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17 January 2017      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports       Physical Sciences               Erratum: Vectorized magnetometer for space applications using electrical readout of atomic scale defects in silicon carbide ▶     Corey J. Cochrane, Jordana Blacksberg, Mark A. Anders et al.                 Wave Function Parity Loss Used to Mitigate Thermal Broadening in Spin-orbit Coupled Zigzag Graphene Analogues ▶     Mohammad Abdullah Sadi, Gengchiau Liang     Carrier transport through a graphene zigzag nanoribbon (ZNR) is possible to be blocked by a p-n profile implemented along its transport direction. However, we found that in cases …             High performance magneto-fluorescent nanoparticles assembled from terbium and gadolinium 1,3-diketones ▶     Rustem Zairov, Asiya Mustafina, Nataliya Shamsutdinova et al.     Polyelectrolyte-coated nanoparticles consisting of terbium and gadolinium complexes with calix[4]arene tetra-diketone ligand were first synthesized. The antenna effect of the …             Unraveling the enhanced Oxygen Vacancy Formation in Complex Oxides during Annealing and Growth ▶     Felix V. E. Hensling, Chencheng Xu, Felix Gunkel et al.     The reduction of oxides during annealing and growth in low pressure processes is a widely known problem. We hence investigate the influence of mere annealing and of growth in …             Improvement of thermoelectric properties and their correlations with electron effective mass in Cu1.98SxSe1−x ▶     Lanling Zhao, Frank Yun Fei, Jun Wang et al.     Sulphur doping effects on the crystal structures, thermoelectric properties, density-of-states, and effective mass in Cu1.98SxSe1−x were studied based on the electrical and …             Role of molecular conformations in rubrene polycrystalline films growth from vacuum deposition at various substrate temperatures ▶     Ku-Yen Lin, Yan-Jun Wang, Ko-Lun Chen et al.     We report on the optical and structural characterization of rubrene polycrystalline films fabricated from vacuum deposition with various substrate temperatures (Tsub). Depending …             Low Temperature CO oxidation over Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Decorating Internal Structures of a Mesoporous Alumina ▶     Il Hee Kim, Hyun Ook Seo, Eun Ji Park et al.     Using a chemical vapor deposition method with regulated sample temperatures under ambient pressure conditions, we were able to fully decorate the internal structure of a …             On-line Ammonia Sensor and Invisible Security Ink by Fluorescent Zwitterionic Spirocyclic Meisenheimer Complex ▶     Tanmay Das, Apurba Pramanik, Debasish Haldar     Ammonia is not only a highly important gas for civilization but also contribute significantly for climate change and human health hazard. Highly sensitive ammonia sensor has been …             Phantom vortices: hidden angular momentum in ultracold dilute Bose-Einstein condensates ▶     Storm E. Weiner, Marios C. Tsatsos, Lorenz S. Cederbaum et al.     Vortices are essential to angular momentum in quantum systems such as ultracold atomic gases. The existence of quantized vorticity in bosonic systems stimulated the development …             Photoacoustic pump-probe tomography of fluorophores in vivo using interleaved image acquisition for motion suppression ▶     Julia Märk, Asja Wagener, Edward Zhang et al.     In fluorophores, the excited state lifetime can be modulated using pump-probe excitation. By generating photoacoustic (PA) signals using simultaneous and time-delayed pump and …             Iron Oxide Films Prepared by Rapid Thermal Processing for Solar Energy Conversion ▶     B. Wickman, A. Bastos Fanta, A. Burrows et al.     Hematite is a promising and extensively investigated material for various photoelectrochemical (PEC) processes for energy conversion and storage, in particular for oxidation …             Coulomb excitations of monolayer germanene ▶     Po-Hsin Shih, Yu-Huang Chiu, Jhao-Ying Wu et al.     The feature-rich electronic excitations of monolayer germanene lie in the significant spin-orbit coupling and the buckled structure. The collective and single-particle …             Reversible Martensitic Transformation under Low Magnetic Fields in Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys ▶     N. M. Bruno, S. Wang, I. Karaman et al.     Magnetic field-induced, reversible martensitic transformations in NiCoMnIn meta-magnetic shape memory alloys were studied under constant and varying mechanical loads to …             Unravelling a simple method for the low temperature synthesis of silicon nanocrystals and monolithic nanocrystalline thin films ▶     Ka-Hyun Kim, Erik V. Johnson, Andrey G. Kazanskii et al.     In this work, we present new results on the plasma processing and structure of hydrogenated polymorphous silicon (pm-Si:H) thin films. pm-Si:H thin films consist of a low volume …             An electromagnetic modulator based on electrically controllable metamaterial analogue to electromagnetically induced transparency ▶     Yuancheng Fan, Tong Qiao, Fuli Zhang et al.     Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is a promising technology for the enhancement of light-matter interactions, and recent demonstrations of the EIT analogue realized …             Hybrid Dielectric-loaded Nanoridge Plasmonic Waveguide for Low-Loss Light Transmission at the Subwavelength Scale ▶     Bin Zhang, Yusheng Bian, Liqiang Ren et al.     The emerging development of the hybrid plasmonic waveguide has recently received significant attention owing to its remarkable capability of enabling subwavelength field …             Cr incorporated phase transformation in Y2O3 under ion irradiation ▶     N. Li, S. K. Yadav, Y. Xu et al.     Under irradiation, chemical species can redistribute in ways not expected from equilibrium behavior. In oxide-dispersed ferritic alloys, the phenomenon of irradiation-induced Cr …             A Comprehensive Numerical Model for Simulating Fluid Transport in Nanopores ▶     Yuan Zhang, Wei Yu, Kamy Sepehrnoori et al.     Since a large amount of nanopores exist in tight oil reservoirs, fluid transport in nanopores is complex due to large capillary pressure. Recent studies only focus on the effect …             Transcriptomic basis for drought-resistance in Brassica napus L. ▶     Pei Wang, Cuiling Yang, Hao Chen et al.     Based on transcriptomic data from four experimental settings with drought-resistant and drought-sensitive cultivars under drought and well-watered conditions, statistical …             Simple, Efficient and Controllable Synthesis of Iodo/Di-iodoarenes via Ipsoiododecarboxylation/Consecutive Iodination Strategy ▶     Yun Yang, Lijuan Zhang, Guo-Jun Deng et al.     A practical, efficient, and operationally simple strategy for the ipsoiododecarboxylation and di-iodination of aromatic carboxylic acids using the low-cost commercial reagent …             Non-invasive optical estimate of tissue composition to differentiate malignant from benign breast lesions: A pilot study ▶     Paola Taroni, Anna Maria Paganoni, Francesca Ieva et al.     Several techniques are being investigated as a complement to screening mammography, to reduce its false-positive rate, but results are still insufficient to draw conclusions. …             Shifts in the fluorescence lifetime of EGFP during bacterial phagocytosis measured by phase-sensitive flow cytometry ▶     Wenyan Li, Kevin D. Houston, Jessica P. Houston     Phase-sensitive flow cytometry (PSFC) is a technique in which fluorescence excited state decay times are measured as fluorescently labeled cells rapidly transit a finely focused, …             Spatio-temporal coordination among functional residues in protein ▶     Sutapa Dutta, Mahua Ghosh, J. Chakrabarti     The microscopic basis of communication among the functional sites in bio-macromolecules is a fundamental challenge in uncovering their functions. We study the communication …             Intraarterial route increases the risk of cerebral lesions after mesenchymal cell administration in animal model of ischemia ▶     Bárbara Argibay, Jesse Trekker, Uwe Himmelreich et al.     Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are a promising clinical therapy for ischemic stroke. However, critical parameters, such as the most effective administration route, remain unclear. …             Chemical Isotope Labeling LC-MS for Monitoring Disease Progression and Treatment in Animal Models: Plasma Metabolomics Study of Osteoarthritis Rat Model ▶     Deying Chen, Xiaoling Su, Nan Wang et al.     We report a chemical isotope labeling (CIL) liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS) method generally applicable for tracking metabolomic changes from samples collected in …             Sialic Acid-Responsive Polymeric Interface Material: From Molecular Recognition to Macroscopic Property Switching ▶     Yuting Xiong, Ge Jiang, Minmin Li et al.     Biological systems that utilize multiple weak non-covalent interactions and hierarchical assemblies to achieve various bio-functions bring much inspiration for the design of …             Strain Gradient Modulated Exciton Evolution and Emission in ZnO Fibers ▶     Bin Wei, Yuan Ji, Raynald Gauvin et al.     One-dimensional semiconductor can undergo large deformation including stretching and bending. This homogeneous strain and strain gradient are an easy and effective way to tune …             Substrate-dependent electronic structure and film formation of MAPbI3 perovskites ▶     Selina Olthof, Klaus Meerholz     We present investigations on the interface formation between the hybrid perovskite MAPbI3 and various substrates, covering a wide range of work functions. The perovskite films …             Significantly improved photovoltaic performance in polymer bulk heterojunction solar cells with graphene oxide /PEDOT:PSS double decked hole transport layer ▶     Saqib Rafique, Shahino Mah Abdullah, Muhammad Mehmood Shahid et al.     This work demonstrates the high performance graphene oxide (GO)/PEDOT:PSS doubled decked hole transport layer (HTL) in the PCDTBT:PC71BM based bulk heterojunction organic …             Transparent EuTiO3 films: a possible two-dimensional magneto-optical device ▶     Annette Bussmann-Holder, Krystian Roleder, Benjamin Stuhlhofer et al.     