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11 October 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Physical Sciences               MHDA-Functionalized Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes for detecting non-aromatic VOCs ▶     Atef Thamri, Hamdi Baccar, Claudia Struzzi et al.     The chemical modification of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) with a long chain mercapto acid is reported as a way to improve sensitivity and response time of gas sensors …             Exact low-temperature series expansion for the partition function of the zero-field Ising model on the infinite square lattice ▶     Grzegorz Siudem, Agata Fronczak, Piotr Fronczak     In this paper, we provide the exact expression for the coefficients in the low-temperature series expansion of the partition function of the two-dimensional Ising model on the …             Corrigendum: Dispersion of nonresonant third-order nonlinearities in GeSiSn ternary alloys ▶     Francesco De Leonardis, Benedetto Troia, Richard A. Soref et al.                 Corrigendum: Cascading failures in coupled networks with both inner-dependency and inter-dependency links ▶     Run-Ran Liu, Ming Li, Chun-Xiao Jia et al.                 Instability Analysis and Free Volume Simulations of Shear Band Directions and Arrangements in Notched Metallic Glasses ▶     Weidong Li, Yanfei Gao, Hongbin Bei     As a commonly used method to enhance the ductility in bulk metallic glasses (BMGs), the introduction of geometric constraints blocks and confines the propagation of the shear …             Controlling the defects and transition layer in SiO2 films grown on 4H-SiC via direct plasma-assisted oxidation ▶     Dae-Kyoung Kim, Kwang-Sik Jeong, Yu-Seon Kang et al.     The structural stability and electrical performance of SiO2 grown on SiC via direct plasma-assisted oxidation were investigated. To investigate the changes in the electronic …             The amplitudes and the structure of the charge density wave in YBCO ▶     Y. A. Kharkov, O. P. Sushkov     We find unknown s- and d-wave amplitudes of the recently discovered charge density wave (CDW) in underdoped cuprates. To do so we perform a combined analysis of experimental data …             Structurally Efficient Three-dimensional Metamaterials with Controllable Thermal Expansion ▶     Hang Xu, Damiano Pasini     The coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of architected materials, as opposed to that of conventional solids, can be tuned to zero by intentionally altering the geometry of …             Two Dimensional Electrostrictive Field Effect Transistor (2D-EFET): A sub-60mV/decade Steep Slope Device with High ON current ▶     Saptarshi Das     This article proposes a disruptive device concept which meets both low power and high performance criterion for post-CMOS computing and at the same time enables aggressive …             Dirac semimetal thin films in in-plane magnetic fields ▶     Zhuo Bin Siu, Mansoor B. A. Jalil, Seng Ghee Tan     In this work we study the effects of in-plane magnetic fields on thin films of the Dirac Semimetal (DSM) Na3Bi where one of the in-plane directions is perpendicular to the k…             On the early and developed stages of surface condensation: competition mechanism between interfacial and condensate bulk thermal resistances ▶     Jie Sun, Hua Sheng Wang     We use molecular dynamics simulation to investigate the early and developed stages of surface condensation. We find that the liquid-vapor and solid-liquid interfacial thermal …             A novel Al matrix composite reinforced by nano-AlNp network ▶     X. Ma, Y. F. Zhao, W. J. Tian et al.     In pursuit of lightweighting of automobiles and low emission of transportation, the efforts to develop high-strength, heat-resistant and fatigue-resistant Al alloys and/or …             Direct and contactless electrical control of temperature of paper and textile foldable substrates using electrospun metallic-web transparent electrodes ▶     Cristina Busuioc, Alexandru Evanghelidis, Andrei Galatanu et al.     Multiple and complex functionalities are a demand nowadays for almost all materials, including common day-to-day materials such as paper, textiles, wood, etc. In the present …             Sub-Diffraction Limited Writing based on Laser Induced Periodic Surface Structures (LIPSS) ▶     Xiaolong He, Anurup Datta, Woongsik Nam et al.     Controlled fabrication of single and multiple nanostructures far below the diffraction limit using a method based on laser induced periodic surface structure (LIPSS) is …             MgZnO High Voltage Thin Film Transistors on Glass for Inverters in Building Integrated Photovoltaics ▶     Wen-Chiang Hong, Chieh-Jen Ku, Rui Li et al.     Building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) have attracted considerable interests because of its aesthetically attractive appearance and overall low cost. In BIPV, system …             Experimental Demonstration of Adaptive Infrared Multispectral Imaging using Plasmonic Filter Array ▶     Woo-Yong Jang, Zahyun Ku, Jiyeon Jeon et al.     In our previous theoretical study, we performed target detection using a plasmonic sensor array incorporating the data-processing technique termed “algorithmic spectrometry”. We …             Erratum: Skyrmion Creation and Manipulation by Nano-Second Current Pulses ▶     H. Y. Yuan, X. R. Wang                 GFinisher: a new strategy to refine and finish bacterial genome assemblies ▶     Dieval Guizelini, Roberto T. Raittz, Leonardo M. Cruz et al.     Despite the development in DNA sequencing technology, improving the number and the length of reads, the process of reconstruction of complete genome sequences, the so called …             Molecular dynamics simulations and docking enable to explore the biophysical factors controlling the yields of engineered nanobodies ▶     Miguel A. Soler, Ario de Marco, Sara Fortuna     Nanobodies (VHHs) have proved to be valuable substitutes of conventional antibodies for molecular recognition. Their small size represents a precious advantage for rational …             Testing Modeling Assumptions in the West Africa Ebola Outbreak ▶     Keith Burghardt, Christopher Verzijl, Junming Huang et al.     