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20 December 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Physical Sciences               Corrigendum: Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Block Copolypeptoids – Micelles, Worms and Polymersomes ▶     Corinna Fetsch, Jens Gaitzsch, Lea Messager et al.                 How mobile are dye adsorbates and acetonitrile molecules on the surface of TiO2 nanoparticles? A quasi-elastic neutron scattering study ▶     Valerie Vaissier, Victoria Garcia Sakai, Xiaoe Li et al.     Motions of molecules adsorbed to surfaces may control the rate of charge transport within monolayers in systems such as dye sensitized solar cells. We used quasi-elastic neutron …             Chemically modulated graphene quantum dot for tuning the photoluminescence as novel sensory probe ▶     Eunhee Hwang, Hee Min Hwang, Yonghun Shin et al.     A band gap tuning of environmental-friendly graphene quantum dot (GQD) becomes a keen interest for novel applications such as photoluminescence (PL) sensor. Here, for tuning the …             Thermal decomposition of fullerene nanowhiskers protected by amorphous carbon mask ▶     Hongxuan Guo, Chengxiang Wang, Kun’ichi Miyazawa et al.     Fullerene nanostructures are well known for their unique morphology, physical and mechanical properties. The thermal stability of fullerene nanostructures, such as their …             Polarization-independent split bull’s eye antennas for infrared nano-photodetectors ▶     Meng Yang, Fang-Fang Ren, Lin Pu et al.     Split bull’s eye (SBE) antennas exhibit much larger extraordinary optical transmission and strong polarization dependence rather than bull’s eye (BE) antennas in the infrared …             Tuning apparent friction coefficient by controlled patterning bulk metallic glasses surfaces ▶     Ning Li, Erjiang Xu, Ze Liu et al.     Micro-honeycomb structures with various pitches between adjacent cells were hot-embossed on Zr35Ti30Cu8.25Be26.75 bulk metallic glass surface. The effect of pitch geometry on the …             Sub-cycle ionization dynamics revealed by trajectory resolved, elliptically-driven high-order harmonic generation ▶     E. W. Larsen, S. Carlström, E. Lorek et al.     The sub-cycle dynamics of electrons driven by strong laser fields is central to the emerging field of attosecond science. We demonstrate how the dynamics can be probed through …             Artificial Neuron Based on Integrated Semiconductor Quantum Dot Mode-Locked Lasers ▶     Charis Mesaritakis, Alexandros Kapsalis, Adonis Bogris et al.     Neuro-inspired implementations have attracted strong interest as a power efficient and robust alternative to the digital model of computation with a broad range of applications. …             Non-binary Colour Modulation for Display Device Based on Phase Change Materials ▶     Hong-Kai Ji, Hao Tong, Hang Qian et al.     A reflective-type display device based on phase change materials is attractive because of its ultrafast response time and high resolution compared with a conventional display …             Room temperature synthesis of biodiesel using sulfonated graphitic carbon nitride ▶     R. B. Nasir Baig, Sanny Verma, Mallikarjuna N. Nadagouda et al.     Sulfonation of graphitic carbon nitride (g-CN) affords a polar and strongly acidic catalyst, Sg-CN, which displays unprecedented reactivity and selectivity in biodiesel synthesis …             Ultrashort pulse laser ablation of dielectrics: Thresholds, mechanisms, role of breakdown ▶     Inam Mirza, Nadezhda M. Bulgakova, Jan Tomáštík et al.     In this paper, we establish connections between the thresholds and mechanisms of the damage and white-light generation upon femtosecond laser irradiation of wide-bandgap …             Fabrication of Si negative electrodes for Li-ion batteries (LIBs) using cross-linked polymer binders ▶     Suk-Yong Jang, Sien-Ho Han     Currently, Si as an active material for LIBs has been attracting much attention due to its high theoretical specific capacity (3572 mAh g−1). However, a disadvantage when using a …             ~3-nm ZnO Nanoislands Deposition and Application in Charge Trapping Memory Grown by Single ALD Step ▶     Nazek El-Atab, Farsad Chowdhury, Turkan Gamze Ulusoy et al.     Low-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures are of great interest in high performance electronic and photonic devices. ZnO is considered to be a multifunctional material due to …             Disorder-induced topological phase transitions in two-dimensional spin-orbit coupled superconductors ▶     Wei Qin, Di Xiao, Kai Chang et al.     Normal superconductors with Rashba spin-orbit coupling have been explored as candidate systems of topological superconductors. Here we present a comparative theoretical study of …             Wide-angle Spectrally Selective Perfect Absorber by Utilizing Dispersionless Tamm Plasmon Polaritons ▶     Chun-hua Xue, Feng Wu, Hai-tao Jiang et al.     We theoretically investigate wide-angle spectrally selective absorber by utilizing dispersionless Tamm plasmon polaritons (TPPs) under TM polarization. TPPs are resonant …             Strain tunable magnetism in SnX2 (X = S, Se) monolayers by hole doping ▶     Hui Xiang, Bo Xu, Yidong Xia et al.     