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25 October 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Physical Sciences               Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors with non-periodic dielectric multilayers ▶     Taro Yamashita, Kentaro Waki, Shigehito Miki et al.     We present superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SSPDs) on non-periodic dielectric multilayers, which enable us to design a variety of wavelength dependences of …             Direct observation of photocarrier electron dynamics in C60 films on graphite by time-resolved two-photon photoemission ▶     Masahiro Shibuta, Kazuo Yamamoto, Tsutomu Ohta et al.     Time-resolved two-photon photoemission (TR-2PPE) spectroscopy is employed to probe the electronic states of a C60 fullerene film formed on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite …             Electrochemical Li Topotactic Reaction in Layered SnP3 for Superior Li-Ion Batteries ▶     Jae-Wan Park, Cheol-Min Park     The development of new anode materials having high electrochemical performances and interesting reaction mechanisms is highly required to satisfy the need for long-lasting mobile …             Multifunctional substrate of Al alloy based on general hierarchical micro/nanostructures: superamphiphobicity and enhanced corrosion resistance ▶     Xuewu Li, Tian Shi, Cong Liu et al.     Aluminum alloys are vulnerable to penetrating and peeling failures in seawater and preparing a barrier coating to isolate the substrate from corrosive medium is an effective …             Size effect, critical resolved shear stress, stacking fault energy, and solid solution strengthening in the CrMnFeCoNi high-entropy alloy ▶     Norihiko L. Okamoto, Shu Fujimoto, Yuki Kambara et al.     High-entropy alloys (HEAs) comprise a novel class of scientifically and technologically interesting materials. Among these, equatomic CrMnFeCoNi with the face-centered cubic …             Deep-submicron Graphene Field-Effect Transistors with State-of-Art fmax ▶     Hongming Lyu, Qi Lu, Jinbiao Liu et al.     In order to conquer the short-channel effects that limit conventional ultra-scale semiconductor devices, two-dimensional materials, as an option of ultimate thin channels, …             Enhanced methane steam reforming activity and electrochemical performance of Ni0.9Fe0.1-supported solid oxide fuel cells with infiltrated Ni-TiO2 particles ▶     Kai Li, Lichao Jia, Xin Wang et al.     Ni0.9Fe0.1 alloy-supported solid oxide fuel cells with NiTiO3 (NTO) infiltrated into the cell support from 0 to 4 wt.% are prepared and investigated for CH4 steam reforming …             New Insecticidal Agents from Halogenation/Acylation of the Furyl-Ring of Fraxinellone ▶     Yong Guo, Ruige Yang, Hui Xu     Introduction of the halogen atom or the acyl group at the C-ring of fraxinellone was investigated. Some unexpected halogenation products were obtained with the different …             One-step solvothermal deposition of ZnO nanorod arrays on a wood surface for robust superamphiphobic performance and superior ultraviolet resistance ▶     Qiufang Yao, Chao Wang, Bitao Fan et al.     In the present paper, uniformly large-scale wurtzite-structured ZnO nanorod arrays (ZNAs) were deposited onto a wood surface through a one-step solvothermal method. The …             On-chip generation of heralded photon-number states ▶     Panagiotis Vergyris, Thomas Meany, Tommaso Lunghi et al.     Beyond the use of genuine monolithic integrated optical platforms, we report here a hybrid strategy enabling on-chip generation of configurable heralded two-photon states. More …             Synergistic effect of sunlight induced photothermal conversion and H2O2 release based on hybridized tungsten oxide gel for cancer inhibition ▶     Cong Wang, Yibo Gao, Xinghua Gao et al.     A highly efficient photochromic hydrogel was successfully fabricated via casting precursor, which is based on amorphous tungsten oxide and poly (ethylene oxide)-block-poly …             Velocimetry of superconducting vortices based on stroboscopic resonances ▶     Ž. L. Jelić, M. V. Milošević, A. V. Silhanek     An experimental determination of the mean vortex velocity in superconductors mostly relies on the measurement of flux-flow resistance with magnetic field, temperature, or driving …             Low-temperature-dependent property in an avalanche photodiode based on GaN/AlN periodically-stacked structure ▶     Jiyuan Zheng, Lai Wang, Di Yang et al.     In ultra-high sensitive APDs, a vibrate of temperature might bring a fatal decline of the multiplication performance. Conventional method to realize a temperature-stable APD …             Jointed magnetic skyrmion lattices at a small-angle grain boundary directly visualized by advanced electron microscopy ▶     Takao Matsumoto, Yeong-Gi So, Yuji Kohno et al.     The interactions between magnetic skyrmions and structural defects, such as edges, dislocations, and grain boundaries (GBs), which are all considered as topological defects, will …             Rayleigh scattering in few-mode optical fibers ▶     Zhen Wang, Hao Wu, Xiaolong Hu et al.     The extremely low loss of silica fibers has enabled the telecommunication revolution, but single-mode fiber-optic communication systems have been driven to their capacity limits. …             M-DNA/Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Hybrid Structure-based Bio-FET sensor with Ultra-high Sensitivity ▶     Hyung-Youl Park, Sreekantha Reddy Dugasani, Dong-Ho Kang et al.     Here, we report a high performance biosensor based on (i) a Cu2+-DNA/MoS2 hybrid structure and (ii) a field effect transistor, which we refer to as a bio-FET, presenting a high …             Magnesium diboride coated bulk niobium: a new approach to higher acceleration gradient ▶     Teng Tan, M. A. Wolak, X. X. Xi et al.     Bulk niobium Superconducting Radio-Frequency cavities are a leading accelerator technology. Their performance is limited by the cavity loss and maximum acceleration gradient, …             A programmable metasurface with dynamic polarization, scattering and focusing control ▶     Huanhuan Yang, Xiangyu Cao, Fan Yang et al.     