Scientific Reports Physics Table of Contents e-alert: April 2013

02 April 2013      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports                 Scientific Reports is accepting submissions from all scientific fields. Submit your manuscript now.                 Physical Sciences               ERRATUM: Subwavelength metallic waveguides as a tool for extreme confinement of THz surface waves ▶     D. Gacemi, J. Mangeney, R. Colombelli et al.                 Tailoring Dispersion for Broadband Low-loss Optical Metamaterials Using Deep-subwavelength Inclusions ▶     Zhi Hao Jiang, Seokho Yun, Lan Lin et al.     Metamaterials have the potential to create optical devices with new and diverse functionalities based on novel wave phenomena. Most practical optical systems require that the …             Online monitoring of printed electronics by Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography ▶     Erkki Alarousu, Ahmed AlSaggaf, Ghassan E. Jabbour     Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT) is an optical method capable of 3D imaging of object's internal structure with micron-scale resolution. Modern SD-OCT tools …             Hollow Porous SiO2 Nanocubes Towards High-performance Anodes for Lithium-ion Batteries ▶     Nan Yan, Fang Wang, Hao Zhong et al.     The high theoretical capacity and low discharge potential of silicon have attracted much attention on Si-based anodes. Herein, hollow porous SiO2 nanocubes have been prepared via …             One-dimensional weak antilocalization in single-crystal Bi2Te3 nanowires ▶     Wei Ning, Haifeng Du, Fengyu Kong et al.     Angle-dependent magnetoconductance was measured on an individual surface-curved Bi2Te3 single-crystal nanowire fabricated by electrochemical deposition, where the evolution of …             Inorganic coatings for optimized non-viral transfection of stem cells ▶     Siyoung Choi, Xiaohua Yu, Leenaporn Jongpaiboonkit et al.     “Biomimetic” approaches for heterogeneous growth of inorganic coatings have become particularly widespread in biomedical applications, where calcium phosphate (CaP) mineral …             Nanotopography-mediated Reverse Uptake for siRNA Delivery into Neural Stem Cells to Enhance Neuronal Differentiation ▶     Aniruddh Solanki, Shreyas Shah, Perry T. Yin et al.     RNA interference (RNAi) for controlling gene expression levels using siRNA or miRNA is emerging as an important tool in stem cell biology. However, the conventional methods used …             Observing fermionic statistics with photons in arbitrary processes ▶     Jonathan C. F. Matthews, Konstantinos Poulios, Jasmin D. A. Meinecke et al.     Quantum mechanics defines two classes of particles-bosons and fermions-whose exchange statistics fundamentally dictate quantum dynamics. Here we develop a scheme that uses …             Photostimulated near-infrared persistent luminescence as a new optical read-out from Cr3+-doped LiGa5O8 ▶     Feng Liu, Wuzhao Yan, Yen-Jun Chuang et al.     In conventional photostimulable storage phosphors, the optical information written by x-ray or ultraviolet irradiation is usually read out as a visible photostimulated …             Cu/Ba/bauxite: an Inexpensive and Efficient Alternative for Pt/Ba/Al2O3 in NOx Removal ▶     Xiuyun Wang, Zhilin Chen, Yongjin Luo et al.     Cu/Ba/bauxite possesses superior NOx storage and reduction (NSR) performances, high thermal stability, strong resistance against SO2 poisoning and outstanding regeneration ability …             UV-radiation Induced Disruption of Dry-Cavities in Human γD-crystallin Results in Decreased Stability and Faster Unfolding ▶     Zhen Xia, Zaixing Yang, Tien Huynh et al.     Age-onset cataracts are believed to be expedited by the accumulation of UV-damaged human γD-crystallins in the eye lens. Here we show with molecular dynamics simulations that the …             Imaging the action of antimicrobial peptides on living bacterial cells ▶     Michelle L. Gee, Matthew Burton, Alistair Grevis-James et al.     Antimicrobial peptides hold promise as broad-spectrum alternatives to conventional antibiotics. The mechanism of action of this class of peptide is a topical area of research …             CORRIGENDUM: Probing the different spatial scales of Kel F-800 polymeric glass under pressure ▶     Elissaios Stavrou, Muhtar Ahart, Mohammad F. Mahmood et al.                 Compressive adaptive computational ghost imaging ▶     Marc Aβmann, Manfred Bayer     Compressive sensing is considered a huge breakthrough in signal acquisition. It allows recording an image consisting of N2 pixels using much fewer than N2 measurements if it can …             Novel hetero-layered materials with tunable direct band gaps by sandwiching different metal disulfides and diselenides ▶     Humberto Terrones, Florentino López-Urías, Mauricio Terrones     Although bulk hexagonal phases of layered semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (STMD) such as MoS2, WS2, WSe2 and MoSe2 exhibit indirect band gaps, a mono-layer of STMD …             Core-shell silicon nanowire solar cells ▶     M. M. Adachi, M. P. Anantram, K. S. Karim     Silicon nanowires can enhance broadband optical absorption and reduce radial carrier collection distances in solar cell devices. Arrays of disordered nanowires grown by …             Tuning magnetic anisotropies of Fe films on Si(111) substrate via direction variation of heating current ▶     Qiong Wu, Wei He, Hao-Liang Liu et al.     