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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               npj 2D Materials and Applications is an online-only, open access journal that aims to become a top-tier interdisciplinary platform for scientists to share research on 2D materials and their applications. Part of the Nature Partner Journals series, npj 2D Materials and Applications is published in partnership with FCT NOVA, Lisbon, with the support of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS). The journal is now open for submissions.   Find out more >>                 Physical Sciences               High-quality and Large-size Topological Insulator Bi2Te3-Gold Saturable Absorber Mirror for Mode-Locking Fiber Laser ▶     Hou-Ren Chen, Chih-Ya Tsai, Hsin-Ming Cheng et al.     A novel high-quality, large-size, reflection-type topological insulator Bi2Te3-Gold (BG) film-based nonlinear optical modulator has been successfully fabricated as a …             A Very Stable High Throughput Taylor Cone-jet in Electrohydrodynamics ▶     M. R. Morad, A. Rajabi, M. Razavi et al.     A stable capillary liquid jet formed by an electric field is an important physical phenomenon for formation of controllable small droplets, power generation and chemical …             Strongly Confined Spoof Surface Plasmon Polaritons Waveguiding Enabled by Planar Staggered Plasmonic Waveguides ▶     Longfang Ye, Yifan Xiao, Yanhui Liu et al.     We demonstrate a novel route to achieving highly efficient and strongly confined spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) waveguides at subwavelength scale enabled by planar …             Exploring the Relationship Between Eye Movements and Electrocardiogram Interpretation Accuracy ▶     Alan Davies, Gavin Brown, Markel Vigo et al.     Interpretation of electrocardiograms (ECGs) is a complex task involving visual inspection. This paper aims to improve understanding of how practitioners perceive ECGs, and …             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 …             Submillimetre Network Formation by Light-induced Hybridization of Zeptomole-level DNA ▶     Takuya Iida, Yushi Nishimura, Mamoru Tamura et al.     Macroscopic unique self-assembled structures are produced via double-stranded DNA formation (hybridization) as a specific binding essential in biological systems. However, a …             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) …             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 …             Dynamical tuning between nearly perfect reflection, absorption, and transmission of light via graphene/dielectric structures ▶     Jacob Linder, Klaus Halterman     Exerting well-defined control over the reflection (R), absorption (A), and transmission (T) of electromagnetic waves is a key objective in quantum optics. To this end, one often …             Revealing extraordinary tensile plasticity in layered Ti-Al metal composite ▶     M. Huang, G. H. Fan, L. Geng et al.     Layered Ti-Al metal composite (LMC) fabricated by hot-pressing and hot-rolling process displays higher ductility than that of both components. In this paper, a combination of …             Examining the Validity of the Phonon Gas Model in Amorphous Materials ▶     Wei Lv, Asegun Henry     The idea of treating phonon transport as equivalent to transport through a gas of particles is termed the phonon gas model (PGM), and it has been used almost ubiquitously to try …             Comparison of cell behavior on pva/pva-gelatin electrospun nanofibers with random and aligned configuration ▶     Chen-Yu Huang, Keng-Hsiang Hu, Zung-Hang Wei     Electrospinning technique is able to create nanofibers with specific orientation. Poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) have good mechanical stability but poor cell adhesion property due to …             Parity Deformed Jaynes-Cummings Model: “Robust Maximally Entangled States” ▶     A. Dehghani, B. Mojaveri, S. Shirin et al.     The parity-deformations of the quantum harmonic oscillator are used to describe the generalized Jaynes-Cummings model based on the λ-analog of the Heisenberg algebra. The …             Apparent Negative Reflection with the Gradient Acoustic Metasurface by Integrating Supercell Periodicity into the Generalized Law of Reflection ▶     Bingyi Liu, Wenyu Zhao, Yongyuan Jiang     As the two dimensional version of the functional wavefront manipulation metamaterial, metasurface has become a research hot spot for engineering the wavefront at will with a …             Influence of Third Particle on the Tribological Behaviors of Diamond-like Carbon Films ▶     Lichun Bai, Narasimalu Srikanth, Guozheng Kang et al.     Tribological mechanisms of diamond-like carbon (DLC) films in a sand-dust environment are commonly unclear due to the complicated three-body abrasion caused by sand particles. …             Physically Transient Memory on a Rapidly Dissoluble Paper for Security Application ▶     Hagyoul Bae, Byung-Hyun Lee, Dongil Lee et al.     