Diverse electromagnetic (EM) responses of a programmable metasurface with a relatively large scale have been investigated, where multiple functionalities are obtained on the same …             Optimal Universal Uncertainty Relations ▶     Tao Li, Yunlong Xiao, Teng Ma et al.     We study universal uncertainty relations and present a method called joint probability distribution diagram to improve the majorization bounds constructed independently in [Phys. …             New generation ICG-based contrast agents for ultrasound-switchable fluorescence imaging ▶     Shuai Yu, Bingbing Cheng, Tingfeng Yao et al.     Recently, we developed a new technology, ultrasound-switchable fluorescence (USF), for high-resolution imaging in centimeter-deep tissues via fluorescence contrast. The success …             A cohesive granular material with tunable elasticity ▶     Arnaud Hemmerle, Matthias Schröter, Lucas Goehring     By mixing glass beads with a curable polymer we create a well-defined cohesive granular medium, held together by solidified, and hence elastic, capillary bridges. This material …             Implementations of two-photon four-qubit Toffoli and Fredkin gates assisted by nitrogen-vacancy centers ▶     Hai-Rui Wei, Pei-Jin Zhu     It is desirable to implement an efficient quantum information process demanding fewer quantum resources. We designed two compact quantum circuits for determinately implementing …             Geometric phase coded metasurface: from polarization dependent directive electromagnetic wave scattering to diffusion-like scattering ▶     Ke Chen, Yijun Feng, Zhongjie Yang et al.     Ultrathin metasurface compromising various sub-wavelength meta-particles offers promising advantages in controlling electromagnetic wave by spatially manipulating the wavefront …             Asymptotic theory of time-varying social networks with heterogeneous activity and tie allocation ▶     Enrico Ubaldi, Nicola Perra, Márton Karsai et al.     The dynamic of social networks is driven by the interplay between diverse mechanisms that still challenge our theoretical and modelling efforts. Amongst them, two are known to …             Colloidal Organometal Halide Perovskite (MAPbBrxI3−x, 0≤x≤3) Quantum Dots: Controllable Synthesis and Tunable Photoluminescence ▶     Ying Zhao, Xiangxing Xu, Xiaozeng You     Organic-inorganic perovskite materials, typically methylammonium lead trihalide (MAPbX3: MA = methylammonium; X = Br, I), are recently attract enormous attention for their …             Energy Transfer Sensitization of Luminescent Gold Nanoclusters: More than Just the Classical Förster Mechanism ▶     Eunkeu Oh, Alan L. Huston, Andrew Shabaev et al.     Luminescent gold nanocrystals (AuNCs) are a recently-developed material with potential optic, electronic and biological applications. They also demonstrate energy transfer (ET) …             Pre-amyloid oligomers budding:a metastatic mechanism of proteotoxicity ▶     Fabrizio Bernini, Daniele Malferrari, Marcello Pignataro et al.     The pathological hallmark of misfolded protein diseases and aging is the accumulation of proteotoxic aggregates. However, the mechanisms of proteotoxicity and the dynamic changes …             Functionalized magnetic nanowires for chemical and magneto-mechanical induction of cancer cell death ▶     Aldo Isaac Martínez-Banderas, Antonio Aires, Francisco J. Teran et al.     Exploiting and combining different properties of nanomaterials is considered a potential route for next generation cancer therapies. Magnetic nanowires (NWs) have shown good …             Pharmacokinetic comparison between quercetin and quercetin 3-O-β-glucuronide in rats by UHPLC-MS/MS ▶     Le-Le Yang, Na Xiao, Xiao-Wei Li et al.     Quercetin is a natural flavonoid widely distributed in human diet and functional foods. Quercetin 3-O-β-glucuronide (Q3G) is present in wine and some medicinal plants. Quercetin …             Multifunctional SPIO/DOX-loaded A54 Homing Peptide Functionalized Dextran-g-PLGA Micelles for Tumor Therapy and MR Imaging ▶     Jun-Qing Situ, Xiao-Juan Wang, Xiu-Liang Zhu et al.     Specific delivery of chemotherapy drugs and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent into tumor cells is one of the issues to highly efficient tumor targeting therapy and …             Neurobiochemical changes in the vicinity of a nanostructured neural implant ▶     Zsófia Bérces, Kinga Tóth, Gergely Márton et al.     Neural interface technologies including recording and stimulation electrodes are currently in the early phase of clinical trials aiming to help patients with spinal cord …             Multifunctional Cu2−xTe Nanocubes Mediated Combination Therapy for Multi-Drug Resistant MDA MB 453 ▶     Aby Cheruvathoor Poulose, Srivani Veeranarayanan, M. Sheikh Mohamed et al.     Hypermethylated cancer populations are hard to treat due to their enhanced chemo-resistance, characterized by aberrant methylated DNA subunits. Herein, we report on invoking …             Stretching human mesenchymal stromal cells on stiffness-customized collagen type I generates a smooth muscle marker profile without growth factor addition ▶     Miriam Rothdiener, Miriam Hegemann, Tatiana Uynuk-Ool et al.     Using matrix elasticity and cyclic stretch have been investigated for inducing mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) differentiation towards the smooth muscle cell (SMC) lineage but not …             Knowledge-guided fuzzy logic modeling to infer cellular signaling networks from proteomic data ▶     Hui Liu, Fan Zhang, Shital Kumar Mishra et al.     Modeling of signaling pathways is crucial for understanding and predicting cellular responses to drug treatments. However, canonical signaling pathways curated from literature …             A high-throughput microfluidic approach for 1000-fold leukocyte reduction of platelet-rich plasma ▶     Hui Xia, Briony C. Strachan, Sean C. Gifford et al.     