By first-principles calculations, the magnetism of hole doped tin dichalcogenides SnX2 (X = S, Se) monolayers is systematically studied. It is found that a phase transition from …             Ferromagnetic glass-coated microwires with good heating properties for magnetic hyperthermia ▶     A. Talaat, J. Alonso, V. Zhukova et al.     The heating properties of Fe71.7Si11B13.4Nb3Ni0.9 amorphous glass-coated microwires are explored for prospective applications in magnetic hyperthermia. We show that a single 5 mm …             Statistical Characterization of the Medical Ultrasound Echo Signals ▶     Runqiu Cai     Medical ultrasound echo signals provide the basic information for obtaining the ultrasonic image in medical ultrasound technology. The statistics of the ultrasound echo signals …             Inertial Focusing of Microparticles in Curvilinear Microchannels ▶     Arzu Özbey, Mehrdad Karimzadehkhouei, Sarp Akgönül et al.     A passive, continuous and size-dependent focusing technique enabled by “inertial microfluidics”, which takes advantage of hydrodynamic forces, is implemented in this study to …             Reversible Self-Actuated Thermo-Responsive Pore Membrane ▶     Younggeun Park, Maria Paz Gutierrez, Luke P. Lee     Smart membranes, which can selectively control the transfer of light, air, humidity and temperature, are important to achieve indoor climate regulation. Even though reversible …             Demonstration of Complementary Ternary Graphene Field-Effect Transistors ▶     Yun Ji Kim, So-Young Kim, Jinwoo Noh et al.     Strong demand for power reduction in state-of-the-art semiconductor devices calls for novel devices and architectures. Since ternary logic architecture can perform the same …             Triggering of spin-flipping-modulated exchange bias in FeCo nanoparticles by electronic excitation ▶     Debalaya Sarker, Saswata Bhattacharya, Pankaj Srivastava et al.     The exchange coupling between ferromagnetic (FM)-antiferromagnetic (AF) interfaces is a key element of modern spintronic devices. We here introduce a new way of triggering …             Nonequilibrium description of de novo biogenesis and transport through Golgi-like cisternae ▶     Himani Sachdeva, Mustansir Barma, Madan Rao     A central issue in cell biology is the physico-chemical basis of organelle biogenesis in intracellular trafficking pathways, its most impressive manifestation being the …             Synthesis of single-crystal low-loss LiB3O5 nanowire and its optical properties ▶     Guang-Yuan Qu, Cheng-Wei Yang, Guo-xin Cui et al.     Optical-quality single-crystal LiB3O5 (LBO) nanowires are synthesized for the first time using a sol–gel method. The LBO nanowires possess diameters ranging from 200 to 800 nm …             Detection of Extremely Low Concentrations of Biological Substances Using Near-Field Illumination ▶     Masato Yasuura, Makoto Fujimaki     An external force-assisted near-field illumination biosensor (EFA-NI biosensor) detects a target substance that is propelled through an evanescent field by an external force. The …             Anatomically correct visualization of the human upper airway using a high-speed long range optical coherence tomography system with an integrated positioning sensor ▶     Joseph C. Jing, Lidek Chou, Erica Su et al.     The upper airway is a complex tissue structure that is prone to collapse. Current methods for studying airway obstruction are inadequate in safety, cost, or availability, such as …             Bacterial cytosolic proteins with a high capacity for Cu(I) that protect against copper toxicity ▶     Nicolas Vita, Gianpiero Landolfi, Arnaud Baslé et al.     Bacteria are thought to avoid using the essential metal ion copper in their cytosol due to its toxicity. Herein we characterize Csp3, the cytosolic member of a new family of …             Enhancing mung bean hydration using the ultrasound technology: description of mechanisms and impact on its germination and main components ▶     Alberto Claudio Miano, Jessica da Costa Pereira, Nanci Castanha et al.     The ultrasound technology was successfully used to improve the mass transfer processes on food. However, the study of this technology on the grain hydration and on its main …             Graphene damage effects on radiation-resistance and configuration of copper–graphene nanocomposite under irradiation: A molecular dynamics study ▶     Hai Huang, Xiaobin Tang, Feida Chen et al.     Metal–graphene nanocomposite is a kind of potential radiation tolerant material. Graphene damage of the composite is inevitable within radiation environments. In this paper, two …             Magnetic resonance anisotropy in CeB6: an entangled state of the art ▶     A. V. Semeno, M. I. Gilmanov, A. V. Bogach et al.     Electron spin resonance (ESR) in strongly correlated metals is an exciting phenomenon, as strong spin fluctuations in this class of materials broaden extremely the absorption …             Highly energetic phenomena in water electrolysis ▶     A. V. Postnikov, I. V. Uvarov, M. V. Lokhanin et al.     Water electrolysis performed in microsystems with a fast change of voltage polarity produces optically invisible nanobubbles containing H2 and O2 gases. In this form the gases …             An innovative concept of use of redox-active electrolyte in asymmetric capacitor based on MWCNTs/MnO2 and Fe2O3 thin films ▶     Nilesh R. Chodankar, Deepak P. Dubal, Abhishek C. Lokhande et al.     