Scientific Reports Chemistry Table of Contents e-alert: February 2013

01 February 2013      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports             We've got something to share with you  Access the latest scientific news and research when and where you want it. Download the latest issues to browse at your convenience, zoom in on figures and images, save your searches and synchronize your bookmarks across devices.  Tap in to find out more                Chemical Sciences               Chemically-inactive interfaces in thin film Ag/AgI systems for resistive switching memories ▶     Deok-Yong Cho, Stefan Tappertzhofen, Rainer Waser et al.     AgI nanoionics-based resistive switching memories were studied in respect to chemical stability of the Ag/AgI interface using x-ray absorption spectroscopy. The apparent …             Synthesis of ammonia directly from air and water at ambient temperature and pressure ▶     Rong Lan, John T. S. Irvine, Shanwen Tao     The N≡N bond (225 kcal mol−1) in dinitrogen is one of the strongest bonds in chemistry therefore artificial synthesis of ammonia under mild conditions is a significant challenge. …             A Rationally Designed Nitrogen-Rich Metal-Organic Framework and Its Exceptionally High CO2 and H2 Uptake Capability ▶     Xiao-Jun Wang, Pei-Zhou Li, Yifei Chen et al.     On the way towards a sustainable low-carbon future, the design and construction of chemical or physical adsorbents for CO2 capture and clean energy storage are vital technology. …             Photostable fluorescent organic dots with aggregation-induced emission (AIE dots) for noninvasive long-term cell tracing ▶     Kai Li, Wei Qin, Dan Ding et al.     Long-term noninvasive cell tracing by fluorescent probes is of great importance to life science and biomedical engineering. For example, understanding genesis, development, …             Parasitic amorphous on single-domain crystal: Structural observations of silicate glass-ceramics ▶     Yoshihiro Takahashi, Yoshiki Yamazaki, Rie Ihara et al.     Glass-ceramics (GCs) are materials obtained from the crystallisation of functional phases in glass, and have a structure that the crystallised phase embedded in the glass matrix. …             The natural ocean acidification and fertilization event caused by the submarine eruption of El Hierro ▶     J. M. Santana-Casiano, M. González-Dávila, E. Fraile-Nuez et al.     The shallow submarine eruption which took place in October 10th 2011, 1.8 km south of the island of El Hierro (Canary Islands) allowed the study of the abrupt changes in the …             Evaluation of Ca3Co2O6 as cathode material for high-performance solid-oxide fuel cell ▶     Tao Wei, Yun-Hui Huang, Rui Zeng et al.     A cobalt-based thermoelectric compound Ca3Co2O6 (CCO) has been developed as new cathode material with superior performance for intermediate-temperature (IT) solid-oxide fuel cell …             Mass production of chemicals from biomass-derived oil by directly atmospheric distillation coupled with co-pyrolysis ▶     Xue-Song Zhang, Guang-Xi Yang, Hong Jiang et al.     Production of renewable commodity chemicals from bio-oil derived from fast pyrolysis of biomass has received considerable interests, but hindered by the presence of innumerable …             Carbon Microfibers with Hierarchical Porous Structure from Electrospun Fiber-Like Natural Biopolymer ▶     Yeru Liang, Dingcai Wu, Ruowen Fu     Electrospinning offers a powerful route for building one-dimensional (1D) micro/nanostructures, but a common requirement for toxic or corrosive organic solvents during the …             Equilibrious Strand Exchange Promoted by DNA Conformational Switching ▶     Zhiguo Wu, Xiao Xie, Puzhen Li et al.     Most of DNA strand exchange reactions in vitro are based on toehold strategy which is generally nonequilibrium, and intracellular strand exchange mediated by proteins shows little …             2D Graphene Oxide Nanosheets as an Adhesive Over-Coating Layer for Flexible Transparent Conductive Electrodes ▶     In Kyu Moon, Jae Il Kim, Hanleem Lee et al.     In recent, highly transparent and flexible, two-dimensional (2D) graphene oxide (GO) nanosheet has been paid attention for various applications. Due to an existence of a large …             Molecular recognition using receptor-free nanomechanical infrared spectroscopy based on a quantum cascade laser ▶     Seonghwan Kim, Dongkyu Lee, Xunchen Liu et al.     