We adopted a novel method to tune the terrace width of Si(111) substrate by varying the direction of heating current. It was observed that the uniaxial magnetic anisotropy (UMA) of …             Decoherence induced deformation of the ground state in adiabatic quantum computation ▶     Qiang Deng, Dmitri V. Averin, Mohammad H. Amin et al.     Despite more than a decade of research on adiabatic quantum computation (AQC), its decoherence properties are still poorly understood. Many theoretical works have suggested that …             Properties of Disorder-Engineered Black Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles through Hydrogenation ▶     Xiaobo Chen, Lei Liu, Zhi Liu et al.     The recent discovery of “black” TiO2 nanoparticles with visible and infrared absorption has triggered an explosion of interest in the application of TiO2 in a diverse set of solar …             Adaptive role switching promotes fairness in networked ultimatum game ▶     Te Wu, Feng Fu, Yanling Zhang et al.     In recent years, mechanisms favoring fair split in the ultimatum game have attracted growing interests because of its practical implications for international bargains. In this …             Influence of Crystallinity and Energetics on Charge Separation in Polymer–Inorganic Nanocomposite Films for Solar Cells ▶     Neha Bansal, Luke X. Reynolds, Andrew MacLachlan et al.     The dissociation of photogenerated excitons and the subsequent spatial separation of the charges are of crucial importance to the design of efficient donor-acceptor heterojunction …             Porous Dendritic Platinum Nanotubes with Extremely High Activity and Stability for Oxygen Reduction Reaction ▶     Gaixia Zhang, Shuhui Sun, Mei Cai et al.     Controlling the morphology of Pt nanostructures can provide opportunities to greatly increase their activity and stability. Porous dendritic Pt nanotubes were successfully …             Electrochemiluminescence energy transfer-promoted ultrasensitive immunoassay using near-infrared-emitting CdSeTe/CdS/ZnS quantum dots and gold nanorods ▶     Lingling Li, Ying Chen, Qian Lu et al.     The marriage of energy transfer with electrochemiluminescence has produced a new technology named electrochemiluminescence energy transfer (ECL-ET), which can realize effective …             Recyclable organic solar cells on cellulose nanocrystal substrates ▶     Yinhua Zhou, Canek Fuentes-Hernandez, Talha M. Khan et al.     Solar energy is potentially the largest source of renewable energy at our disposal, but significant advances are required to make photovoltaic technologies economically viable …             Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility ▶     Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, César A. Hidalgo, Michel Verleysen et al.     We study fifteen months of human mobility data for one and a half million individuals and find that human mobility traces are highly unique. In fact, in a dataset where the …             Ubiquinone-quantum dot bioconjugates for in vitro and intracellular complex I sensing ▶     Wei Ma, Li-Xia Qin, Feng-Tao Liu et al.     Quantum dots (QDs) have attracted increasing interest in bioimaging and sensing. Here, we report a biosensor of complex I using ubiquinone-terminated disulphides with different …             Controlling Circadian Rhythms by Dark-Pulse Perturbations in Arabidopsis thaliana ▶     Hirokazu Fukuda, Haruhiko Murase, Isao T. Tokuda     Plant circadian systems are composed of a large number of self-sustained cellular circadian oscillators. Although the light-dark signal in the natural environment is known to be …             Physicochemical insight into gap openings in graphene ▶     Y. F. Zhu, Q. Q. Dai, M. Zhao et al.     Based on a newly developed size-dependent cohesive energy formula for two-dimensional materials, a unified theoretical model was established to illustrate the gap openings in …             Defect annihilation at grain boundaries in alpha-Fe ▶     Di Chen, Jing Wang, Tianyi Chen et al.     Understanding radiation responses of Fe-based metals is essential to develop radiation tolerant steels for longer and safer life cycles in harsh reactor environments. Nanograined …             A carbon nanotube-infused polysulfone membrane with polyvinyl alcohol layer for treating oil-containing waste water ▶     Selby Maphutha, Kapil Moothi, M. Meyyappan et al.     