Scientific Reports Physics 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             NPG Asia Materials is proud to present a web focus on recent developments in organic and inorganic electronic materials, which covers recent progress in organic conductors and semiconductors, combinations and composites of organic and inorganic nanomaterials for flexible electronic devices, and the shape control of semiconducting nanomaterials for advanced functionality. Access the Web Focus today!               Physical Sciences               Reduction of Thermal Conductivity by Nanoscale 3D Phononic Crystal ▶     Lina Yang, Nuo Yang, Baowen Li     We studied how the period length and the mass ratio affect the thermal conductivity of isotopic nanoscale three-dimensional (3D) phononic crystal of Si. Simulation results by …             Three-Dimensional Structure Analysis and Percolation Properties of a Barrier Marine Coating ▶     Bo Chen, Manuel Guizar-Sicairos, Gang Xiong et al.     Artificially structured coatings are widely employed to minimize materials deterioration and corrosion, the annual direct cost of which is over 3% of the gross domestic product …             Photoluminescence of a microcavity quantum dot system in the quantum strong-coupling regime ▶     Natsuko Ishida, Tim Byrnes, Franco Nori et al.     The Jaynes-Cummings model, describing the interaction between a single two-level system and a photonic mode, has been used to describe a large variety of systems, ranging from …             Interdependent network reciprocity in evolutionary games ▶     Zhen Wang, Attila Szolnoki, Matjaž Perc     Besides the structure of interactions within networks, also the interactions between networks are of the outmost importance. We therefore study the outcome of the public goods …             Specificity and Heterogeneity of Terahertz Radiation Effect on Gene Expression in Mouse Mesenchymal Stem Cells ▶     Boian S. Alexandrov, M. Lisa Phipps, Ludmil B. Alexandrov et al.     We report that terahertz (THz) irradiation of mouse mesenchymal stem cells (mMSCs) with a single-frequency (SF) 2.52 THz laser or pulsed broadband (centered at 10 THz) source …             Addressing Reliability and Degradation of Chemitransistor Sensors by Electrical Tuning of the Sensitivity ▶     G. M. Lazzerini, L. M. Strambini, G. Barillaro     Here we show that electrical tuning of the sensitivity of chemitransistor sensors, namely field-effect-transistors (FETs) exploiting nano/mesostructured sensing materials, can be …             Deviation of Zipf's and Heaps' Laws in Human Languages with Limited Dictionary Sizes ▶     Linyuan Lü, Zi-Ke Zhang, Tao Zhou     Zipf's law on word frequency and Heaps' law on the growth of distinct words are observed in Indo-European language family, but it does not hold for languages like Chinese, …             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 …             The rich club phenomenon in the classroom ▶     Luis M. Vaquero, Manuel Cebrian     We analyse the evolution of the online interactions held by college students and report on novel relationships between social structure and performance. Our results indicate that …             Kilotesla Magnetic Field due to a Capacitor-Coil Target Driven by High Power Laser ▶     Shinsuke Fujioka, Zhe Zhang, Kazuhiro Ishihara et al.     Laboratory generation of strong magnetic fields opens new frontiers in plasma and beam physics, astro- and solar-physics, materials science, and atomic and molecular physics. …             Global Multi-Level Analysis of the ‘Scientific Food Web' ▶     Amin Mazloumian, Dirk Helbing, Sergi Lozano et al.     We introduce a network-based index analyzing excess scientific production and consumption to perform a comprehensive global analysis of scholarly knowledge production and …             Structural phase transition in IrTe2: A combined study of optical spectroscopy and band structure calculations ▶     A. F. Fang, G. Xu, T. Dong et al.     Ir1−xPtxTe2 is an interesting system showing competing phenomenon between structural instability and superconductivity. Due to the large atomic numbers of Ir and Te, the …             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. …             Systemic delay propagation in the US airport network ▶     Pablo Fleurquin, José J. Ramasco, Victor M. Eguiluz     Technologically driven transport systems are characterized by a networked structure connecting operation centers and by a dynamics ruled by pre-established schedules. Schedules …             In vivo self-bio-imaging of tumors through in situ biosynthesized fluorescent gold nanoclusters ▶     Jianling Wang, Gen Zhang, Qiwei Li et al.     Fluorescence imaging in vivo allows non-invasive tumor diagnostic thus permitting a direct monitoring of cancer therapies progresses. It is established herein that fluorescent …             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. …             Direct Transformation of Amorphous Silicon Carbide into Graphene under Low Temperature and Ambient Pressure ▶     Tao Peng, Haifeng Lv, Daping He et al.     