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10 January 2017      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Physical Sciences               Fabrication and characterization of dual-functional ultrafine composite fibers with phase-change energy storage and luminescence properties ▶     Peng Xi, Tianxiang Zhao, Lei Xia et al.     Ultrafine composite fibers consisting of a thermoplastic polyurethane solid-solid phase-change material and organic lanthanide luminescent materials were prepared through a …             10-fs-level synchronization of photocathode laser with RF-oscillator for ultrafast electron and X-ray sources ▶     Heewon Yang, Byungheon Han, Junho Shin et al.     Ultrafast electron-based coherent radiation sources, such as free-electron lasers (FELs), ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) and Thomson-scattering sources, are becoming more …             Polarization-Controlled Broad Color Palette Based on an Ultrathin One-Dimensional Resonant Grating Structure ▶     Ishwor Koirala, Vivek Raj Shrestha, Chul-Soon Park et al.     Highly efficient polarization-tuned structural color filters, which are based on a one- dimensional resonant aluminum grating that is integrated with a silicon nitride waveguide, …             Optical and THz investigations of mid-IR materials exposed to alpha particle irradiation ▶     Dan Sporea, Laura Mihai, Adelina Sporea et al.     The paper is the first comprehensive study on alpha particle irradiation effects on four mid-IR materials: CaF2, BaF2, Al2O3 (sapphire) and ZnSe. The measurements of the optical …             Erratum: Detecting trap states in planar PbS colloidal quantum dot solar cells ▶     Zhiwen Jin, Aiji Wang, Qing Zhou et al.                 Design of a 15N Molecular Unit to Achieve Long Retention of Hyperpolarized Spin State ▶     Hiroshi Nonaka, Masashi Hirano, Yuki Imakura et al.     Nuclear hyperpolarization is a phenomenon that can be used to improve the sensitivity of magnetic resonance molecular sensors. However, such sensors typically suffer from short …             Physiological Remediation of Cobalt Ferrite Nanoparticles by Ferritin ▶     Jeanne Volatron, Jelena Kolosnjaj-Tabi, Yasir Javed et al.     Metallic nanoparticles have been increasingly suggested as prospective therapeutic nanoplatforms, yet their long-term fate and cellular processing in the body is poorly …             Analytical studies on ascosin, candicidin and levorin multicomponent antifungal antibiotic complexes. The stereostructure of ascosin A2 ▶     Paweł Szczeblewski, Tomasz Laskowski, Bartosz Kubacki et al.     In the class of polyene macrolides, there is a subgroup of aromatic heptaenes, which exhibit the highest antifungal activity within this type of antibiotics. Yet, due to their …             Fluorine-free electrolytes for all-solid sodium-ion batteries based on percyano-substituted organic salts ▶     Anna Bitner-Michalska, Gene M. Nolis, Grażyna Żukowska et al.     A new family of fluorine-free solid-polymer electrolytes, for use in sodium-ion battery applications, is presented. Three novel sodium salts withdiffuse negative charges: sodium …             Laser printed nano-gratings: orientation and period peculiarities ▶     Valdemar Stankevič, Gediminas Račiukaitis, Francesca Bragheri et al.     Understanding of material behaviour at nanoscale under intense laser excitation is becoming critical for future application of nanotechnologies. Nanograting formation by linearly …             Effects of oxygen vacancies on the structural and optical properties of β-Ga2O3 ▶     Linpeng Dong, Renxu Jia, Bin Xin et al.     The structural, electronic, and optical properties of β-Ga2O3 with oxygen vacancies are studied by employing first-principles calculations based on density function theory. Based …             Observation of Transient Overcritical Currents in YBCO Thin Films using High-Speed Magneto-Optical Imaging and Dynamic Current Mapping ▶     Frederick S. Wells, Alexey V. Pan, Igor A. Golovchanskiy et al.     The dynamics of transient current distributions in superconducting YBa2Cu3O7−δ thin films were investigated during and immediately following an external field ramp, using …             The effects of vacuum fluctuations on teleportation of quantum Fisher information ▶     Yao Jin     The teleported quantum Fisher information of the phase parameter of atomic state is studied in consideration of vacuum fluctuations. Our results show that the teleported …             Deformation mechanisms to ameliorate the mechanical properties of novel TRIP/TWIP Co-Cr-Mo-(Cu) ultrafine eutectic alloys ▶     J. T. Kim, S. H. Hong, H. J. Park et al.     In the present study, the microstructural evolution and the modulation of the mechanical properties have been investigated for a Co-Cr-Mo (CCM) ternary eutectic alloy by addition …             Real-time oxide evolution of copper protected by graphene and boron nitride barriers ▶     M. Galbiati, A. C. Stoot, D. M. A. Mackenzie et al.     Applying protective or barrier layers to isolate a target item from the environment is a common approach to prevent or delay its degradation. The impermeability of …             Tensile property improvement of TWIP-cored three-layer steel sheets fabricated by hot-roll-bonding with low-carbon steel or interstitial-free steel ▶     Jaeyeong Park, Jung-Su Kim, Minju Kang et al.     TWIP-cored three-layer steel sheets were newly fabricated by hot rolling of TWIP steel sheet surrounded by low-carbon (LC) or interstitial-free (IF) steel sheets. TWIP/LC or …             Strong, ductile, and thermally stable Cu-based metal-intermetallic nanostructured composites ▶     Keith J. Dusoe, Sriram Vijayan, Thomas R. Bissell et al.     Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) and nanocrystalline metals (NMs) have been extensively investigated due to their superior strengths and elastic limits. Despite these excellent …             Coexistence of topological Dirac fermions on the surface and three-dimensional Dirac cone state in the bulk of ZrTe5 single crystal ▶     Arnab Pariari, Prabhat Mandal     Although, the long-standing debate on the resistivity anomaly in ZrTe5 somewhat comes to an end, the exact topological nature of the electronic band structure remains elusive …             Photonic crystal nanocavity assisted rejection ratio tunable notch microwave photonic filter ▶     Yun Long, Jinsong Xia, Yong Zhang et al.     Driven by the increasing demand on handing microwave signals with compact device, low power consumption, high efficiency and high reliability, it is highly desired to generate, …             Non-contact hemodynamic imaging reveals the jugular venous pulse waveform ▶     Robert Amelard, Richard L. Hughson, Danielle K. Greaves et al.     Cardiovascular monitoring is important to prevent diseases from progressing. The jugular venous pulse (JVP) waveform offers important clinical information about cardiac health, …             Theoretical insight into OH- and Cl-initiated oxidation of CF3OCH(CF3)2 and CF3OCF2CF2H & fate of CF3OC(X•)(CF3)2 and CF3OCF2CF2X• radicals (X=O, O2) ▶     Feng-Yang Bai, Yuan Ma, Shuang Lv et al.     In this study, the mechanistic and kinetic analysis for reactions of CF3OCH(CF3)2 and CF3OCF2CF2H with OH radicals and Cl atoms have been performed at the CCSD(T)//B3LYP/6-311+…             Computational and biochemical characterization of two partially overlapping interfaces and multiple weak-affinity K-Ras dimers ▶     Priyanka Prakash, Abdallah Sayyed-Ahmad, Kwang-Jin Cho et al.     Recent studies found that membrane-bound K-Ras dimers are important for biological function. However, the structure and thermodynamic stability of these complexes remained …             The exact Laplacian spectrum for the Dyson hierarchical network ▶     Elena Agliari, Flavia Tavani     We consider the Dyson hierarchical graph , that is a weighted fully-connected graph, where the pattern of weights is ruled by the parameter σ ∈ (1/2, 1]. Exploiting the …             Two-Step Amyloid Aggregation: Sequential Lag Phase Intermediates ▶     Fabio Castello, Jose M. Paredes, Maria J. Ruedas-Rama et al.     The self-assembly of proteins into fibrillar structures called amyloid fibrils underlies the onset and symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and …             Smartphone-based low light detection for bioluminescence application ▶     Huisung Kim, Youngkee Jung, Iyll-Joon Doh et al.     We report a smartphone-based device and associated imaging-processing algorithm to maximize the sensitivity of standard smartphone cameras, that can detect the presence of …             Efficient implementation of a real-time estimation system for thalamocortical hidden Parkinsonian properties ▶     Shuangming Yang, Bin Deng, Jiang Wang et al.     Real-time estimation of dynamical characteristics of thalamocortical cells, such as dynamics of ion channels and membrane potentials, is useful and essential in the study of the …             CNTs-Modified Nb3O7F Hybrid Nanocrystal towards Faster Carrier Migration, Lower Bandgap and Higher Photocatalytic Activity ▶     Fei Huang, Zhen Li, Aihua Yan et al.     Novel semiconductor photocatalysts have been the research focus and received much attention in recent years. The key issues for novel semiconductor photocatalysts are to …             Enhanced thermoelectric performance of a chalcopyrite compound CuIn3Se5−xTex (x = 0~0.5) through crystal structure engineering ▶     Yufu Lu, Shaoping Chen, Wenchang Wu et al.     In this work the chalcopyrite CuIn3Se5−xTex (x = 0~0.5) with space group through isoelectronic substitution of Te for Se have been prepared, and the crystal structure dilation …             Preparation and electrochemical performances of carbon sphere@ZnO core-shell nanocomposites for supercapacitor applications ▶     Xuechun Xiao, Bingqian Han, Gang Chen et al.     Carbon sphere (CS)@ZnO core-shell nanocomposites were successfully prepared through facile low-temperature water-bath method without annealing treatment. The morphology and the …             Combining in-situ lithography with 3D printed solid immersion lenses for single quantum dot spectroscopy ▶     Marc Sartison, Simone Luca Portalupi, Timo Gissibl et al.     In the current study, we report on the deterministic fabrication of solid immersion lenses (SILs) on lithographically pre-selected semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). We …             Volumetric Light-field Encryption at the Microscopic Scale ▶     Haoyu Li, Changliang Guo, Inbarasan Muniraj et al.     We report a light-field based method that allows the optical encryption of three-dimensional (3D) volumetric information at the microscopic scale in a single 2D light-field …             Nonreciprocal Transverse Photonic Spin and Magnetization-Induced Electromagnetic Spin-Orbit Coupling ▶     Miguel Levy, Dolendra Karki     We present a formulation of electromagnetic spin-orbit coupling in magneto-optic media, and propose an alternative source of spin-orbit coupling to non-paraxial optics vortices. …             Exit point in the strong field ionization process ▶     I. A. Ivanov, Chang Hee Nam, Kyung Taec Kim     We analyze the process of strong field ionization using the Bohmian approach. This allows retention of the concept of electron trajectories. We consider the tunnelling regime of …             Heterophase-structured nanocrystals as superior supports for Ru-based catalysts in selective hydrogenation of benzene ▶     Zhikun Peng, Xu Liu, Shuaihui Li et al.     