We report the transient memory device by means of a water soluble SSG (solid sodium with glycerine) paper. This material has a hydroscopic property hence it can be soluble in …             Steady-state mechanical squeezing in a double-cavity optomechanical system ▶     Dong-Yang Wang, Cheng-Hua Bai, Hong-Fu Wang et al.     We study the physical properties of double-cavity optomechanical system in which the mechanical resonator interacts with one of the coupled cavities and another cavity is used as …             Arbitrary quantum state engineering in three-state systems via Counterdiabatic driving ▶     Ye-Hong Chen, Qi-Cheng Wu, Bi-Hua Huang et al.     A scheme for arbitrary quantum state engineering (QSE) in three-state systems is proposed. Firstly, starting from a set of complete orthogonal time-dependent basis with …             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 …             Vortex Laser based on III-V semiconductor metasurface: direct generation of coherent Laguerre-Gauss modes carrying controlled orbital angular momentum ▶     Mohamed S. Seghilani, Mikhael Myara, Mohamed Sellahi et al.     The generation of a coherent state, supporting a large photon number, with controlled orbital-angular-momentum L = ħl (of charge l per photon) presents both fundamental and …             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 …             Utility of real-time prospective motion correction (PROMO) on 3D T1-weighted imaging in automated brain structure measurements ▶     Keita Watanabe, Shingo Kakeda, Natsuki Igata et al.     PROspective MOtion correction (PROMO) can prevent motion artefacts. The aim of this study was to determine whether brain structure measurements of motion-corrected images with …             Comparative study between a spectral domain and a high-speed single-beam swept source OCTA system for identifying choroidal neovascularization in AMD ▶     R. Told, L. Ginner, A. Hecht et al.     This comparative study between a SD- and SS-OCTA system for visualizing neovascular patterns in AMD, also assessed the influence of cataract on OCTA imaging. 25 eyes with active …             Biodiversity in models of cyclic dominance is preserved by heterogeneity in site-specific invasion rates ▶     Attila Szolnoki, Matjaž Perc     Global, population-wide oscillations in models of cyclic dominance may result in the collapse of biodiversity due to the accidental extinction of one species in the loop. …             Self-cleaning of Surfaces: the Role of Surface Wettability and Dust Types ▶     Yun-Yun Quan, Li-Zhi Zhang, Rong-Hui Qi et al.     The self-cleaning property is usually connected to superhydrophobic surfaces (SHSs) where the dust particles can be easily removed by the rolling motion of droplets. It seems …             Functional complexity emerging from anatomical constraints in the brain: the significance of network modularity and rich-clubs ▶     Gorka Zamora-López, Yuhan Chen, Gustavo Deco et al.     The large-scale structural ingredients of the brain and neural connectomes have been identified in recent years. These are, similar to the features found in many other real …             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 …             Direct imaging of defect formation in strained organic flexible electronics by Scanning Kelvin Probe Microscopy ▶     Tobias Cramer, Lorenzo Travaglini, Stefano Lai et al.     The development of new materials and devices for flexible electronics depends crucially on the understanding of how strain affects electronic material properties at the …             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 …             Locating the quantum critical point of the Bose-Hubbard model through singularities of simple observables ▶     Mateusz Łącki, Bogdan Damski, Jakub Zakrzewski     We show that the critical point of the two-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model can be easily found through studies of either on-site atom number fluctuations or the nearest-neighbor …             Metal Induced Growth of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides at Controlled Locations ▶     Zhendong Wang, Qi Huang, Peng Chen et al.     Metal induced nucleation is adopted to achieve the growth of transition metal dichalcogenides at controlled locations. Ordered arrays of MoS2 and WS2 have successfully been …             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 …             Crescent shaped Fabry-Perot fiber cavity for ultra-sensitive strain measurement ▶     Ye Liu, D. N. Wang, W. P. Chen     Optical Fabry-Perot interferometer sensors based on inner air-cavity is featured with compact size, good robustness and high strain sensitivity, especially when an ultra-thin …             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 …             The influence of laser scribing on magnetic domain formation in grain oriented electrical steel visualized by directional neutron dark-field imaging ▶     P. Rauscher, B. Betz, J. Hauptmann et al.     The performance and degree of efficiency of transformers are directly determined by the bulk magnetic properties of grain oriented electrical steel laminations. The core losses …             Switchable 3D optofluidic Y-branch waveguides tuned by Dean flows ▶     L. Li, X.Q. Zhu, L. Liang et al.     