A carbon nanotube (CNT) integrated polymer composite membrane with a polyvinyl alcohol barrier layer has been prepared to separate oil from water for treatment of oil-containing …             Evolution of collective action in adaptive social structures ▶     João A. Moreira, Jorge M. Pacheco, Francisco C. Santos     Many problems in nature can be conveniently framed as a problem of evolution of collective cooperative behaviour, often modelled resorting to the tools of evolutionary game theory …             Single Glucose Biofuel Cells Implanted in Rats Power Electronic Devices ▶     A. Zebda, S. Cosnier, J.-P. Alcaraz et al.     We describe the first implanted glucose biofuel cell (GBFC) that is capable of generating sufficient power from a mammal's body fluids to act as the sole power source for …             Homogeneous antibody fragment conjugation by disulfide bridging introduces ‘spinostics’ ▶     Felix F. Schumacher, Vishal A. Sanchania, Berend Tolner et al.     A major obstacle to the efficient production of antibody conjugates for therapy and diagnosis is the non-ideal performance of commonly used chemical methods for the attachment of …             Ultra low-loss, isotropic optical negative-index metamaterial based on hybrid metal-semiconductor nanowires ▶     R. Paniagua-Domínguez, D. R. Abujetas, J. A. Sánchez-Gil     Recently, many fascinating properties predicted for metamaterials (negative refraction, superlensing, electromagnetic cloaking,…) were experimentally demonstrated. Unfortunately, …             Green “planting” nanostructured single crystal silver ▶     Hong Zhao, Fei Wang, Yuesheng Ning et al.     Design and fabrication of noble metal nanocrystals have attracted much attention due to their wide applications in catalysis, optical detection and biomedicine. However, it still …             Three-dimensional patterning and morphological control of porous nanomaterials by gray-scale direct imprinting ▶     Judson D. Ryckman, Yang Jiao, Sharon M. Weiss     We present a method for direct three-dimensional (3D) patterning of porous nanomaterials through the application of a premastered and reusable gray-scale stamp. Four classes of 3D …             Remarkable transition from rocksalt/perovskite layered structure to fluorite/rocksalt layered structure in rapidly cooled Ln2CuO4 ▶     Chami N. K. Patabendige, Abul K. Azad, Paul A. Connor et al.     Lanthanide cuprates of formula Ln2CuO4 exist in two principal forms, T and T′ which are renowned for their exhibition at low temperatures of hole and electronic types of …             Lighting Up Ultraviolet Fluorescence From Chicken Albumen Through Plasmon Resonance Energy Transfer of Gold Nanoparticles ▶     I. -Tsung Chen, Po-Hsiang Chang, Yun-Chorng Chang et al.     Au nanoparticles (AuNPs), which easily aggregate in organic thin film, are observed to well-disperse in chicken albumen thin films. The incorporated AuNPs is distributed uniformly …             Dynamic Control of Collapse in a Vortex Airy Beam ▶     Rui-Pin Chen, Khian-Hooi Chew, Sailing He     Here we study systematically the self-focusing dynamics and collapse of vortex Airy optical beams in a Kerr medium. The collapse is suppressed compared to a non-vortex Airy beam …             Scalable Functionalized Graphene Nano-platelets as Tunable Cathodes for High-performance Lithium Rechargeable Batteries ▶     Haegyeom Kim, Hee-Dae Lim, Sung-Wook Kim et al.     High-performance and cost-effective rechargeable batteries are key to the success of electric vehicles and large-scale energy storage systems. Extensive research has focused on …             Automated identification of multiple seizure-related and interictal epileptiform event types in the EEG of mice ▶     Rachel A. Bergstrom, Jee Hyun Choi, Armando Manduca et al.     Visual scoring of murine EEG signals is time-consuming and subject to low inter-observer reproducibility. The Racine scale for behavioral seizure severity does not provide …             The 3-D reconstruction of medieval wetland reclamation through electromagnetic induction survey ▶     Philippe De Smedt, Marc Van Meirvenne, Davy Herremans et al.     Studies of past human-landscape interactions rely upon the integration of archaeological, biological and geological information within their geographical context. However, …             ERRATUM: DNA Nanostructure-based Interfacial engineering for PCR-free ultrasensitive electrochemical analysis of microRNA ▶     Yanli Wen, Hao Pei, Ye Shen et al.                 Chlorine as an Indicator in the Controllable Preparation of Active Nano-Gold Catalyst ▶     Chengming Zhang, Lequan Liu, Xinjiang Cui et al.     The controllable preparation of nano-gold catalyst maintains a challenge. Except the parameters have been revealed before, here we'd like to show that controllable preparation of …             Core–Shell Bimetallic Nanoparticles Robustly Fixed on the Outermost Surface of Magnetic Silica Microspheres ▶     Hye Hun Park, Kyoungja Woo, Jae-Pyoung Ahn     The major challenges in practically utilising the immense potential benefits of nanomaterials are controlling aggregation, recycling the nanomaterials, and fabricating …             Three dimensional magnetic nanowires grown by focused electron-beam induced deposition ▶     Amalio Fernández-Pacheco, Luis Serrano-Ramón, Jan M. Michalik et al.     