattering ▶     Guy Satat, Barmak Heshmat, Dan Raviv et al.     Imaging through thick highly scattering media (sample thickness ≫ mean free path) can realize broad applications in biomedical and industrial imaging as well as remote sensing. …             Hexagonal Boron Nitride Tunnel Barriers Grown on Graphite by High Temperature Molecular Beam Epitaxy ▶     Yong-Jin Cho, Alex Summerfield, Andrew Davies et al.     We demonstrate direct epitaxial growth of high-quality hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) layers on graphite using high-temperature plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy. Atomic …             Correlation between structural heterogeneity and plastic deformation for phase separating FeCu metallic glasses ▶     Chuan-Xiao Peng, Kai-Kai Song, Li Wang et al.     Unlike crystalline metals, the plastic deformation of metallic glasses (MGs) involves a competition between disordering and structural relaxation ordering, which is not well …             Photonic Crystal Microchip Laser ▶     Darius Gailevicius, Volodymyr Koliadenko, Vytautas Purlys et al.     The microchip lasers, being very compact and efficient sources of coherent light, suffer from one serious drawback: low spatial quality of the beam strongly reducing the …             Steady-state equation of water vapor sorption for CaCl2-based chemical sorbents and its application ▶     Haiquan Zhang, Yanping Yuan, Qingrong Sun et al.     Green CaCl2-based chemical sorbent has been widely used in sorption refrigeration, air purification and air desiccation. Methods to improve the sorption rate have been …             A multilevel nonvolatile magnetoelectric memory ▶     Jianxin Shen, Junzhuang Cong, Dashan Shang et al.     The coexistence and coupling between magnetization and electric polarization in multiferroic materials provide extra degrees of freedom for creating next-generation memory …             Assembling non-ferromagnetic materials to ferromagnetic architectures using metal-semiconductor interfaces ▶     Ji Ma, Chunting Liu, Kezheng Chen     In this work, a facile and versatile solution route was used to fabricate room-temperature ferromagnetic fish bone-like, pteridophyte-like, poplar flower-like, cotton-like Cu@Cu2…             Uncovering the essential links in online commercial networks ▶     Wei Zeng, Meiling Fang, Junming Shao et al.     Recommender systems are designed to effectively support individuals' decision-making process on various web sites. It can be naturally represented by a user-object bipartite …             Resonantly Enhanced Emission from a Luminescent Nanostructured Waveguide ▶     Yasuhisa Inada, Akira Hashiya, Mitsuru Nitta et al.     Controlling the characteristics of photon emission represents a significant challenge for both fundamental science and device technologies. Research on microcavities, photonic …             Band Gap Engineering of Two-Dimensional Nitrogene ▶     Jie-Sen Li, Wei-Liang Wang, Dao-Xin Yao     In our previous study, we have predicted the novel two-dimensional honeycomb monolayers of pnictogen. In particular, the structure and properties of the honeycomb monolayer of …             Measuring the Complex Optical Conductivity of Graphene by Fabry-Pérot Reflectance Spectroscopy ▶     Behnood G. Ghamsari, Jacob Tosado, Mahito Yamamoto et al.     We have experimentally studied the dispersion of optical conductivity in few-layer graphene through reflection spectroscopy at visible wavelengths. A laser scanning microscope …             Thermally induced crystallization in NbO2 thin films ▶     Jiaming Zhang, Kate J. Norris, Gary Gibson et al.     Niobium dioxide can exhibit negative differential resistance (NDR) in metal-insulator-metal (MIM) devices, which has recently attracted significant interest for its potential …             Extracting quantum coherence via steering ▶     Xueyuan Hu, Heng Fan     As the precious resource for quantum information processing, quantum coherence can be created remotely if the involved two sites are quantum correlated. It can be expected that …             Formation of droplet interface bilayers in a Teflon tube ▶     Edmond Walsh, Alexander Feuerborn, Peter R. Cook     Droplet-interface bilayers (DIBs) have applications in disciplines ranging from biology to computing. We present a method for forming them manually using a Teflon tube attached …             Lamb-dip spectroscopy of the C−N stretching band of methylamine by using frequency-tunable microwave sidebands of CO2 laser lines ▶     Zhen-Dong Sun, Shan-Dong Qi, Ronald M. Lees et al.     Lamb-dip spectroscopy of the C−N stretching band of methylamine has been systematically extended to P-, Q-, and R-branch by using microwave sidebands of a large number of CO2 …             Quantitative imaging of heterogeneous dynamics in drying and aging paints ▶     Hanne M. van der Kooij, Remco Fokkink, Jasper van der Gucht et al.     