Optical branch waveguides are one of the most important optical elements and have been widely exploited for optical communication systems. However, prevailing devices are …             Nanoscale self-templating for oxide epitaxy with large symmetry mismatch ▶     Xiang Gao, Shinbuhm Lee, John Nichols et al.     Direct observations using scanning transmission electron microscopy unveil an intriguing interfacial bi-layer that enables epitaxial growth of a strain-free, monoclinic, …             Modulated switching current density and spin-orbit torques in MnGa/Ta films with inserting ferromagnetic layers ▶     Kangkang Meng, Jun Miao, Xiaoguang Xu et al.     We report modulated switching current density and spin-orbit torques (SOT) in MnGa/Ta films with inserting very thin Co2FeAl and Co layers. Ferromagnetic coupling has been found …             UV Degradation and Recovery of Perovskite Solar Cells ▶     Sang-Won Lee, Seongtak Kim, Soohyun Bae et al.     Although the power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells has increased from 3.81% to 22.1% in just 7 years, they still suffer from stability issues, as they degrade …             Noncontact and Wide-Field Characterization of the Absorption and Scattering Properties of Apple Fruit Using Spatial-Frequency Domain Imaging ▶     Dong Hu, Xiaping Fu, Xueming He et al.     Spatial-frequency domain imaging (SFDI), as a noncontact, low-cost and wide-field optical imaging technique, offers great potential for agro-product safety and quality assessment …             Identification of absolute geometries of cis and trans molecular isomers by Coulomb Explosion Imaging ▶     Utuq Ablikim, Cédric Bomme, Hui Xiong et al.     An experimental route to identify and separate geometric isomers by means of coincident Coulomb explosion imaging is presented, allowing isomer-resolved photoionization studies …             Bipolar and Unipolar Silylene-Diphenylene σ-Ï€ Conjugated Polymer Route for Highly Efficient Electrophosphorescence ▶     Yao-Tang Chang, Sunil Sharma, Miao-Ken Hung et al.     σ-Ï€ conjugated polymer strategy is proposed for designing electroluminescent host polymers with silylene-diphenylene as the backbone repeat unit giving a high triplet energy (ET…             Effective information spreading based on local information in correlated networks ▶     Lei Gao, Wei Wang, Liming Pan et al.     Using network-based information to facilitate information spreading is an essential task for spreading dynamics in complex networks. Focusing on degree correlated networks, we …             Compressive Sensing with Optical Chaos ▶     D. Rontani, D. Choi, C.-Y. Chang et al.     Compressive sensing (CS) is a technique to sample a sparse signal below the Nyquist-Shannon limit, yet still enabling its reconstruction. As such, CS permits an extremely …             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 …             Dynamic Microenvironment Induces Phenotypic Plasticity of Esophageal Cancer Cells Under Flow ▶     Gizem Calibasi Kocal, Sinan Güven, Kira Foygel et al.     Cancer microenvironment is a remarkably heterogeneous composition of cellular and non-cellular components, regulated by both external and intrinsic physical and chemical stimuli. …             Prostate Cancer Patientsâ€"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, …             Relationship between nanotopographical alignment and stem cell fate with live imaging and shape analysis ▶     Peter Newman, Jorge Luis Galenano-Niño, Pamela Graney et al.     The topography of a biomaterial regulates cellular interactions and determine stem cell fate. A complete understanding of how topographical properties affect cell behavior will …             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 …             Evaluation of a Silicon 90Sr Betavoltaic Power Source ▶     Jefferson Dixon, Aravindh Rajan, Steven Bohlemann et al.     Betavoltaic energy converters (i.e., β-batteries) are attractive power sources because of their potential for high energy densities (>200 MWh/kg) and long duration continuous …             Investigating the highest melting temperature materials: A laser melting study of the TaC-HfC system ▶     Omar Cedillos-Barraza, Dario Manara, K. Boboridis et al.     TaC, HfC and their solid solutions are promising candidate materials for thermal protection structures in hypersonic vehicles because of their very high melting temperatures (>…             Super-resolution imaging using the spatial-frequency filtered intensity fluctuation correlation ▶     Jane Sprigg, Tao Peng, Yanhua Shih     We report an experimental demonstration of a nonclassical imaging mechanism with super-resolving power beyond the Rayleigh limit. When the classical image is completely blurred …             Broken-Symmetry Quantum Hall States in Twisted Bilayer Graphene ▶     Youngwook Kim, Jaesung Park, Intek Song et al.     Twisted bilayer graphene offers a unique bilayer two-dimensional-electron system where the layer separation is only in sub-nanometer scale. Unlike Bernal-stacked bilayer, the …             Phase-to-intensity conversion of magnonic spin currents and application to the design of a majority gate ▶     T. Brächer, F. Heussner, P. Pirro et al.     