Control of the motion of domain walls in magnetic nanowires is at the heart of various recently proposed three-dimensional (3D) memory devices. However, fabricating 3D …             Room-Temperature Quantum Cloning Machine with Full Coherent Phase Control in Nanodiamond ▶     Yan-Chun Chang, Gang-Qin Liu, Dong-Qi Liu et al.     In contrast to the classical world, an unknown quantum state cannot be cloned ideally, as stated by the no-cloning theorem. However, it is expected that approximate or …             Formation of artificial pores in nano-TiO2 photo-electrode films using acetylene-black for high-efficiency, dye-sensitized solar cells ▶     Tae-Yeon Cho, Chi-Whan Han, Yongseok Jun et al.     Acetylene-black paste without a light scattering layer was applied to meso-porous TiO2 photo-electrode films with a crystalline framework, a low residual carbon, and a tunable …             Bifunctional thermoelectric tube made of tilted multilayer material as an alternative to standard heat exchangers ▶     Kouhei Takahashi, Tsutomu Kanno, Akihiro Sakai et al.     Enormously large amount of heat produced by human activities is now mostly wasted into the environment without use. To realize a sustainable society, it is important to develop …             Direct Observation of Ion Distributions near Electrodes in Ionic Polymer Actuators Containing Ionic Liquids ▶     Yang Liu, Caiyan Lu, Stephen Twigg et al.     The recent boom of energy storage and conversion devices, exploiting ionic liquids (ILs) to enhance the performance, requires an in-depth understanding of this new class of …             Invisible photonic printing: computer designing graphics, UV printing and shown by a magnetic field ▶     Haibo Hu, Jian Tang, Hao Zhong et al.     Invisible photonic printing, an emerging printing technique, is particularly useful for steganography and watermarking for anti-counterfeiting purposes. However, many challenges …             Electrochemically Reduced Graphene Oxide Multilayer Films as Efficient Counter Electrode for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells ▶     Xiaobao Xu, Dekang Huang, Kun Cao et al.     We report on a new counter electrode for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs), which is prepared using layer-by-layer assembly of negatively charged graphene oxide and positively …             Estimating Atomic Sizes with Raman Spectroscopy ▶     Dingdi Wang, Wenhao Guo, Juanmei Hu et al.     We demonstrate a technique to determine the Van der Waals radius of iodine atoms using Raman spectroscopy. The iodine diatomic molecules are diffused into the nano-scale channels …             Theoretical nonlinear response of complex single crystal under multi-axial tensile loading ▶     Anil Misra, W. Y. Ching     The mechanical properties of single crystals are of interest as they represent the behavior of the basic building blocks. Using the density functional theory based ab initio …             An Improbable Monometallic Cluster Entrapped in a Popular Fullerene Cage: YCN@Cs(6)-C82 ▶     Shangfeng Yang, Chuanbao Chen, Fupin Liu et al.     Since the first proposal that fullerenes are capable of hosting atoms, ions, or clusters by the late Smalley in 1985, tremendous examples of endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs) …             Synthesis and characterization of a new class of anti-angiogenic agents based on ruthenium clusters ▶     Alexey A. Nazarov, Mathurin Baquié, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska et al.     New triruthenium-carbonyl clusters derivatized with glucose-modified bicyclophosphite ligands have been synthesized. These compounds were found to have cytostatic and cytotoxic …             Profiling core-periphery network structure by random walkers ▶     Fabio Della Rossa, Fabio Dercole, Carlo Piccardi     Disclosing the main features of the structure of a network is crucial to understand a number of static and dynamic properties, such as robustness to failures, spreading dynamics, …             How human location-specific contact patterns impact spatial transmission between populations? ▶     Lin Wang, Zhen Wang, Yan Zhang et al.     The structured-population model has been widely used to study the spatial transmission of epidemics in human society. Many seminal works have demonstrated the impact of human …             Tyrosinase as a multifunctional reporter gene for Photoacoustic/MRI/PET triple modality molecular imaging ▶     Chunxia Qin, Kai Cheng, Kai Chen et al.     Development of reporter genes for multimodality molecular imaging is highly important. In contrast to the conventional strategies which have focused on fusing several reporter …             Assessment of Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy Modes Inspecting Electron Confinement in Surface-Confined Supramolecular Networks ▶     Wolfgang Krenner, Dirk Kühne, Florian Klappenberger et al.     Scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) enables the local, energy-resolved investigation of a samples surface density of states (DOS) by measuring the differential conductance (dI/dV…             Soap-film coating: High-speed deposition of multilayer nanofilms ▶     Renyun Zhang, Henrik A. Andersson, Mattias Andersson et al.     The coating of thin films is applied in numerous fields and many methods are employed for the deposition of these films. Some coating techniques may deposit films at high speed; …             Controlled Growth of NiCo2O4 Nanorods and Ultrathin Nanosheets on Carbon Nanofibers for High-performance Supercapacitors ▶     Genqiang Zhang, Xiong Wen (David) Lou     Two one-dimensional hierarchical hybrid nanostructures composed of NiCo2O4 nanorods and ultrathin nanosheets on carbon nanofibers (CNFs) are controllably synthesized through …             Emergence of superconductivity at 45 K by lanthanum and phosphorus co-doping of CaFe2As2 ▶     Kazutaka Kudo, Keita Iba, Masaya Takasuga et al.     Co-doping of lanthanum and phosphorus in CaFe2As2 induces superconductivity at 45 K. This superconducting transition temperature is higher than the 38 K transition in Ba1−xKxFe2As2…             Carbon Nanoparticle-based Fluorescent Bioimaging Probes ▶     Susanta Kumar Bhunia, Arindam Saha, Amit Ranjan Maity et al.     Fluorescent nanoparticle-based imaging probes have advanced current labelling technology and are expected to generate new medical diagnostic tools based on their superior …             Spiral microchannel with rectangular and trapezoidal cross-sections for size based particle separation ▶     Guofeng Guan, Lidan Wu, Ali Asgar Bhagat et al.     The paper reports a new method for three-dimensional observation of the location of focused particle streams along both the depth and width of the channel cross-section in spiral …             Frequency representation within the human brain: Stability versus plasticity ▶     Hubert H. Lim, Minoo Lenarz, Gert Joseph et al.     A topographical representation for frequency has been identified throughout the auditory brain in animals but with limited evidence in humans. Using a midbrain implant, we …             Novel metastable metallic and semiconducting germaniums ▶     Daniele Selli, Igor A. Baburin, Roman Martoňák et al.     Group-IVa elements silicon and germanium are known for their semiconducting properties at room temperature, which are technologically critical. Metallicity and superconductivity …             Chiral-Selective Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Lattice-Mismatched Epitaxial Cobalt Nanoparticles ▶     Maoshuai He, Hua Jiang, Bilu Liu et al.     Controlling chirality in growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) is important for exploiting their practical applications. For long it has been conceptually conceived …             High-entropy Alloys with High Saturation Magnetization, Electrical Resistivity, and Malleability ▶     Yong Zhang, TingTing Zuo, YongQiang Cheng et al.     Soft magnetic materials (SMMs) find important applications in a number of areas. The diverse requirements for these applications are often demanding and challenging for the design …             Anion control as a strategy to achieve high-mobility and high-stability oxide thin-film transistors ▶     Hyun-Suk Kim, Sang Ho Jeon, Joon Seok Park et al.     Ultra-definition, large-area displays with three-dimensional visual effects represent megatrend in the current/future display industry. On the hardware level, such a “dream” …             Egg white coagulum: a precisely tailorable membrane for biomimetic multilevel structured nanomaterials ▶     Xiaolei Wang, Hui Zhu, Xuexia Liu et al.     For the first time, hen egg white coagulum was utilized as a surface modification agent for biomimetic multilevel structured nanomaterials (BMSN). By using a straightforward …             Selective modulation of cell response on engineered fractal silicon substrates ▶     Francesco Gentile, Rebecca Medda, Ling Cheng et al.     A plethora of work has been dedicated to the analysis of cell behavior on substrates with ordered topographical features. However, the natural cell microenvironment is …             Submicron bidirectional all-optical plasmonic switches ▶     Jianjun Chen, Zhi Li, Xiang Zhang et al.     Ultra-small all-optical switches are of importance in highly integrated optical communication and computing networks. However, the weak nonlinear light-matter interactions in …             Synchronization, quantum correlations and entanglement in oscillator networks ▶     Gonzalo Manzano, Fernando Galve, Gian Luca Giorgi et al.     Synchronization is one of the paradigmatic phenomena in the study of complex systems. It has been explored theoretically and experimentally mostly to understand natural phenomena, …             Lead (Pb) Hohlraum: Target for Inertial Fusion Energy ▶     J. S. Ross, P. Amendt, L. J. Atherton et al.     Recent progress towards demonstrating inertial confinement fusion (ICF) ignition at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) has sparked wide interest in Laser Inertial Fusion Energy …             The real catecholamine content of secretory vesicles in the CNS revealed by electrochemical cytometry ▶     Donna M. Omiatek, Amanda J. Bressler, Ann-Sofie Cans et al.     