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13 December 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports       Physical Sciences               Development of an oxide-dispersion-strengthened steel by introducing oxygen carrier compound into the melt aided by a general thermodynamic model ▶     Mohammad Amin Moghadasi, Mahmoud Nili-Ahmadabadi, Farsad Forghani et al.     In general, melting process is not a common method for the production of oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) alloys due to agglomeration and coarsening of oxide particles. …             Generation of radially-polarized terahertz pulses for coupling into coaxial waveguides ▶     Miguel Navarro-Cía, Jiang Wu, Huiyun Liu et al.     Coaxial waveguides exhibit no dispersion and therefore can serve as an ideal channel for transmission of broadband THz pulses. Implementation of THz coaxial waveguide systems …             Meandering instability of air flow in a granular bed: self-similarity and fluid-solid duality ▶     Yuki Yoshimura, Yui Yagisawa, Ko Okumura     Meandering instability is familiar to everyone through river meandering or small rivulets of rain flowing down a windshield. However, its physical understanding is still …             Fast Quantum Rabi Model with Trapped Ions ▶     Héctor M. Moya-Cessa     We show how to produce a fast quantum Rabi model with trapped ions. Its importance resides not only in the acceleration of the phenomena that may be achieved with these systems, …             Creation of Sub-diffraction Longitudinally Polarized Spot by Focusing Radially Polarized Light with Binary Phase Lens ▶     An-ping Yu, Gang Chen, Zhi-hai Zhang et al.     The generation of a sub-diffraction longitudinally polarized spot is of great interest in various applications, such as optical tweezers, super-resolution microscopy, …             Direct-written polymer field-effect transistors operating at 20 MHz ▶     Andrea Perinot, Prakash Kshirsagar, Maria Ada Malvindi et al.     Printed polymer electronics has held for long the promise of revolutionizing technology by delivering distributed, flexible, lightweight and cost-effective applications for …             Self-preservation and structural transition of gas hydrates during dissociation below the ice point: an in situ study using Raman spectroscopy ▶     Jin-Rong Zhong, Xin-Yang Zeng, Feng-He Zhou et al.     The hydrate structure type and dissociation behavior for pure methane and methane-ethane hydrates at temperatures below the ice point and atmospheric pressure were investigated …             Coexistence of Write Once Read Many Memory and Memristor in blend of Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene): polystyrene sulfonate and Polyvinyl Alcohol ▶     Viet Cuong Nguyen, Pooi See Lee     In this work, the coexistence of Write Once Read Many Memory (WORM) and memristor can be achieved in a single device of Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene): polystyrene sulfonate …             Unique visible-light-assisted field emission of tetrapod-shaped ZnO/reduced graphene-oxide core/coating nanocomposites ▶     Chaoxing Wu, Tae Whan Kim, Tailiang Guo et al.     The electronic and the optoelectronic properties of graphene-based nanocomposites are controllable, making them promising for applications in diverse electronic devices. In this …             TiO2 nanotubes and mesoporous silica as containers in self-healing epoxy coatings ▶     Poornima Vijayan P., Mariam Ali S. A. Al-Maadeed     The potential of inorganic nanomaterials as reservoirs for healing agents is presented here. Mesoporous silica (SBA-15) and TiO2 nanotubes (TNTs) were synthesized. Both …             Size-dependent bending modulus of nanotubes induced by the imperfect boundary conditions ▶     Jin Zhang     The size-dependent bending modulus of nanotubes, which was widely observed in most existing three-point bending experiments [e.g., J. Phys. Chem. B 117, 4618–4625 (2013)], has …             Deterministic composite nanophotonic lattices in large area for broadband applications ▶     Jolly Xavier, Jürgen Probst, Christiane Becker     Exotic manipulation of the flow of photons in nanoengineered materials with an aperiodic distribution of nanostructures plays a key role in efficiency-enhanced broadband photonic …             Theoretical analyses of resonant frequency shift in anomalous dispersion enhanced resonant optical gyroscopes ▶     Jian Lin, Jiaming Liu, Hao Zhang et al.     Rigorous expressions of resonant frequency shift (RFS) in anomalous dispersion enhanced resonant optical gyroscopes (ADEROGs) are deduced without making approximation, which …             Boron doped graphene wrapped silver nanowires as an efficient electrocatalyst for molecular oxygen reduction ▶     Anju K. Nair, Vineesh Thazhe veettil, Nandakumar Kalarikkal et al.     Metal nanowires exhibit unusually high catalytic activity towards oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) due to their inherent electronic structures. However, controllable synthesis of …             The concept of entropic rectifier facing experiments ▶     D. Lairez, M.-C. Clochard, J.-E. Wegrowe     The transport of molecules in confined media is subject to entropic barriers. So theoretically, asymmetry of the confinement length may lead to molecular ratchets with entropy as …             Chemical ordering in substituted fluorite oxides: a computational investigation of Ho2Zr2O7 and RE2Th2O7 (RE=Ho, Y, Gd, Nd, La) ▶     Jonathan M. Solomon, Jacob Shamblin, Maik Lang et al.     Fluorite-structured oxides find widespread use for applications spanning nuclear energy and waste containment, energy conversion, and sensing. In such applications the host …             Extreme ultraviolet resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) at a seeded free-electron laser ▶     M. Dell’Angela, F. Hieke, M. Malvestuto et al.     In the past few years, we have been witnessing an increased interest for studying materials properties under non-equilibrium conditions. Several well established spectroscopies …             Tunable optical analog to electromagnetically induced transparency in graphene-ring resonators system ▶     Yonghua Wang, Chenyang Xue, Zengxing Zhang et al.     The analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency in optical ways has shown great potential in optical delay and quantum-information technology due to its flexible design …             Tunable reflecting terahertz filter based on chirped metamaterial structure ▶     Jing Yang, Cheng Gong, Lu Sun et al.     Tunable reflecting terahertz bandstop filter based on chirped metamaterial structure is demonstrated by numerical simulation. In the metamaterial, the metal bars are concatenated …             Klein tunneling in Weyl semimetals under the influence of magnetic field ▶     Can Yesilyurt, Seng Ghee Tan, Gengchiau Liang et al.     Klein tunneling refers to the absence of normal backscattering of electrons even under the case of high potential barriers. At the barrier interface, the perfect matching of …             Defect-free high Sn-content GeSn on insulator grown by rapid melting growth ▶     Zhi Liu, Hui Cong, Fan Yang et al.     GeSn is an attractive semiconductor material for Si-based photonics. However, large lattice mismatch between GeSn and Si and the low solubility of Sn in Ge limit its development. …             Graphene nanoplatelets induced heterogeneous bimodal structural magnesium matrix composites with enhanced mechanical properties ▶     Shulin Xiang, Xiaojun Wang, Manoj Gupta et al.     In this work, graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) reinforced magnesium (Mg) matrix composites were synthesised using the multi-step dispersion route. Well-dispersed but inhomogeneously …             Fully transparent flexible tin-doped zinc oxide thin film transistors fabricated on plastic substrate ▶     Dedong Han, Yi Zhang, Yingying Cong et al.     In this work, we have successfully fabricated bottom gate fully transparent tin-doped zinc oxide thin film transistors (TZO TFTs) fabricated on flexible plastic substrate at low …             Nonlinear coupling in graphene-coated nanowires ▶     Yixiao Gao, Ilya V. Shadrivov     We propose and analyze nonlinear coupler based on a pair of single mode graphene-coated nanowires. Nonlinear wave interactions in such structure are analyzed by the coupled mode …             Stochastic quantum Zeno-based detection of noise correlations ▶     Matthias M. Müller, Stefano Gherardini, Filippo Caruso     A system under constant observation is practically freezed to the measurement subspace. If the system driving is a random classical field, the survival probability of the system …             Unusual dimeric tetrahydroxanthone derivatives from Aspergillus lentulus and the determination of their axial chiralities ▶     Tian-Xiao Li, Ming-Hua Yang, Ying Wang et al.     The research on secondary metabolites of Aspergillus lentulus afforded eight unusual heterodimeric tetrahydroxanthone derivatives, lentulins A−H (2−9), along with the known …             Breakthrough in 4π ion emission mechanism understanding in plasma focus devices ▶     Mehdi Sohrabi, Arefe Zarinshad, Morteza Habibi     Ion emission angular distribution mechanisms in plasma focus devices (PFD) have not yet been well developed and understood being due to the lack of an efficient wide-angle ion …             Reactivity of disulfide bonds is markedly affected by structure and environment: implications for protein modification and stability ▶     Maryam Karimi, Marta T. Ignasiak, Bun Chan et al.     Disulfide bonds play a key role in stabilizing protein structures, with disruption strongly associated with loss of protein function and activity. Previous data have suggested …             Quantitative determination and toxicity evaluation of 2,4-dichlorophenol using poly(eosin Y)/hydroxylated multi-walled carbon nanotubes modified electrode ▶     Xiaolin Zhu, Kexin Zhang, Chengzhi Wang et al.     This study aimed at developing simple, sensitive and rapid electrochemical approach to quantitatively determine and assess the toxicity of 2,4-dichlorophenol (2,4-DCP), a …             Using deep belief network modelling to characterize differences in brain morphometry in schizophrenia ▶     Walter H. L. Pinaya, Ary Gadelha, Orla M. Doyle et al.     Neuroimaging-based models contribute to increasing our understanding of schizophrenia pathophysiology and can reveal the underlying characteristics of this and other clinical …             Predicting the growth situation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa on agar plates and meat stuffs using gas sensors ▶     Xinzhe Gu, Ye Sun, Kang Tu et al.     A rapid method of predicting the growing situation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is presented. Gas sensors were used to acquire volatile compounds generated by P. aeruginosa on agar …             A novel approach to quantify different iron forms in ex-vivo human brain tissue ▶     Pravin Kumar, Marjolein Bulk, Andrew Webb et al.     We propose a novel combination of methods to study the physical properties of ferric ions and iron-oxide nanoparticles in post-mortem human brain, based on the combination of …             Erratum: Charge density waves in disordered media circumventing the Imry-Ma argument ▶     Hitesh J. Changlani, Norm M. Tubman, Taylor L. Hughes                 Real-Time Optical Monitoring of Pt Catalyst Under the Potentiodynamic Conditions ▶     Hyeon Don Song, Minzae Lee, Gil-Pyo Kim et al.     In situ monitoring of electrode materials reveals detailed physicochemical transition in electrochemical device. The key challenge is to explore the localized features of …             Mitigate Cascading Failures on Networks using a Memetic Algorithm ▶     Xianglong Tang, Jing Liu, Xingxing Hao     Research concerning cascading failures in complex networks has become a hot topic. However, most of the existing studies have focused on modelling the cascading phenomenon on …             Ultrahigh-speed Si-integrated on-chip laser with tailored dynamic characteristics ▶     Gyeong Cheol Park, Weiqi Xue, Molly Piels et al.     For on-chip interconnects, an ideal light source should have an ultralow energy consumption per bandwidth (operating en-ergy) as well as sufficient output power for error-free …             Two-dimensional Fibonacci grating for far-field super-resolution imaging ▶     Kedi Wu, Guo Ping Wang     A two-dimensional (2D) Fibonacci grating is used to transform evanescent waves into propagating waves for far-field super-resolution imaging. By detecting far-field intensity …             Accurate Quantitative Sensing of Intracellular pH based on Self-ratiometric Upconversion Luminescent Nanoprobe ▶     Cuixia Li, Jing Zuo, Li Zhang et al.     