Magnonic spin currents in the form of spin waves and their quanta, magnons, are a promising candidate for a new generation of wave-based logic devices beyond CMOS, where …             Crystallizing highly-likely subspaces that contain an unknown quantum state of light ▶     Yong Siah Teo, Dmitri Mogilevtsev, Alexander Mikhalychev et al.     In continuous-variable tomography, with finite data and limited computation resources, reconstruction of a quantum state of light is performed on a finite-dimensional subspace. …             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 …             Dual-wavelength single-frequency laser emission in asymmetric coupled microdisks ▶     Haotian Wang, Sheng Liu, Lin Chen et al.     The gain and loss in a microcavity laser play an important role for the modulation of laser spectrum. We show that dual-wavelength single mode lasing can be achieved in an …             Coherent Excitation of Optical Phonons in GaAs by Broadband Terahertz Pulses ▶     Zhengping Fu, Masashi Yamaguchi     Coherent excitation and control of lattice motion by electromagnetic radiation in optical frequency range has been reported through variety of indirect interaction mechanisms …             Anomalous Light Scattering by Topological PT-symmetric Particle Arrays ▶     C. W. Ling, Ka Hei Choi, T. C. Mok et al.     Robust topological edge modes may evolve into complex-frequency modes when a physical system becomes non-Hermitian. We show that, while having negligible forward optical …             Electrochemical communication with the inside of cells using micro-patterned vertical carbon nanofibre electrodes ▶     F. J. Rawson, M. T. Cole, J. M. Hicks et al.     With the rapidly increasing demands for ultrasensitive biodetection, the design and applications of new nano-scale materials for development of sensors based on optical and …             Towards nano-optical tweezers with graphene plasmons: Numerical investigation of trapping 10-nm particles with mid-infrared light ▶     Jianfa Zhang, Wenbin Liu, Zhihong Zhu et al.     Graphene plasmons are rapidly emerging as a versatile platform for manipulating light at the deep subwavelength scale. Here we show numerically that strong optical near-field …             High Critical Current Density of YBa2Cu3O7âˆ'x Superconducting Films Prepared through a DUV-assisted Solution Deposition Process ▶     Yuanqing Chen, Weibai Bian, Wenhuan Huang et al.     Although the solution deposition of YBa2Cu3O7âˆ'x (YBCO) superconducting films is cost effective and capable of large-scale production, further improvements in their …             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 …             Direct Preparation of Carbon Nanotube Intramolecular Junctions on Structured Substrates ▶     Jianing An, Zhaoyao Zhan, Gengzhi Sun et al.     Leveraging the unique properties of single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) intramolecular junctions (IMJs) in innovative nanodevices and next-generation nanoelectronics requires …             Predicting missing links in complex networks based on common neighbors and distance ▶     Jinxuan Yang, Xiao-Dong Zhang     The algorithms based on common neighbors metric to predict missing links in complex networks are very popular, but most of these algorithms do not account for missing links …             Characteristics of Ions Emission from Ultrashort Laser Produced Plasma ▶     Ahmed M. Elsied, Nicholas C. Termini, Prasoon K. Diwakar et al.     The dynamic characteristics of the ions emitted from ultrashort laser interaction with materials were studied. A series of successive experiments were conducted for six different …             Evolution of structural distortion in BiFeO3 thin films probed by second-harmonic generation ▶     Jie-su Wang, Kui-juan Jin, Hai-zhong Guo et al.     BiFeO3 thin films have drawn much attention due to its potential applications for novel magnetoelectric devices and fundamental physics in magnetoelectric coupling. However, the …             Weight prediction in complex networks based on neighbor set ▶     Boyao Zhu, Yongxiang Xia, Xue-Jun Zhang     Link weights are essential to network functionality, so weight prediction is important for understanding weighted networks given incomplete real-world data. In this work, we …             Echo Chambers: Emotional Contagion and Group Polarization on Facebook ▶     Michela Del Vicario, Gianna Vivaldo, Alessandro Bessi et al.     Recent findings showed that users on Facebook tend to select information that adhere to their system of beliefs and to form polarized groups â€" i.e., echo chambers. Such a …             A Parallel Adaboost-Backpropagation Neural Network for Massive Image Dataset Classification ▶     Jianfang Cao, Lichao Chen, Min Wang et al.     