ZrO2 heterophase structure nanocrystals (HSNCs) were synthesized with tunable ratios of monoclinic ZrO2 (m-ZrO2) to tetragonal ZrO2 (t-ZrO2). The phase mole ratio of m-ZrO2 …             Self-charging of identical grains in the absence of an external field ▶     R. Yoshimatsu, N. A. M. Araújo, G. Wurm et al.     We investigate the electrostatic charging of an agitated bed of identical grains using simulations, mathematical modeling, and experiments. We simulate charging with a …             Low-temperature remote plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition of ZrO2/zircone nanolaminate film for efficient encapsulation of flexible organic light-emitting diodes ▶     Zheng Chen, Haoran Wang, Xiao Wang et al.     Encapsulation is essential to protect the air-sensitive components of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) such as active layers and cathode electrodes. In this study, hybrid …             Structural origin of fractional Stokes-Einstein relation in glass-forming liquids ▶     Shaopeng Pan, Z. W. Wu, W. H. Wang et al.     In many glass-forming liquids, fractional Stokes-Einstein relation (SER) is observed above the glass transition temperature. However, the origin of such phenomenon remains …             Structural Effects of Lanthanide Dopants on Alumina ▶     Ketan Patel, Victoria Blair, Justin Douglas et al.     Lanthanide (Ln3+) doping in alumina has shown great promise for stabilizing and promoting desirable phase formation to achieve optimized physical and chemical properties. …             Characterization of Chinese liquor aroma components during aging process and liquor age discrimination using gas chromatography combined with multivariable statistics ▶     M. L. Xu, Y. Yu, H. S. Ramaswamy et al.     Chinese liquor aroma components were characterized during the aging process using gas chromatography (GC). Principal component and cluster analysis (PCA, CA) were used to …             Non-invasive, Focused Ultrasound-Facilitated Gene Delivery for Optogenetics ▶     Shutao Wang, Tara Kugelman, Amanda Buch et al.     Optogenetics, a widely used technique in neuroscience research, is often limited by its invasive nature of application. Here, we present a noninvasive, ultrasound-based technique …             Ultra-sensitive Pressure sensor based on guided straight mechanical cracks ▶     Yong Whan Choi, Daeshik Kang, Peter V. Pikhitsa et al.     Recently, a mechanical crack-based strain sensor with high sensitivity was proposed by producing free cracks via bending metal coated film with a known curvature. To further …             Core-shell structured titanium-nitrogen alloys with high strength, high thermal stability and good plasticity ▶     Y. S. Zhang, Y. H. Zhao, W. Zhang et al.     Multifunctional materials with more than two good properties are widely required in modern industries. However, some properties are often trade-off with each other by single …             Panoramic lens designed with transformation optics ▶     Huaping Wang, Yangyang Deng, Bin Zheng et al.     The panoramic lens is a special kind of lens, which is applied to observe full view. In this letter, we theoretically present a panoramic lens (PL) using transformation optics …             The Effect of Electronic Structure on the Phases Present in High Entropy Alloys ▶     Zhaoyuan Leong, Jan S. Wróbel, Sergei L. Dudarev et al.     Multicomponent systems, termed High Entropy Alloys (HEAs), with predominantly single solid solution phases are a current area of focus in alloy development. Although different …             Ultra-Wide Band Non-reciprocity through Sequentially-Switched Delay Lines ▶     Mathew M. Biedka, Rui Zhu, Qiang Mark Xu et al.     Achieving non-reciprocity through unconventional methods without the use of magnetic material has recently become a subject of great interest. Towards this goal a time switching …             The role of Frenkel defect diffusion in dynamic annealing in ion-irradiated Si ▶     J. B. Wallace, L. B. Bayu Aji, A. A. Martin et al.     The formation of stable radiation damage in crystalline solids often proceeds via complex dynamic annealing processes, involving migration and interaction of …             Incommensurate Graphene Foam as a High Capacity Lithium Intercalation Anode ▶     Tereza M. Paronyan, Arjun Kumar Thapa, Andriy Sherehiy et al.     Graphite’s capacity of intercalating lithium in rechargeable batteries is limited (theoretically, 372 mAh g−1) due to low diffusion within commensurately-stacked graphene layers. …             Rational and practical exfoliation of graphite using well-defined poly(3-hexylthiophene) for the preparation of conductive polymer/graphene composite ▶     Hiroki Iguchi, Chisato Higashi, Yuichi Funasaki et al.     Processing and manipulation of highly conductive pristine graphene in large quantities are still major challenges in the practical application of graphene for electric device. In …             Influence of metal-mediated aerosol-phase oxidation on secondary organic aerosol formation from the ozonolysis and OH-oxidation of α-pinene ▶     Biwu Chu, John Liggio, Yongchun Liu et al.     The organic component is the most abundant fraction of atmospheric submicron particles, while the formation mechanisms of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) are not fully …             Dynamics of ferrofluidic flow in the Taylor-Couette system with a small aspect ratio ▶     Sebastian Altmeyer, Younghae Do, Ying-Cheng Lai     We investigate fundamental nonlinear dynamics of ferrofluidic Taylor-Couette flow - flow confined be-tween two concentric independently rotating cylinders - consider small aspect …             Sea-level rise induced amplification of coastal protection design heights ▶     Arne Arns, Sönke Dangendorf , Jürgen Jensen et al.     