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16 December 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               Digital Quantum Rabi and Dicke Models in Superconducting Circuits ▶     A. Mezzacapo, U. Las Heras, J. S. Pedernales et al.     We propose the analog-digital quantum simulation of the quantum Rabi and Dicke models using circuit quantum electrodynamics (QED). We find that all physical regimes, in …             Recycling Gene Carrier with High Efficiency and Low Toxicity Mediated by L-Cystine-Bridged Bis(β-cyclodextrin)s ▶     Yu-Hui Zhang, Yong Chen, Ying-Ming Zhang et al.     Constructing safe and effective gene delivery carriers is becoming highly desirable for gene therapy. Herein, a series of supramolecular crosslinking system were prepared through …             An atmospheric-pressure, high-aspect-ratio, cold micro-plasma ▶     X. Lu, S. Wu, J. Gou et al.     An atmospheric pressure nonequilibrium Ar micro-plasma generated inside a micro-tube with plasma radius of 3 μm and length of 2.7 cm is reported. The electron density of the …             Mesoscopic Interactions and Species Coexistence in Evolutionary Game Dynamics of Cyclic Competitions ▶     Hongyan Cheng, Nan Yao, Zi-Gang Huang et al.     Evolutionary dynamical models for cyclic competitions of three species (e.g., rock, paper, and scissors, or RPS) provide a paradigm, at the microscopic level of individual …             Polarity continuation and frustration in ZnSe nanospirals ▶     Luying Li, Fanfan Tu, Lei Jin et al.     ZnSe nanospirals including structures with polarity continuation and polarity frustration are simultaneously observed at atomic resolution. Through careful analysis of polarity …             Silicon-organic hybrid slot waveguide based three-input multicasted optical hexadecimal addition/subtraction ▶     Chengcheng Gui, Jian Wang     By exploiting multiple non-degenerate four-wave mixing in a silicon-organic hybrid slot waveguide and 16-ary phase-shift keying signals, we propose and simulate three-input (A, …             Arsenolipids in oil from blue whiting Micromesistius poutassou – evidence for arsenic-containing esters ▶     Mojtaba S. Taleshi, Georg Raber, John S. Edmonds et al.     Arsenic-containing lipids in the oil from the blue whiting fish (Micromesistius poutassou) were separated into three broad polarity groups and investigated by HPLC and mass …             CORRIGENDUM: Parametric spectro-temporal analyzer (PASTA) for real-time optical spectrum observation ▶     Chi Zhang, Jianbing Xu, P. C. Chui et al.                 Effects of reciprocity on random walks in weighted networks ▶     Zhongzhi Zhang, Huan Li, Yibin Sheng     It has been recently reported that the reciprocity of real-life weighted networks is very pronounced, however its impact on dynamical processes is poorly understood. In this …             All-electrical deterministic single domain wall generation for on-chip applications ▶     Chinkhanlun Guite, I. S. Kerk, M. Chandra Sekhar et al.     Controlling domain wall (DW) generation and dynamics behaviour in ferromagnetic nanowire is critical to the engineering of domain wall-based non-volatile logic and magnetic …             Free-standing Fe2O3 nanomembranes enabling ultra-long cycling life and high rate capability for Li-ion batteries ▶     Xianghong Liu, Wenping Si, Jun Zhang et al.     With Fe2O3 as a proof-of-concept, free-standing nanomembrane structure is demonstrated to be highly advantageous to improve the performance of Li-ion batteries. The Fe2O3 …             Selective Nickel- and Manganese-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Cross Coupling of Some α,β-Unsaturated Carboxylic Acids with Cyclic Ethers ▶     Jia-Xiang Zhang, Yan-Jing Wang, Wei Zhang et al.     A nickel- and manganese-catalyzed decarboxylative cross coupling of α, β-unsaturated carboxylic acids with cyclic ethers such as tetrahydrofuran and 1, 4-dioxane was developed. …             A Novel DC Microplasma Sensor Constructed in a Cavity PDMS Chamber with Needle Electrodes for Fast Detection of Methanol-containing Spirit ▶     Dai-bing Luo, Yi-xiang Duan, Yi He et al.     A novel microplasma device, for the first time, was constructed in a cavity Poly (dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) chamber with two normal syringe needles serve as both the gas channels …             Inhibition of CO poisoning on Pt catalyst coupled with the reduction of toxic hexavalent chromium in a dual-functional fuel cell ▶     Dong Young Chung, Hyoung-il Kim, Young-Hoon Chung et al.     