The Ebola virus in West Africa has infected almost 30,000 and killed over 11,000 people. Recent models of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) have often made assumptions about how the …             The development of fluorescence turn-on probe for Al(III) sensing and live cell nucleus-nucleoli staining ▶     Anoop Kumar Saini, Vinay Sharma, Pradeep Mathur et al.     The morphology of nucleus and nucleolus is powerful indicator of physiological and pathological conditions. The specific staining of nucleolus recently gained much attention due …             On The Evolutionary Origin of Symbolic Communication ▶     Paul Grouchy, Gabriele M. T. D’Eleuterio, Morten H. Christiansen et al.     The emergence of symbolic communication is often cited as a critical step in the evolution of Homo sapiens, language, and human-level cognition. It is a widely held assumption …             Synergistic efficacy of salicylic acid with a penetration enhancer on human skin monitored by OCT and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy ▶     Qingliang Zhao, Cuixia Dai, Shanhui Fan et al.     Salicylic acid (SA) has been frequently used as a facial chemical peeling agent (FCPA) in various cosmetics for facial rejuvenation and dermatological treatments in the clinic. …             Autonomously folded α-helical lockers promote RNAi* ▶     Christian P. E. Guyader, Baptiste Lamarre, Emiliana De Santis et al.     RNAi is an indispensable research tool with a substantial therapeutic potential. However, the complete transition of the approach to an applied capability remains hampered due to …             The rich phase structure of a mutator model ▶     David B. Saakian, Tatiana Yakushkina, Chin-Kun Hu     We propose a modification of the Crow-Kimura and Eigen models of biological molecular evolution to include a mutator gene that causes both an increase in the mutation rate and a …             A study of vocal nonlinearities in humpback whale songs: from production mechanisms to acoustic analysis ▶     Dorian Cazau, Olivier Adam, Thierry Aubin et al.     Although mammalian vocalizations are predominantly harmonically structured, they can exhibit an acoustic complexity with nonlinear vocal sounds, including deterministic chaos and …             Ultrafast spin dynamics and switching via spin transfer torque in antiferromagnets with weak ferromagnetism ▶     Tae Heon Kim, Peter Grünberg, Song Hee Han et al.     The spin-torque driven dynamics of antiferromagnets with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) were investigated based on the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert-Slonczewski equation with …             Non-equilibrium quantum phase transition via entanglement decoherence dynamics ▶     Yu-Chen Lin, Pei-Yun Yang, Wei-Min Zhang     We investigate the decoherence dynamics of continuous variable entanglement as the system-environment coupling strength varies from the weak-coupling to the strong-coupling …             Thermal and Thermoelectric Transport in Highly Resistive Single Sb2Se3 Nanowires and Nanowire Bundles ▶     Ting-Yu Ko, Muthaiah Shellaiah, Kien Wen Sun     In this study, we measured the thermal conductivity and Seebeck coefficient of single Sb2Se3 nanowires and nanowire bundles with a high resistivity (σ ~ 4.37 × 10−4 S/m). …             NO gas sensing kinetics at room temperature under UV light irradiation of In2O3 nanostructures ▶     Nguyen Duc Chinh, Nguyen Duc Quang, Hyundong Lee et al.     In2O3 nanostructure sensors were fabricated by arc-discharging a source composed of a graphite tube containing indium. The NO gas sensing properties, as well as the morphology, …             Polar Superhelices in Ferroelectric Chiral Nanosprings ▶     Takahiro Shimada, Le Van Lich, Koyo Nagano et al.     Topological objects of nontrivial spin or dipolar field textures, such as skyrmions, merons, and vortices, interacting with applied external fields in ferroic materials are of …             Electrostatic repulsive out-of-plane actuator using conductive substrate ▶     Weimin Wang, Qiang Wang, Hao Ren et al.     A pseudo-three-layer electrostatic repulsive out-of-plane actuator is proposed. It combines the advantages of two-layer and three-layer repulsive actuators, i.e., fabrication …             Large gap Quantum Spin Hall Insulators of Hexagonal III-Bi monolayer ▶     Qunqun Liu, Ying Dai, Yandong Ma et al.     In the present work, we demonstrate that both GaBi3 and InBi3 monolayers are Quantum Spin Hall insulators. Here, the electronic band structures and edge states of the two novel …             Femtosecond dynamics of energetic electrons in high intensity laser-matter interactions ▶     R. Pompili, M. P. Anania, F. Bisesto et al.     Highly energetic electrons are generated at the early phases of the interaction of short-pulse high-intensity lasers with solid targets. These escaping particles are identified …             Accurate modeling of high-repetition rate ultrashort pulse amplification in optical fibers ▶     Robert Lindberg, Peter Zeil, Mikael Malmström et al.     A numerical model for amplification of ultrashort pulses with high repetition rates in fiber amplifiers is presented. The pulse propagation is modeled by jointly solving the …             Carbon-Coated, Diatomite-Derived Nanosilicon as a High Rate Capable Li-ion Battery Anode ▶     Brennan Campbell, Robert Ionescu, Maxwell Tolchin et al.     Silicon is produced in a variety of ways as an ultra-high capacity lithium-ion battery (LIB) anode material. The traditional carbothermic reduction process required is expensive …             Understanding the multiferroicity in TmMn2O5 by a magnetically induced ferrielectric model ▶     L. Yang, X. Li, M. F. Liu et al.     