Coastal protection design heights typically consider the superimposed effects of tides, surges, waves, and relative sea-level rise (SLR), neglecting non-linear feedbacks between …             Cellulose Nanofibril Based-Aerogel Microreactors: A High Efficiency and Easy Recoverable W/O/W Membrane Separation System ▶     Fang Zhang, Hao Ren, Jing Dou et al.     Hereby we report a novel cellulose nanofirbril aerogel-based W/O/W microreactor system that can be used for fast and high efficient molecule or ions extraction and separation. …             Labeling and in vivo visualization of transplanted adipose tissue-derived stem cells with safe cadmium-free aqueous ZnS coating of ZnS-AgInS2 nanoparticles ▶     Yusuke Ogihara, Hiroshi Yukawa, Tatsuya Kameyama et al.     The facile synthesis of ZnS-AgInS2 (ZAIS) as cadmium-free QDs and their application, mainly in solar cells, has been reported by our groups. In the present study, we investigated …             Obtaining control of cell surface functionalizations via Pre-targeting and Supramolecular host guest interactions ▶     Mark T. M. Rood, Silvia J. Spa, Mick M. Welling et al.     The use of mammalian cells for therapeutic applications is finding its way into modern medicine. However, modification or “training” of cells to make them suitable for a specific …             SHG-specificity of cellular Rootletin filaments enables naïve imaging with universal conservation ▶     Toshihiro Akiyama, Akihito Inoko, Yuichi Kaji et al.     Despite growing demand for truly naïve imaging, label-free observation of cilium-related structure remains challenging, and validation of the pertinent molecules is …             Online games: a novel approach to explore how partial information influences human random searches ▶     Ricardo Martínez-García, Justin M. Calabrese, Cristóbal López     Many natural processes rely on optimizing the success ratio of a search process. We use an experimental setup consisting of a simple online game in which players have to find a …             Tunable metasurfaces via subwavelength phase shifters with uniform amplitude ▶     Shane Colburn, Alan Zhan, Arka Majumdar     Metasurfaces with tunable spatial phase functions could benefit numerous applications. Currently, most approaches to tuning rely on mechanical stretching which cannot control …             Rainbow trapping of ultrasonic guided waves in chirped phononic crystal plates ▶     Zhenhua Tian, Lingyu Yu     The rainbow trapping effect has been demonstrated in electromagnetic and acoustic waves. In this study, rainbow trapping of ultrasonic guided waves is achieved in chirped …             Experimental investigation on the characteristics of supersonic fuel spray and configurations of induced shock waves ▶     Yong Wang, Yu-song Yu, Guo-xiu Li et al.     The macro characteristics and configurations of induced shock waves of the supersonic sprays are investigated by experimental methods. Visualization study of spray shape is …             Quasi-one-dimensional density of states in a single quantum ring ▶     Heedae Kim, Woojin Lee, Seongho Park et al.     Generally confinement size is considered to determine the dimensionality of nanostructures. While the exciton Bohr radius is used as a criterion to define either weak or strong …             Large-scale, thick, self-assembled, nacre-mimetic brick-walls as fire barrier coatings on textiles ▶     Paramita Das, Helga Thomas, Martin Moeller et al.     Highly loaded polymer/clay nanocomposites with layered structures are emerging as robust fire retardant surface coatings. However, time-intensive sequential deposition processes, …             Atomic scale chemical tomography of human bone ▶     Brian Langelier, Xiaoyue Wang, Kathryn Grandfield     Human bone is a complex hierarchical material. Understanding bone structure and its corresponding composition at the nanometer scale is critical for elucidating mechanisms of …             Photoluminescence quantum efficiency of Er optical centers in GaN epilayers ▶     V. X. Ho, T. V. Dao, H. X. Jiang et al.     We report the quantum efficiency of photoluminescence processes of Er optical centers as well as the thermal quenching mechanism in GaN epilayers prepared by metal-organic …             Laser-guided energetic discharges over large air gaps by electric-field enhanced plasma filaments ▶     Francis Théberge, Jean-François Daigle, Jean-Claude Kieffer et al.     Recent works on plasma channels produced during the propagation of ultrashort and intense laser pulses in air demonstrated the guiding of electric discharges along the laser …             Fabrication of enzyme-based coatings on intact multi-walled carbon nanotubes as highly effective electrodes in biofuel cells ▶     Byoung Chan Kim, Inseon Lee, Seok-Joon Kwon et al.     CNTs need to be dispersed in aqueous solution for their successful use, and most methods to disperse CNTs rely on tedious and time-consuming acid-based oxidation. Here, we report …             Metal-free supercapacitor with aqueous electrolyte and low-cost carbon materials ▶     Nicklas Blomquist, Thomas Wells, Britta Andres et al.     Electric double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) or supercapacitors (SCs) are fast energy storage devices with high pulse efficiency and superior cyclability, which makes them useful in …             Deviation from power law of the global seismic moment distribution ▶     Isabel Serra, Álvaro Corral     The distribution of seismic moment is of capital interest to evaluate earthquake hazard, in particular regarding the most extreme events. We make use of likelihood-ratio tests to …             Soft porous silicone rubbers with ultra-low sound speeds in acoustic metamaterials ▶     Abdoulaye Ba, Artem Kovalenko, Christophe Aristégui et al.     