Drying and aging paint dispersions display a wealth of complex phenomena that make their study fascinating yet challenging. To meet the growing demand for sustainable, …             A single molecule assay to probe monovalent and multivalent bonds between hyaluronan and its key leukocyte receptor CD44 under force ▶     Fouzia Bano, Suneale Banerji, Mark Howarth et al.     Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), a category of linear, anionic polysaccharides, are ubiquitous in the extracellular space, and important extrinsic regulators of cell function. Despite …             Acidic Residues Control the Dimerization of the N-terminal Domain of Black Widow Spiders’ Major Ampullate Spidroin 1 ▶     Joschka Bauer, Daniel Schaal, Lukas Eisoldt et al.     Dragline silk is the most prominent amongst spider silks and comprises two types of major ampullate spidroins (MaSp) differing in their proline content. In the natural spinning …             Large low field magnetocaloric effect in first-order phase transition compound TlFe3Te3 with low-level hysteresis ▶     Qianhui Mao, Jinhu Yang, Hangdong Wang et al.     Magnetic refrigeration based on the magnetocaloric effect (MCE) is an environment-friendly, high-efficiency technology. It has been believed that a large MCE can be realized in …             Temporal efficiency evaluation and small-worldness characterization in temporal networks ▶     Zhongxiang Dai, Yu Chen, Junhua Li et al.     Numerous real-world systems can be modeled as networks. To date, most network studies have been conducted assuming stationary network characteristics. Many systems, however, …             Liver DCE-MRI Registration in Manifold Space Based on Robust Principal Component Analysis ▶     Qianjin Feng, Yujia Zhou, Xueli Li et al.     A technical challenge in the registration of dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance (DCE-MR) imaging in the liver is intensity variations caused by contrast agents. Such …             Corrigendum: Terahertz radiation driven by two-color laser pulses at near-relativistic intensities: Competition between photoionization and wakefield effects ▶     P. González de Alaiza Martínez, X. Davoine, A. Debayle et al.                 Coherent and dynamic beam splitting based on light storage in cold atoms ▶     Kwang-Kyoon Park, Tian-Ming Zhao, Jong-Chan Lee et al.     We demonstrate a coherent and dynamic beam splitter based on light storage in cold atoms. An input weak laser pulse is first stored in a cold atom ensemble via …             Shape and Displacement Fluctuations in Soft Vesicles Filled by Active Particles ▶     Matteo Paoluzzi, Roberto Di Leonardo, M. Cristina Marchetti et al.     We investigate numerically the dynamics of shape and displacement fluctuations of two-dimensional flexible vesicles filled with active particles. At low concentration most of the …             The effect of rod orientation on electrical anisotropy in silver nanowire networks for ultra-transparent electrodes ▶     Thomas Ackermann, Raphael Neuhaus, Siegmar Roth     Two-dimensional networks made of metal nanowires are excellent paradigms for the experimental observation of electrical percolation caused by continuous jackstraw-like physical …             An electrical probe of the phonon mean-free path spectrum ▶     Ashok T. Ramu, Nicole I. Halaszynski, Jonathan D. Peters et al.     Most studies of the mean-free path accumulation function (MFPAF) rely on optical techniques to probe heat transfer at length scales on the order of the phonon mean-free path. In …             Near-infrared roll-off-free electroluminescence from highly stable diketopyrrolopyrrole light emitting diodes ▶     Mauro Sassi, Nunzio Buccheri, Myles Rooney et al.     Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) operating in the near-infrared spectral region are gaining growing relevance for emerging photonic technologies, such as lab-on-chip …             Optically Transparent Ferromagnetic Nanogranular Films with Tunable Transmittance ▶     Nobukiyo Kobayashi, Hiroshi Masumoto, Saburo Takahashi et al.     Developing optically transparent magnets at room temperature is an important challenge. They would bring many innovations to various industries, not only for electronic and …             Rolling behavior of a micro-cylinder in adhesional contact ▶     Shigeki Saito, Toshihiro Ochiai, Fumikazu Yoshizawa et al.     Understanding the rolling behavior of a micro-object is essential to establish the techniques of micro-manipulation and micro-assembly by mechanical means. Using a combined …             Foldable and High Sulfur Loading 3D Carbon Electrode for High-performance Li-S Battery Application ▶     Na He, Lei Zhong, Min Xiao et al.     Sulfur is a promising cathode material with a high theoretical capacity of 1672 mAh g−1, however, the practical energy density of Li-S battery is far away from such promising due …             Allosteric Inhibitory Molecular Recognition of a Photochromic Dye by a Digestive Enzyme: Dihydroindolizine makes α-chymotrypsin Photo-responsive ▶     Damayanti Bagchi, Abhijit Ghosh, Priya Singh et al.     