A large-scale availability of the graphene is critical to the successful application of graphene-based electronic devices. The growth of epitaxial graphene (EG) on insulating …             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. …             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, …             Interlayer catalytic exfoliation realizing scalable production of large-size pristine few-layer graphene ▶     Xiumei Geng, Yufen Guo, Dongfang Li et al.     Mass production of reduced graphene oxide and graphene nanoplatelets has recently been achieved. However, a great challenge still remains in realizing large-quantity and …             Valley polarized quantum Hall effect and topological insulator phase transitions in silicene ▶     M. Tahir, U. Schwingenschlögl     The electronic properties of silicene are distinct from both the conventional two dimensional electron gas and the famous graphene due to strong spin orbit interaction and the …             Unveiling LOX-1 receptor interplay with nanotopography: mechanotransduction and atherosclerosis onset ▶     Carmine Di Rienzo, Emanuela Jacchetti, Francesco Cardarelli et al.     Lectin-like ox-LDL receptors (LOX-1) play a crucial role in the ox-LDL–induced pathological transformation of vessel-wall components, a crucial early step in atherogenesis. LOX-1 …             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 …             Linking mantle upwelling with the lithosphere decent and the Japan Sea evolution: a hypothesis ▶     Alik Ismail-Zadeh, Satoru Honda, Igor Tsepelev     Recent seismic tomography studies image a low velocity zone (interpreted as a high temperature anomaly) in the mantle beneath the subducting Pacific plate near the Japanese …             Citrullination as early-stage indicator of cell response to Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes ▶     Bashir Mustafa Mohamed, Dania Movia, Anton Knyazev et al.     Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) have been widely explored as potential technologies for information systems and medical applications. The impact of SWCNTs on human health …             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 …             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 …             Chaotic Ising-like dynamics in traffic signals ▶     Hideyuki Suzuki, Jun-ichi Imura, Kazuyuki Aihara     The green and red lights of a traffic signal can be viewed as the up and down states of an Ising spin. Moreover, traffic signals in a city interact with each other, if they are …             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 …             Beating the Heat - Fast Scanning Melts Silk Beta Sheet Crystals ▶     Peggy Cebe, Xiao Hu, David L. Kaplan et al.     Beta-pleated-sheet crystals are among the most stable of protein secondary structures, and are responsible for the remarkable physical properties of many fibrous proteins, such as …             Handedness helps homing in swimming and flying animals ▶     Promode R. Bandyopadhyay, Henry A. Leinhos, Aren M. Hellum     Swimming and flying animals rely on their ability to home on mobile targets. In some fish, physiological handedness and homing correlate, and dolphins exhibit handedness in their …             Visualizing hippocampal neurons with in vivo two-photon microscopy using a 1030 nm picosecond pulse laser ▶     Ryosuke Kawakami, Kazuaki Sawada, Aya Sato et al.     In vivo two-photon microscopy has revealed vital information on neural activity for brain function, even in light of its limitation in imaging events at depths greater than …             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 …             ERRATUM: Universality in voting behavior: an empirical analysis ▶     Arnab Chatterjee, Marija Mitrović, Santo Fortunato                 Understanding the catalyst-free transformation of amorphous carbon into graphene by current-induced annealing ▶     Amelia Barreiro, Felix Börrnert, Stanislav M. Avdoshenko et al.     We shed light on the catalyst-free growth of graphene from amorphous carbon (a–C) by current-induced annealing by witnessing the mechanism both with in-situ transmission electron …             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 …             A universal fracture criterion for high-strength materials ▶     Rui Tao Qu, Zhe Feng Zhang     Recently developed advanced high-strength materials like metallic glasses, nanocrystalline metallic materials, and advanced ceramics usually fracture in a catastrophic brittle …             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 …             4-D Photoacoustic Tomography ▶     Liangzhong Xiang, Bo Wang, Lijun Ji et al.     Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) offers three-dimensional (3D) structural and functional imaging of living biological tissue with label-free, optical absorption contrast. These …             DMD-based LED-illumination Super-resolution and optical sectioning microscopy ▶     Dan Dan, Ming Lei, Baoli Yao et al.     