In present investigation, we have prepared a nanocomposites of highly porous MnO2 spongy balls and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) in thin film form and tested in novel …             Effect of hydrothermal pretreatment on the structural changes of alkaline ethanol lignin from wheat straw ▶     Xue Chen, Hanyin Li, Shaoni Sun et al.     Due to the enormous abundance of lignin and its unique aromatic nature, lignin has great potential for the production of industrially useful fuels, chemicals, and materials. …             Enhanced Conversion Efficiency of III–V Triple-junction Solar Cells with Graphene Quantum Dots ▶     Tzu-Neng Lin, Svette Reina Merden S. Santiago, Jie-An Zheng et al.     Graphene has been used to synthesize graphene quantum dots (GQDs) via pulsed laser ablation. By depositing the synthesized GQDs on the surface of InGaP/InGaAs/Ge triple-junction …             Lateral optical binding between two colloidal particles ▶     Ming-Tzo Wei, Jack Ng, C. T. Chan et al.     An optical binding force between two nearby colloidal particles trapped by two coherent laser beams is measured by phase-sensitive detection. The binding force is long-range and …             Improved charge carrier lifetime in planar perovskite solar cells by bromine doping ▶     David Kiermasch, Philipp Rieder, Kristofer Tvingstedt et al.     The charge carrier lifetime is an important parameter in solar cells as it defines, together with the mobility, the diffusion length of the charge carriers, thus directly …             Tunable magnetic states on the zigzag edges of hydrogenated and halogenated group-IV nanoribbons ▶     Tzu-Cheng Wang, Chia-Hsiu Hsu, Zhi-Quan Huang et al.     The magnetic and electronic properties of hydrogenated and halogenated group-IV zigzag nanoribbons (ZNRs) are investigated by first-principles density functional calculations. …             Interplay of multiple synaptic plasticity features in filamentary memristive devices for neuromorphic computing ▶     Selina La Barbera, Adrien F. Vincent, Dominique Vuillaume et al.     Bio-inspired computing represents today a major challenge at different levels ranging from material science for the design of innovative devices and circuits to computer science …             Vibrational density of states and thermodynamics at the nanoscale: the 3D-2D transition in gold nanostructures ▶     R. Carles, P. Benzo, B. Pécassou et al.     Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is generally and widely used to enhance the vibrational fingerprint of molecules located at the vicinity of noble metal nanoparticles. In …             Microwave control of the superconducting proximity effect and minigap in magnetic and normal metals ▶     Jacob Linder, Morten Amundsen, Jabir Ali Ouassou     We demonstrate theoretically that microwave radiation applied to superconducting proximity structures controls the minigap and other spectral features in the density of states of …             Broadband and wide-angle RCS reduction using a 2-bit coding ultrathin metasurface at terahertz frequencies ▶     Lanju Liang, Minggui Wei, Xin Yan et al.     A novel broadband and wide-angle 2-bit coding metasurface for radar cross section (RCS) reduction is proposed and characterized at terahertz (THz) frequencies. The ultrathin …             The nature of photoinduced phase transition and metastable states in vanadium dioxide ▶     Zhensheng Tao, Faran Zhou, Tzong-Ru T. Han et al.     Photoinduced threshold switching processes that lead to bistability and the formation of metastable phases in photoinduced phase transition of VO2 are elucidated through …             The influence of ionic strength on carbonate-based spectroscopic barometry for aqueous fluids: an in-situ Raman study on Na2CO3-NaCl solutions ▶     Jia Wu, Shixia Wang, Haifei Zheng     The Raman wavenumber of the symmetric stretching vibration of carbonate ion (ν1-CO32−) was measured in three aqueous solutions containing 2.0 mol·L−1 Na2CO3 and 0.20, 0.42, or …             Enhanced stability of freestanding lipid bilayer and its stability criteria ▶     Dae-Woong Jeong, Hyunwoo Jang, Siyoung Q. Choi et al.     We present a new strategy to dramatically enhance the stability of freestanding lipid bilayers. We found that an addition of a water in oil emulsion stabilizer, SPAN 80 to a …             Thiol-Capped Gold Nanoparticles Swell-Encapsulated into Polyurethane as Powerful Antibacterial Surfaces Under Dark and Light Conditions ▶     Thomas J. Macdonald, Ke Wu, Sandeep K. Sehmi et al.     A simple procedure to develop antibacterial surfaces using thiol-capped gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) is shown, which effectively kill bacteria under dark and light conditions. The …             Simultaneous observation of free and defect-bound excitons in CH3NH3PbI3 using four-wave mixing spectroscopy ▶     Samuel A. March, Charlotte Clegg, Drew B. Riley et al.     Solar cells incorporating organic-inorganic perovskite, which may be fabricated using low-cost solution-based processing, have witnessed a dramatic rise in efficiencies yet their …             Simulating and Optimising Quantum Thermometry Using Single Photons ▶     W. K. Tham, H. Ferretti, A. V. Sadashivan et al.     A classical thermometer typically works by exchanging energy with the system being measured until it comes to equilibrium, at which point the readout is related to the final …             Patient-specific structural effects on hemodynamics in the ischemic lower limb artery ▶     Pengcheng Xu, Xin Liu, Qi Song et al.     