We propose a method to enhance the fuel cell efficiency with the simultaneous removal of toxic heavy metal ions. Carbon monoxide (CO), an intermediate of methanol oxidation that …             Under-water superoleophobicity of fish scales ▶     Prashant R. Waghmare, Naga Siva Kumar Gunda, Sushanta K. Mitra     Recent surge in the development of superhydrophobic/superoleophobic surfaces has been motivated by surfaces like fish scales that have hierarchical structures, which are believed …             Highly Sensitive Ultraviolet Photodetectors Fabricated from ZnO Quantum Dots/Carbon Nanodots Hybrid Films ▶     Deng-Yang Guo, Chong-Xin Shan, Song-Nan Qu et al.     Ultraviolet photodetectors have been fabricated from ZnO quantum dots/carbon nanodots hybrid films, and the introduction of carbon nanodots improves the performance of the …             Synchronous turnover of flora, fauna, and climate at the Eocene–Oligocene Boundary in Asia ▶     Jimin Sun, Xijun Ni, Shundong Bi et al.     The Eocene–Oligocene Boundary (~34 million years ago) marks one of the largest extinctions of marine invertebrates in the world oceans and of mammalian fauna in Europe and Asia …             How water molecules affect the catalytic activity of hydrolases - A XANES study of the local structures of peptide deformylase ▶     Peixin Cui, Yu Wang, Wangsheng Chu et al.     Peptide deformylase (PDF) is a prokaryotic enzyme that catalyzes the deformylation of nascent peptides generated during protein synthesis and water molecules play a key role in …             Detecting Causality from Nonlinear Dynamics with Short-term Time Series ▶     Huanfei Ma, Kazuyuki Aihara, Luonan Chen     Quantifying causality between variables from observed time series data is of great importance in various disciplines but also a challenging task, especially when the observed …             Photonic Architectures for Equilibrium High-Temperature Bose-Einstein Condensation in Dichalcogenide Monolayers ▶     Jian-Hua Jiang, Sajeev John     Semiconductor-microcavity polaritons are composite quasiparticles of excitons and photons, emerging in the strong coupling regime. As quantum superpositions of matter and light, …             Influence of MoO3(110) Crystalline Plane on Its Self-Charging Photoelectrochemical Properties ▶     Shi Nee Lou, Nicholas Yap, Jason Scott et al.     Nanocrystalline molybdenum oxide (α-MoO3) thin films with iso-oriented crystalline layers were synthesised by the anodisation of Mo foils. Upon band-gap excitation using light …             Sound Pressure Level Gain in an Acoustic Metamaterial Cavity ▶     Kyungjun Song, Kiwon Kim, Shin Hur et al.     The inherent attenuation of a homogeneous viscous medium limits radiation propagation, thereby restricting the use of many high-frequency acoustic devices to only short-range …             On the failure load and mechanism of polycrystalline graphene by nanoindentation ▶     Z. D. Sha, Q. Wan, Q. X. Pei et al.     Nanoindentation has been recently used to measure the mechanical properties of polycrystalline graphene. However, the measured failure loads are found to be scattered widely and …             Large-Scale Quantitative Analysis of Painting Arts ▶     Daniel Kim, Seung-Woo Son, Hawoong Jeong     Scientists have made efforts to understand the beauty of painting art in their own languages. As digital image acquisition of painting arts has made rapid progress, researchers …             Molecular nanomagnets with switchable coupling for quantum simulation ▶     Alessandro Chiesa, George F. S. Whitehead, Stefano Carretta et al.     Molecular nanomagnets are attractive candidate qubits because of their wide inter- and intra-molecular tunability. Uniform magnetic pulses could be exploited to implement one- …             Arbitrary manipulation of spatial amplitude and phase using phase-only spatial light modulators ▶     Long Zhu, Jian Wang     Spatial structure of a light beam is an important degree of freedom to be extensively explored. By designing simple configurations with phase-only spatial light modulators …             Extrinsic 2D chirality: giant circular conversion dichroism from a metal-dielectric-metal square array ▶     Tun Cao, Chenwei Wei, Libang Mao et al.     Giant chiroptical responses routinely occur in three dimensional chiral metamaterials (MMs), but their resonance elements with complex subwavelength chiral shapes are challenging …             Nanofabrication of highly ordered, tunable metallic mesostructures via quasi-hard-templating of lyotropic liquid crystals ▶     Xinyi Zhang, Wei Lu, Jiyan Dai et al.     The synthesis of metal frameworks perforated with nanotunnels is a challenge because metals have high surface energies that favor low surface area structures; traditional …             Evolutionary Importance of the Intramolecular Pathways of Hydrolysis of Phosphate Ester Mixed Anhydrides with Amino Acids and Peptides ▶     Ziwei Liu, Damien Beaufils, Jean-Christophe Rossi et al.     