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06 December 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports       Chemical Sciences               Latent curing systems stabilized by reaction equilibrium in homogeneous mixtures of benzoxazine and amine ▶     Jun Wang, Ya Zhen Xu, Ya Fei Fu et al.     Latent curing systems are widely used in industrial thermosets in applications such as adhesion, coating, and composites. Despite many attempts to improve the practicality of …             Turning Diamagnetic Microbes into Multinary Micro-Magnets: Magnetophoresis and Spatio-Temporal Manipulation of Individual Living Cells ▶     Hojae Lee, Daewha Hong, Hyeoncheol Cho et al.     Inspired by the biogenic magnetism found in certain organisms, such as magnetotactic bacteria, magnetic nanomaterials have been integrated into living cells for bioorthogonal, …             Synergistically strengthened 3D micro-scavenger cage adsorbent for selective removal of radioactive cesium ▶     Sung-Chan Jang, Sung-Min Kang, Yuvaraj Haldorai et al.     A novel microporous three-dimensional pomegranate-like micro-scavenger cage (P-MSC) composite has been synthesized by immobilization of iron phyllosilicates clay onto a Prussian …             Fractionation for further conversion: from raw corn stover to lactic acid ▶     Ting He, Zhicheng Jiang, Ping Wu et al.     Fractionation is considered to be one promising strategy to utilize raw biomass to its fullest and produce chemicals with high selectivity. Herein, ethanol/H2O (1/1, v/v) …             Fish DNA-modified clays: Towards highly flame retardant polymer nanocomposite with improved interfacial and mechanical performance ▶     Omid Zabihi, Mojtaba Ahmadi, Hamid Khayyam et al.     Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) has been recently found to be an efficient renewable and environmentally-friendly flame retardant. In this work, for the first time, we have used …             Adsorption of methylene blue on an agro-waste oiltea shell with and without fungal treatment ▶     Jiayang Liu, Enzhong Li, Xiaojuan You et al.     A lignocellulosic waste oiltea shell (OTS) was evaluated as an inexpensive sorbent to remove methylene blue (MB) from aqueous solution. Fungal treatment of OTS increased the MB …             Direct synthesis of hydrogen peroxide from plasma-water interactions ▶     Jiandi Liu, Bangbang He, Qiang Chen et al.     Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is usually considered to be an important reagent in green chemistry since water is the only by-product in H2O2 involved oxidation reactions. Early …             Ionic liquids modified graphene oxide composites: a high efficient adsorbent for phthalates from aqueous solution ▶     Xinguang Zhou, Yinglu Zhang, Zuteng Huang et al.     In 2015, more than 30% of erasers were found to contain a PAE content that exceeded the 0.1% limit established by the Quality and Technology Supervision Bureau of Jiangsu …             OER activity manipulated by IrO6 coordination geometry: an insight from pyrochlore iridates ▶     Wei Sun, Ji-Yuan Liu, Xue-Qing Gong et al.     The anodic reaction of oxygen evolution reaction (OER), an important point for electrolysis, however, remains the obstacle due to its complicated reaction at electrochemical …             Paper-based CRP Monitoring Devices ▶     Shang-Chi Lin, Chung-Yuh Tseng, Po-Liang Lai et al.     Here, we discuss the development of a paper-based diagnostic device that is inexpensive, portable, easy-to-use, robust, and capable of running simultaneous tests to monitor a …             Measuring the Coefficient of Friction of a Small Floating Liquid Marble ▶     Chin Hong Ooi, Anh Van Nguyen, Geoffrey M. Evans et al.     This paper investigates the friction coefficient of a moving liquid marble, a small liquid droplet coated with hydrophobic powder and floating on another liquid surface. A …             High-yield fabrication and properties of 1.4 nm nanodiamonds with narrow size distribution ▶     Stepan Stehlik, Marian Varga, Martin Ledinsky et al.     Detonation nanodiamonds (DNDs) with a typical size of 5 nm have attracted broad interest in science and technology. Further size reduction of DNDs would bring these nanoparticles …             Prostate Cancer Patients–Negative Biopsy Controls Discrimination by Untargeted Metabolomics Analysis of Urine by LC-QTOF: Upstream Information on Other Omics ▶     M. A. Fernández-Peralbo, E. Gómez-Gómez, M. Calderón-Santiago et al.     The existing clinical biomarkers for prostate cancer (PCa) diagnosis are far from ideal (e.g., the prostate specific antigen (PSA) serum level suffers from lack of specificity, …             Surface Protonics Promotes Catalysis ▶     R. Manabe, S. Okada, R. Inagaki et al.     Catalytic steam reforming of methane for hydrogen production proceeds even at 473 K over 1 wt% Pd/CeO2 catalyst in an electric field, thanks to the surface protonics. Kinetic …             Insights into the Competing Mechanisms and Origin of Enantioselectivity for N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Catalyzed Reaction of Aldehyde with Enamide ▶     Yan Qiao, Xinhuan Chen, Donghui Wei et al.     