Speciation of complex mixtures of trace explosives presents a formidable challenge for sensors that rely on chemoselective interfaces due to the unspecific nature of weak …             Self-healing hyperbranched poly(aroyltriazole)s ▶     Qiang Wei, Jian Wang, Xiaoyuan Shen et al.     The research on self-healing polymers has been a hot topic. The encapsulated-monomer/catalyst, supramolecular self-assembly, and reversible or dynamic covalent bond formation are …             Large-area, flexible imaging arrays constructed by light-charge organic memories ▶     Lei Zhang, Ti Wu, Yunlong Guo et al.     Existing organic imaging circuits, which offer attractive benefits of light weight, low cost and flexibility, are exclusively based on phototransistor or photodiode arrays. One …             Highly Compressed Two-Dimensional Form of Water at Ambient Conditions ▶     Sarp Kaya, Daniel Schlesinger, Susumu Yamamoto et al.     The structure of thin-film water on a BaF2(111) surface under ambient conditions was studied using x-ray absorption spectroscopy from ambient to supercooled temperatures at …             Novel Selective and Irreversible Mosquito Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors for Controlling Malaria and Other Mosquito-Borne Diseases ▶     Dengfeng Dou, Jewn Giew Park, Sandeep Rana et al.     We reported previously that insect acetylcholinesterases (AChEs) could be selectively and irreversibly inhibited by methanethiosulfonates presumably through conjugation to an …             Stable acyclic aliphatic solid enols: synthesis, characterization, X-ray structure analysis and calculations ▶     Yu-Qiang Zhou, Nai-Xing Wang, Yalan Xing et al.     A synthetic approach to stable enols was introduced and series of acyclic aliphatic solid enols were obtained and characterized. Relationship between the structure and the …             Control Self-Assembly of Hydrazide-Based Cyclic Hexamers: In or Out ▶     Yong Yang, Fei Huang, Chuan-Feng Chen et al.     By moving the alkoxy group on the spacer from position 5 to position 4 to add another protocol for the algorithm for intermolecular and intramolecular hydrogen bonding …             Ionic Liquid Co-catalyzed Artificial Photosynthesis of CO ▶     Jinliang Lin, Zhengxin Ding, Yidong Hou et al.     The conversion of CO2 to chemical feedstocks is of great importance, which yet requires the activation of thermodynamically-stable CO2 by metal catalysts or metalloenzymes. …             Quantum-Dot-Sensitized Solar Cell with Unprecedentedly High Photocurrent ▶     Jin-Wook Lee, Dae-Yong Son, Tae Kyu Ahn et al.     The reported photocurrent density (JSC) of PbS quantum dot (QD)-sensitized solar cell was less than 19 mA/cm2 despite the capability to generate 38 mA/cm2, which results from …             Water pollutant fingerprinting tracks recent industrial transfer from coastal to inland China: A case study ▶     Weiwei Zheng, Xia Wang, Dajun Tian et al.     In recent years, China’s developed regions have transferred industries to undeveloped regions. Large numbers of unlicensed or unregistered enterprises are widespread in these …             Oxygen vacancies promoting photoelectrochemical performance of In2O3 nanocubes ▶     Jiayong Gan, Xihong Lu, Jingheng Wu et al.     This work reports a facile method for preparing the new photoactive In2O3 films as well as their implementation in photoelectrochemical (PEC) application. We firstly investigated …             A cellulose liquid crystal motor: a steam engine of the second kind ▶     Yong Geng, Pedro Lúcio Almeida, Susete Nogueira Fernandes et al.     The salient feature of liquid crystal elastomers and networks is strong coupling between orientational order and mechanical strain. Orientational order can be changed by a wide …             On Practical Charge Injection at the Metal/Organic Semiconductor Interface ▶     Akichika Kumatani, Yun Li, Peter Darmawan et al.     We have revealed practical charge injection at metal and organic semiconductor interface in organic field effect transistor configurations. We have developed a facile interface …             Controlled intracellular self-assembly of gadolinium nanoparticles as smart molecular MR contrast agents ▶     Chun-Yan Cao, Ying-Ying Shen, Jian-Dong Wang et al.     Herein we developed a new “smart” Gd-based MR contrast agent (i.e., 1) which is susceptive to furin, a protease overexpressed in tumor. Under the action of furin, 1 condenses to …                         Scientific Reports is accepting submissions from all scientific fields. 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