Lower limb peripheral artery disease is a prevalent chronic non-communicable disease without obvious symptoms. However, the effect of ischemic lower limb peripheral arteries on …             A perturbation-based framework for link prediction via non-negative matrix factorization ▶     Wenjun Wang, Fei Cai, Pengfei Jiao et al.     Many link prediction methods have been developed to infer unobserved links or predict latent links based on the observed network structure. However, due to network noises and …             Mid-infrared, super-flat, supercontinuum generation covering the 2–5 μm spectral band using a fluoroindate fibre pumped with picosecond pulses ▶     Maria Michalska, Janusz Mikolajczyk, Jacek Wojtas et al.     Broadband, mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in a step-index fluoroindate fibre is reported. By using ~70-picosecond laser pulses at 2.02 μm, provided by an optical …             Thumb Imprint Based Detection of Hyperbilirubinemia Using Luminescent Gold Nanoclusters ▶     Srestha Basu, Amaresh Kumar Sahoo, Anumita Paul et al.     Early and easy detection of diseases, using point-of-care and inexpensive devices, not only provides option for early treatment but also reduces the risk of propagation. Herein …             Origin of sample size effect: Stochastic dislocation formation in crystalline metals at small scales ▶     Guan-Rong Huang, J. C. Huang, W. Y. Tsai     In crystalline metals at small scales, the dislocation density will be increased by stochastic events of dislocation network, leading to a universal power law for various …             Self-assembled and intercalated film of reduced graphene oxide for a novel vacuum pressure sensor ▶     Sung Il Ahn, Jura Jung, Yongwoo Kim et al.     We report a new method for measuring vacuum pressures using Van der Waals (VDW) interactions between reduced graphene oxide (RGO) sheets. For this purpose, we utilized a …             Detection and control of charge states in a quintuple quantum dot ▶     Takumi Ito, Tomohiro Otsuka, Shinichi Amaha et al.     A semiconductor quintuple quantum dot with two charge sensors and an additional contact to the center dot from an electron reservoir is fabricated to demonstrate the concept of …             A simple and low-cost combustion method to prepare monoclinic VO2 with superior thermochromic properties ▶     Ziyi Cao, Xiudi Xiao, Xuanming Lu et al.     In this approach, the VO2 nanoparticles have been successfully fabricated via combusting the low-cost precursor solution consisted of NH4VO3, C2H6O2 and C2H5OH. By the XRD, TEM …             Room-temperature magnetic topological Weyl fermion and nodal line semimetal states in half-metallic Heusler Co2TiX (X=Si, Ge, or Sn) ▶     Guoqing Chang, Su-Yang Xu, Hao Zheng et al.     Topological semimetals (TSMs) including Weyl semimetals and nodal-line semimetals are expected to open the next frontier of condensed matter and materials science. Although the …             High-order synchronization of hair cell bundles ▶     Michael Levy, Adrian Molzon, Jae-Hyun Lee et al.     Auditory and vestibular hair cell bundles exhibit active mechanical oscillations at natural frequencies that are typically lower than the detection range of the corresponding end …             Nonlinear plasmonic dispersion and coupling analysis in the symmetric graphene sheets waveguide ▶     Xiangqian Jiang, Haiming Yuan, Xiudong Sun     We study the nonlinear dispersion and coupling properties of the graphene-bounded dielectric slab waveguide at near-THz/THz frequency range, and then reveal the mechanism of …             Electron beam-formed ferromagnetic defects on MoS2 surface along 1 T phase transition ▶     Sang Wook Han, Youngsin Park, Young Hun Hwang et al.     1 T phase incorporation into 2H-MoS2 via an optimal electron irradiation leads to induce a weak ferromagnetic state at room temperature, together with the improved transport …             High-throughput and automated diagnosis of antimicrobial resistance using a cost-effective cellphone-based micro-plate reader ▶     Steve Feng, Derek Tseng, Dino Di Carlo et al.     Routine antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) can prevent deaths due to bacteria and reduce the spread of multi-drug-resistance, but cannot be regularly performed in …             Porphyrins produce uniquely ephemeral animal colouration: a possible signal of virginity ▶     Ismael Galván, Pablo R. Camarero, Rafael Mateo et al.     Colours that underlie animal pigmentation can either be permanent or renewable in the short term. Here we describe the discovery of a conspicuous salmon-pink colouration in the …             Rethinking the process of detrainment: jets in obstructed natural flows ▶     Michele Mossa, Francesca De Serio     A thorough understanding of the mixing and diffusion of turbulent jets released in porous obstructions is still lacking in literature. This issue is undoubtedly of interest …             Real-time detection of dielectric anisotropy or isotropy in unconventional oil-gas reservoir rocks supported by the oblique-incidence reflectivity difference technique ▶     Honglei Zhan, Jin Wang, Kun Zhao et al.     Current geological extraction theory and techniques are very limited to adequately characterize the unconventional oil-gas reservoirs because of the considerable complexity of …             Adsorption of phosphate in water using one-step synthesized zirconium-loaded reduced graphene oxide ▶     Xin Luo, Xiurong Wang, Shaopan Bao et al.     