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10 February 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               A solution to the fabrication and tarnishing problems of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) fiber probes ▶     Antti Matikainen, Tarmo Nuutinen, Pasi Vahimaa et al.     Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) fiber probes have enormous potential in optical sensing applications. However, their widespread use has been hindered by two major …             Building Damage-Resilient Dominating Sets in Complex Networks against Random and Targeted Attacks ▶     F. Molnár Jr., N. Derzsy, B. K. Szymanski et al.     We study the vulnerability of dominating sets against random and targeted node removals in complex networks. While small, cost-efficient dominating sets play a significant role …             Resonant tunneling of fluctuation Cooper pairs ▶     Alexey Galda, A. S. Mel'nikov, V. M. Vinokur     Superconducting fluctuations have proved to be an irreplaceable source of information about microscopic and macroscopic material parameters that could be inferred from the …             The Molecular Photo-Cell: Quantum Transport and Energy Conversion at Strong Non-Equilibrium ▶     Shigeru Ajisaka, Bojan Žunkovič, Yonatan Dubi     The molecular photo-cell is a single molecular donor-acceptor complex attached to electrodes and subject to external illumination. Besides the obvious relevance to molecular …             Self-Assembled Wiggling Nano-Structures and the Principle of Maximum Entropy Production ▶     A. Belkin, A. Hubler, A. Bezryadin     While behavior of equilibrium systems is well understood, evolution of nonequilibrium ones is much less clear. Yet, many researches have suggested that the principle of the …             Optical nano-woodpiles: large-area metallic photonic crystals and metamaterials ▶     Lindsey A. Ibbotson, Angela Demetriadou, Stephen Croxall et al.     Metallic woodpile photonic crystals and metamaterials operating across the visible spectrum are extremely difficult to construct over large areas, because of the intricate …             Electronic excitation induced amorphization in titanate pyrochlores: an ab initio molecular dynamics study ▶     H. Y. Xiao, W. J. Weber, Y. Zhang et al.     The response of titanate pyrochlores (A2Ti2O7, A=Y, Gd and Sm) to electronic excitation is investigated utilizing an ab initio molecular dynamics method. All the titanate …             Fragility and basic process energies in vitrifying systems ▶     Julio Cesar Martinez-Garcia, Sylwester J. Rzoska, Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska et al.     The concept of ‘fragility’ constitutes a central point of the glass transition science serving as the ‘universal’ metric linking previtreous dynamics of qualitatively distinct …             Real-space anisotropic dielectric response in a multiferroic skyrmion lattice ▶     P. Chu, Y. L. Xie, Y. Zhang et al.     A magnetic skyrmion lattice is a microstructure consisting of hexagonally aligned skyrmions. While a skyrmion as a topologically protected carrier of information promises a …             Structural Color Painting by Rubbing Particle Powder ▶     ChooJin Park, Kunsuk Koh, Unyong Jeong     Structural colors originate from purely physical structures. Scientists have been inspired to mimic the structures found in nature, the realization of these structures still …             Increased Efficiency in Small Molecule Organic Solar Cells Through the Use of a 56-π Electron Acceptor – Methano Indene Fullerene ▶     James W. Ryan, Yutaka Matsuo     Organic solar cells (OSCs) offer the possibility of harnessing the sun's ubiquitous energy in a low-cost, environmentally friendly and renewable manner. OSCs based on small …             Hyperdoping silicon with selenium: solid vs. liquid phase epitaxy ▶     Shengqiang Zhou, Fang Liu, S. Prucnal et al.     Chalcogen-hyperdoped silicon shows potential applications in silicon-based infrared photodetectors and intermediate band solar cells. Due to the low solid solubility limits of …             Fabrication of Nb2O5 Nanosheets for High-rate Lithium Ion Storage Applications ▶     Meinan Liu, Cheng Yan, Yuegang Zhang     Nb2O5 nanosheets are successfully synthesized through a facile hydrothermal reaction and followed heating treatment in air. The structural characterization reveals that the …             Muographic mapping of the subsurface density structures in Miura, Boso and Izu peninsulas, Japan ▶     Hiroyuki K. M. Tanaka     While the benefits of determining the bulk density distribution of a landmass are evident, established experimental techniques reliant on gravity measurements cannot uniquely …             From Dust Devil to Sustainable Swirling Wind Energy ▶     Mingxu Zhang, Xilian Luo, Tianyu Li et al.     