Super-resolution three-dimensional (3D) optical microscopy has incomparable advantages over other high-resolution microscopic technologies, such as electron microscopy and atomic …             Sub-cycle Oscillations in Virtual States Brought to Light ▶     Michael Chini, Xiaowei Wang, Yan Cheng et al.     Understanding and controlling the dynamic evolution of electrons in matter is among the most fundamental goals of attosecond science. While the most exotic behaviors can be found …             Soliton dynamics in the multiphoton plasma regime ▶     Chad A. Husko, Sylvain Combrié, Pierre Colman et al.     Solitary waves have consistently captured the imagination of scientists, ranging from fundamental breakthroughs in spectroscopy and metrology enabled by supercontinuum light, to …             Flexible packaging of solid-state integrated circuit chips with elastomeric microfluidics ▶     Bowei Zhang, Quan Dong, Can E. Korman et al.     A flexible technology is proposed to integrate smart electronics and microfluidics all embedded in an elastomer package. The microfluidic channels are used to deliver both liquid …             Radial arrangement of Janus-like setae permits friction control in spiders ▶     Jonas O. Wolff, Stanislav N. Gorb     Dynamic attachment is the key to move on steep surfaces, with mechanisms being still not well understood. The hunting spider Cupiennius salei (Arachnida, Ctenidae) possesses hairy …             Tunable Tensile Ductility in Metallic Glasses ▶     D. J. Magagnosc, R. Ehrbar, G. Kumar et al.     Widespread adoption of metallic glasses (MGs) in applications motivated by high strength and elasticity combined with plastic-like processing has been stymied by their lack of …             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 …             Tracking Actomyosin at Fluorescence Check Points ▶     Mercy Lard, Lasse ten Siethoff, Alf Månsson et al.     Emerging concepts for on-chip biotechnologies aim to replace microfluidic flow by active, molecular-motor driven transport of cytoskeletal filaments, including applications in …             Anomalous exchange bias at collinear/noncollinear spin interface ▶     Y. F. Tian, J. F. Ding, W. N. Lin et al.     We report on the interfacial magnetic coupling in manganite bilayers of collinear ferromagnetic La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 and noncollinear multiferroic TbMnO3. Exchange bias is observed at …             Sedimentation of macroscopic rigid knots and its relation to gel electrophoretic mobility of DNA knots ▶     Cédric Weber, Mathias Carlen, Giovanni Dietler et al.     We address the general question of the extent to which the hydrodynamic behaviour of microscopic freely fluctuating objects can be reproduced by macrosopic rigid objects. In …             Generation of Crystal-Structure Transverse Patterns via a Self-Frequency-Doubling Laser ▶     Haohai Yu, Huaijin Zhang, Yicheng Wang et al.     Two-dimensional (2D) visible crystal-structure patterns analogous to the quantum harmonic oscillator (QHO) have been experimentally observed in the near- and far-fields of a …             Microstructural fingerprints of phase transitions in shock-loaded iron ▶     S. J. Wang, M. L. Sui, Y. T. Chen et al.     The complex structural transformation in crystals under static pressure or shock loading has been a subject of long-standing interest to materials scientists and physicists. The …             Direct observation of lithium-ion transport under an electrical field in LixCoO2 nanograins ▶     Xiaojian Zhu, Chin Shen Ong, Xiaoxiong Xu et al.     The past decades have witnessed the development of many technologies based on nanoionics, especially lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Now there is an urgent need for developing LIBs …             Electronic structure and imaging contrast of graphene moiré on metals ▶     E. N. Voloshina, E. Fertitta, A. Garhofer et al.     Realization of graphene moiré superstructures on the surface of 4d and 5d transition metals offers templates with periodically modulated electron density, which is responsible for …             Tunable synthesis and in situ growth of silicon-carbon mesostructures using impermeable plasma ▶     Alireza Yaghoubi, Patrice Mélinon     In recent years, plasma-assisted synthesis has been extensively used in large scale production of functional nano- and micro-scale materials for numerous applications in …             Developing neuronal networks: Self-organized criticality predicts the future ▶     Jiangbo Pu, Hui Gong, Xiangning Li et al.     Self-organized criticality emerged in neural activity is one of the key concepts to describe the formation and the function of developing neuronal networks. The relationship …             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 …             Probing incipient plasticity by indenting colloidal glasses ▶     Y. Rahmani, R. Koopman, D. Denisov et al.     