In this account, a one-step green hydrothermal method for zirconium-loaded reduced graphene oxide (RGO-Zr) adsorbent was developed in pure water. It is based on the formation of …             Condensed-matter equation of states covering a wide region of pressure studied experimentally ▶     Elijah E. Gordon, Jürgen Köhler, Myung-Hwan Whangbo     The relationships among the pressure P, volume V, and temperature T of solid-state materials are described by their equations of state (EOSs), which are often derived from the …             Weighing Scale-Based Pulse Transit Time is a Superior Marker of Blood Pressure than Conventional Pulse Arrival Time ▶     Stephanie L.-O. Martin, Andrew M. Carek, Chang-Sei Kim et al.     Pulse transit time (PTT) is being widely pursued for cuff-less blood pressure (BP) monitoring. Most efforts have employed the time delay between ECG and finger …             Manufacture of patient-specific vascular replicas for endovascular simulation using fast, low-cost method ▶     Naoki Kaneko, Toshihiro Mashiko, Taihei Ohnishi et al.     Patient-specific vascular replicas are essential to the simulation of endovascular treatment or for vascular research. The inside of silicone replica is required to be smooth for …             Combination of dynamic transformation and dynamic recrystallization for realizing ultrafine-grained steels with superior mechanical properties ▶     Lijia Zhao, Nokeun Park, Yanzhong Tian et al.     Dynamic recrystallization (DRX) is an important grain refinement mechanism to fabricate steels with high strength and high ductility (toughness). The conventional DRX mechanism …             Meteorite Impact-Induced Rapid NH3 Production on Early Earth: Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulation ▶     Kohei Shimamura, Fuyuki Shimojo, Aiichiro Nakano et al.     NH3 is an essential molecule as a nitrogen source for prebiotic amino acid syntheses such as the Strecker reaction. Previous shock experiments demonstrated that meteorite impacts …             Impact of cuticle photoluminescence on the color morphism of a male damselfly Ischnura senegalensis (Rambur, 1842) ▶     Chin-Jung Chuang, Cheng-Der Liu, Ranjit A. Patil et al.     In this study the damselfly Ischnura senegalensis (Rambur, 1842) was first found to produce strong photoluminescence (PL) emissions from various colored-body portions, such as …             Synthesis of Mesoporous α-Fe2O3 Nanoparticles by Non-ionic Soft Template and Their Applications to Heavy Oil Upgrading ▶     Chulwoo Park, Jinhwan Jung, Chul Wee Lee et al.     This paper reports the synthetic route of 3-D network shape α-Fe2O3 from aqueous solutions of iron precursor using a non-ionic polymeric soft-template, Pluronic P123. During the …             Magnetic Phases of Sputter Deposited Thin-Film Erbium ▶     J. D. S. Witt, J. F. K. Cooper, N. Satchell et al.     We present a detailed structural and magnetic characterization of sputter deposited thin film erbium, determined by x-ray diffraction, transport measurements, magnetometry and …             Harman Measurements for Thermoelectric Materials and Modules under Non-Adiabatic Conditions ▶     Im-Jun Roh, Yun Goo Lee, Min-Su Kang et al.     Accuracy of the Harman measurement largely depends on the heat transfer between the sample and its surroundings, so-called parasitic thermal effects (PTEs). Similar to the …             Pt-Bi decorated nanoporous gold for high performance direct glucose fuel cell ▶     Hong Guo, Huiming Yin, Xiuling Yan et al.     Binary PtBi decorated nanoporous gold (NPG-PtBi) electrocatalyst is specially designed and prepared for the anode in direct glucose fuel cells (DGFCs). By using electroless and …             Supersymmetrical bounding of asymmetric states and quantum phase transitions by anti-crossing of symmetric states ▶     Muhammad Imran Afzal, Yong Tak Lee     Von Neumann and Wigner theorized the bounding and anti-crossing of eigenstates. Experiments have demonstrated that owing to anti-crossing and similar radiation rates, the …             Enhanced Lithium Storage in Hierarchically Porous Carbon Derived from Waste Tea Leaves ▶     Changhoon Choi, Seung-Deok Seo, Byung-Kook Kim et al.     In this study, highly nanoporous carbon (HCl-TW-Car) was successfully synthesized using a facile procedure combining acid treatment with a carbonization process that uses waste …             Electric-field-induced interferometric resonance of a one-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled electron ▶     Jingtao Fan, Yuansen Chen, Gang Chen et al.     The efficient control of electron spins is of crucial importance for spintronics, quantum metrology, and quantum information processing. We theoretically formulate an electric …             Angular dependent anisotropic terahertz response of vertically aligned multi-walled carbon nanotube arrays with spatial dispersion ▶     Yixuan Zhou, Yiwen E., Xinlong Xu et al.     