The structural-functional regulation of enzymes by the administration of an external stimulus such as light could create photo-switches that exhibit unique biotechnological …             Investigating Energetic X-Shaped Flares on the Outskirts of A Solar Active Region ▶     Rui Liu, Jun Chen, Yuming Wang et al.     Typical solar flares display two quasi-parallel, bright ribbons on the chromosphere. In between is the polarity inversion line (PIL) separating concentrated magnetic fluxes of …             Fractal zone plate beam based optical tweezers ▶     Shubo Cheng, Xinyu Zhang, Wenzhuo Ma et al.     We demonstrate optical manipulation with an optical beam generated by a fractral zone plate (FZP). The experimental results show that the FZP beam can simultaneously trap …             V2O5-C-SnO2 Hybrid Nanobelts as High Performance Anodes for Lithium-ion Batteries ▶     Linfei Zhang, Mingyang Yang, Shengliang Zhang et al.     The superior performance of metal oxide nanocomposites has introduced them as excellent candidates for emerging energy sources, and attracted significant attention in recent …             Phase-dependent dynamic potential of magnetically coupled two-degree-of-freedom bistable energy harvester ▶     Pilkee Kim, Minh Sang Nguyen, Ojin Kwon et al.     A system of magnetically coupled oscillators has been recently considered as a promising compact structure to integrate multiple bistable energy harvesters (BEHs), but its design …             Influence of symmetry breaking degrees on surface plasmon polaritons propagation in branched silver nanowire waveguides ▶     Jiaojiao Hua, Fan Wu, Zhongfeng Xu et al.     Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs)-based nanowire (NW) waveguides demonstrate promising potentials in the integrated nanophotonic circuits and devices. The realization of …             Development of a novel high-entropy alloy with eminent efficiency of degrading azo dye solutions ▶     Z. Y. Lv, X. J. Liu, B. Jia et al.     In addition to its scientific importance, the degradation of azo dyes is of practical significance from the perspective of environmental protection. Although encouraging progress …             Spin-dependent manipulating of vector beams by tailoring polarization ▶     Junxiao Zhou, Wenshuai Zhang, Yachao Liu et al.     We examine the spin-dependent manipulating of vector beams by tailoring the inhomogeneous polarization. The spin-dependent manipulating is attributed to the spin-dependent phase …             Roll-to-roll slot-die coating of 400 mm wide, flexible, transparent Ag nanowire films for flexible touch screen panels ▶     Dong-Ju Kim, Hae-In Shin, Eun-Hye Ko et al.     We report fabrication of large area Ag nanowire (NW) film coated using a continuous roll-to-roll (RTR) slot die coater as a viable alternative to conventional ITO electrodes for …             The Collective Direction of Attention Diffusion ▶     Cheng-Jun Wang, Lingfei Wu, Jiang Zhang et al.     We find that the flow of attention on the Web forms a directed, tree-like structure implying the time-sensitive browsing behavior of users. Using the data of a news sharing …             Realizing topological stability of magnetic helices in exchange-coupled multilayers for all-spin-based system ▶     Sergej Fust, Saumya Mukherjee, Neelima Paul et al.     Topologically stabilized spin configurations like helices in the form of planar domain walls (DWs) or vortex-like structures with magnetic functionalities are more often a …             13C and 15N natural isotope abundance reflects breast cancer cell metabolism ▶     Illa Tea, Estelle Martineau, Ingrid Antheaume et al.     Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide. Despite the information provided by anatomopathological assessment and molecular markers (such as receptor expression …             Differential network analysis from cross-platform gene expression data ▶     Xiao-Fei Zhang, Le Ou-Yang, Xing-Ming Zhao et al.     Understanding how the structure of gene dependency network changes between two patient-specific groups is an important task for genomic research. Although many computational …             Ocular Drug Delivery through pHEMA-Hydrogel Contact Lenses Co-Loaded with Lipophilic Vitamins ▶     Dasom Lee, Seungkwon Cho, Hwa Sung Park et al.     Ocular drug delivery through hydrogel contact lenses has great potential for the treatment of ocular diseases. Previous studies showed that the loading of lipophilic vitamin E to …             Electrical detection and quantification of single and mixed DNA nucleotides in suspension ▶     Mahmoud Al Ahmad, Neena G. Panicker, Tahir A. Rizvi et al.     