The magnetically induced electric polarization behaviors in multiferroic TmMn2O5 in response to varying temperature and magnetic field are carefully investigated by means of a …             Marangoni effect visualized in two-dimensions Optical tweezers for gas bubbles ▶     A. Miniewicz, S. Bartkiewicz, H. Orlikowska et al.     In the report we demonstrate how, using laser light, effectively trap gas bubbles and transport them through a liquid phase to a desired destination by shifting the laser beam …             A method to calibrate a camera using perpendicularity of 2D lines in the target observations ▶     Guan Xu, Anqi Zheng, Xiaotao Li et al.     Camera calibration based on point features leads the main trends in vision-based measurement systems for both fundamental researches and potential applications. However, the …             A study of the temporal robustness of the growing global container-shipping network ▶     Nuo Wang, Nuan Wu, Ling-ling Dong et al.     Whether they thrive as they grow must be determined for all constantly expanding networks. However, few studies have focused on this important network feature or the development …             A fast and effective approach for reversible wetting-dewetting transitions on ZnO nanowires ▶     Kavita Yadav, B. R. Mehta, Saswata Bhattacharya et al.     Here, we demonstrate a facile approach for the preparation of ZnO nanowires (NWs) with tunable surface wettability that can be manipulated reversibly in a controlled manner from …             Fast sintering of silver nanoparticle and flake layers by infrared module assistance in large area roll-to-roll gravure printing system ▶     Janghoon Park, Hyi Jae Kang, Kee-Hyun Shin et al.     We present fast sintering for silver (Ag) nanoparticle (NP) and flake layers printed using roll-to-roll (R2R) gravure printing. An infrared (IR) sintering module was applied to …             Hierarchically-structured silver nanoflowers for highly conductive metallic inks with dramatically reduced filler concentration ▶     Muhammed Ajmal C., Faseela K. P., Swati Singh et al.     Silver has long been employed as an electrically conductive component, and morphology-dependent properties have been actively investigated. Here we present a novel scalable …             The smallest chimera state for coupled pendula ▶     Jerzy Wojewoda, Krzysztof Czolczynski, Yuri Maistrenko et al.     Chimera states in the systems of coupled identical oscillators are spatiotemporal patterns in which different groups of oscillators can exhibit coexisting synchronous and …             Tribological Properties of Water-lubricated Rubber Materials after Modification by MoS2 Nanoparticles ▶     Conglin Dong, Chengqing Yuan, Lei Wang et al.     Frictional vibration and noise caused by water-lubricated rubber stern tube bearings, which are generated under extreme conditions, severely threaten underwater vehicles’ …             Fully inkjet-printed microfluidics: a solution to low-cost rapid three-dimensional microfluidics fabrication with numerous electrical and sensing applications ▶     Wenjing Su, Benjamin S. Cook, Yunnan Fang et al.     As the needs for low-cost rapidly-produced microfluidics are growing with the trend of Lab-on-a-Chip and distributed healthcare, the fully inkjet-printing of microfluidics can be …             Islanding the power grid on the transmission level: less connections for more security ▶     Mario Mureddu, Guido Caldarelli, Alfonso Damiano et al.     Islanding is known as a management procedure of the power system that is implemented at the distribution level to preserve sensible loads from outages and to guarantee the …             Real internal microstructure based key mechanism analysis on the micro-damage process of short fibre-reinforced composites ▶     Xiaofang Hu, Jian Fang, Feng Xu et al.     In this work, the underlying micro-damage mechanisms of randomly oriented short fibre-reinforced composites were revealed based on real internal microstructural characteristics …             Intrinsic noise and deviations from criticality in Boolean gene-regulatory networks ▶     Pablo Villegas, José Ruiz-Franco, Jorge Hidalgo et al.     Gene regulatory networks can be successfully modeled as Boolean networks. A much discussed hypothesis says that such model networks reproduce empirical findings the best if they …             Chromatic Mechanical Response in 2-D Layered Transition Metal Dichalcogenide (TMDs) based Nanocomposites ▶     Vahid Rahneshin, Farhad Khosravi, Dominika A. Ziolkowska et al.     The ability to convert photons of different wavelengths directly into mechanical motion is of significant interest in many energy conversion and reconfigurable technologies. …             The phasor-FLIM fingerprints reveal shifts from OXPHOS to enhanced glycolysis in Huntington Disease ▶     Sara Sameni, Adeela Syed, J. Lawrence Marsh et al.     Huntington disease (HD) is an autosomal neurodegenerative disorder caused by the expansion of Polyglutamine (polyQ) in exon 1 of the Huntingtin protein. Glutamine repeats below …             Left Atrial trajectory impairment in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy disclosed by Geometric Morphometrics and Parallel Transport ▶     Paolo Piras, Concetta Torromeo, Federica Re et al.     The analysis of full Left Atrium (LA) deformation and whole LA deformational trajectory in time has been poorly investigated and, to the best of our knowledge, seldom discussed …             Hierarchical Micro/Nano-Porous Acupuncture Needles Offering Enhanced Therapeutic Properties ▶     Su-ll In, Young S. Gwak, Hye Rim Kim et al.     