Hydroacylation reactions and aza-benzoin reactions have attracted considerable attention from experimental chemists. Recently, Wang et al. reported an interesting reaction of …             Advanced Fabrication of Chemically Bonded Graphene/TiO2 Continuous Fibers with Enhanced Broadband Photocatalytic Properties and Involved Mechanisms Exploration ▶     Qingzhe Zhang, Nan Bao, Xinqiang Wang et al.     In this article, a novel route for the synthesis of graphene/TiO2 continuous fibers (GTF) using force-spinning combined with water vapor annealing method is reported for the …             Protein-peptide molecular docking with large-scale conformational changes: the p53-MDM2 interaction ▶     Maciej Pawel Ciemny, Aleksander Debinski, Marta Paczkowska et al.     Protein-peptide interactions are often associated with large-scale conformational changes that are difficult to study either by classical molecular modeling or by experiment. …             Physical characterization and antioxidant activity of thymol solubilized Tween 80 micelles ▶     Ling-Li Deng, Maierhaba Taxipalati, Fei Que et al.     Attempts were made to solubilize thymol in Tween 80 micelle to study the solubilization mechanism of thymol and the effect of solubilization on its antioxidant activity. The …             Biomimetic Sniffing Improves the Detection Performance of a 3D Printed Nose of a Dog and a Commercial Trace Vapor Detector ▶     Matthew E. Staymates, William A. MacCrehan, Jessica L. Staymates et al.     Unlike current chemical trace detection technology, dogs actively sniff to acquire an odor sample. Flow visualization experiments with an anatomically-similar 3D printed dog’s …             The complex nature of calcium cation interactions with phospholipid bilayers ▶     Adéla Melcrová, Sarka Pokorna, Saranya Pullanchery et al.     Understanding interactions of calcium with lipid membranes at the molecular level is of great importance in light of their involvement in calcium signaling, association of …             Membrane Core-Specific Antimicrobial Action of Cathelicidin LL-37 Peptide Switches Between Pore and Nanofibre Formation ▶     Mahdi Shahmiri, Marta Enciso, Christopher G. Adda et al.     Membrane-disrupting antimicrobial peptides provide broad-spectrum defence against localized bacterial invasion in a range of hosts including humans. The most generally held …             Resveratrol serves as a protein-substrate interaction stabilizer in human SIRT1 activation ▶     Xuben Hou, David Rooklin, Hao Fang et al.     Resveratrol is a natural compound found in red wine that has been suggested to exert its potential health benefit through the activation of SIRT1, a crucial member of the …             Porous Silicon-Based Biosensors: Towards Real-Time Optical Detection of Target Bacteria in the Food Industry ▶     Naama Massad-Ivanir, Giorgi Shtenberg, Nitzan Raz et al.     Rapid detection of target bacteria is crucial to provide a safe food supply and to prevent foodborne diseases. Herein, we present an optical biosensor for identification and …             Kitaev exchange and field-induced quantum spin-liquid states in honeycomb α-RuCl3 ▶     Ravi Yadav, Nikolay A. Bogdanov, Vamshi M. Katukuri et al.     Large anisotropic exchange in 5d and 4d oxides and halides open the door to new types of magnetic ground states and excitations, inconceivable a decade ago. A prominent case is …             Comprehensive investigation of tobacco leaves during natural early senescence via multi-platform metabolomics analyses ▶     Lili Li, Jieyu Zhao, Yanni Zhao et al.     Senescence is the final stage of leaf growth and development. Many different physiological activities occur during this process. A comprehensive metabolomics analysis of tobacco …             Fluorinated benzalkylsilane molecular rectifiers ▶     Zachary A. Lamport, Angela D. Broadnax, David Harrison et al.     We report on the synthesis and electrical properties of nine new alkylated silane self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) – (EtO)3Si(CH2)nN = CHPhX where n = 3 or 11 and X = 4-CF3, …             Synergetic signal amplification of multi-walled carbon nanotubes-Fe3O4 hybrid and trimethyloctadecylammonium bromide as a highly sensitive detection platform for tetrabromobisphenol A ▶     Feng Zhou, Yue Wang, Wei Wu et al.     In this work, we fabricated an electrochemical sensor based on trimethyloctadecylammonium bromide and multi-walled carbon nanotubes-Fe3O4 hybrid (TOAB/MWCNTs-Fe3O4) for sensitive …             Lightweight NiFe2O4 with controllable 3D network structure and enhanced microwave absorbing properties ▶     Fen Wang, Xing Wang, Jianfeng Zhu et al.     3D network structure NiFe2O4 was successfully synthesized by a templated salt precipitation method using PMMA colloid crystal as templates. The morphology, phase composition and …             Bilayered graphene/h-BN with folded holes as new nanoelectronic materials: modeling of structures and electronic properties ▶     Leonid A. Chernozatonskii, Viсtor A. Demin, Stefano Bellucci     The latest achievements in 2-dimensional (2D) material research have shown the perspective use of sandwich structures in nanodevices. We demonstrate the following generation of …             Towards High Capacity Li-ion Batteries Based on Silicon-Graphene Composite Anodes and Sub-micron V-doped LiFePO4 Cathodes ▶     M. J. Loveridge, M. J. Lain, I. D. 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