Leukocyte reduction of donated blood products substantially reduces the risk of a number of transfusion-related complications. Current ‘leukoreduction’ filters operate by …             Relaxation dynamics of glasses along a wide stability and temperature range ▶     C. Rodríguez-Tinoco, J. Ràfols-Ribé, M. González-Silveira et al.     While lots of measurements describe the relaxation dynamics of the liquid state, experimental data of the glass dynamics at high temperatures are much scarcer. We use ultrafast …             In-situ growth of superconducting SmO1−xFxFeAs thin films by pulsed laser deposition ▶     Silvia Haindl, Kota Hanzawa, Hikaru Sato et al.     Oxypnictide thin film growth by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) is one of many insufficiently resolved issues in the research of iron-based superconductors. Here we report on the …             Multilayer Dye Aggregation at Dye/TiO2 Interface via π…π Stacking and Hydrogen Bond and Its Impact on Solar Cell Performance: A DFT Analysis ▶     Lei Zhang, Xiaogang Liu, Weifeng Rao et al.     Multilayer dye aggregation at the dye/TiO2 interface of dye-sensitized solar cells is probed via first principles calculations, using p-methyl red azo dye as an example. Our …             Detection of Gravitational Wave Emission by Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Through Tidal Disruption Flares ▶     Kimitake Hayasaki, Abraham Loeb     Galaxy mergers produce supermassive black hole binaries, which emit gravitational waves prior to their coalescence. We perform three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations to study …             Ternary mixtures of ionic liquids for better salt solubility, conductivity and cation transference number improvement ▶     E. Karpierz, L. Niedzicki, T. Trzeciak et al.     We hereby present the new class of ionic liquid systems in which lithium salt is introduced into the solution as a lithium cation−glyme solvate. This modification leads to the …             Amorphous titanium-oxide supercapacitors ▶     Mikio Fukuhara, Tomoyuki Kuroda, Fumihiko Hasegawa     The electric capacitance of an amorphous TiO2-x surface increases proportionally to the negative sixth power of the convex diameter d. This occurs because of the van der Waals …             Discrete bisoliton fiber laser ▶     X. M. Liu, X. X. Han, X. K. Yao     Dissipative solitons, which result from the intricate balance between dispersion and nonlinearity as well as gain and loss, are of the fundamental scientific interest and …             Multi-Terminal Spin Valve on Channels with Spin-Momentum Locking ▶     Shehrin Sayed, Seokmin Hong, Supriyo Datta     It is experimentally established that charge current flowing in a channel with spin-momentum locking such as topological insulator surface states or Rashba interfaces induces a …             Early warning signals for critical transitions in a thermoacoustic system ▶     E. A. Gopalakrishnan, Yogita Sharma, Tony John et al.     Dynamical systems can undergo critical transitions where the system suddenly shifts from one stable state to another at a critical threshold called the tipping point. The …             Thermodynamic Calculation among Cerium, Oxygen, and Sulfur in Liquid Iron ▶     Fei Pan, Jian Zhang, Hao-Long Chen et al.     Thermodynamic calculation has been applied to predict the inclusion formation in molten SS400 steel. When the Cerium addition in liquid iron is 70 ppm and the initial Oxygen and …             The pressure sensitivity of wrinkled B-doped nanocrystalline diamond membranes ▶     S. Drijkoningen, S. D. Janssens, P. Pobedinskas et al.     Nanocrystalline diamond (NCD) membranes are promising candidates for use as sensitive pressure sensors. NCD membranes are able to withstand harsh conditions and are easily …             Non-negligible Contributions to Thermal Conductivity From Localized Modes in Amorphous Silicon Dioxide ▶     Wei Lv, Asegun Henry     Thermal conductivity is important for almost all applications involving heat transfer. The theory and modeling of crystalline materials is in some sense a solved problem, where …             Direct Analysis and Quantification of Metaldehyde in Water using Reactive Paper Spray Mass Spectrometry ▶     Simon Maher, Fred P. M. Jjunju, Deidre E. Damon et al.     Metaldehyde is extensively used worldwide as a contact and systemic molluscicide for controlling slugs and snails in a wide range of agricultural and horticultural crops. …             Molecular dynamics simulation of nanoindentation on Cu/Ni nanotwinned multilayer films using a spherical indenter ▶     Tao Fu, Xianghe Peng, Xiang Chen et al.     We performed molecular dynamics simulation of nanoindentation on Cu/Ni nanotwinned multilayer films using a spherical indenter, aimed to investigate the effects of hetero-twin …             Correlations in quantum thermodynamics: Heat, work, and entropy production ▶     S. Alipour, F. Benatti, F. Bakhshinezhad et al.     We provide a characterization of energy in the form of exchanged heat and work between two interacting constituents of a closed, bipartite, correlated quantum system. By defining …             An analog of photon-assisted tunneling in a periodically modulated waveguide array ▶     Liping Li, Xiaobing Luo, Xiaoxue Yang et al.     We theoretically report an analog of photon-assisted tunneling (PAT) originated from dark Floquet state in a periodically driven lattice array without a static biased potential …             Process and Microstructure to Achieve Ultra-high Dielectric Constant in Ceramic-Polymer Composites ▶     Lin Zhang, Xiaobing Shan, Patrick Bass et al.     Influences of process conditions on microstructure and dielectric properties of ceramic-polymer composites are systematically studied using CaCu3Ti4O12 (CCTO) as filler and …             Structures, Phase Transitions and Tricritical Behavior of the Hybrid Perovskite Methyl Ammonium Lead Iodide ▶     P. S. Whitfield, N. Herron, W. E. Guise et al.     