The magneto-optical activity of high quality transparent thin films of insulating EuTiO3 (ETO) deposited on a thin SrTiO3 (STO) substrate, both being non-magnetic materials, are …             Observation of spin-polarized photoconductivity in (Ga,Mn)As/GaAs heterojunction without magnetic field ▶     Qing Wu, Yu Liu, Hailong Wang et al.     In the absent of magnetic field, we have observed the anisotropic spin polarization degree of photoconduction (SPD-PC) in (Ga,Mn)As/GaAs heterojunction. We think three kinds of …             Selective and Catalyst-free Oxidation of D-Glucose to D-Glucuronic acid induced by High-Frequency Ultrasound ▶     Prince N. Amaniampong, Ayman Karam, Quang Thang Trinh et al.     This systematic experimental investigation reveals that high-frequency ultrasound irradiation (550 kHz) induced oxidation of D-glucose to glucuronic acid in excellent yield …             Electronic Excitation Dynamics in Liquid Water under Proton Irradiation ▶     Kyle G. Reeves, Yosuke Kanai     Molecular behaviour of liquid water under proton irradiation is of great importance to a number of technological and medical applications. The highly energetic proton generates a …             Germanium Sub-Microspheres Synthesized by Picosecond Pulsed Laser Melting in Liquids: Educt Size Effects ▶     Dongshi Zhang, Marcus Lau, Suwei Lu et al.     Pulsed laser melting in liquid (PLML) has emerged as a facile approach to synthesize submicron spheres (SMSs) for various applications. Typically lasers with long pulse durations …             Tip-Enhanced Raman Scattering Imaging of Two-Dimensional Tungsten Disulfide with Optimized Tip Fabrication Process ▶     Chanwoo Lee, Sung Tae Kim, Byeong Geun Jeong et al.     We successfully achieve the tip-enhanced nano Raman scattering images of a tungsten disulfide monolayer with optimizing a fabrication method of gold nanotip by controlling the …             CIGS thin-film solar module processing: case of high-speed laser scribing ▶     Paulius Gečys, Edgaras Markauskas, Shiro Nishiwaki et al.     In this paper, we investigate the laser processing of the CIGS thin-film solar cells in the case of the high-speed regime. The modern ultra-short pulsed laser was used exhibiting …             Wide-gamut plasmonic color filters using a complementary design method ▶     Seon Uk Lee, Byeong-Kwon Ju     Plasmonic color filters (PCFs) can acquire primary colors from non-polarized incident light through a two-dimensional arrangement of subwavelength holes. However, owing to the …             Inter-Layer Coupling Induced Valence Band Edge Shift in Mono- to Few-Layer MoS2 ▶     Daniel J. Trainer, Aleksei V. Putilov, Cinzia Di Giorgio et al.     Recent progress in the synthesis of monolayer MoS2, a two-dimensional direct band-gap semiconductor, is paving new pathways toward atomically thin electronics. Despite the large …             Multiple quasicrystal approximants with the same lattice parameters in Al-Cr-Fe-Si alloys ▶     Zhanbing He, Hua Li, Haikun Ma et al.     By means of atomic-resolution high-angle annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy, we found three types of giant approximants of decagonal quasicrystal in …             In vivo response of AZ31 alloy as biliary stents: a 6 months evaluation in rabbits ▶     Yang Liu, Shengmin Zheng, Nan Li et al.     Mg-based metallic materials have been making continuing progress as vascular stents. However, the research of Mg-based materials as non-vascular stents is still at its primary …             Polarization Enhanced Charge Transfer: Dual-Band GaN-Based Plasmonic Photodetector ▶     Ran Jia, Dongfang Zhao, Naikun Gao et al.     Here, we report a dual-band plasmonic photodetector based on Ga-polar gallium nitride (GaN) for highly sensitive detection of UV and green light. We discover that decoration of …             The Effect of a Transcranial Channel as a Skull/Brain Interface in High-Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation—A Computational Study ▶     Hyeon Seo, Hyoung-Ihl Kim, Sung Chan Jun     A transcranial channel is an interface between the skull and brain; it consists of a biocompatible and highly conductive material that helps convey the current induced by …             Impact and Origin of Interface States in MOS Capacitor with Monolayer MoS2 and HfO2 High-k Dielectric ▶     Pengkun Xia, Xuewei Feng, Rui Jie Ng et al.     Two-dimensional layered semiconductors such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) at the quantum limit are promising material for nanoelectronics and optoelectronics applications. Un…             Effect of crystal plane orientation on tribochemical removal of monocrystalline silicon ▶     Chen Xiao, Jian Guo, Peng Zhang et al.     The effect of crystal plane orientation on tribochemical removal of monocrystalline silicon was investigated using an atomic force microscope. Experimental results indicated that …             Highly Stable Glassy Carbon Interfaces for Long-Term Neural Stimulation and Low-Noise Recording of Brain Activity ▶     Maria Vomero, Elisa Castagnola, Francesca Ciarpella et al.     