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23 December 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               Atomic scale dynamics of a solid state chemical reaction directly determined by annular dark-field electron microscopy ▶     Timothy J. Pennycook, Lewys Jones, Henrik Pettersson et al.     Dynamic processes, such as solid-state chemical reactions and phase changes, are ubiquitous in materials science, and developing a capability to observe the mechanisms of such …             Reduced Graphene Oxide Anodes for Potential Application in Algae Biophotovoltaic Platforms ▶     Fong-Lee Ng, Muhammad Musoddiq Jaafar, Siew-Moi Phang et al.     The search for renewable energy sources has become challenging in the current era, as conventional fuel sources are of finite origins. Recent research interest has focused on …             Self-Assembly of Channel Type β-CD Dimers Induced by Dodecane ▶     Chengcheng Zhou, Xinhao Cheng, Qiang Zhao et al.     Cyclodextrins (CDs) can hardly self-assemble into well-defined structures. Here we report if they preassemble into channel type dimers assisted by dodecane, well-defined vesicles …             Inherent directionality explains the lack of feedback loops in empirical networks ▶     Virginia Domínguez-García, Simone Pigolotti, Miguel A. Muñoz     We explore the hypothesis that the relative abundance of feedback loops in many empirical complex networks is severely reduced owing to the presence of an inherent global …             ERRATUM: Bright-White Beetle Scales Optimise Multiple Scattering of Light ▶     Matteo Burresi, Lorenzo Cortese, Lorenzo Pattelli et al.                 Fluorination of Metal Phthalocyanines: Single-Crystal Growth, Efficient N-Channel Organic Field-Effect Transistors, and Structure-Property Relationships ▶     Hui Jiang, Jun Ye, Peng Hu et al.     The fluorination of p-type metal phthalocyanines produces n-type semiconductors, allowing the design of organic electronic circuits that contain inexpensive heterojunctions made …             A Minimal tight-binding model for ferromagnetic canted bilayer manganites ▶     M. Baublitz, C. Lane, Hsin Lin et al.     Half-metallicity in materials has been a subject of extensive research due to its potential for applications in spintronics. Ferromagnetic manganites have been seen as a good …             Micelle-Template Synthesis of Nitrogen-Doped Mesoporous Graphene as an Efficient Metal-Free Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Production ▶     Xiaodan Huang, Yufei Zhao, Zhimin Ao et al.     Synthesis of mesoporous graphene materials by soft-template methods remains a great challenge, owing to the poor self-assembly capability of precursors and the severe …             Reversible switching of magnetic states by electric fields in nitrogenized-divacancies graphene decorated by tungsten atoms ▶     Gui-Xian Ge, Hai-Bing Sun, Yan Han et al.     Magnetic graphene-based materials have shown great potential for developing high-performance electronic devices at sub-nanometer such as spintronic data storage units. However, a …             First-principles study of point defects at a semicoherent interface ▶     E. Metsanurk, A. Tamm, A. Caro et al.     Most of the atomistic modeling of semicoherent metal-metal interfaces has so far been based on the use of semiempirical interatomic potentials. We show that key conclusions drawn …             Dynamics of semiflexible recursive small-world polymer networks ▶     Yi Qi, Maxim Dolgushev, Zhongzhi Zhang     One of the fundamental issues in polymer physics is to reveal the relation between the structures of macromolecules and their various properties. In this report, we study the …             Broadband and Wide Field-of-view Plasmonic Metasurface-enabled Waveplates ▶     Zhi Hao Jiang, Lan Lin, Ding Ma et al.     Quasi two-dimensional metasurfaces composed of subwavelength nanoresonator arrays can dramatically alter the properties of light in an ultra-thin planar geometry, enabling new …             CORRIGENDUM: A universal transition in the robustness of evolving open systems ▶     Takashi Shimada                 Dimensionality-dependent charge transport in close-packed nanoparticle arrays: from 2D to 3D ▶     Ying Wang, Chao Duan, Lianmao Peng et al.     Charge transport properties in close-packed nanoparticle arrays with thickness crossing over from two dimensions to three dimensions have been studied. The dimensionality …             Alternating Current Driven Organic Light Emitting Diodes Using Lithium Fluoride Insulating Layers ▶     Shang-Yi Liu, Jung-Hung Chang, I. -Wen Wu et al.     