Spatial dispersion effect of aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in the terahertz (THz) region has significance for both theoretical and applied consideration due to the unique …             A reconstruction algorithm for compressive quantum tomography using various measurement sets ▶     Kai Zheng, Kezhi Li, Shuang Cong     Compressed sensing (CS) has been verified that it offers a significant performance improvement for large quantum systems comparing with the conventional quantum tomography …             Exceptionally omnidirectional broadband light harvesting scheme for multi-junction concentrator solar cells achieved via ZnO nanoneedles ▶     Li-Ko Yeh, Wei-Cheng Tian, Kun-Yu Lai et al.     GaInP/GaAs/Ge triple-junction concentrator solar cells with significant efficiency enhancement were demonstrated with antireflective ZnO nanoneedles. The novel nanostructure was …             Highly intense monocycle terahertz vortex generation by utilizing a Tsurupica spiral phase plate ▶     Katsuhiko Miyamoto, Bong Joo Kang, Won Tae Kim et al.     Optical vortex, possessing an annular intensity profile and an orbital angular momentum (characterized by an integer termed a topological charge) associated with a helical …             Ringing phenomenon in chaotic microcavity for high-speed ultra-sensitive sensing ▶     Lei Chen, Qian Liu, Wei-Gang Zhang et al.     The ringing phenomenon in whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) microcavities has demonstrated its great potential for highly-sensitive and high-speed sensing. However, traditional …             Bell’s Nonlocality Can be Detected by the Violation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering Inequality ▶     Jing-Ling Chen, Changliang Ren, Changbo Chen et al.     Recently quantum nonlocality has been classified into three distinct types: quantum entanglement, Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering, and Bell’s nonlocality. Among which, Bell’s …             Ultrafast laser induced local magnetization dynamics in Heusler compounds ▶     P. Elliott, T. Müller, J. K. Dewhurst et al.     The overarching goal of the field of femtomagnetism is to control, via laser light, the magnetic structure of matter on a femtosecond time scale. The temporal limits to the …             Water photolysis effect on the long-term stability of a fiber optic hydrogen sensor with Pt/WO3 ▶     Xuexiang Zhong, Minghong Yang, Chujia Huang et al.     One of the technological challenges for hydrogen sensors is long-term stability and reliability. In this article, the UV-light irradiation was introduced into the hydrogen …             Transportation dynamics on coupled networks with limited bandwidth ▶     Ming Li, Mao-Bin Hu, Bing-Hong Wang     The communication networks in real world often couple with each other to save costs, which results in any network does not have a stand-alone function and efficiency. To …             Spreading to localized targets in complex networks ▶     Ye Sun, Long Ma, An Zeng et al.     As an important type of dynamics on complex networks, spreading is widely used to model many real processes such as the epidemic contagion and information propagation. One of the …             Microwave-assisted cross-linking of milk proteins induced by microbial transglutaminase ▶     Chun-Chi Chen, Jung-Feng Hsieh     We investigated the combined effects of microbial transglutaminase (MTGase, 7.0 units/mL) and microwave irradiation (MI) on the polymerization of milk proteins at 30 °C for 3 h. …             Corrigendum: Structural Stability and Deformation of Solvated Sm@C2(42)-C90 under High Pressure ▶     Jinxing Cui, Mingguang Yao, Hua Yang et al.                 Organic Redox Species in Aqueous Flow Batteries: Redox Potentials, Chemical Stability and Solubility ▶     Kristina Wedege, Emil Dražević, Denes Konya et al.     Organic molecules are currently investigated as redox species for aqueous low-cost redox flow batteries (RFBs). The envisioned features of using organic redox species are low …             Restoration of clipped seismic waveforms using projection onto convex sets method ▶     Jinhai Zhang, Jinlai Hao, Xu Zhao et al.     The seismic waveforms would be clipped when the amplitude exceeds the upper-limit dynamic range of seismometer. Clipped waveforms are typically assumed not useful and seldom used …             A Novel Information-Theoretic Approach for Variable Clustering and Predictive Modeling Using Dirichlet Process Mixtures ▶     Yun Chen, Hui Yang     In the era of big data, there are increasing interests on clustering variables for the minimization of data redundancy and the maximization of variable relevancy. Existing …             Physics-driven Spatiotemporal Regularization for High-dimensional Predictive Modeling: A Novel Approach to Solve the Inverse ECG Problem ▶     Bing Yao, Hui Yang     This paper presents a novel physics-driven spatiotemporal regularization (STRE) method for high-dimensional predictive modeling in complex healthcare systems. This model not only …             Occurrence investigation of perfluorinated compounds in surface water from East Lake (Wuhan, China) upon rapid and selective magnetic solid-phase extraction ▶     Yusun Zhou, Yun Tao, Huarong Li et al.     Using a novel magnetic nanocomposite as adsorbent, a convenient and effective magnetic solid-phase extraction (MSPE) procedure was established for selective separation and …             Modeling quorum sensing trade-offs between bacterial cell density and system extension from open boundaries ▶     Mattia Marenda, Marina Zanardo, Antonio Trovato et al.     