We report on the superior electrochemical properties, in-vivo performance and long term stability under electrical stimulation of a new electrode material fabricated from …             Optimization-based design of a heat flux concentrator ▶     Ignacio Peralta, Víctor D. Fachinotti, Ángel A. Ciarbonetti     To gain control over the diffusive heat flux in a given domain, one needs to engineer a thermal metamaterial with a specific distribution of the generally anisotropic thermal …             Facile synthesis, microstructure and photophysical properties of core-shell nanostructured (SiCN)/BN nanocomposites ▶     Qian Zhang, Dechang Jia, Zhihua Yang et al.     Increasing structural complexity at nanoscale can permit superior control over photophysical properties in the precursor-derived semiconductors. We demonstrate here the synthesis …             Hole Transport in A-form DNA/RNA Hybrid Duplexes ▶     Jiun Ru Wong, Fangwei Shao     DNA/RNA hybrid duplexes are prevalent in many cellular functions and are an attractive target form for electrochemical biosensing and electric nanodevice. However the electronic …             High response speed microfluidic ice valves with enhanced thermal conductivity and a movable refrigeration source ▶     Chaorun Si, Songtao Hu, Xiaobao Cao et al.     Due to their ease of fabrication, facile use and low cost, ice valves have great potential for use in microfluidic platforms. For this to be possible, a rapid response speed is …             Can zinc aluminate-titania composite be an alternative for alumina as microelectronic substrate? ▶     Satheesh Babu Roshni, Mailadil Thomas Sebastian, Kuzhichalil Peethambharan Surendran     Alumina, thanks to its superior thermal and dielectric properties, has been the leading substrate over several decades, for power and microelectronics circuits. However, alumina …             Interstitial atoms enable joint twinning and transformation induced plasticity in strong and ductile high-entropy alloys ▶     Zhiming Li, Cemal Cem Tasan, Hauke Springer et al.     High-entropy alloys (HEAs) consisting of multiple principle elements provide an avenue for realizing exceptional mechanical, physical and chemical properties. We report a novel …             Corrigendum: nanoSQUID operation using kinetic rather than magnetic induction ▶     Adam N. McCaughan, Qingyuan Zhao, Karl K. Berggren                 High-efficiency tri-band quasi-continuous phase gradient metamaterials based on spoof surface plasmon polaritons ▶     Yongfeng Li, Hua Ma, Jiafu Wang et al.     A high-efficiency tri-band quasi-continuous phase gradient metamaterial is designed and demonstrated based on spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SSPPs). High-efficiency …             New experimental evidence to support roaming in the reaction Cl + isobutene (i-C4H8) ▶     Li-Wei Chen, Ching-Ming Hung, Hiroyuki Matsui et al.     The reaction Cl + isobutene (i-C4H8) was reported by Suits et al. to proceed via, in addition to abstraction, an addition-elimination path following a roaming excursion of Cl; a …             Molecular dynamics studies unravel role of conserved residues responsible for movement of ions into active site of DHBPS ▶     Ranajit Nivrutti Shinde, Subramanian Karthikeyan, Balvinder Singh     3,4-dihydroxy-2-butanone-4-phosphate synthase (DHBPS) catalyzes the conversion of D-ribulose 5-phosphate (Ru5P) to L-3,4-dihydroxy-2-butanone-4-phosphate in the presence of Mg2+. …             Subwavelength grating as both emission mirror and electrical contact for VCSELs in any material system ▶     Tomasz Czyszanowski, Marcin Gebski, Maciej Dems et al.     Semiconductor-metal subwavelength grating (SMSG) can serve a dual purpose in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), as both optical coupler and current injector. SMSGs …             Enhanced Radiation-tolerant Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Steel and its Microstructure Evolution under Helium-implantation and Heavy-ion Irradiation ▶     Chenyang Lu, Zheng Lu, Xu Wang et al.     The world eagerly needs cleanly-generated electricity in the future. Fusion reactor is one of the most ideal energy resources to defeat the environmental degradation caused by …             Comfortable, high-efficiency heat pump with desiccant-coated, water-sorbing heat exchangers ▶     Y. D. Tu, R. Z. Wang, T. S. Ge et al.     Comfortable, efficient, and affordable heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems in buildings are highly desirable due to the demands of energy efficiency and …             Micro-Structured Two-Component 3D Metamaterials with Negative Thermal-Expansion Coefficient from Positive Constituents ▶     Jingyuan Qu, Muamer Kadic, Andreas Naber et al.     Controlling the thermal expansion of materials is of great technological importance. Uncontrolled thermal expansion can lead to failure or irreversible destruction of structures …             High-field transport properties of a P-doped BaFe2As2 film on technical substrate ▶     Kazumasa Iida, Hikaru Sato, Chiara Tarantini et al.     