High speed sequential identification of the building blocks of DNA, (deoxyribonucleotides or nucleotides for short) without labeling or processing in long reads of DNA is the …             In vivo formation of natural HgSe nanoparticles in the liver and brain of pilot whales ▶     Zuzana Gajdosechova, Mohammed M. Lawan, Dagmar S. Urgast et al.     To understand the biochemistry of methylmercury (MeHg) that leads to the formation of mercury-selenium (Hg-Se) clusters is a long outstanding challenge that promises to deepen …             Stretchable Materials for Robust Soft Actuators towards Assistive Wearable Devices ▶     Gunjan Agarwal, Nicolas Besuchet, Basile Audergon et al.     Soft actuators made from elastomeric active materials can find widespread potential implementation in a variety of applications ranging from assistive wearable technologies …             High aspect ratio micro-explosions in the bulk of sapphire generated by femtosecond Bessel beams ▶     L. Rapp, R. Meyer, R. Giust et al.     Femtosecond pulses provide an extreme degree of confinement of light matter-interactions in high-bandgap materials because of the nonlinear nature of ionization. It was …             Inverted Silicon Nanopencil Array Solar Cells with Enhanced Contact Structures ▶     Xiaoguang Liang, Lei Shu, Hao Lin et al.     Although three-dimensional nanostructured solar cells have attracted extensive research attention due to their superior broadband and omnidirectional light-harvesting properties, …             Erratum: Bona-fide method for the determination of short range order and transport properties in a ferro-aluminosilicate slag ▶     Konstantinos T. Karalis, Dimitrios Dellis, Georgios S. E. Antipas et al.                 Fabrication of potato-like silver molybdate microstructures for photocatalytic degradation of chronic toxicity ciprofloxacin and highly selective electrochemical detection of H2O2 ▶     J. Vinoth Kumar, R. Karthik, Shen-Ming Chen et al.     In the present work, potato-like silver molybdate (Ag2MoO4) microstructures were synthesized through a simple hydrothermal method. The microstructures of Ag2MoO4 were …             Expanded graphite embedded with aluminum nanoparticles as superior thermal conductivity anodes for high-performance lithium-ion batteries ▶     Tingkai Zhao, Shengfei She, Xianglin Ji et al.     The development of high capacity and long-life lithium-ion batteries is a long-term pursuing and under a close scrutiny. Most of the researches have been focused on exploring …             The logarithmic relaxation process and the critical temperature of liquids in nano-confined states ▶     Changjiu Chen, Kaikin Wong, Richard A. Mole et al.     The logarithmic relaxation process is the slowest of all relaxation processes and is exhibited by only a few molecular liquids and proteins. Bulk salol, which is a glass-forming …             Unveiling the propagation dynamics of self-accelerating vector beams ▶     Jonathan Bar-David, Noa Voloch-Bloch, Noa Mazurski et al.     We study theoretically and experimentally the varying polarization states and intensity patterns of self-accelerating vector beams. It is shown that as these beams propagate, the …             Study on Synergistic Mechanism of Inhibitor Mixture Based on Electron Transfer Behavior ▶     Peng Han, Yang He, Changfeng Chen et al.     Mixing is an important method to improve the performance of surfactants due to their synergistic effect. The changes in bonding interaction and adsorption structure of IM and OP …             Heat production and error probability relation in Landauer reset at effective temperature ▶     Igor Neri, Miquel López-Suárez     The erasure of a classical bit of information is a dissipative process. The minimum heat produced during this operation has been theorized by Rolf Landauer in 1961 to be equal to …             Matrix viscoplasticity and its shielding by active mechanics in microtissue models: experiments and mathematical modeling ▶     Alan S. Liu, Hailong Wang, Craig R. Copeland et al.     The biomechanical behavior of tissues under mechanical stimulation is critically important to physiological function. We report a combined experimental and modeling study of …             High Resolution non-Markovianity in NMR ▶     Nadja K. Bernardes, John P. S. Peterson, Roberto S. Sarthour et al.     Memoryless time evolutions are ubiquitous in nature but often correspond to a resolution-induced approximation, i.e. there are correlations in time whose effects are …             Benchmarking Measures of Network Influence ▶     Aaron Bramson, Benjamin Vandermarliere     Identifying key agents for the transmission of diseases (ideas, technology, etc.) across social networks has predominantly relied on measures of centrality on a static base …             Complex Network Clustering by a Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithm Based on Decomposition and Membrane Structure ▶     Ying Ju, Songming Zhang, Ningxiang Ding et al.     