Glasses are lucrative engineering materials owing to their superior mechanical properties such as high strength and large elastic strain. A central question concerns incipient …             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 …             Social Dynamics of Science ▶     Xiaoling Sun, Jasleen Kaur, Staša Milojević et al.     The birth and decline of disciplines are critical to science and society. How do scientific disciplines emerge? No quantitative model to date allows us to validate competing …             Effect of correlations on network controllability ▶     Márton Pósfai, Yang-Yu Liu, Jean-Jacques Slotine et al.     A dynamical system is controllable if by imposing appropriate external signals on a subset of its nodes, it can be driven from any initial state to any desired state in finite …             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 …             Emergent dynamics of laboratory insect swarms ▶     Douglas H. Kelley, Nicholas T. Ouellette     Collective animal behaviour occurs at nearly every biological size scale, from single-celled organisms to the largest animals on earth. It has long been known that models with …             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 …             Perfect anti-reflection from first principles ▶     Kyoung-Ho Kim, Q-Han Park     Reducing unwanted reflections through impedance matching, called anti-reflection, has long been an important challenge in optics and electrical engineering. Beyond trial and error …             Direct observation of Lomer-Cottrell Locks during strain hardening in nanocrystalline nickel by in situ TEM ▶     Joon Hwan Lee, Troy B. Holland, Amiya K. Mukherjee et al.     Strain hardening capability is critical for metallic materials to achieve high ductility during plastic deformation. A majority of nanocrystalline metals, however, have inherently …             Surprise maximization reveals the community structure of complex networks ▶     Rodrigo Aldecoa, Ignacio Marín     How to determine the community structure of complex networks is an open question. It is critical to establish the best strategies for community detection in networks of unknown …             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. …             Hydrodynamic Model for Conductivity in Graphene ▶     M. Mendoza, H. J. Herrmann, S. Succi     Based on the recently developed picture of an electronic ideal relativistic fluid at the Dirac point, we present an analytical model for the conductivity in graphene that is able …             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 …             Universality in voting behavior: an empirical analysis ▶     Arnab Chatterjee, Marija Mitrović, Santo Fortunato     Election data represent a precious source of information to study human behavior at a large scale. In proportional elections with open lists, the number of votes received by a …             Cholera in Haiti: Reproductive numbers and vaccination coverage estimates ▶     Zindoga Mukandavire, David L. Smith, J. Glenn Morris Jr     Cholera reappeared in Haiti in October, 2010 after decades of absence. Cases were first detected in Artibonite region and in the ensuing months the disease spread to every …             Local decomposition induced by dislocation motions inside precipitates in an Al-alloy ▶     B. Yang, Y. T. Zhou, D. Chen et al.     Dislocations in crystals are linear crystallographic defects, which move in lattice when crystals are plastically deformed. Motion of a partial dislocation may remove or create …             Applying Shannon's information theory to bacterial and phage genomes and metagenomes ▶     Sajia Akhter, Barbara A. Bailey, Peter Salamon et al.     All sequence data contain inherent information that can be measured by Shannon's uncertainty theory. Such measurement is valuable in evaluating large data sets, such as …             Analogs of Basic Electronic Circuit Elements in a Free-Space Atom Chip ▶     Jeffrey G. Lee, Brian J. McIlvain, C. J. Lobb et al.     Using a thermal sample of laser-cooled rubidium atoms, we have constructed a neutral-atom circuit analogous to an electronic capacitor discharged through a resistor. The atoms are …             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 …             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 …             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 …             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 …             Highly Efficient Light-Trapping Structure Design Inspired By Natural Evolution ▶     Chen Wang, Shuangcheng Yu, Wei Chen et al.     Recent advances in nanophotonic light trapping open up the new gateway to enhance the absorption of solar energy beyond the so called Yablonovitch Limit. It addresses the urgent …             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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