We have examined the crystal structures and structural phase transitions of the deuterated, partially deuterated and hydrogenous organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite methyl …             Marginal evidence for cosmic acceleration from Type Ia supernovae ▶     J. T. Nielsen, A. Guffanti, S. Sarkar     The ‘standard’ model of cosmology is founded on the basis that the expansion rate of the universe is accelerating at present — as was inferred originally from the Hubble diagram …             A multimodality imaging model to track viable breast cancer cells from single arrest to metastasis in the mouse brain ▶     Katie M. Parkins, Amanda M. Hamilton, Ashley V. Makela et al.     Cellular MRI involves sensitive visualization of iron-labeled cells in vivo but cannot differentiate between dead and viable cells. Bioluminescence imaging (BLI) measures …             d-PET-controlled “off-on” Polarity-sensitive Probes for Reporting Local Hydrophilicity within Lysosomes ▶     Hao Zhu, Jiangli Fan, Huiying Mu et al.     Polarity-sensitive fluorescent probes are powerful chemical tools for studying biomolecular structures and activities both in vitro and in vivo. However, the lack of “off-on” …             3D texture analysis for classification of second harmonic generation images of human ovarian cancer ▶     Bruce Wen, Kirby R. Campbell, Karissa Tilbury et al.     Remodeling of the collagen architecture in the extracellular matrix (ECM) has been implicated in ovarian cancer. To quantify these alterations we implemented a form of 3D texture …             Nondestructive Detection and Quantification of Blueberry Bruising using Near-infrared (NIR) Hyperspectral Reflectance Imaging ▶     Yu Jiang, Changying Li, Fumiomi Takeda     Currently, blueberry bruising is evaluated by either human visual/tactile inspection or firmness measurement instruments. These methods are destructive, time-consuming, and …             Macroscopic irreversibility and microscopic paradox: A Constructal law analysis of atoms as open systems ▶     Umberto Lucia     The relation between macroscopic irreversibility and microscopic reversibility is a present unsolved problem. Constructal law is introduced to develop analytically the …             Biologically templated assembly of hybrid semiconducting nanomesh for high performance field effect transistors and sensors ▶     Hye-Hyeon Byeon, Seung-Woo Lee, Eun-Hee Lee et al.     Delicately assembled composites of semiconducting nanomaterials and biological materials provide an attractive interface for emerging applications, such as chemical/biological …             Reconfigurable Complementary Logic Circuits with Ambipolar Organic Transistors ▶     Hocheon Yoo, Matteo Ghittorelli, Edsger C. P. Smits et al.     Ambipolar organic electronics offer great potential for simple and low-cost fabrication of complementary logic circuits on large-area and mechanically flexible substrates. …             The universal characteristics of a thermodynamic model to conform to the Gibbs-Duhem equation ▶     Dong-Ping Tao     In a multi-component homogeneous system, the relationship between partial molar and molar quantity (RPMQ) is proved to be an equivalent relation of the Gibbs-Duhem equation. The …             Revealing Deactivation Pathways Hidden in Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectra ▶     Matthias Ruckenbauer, Sebastian Mai, Philipp Marquetand et al.     Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy is commonly employed with the intention to monitor electronic excited-state dynamics occurring in a neutral molecule. With the help of …             Circular Dichroism Microscopy Free from Commingling Linear Dichroism via Discretely Modulated Circular Polarization ▶     Tetsuya Narushima, Hiromi Okamoto     In this work, we developed a circular dichroism (CD) imaging microscope with a device to suppress the commingling of linear birefringence (LB) and linear dichroism (LD) signals. …             THz-circuits driven by photo-thermoelectric, gate-tunable graphene-junctions ▶     Andreas Brenneis, Felix Schade, Simon Drieschner et al.     For future on-chip communication schemes, it is essential to integrate nanoscale materials with an ultrafast optoelectronic functionality into high-frequency circuits. The …             3D mapping of elastic modulus using shear wave optical micro-elastography ▶     Jiang Zhu, Li Qi, Yusi Miao et al.     Elastography provides a powerful tool for histopathological identification and clinical diagnosis based on information from tissue stiffness. Benefiting from high resolution, …             PolyHIPE Derived Freestanding 3D Carbon Foam for Cobalt Hydroxide Nanorods Based High Performance Supercapacitor ▶     Umakant M. Patil, Ravindra V. Ghorpade, Min Sik Nam et al.     The current paper describes enhanced electrochemical capacitive performance of chemically grown Cobalt hydroxide (Co(OH)2) nanorods (NRs) decorated porous three dimensional …             Study to explore the mechanism to form inclusion complexes of β-cyclodextrin with vitamin molecules ▶     Subhadeep Saha, Aditi Roy, Kanak Roy et al.     Host–guest inclusion complexes of β-cyclodextrin with two vitamins viz., nicotinic acid and ascorbic acid in aqueous medium have been explored by reliable spectroscopic, …             Achievement of over 1.4 V photovoltage in a dye-sensitized solar cell by the application of a silyl-anchor coumarin dye ▶     Kenji Kakiage, Hiroyuki Osada, Yohei Aoyama et al.     A dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) fabricated by using a novel silyl-anchor coumarin dye with alkyl-chain substitutes, a Br3−/Br− redox electrolyte solution containing water, and …             Thermal treatment of hair for the synthesis of sustainable carbon quantum dots and the applications for sensing Hg2+ ▶     Yongming Guo, Lianfeng Zhang, Fengpu Cao et al.     A facile, simple and low-cost approach for synthesizing highly fluorescent carbon quantum dots (CQDs) from thermal treatment of sustainable hair has been developed. The resultant …             Regimes of turbulence without an energy cascade ▶     C. F. Barenghi, Y. A. Sergeev, A. W. Baggaley     Experiments and numerical simulations of turbulent 4He and 3He-B have established that, at hydrodynamic length scales larger than the average distance between quantum vortices, …             A liquid-liquid transition can exist in monatomic transition metals with a positive melting slope ▶     Byeongchan Lee, Geun Woo Lee     Liquid-liquid transitions under high pressure are found in many elemental materials, but the transitions are known to be associated with either sp-valent materials or f-valent …             Isothermal anisotropic magnetoresistance in antiferromagnetic metallic IrMn ▶     R. Galceran, I. Fina, J. Cisneros-Fernández et al.     