Image classification uses computers to simulate human understanding and cognition of images by automatically categorizing images. This study proposes a faster image …             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 …             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 …             Pore-scale dynamics of enzyme adsorption, swelling and reactive dissolution determine sugar yield in hemicellulose hydrolysis for biofuel production ▶     Sajal Kanti Dutta, Saikat Chakraborty     Hemicelluloses are the earth’s second most abundant structural polymers, found in lignocellulosic biomass. Efficient enzymatic depolymerization of xylans by cleaving their …             Test of quantum thermalization in the two-dimensional transverse-field Ising model ▶     Benjamin Blaß, Heiko Rieger     We study the quantum relaxation of the two-dimensional transverse-field Ising model after global quenches with a real-time variational Monte Carlo method and address the question …             A possible space-based tsunami early warning system using observations of the tsunami ionospheric hole ▶     Masashi Kamogawa, Yoshiaki Orihara, Chiaki Tsurudome et al.     Ionospheric plasma disturbances after a large tsunami can be detected by measurement of the total electron content (TEC) between a Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite and …             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. …             Advancing ovarian folliculometry with selective plane illumination microscopy ▶     Hsiao-Chun Amy Lin, Rahul Dutta, Subhamoy Mandal et al.     Determination of ovarian status and follicle monitoring are common methods of diagnosing female infertility. We evaluated the suitability of selective plane illumination …             Protonation enhancement by dichloromethane doping in low-pressure photoionization ▶     Jinian Shu, Yao Zou, Ce Xu et al.     Doping has been used to enhance the ionization efficiency of analytes in atmospheric pressure photoionization, which is based on charge exchange. Compounds with excellent …             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 …             Direct identification of antibiotic resistance genes on single plasmid molecules using CRISPR/Cas9 in combination with optical DNA mapping ▶     Vilhelm Müller, Fredrika Rajer, Karolin Frykholm et al.     Bacterial plasmids are extensively involved in the rapid global spread of antibiotic resistance. We here present an assay, based on optical DNA mapping of single plasmids in …             Laser Speckle Rheology for evaluating the viscoelastic properties of hydrogel scaffolds ▶     Zeinab Hajjarian, Hadi Tavakoli Nia, Shawn Ahn et al.     Natural and synthetic hydrogel scaffolds exhibit distinct viscoelastic properties at various length scales and deformation rates. Laser Speckle Rheology (LSR) offers a novel, …             Corrigendum: Characterizing Si:P quantum dot qubits with spin resonance techniques ▶     Yu Wang, Chin-Yi Chen, Gerhard Klimeck et al.                 Negative axial strain sensitivity in gold-coated eccentric fiber Bragg gratings ▶     Karima Chah, Damien Kinet, Christophe Caucheteur     New dual temperature and strain sensor has been designed using eccentric second-order fiber Bragg gratings produced in standard single-mode optical fiber by point-by-point direct …             Low frequency piezoresonance defined dynamic control of terahertz wave propagation ▶     Moumita Dutta, Soutik Betal, Xomalin G. Peralta et al.     Phase modulators are one of the key components of many applications in electromagnetic and opto-electric wave propagations. Phase-shifters play an integral role in …             Erratum: Origin of multiple band gap values in single width nanoribbons ▶     Deepika, Shailesh Kumar, Alok Shukla et al.                 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 …             Determination of the electron-capture coefficients and the concentration of free electrons in GaN from time-resolved photoluminescence ▶     M. A. Reshchikov, J. D. McNamara, M. Toporkov et al.     Point defects in high-purity GaN layers grown by hydride vapor phase epitaxy are studied by steady-state and time-resolved photoluminescence (PL). The electron-capture …             Full-duplex bidirectional data transmission link using twisted lights multiplexing over 1.1-km orbital angular momentum fiber ▶     Shi Chen, Jun Liu, Yifan Zhao et al.     We present a full-duplex bidirectional data transmission link using twisted lights multiplexing over 1.1-km orbital angular momentum (OAM) fiber. OAM+1 and OAMâˆ'1 modes carrying …             Design and fabrication of six-volt vertically-stacked GaAs photovoltaic power converter ▶     Yongming Zhao, Yurun Sun, Yang He et al.     A six-volt vertically-stacked, high current GaAs photovoltaic power converter (PPC) has been designed and fabricated to produce output power over 1 W under monochromatic …             Sparsity-based multi-height phase recovery in holographic microscopy ▶     Yair Rivenson, Yichen Wu, Hongda Wang et al.     