Accurate quantitation of intracellular pH (pHi) is of great importance in revealing the cellular activities and early warning of diseases. A series of fluorescence-based …             Experimental and theoretical study on the driving force and glass flow by laser-induced metal sphere migration in glass ▶     Hirofumi Hidai, Jun Wada, Tatsuki Iwamoto et al.     Light is able to remotely move matter. Among various driving forces, laser-induced metal sphere migration in glass has been reported. The temperature on the laser-illuminated …             Artificial high birefringence in all-dielectric gradient grating for broadband terahertz waves ▶     Meng Chen, Fei Fan, Shi-Tong Xu et al.     Subwavelength dielectric gratings are widely applied in the phase and polarization manipulation of light. However, the dispersion of the normal dielectric gratings is not flat …             Structure determination of molecules in an alignment laser field by femtosecond photoelectron diffraction using an X-ray free-electron laser ▶     Shinichirou Minemoto, Takahiro Teramoto, Hiroshi Akagi et al.     We have successfully determined the internuclear distance of I2 molecules in an alignment laser field by applying our molecular structure determination methodology to an I 2p …             Reevaluation of Performance of Electric Double-layer Capacitors from Constant-current Charge/Discharge and Cyclic Voltammetry ▶     Anis Allagui, Todd J. Freeborn, Ahmed S. Elwakil et al.     The electric characteristics of electric-double layer capacitors (EDLCs) are determined by their capacitance which is usually measured in the time domain from constant-current …             Plasmonic efficiencies of nanoparticles made of metal nitrides (TiN, ZrN) compared with gold ▶     Adrien Lalisse, Gilles Tessier, Jérome Plain et al.     Metal nitrides have been proposed to replace noble metals in plasmonics for some specific applications. In particular, while titanium nitride (TiN) and zirconium nitride (ZrN) …             Observation of superconducting vortex clusters in S/F hybrids ▶     C. Di Giorgio, F. Bobba, A. M. Cucolo et al.     While Abrikosov vortices repel each other and form a uniform vortex lattice in bulk type-II superconductors, strong confinement potential profoundly affects their spatial …             Quantitative analysis of nonadiabatic effects in dense H3S and PH3 superconductors ▶     Artur P. Durajski     The comparison study of high pressure superconducting state of recently synthesized H3S and PH3 compounds are conducted within the framework of the strong-coupling theory. By …             Giant magnetoresistance, three-dimensional Fermi surface and origin of resistivity plateau in YSb semimetal ▶     Orest Pavlosiuk, Przemysław Swatek, Piotr Wiśniewski     Very strong magnetoresistance and a resistivity plateau impeding low temperature divergence due to insulating bulk are hallmarks of topological insulators and are also present in …             Tailoring thermal conductivity via three-dimensional porous alumina ▶     Begoña Abad, Jon Maiz, Alejandra Ruiz-Clavijo et al.     Three-dimensional anodic alumina templates (3D-AAO) are an astonishing framework with open highly ordered three-dimensional skeleton structures. Since these templates are …             Surface Characteristics of Silicon Nanowires/Nanowalls Subjected to Octadecyltrichlorosilane Deposition and n-octadecane Coating ▶     Bekir Sami Yilbas, Billel Salhi, Muhammad Rizwan Yousaf et al.     In this study, nanowires/nanowalls were generated on a silicon wafer through a chemical etching method. Octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS) was deposited onto the nanowire/nanowall …             Erratum: Weighted and directed interactions in evolving large-scale epileptic brain networks ▶     Henning Dickten, Stephan Porz, Christian E. Elger et al.                 Plant-derived cis-β-ocimene as a precursor for biocompatible, transparent, thermally-stable dielectric and encapsulating layers for organic electronics ▶     Kateryna Bazaka, Ryan Destefani, Mohan V. Jacob     This article presents low-temperature, one-step dry synthesis of optically transparent thermally-stable, biocompatible cis−β−ocimene-based thin films for applications as …             Extreme Activity of Drug Nanocrystals Coated with A Layer of Non-Covalent Polymers from Self-Assembled Boric Acid ▶     Honglei Zhan, Jun F. Liang     Non-covalent polymers have remarkable advantages over synthetic polymers for wide biomedical applications. In this study, non-covalent polymers from self-assembled boric acid …             Improving the photovoltaic performance of perovskite solar cells with acetate ▶     Qian Zhao, G. R. Li, Jian Song et al.     In an all-solid-state perovskite solar cell, methylammonium lead halide film is in charge of generating photo-excited electrons, thus its quality can directly influence the final …             Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria differ in their sensitivity to cold plasma ▶     Anne Mai-Prochnow, Maryse Clauson, Jungmi Hong et al.     Cold atmospheric-pressure plasma (CAP) is a relatively new method being investigated for antimicrobial activity. However, the exact mode of action is still being explored. Here …             Modulation of thermal noise and spectral sensitivity in Lake Baikal cottoid fish rhodopsins ▶     Hoi Ling Luk, Nihar Bhattacharyya, Fabio Montisci et al.     Lake Baikal is the deepest and one of the most ancient lakes in the world. Its unique ecology has resulted in the colonization of a diversity of depth habitats by a unique fauna …             Polymer translocation through nano-pores in vibrating thin membranes ▶     Timothée Menais, Stefano Mossa, Arnaud Buhot     Polymer translocation is a promising strategy for the next-generation DNA sequencing technologies. The use of biological and synthetic nano-pores, however, still suffers from …             Structural and fluctuational difference between two ends of Aβ amyloid fibril: MD simulations predict only one end has open conformations ▶     Hisashi Okumura, Satoru G. Itoh     Aβ amyloid fibrils, which are related to Alzheimer’s disease, have a cross-β structure consisting of two β-sheets: β1 and β2. The Aβ peptides are thought to be serially arranged …             Long Duration of Ground Motion in the Paradigmatic Valley of Mexico ▶     V. M. Cruz-Atienza, J. Tago, J. D. Sanabria-Gómez et al.     