Acupuncture as a therapeutic intervention has been widely used for treatment of many pathophysiological disorders. For achieving improved therapeutic effects, relatively thick …             Use of aerosol route to fabricate positively charged Au/Fe3O4 Janus nanoparticles as multifunctional nanoplatforms ▶     Jeong Hoon Byeon, Jae Hong Park     Gold (Au)-decorated iron oxide (Fe3O4), Au/Fe3O4, Janus nanoparticles were fabricated via the continuous route for aerosol Au incorporation with Fe3O4 domains synthesized in an …             Tailoring Thermal Conductivity of Single-stranded Carbon-chain Polymers through Atomic Mass Modification ▶     Quanwen Liao, Lingping Zeng, Zhichun Liu et al.     Tailoring the thermal conductivity of polymers is central to enlarge their applications in the thermal management of flexible integrated circuits. Progress has been made over the …             Implementation of Arithmetic and Nonarithmetic Functions on a Label-free and DNA-based Platform ▶     Kun Wang, Mengqi He, Jin Wang et al.     A series of complex logic gates were constructed based on graphene oxide and DNA-templated silver nanoclusters to perform both arithmetic and nonarithmetic functions. For the …             Orthotropic Piezoelectricity in 2D Nanocellulose ▶     Y. García, Yasser B. Ruiz-Blanco, Yovani Marrero-Ponce et al.     The control of electromechanical responses within bonding regions is essential to face frontier challenges in nanotechnologies, such as molecular electronics and biotechnology. …             High-Throughput Design of Two-Dimensional Electron Gas Systems Based on Polar/Nonpolar Perovskite Oxide Heterostructures ▶     Kesong Yang, Safdar Nazir, Maziar Behtash et al.     The two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) formed at the interface between two insulating oxides such as LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 (STO) is of fundamental and practical interest because of …             Two-photon interference of temporally separated photons ▶     Heonoh Kim, Sang Min Lee, Han Seb Moon     We present experimental demonstrations of two-photon interference involving temporally separated photons within two types of interferometers: a Mach-Zehnder interferometer and a …             Spatial and Structural Metrics for Living Cells Inspired by Statistical Mechanics ▶     Christoffer Åberg, Juan A. Varela, Laurence W. Fitzpatrick et al.     Experimental observations in cell biology have advanced to a stage where theory could play a larger role, much as it has done in the physical sciences. Possibly the lack of a …             Plasticity mechanisms in HfN at elevated and room temperature ▶     Katherine Vinson, Xiao-Xiang Yu, Nicholas De Leon et al.     HfN specimens deformed via four-point bend tests at room temperature and at 2300 °C (~0.7 Tm) showed increased plasticity response with temperature. Dynamic diffraction via …             Grain Boundary Specific Segregation in Nanocrystalline Fe(Cr) ▶     Xuyang Zhou, Xiao-xiang Yu, Tyler Kaub et al.     A cross-correlative precession electron diffraction – atom probe tomography investigation of Cr segregation in a Fe(Cr) nanocrystalline alloy was undertaken. Solute segregation …             Unidirectional superscattering by multilayered cavities of effective radial anisotropy ▶     Wei Liu, Bing Lei, Jianhua Shi et al.     We achieve unidirectional forward superscattering by multilayered spherical cavities which are effectively radially anisotropic. It is demonstrated that, relying on the large …             Unravelling the Efficient Photocatalytic Activity of Boron-induced Ti3+ Species in the Surface Layer of TiO2 ▶     Ningdong Feng, Fen Liu, Min Huang et al.     Ti3+ species are highly unstable in air owing to their facile oxidation into Ti4+ species, and thus they cannot concentrate in the surface layer of TiO2 but are mainly present in …             Monolithic-Structured Single-Layered Textile-Based Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells ▶     Min Ju Yun, Seung I. Cha, Han Seong Kim et al.     Textile-structured solar cells are frequently discussed in the literature due to their prospective applications in wearable devices and in building integrated solar cells that …             Aptamer-conjugated live human immune cell based biosensors for the accurate detection of C-reactive protein ▶     Jangsun Hwang, Youngmin Seo, Yeonho Jo et al.     C-reactive protein (CRP) is a pentameric protein that is present in the bloodstream during inflammatory events, e.g., liver failure, leukemia, and/or bacterial infection. The …             High-speed and high-SNR photoacoustic microscopy based on a galvanometer mirror in non-conducting liquid ▶     Jin Young Kim, Changho Lee, Kyungjin Park et al.     Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy (OR-PAM), a promising microscopic imaging technique with high ultrasound resolution and superior optical sensitivity, can provide …             A hybrid tunable THz metadevice using a high birefringence liquid crystal ▶     Nassim Chikhi, Mikhail Lisitskiy, Gianpaolo Papari et al.     We investigate a hybrid re-configurable three dimensional metamaterial based on liquid crystal as tuning element in order to build novel devices operating in the terahertz range. …             Switchable thulium-doped fiber laser from polarization rotation vector to scalar soliton ▶     Zhichao Wu, Songnian Fu, Kai Jiang et al.     We experimentally demonstrate switchable temporal soliton generation from a thulium-doped fiber laser (TDFL), using carbon nanotubes as the mode-locker. With the help of residual …             Controllable growth of vertically aligned graphene on C-face SiC ▶     Yu Liu, Lianlian Chen, Donovan Hilliard et al.     We investigated how to control the growth of vertically aligned graphene on C-face SiC by varying the processing conditions. It is found that, the growth rate scales with the …             Low Complexity Compression and Speed Enhancement for Optical Scanning Holography ▶     P. W. M. Tsang, T.-C. Poon, J.-P. Liu et al.     