Aminoacyl adenylates (aa-AMPs) constitute essential intermediates of protein biosynthesis. Their polymerization in aqueous solution has often been claimed as a potential route to …             Three-dimensionally networked graphene hydroxide with giant pores and its application in supercapacitors ▶     Dongwook Lee, Jiwon Seo     The three-dimensionally networked and layered structure of graphene hydroxide (GH) was investigated. After lengthy immersion in a NaOH solution, most of the epoxy groups in the …             CORRIGENDUM: Elasto-plasticity in wrinkled polymerized lipid membranes ▶     Sahraoui Chaieb                 Growth of Hierarchal Mesoporous NiO Nanosheets on Carbon Cloth as Binder-free Anodes for High-performance Flexible Lithium-ion Batteries ▶     Hu Long, Tielin Shi, Hao Hu et al.     Mesoporous NiO nanosheets were directly grown on three-dimensional (3D) carbon cloth substrate, which can be used as binder-free anode for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). These …             Synthesis of Ordered Mesoporous Phenanthrenequinone-Carbon via π-π Interaction-Dependent Vapor Pressure for Rechargeable Batteries ▶     Mi-Sook Kwon, Aram Choi, Yuwon Park et al.     The π-π interaction-dependent vapour pressure of phenanthrenequinone can be used to synthesize a phenanthrenequinone-confined ordered mesoporous carbon. Intimate contact between …             Graphene based All-Optical Spatial Terahertz Modulator ▶     Qi-Ye Wen, Wei Tian, Qi Mao et al.     We demonstrate an all-optical terahertz modulator based on single-layer graphene on germanium (GOG), which can be driven by a 1.55 μm CW laser with a low-level photodoping power. …             CeO2 nanocubes-graphene oxide as durable and highly active catalyst support for proton exchange membrane fuel cell ▶     M. Lei, Z. B. Wang, J. S. Li et al.     Rapid degradation of cell performance still remains a significant challenge for proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). In this work, we develop novel CeO2 nanocubes-graphene …             Ultra-High Density Single Nanometer-Scale Anodic Alumina Nanofibers Fabricated by Pyrophosphoric Acid Anodizing ▶     Tatsuya Kikuchi, Osamu Nishinaga, Daiki Nakajima et al.     Anodic oxide fabricated by anodizing has been widely used for nanostructural engineering, but the nanomorphology is limited to only two oxides: anodic barrier and porous oxides. …             Separability of drag and thrust in undulatory animals and machines ▶     Rahul Bale, Anup A. Shirgaonkar, Izaak D. Neveln et al.     For nearly a century, researchers have tried to understand the swimming of aquatic animals in terms of a balance between the forward thrust from swimming movements and drag on …             Selective electrochemical decomposition of outgrowths and nanopatterning in La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 perovskite thin films ▶     Massimiliano Cavallini, Patrizio Graziosi, Marco Calbucci et al.     The outgrowth formation in inorganic thin films is a dramatic problem that has limited the technological impact of many techniques and materials. Outgrowths are often themselves …             Biomimetic Transferable Surface for a Real Time Control over Wettability and Photoerasable Writing with Water Drop Lens ▶     Ahnaf Usman Zillohu, Ramzy Abdelaziz, Shahin Homaeigohar et al.     We demonstrate a transferable device that can turn wettability of surfaces to sticky or slippy, as per requirement. It is composed of polymeric yarn with a fibrous structure, …             A thin-film microprocessor with inkjet print-programmable memory ▶     Kris Myny, Steve Smout, Maarten Rockelé et al.     The Internet of Things is driving extensive efforts to develop intelligent everyday objects. This requires seamless integration of relatively simple electronics, for example …             Label-free and real-time imaging of dehydration-induced DNA conformational changes in cellular nucleus using second harmonic microscopy ▶     Shuangmu Zhuo, Ming Ni     Dehydration-induced DNA conformational changes have been probed for the first time with the use of second harmonic microscopy. Unlike conventional approaches, second harmonic …             Complete mineralization of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) by γ-irradiation in aqueous solution ▶     Ze Zhang, Jie-Jie Chen, Xian-Jin Lyu et al.     Decomposition of perfluorooctanoic acid (C7F15COOH, PFOA) has been gaining increasing interests because it is a ubiquitous environmental contaminant and resistant to the most …             Visualization of Freezing Process in situ upon Cooling and Warming of Aqueous Solutions ▶     Anatoli Bogdan, Mario J. Molina, Heikki Tenhu et al.     