Built-up on top of ancient lake deposits, Mexico City experiences some of the largest seismic site effects worldwide. Besides the extreme amplification of seismic waves, duration …             Objective breast tissue image classification using Quantitative Transmission ultrasound tomography ▶     Bilal Malik, John Klock, James Wiskin et al.     Quantitative Transmission Ultrasound (QT) is a powerful and emerging imaging paradigm which has the potential to perform true three-dimensional image reconstruction of biological …             Effects of dose reduction on bone strength prediction using finite element analysis ▶     D. Anitha, Karupppasamy Subburaj, Kai Mei et al.     This study aimed to evaluate the effect of dose reduction, by means of tube exposure reduction, on bone strength prediction from finite-element (FE) analysis. Fresh thoracic …             High-speed swept source optical coherence Doppler tomography for deep brain microvascular imaging ▶     Wei Chen, Jiang You, Xiaochun Gu et al.     Noninvasive microvascular imaging using optical coherence Doppler tomography (ODT) has shown great promise in brain studies; however, high-speed microcirculatory imaging in deep …             Accelerated craniofacial bone regeneration through dense collagen gel scaffolds seeded with dental pulp stem cells ▶     Frédéric Chamieh, Anne-Margaux Collignon, Benjamin R. Coyac et al.     Therapies using mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) seeded scaffolds may be applicable to various fields of regenerative medicine, including craniomaxillofacial surgery. Plastic …             Use of polyvinylpyrrolidone-iodine solution for sterilisation and preservation improves mechanical properties and osteogenesis of allografts ▶     Yantao Zhao, Xiantong Hu, Zhonghai Li et al.     Allografts eliminate the disadvantages associated with autografts and synthetic scaffolds but are associated with a disease-transmission risk. Therefore, allograft sterilisation …             Internal luminescence efficiencies in InGaP/GaAs/Ge triple-junction solar cells evaluated from photoluminescence through optical coupling between subcells ▶     David M. Tex, Mitsuru Imaizumi, Hidefumi Akiyama et al.     In-situ characterization is one of the most powerful techniques to improve material quality and device performance. Especially in view of highly efficient tandem solar cells this …             Universalities of thermodynamic signatures in topological phases ▶     S. N. Kempkes, A. Quelle, C. Morais Smith     Topological insulators (superconductors) are materials that host symmetry-protected metallic edge states in an insulating (superconducting) bulk. Although they are well …             Ultrafast Method for Selective Design of Graphene Quantum Dots with Highly Efficient Blue Emission ▶     Suk Hyun Kang, Sungwook Mhin, Hyuksu Han et al.     Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) have attractive properties and potential applications. However, their various applications are limited by a current synthetic method which requires …             Magnetic domains driving a Q-switched laser ▶     Ryohei Morimoto, Taichi Goto, John Pritchard et al.     A 10-mm cavity length magnetooptically Q-switched Nd:GdVO4 laser was demonstrated using a single-crystalline ferrimagnetic rare-earth iron garnet film. To design the Q-switching …             All-dielectric ultrathin conformal metasurfaces: lensing and cloaking applications at 532 nm wavelength ▶     Jierong Cheng, Samad Jafar-Zanjani, Hossein Mosallaei     Metasurfaces are ideal candidates for conformal wave manipulation on curved objects due to their low profiles and rich functionalities. Here we design and analyze conformal …             Epitaxy of highly ordered organic semiconductor crystallite networks supported by hexagonal boron nitride ▶     Aleksandar Matković, Jakob Genser, Daniel Lüftner et al.     This study focuses on hexagonal boron nitride as an ultra-thin van der Waals dielectric substrate for the epitaxial growth of highly ordered crystalline networks of the organic …             Designing Multipolar Resonances in Dielectric Metamaterials ▶     Nikita A. Butakov, Jon A. Schuller     Dielectric resonators form the building blocks of nano-scale optical antennas and metamaterials. Due to their multipolar resonant response and low intrinsic losses they offer …             Random walk with chaotically driven bias ▶     Song-Ju Kim, Makoto Naruse, Masashi Aono et al.     We investigate two types of random walks with a fluctuating probability (bias) in which the random walker jumps to the right. One is a ‘time-quenched framework’ using bias time …             In situ size sorting in CVD synthesis of Si microspheres ▶     M. Garín, R. Fenollosa, L. Kowalski     Silicon microspheres produced in gas-phase by hot-wall CVD offer unique quality in terms of sphericity, surface smoothness, and size. However, the spheres produced are …             Ecdysteroid-containing food supplements from Cyanotis arachnoidea on the European market: evidence for spinach product counterfeiting ▶     Attila Hunyadi, Ibolya Herke, Katalin Lengyel et al.     Phytoecdysteroids like 20-hydroxyecdysone (“ecdysterone”) can exert a mild, non-hormonal anabolic/adaptogenic activity in mammals, and as such, are frequently used in food …             Optimal generation of spatially coherent soft X-ray isolated attosecond pulses in a gas-filled waveguide using two-color synthesized laser pulses ▶     Cheng Jin, Kyung-Han Hong, C. D. Lin     We numerically demonstrate the generation of intense, low-divergence soft X-ray isolated attosecond pulses in a gas-filled hollow waveguide using synthesized few-cycle two-color …             Three-Dimensional Simultaneous Arbitrary-Way Orbital Angular Momentum Generator Based on Transformation Optics ▶     Chen Zhang, Li Deng, Wei Jun Hong et al.     In wireless communications, people utilize the technology of diversity against multipath fading, so as to improve the reliability of communication equipment. One of the …             Development of a Fiber Laser with Independently Adjustable Properties for Optical Resolution Photoacoustic Microscopy ▶     Esra Aytac-Kipergil, Aytac Demirkiran, Nasire Uluc et al.     