Antiferromagnetic spintronics is an emerging field; antiferromagnets can improve the functionalities of ferromagnets with higher response times, and having the information …             Flaky FeSiAl alloy-carbon nanotube composite with tunable electromagnetic properties for microwave absorption ▶     Lina Huang, Xiaofang Liu, Dan Chuai et al.     Flaky FeSiAl alloy/multi-wall carbon nanotube (FeSiAl/MWCNT) composite was fabricated by facile and scalable ball milling method. The morphology and electromagnetic properties of …             Atomically Thin B doped g-C3N4 Nanosheets: High-Temperature Ferromagnetism and calculated Half-Metallicity ▶     Daqiang Gao, Yonggang Liu, Peitao Liu et al.     Since the graphitic carbon nitride (g-C4N3), which can be seen as C-doped graphitic-C3N4 (g-C3N4), was reported to display ferromagnetic ground state and intrinsic …             The role of ion transport phenomena in memristive double barrier devices ▶     Sven Dirkmann, Mirko Hansen, Martin Ziegler et al.     In this work we report on the role of ion transport for the dynamic behavior of a double barrier quantum mechanical Al/Al2O3/NbxOy/Au memristive device based on numerical …             Long-Term Homeostatic Properties Complementary to Hebbian Rules in CuPc-Based Multifunctional Memristor ▶     Laiyuan Wang, Zhiyong Wang, Jinyi Lin et al.     Most simulations of neuroplasticity in memristors, which are potentially used to develop artificial synapses, are confined to the basic biological Hebbian rules. However, the …             Simultaneous generation of high-efficiency broadband asymmetric anomalous refraction and reflection waves with few-layer anisotropic metasurface ▶     Zhancheng Li, Wenwei Liu, Hua Cheng et al.     Optical metasurfaces consisting of single-layer nanostructures have immensely promising applications in wavefront control because they can be used to arbitrarily manipulate wave …             Aggregation of soy protein-isoflavone complexes and gel formation induced by glucono-δ-lactone in soymilk ▶     Sheng-Yang Hsia, Yu-Hsuan Hsiao, Wen-Tai Li et al.     This study investigated the glucono-δ-lactone (GDL)-induced aggregation of isoflavones and soy proteins in soymilk. High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis …             Comparative Study of the Catalytic Activities of Three Distinct Carbonaceous Materials through Photocatalytic Oxidation, CO Conversion, Dye Degradation, and Electrochemical Measurements ▶     Hangil Lee, Yeonwoo Kim, Min Ji Kim et al.     In order to compare the catalytic activities of reduced graphene oxide (rGO), graphene oxide (GO), and graphene, we conducted oxidation of 2-aminothiophenol (2-ATP) and reduction …             Aberration-free volumetric high-speed imaging of in vivo retina ▶     Dierck Hillmann, Hendrik Spahr, Carola Hain et al.     Certain topics in research and advancements in medical diagnostics may benefit from improved temporal and spatial resolution during non-invasive optical imaging of living tissue. …             Gold Nanoparticle Monolayers from Sequential Interfacial Ligand Exchange and Migration in a Three-Phase System ▶     Guang Yang, Daniel T. Hallinan     Using a three-phase system, centimeter-scale monolayer gold nanoparticle (Au NP) films have been prepared that have long-range order and hydrophobic ligands. The system contains …             Polarization of an electroactive functional film on titanium for inducing osteogenic differentiation ▶     Zhengnan Zhou, Weiping Li, Tianrui He et al.     To enhance the surface bioactivity of titanium (Ti) prostheses, an electroactive polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) film was prepared on a Ti substrate to provide a mimetic of the …             Application of Targeted Mass Spectrometry for the Quantification of Sirtuins in the Central Nervous System ▶     T. Jayasena, A. Poljak, N. Braidy et al.     Sirtuin proteins have a variety of intracellular targets, thereby regulating multiple biological pathways including neurodegeneration. However, relatively little is currently …             A unified theory of calcium alternans in ventricular myocytes ▶     Zhilin Qu, Michael B. Liu, Michael Nivala     Intracellular calcium (Ca2+) alternans is a dynamical phenomenon in ventricular myocytes, which is linked to the genesis of lethal arrhythmias. Iterated map models of …             Corrigendum: Broken selection rule in the quantum Rabi model ▶     P. Forn-Díaz, G. Romero, C. J. P. M. Harmans et al.                 Corrigendum: Propagation phasor approach for holographic image reconstruction ▶     Wei Luo, Yibo Zhang, Zoltán Göröcs et al.                 Classical trajectories in polar-asymmetric laser fields: Synchronous THz and XUV emission ▶     Aram Gragossian, Denis V. Seletskiy, Mansoor Sheik-Bahae     The interaction of intense near- and mid-infrared laser pulses with rare gases has produced bursts of radiation with spectral content extending into the extreme ultraviolet and …             Gas Protection of Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials from High-Energy Impacts ▶     Tan Xing, Srikanth Mateti, Lu Hua Li et al.     Two-dimensional (2D) materials can be produced using ball milling with the help of liquid surfactants or solid exfoliation agents, as ball milling of bulk precursor materials …             The stability and catalytic activity of W13@Pt42 core-shell structure ▶     Jin-Rong Huo, Xiao-Xu Wang, Lu Li et al.     This paper reports a study of the electronic properties, structural stability and catalytic activity of the W13@Pt42 core-shell structure using the First-principles calculations. …             Stability and its mechanism in Ag/CoOx/Ag interface-type resistive switching device ▶     Jianbo Fu, Muxin Hua, Shilei Ding et al.     