Dust devils are common but meteorologically unique phenomena on Earth and on Mars. The phenomenon produces a vertical vortex motion in the atmosphere boundary layer and often …             Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Electrolysis. ▶     Arie Meir, Mohammad Hjouj, Liel Rubinsky et al.     This study explores the hypothesis that Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) can image the process of electrolysis by detecting pH fronts. The study has relevance to real time …             Stretching Fibroblasts Remodels Fibronectin and Alters Cancer Cell Migration ▶     Mingfang Ao, Bryson M. Brewer, Lijie Yang et al.     Most investigations of cancer-stroma interactions have focused on biochemical signaling effects, with much less attention being paid to biophysical factors. In this study, we …             Next Generation Device Grade Silicon-Germanium on Insulator ▶     Callum G. Littlejohns, Milos Nedeljkovic, Christopher F. Mallinson et al.     High quality single crystal silicon-germanium-on-insulator has the potential to facilitate the next generation of photonic and electronic devices. Using a rapid melt growth …             Cu0 Nanoparticles Deposited on Nanoporous Polymers: A Recyclable Heterogeneous Nanocatalyst for Ullmann Coupling of Aryl Halides with Amines in Water ▶     John Mondal, Anup Biswas, Shunsuke Chiba et al.     Cu0 nanoparticles were deposited on a nanoporous polymer to develop a novel nanocatalyst (Cu-B) for carrying out Ullmann coupling of aryl halides with amines in water. …             Highly sensitive glucose sensors based on enzyme-modified whole-graphene solution-gated transistors ▶     Meng Zhang, Caizhi Liao, Chun Hin Mak et al.     Noninvasive glucose detections are convenient techniques for the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus, which require high performance glucose sensors. However, conventional …             A Novel Energy-Efficient Pyrolysis Process: Self-pyrolysis of Oil Shale Triggered by Topochemical Heat in a Horizontal Fixed Bed ▶     You-Hong Sun, Feng-Tian Bai, Xiao-Shu Lü et al.     This paper proposes a novel energy-efficient oil shale pyrolysis process triggered by a topochemical reaction that can be applied in horizontal oil shale formations. The process …             The Effect of Diiodooctane on the Charge Carrier Generation in Organic Solar Cells Based on the Copolymer PBDTTT-C ▶     Andreas Zusan, Björn Gieseking, Mario Zerson et al.     Microstructural changes and the understanding of their effect on photocurrent generation are key aspects for improving the efficiency of organic photovoltaic devices. We analyze …             Manipulation of the polarization of Terahertz wave in subwavelength regime ▶     Xiao Xiao, Ho Ming Leung, C. T. Chan et al.     By generalizing the concept of spoof surface Plasmons (Science 305, 847), we analytically demonstrate that subwavelength quarter-wave and half-wave plates can be realized in a …             Ultrafast Multi-Level Logic Gates with Spin-Valley Coupled Polarization Anisotropy in Monolayer MoS2 ▶     Yu-Ting Wang, Chih-Wei Luo, Atsushi Yabushita et al.     The inherent valley-contrasting optical selection rules for interband transitions at the K and K′ valleys in monolayer MoS2 have attracted extensive interest. Carriers in these …             Towards Scalable Binderless Electrodes: Carbon Coated Silicon Nanofiber Paper via Mg Reduction of Electrospun SiO2 Nanofibers ▶     Zachary Favors, Hamed Hosseini Bay, Zafer Mutlu et al.     The need for more energy dense and scalable Li-ion battery electrodes has become increasingly pressing with the ushering in of more powerful portable electronics and electric …             Evidences of grain boundary capacitance effect on the colossal dielectric permittivity in (Nb + In) co-doped TiO2 ceramics ▶     Jinglei Li, Fei Li, Chao Li et al.     The (Nb In) co-doped TiO2 ceramics were synthesized by conventional solid-state sintering (CSSS) and spark plasma sintering (SPS) methods. The phases and microstructures were …             Metabolomic profiling reveals deep chemical divergence between two morphotypes of the zoanthid Parazoanthus axinellae ▶     Nadja Cachet, Grégory Genta-Jouve, Julijana Ivanisevic et al.     Metabolomics has recently proven its usefulness as complementary tool to traditional morphological and genetic analyses for the classification of marine invertebrates. Among the …             Coherent phonon optics in a chip with an electrically controlled active device ▶     Caroline L. Poyser, Andrey V. Akimov, Richard P. Campion et al.     