Scientific Reports Chemistry Table of Contents e-alert: October 2011

03 October 2011      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Chemical Sciences               Emergence of structural patterns out of synchronization in networks with competitive interactions ▶     Salvatore Assenza, Ricardo Gutiérrez, Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes et al.     Synchronization is a collective phenomenon occurring in systems of interacting units, and is ubiquitous in nature, society and technology. Recent studies have enlightened the …             Experimental pressure-temperature phase diagram of boron: resolving the long-standing enigma ▶     Gleb Parakhonskiy, Natalia Dubrovinskaia, Elena Bykova et al.     Boron, discovered as an element in 1808 and produced in pure form in 1909, has still remained the last elemental material, having stable natural isotopes, with the ground state …             Solving Quantum Ground-State Problems with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ▶     Zhaokai Li, Man-Hong Yung, Hongwei Chen et al.     Quantum ground-state problems are computationally hard problems for general many-body Hamiltonians; there is no classical or quantum algorithm known to be able to solve them …             Quasi-Molecular Fluorescence from Graphene Oxide ▶     Charudatta Galande, Aditya D. Mohite, Anton V. Naumov et al.     Aqueous dispersions of graphene oxide (GO) have been found to emit a structured, strongly pH-dependent visible fluorescence. Based on experimental results and model computations, …             OspA-CD40 dyad: ligand-receptor interaction in the translocation of neuroinvasive Borrelia across the blood-brain barrier ▶     Lucia Pulzova, Andrej Kovac, Rastislav Mucha et al.     Lyme borreliosis is the most widespread vector-borne disease in temperate zones of Europe and North America. Although the infection is treatable, the symptoms are often overlooked …             Enhanced clickability of doubly sterically-hindered aryl azides ▶     Suguru Yoshida, Akira Shiraishi, Kimiyuki Kanno et al.     Steric character is one of the most fundamental factors to determine the reactivity of the substrate in organic synthesis. 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