Soft porous silicone rubbers are demonstrated to exhibit extremely low sound speeds of tens of m/s for these dense materials, even for low porosities of the order of a few …             Nonlinear Saturable and Polarization-induced Absorption of Rhenium Disulfide ▶     Yudong Cui, Feifei Lu, Xueming Liu     Monolayer of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), with lamellar structure as that of graphene, has attracted significant attentions in optoelectronics and photonics. Here, we …             Relationship between structural order and water-like anomalies in metastable liquid silicon: Ab initio molecular dynamics ▶     G. Zhao, J. L. Yan, Y. J. Yu et al.     The relationship between structural order and water-like anomalies in tetrahedral liquids is still open. Here, first-principle molecular dynamics are performed to study it in …             Large-scale synthesis of uniform hexagonal boron nitride films by plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition ▶     Hamin Park, Tae Keun Kim, Sung Woo Cho et al.     Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) has been previously manufactured using mechanical exfoliation and chemical vapor deposition methods, which make the large-scale synthesis of …             Development of the Improving Process for the 3D Printed Structure ▶     Kensuke Takagishi, Shinjiro Umezu     The authors focus on the Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) 3D printer because the FDM 3D printer can print the utility resin material. It can print with low cost and therefore it …             Large scale generation of micro-droplet array by vapor condensation on mesh screen piece ▶     Jian Xie, Jinliang Xu, Xiaotian He et al.     We developed a novel micro-droplet array system, which is based on the distinct three dimensional mesh screen structure and sintering and oxidation induced thermal-fluid …             Asymmetric interaction of point defects and heterophase interfaces in ZrN/TaN multilayered nanofilms ▶     Yuanxia Lao, Shuanglin Hu, Yunlong Shi et al.     Materials with a high density of heterophase interfaces, which are capable of absorbing and annihilating radiation-induced point defects, can exhibit a superior radiation …             A Low Voltage Liquid Crystal Phase Grating with Switchable Diffraction Angles ▶     Haiwei Chen, Guanjun Tan, Yuge Huang et al.     We demonstrate a simple yet high performance phase grating with switchable diffraction angles using a fringe field switching (FFS) liquid crystal (LC) cell. The LC rubbing angle …             Natural ageing responses of duplex structured Mg-Li based alloys ▶     C. Q. Li, D. K. Xu, B. J. Wang et al.     Natural ageing responses of duplex structured Mg-6%Li and Mg-6%Li-6%Zn-1.2%Y alloys have been investigated. Microstructural analyses revealed that the precipitation and …             An efficient analog Hamming distance comparator realized with a unipolar memristor array: a showcase of physical computing ▶     Ning Ge, Jung Ho Yoon, Miao Hu et al.     We propose and demonstrate a novel physical computing paradigm based on an engineered unipolar memristor that exhibits symmetric SET switching with respect to voltage polarity. A …             Hardness of cubic solid solutions ▶     Faming Gao     We demonstrate that a hardening rule exists in cubic solid solutions with various combinations of ionic, covalent and metallic bonding. It is revealed that the hardening stress …             Stochastic kinetics reveal imperative role of anisotropic interfacial tension to determine morphology and evolution of nucleated droplets in nematogenic films ▶     Amit Kumar Bhattacharjee     For isotropic fluids, classical nucleation theory predicts the nucleation rate, barrier height and critical droplet size by ac- counting for the competition between bulk energy …             Trade-offs between driving nodes and time-to-control in complex networks ▶     Sérgio Pequito, Victor M. Preciado, Albert-László Barabási et al.     Recent advances in control theory provide us with efficient tools to determine the minimum number of driving (or driven) nodes to steer a complex network towards a desired state. …             An analytical model of dynamic sliding friction during impact ▶     Kazuo Arakawa     Dynamic sliding friction was studied based on the angular velocity of a golf ball during an oblique impact. This study used the analytical model proposed for the dynamic sliding …             Drag reduction through self-texturing compliant bionic materials ▶     Eryong Liu, Longyang Li, Gang Wang et al.     Compliant fish skin is effectively in reducing drag, thus the design and application of compliant bionic materials may be a good choice for drag reduction. Here we consider the …             Thermal separation of soil particles from thermal conductivity measurement under various air pressures ▶     Sen Lu, Tusheng Ren, Yili Lu et al.     The thermal conductivity of dry soils is related closely to air pressure and the contact areas between solid particles. In this study, the thermal conductivity of two-phase soil …             Disaggregation of Amylin Aggregate by Novel Conformationally Restricted Aminobenzoic Acid containing α/β and α/γ Hybrid Peptidomimetics ▶     Ashim Paul, Sourav Kalita, Sujan Kalita et al.     