Phonon optics concerns operations with high-frequency acoustic waves in solid media in a similar way to how traditional optics operates with the light beams (i.e. photons). …             Hollow screw-like drill in plasma using an intense Laguerre–Gaussian laser ▶     Wenpeng Wang, Baifei Shen, Xiaomei Zhang et al.     With the development of ultra-intense laser technology, MeV ions can be obtained from laser–foil interactions in the laboratory. These energetic ion beams can be applied in fast …             Strong sub-terahertz surface waves generated on a metal wire by high-intensity laser pulses ▶     Shigeki Tokita, Shuji Sakabe, Takeshi Nagashima et al.     Terahertz pulses trapped as surface waves on a wire waveguide can be flexibly transmitted and focused to sub-wavelength dimensions by using, for example, a tapered tip. This is …             Discrete states and carrier-phonon scattering in quantum dot population dynamics ▶     Minh Tan Man, Hong Seok Lee     The influence of the growth conditions of multilayer CdTe/ZnTe quantum dots (QDs) on Si substrate upon their carrier dynamics is studied using intensity integration and …             Local structure order in Pd78Cu6Si16 liquid ▶     G. Q. Yue, Y. Zhang, Y. Sun et al.     The short-range order (SRO) in Pd78Cu6Si16 liquid was studied by high energy x-ray diffraction and ab initio molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The calculated pair correlation …             Porous membrane with high curvature, three-dimensional heat-resistance skeleton: a new and practical separator candidate for high safety lithium ion battery ▶     Junli Shi, Yonggao Xia, Zhizhang Yuan et al.     Separators with high reliability and security are in urgent demand for the advancement of high performance lithium ion batteries. Here, we present a new and practical porous …             Ultrasensitive optical absorption in graphene based on bound states in the continuum ▶     Mingda Zhang, Xiangdong Zhang     We have designed a sphere-graphene-slab structure so that the electromagnetic wave can be well confined in the graphene due to the formation of a bound state in a continuum (BIC) …             Nonvolatile electric-field control of magnetization in a Y-type hexaferrite ▶     Shipeng Shen, Yisheng Chai, Young Sun     The magnetoelectric effects in multiferroic materials enable the mutual control of electric polarization by a magnetic field and magnetization by an electric field. Nonvolatile …             Real-space Wigner-Seitz Cells Imaging of Potassium on Graphite via Elastic Atomic Manipulation ▶     Feng Yin, Pekka Koskinen, Sampo Kulju et al.     Atomic manipulation in the scanning tunnelling microscopy, conventionally a tool to build nanostructures one atom at a time, is here employed to enable the atomic-scale imaging …             Core – shell upconversion nanoparticle – semiconductor heterostructures for photodynamic therapy ▶     Qing Qing Dou, Adith Rengaramchandran, Subramanian Tamil Selvan et al.     Core-shell nanoparticles (CSNPs) with diverse chemical compositions have been attracting greater attention in recent years. However, it has been a challenge to develop CSNPs with …             Dimming Titan Revealed by the Cassini Observations ▶     Liming Li     Here we report the temporal variation of Titan's emitted energy with the Cassini/CIRS observations. In the northern hemisphere, the hemispheric-average emitted power decreased …             Synthesis and Verification of Biobased Terephthalic Acid from Furfural ▶     Yuya Tachibana, Saori Kimura, Ken-ichi Kasuya     Exploiting biomass as an alternative to petrochemicals for the production of commodity plastics is vitally important if we are to become a more sustainable society. Here, we …             Origin of near to middle infrared luminescence and energy transfer process of Er3+/Yb3+co-doped fluorotellurite glasses under different excitations ▶     Feifei Huang, Xueqiang Liu, Yaoyao Ma et al.     We report the near to middle infrared luminescence and energy transfer process of Er3/Yb3 co-doped fluorotellurite glasses under 980, 1550 and 800 nm excitations, respectively. Us…             Electrochemically active, crystalline, mesoporous covalent organic frameworks on carbon nanotubes for synergistic lithium-ion battery energy storage ▶     Fei Xu, Shangbin Jin, Hui Zhong et al.     Organic batteries free of toxic metal species could lead to a new generation of consumer energy storage devices that are safe and environmentally benign. However, the …             Focused-Ion-Beam Induced Rayleigh-Plateau Instability for Diversiform Suspended Nanostructure Fabrication ▶     Can Li, Lurui Zhao, Yifei Mao et al.     