In this paper we report a low complexity compression method that is suitable for compact optical scanning holography (OSH) systems with different optical settings. Our proposed …             Nano-inspired fluidic interactivity for boiling heat transfer: impact and criteria ▶     Beom Seok Kim, Geehong Choi, Sangwoo Shin et al.     The enhancement of boiling heat transfer, the most powerful energy-transferring technology, will lead to milestones in the development of high-efficiency, next-generation energy …             Steady flow and heat transfer analysis of Phan-Thein-Tanner fluid in double-layer optical fiber coating analysis with Slip Conditions ▶     Zeeshan Khan, Rehan Ali Shah, Saeed Islam et al.     Modern optical fibers require double-layer coating on the glass fiber to provide protection from signal attenuation and mechanical damage. The most important plastic resins used …             Design and fabrication of high-performance diamond triple-gate field-effect transistors ▶     Jiangwei Liu, Hirotaka Ohsato, Xi Wang et al.     The lack of large-area single-crystal diamond wafers has led us to downscale diamond electronic devices. Here, we design and fabricate a hydrogenated diamond (H-diamond) …             Mechanism and comparison of needle-type non-thermal direct and indirect atmospheric pressure plasma jets on the degradation of dyes ▶     Pankaj Attri, Maksudbek Yusupov, Ji Hoon Park et al.     Purified water supply for human use, agriculture and industry is the major global priority nowadays. The advanced oxidation process based on atmospheric pressure non-thermal …             Nonlinear backbone torsional pair correlations in proteins ▶     Shiyang Long, Pu Tian     Protein allostery requires dynamical structural correlations. Physical origin of which, however, remain elusive despite intensive studies during last two and half decades. Based …             Sorting cells by their dynamical properties ▶     Ewan Henry, Stefan H. Holm, Zunmin Zhang et al.     Recent advances in cell sorting aim at the development of novel methods that are sensitive to various mechanical properties of cells. Microfluidic technologies have a great …             The Important Role of Halogen Bond in Substrate Selectivity of Enzymatic Catalysis ▶     Shuiqin Jiang, Lujia Zhang, Dongbin Cui et al.     The use of halogen bond is widespread in drug discovery, design, and clinical trials, but is overlooked in drug biosynthesis. Here, the role of halogen bond in the …             Easy on-demand single-pass self-assembly and modification to fabricate gold@graphene-based anti-inflammatory nanoplatforms ▶     Jeong Hoon Byeon, Jae Hong Park     Zwitterionic chitosan (ZC) was modified by fully (both for lateral dimension and thickness) nanodimensional gold-graphene oxide (Au@GO) flakes under visible light and the …             Electrochemical noise and impedance of Au electrode/electrolyte interfaces enabling extracellular detection of glioma cell populations ▶     Paulo R. F. Rocha, Paul Schlett, Ulrike Kintzel et al.     Microelectrode arrays (MEA) record extracellular local field potentials of cells adhered to the electrodes. A disadvantage is the limited signal-to-noise ratio. The …             A fragment-based approach applied to a highly flexible target: Insights and challenges towards the inhibition of HSP70 isoforms ▶     Alan M. Jones, Isaac M. Westwood, James D. Osborne et al.     The heat shock protein 70s (HSP70s) are molecular chaperones implicated in many cancers and of significant interest as targets for novel cancer therapies. Several HSP70 …             Weighted and directed interactions in evolving large-scale epileptic brain networks ▶     Henning Dickten, Stephan Porz, Christian E. Elger et al.     Epilepsy can be regarded as a network phenomenon with functionally and/or structurally aberrant connections in the brain. Over the past years, concepts and methods from network …             Improved Cryopreservation of Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells: A Systematic Approach ▶     A. Billal Sultani, Leah A. Marquez-Curtis, Janet A. W. Elliott et al.     Cryopreservation of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) facilitated their commercial availability for use in vascular biology, tissue engineering and drug delivery …             Cytoskeletal Configuration Modulates Mechanically Induced Changes in Mesenchymal Stem Cell Osteogenesis, Morphology, and Stiffness ▶     Suphannee Pongkitwitoon, Gunes Uzer, Janet Rubin et al.     Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) responding to mechanical cues generated by physical activity is critical for skeletal development and remodeling. Here, we utilized low intensity …             Large Absorption Enhancement in Ultrathin Solar Cells Patterned by Metallic Nanocavity Arrays ▶     Wei Wang, Jiasen Zhang, Xiaozhou Che et al.     A new type of light trapping structure utilizing ring-shaped metallic nanocavity arrays is proposed for the absorption enhancement in ultrathin solar cells with few photonic …             Generation of Scratches and Their Effects on Laser Damage Performance of Silica Glass ▶     Yaguo Li, Hui Ye, Zhigang Yuan et al.     Scratches are deleterious to precision optics because they can obscure and modulate incident laser light, which will increase the probability of damage to optical components. We …             Laser-assisted fabrication of single-layer flexible touch sensor ▶     Seokwoo Son, Jong Eun Park, Joohyung Lee et al.     Single-layer flexible touch sensor that is designed for the indium-tin-oxide (ITO)-free, bendable, durable, multi-sensible, and single layer transparent touch sensor was …             Directional and monochromatic thermal emitter from epsilon-near-zero conditions in semiconductor hyperbolic metamaterials ▶     Salvatore Campione, Francois Marquier, Jean-Paul Hugonin et al.     