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22 November 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports       Chemical Sciences               Species-Specific Standard Redox Potential of Thiol-Disulfide Systems: A Key Parameter to Develop Agents against Oxidative Stress ▶     Arash Mirzahosseini, Béla Noszál     Microscopic standard redox potential, a new physico-chemical parameter was introduced and determined to quantify thiol-disulfide equilibria of biological significance. The highly …             Anion-controlled dimer distance induced unique solid-state fluorescence of cyano substituted styrene pyridinium ▶     Gaobin Zhang, Xuanjun Zhang, Lin Kong et al.     Molecular packing arrangements play a key role in dominating the photophysical properties of luminophores in aggregated state but fine control of the molecular packing is a great …             GeS2–In2S3–CsI Chalcogenide Glasses Doped with Rare Earth Ions for Near- and Mid-IR Luminescence ▶     Legang Li, Junyi Bian, Qing Jiao et al.     Chalcogenide glass has been considered as a promising host for the potential laser gain and amplifier media operating in near- and mid-IR spectral region. In this work, the IR …             Ion mobility spectrometry as a simple and rapid method to measure the plasma propofol concentrations for intravenous anaesthesia monitoring ▶     Xin Wang, Qinghua Zhou, Dandan Jiang et al.     The plasma propofol concentration is important information for anaesthetists to monitor and adjust the anaesthesia depth for patients during a surgery operation. In this paper, a …             In-situ nano-crystal-to-crystal transformation synthesis of energetic materials based on three 5,5′-azotetrazolate Cr(III) salts ▶     Yu Miao, Yanxuan Qiu, Jiawei Cai et al.     The in-situ nano-crystal-to-crystal transformation (SCCT) synthesis provides a powerful approach for tailoring controllable feature shapes and sizes of nano crystals. In this …             A self-regenerable soot sensor with a proton-conductive thin electrolyte and a nanostructured platinum sensing electrode ▶     Peiling Lv, Takenori Ito, Akihide Oogushi et al.     In recent years, exhaust sensors have become increasingly attractive for use in energy and environmental technologies. Important issues regarding practical applications of these …             Phosphorus K4 Crystal: A New Stable Allotrope ▶     Jie Liu, Shunhong Zhang, Yaguang Guo et al.     The intriguing properties of phosphorene motivate scientists to further explore the structures and properties of phosphorus materials. Here, we report a new allotrope named K4 …             Bright blue-shifted fluorescent proteins with Cys in the GAF domain engineered from bacterial phytochromes: fluorescence mechanisms and excited-state dynamics ▶     Yusaku Hontani, Daria M. Shcherbakova, Mikhail Baloban et al.     Near-infrared fluorescent proteins (NIR FPs) engineered from bacterial phytochromes (BphPs) are of great interest for in vivo imaging. They utilize biliverdin (BV) as a …             Multifunctional Indium Tin Oxide Electrode Generated by Unusual Surface Modification ▶     Sarra Bouden, Antoine Dahi, Fanny Hauquier et al.     The indium tin oxide (ITO) material has been widely used in various scientific fields and has been successfully implemented in several devices. Herein, the electrochemical …             Mimicking the cell membrane: bio-inspired simultaneous functions with monovalent anion selectivity and antifouling properties of anion exchange membrane ▶     Yan Zhao, Huimin Liu, Kaini Tang et al.     A new bio-inspired method was applied in this study to simultaneously improve the monovalent anion selectivity and antifouling properties of anion exchange membranes (AEMs). …             Electronic Properties of Cyclacenes from TAO-DFT ▶     Chun-Shian Wu, Pei-Yin Lee, Jeng-Da Chai     Owing to the presence of strong static correlation effects, accurate prediction of the electronic properties (e.g., the singlet-triplet energy gaps, vertical ionization …             A simple design for microwave assisted digestion vessel with low reagent consumption suitable for food and environmental samples ▶     Mehrdad Gholami, Shima Behkami, Sharifuddin Md. Zain et al.     The objective of this work is to prepare a cost-effective, low reagent consumption and high performance polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) vessel that is capable to work in domestic …             Na@SiO2-Mediated Addition of Organohalides to Carbonyl Compounds for the Formation of Alcohols and Epoxides ▶     Mohit Kapoor, Jih Ru Hwu     Alcohols and epoxides were generated by the addition of organohalides to carbonyl compounds in the presence of sodium metal impregnated with silica gel (Na@SiO2) in THF at 25 °C …             Nanocolumnar Crystalline Vanadium Oxide-Molybdenum Oxide Antireflective Smart Thin Films with Superior Nanomechanical Properties ▶     Arjun Dey, Manish Kumar Nayak, A. Carmel Mary Esther et al.     Vanadium oxide-molybdenum oxide (VO-MO) thin (21–475 nm) films were grown on quartz and silicon substrates by pulsed RF magnetron sputtering technique by altering the RF power …             Solid-state NMR reveals differential carbohydrate utilization in diapausing Culex pipiens ▶     James Chang, Jugeshwar Singh, Sungshil Kim et al.     