High temperature (high-Tc) superconductors like cuprates have superior critical current properties in magnetic fields over other superconductors. However, superconducting wires …             Axisymmetric rotational stagnation point flow impinging radially a permeable stretching/shrinking surface in a nanofluid using Tiwari and Das model ▶     Natalia C. Roşca, Ioan Pop     In this paper, the problem of normal impingement rotational stagnation-point flow on a radially permeable stretching sheet in a viscous fluid, recently studied in a very …             Local geology controlled the feasibility of vitrifying Iron Age buildings ▶     Fabian B. Wadsworth, Michael J. Heap, David E. Damby et al.     During European prehistory, hilltop enclosures made from polydisperse particle-and-block stone walling were exposed to temperatures sufficient to partially melt the constituent …             A kind of universal quantum secret sharing protocol ▶     Xiu-Bo Chen, Zhao Dou, Gang Xu et al.     Universality is an important feature, but less researched in quantum communication protocols. In this paper, a kind of universal quantum secret sharing protocol is investigated. …             In situ imaging of microstructure formation in electronic interconnections ▶     M. A. A. Mohd Salleh, C. M. Gourlay, J. W. Xian et al.     The development of microstructure during melting, reactive wetting and solidification of solder pastes on Cu-plated printed circuit boards has been studied by synchrotron …             Differential cytotoxic effects of graphene and graphene oxide on skin keratinocytes ▶     Marco Pelin, Laura Fusco, Verónica León et al.     Impressive properties make graphene-based materials (GBMs) promising tools for nanoelectronics and biomedicine. However, safety concerns need to be cleared before mass production …             Predicting drug-target interactions by dual-network integrated logistic matrix factorization ▶     Ming Hao, Stephen H. Bryant, Yanli Wang     In this work, we propose a dual-network integrated logistic matrix factorization (DNILMF) algorithm to predict potential drug-target interactions (DTI). The prediction procedure …             Erratum: Condensed-matter equation of states covering a wide region of pressure studied experimentally ▶     Elijah E. Gordon, Jürgen Köhler, Myung-Hwan Whangbo                 Topological features of vector vortex beams perturbed with uniformly polarized light ▶     Alessio D’Errico, Maria Maffei, Bruno Piccirillo et al.     Optical singularities manifesting at the center of vector vortex beams are unstable, since their topological charge is higher than the lowest value permitted by Maxwell’s …             Phenotyping for the dynamics of field wheat root system architecture ▶     Xinxin Chen, Qishuo Ding, Zbigniew Błaszkiewicz et al.     We investigated a method to quantify field-state wheat RSA in a phenotyping way, depicting the 3D topology of wheat RSA in 14d periods. The phenotyping procedure, proposed for …             Growth and Morbidity of Gambian Infants are Influenced by Maternal Milk Oligosaccharides and Infant Gut Microbiota ▶     Jasmine C. C. Davis, Zachery T. Lewis, Sridevi Krishnan et al.     Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) play an important role in the health of an infant as substrate for beneficial gut bacteria. Little is known about the effects of HMO …             Oriented and Ordered Biomimetic Remineralization of the Surface of Demineralized Dental Enamel Using HAP@ACP Nanoparticles Guided by Glycine ▶     Haorong Wang, Zuohui Xiao, Jie Yang et al.     Achieving oriented and ordered remineralization on the surface of demineralized dental enamel, thereby restoring the satisfactory mechanical properties approaching those of sound …             A spiking neural network model of 3D perception for event-based neuromorphic stereo vision systems ▶     Marc Osswald, Sio-Hoi Ieng, Ryad Benosman et al.     Stereo vision is an important feature that enables machine vision systems to perceive their environment in 3D. While machine vision has spawned a variety of software algorithms …             Endurance and Cycle-to-cycle Uniformity Improvement in Tri-Layered CeO2/Ti/CeO2 Resistive Switching Devices by Changing Top Electrode Material ▶     Anwar Manzoor Rana, Tahira Akbar, Muhammad Ismail et al.     Resistance switching characteristics of CeO2/Ti/CeO2 tri-layered films sandwiched between Pt bottom electrode and two different top electrodes (Ti and TaN) with different work …             Ultrafast carrier dynamics in Ge by ultra-broadband mid-infrared probe spectroscopy ▶     Tien-Tien Yeh, Hideto Shirai, Chien-Ming Tu et al.     In this study, we carried out 800-nm pump and ultra-broadband mid-infrared (MIR) probe spectroscopy with high time-resolution (70 fs) in bulk Ge. By fitting the time-resolved …             Microscopic Evolution of Laboratory Volcanic Hybrid Earthquakes ▶     H. O. Ghaffari, W. A. Griffith, P. M. Benson     Characterizing the interaction between fluids and microscopic defects is one of the long-standing challenges in understanding a broad range of cracking processes, in part because …             Mechanism, reactivity, and regioselectivity in rhodium-catalyzed asymmetric ring-opening reactions of oxabicyclic alkenes: a DFT Investigation ▶     Zheng-Hang Qi, Yi Zhang, Yun Gao et al.     