The development of novel thermal sources that control the emission spectrum and the angular emission pattern is of fundamental importance. In this paper, we investigate the …             Elastic Scattering Spectroscopy (ESS): an Instrument-Concept for Dynamics of Complex (Bio-) Systems From Elastic Neutron Scattering ▶     Antonio Benedetto, Gordon J. Kearley     A new type of neutron-scattering spectroscopy is presented that is designed specifically to measure dynamics in bio-systems that are difficult to obtain in any other way. The …             Experimental characterization of Raman overlaps between mode-groups ▶     Erik N. Christensen, Jacob G. Koefoed, Søren M. M. Friis et al.     Mode-division multiplexing has the potential to further increase data transmission capacity through optical fibers. In addition, distributed Raman amplification is a promising …             Nano-volcanic Eruption of Silver ▶     Shih-kang Lin, Shijo Nagao, Emi Yokoi et al.     Silver (Ag) is one of the seven metals of antiquity and an important engineering material in the electronic, medical, and chemical industries because of its unique noble and …             Dual-responsive and Multi-functional Plasmonic Hydrogel Valves and Biomimetic Architectures Formed with Hydrogel and Gold Nanocolloids ▶     Ji Eun Song, Eun Chul Cho     We present a straightforward approach with high moldability for producing dual-responsive and multi-functional plasmonic hydrogel valves and biomimetic architectures that …             Undermining and Strengthening Social Networks through Network Modification ▶     Jonathan Mellon, Jordan Yoder, Daniel Evans     Social networks have well documented effects at the individual and aggregate level. Consequently it is often useful to understand how an attempt to influence a network will …             A novel three-axis cylindrical hohlraum designed for inertial confinement fusion ignition ▶     Longyu Kuang, Hang Li, Longfei Jing et al.     A novel ignition hohlraum for indirect-drive inertial confinement fusion is proposed, which is named three-axis cylindrical hohlraum (TACH). TACH is a kind of 6 laser entrance …             Re-evaluation of all-plastic organic dye laser with DFB structure fabricated using photoresists ▶     Naoto Tsutsumi, Saori Nagi, Kenji Kinashi et al.     Organic solid-state lasers (OSSLs) with distributed feedback structures can detect nanoscale materials and therefore offer an attractive sensing platform for biological and …             Erosion protection conferred by whole human saliva, dialysed saliva, and artificial saliva ▶     T. Baumann, J. Kozik, A. Lussi et al.     During dental erosion, tooth minerals are dissolved, leading to a softening of the surface and consequently to irreversible surface loss. Components from human saliva form a …             Room-temperature near-infrared up-conversion lasing in single-crystal Er-Y chloride silicate nanowires ▶     Rui Ye, Chao Xu, Xingjun Wang et al.     Near-infrared up-conversion lasing in erbium(Er)-yttrium(Y) chloride silicate nanowires was demonstrated when pumped by 1476 nm laser at room temperature. The emission covers a …             Unravelling the low-temperature metastable state in perovskite solar cells by noise spectroscopy ▶     C. Barone, F. Lang, C. Mauro et al.     The hybrid perovskite methylammonium lead iodide CH3NH3PbI3 recently revealed its potential for the manufacturing of low-cost and efficient photovoltaic cells. However, many …             Light-Controlled ZrO2 Surface Hydrophilicity ▶     Aida V. Rudakova, Maria V. Maevskaya, Alexei V. Emeline et al.     In recent years many works are aimed at finding a method of controllable switching between hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity of a surface. The hydrophilic surface state is …             The Impact of Li Grain Size on Coulombic Efficiency in Li Batteries ▶     B. Layla Mehdi, Andrew Stevens, Jiangfeng Qian et al.     One of the most promising means to increase the energy density of state-of-the-art lithium Li-ion batteries is to replace the graphite anode with a Li metal anode. While the …             Fully Controllable Pancharatnam-Berry Metasurface Array with High Conversion Efficiency and Broad Bandwidth ▶     Chuanbao Liu, Yang Bai, Qian Zhao et al.     Metasurfaces have powerful abilities to manipulate the properties of electromagnetic waves flexibly, especially the modulation of polarization state for both linearly polarized …             Two-dimensional symbiotic solitons and vortices in binary condensates with attractive cross-species interaction ▶     Xuekai Ma, Rodislav Driben, Boris A. Malomed et al.     We consider a two-dimensional (2D) two-component spinor system with cubic attraction between the components and intra-species self-repulsion, which may be realized in atomic …             Silver Nanowire-IZO-Conducting Polymer Hybrids for Flexible and Transparent Conductive Electrodes for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes ▶     Ho Jun Yun, Se Jung Kim, Ju Hyun Hwang et al.     Solution-processed silver nanowire (AgNW) has been considered as a promising material for next-generation flexible transparent conductive electrodes. However, despite the …             Polymer Nanodot-Hybridized Alkyl Silicon Oxide Nanostructures for Organic Memory Transistors with Outstanding High-Temperature Operation Stability ▶     Chulyeon Lee, Jooyeok Seo, Jeongnam Kim et al.     Organic memory devices (OMDs) are becoming more important as a core component in flexible electronics era because of their huge potentials for ultrathin, lightweight and flexible …             Hybrid boron nitride-natural fiber composites for enhanced thermal conductivity ▶     Changlei Xia, Andres C. Garcia, Sheldon Q. Shi et al.     Thermal conductivity was dramatically increased after adding natural fiber into hexagonal boron nitride (hBN)/epoxy composites. Although natural fiber does not show high-thermal …             Large linear magnetoresistance in heavily-doped Nb:SrTiO3 epitaxial thin films ▶     Hyunwoo Jin, Keundong Lee, Seung-Hyub Baek et al.     