Bacterial communities undergo collective behavioural switches upon producing and sensing diffusible signal molecules; a mechanism referred to as Quorum Sensing (QS). Exemplarily, …             Noninvasive Electroencephalogram Based Control of a Robotic Arm for Reach and Grasp Tasks ▶     Jianjun Meng, Shuying Zhang, Angeliki Bekyo et al.     Brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies aim to provide a bridge between the human brain and external devices. Prior research using non-invasive BCI to control virtual …             Site-Selective Controlled Dealloying Process of Gold-Silver Nanowire Array: a Simple Approach towards Long-Term Stability and Sensitivity Improvement of SERS Substrate ▶     Natta Wiriyakun, Karuna Pankhlueab, Suwimon Boonrungsiman et al.     Limitations of achieving highly sensitive and stable surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate greatly concern the suitable method for fabrication of large-area …             Voltage Fluctuation in a Supercapacitor During a High-g Impact ▶     Keren Dai, Xiaofeng Wang, Yajiang Yin et al.     Supercapacitors (SCs) are a type of energy storage device with high power density and long lifecycles. They have widespread applications, such as powering electric vehicles and …             A violation of universality in anomalous Fourier’s law ▶     Pablo I. Hurtado, Pedro L. Garrido     Since the discovery of long-time tails, it has been clear that Fourier’s law in low dimensions is typically anomalous, with a size-dependent heat conductivity, though the nature …             Laser Light-field Fusion for Wide-field Lensfree On-chip Phase Contrast Microscopy of Nanoparticles ▶     Farnoud Kazemzadeh, Alexander Wong     Wide-field lensfree on-chip microscopy, which leverages holography principles to capture interferometric light-field encodings without lenses, is an emerging imaging modality …             Observation of an exceptional point in a two-dimensional ultrasonic cavity of concentric circular shells ▶     Younghoon Shin, Hojeong Kwak, Songky Moon et al.     We report observation of an exceptional point in circular shell ultrasonic cavities in both theory and experiment. In our theoretical analysis we first observe two interacting …             Chimera states in uncoupled neurons induced by a multilayer structure ▶     Soumen Majhi, Matjaž Perc, Dibakar Ghosh     Spatial coexistence of coherent and incoherent dynamics in network of coupled oscillators is called a chimera state. We study such chimera states in a network of neurons without …             Wnt Ligands Differentially Regulate Toxicity and Translocation of Graphene Oxide through Different Mechanisms in Caenorhabditis elegans ▶     Lingtong Zhi, Mingxia Ren, Man Qu et al.     In this study, we investigated the possible involvement of Wnt signals in the control of graphene oxide (GO) toxicity using the in vivo assay system of Caenorhabditis elegans. In …             Imine-Linked Polymer Based Nitrogen-Doped Porous Activated Carbon for Efficient and Selective CO2 Capture ▶     Akram Alabadi, Hayder A. Abbood, Qingyin Li et al.     The preparation of nitrogen-doped activated carbon (NACs) has received significant attention because of their applications in CO2 capture and sequestration (CCS) owing to …             Influence of vacuum chamber impurities on the lifetime of organic light-emitting diodes ▶     Hiroshi Fujimoto, Takashi Suekane, Katsuya Imanishi et al.     We evaluated the influence of impurities in the vacuum chamber used for the fabrication of organic light-emitting diodes on the lifetime of the fabricated devices and found a …             Invisibility cloak with image projection capability ▶     Debasish Banerjee, Chengang Ji, Hideo Iizuka     Investigations of invisibility cloaks have been led by rigorous theories and such cloak structures, in general, require extreme material parameters. Consequently, it is …             Effective energy harvesting from a single electrode based triboelectric nanogenerator ▶     Navjot Kaur, Jitendra Bahadur, Vinay Panwar et al.     The arch-shaped single electrode based triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is fabricated using thin film of reduced graphene oxide nanoribbons (rGONRs) with polyvinylidene …             Temperature-driven topological quantum phase transitions in a phase-change material Ge2Sb2Te5 ▶     S. V. Eremeev, I. P. Rusinov, P. M. Echenique et al.     The Ge2Sb2Te5 is a phase-change material widely used in optical memory devices and is a leading candidate for next generation non-volatile random access memory devices which are …             Local Dielectric Property Detection of the Interface between Nanoparticle and Polymer in Nanocomposite Dielectrics ▶     Simin Peng, Qibin Zeng, Xiao Yang et al.     The interface between nanoparticles and polymer matrix is considered to have an important effect on the properties of nanocomposites. In this experimental study, electrostatic …             On-Chip Optical Nonreciprocity Using an Active Microcavity ▶     Xiaoshun Jiang, Chao Yang, Hongya Wu et al.     Optically nonreciprocal devices provide critical functionalities such as light isolation and circulation in integrated photonic circuits for optical communications and …             Tunneling induced absorption with competing Nonlinearities ▶     Yandong Peng, Aihong Yang, Yan Xu et al.     