High-resolution imaging of densely connected samples such as pathology slides using digital in-line holographic microscopy requires the acquisition of several holograms, e.g., at …             How does the spin-state of Co ions affect the insulator-metal transition in Bi2A2Co2O8 (A = Ca, Sr, Ba)? ▶     Xiaokun Huang, Weiyi Zhang     The misfit layered Bi2A2Co2O8 (A = Ca, Sr, Ba) compounds experience an insulator to metal transition as A’s ionic radius increases. This feature is contradictory to the …             Generation of four-photon polarization entangled decoherence-free states with cross-Kerr nonlinearity ▶     Meiyu Wang, Fengli Yan, Ting Gao     We propose a theoretical protocol for preparing four-photon polarization entangled decoherence-free states, which are immune to the collective noise. With the assistance of the …             Experimental temporal quantum steering ▶     Karol Bartkiewicz, Antonín ÄŒernoch, Karel Lemr et al.     Temporal steering is a form of temporal correlation between the initial and final state of a quantum system. It is a temporal analogue of the famous Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen …             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 …             Driving a Superconductor to Insulator Transition with Random Gauge Fields ▶     H. Q. Nguyen, S. M. Hollen, J. Shainline et al.     Typically the disorder that alters the interference of particle waves to produce Anderson localization is potential scattering from randomly placed impurities. Here we show that …             2 μm emission properties and nonresonant energy transfer of Er3+ and Ho3+ codoped silicate glasses ▶     Ruijie Cao, Yu Lu, Ying Tian et al.     2.0 μm emission properties of Er3+/Ho3+ codoped silicate glasses were investigated pumped by 980 nm LD. Absorption spectra were determined. Intense mid-infrared emissions near …             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 …             Input graph: the hidden geometry in controlling complex networks ▶     Xizhe Zhang, Tianyang Lv, Yuanyuan Pu     The ability to control a complex network towards a desired behavior relies on our understanding of the complex nature of these social and technological networks. The existence of …             Fundamental Speed Limits to the Generation of Quantumness ▶     Jun Jing, Lian-Ao Wu, Adolfo del Campo     Quantum physics dictates fundamental speed limits during time evolution. We present a quantum speed limit governing the generation of nonclassicality and the mutual …             A Microfluidic Platform to design crosslinked Hyaluronic Acid Nanoparticles (cHANPs) for enhanced MRI ▶     Maria Russo, Paolo Bevilacqua, Paolo Antonio Netti et al.     Recent advancements in imaging diagnostics have focused on the use of nanostructures that entrap Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Contrast Agents (CAs), without the need to …             Tunable microwave metasurfaces for high-performance operations: dispersion compensation and dynamical switch ▶     He-Xiu Xu, Shiwei Tang, Shaojie Ma et al.     Controlling the phase distributions on metasurfaces leads to fascinating effects such as anomalous light refraction/reflection, flat-lens focusing, and optics-vortex generation. …             Gap Shape Classification using Landscape Indices and Multivariate Statistics ▶     Chih-Da Wu, Chi-Chuan Cheng, Che-Chang Chang et al.     This study proposed a novel methodology to classify the shape of gaps using landscape indices and multivariate statistics. Patch-level indices were used to collect the qualified …             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 …             Photodegradation of organic pollutants RhB dye using UV simulated sunlight on ceria based TiO2 nanomaterials for antibacterial applications ▶     Kaviyarasu Kasinathan, John Kennedy, Manikandan Elayaperumal et al.     To photo-catalytically degrade RhB dye using solar irradiation, CeO2 doped TiO2 nanocomposites were synthesized hydrothermally at 700 °C for 9 hrs. All emission spectra showed a …             Fluorescence-tunable Ag-DNA biosensor with tailored cytotoxicity for live-cell applications ▶     Nelli Bossert, Donny de Bruin, Maria Götz et al.     DNA-stabilized silver clusters (Ag-DNA) show excellent promise as a multi-functional nanoagent for molecular investigations in living cells. The unique properties of these …             MediBoost: a Patient Stratification Tool for Interpretable Decision Making in the Era of Precision Medicine ▶     Gilmer Valdes, José Marcio Luna, Eric Eaton et al.     Machine learning algorithms that are both interpretable and accurate are essential in applications such as medicine where errors can have a dire consequence. Unfortunately, there …             Nanomechanical properties of distinct fibrillar polymorphs of the protein α-synuclein ▶     Ali Makky, Luc Bousset, Jérôme Polesel-Maris et al.     Alpha-synuclein (α-Syn) is a small presynaptic protein of 140 amino acids. Its pathologic intracellular aggregation within the central nervous system yields protein fibrillar …             Coupling template nanocasting and self-activation for fabrication of nanoporous carbon ▶     Lingjun Kong, Mingxiang Liu, Zenghui Diao et al.     