Resolution of synaptic vesicle neurotransmitter content has mostly been limited to the study of stimulated release in cultured cell systems, and it has been controversial as to …             Equilibrium-fluctuation-analysis of single liposome binding events reveals how cholesterol and Ca2+ modulate glycosphingolipid trans-interactions ▶     Angelika Kunze, Marta Bally, Fredrik Höök et al.     Carbohydrate−carbohydrate interactions (CCIs) are of central importance for several biological processes. However, the ultra-weak nature of CCIs generates difficulties in studying …             Nonlinear optical effects of ultrahigh-Q silicon photonic nanocavities immersed in superfluid helium ▶     Xiankai Sun, Xufeng Zhang, Carsten Schuck et al.     Photonic nanocavities are a key component in many applications because of their capability of trapping and storing photons and enhancing interactions of light with various …             Superconductivity with extremely large upper critical fields in Nb2Pd0.81S5 ▶     Q. Zhang, G. Li, D. Rhodes et al.     Here, we report the discovery of superconductivity in a new transition metal-chalcogenide compound, i.e. Nb2Pd0.81S5, with a transition temperature Tc ≅ 6.6 K. Despite its …             Breaking the Diffraction Barrier Using Fluorescence Emission Difference Microscopy ▶     Cuifang Kuang, Shuai Li, Wei Liu et al.     We propose a novel physical mechanism for breaking the diffraction barrier in the far field. Termed fluorescence emission difference microscopy (FED), our approach is based on the …             Relation between the helical twist and S-shaped cross section of the lamellar crystals of polyethylene ▶     Takayuki Ikehara, Toshiyuki Kataoka     The relation between the handedness of helical twist and the S-shaped cross section of the lamellar crystals is discussed for linear polyethylene. The lamellar crystals are found …             Monitoring dynamics of human adenovirus disassembly induced by mechanical fatigue ▶     A. Ortega-Esteban, A. J. Pérez-Berná, R. Menéndez-Conejero et al.     The standard pathway for virus infection of eukaryotic cells requires disassembly of the viral shell to facilitate release of the viral genome into the host cell. Here we use …             Magnetization in electron- and Mn- doped SrTiO3 ▶     D. Choudhury, B. Pal, A. Sharma et al.     Mn-doped SrTiO3.0, when synthesized free of impurities, is a paramagnetic insulator with interesting dielectric properties. Since delocalized charge carriers are known to promote …             Ultralow-current-density and bias-field-free spin-transfer nano-oscillator ▶     Zhongming Zeng, Giovanni Finocchio, Baoshun Zhang et al.     The spin-transfer nano-oscillator (STNO) offers the possibility of using the transfer of spin angular momentum via spin-polarized currents to generate microwave signals. However, …             Highly Monodisperse Microporous Polymeric and Carbonaceous Nanospheres with Multifunctional Properties ▶     Yi Ouyang, Huimin Shi, Ruowen Fu et al.     Fabrication of monodisperse porous polymeric nanospheres with diameters below 500 nm remains a great challenge, due to serious crosslinking between neighboring nanospheres during …             High yield production and purification of few layer graphene by Gum Arabic assisted physical sonication ▶     Victor Chabot, Brian Kim, Brent Sloper et al.     Exploiting the emulsification properties of low cost, environmentally safe Gum Arabic we demonstrate a high yield process to produce a few layer graphene with a low defect ratio, …             Acoustic Illusion near Boundaries of Arbitrary Curved Geometry ▶     Weiwei Kan, Bin Liang, Xuefeng Zhu et al.     We have proposed a scheme and presented the first experimental demonstration of acoustic illusion, by using anisotropic metamaterials to manipulate the acoustic field near …             Modal Characterization using Principal Component Analysis: application to Bessel, higher-order Gaussian beams and their superposition ▶     A. Mourka, M. Mazilu, E. M. Wright et al.     The modal characterization of various families of beams is a topic of current interest. We recently reported a new method for the simultaneous determination of both the azimuthal …             Malaria pigment crystals as magnetic micro-rotors: key for high-sensitivity diagnosis ▶     A. Butykai, A. Orbán, V. Kocsis et al.     The need to develop new methods for the high-sensitivity diagnosis of malaria has initiated a global activity in medical and interdisciplinary sciences. Most of the diverse …             Soil-type influences human selenium status and underlies widespread selenium deficiency risks in Malawi ▶     Rachel Hurst, Edwin W. P. Siyame, Scott D. Young et al.     Selenium (Se) is an essential human micronutrient with critical roles in immune functioning and antioxidant defence. Estimates of dietary Se intakes and status are scarce for …             Coherent tunnelling across a quantum point contact in the quantum Hall regime ▶     F. Martins, S. Faniel, B. Rosenow et al.     