Photoacoustic imaging is based on the detection of generated acoustic waves through thermal expansion of tissue illuminated by short laser pulses. Fiber lasers as an excitation …             Enhancing steel properties through in situ formation of ultrahard ceramic surface ▶     Farshid Pahlevani, Rahul Kumar, Narjes Gorjizadeh et al.     Abrasion and corrosion resistant steel has attracted considerable interest for industrial application as a means of minimising the costs associated with product/component …             Magnetic separation of general solid particles realised by a permanent magnet ▶     K. Hisayoshi, C. Uyeda, K. Terada     Most existing solids are categorised as diamagnetic or weak paramagnetic materials. The possibility of magnetic motion has not been intensively considered for these materials. …             Dependency of Tunneling-Magnetoresistance Ratio on Nanoscale Spacer Thickness and Material for Double MgO Based Perpendicular-Magnetic-Tunneling-Junction ▶     Du-Yeong Lee, Song-Hwa Hong, Seung-Eun Lee et al.     It was found that in double MgO based perpendicular magnetic tunneling junction spin-valves ex-situ annealed at 400 °C, the tunneling magnetoresistance ratio was extremely …             Real time optical Biopsy: Time-resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy instrumentation and validation ▶     David S. Kittle, Fartash Vasefi, Chirag G. Patil et al.     The Time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy (TR-FS) has the potential to differentiate tumor and normal tissue in real time during surgical excision. In this manuscript, we …             Depth resolved lattice-charge coupling in epitaxial BiFeO3 thin film ▶     Hyeon Jun Lee, Sung Su Lee, Jeong Hun Kwak et al.     For epitaxial films, a critical thickness (tc) can create a phenomenological interface between a strained bottom layer and a relaxed top layer. Here, we present an experimental …             Two different phase-change origins with chemical- and structural-phase-changes in C doped (1.5 wt.%) In3Sb1Te2 ▶     Y. M. Lee, S. Y. Lee, T. Sasaki et al.     We fabricated C-doped (1.5 wt.%) In3Sb1Te2 (CIST) thin films with amorphous phase (a-CIST) using a sputter method. Two electrical-phase-changes at 250 and 275 °C were observed in …             Novel Design of Iridium Phosphors with Pyridinylphosphinate Ligands for High-Efficiency Blue Organic Light-emitting Diodes ▶     Zheng-Guang Wu, Yi-Ming Jing, Guang-Zhao Lu et al.     Due to the high quantum efficiency and wide scope of emission colors, iridium (Ir) (III) complexes have been widely applied as guest materials for OLEDs (organic light-emitting …             Broadband photodetector based on carbon nanotube thin film/single layer graphene Schottky junction ▶     Teng-Fei Zhang, Zhi-Peng Li, Jiu-Zhen Wang et al.     In this study, we present a broadband nano-photodetector based on single-layer graphene (SLG)-carbon nanotube thin film (CNTF) Schottky junction. It was found that the …             A piezoelectric micro generator worked at low frequency and high acceleration based on PZT and phosphor bronze bonding ▶     Gang Tang, Bin Yang, Cheng Hou et al.     Recently, piezoelectric energy harvesters (PEHs) have been paid a lot of attention by many researchers to convert mechanical energy into electrical and low level vibration. …             A New Synergetic Nanocomposite for Dye Degradation in Dark and Light ▶     Lakshmi Prasanna V., Vijayaraghavan Rajagopalan     Environmental hazard caused due to the release of dyes in effluents is a concern in many countries. Among the various methods to combat this problem, Advanced Oxidation Process, …             Glymphatic solute transport does not require bulk flow ▶     Mahdi Asgari, Diane de Zélicourt, Vartan Kurtcuoglu     Observations of fast transport of fluorescent tracers in mouse brains have led to the hypothesis of bulk water flow directed from arterial to venous paravascular spaces (PVS) …             Natural brain-information interfaces: Recommending information by relevance inferred from human brain signals ▶     Manuel J. A. Eugster, Tuukka Ruotsalo, Michiel M. Spapé et al.     Finding relevant information from large document collections such as the World Wide Web is a common task in our daily lives. Estimation of a user’s interest or search intention …             Fractal Based Analysis of the Influence of Odorants on Heart Activity ▶     Hamidreza Namazi, Vladimir V. Kulish     An important challenge in heart research is to make the relation between the features of external stimuli and heart activity. Olfactory stimulation is an important type of …             Totally embedded hybrid thin films of carbon nanotubes and silver nanowires as flat homogenous flexible transparent conductors ▶     Suresh Kumar Raman Pillai, Jing Wang, Yilei Wang et al.     There is a great need for viable alternatives to today’s transparent conductive film using largely indium tin oxide. We report the fabrication of a new type of flexible …             Channel morphology effect on water transport through graphene bilayers ▶     Bo Liu, Renbing Wu, Adrian Wing-Keung Law et al.     The application of few-layered graphene-derived functional thin films for molecular filtration and separation has recently attracted intensive interests. In practice, the …             Single Molecular Demonstration of Modulating Charge Inversion of DNA ▶     Yanwei Wang, Ruxia Wang, Bozhi Cao et al.     Charge inversion of DNA is a counterintuitive phenomenon in which the effective charge of DNA switches its sign from negative to positive in the presence of multivalent …             Contact infection of infectious disease onboard a cruise ship ▶     Nan Zhang, Ruosong Miao, Hong Huang et al.     Cruise tourism has become more popular. Long-term personal contact, complex population flows, a lack of medical care facilities, and defective infrastructure aboard most cruise …             Silencing of the SlNAP7 gene influences plastid development and lycopene accumulation in tomato ▶     Da-Qi Fu, Lan-Huan Meng, Ben-Zhong Zhu et al.     Ripening is an important stage of fruit development. To screen the genes associated with pigment formation in tomato fruit, a suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) cDNA …             Differential stimulation of the retina with subretinally injected exogenous neurotransmitter: A biomimetic alternative to electrical stimulation ▶     Corey M. Rountree, Samsoon Inayat, John B. Troy et al.     