Culex pipiens is the mosquito that vectors West Nile Virus and other human-pathogenic flavivruses in North America. In response to shortened day length and lower temperatures, …             General Solvent-dependent Strategy toward Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Graphene/Metal Oxide Nanohybrids: Effects of Nitrogen-containing Solvent ▶     Wei-Yao Kao, Wei-Quan Chen, Yu-Hsiang Chiu et al.     A general solvent-dependent protocol directly influencing the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in metal oxide/graphene nanohybrids has been demonstrated. We conducted the two-step …             Toward High Performance 2D/2D Hybrid Photocatalyst by Electrostatic Assembly of Rationally Modified Carbon Nitride on Reduced Graphene Oxide ▶     Jian Chen, Xiaochan Xu, Tao Li et al.     Efficient metal-free visible photocatalysts with high stability are highly desired for sufficient utilization of solar energy. In this work, the popular carbon nitride (CN) …             Size Switchable Supramolecular Nanoparticle Based on Azobenzene Derivative within Anionic Pillar[5]arene ▶     Cai-Cai Zhang, Sheng-Hua Li, Cui-Fang Zhang et al.     A photo/thermal-switchable supramolecular nanoparticles assembly has been constructed based on an inclusion complex between anionic pillar[5]arene 2C-WP5A and azobenzene …             Large-scale identification of human protein function using topological features of interaction network ▶     Zhanchao Li, Zhiqing Liu, Wenqian Zhong et al.     The annotation of protein function is a vital step to elucidate the essence of life at a molecular level, and it is also meritorious in biomedical and pharmaceutical industry. …             Evidences for Cooperative Resonance-Assisted Hydrogen Bonds in Protein Secondary Structure Analogs ▶     Yu Zhou, Geng Deng, Yan-Zhen Zheng et al.     Cooperative behaviors of the hydrogen bonding networks in proteins have been discovered for a long time. The structural origin of this cooperativity, however, is still under …             Inkjet printing of TiO2/AlOOH heterostructures for the formation of interference color images with high optical visibility ▶     Aleksandr V. Yakovlev, Valentin A. Milichko, Evgeny A. Pidko et al.     This paper describes a practical approach for the fabrication of highly visible interference color images using sol-gel ink technique and a common desktop inkjet printer. We show …             Vibrational resonance, allostery, and activation in rhodopsin-like G protein-coupled receptors ▶     Kristina N. Woods, Jürgen Pfeffer, Arpana Dutta et al.     G protein-coupled receptors are a large family of membrane proteins activated by a variety of structurally diverse ligands making them highly adaptable signaling molecules. …             In-situ catalyzation approach for enhancing the hydrogenation/dehydrogenation kinetics of MgH2 powders with Ni particles ▶     M. Sherif El-Eskandarany, Ehab Shaban, Naser Ali et al.     One practical solution for utilizing hydrogen in vehicles with proton-exchange fuel cells membranes is storing hydrogen in metal hydrides nanocrystalline powders. According to …             Critical Role of Energy Transfer Between Terbium Ions for Suppression of Back Energy Transfer in Nonanuclear Terbium Clusters ▶     Shun Omagari, Takayuki Nakanishi, Yuichi Kitagawa et al.     Lanthanide (Ln(III)) complexes form an important class of highly efficient luminescent materials showing characteristic line emission after efficient light absorption by the …             Modeling of hydrogen atom diffusion and response behavior of hydrogen sensors in Pd–Y alloy nanofilm ▶     Yi Liu, Yanli Li, Pengcheng Huang et al.     To detect hydrogen gas leakage rapidly, many types of hydrogen sensors containing palladium alloy film have been proposed and fabricated to date. However, the mechanisms and …             Evidence for strong, widespread chlorine radical chemistry associated with pollution outflow from continental Asia ▶     Angela K. Baker, Carina Sauvage, Ute R. Thorenz et al.     The chlorine radical is a potent atmospheric oxidant, capable of perturbing tropospheric oxidative cycles normally controlled by the hydroxyl radical. Significantly faster …             Cellulose nanofiber backboned Prussian blue nanoparticles as powerful adsorbents for the selective elimination of radioactive cesium ▶     Adavan Kiliyankil Vipin, Bunshi Fugetsu, Ichiro Sakata et al.     On 11 March 2011, the day of the unforgettable disaster of the 9 magnitude Tohoku earthquake and quickly followed by the devastating Tsunami, a damageable amount of radionuclides …             Sacrificial Reducing Agent Free Photo-Generation of Platinum Nano Particle over Carbon/TiO2 for Highly Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction ▶     Rajashekar Badam, Raman Vedarajan, Kazuki Okaya et al.     Electrocatalytic materials for oxygen reduction reaction, currently dominated by platinum/carbon catalyst is marred by drawbacks such as use of copious amount of Pt and use of …             Core-shell microstructured nanocomposites for synergistic adjustment of environmental temperature and humidity ▶     Haiquan Zhang, Yanping Yuan, Nan Zhang et al.     The adjustment of temperature and humidity is of great importance in a variety of fields. 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