A novel method for fabricating diversiform suspended nanostructures is reported. The method utilizes focused-ion-beam (FIB) induced material redistribution and Rayleigh-Plateau …             Hierarchical ZnO Nanostructures with Blooming Flowers Driven by Screw Dislocations ▶     Chengzi Huang, Run Shi, Abbas Amini et al.     Hierarchical ZnO nanostructures with a large yield were fabricated by a simple thermal evaporation method. For the first time, novel ZnO flowers were observed blooming at certain …             Multi-frequency complex network from time series for uncovering oil-water flow structure ▶     Zhong-Ke Gao, Yu-Xuan Yang, Peng-Cheng Fang et al.     Uncovering complex oil-water flow structure represents a challenge in diverse scientific disciplines. This challenge stimulates us to develop a new distributed conductance sensor …             Experimental Measurement-Device-Independent Entanglement Detection ▶     Mohamed Nawareg, Sadiq Muhammad, Elias Amselem et al.     Entanglement is one of the most puzzling features of quantum theory and of great importance for the new field of quantum information. The determination whether a given state is …             KCl ultra-thin films with polar and non-polar surfaces grown on Si(111)7 × 7 ▶     Igor Beinik, Clemens Barth, Margrit Hanbücken et al.     The growth of ultra-thin KCl films on the Si(111)7 × 7 reconstructed surface has been investigated as a function of KCl coverage and substrate temperature. The structure and …             Influence of reactive species on the modification of biomolecules generated from the soft plasma ▶     Pankaj Attri, Naresh Kumar, Ji Hoon Park et al.     Plasma medicine is an upcoming research area that has attracted the scientists to explore more deeply the utility of plasma. So, apart from the treating biomaterials and tissues …             Giant local circular dichroism within an asymmetric plasmonic nanoparticle trimer ▶     Hancong Wang, Zhipeng Li, Han Zhang et al.     We investigated the near-field response in silver nanoparticle aggregates to the excitation of circular polarized light. In a right-angle trimer system, the local field intensity …             Storage and retrieval of (3 + 1)-dimensional weak-light bullets and vortices in a coherent atomic gas ▶     Zhiming Chen, Zhengyang Bai, Hui-jun Li et al.     A robust light storage and retrieval (LSR) in high dimensions is highly desirable for light and quantum information processing. However, most schemes on LSR realized up to now …             Nanoscale assembly of lanthanum silica with dense and porous interfacial structures ▶     Benjamin Ballinger, Julius Motuzas, Christopher R. Miller et al.     This work reports on the nanoscale assembly of hybrid lanthanum oxide and silica structures, which form patterns of interfacial dense and porous networks. It was found that …             Spectrally Shaped DP-16QAM Super-Channel Transmission with Multi-Channel Digital Back-Propagation ▶     Robert Maher, Tianhua Xu, Lidia Galdino et al.     The achievable transmission capacity of conventional optical fibre communication systems is limited by nonlinear distortions due to the Kerr effect and the difficulty in …             Possible Electric-Field-Induced Superconducting States in Doped Silicene ▶     Li-Da Zhang, Fan Yang, Yugui Yao     Silicene has been synthesized recently, with experimental evidence showing possible superconductivity in the doped case. The noncoplanar low-buckled structure of this material …             Hydrostatic pressure: A very effective approach to significantly enhance critical current density in granular iron pnictide superconductors ▶     Babar Shabbir, Xiaolin Wang, S. R. Ghorbani et al.     Pressure is well known to significantly raise the superconducting transition temperature, Tc, in both iron pnictides and cuprate based superconductors. Little work has been done, …             Quantum Hooke's Law to Classify Pulse Laser Induced Ultrafast Melting ▶     Hao Hu, Hepeng Ding, Feng Liu     Ultrafast crystal-to-liquid phase transition induced by femtosecond pulse laser excitation is an interesting material's behavior manifesting the complexity of light-matter …             Humans perceive flicker artifacts at 500 Hz ▶     James Davis, Yi-Hsuan Hsieh, Hung-Chi Lee     Humans perceive a stable average intensity image without flicker artifacts when a television or monitor updates at a sufficiently fast rate. This rate, known as the critical …             Detection of vancomycin resistances in enterococci within 3 ½ hours ▶     U. -Ch. Schröder, C. Beleites, C. Assmann et al.     Vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE) constitute a challenging problem in health care institutions worldwide. 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