Diabetes has emerged as a threat to the current world. More than ninety five per cent of all the diabetic population has type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Aggregates of Amylin …             Phosphorylation impact on Spleen Tyrosine kinase conformation by Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy ▶     Maximilien Cottat, Ryohei Yasukuni, Yo Homma et al.     Spleen Tyrosine Kinase (Syk) plays a crucial role in immune cell signalling and its altered expression or activation are involved in several cancers. Syk activity relies on its …             Swimming and feeding of mixotrophic biflagellates ▶     Julia Dölger, Lasse Tor Nielsen, Thomas Kiørboe et al.     Many unicellular flagellates are mixotrophic and access resources through both photosynthesis and prey capture. Their fitness depends on those processes as well as on swimming …             Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Fields Enhance the Anti-tumour Effects of the mTOR Inhibitor Everolimus against Melanoma ▶     Jie Dai, Shan Wu, Yan Kong et al.     The PI3K/mTOR/AKT pathway is activated in most melanomas, but mTOR inhibitors used singly have limited activity against advanced melanomas. The application of nanosecond pulsed …             Salidroside promotes peripheral nerve regeneration based on tissue engineering strategy using Schwann cells and PLGA: in vitro and in vivo ▶     Hui Liu, Peizhen Lv, Yongjia Zhu et al.     Salidriside (SDS), a phenylpropanoid glycoside derived from Rhodiola rosea L, has been shown to be neuroprotective in many studies, which may be promising in nerve recovery. In …             Simultaneous high-speed imaging and optogenetic inhibition in the intact mouse brain ▶     Serena Bovetti, Claudio Moretti, Stefano Zucca et al.     Genetically encoded calcium indicators and optogenetic actuators can report and manipulate the activity of specific neuronal populations. However, applying imaging and …             Erratum: Intermediate scattering function of an anisotropic active Brownian particle ▶     Christina Kurzthaler, Sebastian Leitmann, Thomas Franosch                 Self-steering partially coherent beams ▶     Yahong Chen, Sergey A. Ponomarenko, Yangjian Cai     We introduce a class of shape-invariant partially coherent beams with a moving guiding center which we term self-steering partially coherent beams. The guiding center of each …             Nitrogen-doped Carbon Derived from ZIF-8 as a High-performance Metal-free Catalyst for Acetylene Hydrochlorination ▶     Songlin Chao, Fang Zou, Fanfan Wan et al.     Acetylene hydrochlorination is a major industrial technology for manufacturing vinyl chloride monomer in regions with abundant coal resources; however, it is plagued by the use …             Layered Ni(OH)2-Co(OH)2 films prepared by electrodeposition as charge storage electrodes for hybrid supercapacitors ▶     Tuyen Nguyen, Michel Boudard, M. João Carmezim et al.     Consecutive layers of Ni(OH)2 and Co(OH)2 were electrodeposited on stainless steel current collectors for preparing charge storage electrodes of high specific capacity with …             Observation and quantification of the quantum dynamics of a strong-field excited multi-level system ▶     Zuoye Liu, Quanjun Wang, Jingjie Ding et al.     The quantum dynamics of a V-type three-level system, whose two resonances are first excited by a weak probe pulse and subsequently modified by another strong one, is studied. The …             Adaptable bioinspired special wetting surface for multifunctional oil/water separation ▶     Maryna N. Kavalenka, Felix Vüllers, Jana Kumberg et al.     Inspired by the multifunctionality of biological surfaces necessary for the survival of an organism in its specific environment, we developed an artificial special wetting …             Controlled generation of high-intensity optical rogue waves by induced modulation instability ▶     Saili Zhao, Hua Yang, Nengsong Chen et al.     Optical rogue waves are featured as the generation of high amplitude events at low probability in optical systems. Moreover, the formation of optical rogue waves is unpredictable …             Probe Into the Influence of Crosslinking on CO2 Permeation of Membranes ▶     Jinghui Li, Zhuo Chen, Ahmad Umar et al.     Crosslinking is an effective way to fabricate high-selective CO2 separation membranes because of its unique crosslinking framework. Thus, it is essentially significant to study …             Estimation of nonclassical independent Gaussian processes by classical interferometry ▶     László Ruppert, Radim Filip     We propose classical interferometry with low-intensity thermal radiation for the estimation of nonclassical independent Gaussian processes in material samples. We generally …             Enhancement effect of mass imbalance on Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov type of pairing in Fermi-Fermi mixtures of ultracold quantum gases ▶     Jibiao Wang, Yanming Che, Leifeng Zhang et al.     Ultracold two-component Fermi gases with a tunable population imbalance have provided an excellent opportunity for studying the exotic Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) …             Continuous fabrication of nanostructure arrays for flexible surface enhanced Raman scattering substrate ▶     Chengpeng Zhang, Peiyun Yi, Linfa Peng et al.     Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has been a powerful tool for applications including single molecule detection, analytical chemistry, electrochemistry, medical …             Superconductivity Bordering Rashba Type Topological Transition ▶     M. L. Jin, F. Sun, L. Y. Xing et al.     