We demonstrate an alternating current (AC)-driven organic light emitting diodes (OLED) with lithium fluoride (LiF) insulating layers fabricated using simple thermal evaporation. …             Efficient generation of twin photons at telecom wavelengths with 2.5 GHz repetition-rate-tunable comb laser ▶     Rui-Bo Jin, Ryosuke Shimizu, Isao Morohashi et al.     Efficient generation and detection of indistinguishable twin photons are at the core of quantum information and communications technology (Q-ICT). These photons are …             Visualizing copper assisted graphene growth in nanoscale ▶     Mohamad Saufi Rosmi, Mohd Zamri Yusop, Golap Kalita et al.     Control synthesis of high quality large-area graphene on transition metals (TMs) by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is the most fascinating approach for practical device …             Transport of Massless Dirac Fermions in Non-topological Type Edge States ▶     Yu I. Latyshev, A. P. Orlov, V. A. Volkov et al.     There are two types of intrinsic surface states in solids. The first type is formed on the surface of topological insulators. Recently, transport of massless Dirac fermions in …             A simplified memory network model based on pattern formations ▶     Kesheng Xu, Xiyun Zhang, Chaoqing Wang et al.     Many experiments have evidenced the transition with different time scales from short-term memory (STM) to long-term memory (LTM) in mammalian brains, while its theoretical …             Bidirectional selection between two classes in complex social networks ▶     Bin Zhou, Zhe He, Luo-Luo Jiang et al.     The bidirectional selection between two classes widely emerges in various social lives, such as commercial trading and mate choosing. Until now, the discussions on bidirectional …             Preparation of three-dimensional entanglement for distant atoms in coupled cavities via atomic spontaneous emission and cavity decay ▶     Shi-Lei Su, Xiao-Qiang Shao, Hong-Fu Wang et al.     We propose a dissipative scheme to prepare a three-dimensional entangled state for two atoms trapped in separate coupled cavities. Our work shows that both atomic spontaneous …             Controlling Networks of Nonlinearly-Coupled Nodes using Response Surfaces ▶     Jason Shulman, Franck Malatino, Alexander Mo et al.     Control of complex processes is a major goal of network analyses. Most approaches to control nonlinearly coupled systems require the network topology and/or network dynamics. Un…             A Fluorescence-Quenching Platform based on Biomineralized Hydroxyapatite from Natural Seashell and Applied to Cancer Cell Detection ▶     Ying Zhang, Wei Liu, Craig E. Banks et al.     As a typical biomineral, hydroxyapatite (HAp) is widely applied in bone implants and other related fields. However, the inherent nature of HAp can potentially be altered through …             Entropy, complexity, and Markov diagrams for random walk cancer models ▶     Paul K. Newton, Jeremy Mason, Brian Hurt et al.     The notion of entropy is used to compare the complexity associated with 12 common cancers based on metastatic tumor distribution autopsy data. We characterize power-law …             Practical quantum private query of blocks based on unbalanced-state Bennett-Brassard-1984 quantum-key-distribution protocol ▶     Chun-Yan Wei, Fei Gao, Qiao-Yan Wen et al.     Until now, the only kind of practical quantum private query (QPQ), quantum-key-distribution (QKD)-based QPQ, focuses on the retrieval of a single bit. In fact, meaningful message …             Scalable quantum computing based on stationary spin qubits in coupled quantum dots inside double-sided optical microcavities ▶     Hai-Rui Wei, Fu-Guo Deng     Quantum logic gates are the key elements in quantum computing. Here we investigate the possibility of achieving a scalable and compact quantum computing based on stationary …             Emergence of disassortative mixing from pruning nodes in growing scale-free networks ▶     Sheng-Jun Wang, Zhen Wang, Tao Jin et al.     Disassortative mixing is ubiquitously found in technological and biological networks, while the corresponding interpretation of its origin remains almost virgin. We here give …             Filming protein fibrillogenesis in real time ▶     Angelo Bella, Michael Shaw, Santanu Ray et al.     Protein fibrillogenesis is a universal tool of nano-to-micro scale construction supporting different forms of biological function. Its exploitable potential in nanoscience and …             Silicon coupled-resonator optical-waveguide-based biosensors using light-scattering pattern recognition with pixelized mode-field-intensity distributions ▶     Jiawei Wang, Zhanshi Yao, Ting Lei et al.     