Interaction between electrons has long been a focused topic in condensed-matter physics since it has led to the discoveries of astonishing phenomena, for example, high-Tc …             Surface step terrace tuned microstructures and dielectric properties of highly epitaxial CaCu3Ti4O12 thin films on vicinal LaAlO3 substrates ▶     Guang Yao, Min Gao, Yanda Ji et al.     Controllable interfacial strain can manipulate the physical properties of epitaxial films and help understand the physical nature of the correlation between the properties and …             Towards Dynamic Contrast Specific Ultrasound Tomography ▶     Libertario Demi, Ruud J. G. Van Sloun, Hessel Wijkstra et al.     We report on the first study demonstrating the ability of a recently-developed, contrast-enhanced, ultrasound imaging method, referred to as cumulative phase delay imaging …             Degradation of Redox-Sensitive Proteins including Peroxiredoxins and DJ-1 is Promoted by Oxidation-induced Conformational Changes and Ubiquitination ▶     In-Kang Song, Jae-Jin Lee, Jin-Hwan Cho et al.     Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are key molecules regulating various cellular processes. However, what the cellular targets of ROS are and how their functions are regulated is …             Extracting quantitative information from single-molecule super-resolution imaging data with LAMA – LocAlization Microscopy Analyzer ▶     Sebastian Malkusch, Mike Heilemann     Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy revolutionizes cell biology research and provides novel insights on how proteins are organized at the nanoscale and in the cellular …             New low-flux mixed matrix membranes that offer superior removal of protein-bound toxins from human plasma ▶     Denys Pavlenko, Esmée van Geffen, Mies J. van Steenbergen et al.     Hemodialysis is a widely available and well-established treatment for patients with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). However, although life-sustaining, patient mortality rates are …             Feature Subset Selection for Cancer Classification Using Weight Local Modularity ▶     Guodong Zhao, Yan Wu     Microarray is recently becoming an important tool for profiling the global gene expression patterns of tissues. Gene selection is a popular technology for cancer classification …             Matrix factorization reveals aging-specific co-expression gene modules in the fat and muscle tissues in nonhuman primates ▶     Yongcui Wang, Weiling Zhao, Xiaobo Zhou     Accurate identification of coherent transcriptional modules (subnetworks) in adipose and muscle tissues is important for revealing the related mechanisms and co-regulated …             Construction of CuS/Au Heterostructure through a Simple Photoreduction Route for Enhanced Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution and Photocatalysis ▶     Mrinmoyee Basu, Roshan Nazir, Pragati Fageria et al.     An efficient Hydrogen evolution catalyst has been developed by decorating Au nanoparticle on the surface of CuS nanostructure following a green and environmental friendly …             Biomimetic carriers mimicking leukocyte plasma membrane to increase tumor vasculature permeability ▶     R. Palomba, A. Parodi, M. Evangelopoulos et al.     Recent advances in the field of nanomedicine have demonstrated that biomimicry can further improve targeting properties of current nanotechnologies while simultaneously enable …             Wavelength-scale light concentrator made by direct 3D laser writing of polymer metamaterials ▶     J. Moughames, S. Jradi, T. M. Chan et al.     We report on the realization of functional infrared light concentrators based on a thick layer of air-polymer metamaterial with controlled pore size gradients. The design …             Tunable Surface Plasmon and Phonon Polariton Interactions for Moderately Doped Semiconductor Surfaces ▶     Mohsen Janipour, Ibrahim Burc Misirlioglu, Kursat Sendur     Spatial charge distribution for biased semiconductors fundamentally differs from metals since they can allow inhomogeneous charge distributions due to penetration of the electric …             Observation of a hybrid state of Tamm plasmons and microcavity exciton polaritons ▶     SK. Shaid-Ur Rahman, Thorsten Klein, Sebastian Klembt et al.     We present evidence for the existence of a hybrid state of Tamm plasmons and microcavity exciton polaritons in a II-VI material based microcavity sample covered with an Ag metal …             What determines the interfacial configuration of Nb/Al2O3 and Nb/MgO interface ▶     J. L. Du, Y. Fang, E. G. Fu et al.     Nb films are deposited on single crystal Al2O3 (110) and MgO(111) substrates by e-beam evaporation technique. Structure of Nb films and orientation relationships (ORs) of Nb/Al2O3…             Non-Hermitian engineering of single mode two dimensional laser arrays ▶     Mohammad H. Teimourpour, Li Ge, Demetrios N. Christodoulides et al.     A new scheme for building two dimensional laser arrays that operate in the single supermode regime is proposed. This is done by introducing an optical coupling between the laser …             Tunable Resonators for Nonlinear Modal Interactions ▶     Abdallah H. Ramini, Amal Z. Hajjaj, Mohammad I. Younis     Understanding the various mechanisms of nonlinear mode coupling in micro and nano resonators has become an imminent necessity for their successful implementation in practical …             Tuning Fullerene Intercalation in a Poly (thiophene) derivative by Controlling the Polymer Degree of Self-Organisation ▶     G. M. Paternò, M. W. A. Skoda, Robert Dalgliesh et al.     Controlling the nanoscale arrangement in polymer-fullerene organic solar cells is of paramount importance to boost the performance of such promising class of photovoltaic diodes. …             Hydrogen-bonding Interactions between Apigenin and Ethanol/Water: A Theoretical Study ▶     Yan-Zhen Zheng, Yu Zhou, Qin Liang et al.     