Hierarchical nanoporous carbon (NPC) with great surface area and developed pore size distribution has been intently concerned. Herein, we report a facile method coupling template …             Post-perovskite Transition in Anti-structure ▶     Bosen Wang, Kenya Ohgushi     The discovery of the post-perovskite transition, which is the structural transition from the perovskite to post-perovskite structure in MgSiO3 under pressure, has aroused great …             Image-based in vivo assessment of targeting accuracy of stereotactic brain surgery in experimental rodent models ▶     Janaki Raman Rangarajan, Greetje Vande Velde, Friso van Gent et al.     Stereotactic neurosurgery is used in pre-clinical research of neurological and psychiatric disorders in experimental rat and mouse models to engraft a needle or electrode at a …             Research of CO2 and N2 Adsorption Behavior in K-Illite Slit Pores by GCMC Method ▶     Guohui Chen, Shuangfang Lu, Junfang Zhang et al.     Understanding the adsorption mechanisms of CO2 and N2 in illite, one of the main components of clay in shale, is important to improve the precision of the shale gas exploration …             Super-Resolution Imaging at Mid-Infrared Waveband in Graphene-nanocavity formed on meta-surface ▶     Jingzhong Yang, Taisheng Wang, Zuolong Chen et al.     Plasmonic structured illumination microscopy (PSIM) is one of the promising wide filed optical imaging methods, which takes advantage of the surface plasmons to break the optical …             Hidden Order and Dimensional Crossover of the Charge Density Waves in TiSe2 ▶     P. Chen, Y.-H. Chan, X.-Y. Fang et al.     Charge density wave (CDW) formation, a key physics issue for materials, arises from interactions among electrons and phonons that can also lead to superconductivity and other …             Thickness Effects for Thermoelectric Property of Antimony Telluride Nanoplatelets via Solvothermal Method ▶     Xinxin Yan, Wenwen Zheng, Fengming Liu et al.     Nanostructures have the potential to exhibit good thermoelectric properties by tuning and controlling their size and thickness, and the competing electrical and thermal …             Radiation-induced magnetization reversal causing a large flux loss in undulator permanent magnets ▶     Teruhiko Bizen, Ryota Kinjo, Teruaki Hasegawa et al.     We report an unexpectedly large flux loss observed in permanent magnets in one of the undulators operated in SACLA, the x-ray free electron laser facility in Japan. …             Co thin films deposited directly on ZnO polar surfaces ▶     Daichi Chiba, Naoya Shibata, Atsushi Tsukazaki     A ferromagnetic (FM)-metal/oxide stack is the key structure determining the performance of spintronic devices. However, the effect of the electronic polarity of the oxide on the …             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 …             Plasmonic metalens based on coupled resonators for focusing of surface plasmons ▶     Quan Xu, Xueqian Zhang, Yuehong Xu et al.     As an essential functionality, flexible focusing of surface plasmons (SPs) is of particular interest in nonlinear optics and highly integrated plasmonic circuitry. Here, we …             Visualization and Pathological Characteristics of Hepatic Alveolar Echinococcosis with Synchrotron-based X-ray Phase Sensitive Micro-tomography ▶     Huiqiang Liu, Xuewen Ji, Li Sun et al.     Propagation-based phase-contrast computed tomography (PPCT) utilizes highly sensitive phase-contrast technology applied to X-ray micro-tomography, especially with the extensive …             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) â€" (EtO)3Si(CH2)nN = CHPhX where n = 3 or 11 and X = 4-CF3, …             Self-healing polysaccharide-based hydrogels as injectable carriers for neural stem cells ▶     Zhao Wei, Jingyi Zhao, Yong Mei Chen et al.     Self-healing injectable hydrogels can be formulated as three-dimensional carriers for the treatment of neurological diseases with desirable advantages, such as avoiding the …             Globally accurate potential energy surface for the ground-state HCS(X2A′) and its use in reaction dynamics ▶     Yu-Zhi Song, Lu-Lu Zhang, Shou-Bao Gao et al.     A globally accurate many-body expansion potential energy surface is reported for HCS(X2A′) by fitting a wealth of accurate ab initio energies calculated at the multireference …             High-Entropy Metal Diborides: A New Class of High-Entropy Materials and a New Type of Ultrahigh Temperature Ceramics ▶     Joshua Gild, Yuanyao Zhang, Tyler Harrington et al.     Seven equimolar, five-component, metal diborides were fabricated via high-energy ball milling and spark plasma sintering. Six of them, including (Hf0.2Zr0.2Ta0.2Nb0.2Ti0.2)B2, (Hf…             Arrangement at the nanoscale: Effect on magnetic particle hyperthermia ▶     E. Myrovali, N. Maniotis, A. Makridis et al.     In this work, we present the arrangement of Fe3O4 magnetic nanoparticles into 3D linear chains and its effect on magnetic particle hyperthermia efficiency. The alignment has been …             Polarisation independent silicon-on-insulator slot waveguides ▶     Valerian Hongjie Chen, Jun Rong Ong, Ching Eng Png     The minimisation of birefringence, or polarisation mode dispersion, is vital for simplifying and miniaturising photonic components. In this work, we present a systematic study of …             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 …             A Green Route for Substrate-Independent Oil-Repellent Coatings ▶     Li-Ping Xu, Da Han, Xiuwen Wu et al.     