Stability is an important issue for the application of resistive switching (RS) devices. In this work, the endurance and retention properties of Ag/CoOx/Ag interface-type RS …             Corrigendum: Exactly solvable spin chain models corresponding to BDI class of topological superconductors ▶     S. A. Jafari, Farhad Shahbazi                 A combined method for correlative 3D imaging of biological samples from macro to nano scale ▶     Manuela Kellner, Marko Heidrich, Raoul-Amadeus Lorbeer et al.     Correlative analysis requires examination of a specimen from macro to nano scale as well as applicability of analytical methods ranging from morphological to molecular. …             Wax: A benign hydrogen-storage material that rapidly releases H2-rich gases through microwave-assisted catalytic decomposition ▶     S. Gonzalez-Cortes, D. R. Slocombe, T. Xiao et al.     Hydrogen is often described as the fuel of the future, especially for application in hydrogen powered fuel-cell vehicles (HFCV’s). However, its widespread implementation in this …             Charge Distribution Dependent Spectral Analysis of the Oxidized Diferrocenyl-Oligothienylene-Vinylene Molecular Wires ▶     Lixin Xia, Jing Wang, Caiqing Ma et al.     The vibrational spectra have been investigated for revealing the comprehensive structure of diferrocenyl-oligothienylene-vinylene complex, stimulated by the excellent …             Improved performance of a barrier-discharge plasma jet biased by a direct-current voltage ▶     Xuechen Li, Yaru Li, Panpan Zhang et al.     One of the challenges that plasma research encounters is how to generate a large-scale plasma plume at atmospheric pressure. Through utilizing a third electrode biased by a …             Microwave platform as a valuable tool for characterization of nanophotonic devices ▶     Ivan Shishkin, Dmitry Baranov, Alexey Slobozhanyuk et al.     The rich potential of the microwave experiments for characterization and optimization of optical devices is discussed. While the control of the light fields together with their …             Software-defined microwave photonic filter with high reconfigurable resolution ▶     Wei Wei, Lilin Yi, Yves Jaouën et al.     Microwave photonic filters (MPFs) are of great interest in radio frequency systems since they provide prominent flexibility on microwave signal processing. Although filter …             Coherent quantum transport features in carbon superlattice structures ▶     R. McIntosh, S. J. Henley, S. R. P. Silva et al.     Whilst resonant transmission is well understood and can be fully harnessed for crystalline superlattices, a complete picture has not yet emerged for disordered superlattices. It …             Study on spin and optical polarization in a coupled InGaN/GaN quantum well and quantum dots structure ▶     Jiadong Yu, Lai Wang, Di Yang et al.     The spin and optical polarization based on a coupled InGaN/GaN quantum well (QW) and quantum dots (QDs) structure is investigated. In this structure, spin-electrons can be …             Effect of solidification rate on microstructure evolution in dual phase microalloyed steel ▶     A. G. Kostryzhev, C. D. Slater, O. O. Marenych et al.     In steels the dependence of ambient temperature microstructure and mechanical properties on solidification rate is not well reported. In this work we investigate the …             Effective suppression of efficiency droop in GaN-based light-emitting diodes: role of significant reduction of carrier density and built-in field ▶     Yang-Seok Yoo, Jong-Ho Na, Sung Jin Son et al.     A critical issue in GaN-based high power light-emitting diodes (LEDs) is how to suppress the efficiency droop problem occurred at high current injection while improving overall …             Coherent perfect absorption in one-sided reflectionless media ▶     Jin-Hui Wu, M. Artoni, G. C. La Rocca     In optical experiments one-sided reflectionless (ORL) and coherent perfect absorption (CPA) are unusual scattering properties yet fascinating for their fundamental aspects and …             Large-roll growth of 25-inch hexagonal BN monolayer film for self-release buffer layer of free-standing GaN wafer ▶     Chenping Wu, Abdul Majid Soomro, Feipeng Sun et al.     Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is known as promising 2D material with a wide band-gap (~6 eV). However, the growth size of h-BN film is strongly limited by the size of reaction …             Realizing the measure-device-independent quantum-key-distribution with passive heralded-single photon sources ▶     Qin Wang, Xing-Yu Zhou, Guang-Can Guo     In this paper, we put forward a new approach towards realizing measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution with passive heralded single-photon sources. In this …             Multiscale limited penetrable horizontal visibility graph for analyzing nonlinear time series ▶     Zhong-Ke Gao, Qing Cai, Yu-Xuan Yang et al.     Visibility graph has established itself as a powerful tool for analyzing time series. We in this paper develop a novel multiscale limited penetrable horizontal visibility graph …             Effect of the phenoxy groups on PDIB and its derivatives ▶     Peng Song, Baijie Guan, Qiao Zhou et al.     The anisotropic hole and electron mobilities in N,N′-3,4,9,10-perylenediimide-1,7-phenoxy (PDIB-2OPh) and N,Nʹ-3,4,9,10-perylenediimide (PDIB) were theoretically predicted using …             Nondestructive, real-time determination and visualization of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin by luminescent oligothiophenes ▶     Ferdinand X. Choong, Marcus Bäck, Svava E. Steiner et al.     Enabling technologies for efficient use of the bio-based feedstock are crucial to the replacement of oil-based products. We investigated the feasibility of luminescent conjugated …             An artificial photosynthesis anode electrode composed of a nanoparticulate photocatalyst film in a visible light responsive GaN-ZnO solid solution system ▶     Yoshihiko Imanaka, Toshihisa Anazawa, Toshio Manabe et al.     