Chip-scale, optical microcavity-based biosensors typically employ an ultra-high-quality microcavity and require a precision wavelength-tunable laser for exciting the cavity …             Nano-porous architecture of N-doped carbon nanorods grown on graphene to enable synergetic effects of supercapacitance ▶     H. S. Fan, H. Wang, N. Zhao et al.     A novel nano-porous 3D architecture of N-doped carbon nanorods arrays grown on the surface of graphene has been prepared by carbonizing polyaniline/graphene oxide (PANI-GO) …             Active Printed Materials for Complex Self-Evolving Deformations ▶     Dan Raviv, Wei Zhao, Carrie McKnelly et al.     We propose a new design of complex self-evolving structures that vary over time due to environmental interaction. In conventional 3D printing systems, materials are meant to be …             Effects of Oxygen Adsorption on the Surface State of Epitaxial Silicene on Ag(111) ▶     Xun Xu, Jincheng Zhuang, Yi Du et al.     Epitaxial silicene, which is one single layer of silicon atoms packed in a honeycomb structure, demonstrates a strong interaction with the substrate that dramatically affects its …             Hypothesis: Bones Toughness Arises from the Suppression of Elastic Waves ▶     Benjamin Davies, Alice King, Peter Newman et al.     Bone and other natural material exhibit a combination of strength and toughness that far exceeds that of synthetic structural materials. Bone's toughness is a result of numerous …             Scaling in complex systems: a link between the dynamics of networks and growing interfaces ▶     A. Brú, E. Alós, J. C. Nuño et al.     We consider growing interfaces as dynamical networks whose nodes are the discrete points of the interface and the edges the physical interactions among them. We map the points of …             Long-range magnetic interaction and frustration in double perovskites Sr2NiIrO6 and Sr2ZnIrO6 ▶     Xuedong Ou, Zhengwei Li, Fengren Fan et al.     One often counts the nearest neighbouring (NN) exchange interactions for understanding of a magnetic insulator. Here we present first-principles calculations for the newly …             Tuning structural instability toward enhanced magnetocaloric effect around room temperature in MnCo1−xZnxGe ▶     D. Choudhury, T. Suzuki, Y. Tokura et al.     Magnetocaloric effect is the phenomenon that temperature change of a magnetic material is induced by application of a magnetic field. This effect can be applied to …             Fabrication of Ni-Ti-O nanotube arrays by anodization of NiTi alloy and their potential applications ▶     Ruiqiang Hang, Yanlian Liu, Lingzhou Zhao et al.     Nickel-titanium-oxide (Ni-Ti-O) nanotube arrays (NTAs) prepared on nearly equiatomic NiTi alloy shall have broad application potential such as for energy storage and biomedicine, …             How central are clients in sexual networks created by commercial sex? ▶     Chih-Sheng Hsieh, Jaromír Kovářík, Trevon Logan     Sex workers are traditionally considered important vectors of transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STI). The role of clients is commonly overlooked, partially due to …             Feature-Rich Magnetic Quantization in Sliding Bilayer Graphenes ▶     Yao-Kung Huang, Szu-Chao Chen, Yen-Hung Ho et al.     The generalized tight-binding model, based on the subenvelope functions of distinct sublattices, is developed to investigate the magnetic quantization in sliding bilayer …             Extracting Information from Qubit-Environment Correlations ▶     John H. Reina, Cristian E. Susa, Felipe F. Fanchini     Most works on open quantum systems generally focus on the reduced physical system by tracing out the environment degrees of freedom. Here we show that the qubit distributions …             Polarization-dependent optical absorption of MoS2 for refractive index sensing ▶     Yang Tan, Ruiyun He, Chen Cheng et al.     As a noncentrosymmetric crystal with spin-polarized band structure, MoS2 nanomaterials have attracts increasing attention in many areas such as lithium ion batteries, flexible …             Magnetic and Electronic Evolutions of Hydrogenated VTe2 Monolayer under Tension ▶     Hui Pan     Two-dimensional nanostructures with controllable magnetic and electronic properties are desirable for their versatile applications in quantum devices. Here, we present a …             Network Robustness: Detecting Topological Quantum Phases ▶     Chung-Pin Chou     Can the topology of a network that consists of many particles interacting with each other change in complexity when a phase transition occurs? The answer to this question is …             Two-dimensional Layered MoS2 Biosensors Enable Highly Sensitive Detection of Biomolecules ▶     Joonhyung Lee, Piyush Dak, Yeonsung Lee et al.     