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03 March 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           NPG Asia Materials is proud to present a web focus on materials for advanced energy conversion and storage. This web focus features a selection of articles that are related to the processes of converting and storing energy, including concepts of novel fuel cells, processing and materials for solar cells, as well as high-performance electrodes for supercapacitors and ion batteries.  Access the Web Focus today!            Chemical Sciences               Facile and Gram-scale Synthesis of Metal-free Catalysts: Toward Realistic Applications for Fuel Cells ▶     Ok-Hee Kim, Yong-Hun Cho, Dong Young Chung et al.     Although numerous reports on nonprecious metal catalysts for replacing expensive Pt-based catalysts have been published, few of these studies have demonstrated their practical …             Ultrasmall Glutathione-Protected Gold Nanoclusters as Next Generation Radiotherapy Sensitizers with High Tumor Uptake and High Renal Clearance ▶     Xiao-Dong Zhang, Zhentao Luo, Jie Chen et al.     Radiotherapy is often the most straightforward first line cancer treatment for solid tumors. While it is highly effective against tumors, there is also collateral damage to …             Functionalised MnVI-nanoparticles: an advanced high-valent magnetic catalyst ▶     Saikat Khamarui, Yasmin Saima, Radha M. Laha et al.     We discover MnVI-nanoparticles (NPs) bearing functional groups, high oxidation state, strong electron affinity, unique redox and paramagnetic nature, which opens up a new avenue …             Analysis of the effects of evaporative cooling on the evaporation of liquid droplets using a combined field approach ▶     Xuefeng Xu, Liran Ma     During liquid evaporation, the equations for the vapor concentration in the atmosphere and for the temperature in the liquid are coupled and must be solved in an iterative …             Compatible interface design of CoO-based Li-O2 battery cathodes with long-cycling stability ▶     Chaoqun Shang, Shanmu Dong, Pu Hu et al.     Lithium-oxygen batteries with high theoretical energy densities have great potential. Recent studies have focused on different cathode architecture design to address poor cycling …             Rate-dependent phase transitions in Li2FeSiO4 cathode nanocrystals ▶     Xia Lu, Huijing Wei, Hsien-Chieh Chiu et al.     Nanostructured lithium metal orthosilicate materials hold a lot of promise as next generation cathodes but their full potential realization is hampered by complex crystal and …             Facile synthesis of the Ti3+ self-doped TiO2-graphene nanosheet composites with enhanced photocatalysis ▶     Bocheng Qiu, Yi Zhou, Yunfei Ma et al.     This study developed a facile approach for preparing Ti3 self-doped TiO2-graphene photocatalyst by a one-step vacuum activation technology involved a relative lower temperature, …             Synthesis and characterization of ZnS with controlled amount of S vacancies for photocatalytic H2 production under visible light ▶     Gang Wang, Baibiao Huang, Zhujie Li et al.     Controlling amount of intrinsic S vacancies was achieved in ZnS spheres which were synthesized by a hydrothermal method using Zn and S powders in concentrated NaOH solution with …             The catalytic role of the M2 metal ion in PP2Cα ▶     Chang Pan, Jun-yi Tang, Yun-fei Xu et al.     PP2C family phosphatases (the type 2C family of protein phosphatases; or metal-dependent phosphatase, PPM) constitute an important class of signaling enzymes that regulate many …             Potential dual imaging nanoparticle: Gd2O3 nanoparticle ▶     Md. Wasi Ahmad, Wenlong Xu, Sung June Kim et al.     Gadolinium (Gd) is a unique and powerful element in chemistry and biomedicine which can be applied simultaneously to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-ray computed tomography …                   Don't let your data go to waste... Scientific Data helps researchers make the most of their data, offering publication in a peer reviewed open access journal. We welcome data of all sizes, from all areas of science. What's unique? 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