Subretinal stimulation of the retina with neurotransmitters, the normal means of conveying visual information, is a potentially better alternative to electrical stimulation …             Designing a Broadband Pump for High-Quality Micro-Lasers via Modified Net Radiation Method ▶     Sergey Nechayev, Philip D. Reusswig, Marc A. Baldo et al.     High-quality micro-lasers are key ingredients in non-linear optics, communication, sensing and low-threshold solar-pumped lasers. However, such micro-lasers exhibit negligible …             Deep sub-wavelength nanofocusing of UV-visible light by hyperbolic metamaterials ▶     Minkyung Kim, Sunae So, Kan Yao et al.     Confining light into a sub-wavelength area has been challenging due to the natural phenomenon of diffraction. In this paper, we report deep sub-wavelength focusing via dispersion …             Subwavelength InSb-based Slot wavguides for THz transport: concept and practical implementations ▶     Youqiao Ma, Jun Zhou, Jaromír Pištora et al.     Seeking better surface plasmon polariton (SPP) waveguides is of critical importance to construct the frequency-agile terahertz (THz) front-end circuits. We propose and …             Nano-cones for broadband light coupling to high index substrates ▶     J. Buencuerpo, L. Torné, R. Álvaro et al.     The moth-eye structure has been proposed several times as an antireflective coating to replace the standard optical thin films. Here, we experimentally demonstrate the …             Thermal Alternating Polymer Nanocomposite (TAPNC) Coating Designed to Prevent Aerodynamic Insect Fouling ▶     Ilker S. Bayer, K. Ghokulla Krishnan, Robert Robison et al.     Insect residue adhesion to moving surfaces such as turbine blades and aircraft not only causes surface contamination problems but also increases drag on these surfaces. Insect …             Electrohydrodynamic-assisted Assembly of Hierarchically Structured, 3D Crumpled Nanostructures for Efficient Solar Conversions ▶     Hidetaka Ishihara, Yen-Chang Chen, Nicholas De Marco et al.     The tantalizing prospect of harnessing the unique properties of graphene crumpled nanostructures continues to fuel tremendous interest in energy storage and harvesting …             Realizing a facile and environmental-friendly fabrication of high-performance multi-crystalline silicon solar cells by employing ZnO nanostructures and an Al2O3 passivation layer ▶     Hong-Yan Chen, Hong-Liang Lu, Long Sun et al.     Nowadays, the multi-crystalline silicon (mc-Si) solar cells dominate the photovoltaic industry. However, the current acid etching method on mc-Si surface used by firms can hardly …             Band-inverted gaps in InAs/GaSb and GaSb/InAs core-shell nanowires ▶     Ning Luo, Guang-Yao Huang, Gaohua Liao et al.     The [111]-oriented InAs/GaSb and GaSb/InAs core-shell nanowires have been studied by the 8 × 8 Luttinger-Kohn Hamiltonian to search for non-vanishing fundamental gaps between …             Unified rheology of vibro-fluidized dry granular media: From slow dense flows to fast gas-like regimes ▶     Andrea Gnoli, Antonio Lasanta, Alessandro Sarracino et al.     Granular media take on great importance in industry and geophysics, posing a severe challenge to materials science. Their response properties elude known soft rheological models, …             Enhanced cycling stability of NiCo2S4@NiO core-shell nanowire arrays for all-solid-state asymmetric supercapacitors ▶     Yuanyuan Huang, Tielin Shi, Shulan Jiang et al.     As a new class of pseudocapacitive material, metal sulfides possess high electrochemical performance. However, their cycling performance as conventional electrodes is rather poor …             High-performance SERS substrate based on hybrid structure of graphene oxide/AgNPs/Cu film@pyramid Si ▶     Zhe Li, Shi Cai Xu, Chao Zhang et al.     We present a novel surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate based on graphene oxide/silver nanoparticles/copper film covered silicon pyramid arrays (GO/AgNPs/PCu@Si) by …             Excitatory Post-Synaptic Potential Mimicked in Indium-Zinc-Oxide Synaptic Transistors Gated by Methyl Cellulose Solid Electrolyte ▶     Liqiang Guo, Juan Wen, Jianning Ding et al.     The excitatory postsynaptic potential (EPSP) of biological synapses is mimicked in indium-zinc-oxide synaptic transistors gated by methyl cellulose solid electrolyte. These …             Size Specific Transfection to Mammalian Cells by Micropillar Array Electroporation ▶     Yingbo Zu, Shuyan Huang, Yang Lu et al.     Electroporation serves as a promising non-viral gene delivery approach, while its current configuration carries several drawbacks associated with high-voltage electrical pulses …             All-Silicon Ultra-Broadband Infrared Light Absorbers ▶     Kazim Gorgulu, Abdullah Gok, Mehmet Yilmaz et al.     Absorbing infrared radiation efficiently is important for critical applications such as thermal imaging and infrared spectroscopy. Common infrared absorbing materials are not …             Self-patterning Gd nano-fibers in Mg-Gd alloys ▶     Yangxin Li, Jian Wang, Kaiguo Chen et al.     Manipulating the shape and distribution of strengthening units, e.g. particles, fibers, and precipitates, in a bulk metal, has been a widely applied strategy of tailoring their …             Atmospheric Pressure Non-Equilibrium Plasma as a Green Tool to Crosslink Gelatin Nanofibers ▶     Anna Liguori, Adriana Bigi, Vittorio Colombo et al.     Electrospun gelatin nanofibers attract great interest as a natural biomaterial for cartilage and tendon repair despite their high solubility in aqueous solution, which makes them …             Tunable electron heating induced giant magnetoresistance in the high mobility GaAs/AlGaAs 2D electron system ▶     Zhuo Wang, R. L. Samaraweera, C. Reichl et al.     Electron-heating induced by a tunable, supplementary dc-current (Idc) helps to vary the observed magnetoresistance in the high mobility GaAs/AlGaAs 2D electron system. The …             Piezoelectric polymer gated OFET: Cutting-edge electro-mechanical transducer for organic MEMS-based sensors ▶     Damien Thuau, Mamatimin Abbas, Guillaume Wantz et al.     