The artificial photosynthesis technology known as the Honda-Fujishima effect, which produces oxygen and hydrogen or organic energy from sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide, is an …             Spatial Dependence of DNA Damage in Bacteria due to Low-Temperature Plasma Application as Assessed at the Single Cell Level ▶     Angela Privat-Maldonado, Deborah O’Connell, Emma Welch et al.     Low temperature plasmas (LTPs) generate a cocktail of reactive nitrogen and oxygen species (RNOS) with bactericidal activity. The RNOS however are spatially unevenly distributed …             Changes in bone macro- and microstructure in diabetic obese mice revealed by high resolution microfocus X-ray computed tomography ▶     G. Kerckhofs, M. Durand, R. Vangoitsenhoven et al.     High resolution microfocus X-ray computed tomography (HR-microCT) was employed to characterize the structural alterations of the cortical and trabecular bone in a mouse model of …             Functionalized Stress Component onto Bio-template as a Pathway of Cytocompatibility ▶     Meysam Keshavarz, Bo Tan, Krishnan Venkatakrishnan     This in-vitro study introduces residual stress as a third dimension of cell stimulus to modulate the interaction between cells and bio-template, without the addition of either …             The room temperature crystal structure of a bacterial phytochrome determined by serial femtosecond crystallography ▶     Petra Edlund, Heikki Takala, Elin Claesson et al.     Phytochromes are a family of photoreceptors that control light responses of plants, fungi and bacteria. A sequence of structural changes, which is not yet fully understood, leads …             Disentangling the stochastic behavior of complex time series ▶     Mehrnaz Anvari, M. Reza Rahimi Tabar, Joachim Peinke et al.     Complex systems involving a large number of degrees of freedom, generally exhibit non-stationary dynamics, which can result in either continuous or discontinuous sample paths of …             Nanostructured Boron Nitride With High Water Dispersibility For Boron Neutron Capture Therapy ▶     Bikramjeet Singh, Gurpreet Kaur, Paviter Singh et al.     Highly water dispersible boron based compounds are innovative and advanced materials which can be used in Boron Neutron Capture Therapy for cancer treatment (BNCT). Present study …             Communities as cliques ▶     Yael Fried, David A. Kessler, Nadav M. Shnerb     High-diversity species assemblages are very common in nature, and yet the factors allowing for the maintenance of biodiversity remain obscure. The competitive exclusion principle …             On the possibility of many-body localization in a doped Mott insulator ▶     Rong-Qiang He, Zheng-Yu Weng     Many-body localization (MBL) is currently a hot issue of interacting systems, in which quantum mechanics overcomes thermalization of statistical mechanics. Like Anderson …             Scanning micro-resonator direct-comb absolute spectroscopy ▶     Alessio Gambetta, Marco Cassinerio, Davide Gatti et al.     Direct optical Frequency Comb Spectroscopy (DFCS) is proving to be a fundamental tool in many areas of science and technology thanks to its unique performance in terms of …             Uniting Superhydrophobic, Superoleophobic and Lubricant Infused Slippery Behavior on Copper Oxide Nano-structured Substrates ▶     Sanjeev Kumar Ujjain, Pritam Kumar Roy, Sumana Kumar et al.     Alloys, specifically steel, are considered as the workhorse of our society and are inimitable engineering materials in the field of infrastructure, industry and possesses …             Sensitive detection of copper ions via ion-responsive fluorescence quenching of engineered porous silicon nanoparticles ▶     Jangsun Hwang, Mintai P. Hwang, Moonhyun Choi et al.     Heavy metal pollution has been a problem since the advent of modern transportation, which despite efforts to curb emissions, continues to play a critical role in environmental …             Inkjet-Printed Graphene/PEDOT:PSS Temperature Sensors on a Skin-Conformable Polyurethane Substrate ▶     Tiina Vuorinen, Juha Niittynen, Timo Kankkunen et al.     Epidermal electronic systems (EESs) are skin-like electronic systems, which can be used to measure several physiological parameters from the skin. This paper presents materials …             The properties of nuclear matter with lattice NN potential in relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock theory ▶     Jinniu Hu, Hiroshi Toki, Hong Shen     We study the properties of nuclear matter with lattice nucleon-nucleon (NN) potential in the relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (RBHF) theory. To use this potential in such a …             Attosecond streaking measurement of extreme ultraviolet pulses using a long-wavelength electric field ▶     Nariyuki Saito, Nobuhisa Ishii, Teruto Kanai et al.     Long-wavelength lasers have great potential to become a new-generation drive laser for tabletop coherent light sources in the soft X-ray region. Because of the significantly low …             Lithium-Decorated Borospherene B40: A Promising Hydrogen Storage Medium ▶     Hui Bai, Bing Bai, Lin Zhang et al.     The recent discovery of borospherene B40 marks the onset of a new kind of boron-based nanostructures akin to the C60 buckyball, offering opportunities to explore materials …             Micro-nano structure hard carbon as a high performance anode material for sodium-ion batteries ▶     Peng Zheng, Ting Liu, Shouwu Guo     Superior first-cycle Coulomb efficiency (above 80%) is displayed by filter paper-derived micro-nano structure hard carbon, and it delivers a high reversible capacity of 286 mAh g…             Spin pumping in magnetic trilayer structures with an MgO barrier ▶     A. A. Baker, A. I. Figueroa, D. Pingstone et al.     