In this work, hydrogen-bonding interactions between apigenin and water/ethanol were investigated from a theoretical perspective using quantum chemical calculations. Two …             Tunable sound transmission at an impedance-mismatched fluidic interface assisted by a composite waveguide ▶     Hui Zhang, Zhi Wei, Li Fan et al.     We report a composite waveguide fabricated by attaching a coupling aperture to a waveguide. The acoustic impedance of the composite waveguide can be regulated by merely …             The polarization modulation and fabrication method of two dimensional silica photonic crystals based on UV nanoimprint lithography and hot imprint ▶     Shuai Guo, Chunhui Niu, Liang Liang et al.     Based on a silica sol-gel technique, highly-structurally ordered silica photonic structures were fabricated by UV lithography and hot manual nanoimprint efforts, which makes …             Efficiency Enhancement of Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells with MEH-PPV Hole-Transporting Layers ▶     Hsin-Wei Chen, Tzu-Yen Huang, Ting-Hsiang Chang et al.     In this study, hybrid perovskite solar cells are fabricated using poly[2-methoxy-5-(2-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene] (MEH-PPV) and poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) (P3HT) …             Cascaded plasmon-plasmon coupling mediated energy transfer across stratified metal-dielectric nanostructures ▶     Sepideh Golmakaniyoon, Pedro Ludwig Hernandez-Martinez, Hilmi Volkan Demir et al.     Surface plasmon (SP) coupling has been successfully applied to nonradiative energy transfer via exciton-plasmon-exciton coupling in conventionally sandwiched donor-metal …             Bimodal Control of Heat Transport at Graphene–Metal Interfaces Using Disorder in Graphene ▶     Jaehyeon Kim, Muhammad Ejaz Khan, Jae-Hyeon Ko et al.     Thermal energy transport across the interfaces of physically and chemically modified graphene with two metals, Al and Cu, was investigated by measuring thermal conductance using …             “RaMassays”: Synergistic Enhancement of Plasmon-Free Raman Scattering and Mass Spectrometry for Multimodal Analysis of Small Molecules ▶     Ivano Alessandri, Irene Vassalini, Michela Bertuzzi et al.     SiO2/TiO2 core/shell (T-rex) beads were exploited as “all-in-one” building-block materials to create analytical assays that combine plasmon-free surface enhanced Raman scattering …             Microwave birefringent metamaterials for polarization conversion based on spoof surface plasmon polariton modes ▶     Yongfeng Li, Jieqiu Zhang, Hua Ma et al.     We propose the design of wideband birefringent metamaterials based on spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SSPPs). Spatial k-dispersion design of SSPP modes in metamaterials is …             Quantifying yield behaviour in metals by X-ray nanotomography ▶     M. Mostafavi, R. Bradley, D. E. J. Armstrong et al.     Nanoindentation of engineering materials is commonly used to study, at small length scales, the continuum mechanical properties of elastic modulus and yield strength. However, it …             Three representations of the Ising model ▶     Joost Kruis, Gunter Maris     Statistical models that analyse (pairwise) relations between variables encompass assumptions about the underlying mechanism that generated the associations in the observed data. …             Lithium-ion-based solid electrolyte tuning of the carrier density in graphene ▶     Jialin Zhao, Meng Wang, Hui Li et al.     We have developed a technique to tune the carrier density in graphene using a lithium-ion-based solid electrolyte. We demonstrate that the solid electrolyte can be used as both a …             Electrodynamic study of YIG filters and resonators ▶     Jerzy Krupka, Bartlomiej Salski, Pawel Kopyt et al.     Numerical solutions of coupled Maxwell and Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equations for a magnetized yttrium iron garnet (YIG) sphere acting as a one-stage filter are presented. The …             Printed 2 V-operating organic inverter arrays employing a small-molecule/polymer blend ▶     Rei Shiwaku, Yasunori Takeda, Takashi Fukuda et al.     Printed organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) are well suited for low-cost electronic applications, such as radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and sensors. Achieving both …             Effect of an Experimental Direct Pulp-capping Material on the Properties and Osteogenic Differentiation of Human Dental Pulp Stem Cells ▶     Fan Yu, Yan Dong, Yan-wei Yang et al.     Effective pulp-capping materials must have antibacterial properties and induce dentin bridge formation; however, many current materials do not satisfy clinical requirements. …             Measuring cell surface area and deformability of individual human red blood cells over blood storage using quantitative phase imaging ▶     HyunJoo Park, SangYun Lee, Misuk Ji et al.     The functionality and viability of stored human red blood cells (RBCs) is an important clinical issue in transfusions. To systematically investigate changes in stored whole …             In-vivo Imaging of Magnetic Fields Induced by Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in Human Brain using MRI ▶     Mayank V. Jog, Robert X. Smith, Kay Jann et al.     Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is an emerging non-invasive neuromodulation technique that applies mA currents at the scalp to modulate cortical excitability. …             Scaffold Hopping Toward Agomelatine: Novel 3, 4-Dihydroisoquinoline Compounds as Potential Antidepressant Agents ▶     Yang Yang, Wei Ang, Haiyue Long et al.     A scaffold-hopping strategy toward Agomelatine based on in silico screening and knowledge analysis was employed to design novel antidepressant agents. 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