Oil repellent surface have lots of practical applications in many fields. Current oil repellent coating may suffer from limited liquid repellency to oils or environmental risks. …             Nanocrystalline hexagonal diamond formed from glassy carbon ▶     Thomas. B. Shiell, Dougal G. McCulloch, Jodie E. Bradby et al.     Carbon exhibits a large number of allotropes and its phase behaviour is still subject to significant uncertainty and intensive research. The hexagonal form of diamond, also known …             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 …             Structural mechanism of the enhanced glass-forming ability in multicomponent alloys with positive heat of mixing ▶     S. Y. Wu, S. H. Wei, G. Q. Guo et al.     The issue, microalloying certain element with positive heat of mixing leading to the enhanced glass forming ability (GFA) in multicomponent alloys, has been investigated by …             Enhanced Absorption and Diffusion Properties of Lithium on B,N,VC-decorated Graphene ▶     Mengting Jin, L. C. Yu, W. M. Shi et al.     Systematic first-principles calculations were performed to investigate the adsorption and diffusion of Li on different graphene layers with B/N-doping and/or C-vacancy, so as to …             Design and development of novel antibacterial Ti-Ni-Cu shape memory alloys for biomedical application ▶     H. F. Li, K. J. Qiu, F. Y. Zhou et al.     In the case of medical implants, foreign materials are preferential sites for bacterial adhesion and microbial contamination, which can lead to the development of prosthetic …             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. Johnson et al.     Lithium iron phosphate, LiFePO4 (LFP) has demonstrated promising performance as a cathode material in lithium ion batteries (LIBs), by overcoming the rate performance issues from …             Recognition of Mould Colony on Unhulled Paddy Based on Computer Vision using Conventional Machine-learning and Deep Learning Techniques ▶     Ke Sun, Zhengjie Wang, Kang Tu et al.     To investigate the potential of conventional and deep learning techniques to recognize the species and distribution of mould in unhulled paddy, samples were inoculated and …             Fast and simple decycling and dismantling of networks ▶     Lenka Zdeborová, Pan Zhang, Hai-Jun Zhou     Decycling and dismantling of complex networks are underlying many important applications in network science. Recently these two closely related problems were tackled by several …             Coupled multiple-mode theory for s± pairing mechanism in iron based superconductors ▶     M. N. Kiselev, D. V. Efremov, S. L. Drechsler et al.     We investigate the interplay between the magnetic and the superconducting degrees of freedom in unconventional multi-band superconductors such as iron pnictides. For this purpose …             Wetting theory for small droplets on textured solid surfaces ▶     Donggyu Kim, Nicola M. Pugno, Seunghwa Ryu     Conventional wetting theories on rough surfaces with Wenzel, Cassie-Baxter, and Penetrate modes suggest the possibility of tuning the contact angle by adjusting the surface …             Timelike curves can increase entanglement with LOCC ▶     Subhayan Roy Moulick, Prasanta K. Panigrahi     We study the nature of entanglement in presence of Deutschian closed timelike curves (D-CTCs) and open timelike curves (OTCs) and find that existence of such physical systems in …             Scaling Effect of Phosphorene Nanoribbon - Uncovering the Origin of Asymmetric Current Transport ▶     Yawei Lv, Sheng Chang, Qijun Huang et al.     In this paper, phosphorene nanoribbons (PNRs) are theoretically studied using a multiscale simulation flow from the ab initio level to the tight binding (TB) level. The scaling …             Fabrication of WS2/GaN p-n Junction by Wafer-Scale WS2 Thin Film Transfer ▶     Yang Yu, Patrick W. K. Fong, Shifeng Wang et al.     High quality wafer-scale free-standing WS2 grown by van der Waals rheotaxy (vdWR) using Ni as a texture promoting layer is reported. The microstructure of vdWR grown WS2 was …             Novel Ti-Ta-Hf-Zr alloys with promising mechanical properties for prospective stent applications ▶     Jixing Lin, Sertan Ozan, Yuncang Li et al.     Titanium alloys are receiving increasing research interest for the development of metallic stent materials due to their excellent biocompatibility, corrosion resistance, …             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 …             On-site Rapid Diagnosis of Intracranial Hematoma using Portable Multi-slice Microwave Imaging System ▶     Ahmed Toaha Mobashsher, A. M. Abbosh     Rapid, on-the-spot diagnostic and monitoring systems are vital for the survival of patients with intracranial hematoma, as their conditions drastically deteriorate with time. 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