The unique properties of quantum hall devices arise from the ideal one-dimensional edge states that form in a two-dimensional electron system at high magnetic field. Tunnelling …             Porous 3D graphene-based bulk materials with exceptional high surface area and excellent conductivity for supercapacitors ▶     Long Zhang, Fan Zhang, Xi Yang et al.     Until now, few sp2 carbon materials simultaneously exhibit superior performance for specific surface area (SSA) and electrical conductivity at bulk state. Thus, it is extremely …             Surface-specific interaction by structure-match confined pure high-energy facet of unstable TiO2(B) polymorph ▶     Guolei Xiang, Yang-Gang Wang, Jun Li et al.     Surface structures and surface interactions are key factors that influence the reactivity and stability of nanomaterials. Combining experimental and theoretical investigations, we …             Optical sensing of analytes in aqueous solutions with a multiple surface-plasmon-polariton-wave platform ▶     Stephen E. Swiontek, Drew P. Pulsifer, Akhlesh Lakhtakia     The commonly used optical sensor based on surface plasmon-polariton wave phenomenon can sense just one chemical, because only one SPP wave can be guided by the interface of a …             Efficient high-order harmonic generation boosted by below-threshold harmonics ▶     F. Brizuela, C. M. Heyl, P. Rudawski et al.     High-order harmonic generation (HHG) in gases has been established as an important technique for the generation of coherent extreme ultraviolet (XUV) pulses at ultrashort time …             Effect of wetting on capillary pumping in microchannels ▶     Arman Javadi, Mehdi Habibi, Fereshte Samadi Taheri et al.     We investigate capillary pumping in microchannels both experimentally and numerically. Putting two droplets of different sizes at the in/outlet of a microchannel, there will in …             Graphene-based photovoltaic cells for near-field thermal energy conversion ▶     Riccardo Messina, Philippe Ben-Abdallah     Thermophotovoltaic devices are energy-conversion systems generating an electric current from the thermal photons radiated by a hot body. While their efficiency is limited in far …             Laser Engineered Graphene Paper for Mass Spectrometry Imaging ▶     Kun Qian, Liang Zhou, Jian Liu et al.     A pulsed laser engineering approach is developed to prepare novel functional graphene paper with graphitic nanospheres homogeneously decorated on the surface and the superior …             iPS cell sheets created by a novel magnetite tissue engineering method for reparative angiogenesis ▶     Tetsutaro Kito, Rei Shibata, Masakazu Ishii et al.     Angiogenic cell therapy represents a novel strategy for ischemic diseases, but some patients show poor responses. We investigated the therapeutic potential of an induced …             Reduced acoustic and electric integration in concurrent-vowel recognition ▶     Hsin-I Yang, Fan-Gang Zeng     The present study used concurrent-vowel recognition to measure integration efficiency of combined acoustic and electric stimulation in eight actual cochlear-implant subjects who …             CORRIGENDUM: A facile route for 3D aerogels from nanostructured 1D and 2D materials ▶     Sung Mi Jung, Hyun Young Jung, Mildred S. Dresselhaus et al.                 One-Pot Protocol for Bimetallic Pt/Cu Hexapod Concave Nanocrystals with Enhanced Electrocatalytic Activity ▶     Xiangwen Liu, Weiyang Wang, Hao Li et al.     Nanomaterials with particular nanostructures which usually possess special properties always attract considerable attention. A novel bimetallic Pt/Cu hexapod nanostructure was …             Heterogeneous shear elasticity of glasses: the origin of the boson peak ▶     Alessia Marruzzo, Walter Schirmacher, Andrea Fratalocchi et al.     The local elasticity of glasses is known to be inhomogeneous on a microscopic scale compared to that of crystalline materials. Their vibrational spectrum strongly deviates from …             Semiconductor nanoparticle-based hydrogels prepared via self-initiated polymerization under sunlight, even visible light ▶     Da Zhang, Jinhu Yang, Song Bao et al.     Since ancient times, people have used photosynthesized wood, bamboo, and cotton as building and clothing materials. The advantages of photo polymerization include the mild and …             Self-assembled foam-like graphene networks formed through nucleate boiling ▶     Ho Seon Ahn, Ji-Wook Jang, Minsu Seol et al.     Self-assembled foam-like graphene (SFG) structures were formed using a simple nucleate boiling method, which is governed by the dynamics of bubble generation and departure in the …             An Aqueous Rechargeable Lithium Battery Using Coated Li Metal as Anode ▶     Xujiong Wang, Yuyang Hou, Yusong Zhu et al.     