The growth of micro electro-mechanical system (MEMS) based sensors on the electronic market is forecast to be invigorated soon by the development of a new branch of MEMS-based …             Experimental Demonstration of Printed Graphene Nano-flakes Enabled Flexible and Conformable Wideband Radar Absorbers ▶     Xianjun Huang, Kewen Pan, Zhirun Hu     In this work, we have designed, fabricated and experimentally characterized a printed graphene nano-flakes enabled flexible and conformable wideband radar absorber. The absorber …             Low temperature magneto-morphological characterisation of coronene and the resolution of previously observed unexplained phenomena ▶     Jason Potticary, Rebecca Boston, Liana Vella-Zarb et al.     The polyaromatic hydrocarbon coronene has been the molecule of choice for understanding the physical properties of graphene for over a decade. The modelling of the latter by the …             Molecular gated nanoporous anodic alumina for the detection of cocaine ▶     Àngela Ribes, Elisabet Xifré -Pérez, Elena Aznar et al.     We present herein the use of nanoporous anodic alumina (NAA) as a suitable support to implement “molecular gates” for sensing applications. In our design, a NAA support is loaded …             Quantum Error Correction Protects Quantum Search Algorithms Against Decoherence ▶     Panagiotis Botsinis, Zunaira Babar, Dimitrios Alanis et al.     When quantum computing becomes a wide-spread commercial reality, Quantum Search Algorithms (QSA) and especially Grover’s QSA will inevitably be one of their main applications, …             High Temperature Extends the Range of Size Discrimination of Nonionic Polymers by a Biological Nanopore ▶     Fabien Piguet, Hadjer Ouldali, Françoise Discala et al.     We explore the effect of temperature on the interaction of polydisperse mixtures of nonionic poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) polymers of different average molar masses with the …             Exploring the coordination change of vanadium and structure transformation of metavanadate MgV2O6 under high pressure ▶     Ruilian Tang, Yan Li, Shengyi Xie et al.     Raman spectroscopy, synchrotron angle-dispersive X-ray diffraction (ADXRD), first-principles calculations, and electrical resistivity measurements were carried out under high …             Effects of Liposomes Charge on Extending Sciatic Nerve Blockade of N-ethyl Bromide of Lidocaine in Rats ▶     Qinqin Yin, Bowen Ke, Xiaobing Chen et al.     N-methyl bromide of lidocaine (QX-314) is a potential local anaesthetic with compromised penetration through cell membranes due to its obligated positive charge. Liposomes have …             Cell studies of hybridized carbon nanofibers containing bioactive glass nanoparticles using bone mesenchymal stromal cells ▶     Xiu-Rui Zhang, Xiao-Qing Hu, Xiao-Long Jia et al.     Bone regeneration required suitable scaffolding materials to support the proliferation and osteogenic differentiation of bone-related cells. In this study, a kind of hybridized …             In Silico before In Vivo: how to Predict the Heating Efficiency of Magnetic Nanoparticles within the Intracellular Space ▶     Beatriz Sanz, M. Pilar Calatayud, Emilio De Biasi et al.     This work aims to demonstrate the need for in silico design via numerical simulation to produce optimal Fe3O4-based magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) for magnetic hyperthermia by …             EEG functional network topology is associated with disability in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ▶     Matteo Fraschini, Matteo Demuru, Arjan Hillebrand et al.     Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is one of the most severe neurodegenerative diseases, which is known to affect upper and lower motor neurons. In contrast to the classical …             Platform construction and extraction mechanism study of magnetic mixed hemimicelles solid-phase extraction ▶     Deli Xiao, Chan Zhang, Jia He et al.     Simple, accurate and high-throughput pretreatment method would facilitate large-scale studies of trace analysis in complex samples. Magnetic mixed hemimicelles solid-phase …             An Integrated Strategy for Global Qualitative and Quantitative Profiling of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas: Baoyuan Decoction as a Case ▶     Xiaoli Ma, Xiaoyu Guo, Yuelin Song et al.     Clarification of the chemical composition of traditional Chinese medicine formulas (TCMFs) is a challenge due to the variety of structures and the complexity of plant matrices. …             A New SAR Image Segmentation Algorithm for the Detection of Target and Shadow Regions ▶     Shiqi Huang, Wenzhun Huang, Ting Zhang     The most distinctive characteristic of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is that it can acquire data under all weather conditions and at all times. However, its coherent imaging …             Enhanced Self-Organized Dewetting of Ultrathin Polymer Blend Film for Large-Area Fabrication of SERS Substrate ▶     Huanhuan Zhang, Lin Xu, Yabo Xu et al.     We study the enhanced dewetting of ultrathin Polystyrene (PS)/Poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) blend films in a mixed solution, and reveal the dewetting can act as a simple and …             The colored Hanbury Brown–Twiss effect ▶     B. Silva, C. Sánchez Muñoz, D. Ballarini et al.     The Hanbury Brown–Twiss effect is one of the celebrated phenomenologies of modern physics that accommodates equally well classical (interferences of waves) and quantum …             Profilometry of thin films on rough substrates by Raman spectroscopy ▶     Martin Ledinský, Bertrand Paviet-Salomon, Aliaksei Vetushka et al.     Thin, light-absorbing films attenuate the Raman signal of underlying substrates. In this article, we exploit this phenomenon to develop a contactless thickness profiling method …             In-situ particles reorientation during magnetic hyperthermia application: Shape matters twice ▶     Konstantinos Simeonidis, M. Puerto Morales, Marzia Marciello et al.     Promising advances in nanomedicine such as magnetic hyperthermia rely on a precise control of the nanoparticle performance in the cellular environment. This constitutes a huge …             An ultra-low crosstalk and broadband two-mode (de)multiplexer based on adiabatic couplers ▶     Chunlei Sun, Yu Yu, Mengyuan Ye et al.     A novel adiabatic couplers (ACs) based broadband and fabrication-tolerant two-mode multiplexer (MUX) is designed using silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform. Being different from …             In-situ one-step synthesis of carbon-encapsulated naked magnetic metal nanoparticles conducted without additional reductants and agents ▶     Jun Kang, Yeonwon Kim, Hye-min Kim et al.     