We investigate tunneling induced nonlinear absorption phenomena in a coupled quantum-dot system. Resonant tunneling causes constructive interference in the nonlinear absorption …             Designing perfect linear polarization converters using perfect electric and magnetic conducting surfaces ▶     Gaochao Zhou, Xudong Tao, Ze Shen et al.     We propose a kind of general framework for the design of a perfect linear polarization converter that works in the transmission mode. Using an intuitive picture that is based on …             Ultrathin Terahertz Quarter-wave plate based on Split Ring Resonator and Wire Grating hybrid Metasurface ▶     Muhammad Tayyab Nouman, Ji Hyun Hwang, Jae-Hyung Jang     Planar metasurface based quarter-wave plates offer various advantages over conventional waveplates in terms of compactness, flexibility and simple fabrication; however they offer …             Catalyst- and template-free low-temperature in situ growth of n-type CdS nanowire on p-type CdTe film and p-n heterojunction properties ▶     Ligang Ma, Wenchao Liu, Hongling Cai et al.     CdS is an important semiconductor used in optoelectronic devices. Simple techniques for growing CdS nanostructures are thus essential at a low cost. This study presents a novel …             Preparation of Hollow Fe2O3 Nanorods and Nanospheres by Nanoscale Kirkendall Diffusion, and Their Electrochemical Properties for Use in Lithium-Ion Batteries ▶     Jung Sang Cho, Jin-Sung Park, Yun Chan Kang     A novel process for the preparation of aggregate-free metal oxide nanopowders with spherical (0D) and non-spherical (1D) hollow nanostructures was introduced. Carbon nanofibers …             Aggregation and Gelation of Aromatic Polyamides with Parallel and Anti-parallel Alignment of Molecular Dipole Along the Backbone ▶     Dan Zhu, Jing Shang, Xiaodong Ye et al.     The understanding of macromolecular structures and interactions is important but difficult, due to the facts that a macromolecules are of versatile conformations and aggregate …             Evidence for the transition from primary to peritectic phase growth during solidification of undercooled Ni-Zr alloy levitated by electromagnetic field ▶     P. Lü, K. Zhou, H. P. Wang     The Ni83.25Zr16.75 peritectic alloy was undercooled by electromagnetic levitation method up to 198 K. The measured dendritic growth velocity shows a steep acceleration at a …             Coupling the normal incident light into waveguide modes of DBR mirrors via a diffraction grating ▶     Wenhong Yang, Shang Sun, Chen Zhang et al.     Here we numerically and experimentally demonstrate the conversion of normally incident light into the guiding modes of distributed Bragg reflector (DBRs) mirror. By fabricating a …             Proliferation and osteogenic differentiation of rat BMSCs on a novel Ti/SiC metal matrix nanocomposite modified by friction stir processing ▶     Chenyuan Zhu, Yuting Lv, Chao Qian et al.     The aims of this study were to fabricate a novel titanium/silicon carbide (Ti/SiC) metal matrix nanocomposite (MMNC) by friction stir processing (FSP) and to investigate its …             Multi-resolution community detection in massive networks ▶     Jihui Han, Wei Li, Weibing Deng     Aiming at improving the efficiency and accuracy of community detection in complex networks, we proposed a new algorithm, which is based on the idea that communities could be …             Broadband asymmetric light transmission through tapered metallic gratings at visible frequencies ▶     Bin Tang, Zhongyang Li, Zizhuo Liu et al.     Asymmetric transmission phenomenon has attracted tremendous research interest due to its potential applications in integrated photonic systems. Broadband asymmetric transmission …             Fabrication of Self-Ordered Alumina Films with Large Interpore Distance by Janus Anodization in Citric Acid ▶     Yingjun Ma, Yihao Wen, Juan Li et al.     Self-organized porous anodic alumina (PAA) formed by electrochemical anodization have become a fundamental tool to develop various functional nanomaterials. However, it is still …             Theoretical and Experimental Study of Light-assisted Polymerization by Multimechanism Action ▶     Hua Zhou, Dandan Song, Cheng Zhong et al.     A novel bicomponent alkyd system was designed to decrease the usage of Cobalt-based drier due to its latent carcinogensis. The system was polymerized using a Cobalt-salt complex …             Aniline-containing guests recognized by α,α’,δ,δ’-tetramethyl-cucurbit[6]uril host ▶     Rui-Lian Lin, Guo-Sheng Fang, Wen-Qi Sun et al.     The host−guest complexation of symmetrical α,α’,δ,δ’-tetramethyl-cucurbit[6]uril (TMeQ[6]) and cucurbit[7]uril (Q[7]) with a series of aniline-containing guests has been …             Detection of Fungus Infection on Petals of Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) Using NIR Hyperspectral Imaging ▶     Yan-Ru Zhao, Ke-Qiang Yu, Xiaoli Li et al.     Infected petals are often regarded as the source for the spread of fungi Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in all growing process of rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) plants. This research …             High-resolution short-exposure small-animal laboratory x-ray phase-contrast tomography ▶     Daniel H. Larsson, William Vågberg, Andre Yaroshenko et al.     X-ray computed tomography of small animals and their organs is an essential tool in basic and preclinical biomedical research. 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