Strong spin orbital interaction (SOI) can induce unique quantum phenomena such as topological insulators, the Rashba effect, or p-wave superconductivity. Combining these three …             AuPt Alloy Nanostructures with Tunable Composition and Enzyme-like Activities for Colorimetric Detection of Bisulfide ▶     Weiwei He, Xiangna Han, Huimin Jia et al.     Tuning the enzyme-like activity and studying the interaction between biologically relevant species and nano-enzymes may facilitate the applications of nanostructures in mimicking …             A new structure-property connection in the skeletal elements of the marine sponge Tethya aurantia that guards against buckling instability ▶     Michael A. Monn, Haneesh Kesari     We identify a new structure-property connection in the skeletal elements of the marine sponge Tethya aurantia. The skeletal elements, known as spicules, are millimeter-long, …             Parametric Study of Amorphous High-Entropy Alloys formation from two New Perspectives: Atomic Radius Modification and Crystalline Structure of Alloying Elements ▶     Q. Hu, S. Guo, J.M. Wang et al.     Chemical and topological parameters have been widely used for predicting the phase selection in high-entropy alloys (HEAs). Nevertheless, previous studies could be faulted due to …             Spin-polarized current injection induced magnetic reconstruction at oxide interface ▶     F. Fang, Y. W. Yin, Qi Li et al.     Electrical manipulation of magnetism presents a promising way towards using the spin degree of freedom in very fast, low-power electronic devices. Though there has been …             Orthotropic Laminated Open-cell Frameworks Retaining Strong Auxeticity under Large Uniaxial Loading ▶     Hiro Tanaka, Kaito Suga, Naoki Iwata et al.     Anisotropic materials form inside living tissue and are widely applied in engineered structures, where sophisticated structural and functional design principles are essential to …             Loss-tolerant measurement-device-independent quantum private queries ▶     Liang-Yuan Zhao, Zhen-Qiang Yin, Wei Chen et al.     Quantum private queries (QPQ) is an important cryptography protocol aiming to protect both the user’s and database’s privacy when the database is queried privately. Recently, a …             Strain-Modulated Electronic Structure and Infrared Light Adsorption in Palladium Diselenide Monolayer ▶     Xiaobiao Liu, Hongcai Zhou, Bo Yang et al.     Two-dimensional (2D) transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit intriguing properties for both fundamental research and potential application in fields ranging from …             High-Quality Metal–Organic Framework ZIF-8 Membrane Supported on Electrodeposited ZnO/2-methylimidazole Nanocomposite: Efficient Adsorbent for the Enrichment of Acidic Drugs ▶     Mian Wu, Huili Ye, Faqiong Zhao et al.     Metal–organic framework (MOF) membranes have received increasing attention as adsorbents, yet the defects in most membrane structures greatly thwart their capacity performance. …             Mechanically Controlled Electron Transfer in a Single-Polypeptide Transistor ▶     Sheh-Yi Sheu, Dah-Yen Yang     Proteins are of interest in nano-bio electronic devices due to their versatile structures, exquisite functionality and specificity. However, quantum transport measurements …             A Light-Responsive Self-Assembly Formed by a Cationic Azobenzene Derivative and SDS as a Drug Delivery System ▶     Shengyong Geng, Yuzhu Wang, Liping Wang et al.     The structure of a self-assembly formed from a cationic azobenzene derivative, 4-cholesterocarbonyl-4′-(N,N,N-triethylamine butyloxyl bromide) azobenzene (CAB) and surfactant …             Universal and reusable virus deactivation system for respiratory protection ▶     Fu-Shi Quan, Ilaria Rubino, Su-Hwa Lee et al.     Aerosolized pathogens are a leading cause of respiratory infection and transmission. Currently used protective measures pose potential risk of primary/secondary infection and …             Direct coupling: a possible strategy to control fruit production in alternate bearing ▶     Awadhesh Prasad, Kenshi Sakai, Yoshinobu Hoshino     We investigated the theoretical possibility of applying phenomenon of synchronization of coupled nonlinear oscillators to control alternate bearing in citrus. The alternate …             Population cycles and species diversity in dynamic Kill-the-Winner model of microbial ecosystems ▶     Sergei Maslov, Kim Sneppen     Determinants of species diversity in microbial ecosystems remain poorly understood. Bacteriophages are believed to increase the diversity by the virtue of Kill-the-Winner …             Topological transformations in proteins: effects of heating and proximity of an interface ▶     Yani Zhao, Mateusz Chwastyk, Marek Cieplak     Using a structure-based coarse-grained model of proteins, we study the mechanism of unfolding of knotted proteins through heating. We find that the dominant mechanisms of …             Optical multistability and Fano line-shape control via mode coupling in whispering-gallery-mode microresonator optomechanics ▶     Suzhen Zhang, Jiahua Li, Rong Yu et al.     We study a three-mode (i.e., a clockwise mode, a counterclockwise mode, and a mechanical mode) coherent coupling regime of the optical whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) …             Surface roughness effects on aluminium-based ultraviolet plasmonic nanolasers ▶     Yi-Cheng Chung, Pi-Ju Cheng, Yu-Hsun Chou et al.     We systematically investigate the effects of surface roughness on the characteristics of ultraviolet zinc oxide plasmonic nanolasers fabricated on aluminium films with two …             Intrinsic Origins of Crack Generation in Ni-rich LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 Layered Oxide Cathode Material ▶     Jin-Myoung Lim, Taesoon Hwang, Duho Kim et al.     