C-encapsulated highly pure Ni, Co, and Fe magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs/C) were synthesized by an innovative one-step in-situ plasma in liquid method (solution plasma processing, …             Quantum Hall effect in epitaxial graphene with permanent magnets ▶     F. D. Parmentier, T. Cazimajou, Y. Sekine et al.     We have observed the well-kown quantum Hall effect (QHE) in epitaxial graphene grown on silicon carbide (SiC) by using, for the first time, only commercial NdFeB permanent …             Photocatalytic Reduction of CO2 by ZnO Micro/nanomaterials with Different Morphologies and Ratios of {0001} Facets ▶     Xiaodi Liu, Liqun Ye, Shanshan Liu et al.     ZnO microspheres, ZnO microflowers and ZnO nanorods are successfully synthesized via a convenient solvothermal method in distilled water-ethanol mixed medium. The as-prepared ZnO …             Wideband helicity dependent spoof surface plasmon polaritons coupling metasurface based on dispersion design ▶     Guoxiang Dong, Hongyu Shi, Yuchen He et al.     The surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) have many potential application due to their local field enhancement and sub-wavelength characteristics. Recently, the gradient metasurface …             Passivation and characterization of charge defects in ambipolar silicon quantum dots ▶     Paul C. Spruijtenburg, Sergey V. Amitonov, Filipp Mueller et al.     In this Report we show the role of charge defects in the context of the formation of electrostatically defined quantum dots. We introduce a barrier array structure to probe …             Molecular Structure and Dynamics of Water on Pristine and Strained Phosphorene: Wetting and Diffusion at Nanoscale ▶     Wei Zhang, Chao Ye, Linbi Hong et al.     Phosphorene, a newly fabricated two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterial, has emerged as a promising material for biomedical applications with great potential. Nonetheless, …             Transistor Properties of 2,7-Dialkyl-Substituted Phenanthro[2,1-b:7,8-b′]dithiophene ▶     Yoshihiro Kubozono, Keita Hyodo, Shino Hamao et al.     A new phenacene-type molecule with five fused aromatic rings was synthesized: 2,7-didodecylphenanthro[2,1-b:7,8-b′]dithiophene ((C12H25)2-i-PDT), with two terminal thiophene …             Optimized invisibility cloaks from the Logarithm conformal mapping ▶     Chunhui Zhu, Lijun Liu, Zhengyong Song et al.     Invisibility cloaks designed from the coordinate transformation method have attracted increasing interest recently. Conformal transformation optics scheme leads to cloaks that …             Formation mechanism of Ruddlesden-Popper-type antiphase boundaries during the kinetically limited growth of Sr rich SrTiO3 thin films ▶     Chencheng Xu, Hongchu Du, Alexander J. H. van der Torren et al.     We elucidated the formation process for Ruddlesden-Popper-type defects during pulsed laser deposition of Sr rich SrTiO3 thin films by a combined analysis of in-situ atomic force …             Sonic horizon formation for oscillating Bose-Einstein condensates in isotropic harmonic potential ▶     Ying Wang, Yu Zhou, Shuyu Zhou     We study the sonic horizon phenomena of the oscillating Bose-Einstein condensates in isotropic harmonic potential. Based on the Gross-Pitaevskii equation model and variational …             Foldable and Disposable Memory on Paper ▶     Byung-Hyun Lee, Dong-Il Lee, Hagyoul Bae et al.     Foldable organic memory on cellulose nanofibril paper with bendable and rollable characteristics is demonstrated by employing initiated chemical vapor deposition (iCVD) for …             Interplay of coupling and common noise at the transition to synchrony in oscillator populations ▶     Anastasiya V. Pimenova, Denis S. Goldobin, Michael Rosenblum et al.     There are two ways to synchronize oscillators: by coupling and by common forcing, which can be pure noise. By virtue of the Ott-Antonsen ansatz for sine-coupled phase …             Quantum State Transmission in a Superconducting Charge Qubit-Atom Hybrid ▶     Deshui Yu, María Martínez Valado, Christoph Hufnagel et al.     Hybrids consisting of macroscopic superconducting circuits and microscopic components, such as atoms and spins, have the potential of transmitting an arbitrary state between …             AlGaAs 55Fe X-ray radioisotope microbattery ▶     S. Butera, M. D. C. Whitaker, G. Lioliou et al.     This paper describes the performance of a fabricated prototype Al0.2Ga0.8As 55Fe radioisotope microbattery photovoltaic cells over the temperature range −20 °C to 50 °C. Two …             Magnetic Properties Improvement of Die-upset Nd-Fe-B Magnets by Dy-Cu Press Injection and Subsequent Heat Treatment ▶     Zexuan Wang, Jinyun Ju, Jinzhi Wang et al.     Ultrafine-grained die-upset Nd-Fe-B magnets are of importance because they provide a wide researching space to redesign the textured structures. Here is presented a route to …             Ultra-sustainable Fe78Si9B13 metallic glass as a catalyst for activation of persulfate on methylene blue degradation under UV-Vis light ▶     Zhe Jia, Xiaoguang Duan, Wenchang Zhang et al.     Stability and reusability are important characteristics of advanced catalysts for wastewater treatment. In this work, for the first time, sulfate radicals (SO4∙−) with a high …             Protein self-assembly onto nanodots leads to formation of conductive bio-based hybrids ▶     Xiao Hu, Chenbo Dong, Rigu Su et al.     The next generation of nanowires that could advance the integration of functional nanosystems into synthetic applications from photocatalysis to optical devices need to …             Photoluminescence changes of C70 nano/submicro-crystals induced by high pressure and high temperature ▶     Dedi Liu, Bingbing Liu, Bertil Sundqvist et al.     Hollow C70 nano/submicro-crystals with a fcc lattice structure were treated under various high pressure and high temperature conditions. The energy band structure was visibly …             Analysis of four toxic metals in a single rice seed by matrix solid phase dispersion -inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry ▶     Xiufen He, Lixia Chen, Xin Chen et al.     Toxic metals in rice pose great risks to human health. 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