The origin of the enantio- and regioselectivity of ring-opening reaction of oxabicyclic alkenes catalyzed by rhodium/Josiphos has been examined using M06-2X density functional …             Microwave-synthesized freestanding iron-carbon nanotubes on polyester composites of woven Kevlar fibre and silver nanoparticle-decorated graphene ▶     Ankita Hazarika, Biplab K. Deka, DoYoung Kim et al.     We synthesized Ag nanoparticle-decorated multilayered graphene nanosheets (Ag-graphene) from graphite nanoplatelets and silver nitrate through 90–100 s of microwave exposure, …             Bendable solid-state supercapacitors with Au nanoparticle-embedded graphene hydrogel films ▶     Kyungwhan Yang, Kyoungah Cho, Dae Sung Yoon et al.     In this study, we fabricate bendable solid-state supercapacitors with Au nanoparticle (NP)-embedded graphene hydrogel (GH) electrodes and investigate the influence of the Au NP …             Gd(III)-induced Supramolecular Hydrogelation with Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Performance for Enzyme Detection ▶     Yongquan Hua, Guojuan Pu, Caiwen Ou et al.     Here we report a supramolecular hydrogel based on Gd(III)-peptide complexes with dramatically enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) performance. The hydrogelations were formed by …             MOF-derived multifractal porous carbon with ultrahigh lithium-ion storage performance ▶     Ang Li, Yan Tong, Bin Cao et al.     Porous carbon is one of the most promising alternatives to traditional graphite materials in lithium-ion batteries. This is not only attributed to its advantages of good safety, …             Mapping curved spacetimes into Dirac spinors ▶     Carlos Sabín     We show how to transform a Dirac equation in a curved static spacetime into a Dirac equation in flat spacetime. In particular, we show that any solution of the free massless …             Nitrogen-doped porous carbon monoliths from polyacrylonitrile (PAN) and carbon nanotubes as electrodes for supercapacitors ▶     Yanqing Wang, Bunshi Fugetsu, Zhipeng Wang et al.     Nitrogen-doped porous activated carbon monoliths (NDP-ACMs) have long been the most desirable materials for supercapacitors. Unique to the conventional template based Lewis …             Plasmonic plano-semi-cylindrical nanocavities with high-efficiency local-field confinement ▶     Feifei Liu, Xinping Zhang, Xiaohui Fang     Plasmonic nanocavity arrays were achieved by producing isolated silver semi-cylindrical nanoshells periodically on a continuous planar gold film. Hybridization between localized …             Impact of interfacial coupling of oxygen octahedra on ferromagnetic order in La0.7Sr0.3MnO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures ▶     Xiaoyan Li, Ionela Lindfors-Vrejoiu, Michael Ziese et al.     La0.7Sr0.3MnO3, a half-metallic ferromagnet with full spin polarization, is generally used as a standard spin injector in heterostructures. However, the magnetism of La0.7Sr0.3MnO…             Tailoring Mechanically Robust Poly(m-phenylene isophthalamide) Nanofiber/nets for Ultrathin High-Efficiency Air Filter ▶     Shichao Zhang, Hui Liu, Xia Yin et al.     Effective promotion of air filtration applications proposed for fibers requires their real nanoscale diameter, optimized pore structure, and high service strength; however, …             The influence of tip shape on bending force during needle insertion ▶     Nick J. van de Berg, Tonke L. de Jong, Dennis J. van Gerwen et al.     Steering of needles involves the planning and timely modifying of instrument-tissue force interactions to allow for controlled deflections during the insertion in tissue. In this …             Etalon Array Reconstructive Spectrometry ▶     Eric Huang, Qian Ma, Zhaowei Liu     Compact spectrometers are crucial in areas where size and weight may need to be minimized. These types of spectrometers often contain no moving parts, which makes for an …             Physical controllability of complex networks ▶     Le-Zhi Wang, Yu-Zhong Chen, Wen-Xu Wang et al.     A challenging problem in network science is to control complex networks. In existing frameworks of structural or exact controllability, the ability to steer a complex network …             Initiation and growth kinetics of solidification cracking during welding of steel ▶     L. Aucott, D. Huang, H. B. Dong et al.     Solidification cracking is a key phenomenon associated with defect formation during welding. To elucidate the failure mechanisms, solidification cracking during arc welding of …             Deployment of check-in nodes in complex networks ▶     Zhong-Yuan Jiang, Jian-Feng Ma     In many real complex networks such as the city road networks and highway networks, vehicles often have to pass through some specially functioned nodes to receive check-in like …             Modeling confirmation bias and polarization ▶     Michela Del Vicario, Antonio Scala, Guido Caldarelli et al.     Online users tend to select claims that adhere to their system of beliefs and to ignore dissenting information. Confirmation bias, indeed, plays a pivotal role in viral …             Facile Synthesis of Highly Crystalline and Large Areal Hexagonal Boron Nitride from Borazine Oligomers ▶     Sungchan Park, Tae Hoon Seo, Hyunjin Cho et al.     