Ni-rich LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 layered oxide cathodes have been highlighted for large-scale energy applications due to their high energy density. Although its specific capacity is …             Cu2ZnSnS4/MoS2-Reduced Graphene Oxide Heterostructure: Nanoscale Interfacial Contact and Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation ▶     Enna Ha, Wei Liu, Luyang Wang et al.     Hydrogen generation from water using noble metal-free photocatalysts presents a promising platform for renewable and sustainable energy. Copper-based chalcogenides of …             Aminosilane-Assisted Electrodeposition of Gold Nanodendrites and Their Catalytic Properties ▶     Nga Yu Hau, Peixian Yang, Chang Liu et al.     A promising alternative route for the synthesis of three-dimensional Au dendrites was developed by direct electrodeposition from a solution of HAuCl4 containing …             Pulsation-limited oxygen diffusion in the tumour microenvironment ▶     Edoardo Milotti, Sabrina Stella, Roberto Chignola     Hypoxia is central to tumour evolution, growth, invasion and metastasis. Mathematical models of hypoxia based on reaction-diffusion equations provide seemingly incomplete …             Polarized white light from hybrid organic/III-nitrides grating structures ▶     M. Athanasiou, R. M. Smith, S. Ghataora et al.     Highly polarised white light emission from a hybrid organic/inorganic device has been achieved. The hybrid devices are fabricated by means of combining blue InGaN-based multiple …             MESL: Proposal for a Non-volatile Cascadable Magneto-Electric Spin Logic ▶     Akhilesh Jaiswal, Kaushik Roy     In the quest for novel, scalable and energy-efficient computing technologies, many non-charge based logic devices are being explored. Recent advances in multi-ferroic materials …             How a single particle simultaneously modifies the physical reality of two distant others: a quantum nonlocality and weak value study ▶     Bertúlio de Lima Bernardo, Askery Canabarro, Sérgio Azevedo     The concept of wave-particle duality, which is a key element of quantum theory, has been remarkably found to manifest itself in several experimental realizations as in the famous …             In situ heavy ion irradiation studies of nanopore shrinkage and enhanced radiation tolerance of nanoporous Au ▶     Jin Li, C. Fan, J. Ding et al.     High energy particle radiations induce severe microstructural damage in metallic materials. Nanoporous materials with a giant surface-to-volume ratio may alleviate radiation …             Densely packed aluminum-silver nanohelices as an ultra-thin perfect light absorber ▶     Yi-Jun Jen, Yu-Jie Huang, Wei-Chih Liu et al.     Metals have been formed into nanostructures to absorb light with high efficiency through surface plasmon resonances. An ultra-thin plasmonic structure that exhibits strong …             Tin Compensation for the SnS Based Optoelectronic Devices ▶     S. F. Wang, W. Wang, W. K. Fong et al.     In this paper we report the growth of high quality SnS thin films with good crystallinity deposited on two-dimensional (2D) mica substrates. It is believed that the 2D nature of …             Low-temperature atomic layer epitaxy of AlN ultrathin films by layer-by-layer, in-situ atomic layer annealing ▶     Huan-Yu Shih, Wei-Hao Lee, Wei-Chung Kao et al.     Low-temperature epitaxial growth of AlN ultrathin films was realized by atomic layer deposition (ALD) together with the layer-by-layer, in-situ atomic layer annealing (ALA), …             Plasmonic bio-sensing for the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex ▶     Guang-Yin Chen, Neill Lambert, Yen-An Shih et al.     We study theoretically the bio-sensing capabilities of metal nanowire surface plasmons. As a specific example, we couple the nanowire to specific sites (bacteriochlorophyll) of …             The cellular magnetic response and biocompatibility of biogenic zinc- and cobalt-doped magnetite nanoparticles ▶     Sandhya Moise, Eva Céspedes, Dalibor Soukup et al.     The magnetic moment and anisotropy of magnetite nanoparticles can be optimised by doping with transition metal cations, enabling their properties to be tuned for different …             In situ degradation of antibiotic residues in medical intravenous infusion bottles using high energy electron beam irradiation ▶     Min Wang, Lele Zhang, Guilong Zhang et al.     This study reported an immediate approach for the degradation of three antibiotic (amoxicillin, ofloxacin, and cefradine) residues in medical intravenous infusion bottles (MIIBs) …             Speed hysteresis and noise shaping of traveling fronts in neural fields: role of local circuitry and nonlocal connectivity ▶     Cristiano Capone, Maurizio Mattia     Neural field models are powerful tools to investigate the richness of spatiotemporal activity patterns like waves and bumps, emerging from the cerebral cortex. Understanding how …             Conformational transition of FGFR kinase activation revealed by site-specific unnatural amino acid reporter and single molecule FRET ▶     Louis Perdios, Alan R. Lowe, Giorgio Saladino et al.     Protein kinases share significant structural similarity; however, structural features alone are insufficient to explain their diverse functions. Thus, bridging the gap between …             The Molecular Structure of Human Red Blood Cell Membranes from Highly Oriented, Solid Supported Multi-Lamellar Membranes ▶     Sebastian Himbert, Richard J. Alsop, Markus Rose et al.     We prepared highly oriented, multi-lamellar stacks of human red blood cell (RBC) membranes applied on silicon wafers. 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