We present a MoS2 biosensor to electrically detect prostate specific antigen (PSA) in a highly sensitive and label-free manner. Unlike previous MoS2-FET-based biosensors, the …             Revisit the spin-FET: Multiple reflection, inelastic scattering, and lateral size effects ▶     Luting Xu, Xin-Qi Li, Qing-feng Sun     We revisit the spin-injected field effect transistor (spin-FET) in a framework of the lattice model by applying the recursive lattice Green's function approach. In the …             Long-lived and Well-resolved Mn2+ Ion Emissions in CuInS-ZnS Quantum Dots ▶     Sheng Cao, Chengming Li, Lin Wang et al.     CuInS2 (CIS) quantum dots (QDs) have tunable photoluminescence (PL) behaviors in the visible and near infrared spectral range with markedly lower toxicity than the cadmium-based …             Synthesis of Au/Graphene Oxide Composites for Selective and Sensitive Electrochemical Detection of Ascorbic Acid ▶     Jian Song, Lin Xu, Ruiqing Xing et al.     In this work, we present a novel ascorbic acid (AA) sensor applied to the detection of AA in human sera and pharmaceuticals. A series of Au nanoparticles (NPs) and graphene oxide …             Demonstration of a refractometric sensor based on an optical micro-fiber three-beam interferometer ▶     Chunyang Han, Hui Ding, Fangxing Lv     With diameter close to the wavelength of the guided light and high index contrast between the fiber and the surrounding, an optical micro-fiber shows a variety of interesting …             Massively Sub-wavelength Guiding of Electromagnetic Waves ▶     I. R. Hooper, B. Tremain, J. A. Dockrey et al.     Recently a new form of ultra-thin flexible waveguide consisting of a conducting comb-like structure with a thickness of the order of 1/600th of the operating wavelength was …             Carrier-dependent magnetic anisotropy of cobalt doped titanium dioxide ▶     Bin Shao, Min Feng, Xu Zuo     Using first-principles calculations, we predict that the magnetic anisotropy energy of Co-doped TiO2 sensitively depends on carrier accumulation. This magnetoelectric phenomenon …             Full 180° Magnetization Reversal with Electric Fields ▶     J. J. Wang, J. M. Hu, J. Ma et al.     Achieving 180° magnetization reversal with an electric field rather than a current or magnetic field is a fundamental challenge and represents a technological breakthrough …             Superenhancers: Novel opportunities for nanowire optoelectronics ▶     Tural Khudiyev, Mehmet Bayindir     Nanowires play a crucial role in the development of new generation optoelectronic devices ranging from photovoltaics to photodetectors, as these designs capitalize on the low …             1D Magnetic Materials of Fe3O4 and Fe with High Performance of Microwave Absorption Fabricated by Electrospinning Method ▶     Rui Han, Wei Li, Weiwei Pan et al.     Fe3O4 and Fe nanowires are successfully fabricated by electrospinning method and reduction process. Wiry microstructures were achieved with the phase transformation from α-Fe2O3 …             Toughening mystery of natural rubber deciphered by double network incorporating hierarchical structures ▶     Weiming Zhou, Xiangyang Li, Jie Lu et al.     As an indispensible material for modern society, natural rubber possesses peerless mechanical properties such as strength and toughness over its artificial analogues, which …             Novel stable hard transparent conductors in TiO2-TiC system: Design materials from scratch ▶     Xiangying Meng, Dongyan Liu, Xuefeng Dai et al.     Two new ternary compounds in the TiO2-TiC system, Ti5C2O6 and Ti3C2O2, are reported for the first time based on ab initio evolutionary algorithm. Ti5C2O6 has a tube-structure in …             Step-by-step magic state encoding for efficient fault-tolerant quantum computation ▶     Hayato Goto     Quantum error correction allows one to make quantum computers fault-tolerant against unavoidable errors due to decoherence and imperfect physical gate operations. However, the …             Molecular-like hierarchical self-assembly of monolayers of mixtures of particles ▶     P. Singh, M. Hossain, S. K. 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