The freezing of aqueous solutions and reciprocal distribution of ice and a freeze-concentrated solution (FCS) are poorly understood in spite of their importance in fields ranging …             Controllable microwave three-wave mixing via a single three-level superconducting quantum circuit ▶     Yu-xi Liu, Hui-Chen Sun, Z. H. Peng et al.     Three-wave mixing in second-order nonlinear optical processes cannot occur in atomic systems due to the electric-dipole selection rules. In contrast, we demonstrate that …             Driving ferromagnetic resonance frequency of FeCoB/PZN-PT multiferroic heterostructures to Ku-band via two-step climbing: composition gradient sputtering and magnetoelectric coupling ▶     Shandong Li, Qian Xue, Jenq-Gong Duh et al.     RF/microwave soft magnetic films (SMFs) are key materials for miniaturization and multifunctionalization of monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) and their components, …             High channel count and high precision channel spacing multi-wavelength laser array for future PICs ▶     Yuechun Shi, Simin Li, Xiangfei Chen et al.     Multi-wavelength semiconductor laser arrays (MLAs) have wide applications in wavelength multiplexing division (WDM) networks. In spite of their tremendous potential, adoption of …             Sequence dependence of electron-induced DNA strand breakage revealed by DNA nanoarrays ▶     Adrian Keller, Jenny Rackwitz, Emilie Cauët et al.     The electronic structure of DNA is determined by its nucleotide sequence, which is for instance exploited in molecular electronics. Here we demonstrate that also the DNA strand …             Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Growth via Close Proximity Precursor Supply ▶     Maria O'Brien, Niall McEvoy, Toby Hallam et al.     Reliable chemical vapour deposition (CVD) of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) is currently a highly pressing research field, as numerous potential applications rely on the …             Spectral effectiveness of engineered thermal cloaks in the frequency regime ▶     David Petiteau, Sebastien Guenneau, Michel Bellieud et al.     We analyse basic thermal cloaks designed via different geometric transforms applied to thermal cloaking. We evaluate quantitatively the effectiveness of these heterogeneous …             Electron tomography provides a direct link between the Payne effect and the inter-particle spacing of rubber composites ▶     Lech Staniewicz, Thomas Vaudey, Christophe Degrandcourt et al.     Rubber-filler composites are a key component in the manufacture of tyres. The filler provides mechanical reinforcement and additional wear resistance to the rubber, but it in …             Photonic simulation of topological superconductor edge state and zero-energy mode at a vortex ▶     Wei Tan, Liang Chen, Xia Ji et al.     Photonic simulations of quantum Hall edge states and topological insulators have inspired considerable interest in recent years. Interestingly, there are theoretical predictions …             Observation of Spin Hall Effect in Photon Tunneling via Weak Measurements ▶     Xinxing Zhou, Xiaohui Ling, Zhiyou Zhang et al.     Photonic spin Hall effect (SHE) manifesting itself as spin-dependent splitting escapes detection in previous photon tunneling experiments due to the fact that the induced beam …             Fitting magnetic field gradient with Heisenberg-scaling accuracy ▶     Yong-Liang Zhang, Huan Wang, Li Jing et al.     The linear function is possibly the simplest and the most used relation appearing in various areas of our world. A linear relation can be generally determined by the least square …             A dye-sensitized visible light photocatalyst-Bi24O31Cl10 ▶     Liang Wang, Jun Shang, Weichang Hao et al.     The p-block semiconductors are regarded as a new family of visible-light photocatalysts because of their dispersive and anisotropic band structures as well as high chemical …             Structural origin of light emission in germanium quantum dots ▶     W. Little, A. Karatutlu, D. Bolmatov et al.     We used a combination of optically-detected x-ray absorption spectroscopy with molecular dynamics simulations to explore the origins of light emission in small (5 nm to 9 nm) Ge …             Lethal effects of short-wavelength visible light on insects ▶     Masatoshi Hori, Kazuki Shibuya, Mitsunari Sato et al.     We investigated the lethal effects of visible light on insects by using light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The toxic effects of ultraviolet (UV) light, particularly shortwave (i.e., UV…             Separable Bilayer Microfiltration Device for Viable Label-free Enrichment of Circulating Tumour Cells ▶     Ming-Da Zhou, Sijie Hao, Anthony J. Williams et al.     The analysis of circulating tumour cells (CTCs) in cancer patients could provide important information for therapeutic management. 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