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31 January 2017      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Chemical Sciences               A robust, highly stretchable supramolecular polymer conductive hydrogel with self-healability and thermo-processability ▶     Qian Wu, Junjie Wei, Bing Xu et al.     Dual amide hydrogen bond crosslinked and strengthened high strength supramolecular polymer conductive hydrogels were fabricated by simply in situ doping poly (N-acryloyl …             Poly(carboxylate ether)-based superplasticizer achieves workability retention in calcium aluminate cement ▶     Omid Akhlaghi, Yusuf Ziya Menceloglu, Ozge Akbulut     Calcium aluminate cement (CAC) suffers from loss of workability in less than an hour (~15 minutes) after first touch of water. Current superplasticizers that are utilized to …             Solar-Pumping Upconversion of Interfacial Coordination Nanoparticles ▶     Ayumi Ishii, Miki Hasegawa     An interfacial coordination nanoparticle successfully exhibited an upconversion blue emission excited by very low-power light irradiation, such as sunlight. The interfacial …             Hydrocracking of Jatropha Oil over non-sulfided PTA-NiMo/ZSM-5 Catalyst ▶     Xiaosong Yang, Jing Liu, Kai Fan et al.     The PTA-NiMo/ZSM-5 catalyst impregnated with phosphotungstic acid (PTA) was designed for the transformation of Jatropha oil into benzene, toluene, and xylenes (BTX) aromatics. …             Magnetocaloric effect and negative thermal expansion in hexagonal Fe doped MnNiGe compounds with a magnetoelastic AFM-FM-like transition ▶     Kun Xu, Zhe Li, Enke Liu et al.     We report a detailed study of two successive first-order transitions, including a martensitic transition (MT) and an antiferromagnetic (AFM)-ferromagnetic (FM)-like transition, …             Emergent Properties of Giant Vesicles Formed by a Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly (PISA) Reaction ▶     Anders N. Albertsen, Jan K. Szymański, Juan Pérez-Mercader     Giant micrometer sized vesicles are of obvious interest to the natural sciences as well as engineering, having potential application in fields ranging from drug delivery to …             Hexagonal tungsten oxide nanoflowers as enzymatic mimetics and electrocatalysts ▶     Chan Yeong Park, Ji Min Seo, Hongil Jo et al.     Tungsten oxide (WOx) has been widely studied for versatile applications based on its photocatalytic, intrinsic catalytic, and electrocatalytic properties. Among the several …             Temperature dependent CO2 behavior in microporous 1-D channels of a metal-organic framework with multiple interaction sites ▶     Dongwook Kim, Jaehun Park, Yung Sam Kim et al.     The MOF with the encapsulated CO2 molecule shows that the CO2 molecule is ligated to the unsaturated Cu(II) sites in the cage using its Lewis basic oxygen atom via an angular η1…             Converting Ni-loaded biochars into supercapacitors: Implication on the reuse of exhausted carbonaceous sorbents ▶     Yifan Wang, Yue Zhang, Lei Pei et al.     Biochar derived from waste biomass has proven as a promising sorbent for removal of heavy metals from wastewater. However, proper disposal of such a heavy metal-containing …             One-Pot Green Synthesis of Graphene Nanosheets Encapsulated Gold Nanoparticles for Sensitive and Selective Detection of Dopamine ▶     Balamurugan Thirumalraj, Chellakannu Rajkumar, Shen-Ming Chen et al.     We report a simple new approach for green preparation of gallic acid supported reduced graphene oxide encapsulated gold nanoparticles (GA-RGO/AuNPs) via one-pot hydrothermal …             Regioselectivity and Mechanism of Synthesizing N-Substituted 2-Pyridones and 2-Substituted Pyridines via Metal-Free C-O and C-N Bond-Cleaving of Oxazoline[3,2-a]pyridiniums ▶     Bo Li, Susu Xue, Yang Yang et al.     Novel intermediate oxazoline[3,2-a]pyridiniums were facilely prepared from 2-(2,2-dimethoxyethoxy)-pyridines via acid promoted intramolecular cyclization. Sequentially, the …             Erratum: The Synergy of Double Cross-linking Agents on the Properties of Styrene Butadiene Rubber Foams ▶     Liang Shao, Zhan-You Ji, Jian-Zhong Ma et al.                 Catalytic behavior of metal catalysts in high-temperature RWGS reaction: In-situ FT-IR experiments and first-principles calculations ▶     Sungjun Choi, Byoung-In Sang, Jongsup Hong et al.     High-temperature chemical reactions are ubiquitous in (electro) chemical applications designed to meet the growing demands of environmental and energy protection. However, the …             Electronic Structure Evolution with Composition Alteration of RhxCuy Alloy Nanoparticles ▶     Natalia Palina, Osami Sakata, L. S. R. Kumara et al.     The change in electronic structure of extremely small RhxCuy alloy nanoparticles (NPs) with composition variation was investigated by core-level (CL) and valence-band (VB) hard …             A novel Laccase Biosensor based on Laccase immobilized Graphene-Cellulose Microfiber Composite modified Screen-Printed Carbon Electrode for Sensitive Determination of Catechol ▶     Selvakumar Palanisamy, Sayee Kannan Ramaraj, Shen-Ming Chen et al.     In the present work, we demonstrate the fabrication of laccase biosensor to detect the catechol (CC) using laccase immobilized on graphene-cellulose microfibers (GR-CMF) …             Determining the Photoisomerization Quantum Yield of Photoswitchable Molecules in Solution and in the Solid State ▶     K. Stranius, K. Börjesson     Photoswitchable molecules are able to isomerize between two metastable forms through light stimuli. Originally being studied by photochemists, this type of molecule has now found …             Advanced Materials From Fungal Mycelium: Fabrication and Tuning of Physical Properties ▶     Muhammad Haneef, Luca Ceseracciu, Claudio Canale et al.     In this work is presented a new category of self-growing, fibrous, natural composite materials with controlled physical properties that can be produced in large quantities and …             CuMnOS Nanoflowers with Different Cu+/Cu2+ Ratios for the CO2-to-CH3OH and the CH3OH-to-H2 Redox Reactions ▶     Xiaoyun Chen, Hairus Abdullah, Dong-Hau Kuo     A conservative CO2-Methanol (CH3OH) regeneration cycle, to capture and reutilize the greenhouse gas of CO2 by aqueous hydrogenation for industry-useful CH3OH and to convert …             Towards accurate quantum simulations of large systems with small computers ▶     Yonggang Yang     Numerical simulations are important for many systems. 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