The field of complex network clustering is gaining considerable attention in recent years. In this study, a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm based on membranes is proposed …             The Evolution of Hyperedge Cardinalities and Bose-Einstein Condensation in Hypernetworks ▶     Jin-Li Guo, Qi Suo, Ai-Zhong Shen et al.     To depict the complex relationship among nodes and the evolving process of a complex system, a Bose-Einstein hypernetwork is proposed in this paper. Based on two basic …             Switching from weakly to strongly limited injection in self-aligned, nano-patterned organic transistors ▶     Karin Zojer, Thomas Rothländer, Johanna Kraxner et al.     Organic thin-film transistors for high frequency applications require large transconductances in combination with minimal parasitic capacitances. Techniques aiming at eliminating …             Programmable Potentials: Approximate N-body potentials from coarse-level logic ▶     Gunjan S. Thakur, Ryan Mohr, Igor Mezić     This paper gives a systematic method for constructing an N-body potential, approximating the true potential, that accurately captures meso-scale behavior of the chemical or …             Large Area Fabrication of Semiconducting Phosphorene by Langmuir-Blodgett Assembly ▶     Harneet Kaur, Sandeep Yadav, Avanish. K. Srivastava et al.     Phosphorene is a recently new member of the family of two dimensional (2D) inorganic materials. Besides its synthesis it is of utmost importance to deposit this material as thin …             Reduced graphene oxide enwrapped phosphors for long-term thermally stable phosphor converted white light emitting diodes ▶     Gopinathan Anoop, Janardhanan R. Rani, Juhwan Lim et al.     The long-term instability of the presently available best commercial phosphor-converted light-emitting diodes (pcLEDs) is the most serious obstacle for the realization of …             Novel enterobactin analogues as potential therapeutic chelating agents: Synthesis, thermodynamic and antioxidant studies ▶     Qingchun Zhang, Bo Jin, Zhaotao Shi et al.     A series of novel hexadentate enterobactin analogues, which contain three catechol chelating moieties attached to different molecular scaffolds with flexible alkyl chain lengths, …             Solving Set Cover with Pairs Problem using Quantum Annealing ▶     Yudong Cao, Shuxian Jiang, Debbie Perouli et al.     Here we consider using quantum annealing to solve Set Cover with Pairs (SCP), an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem that plays an important role in networking, …             Biocompatibility and biodistribution of functionalized carbon nano-onions (f-CNOs) in a vertebrate model ▶     Marta d’ Amora, Marina Rodio, Juergen Bartelmess et al.     Functionalized carbon nano-onions (f-CNOs) are of great interest as platforms for imaging, diagnostic and therapeutic applications due to their high cellular uptake and low …             Onset of nonlinearity in a stochastic model for auto-chemotactic advancing epithelia ▶     Martine Ben Amar, Carlo Bianca     We investigate the role of auto-chemotaxis in the growth and motility of an epithelium advancing on a solid substrate. In this process, cells create their own chemoattractant …             Characterization of aerosols containing Legionella generated upon nebulization ▶     Séverine Allegra, Lara Leclerc, Pierre André Massard et al.     Legionella pneumophila is, by far, the species most frequently associated with Legionnaires’ disease (LD). Human infection occurs almost exclusively by aerosol inhalation which …             Magnetic hyperthermia controlled drug release in the GI tract: solving the problem of detection ▶     Joseph C. Bear, P. Stephen Patrick, Alfred Casson et al.     Drug delivery to the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is highly challenging due to the harsh environments any drug- delivery vehicle must experience before it releases it’s drug …             Reproductive toxicity and gender differences induced by cadmium telluride quantum dots in an invertebrate model organism ▶     Si-Qi Yan, Rui Xing, Yan-Feng Zhou et al.     Sexual glands are key sites affected by nanotoxicity, but there is no sensitive assay for measuring reproductive toxicity in animals. The aim of this study was to investigate the …             Arachidonic acid mediates the formation of abundant alpha-helical multimers of alpha-synuclein ▶     Marija Iljina, Laura Tosatto, Minee L. Choi et al.     The protein alpha-synuclein (αS) self-assembles into toxic beta-sheet aggregates in Parkinson’s disease, while it is proposed that αS forms soluble alpha-helical multimers in …             Coupling of radiofrequency with magnetic nanoparticles treatment as an alternative physical antibacterial strategy against multiple drug resistant bacteria ▶     Akhilesh K. Chaurasia, Nanasaheb D. Thorat, Anshula Tandon et al.     Antibiotic resistant bacteria not only affect human health and but also threatens the safety in hospitals and among communities. 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