New energy industry including electric vehicles and large-scale energy storage in smart grids requires energy storage systems of good safety, high reliability, high energy density …             Improving the performance of bright quantum dot single photon sources using temporal filtering via amplitude modulation ▶     Serkan Ates, Imad Agha, Angelo Gulinatti et al.     Single epitaxially-grown semiconductor quantum dots have great potential as single photon sources for photonic quantum technologies, though in practice devices often exhibit …             ERRATUM: Determination of total x-ray absorption coefficient using non-resonant x-ray emission ▶     A. J. Achkar, T. Z. Regier, E. J. Monkman et al.                 Subwavelength metallic waveguides as a tool for extreme confinement of THz surface waves ▶     D. Gacemi, J. Mangeney, R. Colombelli et al.     Research on surface waves supported by metals at THz frequencies is experiencing a tremendous growth due to their potential for imaging, biological sensing and high-speed …             Mesoporous Single-crystal CoSn(OH)6 Hollow Structures with Multilevel Interiors ▶     Zhiyu Wang, Zichen Wang, Haobin Wu et al.     Hollow nanostructures represent a unique class of functional nanomaterials with many applications. In this work, a one-pot and unusual “pumpkin-carving” protocol is demonstrated …             No-go theorem for passive single-rail linear optical quantum computing ▶     Lian-Ao Wu, Philip Walther, Daniel A. Lidar     Photonic quantum systems are among the most promising architectures for quantum computers. It is well known that for dual-rail photons effective non-linearities and …             A no-go result on the purification of quantum states ▶     Carlo Di Franco, Mauro Paternostro     The information encoded in a quantum system is generally spoiled by the influences of its environment, leading to a transition from pure to mixed states. Reducing the mixedness of …             Thin single-wall BN-nanotubes formed inside carbon nanotubes ▶     Ryo Nakanishi, Ryo Kitaura, Jamie H. Warner et al.     We report a high yield synthesis of single-wall boron nitride nanotubes (SWBNNTs) inside single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), a nano-templated reaction, using ammonia borane …             Spin Seebeck Effect and Thermal Colossal Magnetoresistance in Graphene Nanoribbon Heterojunction ▶     Yun Ni, Kailun Yao, Huahua Fu et al.     Spin caloritronics devices are very important for future development of low-power-consumption technology. We propose a new spin caloritronics device based on zigzag graphene …             Bridging nanocontacts to macroscale gecko adhesion by sliding soft lamellar skin supported setal array ▶     Yu Tian, Jin Wan, Noshir Pesika et al.     The study of the mechanism of the controlled adhesion of geckos, which is important for the design and fabrication of bio-inspired dry and reversible adhesive surfaces, is widely …             Role of committed minorities in times of crisis ▶     Malgorzata Turalska, Bruce J. West, Paolo Grigolini     The surprising social phenomena of the Arab Spring and the Occupy Wall Street movement posit the question of whether the active role of committed groups may produce political …             Phase Diagram for Magnon Condensate in Yttrium Iron Garnet Film ▶     Fuxiang Li, Wayne M. Saslow, Valery L. Pokrovsky     Recently, magnons, which are quasiparticles describing the collective motion of spins, were found to undergo Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) at room temperature in films of …             Electric Field Dependence of Excitation Spectra in AB-Stacked Bilayer Graphene ▶     Ying-Chih Chuang, Jhao-Ying Wu, Ming-Fa Lin     The single- and many-particle Coulomb excitation spectra in Bernal bilayer graphene can be modulated by a uniform perpendicular electric field. The field-induced oscillatory …             Two novel nonlinear optical carbonates in the deep-ultraviolet region: KBeCO3F and RbAlCO3F2 ▶     Lei Kang, Zheshuai Lin, Jingui Qin et al.     With the rapid developments of the all-solid-state deep-ultraviolet (deep-UV) lasers, the good nonlinear optical (NLO) crystal applied in this spectral region is currently lacking. …             GBM Volumetry using the 3D Slicer Medical Image Computing Platform ▶     Jan Egger, Tina Kapur, Andriy Fedorov et al.     Volumetric change in glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) over time is a critical factor in treatment decisions. Typically, the tumor volume is computed on a slice-by-slice basis using …             ERRATUM: A bottom-up route to enhance thermoelectric figures of merit in graphene nanoribbons ▶     Hâldun Sevinçli, Cem Sevik, Tahir Çağın et al.                 ERRATUM: Integrated microfluidic device for single-cell trapping and spectroscopy ▶     C. Liberale, G. Cojoc, F. 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Until now, too little attention has been focused …             Quantifying the effects of social influence ▶     Pavlin Mavrodiev, Claudio J. Tessone, Frank Schweitzer     How do humans respond to indirect social influence when making decisions? 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