A novel and facile synthetic method for h-BN films from borazine oligomer (B3N3H4)x precursors has been developed. This method only includes spin-coating of borazine oligomer …             Sprayable superhydrophobic nano-chains coating with continuous self-jumping of dew and melting frost ▶     Shanlin Wang, Wenwen Zhang, Xinquan Yu et al.     Spontaneous movement of condensed matter provides a new insight to efficiently improve condensation heat transfer on superhydrophobic surface. However, very few reports have …             Atomization of High-Viscosity Fluids for Aromatherapy Using Micro-heaters for Heterogeneous Bubble Nucleation ▶     Junhui Law, Ka Wai Kong, Ho-Yin Chan et al.     The development of a novel lead-free microelectromechanical-system (MEMS)-based atomizer using the principle of thermal bubble actuation is presented. It is a low-cost, lead-free …             Insights into an evolutionary strategy leading to antibiotic resistance ▶     Chun-Feng D. Hou, Jian-wei Liu, Charles Collyer et al.     Metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs) with activity towards a broad-spectrum of β-lactam antibiotics have become a major threat to public health, not least due to their ability to rapidly …             Understanding the molecular mechanism for the differential inhibitory activities of compounds against MTH1 ▶     Mian Wang, Shuilian Zhou, Qing Chen et al.     MTH1 can hydrolyze oxidized nucleotides and is required for cancer survival. The IC50 values were 0.8 nM for TH287 with a methyl substitution, 5.0 nM for TH588 with a cyclopropyl …             Hygroscopic motions of fossil conifer cones ▶     Simon Poppinga, Nikolaus Nestle, Andrea Šandor et al.     Conifer cones represent natural, woody compliant structures which move their scales as passive responses to changes in environmental humidity. Here we report on water-driven …             A reduced mechanical model for cAMP-modulated gating in HCN channels ▶     Stephanie Weißgraeber, Andrea Saponaro, Gerhard Thiel et al.     We developed an in silico mechanical model to analyze the process of cAMP-induced conformational modulations in hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) …             The “curved lead pathway” method to enable a single lead to reach any two intracranial targets ▶     Chen-Yu Ding, Liang-hong Yu, Yuan-Xiang Lin et al.     Deep brain stimulation is an effective way to treat movement disorders, and a powerful research tool for exploring brain functions. This report proposes a “curved lead pathway” …             Scale-up of nature’s tissue weaving algorithms to engineer advanced functional materials ▶     Joanna L. Ng, Lillian E. Knothe, Renee M. Whan et al.     We are literally the stuff from which our tissue fabrics and their fibers are woven and spun. The arrangement of collagen, elastin and other structural proteins in space and time …             Multi-cellular natural killer (NK) cell clusters enhance NK cell activation through localizing IL-2 within the cluster ▶     Miju Kim, Tae-Jin Kim, Hye Mi Kim et al.     Multi-cellular cluster formation of natural killer (NK) cells occurs during in vivo priming and potentiates their activation to IL-2. However, the precise mechanism underlying …             High-precision, non-invasive anti-microvascular approach via concurrent ultrasound and laser irradiation ▶     Zizhong Hu, Haonan Zhang, Aghapi Mordovanakis et al.     Antivascular therapy represents a proven strategy to treat angiogenesis. By applying synchronized ultrasound bursts and nanosecond laser irradiation, we developed a novel, …             Two-Layer Elastographic 3-D Traction Force Microscopy ▶     Begoña Álvarez-González, Shun Zhang, Manuel Gómez-González et al.     Cellular traction force microscopy (TFM) requires knowledge of the mechanical properties of the substratum where the cells adhere to calculate cell-generated forces from …             Ion irradiation induced structural modifications and increase in elastic modulus of silica based thin films ▶     S. A. Shojaee, Y. Qi, Y. Q. Wang et al.     Ion irradiation is an alternative to heat treatment for transforming organic-inorganic thin films to a ceramic state. One major shortcoming in previous studies of ion-irradiated …             In situ Characterization of Nanoparticles Using Rayleigh Scattering ▶     Biswajit Santra, Mikhail N. Shneider, Roberto Car     We report a theoretical analysis showing that Rayleigh scattering could be used to monitor the growth of nanoparticles under arc discharge conditions. We compute the Rayleigh …             Homoepitaxial Growth of Metal Halide Crystals Investigated by Reflection High-Energy Electron Diffraction ▶     Pei Chen, Padmanaban S. Kuttipillai, Lili Wang et al.     We report the homoepitaxial growth of a metal halide on single crystals investigated with in situ reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED) and ex situ atomic force …             Quantum dynamics study of energy requirement on reactivity for the HBr + OH reaction with a negative-energy barrier ▶     Yuping Wang, Yida Li, Dunyou Wang     A time-dependent, quantum reaction dynamics approach in full dimensional, six degrees of freedom was carried out to study the energy requirement on reactivity for the HBr + OH …             Aligned copper nanorod arrays for highly efficient generation of intense ultra-broadband THz pulses ▶     S. Mondal, Q. Wei, W. J. Ding et al.     