We present a study of the interaction mechanisms in magnetic trilayer structures with an MgO barrier grown by molecular beam epitaxy. The interlayer exchange coupling, Aex, is …             Dynamics of an optomechanical system with quadratic coupling: Effect of first order correction to adiabatic elimination ▶     Cheng Jiang, Yuanshun Cui, Guibin Chen     We explore theoretically the dynamics of an optomechanical system in which a resonantly driven cavity mode is quadratically coupled to the displacement of a mechanical resonator. …             Visible quantum plasmonics from metallic nanodimers ▶     F. Alpeggiani, S. D’Agostino, D. Sanvitto et al.     We report theoretical evidence that bulk nonlinear materials weakly interacting with highly localized plasmonic modes in ultra-sub-wavelength metallic nanostructures can lead to …             Wavelength de-multiplexing metasurface hologram ▶     Bo Wang, Baogang Quan, Jingwen He et al.     A wavelength de-multiplexing metasurface hologram composed of subwavelength metallic antennas is designed and demonstrated experimentally in the terahertz (THz) regime. Different …             Notch fatigue behavior: Metallic glass versus ultra-high strength steel ▶     X. D. Wang, R. T. Qu, S. J. Wu et al.     Studying the effect of notch on the fatigue behavior of structural materials is of significance for the reliability and safety designing of engineering structural components. In …             Highly Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells with Substantial Reduction of Lead Content ▶     Chong Liu, Jiandong Fan, Hongliang Li et al.     Despite organometal halide perovskite solar cells have recently exhibited a significant leap in efficiency, the Sn-based perovskite solar cells still suffer from low efficiency. …             The Effect of Preparation Conditions on Raman and Photoluminescence of Monolayer WS2 ▶     Kathleen M. McCreary, Aubrey T. Hanbicki, Simranjeet Singh et al.     We report on preparation dependent properties observed in monolayer WS2 samples synthesized via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) on a variety of common substrates (Si/SiO2, …             Catechin tuned magnetism of Gd-doped orthovanadate through morphology as T1-T2 MRI contrast agents ▶     Tamilmani Vairapperumal, Ariya Saraswathy, Jayasree S. Ramapurath et al.     Tetragonal (t)-LaVO4 has turned out to be a potential host for luminescent materials. Synthesis of t-LaVO4 till date has been based on chelating effect of EDTA making it not …             Layered double hydroxide-oxidized carbon nanotube hybrids as highly efficient flame retardant nanofillers for polypropylene ▶     Yanshan Gao, Yu Zhang, Gareth R. Williams et al.     Aqueous miscible organic layered double hydroxides (AMO-LDHs) can act as organophilic inorganic flame retardant nanofillers for unmodified non-polar polymers. In this …             Abnormal behavior of silica doped with small amounts of aluminum ▶     Jinling Liu, Yiguang Wang, Linan An     Silica is the most abundant mineral in the crust of the Earth. It has been demonstrated that the aluminum concentration in silica plays a key role in determining many properties …             Current driven transition from Abrikosov-Josephson to Josephson-like vortex in mesoscopic lateral S/S’/S superconducting weak links ▶     G. Carapella, P. Sabatino, C. Barone et al.     Vortices are topological defects accounting for many important effects in superconductivity, superfluidity, and magnetism. Here we address the stability of a small number of such …             High-Performance Metal/Carbide Composites with Far-From-Equilibrium Compositions and Controlled Microstructures ▶     Liangfa Hu, Morgan O’Neil, Veysel Erturun et al.     The prospect of extending existing metal-ceramic composites to those with the compositions that are far from thermodynamic equilibrium is examined. A current and …             Image Quality and Radiation Dose for Prospectively Triggered Coronary CT Angiography: 128-Slice Single-Source CT versus First-Generation 64-Slice Dual-Source CT ▶     Jin Gu, He-shui Shi, Ping Han et al.     This study sought to compare the image quality and radiation dose of coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) from prospectively triggered 128-slice CT (128-MSCT) versus …             Hybrid Markov-mass action law model for cell activation by rare binding events: Application to calcium induced vesicular release at neuronal synapses ▶     Claire Guerrier, David Holcman     Binding of molecules, ions or proteins to small target sites is a generic step of cell activation. This process relies on rare stochastic events where a particle located in a …             Bumblebees minimize control challenges by combining active and passive modes in unsteady winds ▶     Sridhar Ravi, Dmitry Kolomenskiy, Thomas Engels et al.     The natural wind environment that volant insects encounter is unsteady and highly complex, posing significant flight-control and stability challenges. It is critical to …             Influence of magnetoplasmonic γ-Fe2O3/Au core/shell nanoparticles on low-field nuclear magnetic resonance ▶     Kuen-Lin Chen, Yao-Wei Yeh, Jian-Ming Chen et al.     Magnetoplasmonic nanoparticles, composed of a plasmonic layer and a magnetic core, have been widely shown as promising contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) …             Succeed escape: Flow shear promotes tumbling of Escherichia colinear a solid surface ▶     Mehdi Molaei, Jian Sheng     Understanding how bacteria move close to a surface under various stimuli is crucial for a broad range of microbial processes including biofilm formation, bacterial transport and …             Viral fusion efficacy of specific H3N2 influenza virus reassortant combinations at single-particle level ▶     Hung-Lun Hsu, Jean K. Millet, Deirdre A. Costello et al.     Virus pseudotyping is a useful and safe technique for studying entry of emerging strains of influenza virus. However, few studies have compared different reassortant combinations …             A rapid co-culture stamping device for studying intercellular communication ▶     Amin Hassanzadeh-Barforoushi, Jonathan Shemesh, Nona Farbehi et al.     Regulation of tissue development and repair depends on communication between neighbouring cells. 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