We demonstrate an intense broadband terahertz (THz) source based on the interaction of relativistic-intensity femtosecond lasers with aligned copper nanorod array targets. For …             Orbital angular momentum mode division filtering for photon-phonon coupling ▶     Zhi-Han Zhu, Li-Wen Sheng, Zhi-Wei Lv et al.     Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS), a fundamental nonlinear interaction between light and acoustic waves occurring in any transparency material, has been broadly studied for …             Temperature-dependent Schottky barrier in high-performance organic solar cells ▶     Hui Li, Dan He, Qing Zhou et al.     Organic solar cells (OSCs) have attracted great attention in the past 30 years, and the power conversion efficiency (PCE) now reaches around 10%, largely owning to the rapid …             Self-Assembly Assisted Fabrication of Dextran-Based Nanohydrogels with Reduction-Cleavable Junctions for Applications as Efficient Drug Delivery Systems ▶     Hao Wang, Tingting Dai, Shuyan Zhou et al.     In order to overcome the key challenge in improving both fabrication efficiency and their drug delivery capability of anti-cancer drug delivery systems (ACDDS), here polyacrylic …             Structures, stabilities and spectral properties of borospherene B44− and metalloborospherenes MB440/− (M = Li, Na, and K) ▶     Shixiong Li, Zhengping Zhang, Zhengwen Long et al.     Density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) calculations are carried out to study the stabilities, photoelectron, infrared, Raman and …             Characterization of Pairwise Correlations from Multiple Quantum Correlated Beams Generated from Cascaded Four-Wave Mixing Processes ▶     Hailong Wang, Leiming Cao, Jietai Jing     We theoretically characterize the performance of the pairwise correlations (PCs) from multiple quantum correlated beams based on the cascaded four-wave mixing (FWM) processes. …             Increased impedance near cut-off in plasma-like media leading to emission of high-power, narrow-bandwidth radiation ▶     M. S. Hur, B. Ersfeld, A. Noble et al.     Ultra-intense, narrow-bandwidth, electromagnetic pulses have become important tools for exploring the characteristics of matter. Modern tuneable high-power light sources, such as …             Experimental Array for Generating Dual Circularly-Polarized Dual-Mode OAM Radio Beams ▶     Xu-Dong Bai, Xian-Ling Liang, Yun-Tao Sun et al.     Recently, vortex beam carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) for radio communications has attracted much attention for its potential of transmitting multiple signals …             Molecularly Imprinted Biodegradable Nanoparticles ▶     Mariacristina Gagliardi, Alice Bertero, Angelo Bifone     Biodegradable polymer nanoparticles are promising carriers for targeted drug delivery in nanomedicine applications. Molecu- lar imprinting is a potential strategy to target …             In-gap corner states in core-shell polygonal quantum rings ▶     Anna Sitek, Mugurel Ţolea, Marian Niţă et al.     We study Coulomb interacting electrons confined in polygonal quantum rings. We focus on the interplay of localization at the polygon corners and Coulomb repulsion. Remarkably, …             A subwavelength resolution microwave/6.3 GHz camera based on a metamaterial absorber ▶     Yunsong Xie, Xin Fan, Yunpeng Chen et al.     The design, fabrication and characterization of a novel metamaterial absorber based camera with subwavelength spatial resolution are investigated. The proposed camera is featured …             Covalent modification of pericardial patches for sustained rapamycin delivery inhibits venous neointimal hyperplasia ▶     Hualong Bai, Jung Seok Lee, Elizabeth Chen et al.     Prosthetic grafts and patches are commonly used in cardiovascular surgery, however neointimal hyperplasia remains a significant concern, especially under low flow conditions. We …             Lasing optical cavities based on macroscopic scattering elements ▶     Antonio Consoli, Cefe López     Two major elements are required in a laser device: light confinement and light amplification. Light confinement is obtained in optical cavities by employing a pair of mirrors or …             Photo-reduced Cu/CuO nanoclusters on TiO2 nanotube arrays as highly efficient and reusable catalyst ▶     Zhao Jin, Chang Liu, Kun Qi et al.     Non-noble metal nanoparticles are becoming more and more important in catalysis recently. Cu/CuO nanoclusters on highly ordered TiO2 nanotube arrays are successfully developed by …             Spatial mapping of metals in tissue-sections using combination of mass-spectrometry and histology through image registration ▶     Jiri Anyz, Lenka Vyslouzilova, Tomas Vaculovic et al.     We describe a new procedure for the parallel mapping of selected metals in histologically characterized tissue samples. 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