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28 April 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         npj Quantum Information   An online open access journal providing a platform for the latest important research on quantum information, including quantum computing, quantum communications and quantum information theory. The Journal is now open for submissions. Explore the benefits of submitting your next research article.           Physical Sciences               Tunable quantum interference in a 3D integrated circuit ▶     Zachary Chaboyer, Thomas Meany, L. G. Helt et al.     Integrated photonics promises solutions to questions of stability, complexity, and size in quantum optics. Advances in tunable and non-planar integrated platforms, such as …             Strategical incoherence regulates cooperation in social dilemmas on multiplex networks ▶     Joan T. Matamalas, Julia Poncela-Casasnovas, Sergio Gómez et al.     Cooperation is a very common, yet not fully-understood phenomenon in natural and human systems. The introduction of a network within the population is known to affect the outcome …             Ultra-Small, High-Frequency, and Substrate-Immune Microtube Inductors Transformed from 2D to 3D ▶     Xin Yu, Wen Huang, Moyang Li et al.     Monolithic on-chip inductors are key passive devices in radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs). Currently, 70–80% of the on-wafer area of most RFIC chips is occupied by the …             Enhanced Crystallinity of Epitaxial Graphene Grown on Hexagonal SiC Surface with Molybdenum Plate Capping ▶     Han Byul Jin, Youngeun Jeon, Sungchul Jung et al.     The crystallinity of epitaxial graphene (EG) grown on a Hexagonal-SiC substrate is found to be enhanced greatly by capping the substrate with a molybdenum plate (Mo-plate) during …             Ultrafast optical excitation of magnetic skyrmions ▶     N. Ogawa, S. Seki, Y. Tokura     Magnetic skyrmions in an insulating chiral magnet Cu2OSeO3 were studied by all-optical spin wave spectroscopy. The spins in the conical and skyrmion phases were excited by the …             Anisotropic modulation of magnetic properties and the memory effect in a wide-band (011)-Pr0.7Sr0.3MnO3/PMN-PT heterostructure ▶     Ying-Ying Zhao, Jing Wang, Hao Kuang et al.     Memory effect of electric-field control on magnetic behavior in magnetoelectric composite heterostructures has been a topic of interest for a long time. Although the piezostrain …             Extremely High Brightness from Polymer-Encapsulated Quantum Dots for Two-photon Cellular and Deep-tissue Imaging ▶     Yanyan Fan, Helin Liu, Rongcheng Han et al.     Materials possessing high two photon absorption (TPA) are highly desirable for a range of fields, such as three-dimensional data storage, TP microscopy (TPM) and photodynamic …             Unusual ferromagnetism enhancement in ferromagnetically optimal manganite La0.7−yCa0.3+yMn1−yRuyO3 (0≤y<0.3): the role of Mn-Ru t2g super-exchange ▶     M. F. Liu, Z. Z. Du, Y. L. Xie et al.     The eg-orbital double-exchange mechanism as the core of physics of colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) manganites is well known, which usually covers up the role of super-exchange at …             Magic electron affection in preparation process of silicon nanocrystal ▶     Wei-Qi Huang, Shi-Rong Liu, Zhong-Mei Huang et al.     It is very interesting that magic electron affection promotes growth of nanocrystals due to nanoscale characteristics of electronic de Broglie wave which produces resonance to …             Droplet-interface-bilayer assays in microfluidic passive networks ▶     Bárbara Schlicht, Michele Zagnoni     Basic biophysical studies and pharmacological processes can be investigated by mimicking the intracellular and extracellular environments across an artificial cell membrane …             100-nm-sized magnetic domain reversal by the magneto-electric effect in self-assembled BiFeO3/CoFe2O4 bilayer films ▶     Keita Sone, Hiroshi Naganuma, Masaki Ito et al.     A (001)-epitaxial-BiFeO3/CoFe2O4 bilayer was grown by self-assembly on SrTiO3 (100) substrates by just coating a mixture precursor solution. The thickness ratio of the bilayer …             Development of a 3D printer using scanning projection stereolithography ▶     Michael P. Lee, Geoffrey J. T. Cooper, Trevor Hinkley et al.     We have developed a system for the rapid fabrication of low cost 3D devices and systems in the laboratory with micro-scale features yet cm-scale objects. Our system is inspired by …             Loss of superhydrophobicity of hydrophobic micro/nano structures during condensation ▶     HangJin Jo, Kyung Won Hwang, DongHyun Kim et al.     Condensed liquid behavior on hydrophobic micro/nano-structured surfaces is a subject with multiple practical applications, but remains poorly understood. In particular, the loss …             Work-Hardening Induced Tensile Ductility of Bulk Metallic Glasses via High-Pressure Torsion ▶     Soo-Hyun Joo, Dong-Hai Pi, Albertus Deny Heri Setyawan et al.     The mechanical properties of engineering materials are key for ensuring safety and reliability. However, the plastic deformation of BMGs is confined to narrow regions in shear …             When are Surface Plasmon Polaritons Excited in the Kretschmann-Raether Configuration? ▶     Jonathan J. Foley IV, Hayk Harutyunyan, Daniel Rosenmann et al.     It is widely believed that the reflection minimum in a Kretschmann-Raether experiment results from direct coupling into surface plasmon polariton modes. Our experimental results …             Temperature Dependence of Electric Transport in Few-layer Graphene under Large Charge Doping Induced by Electrochemical Gating ▶     R. S. Gonnelli, F. Paolucci, E. Piatti et al.     The temperature dependence of electric transport properties of single-layer and few-layer graphene at large charge doping is of great interest both for the study of the scattering …             A multi-functional bubble-based microfluidic system ▶     Khashayar Khoshmanesh, Abdullah Almansouri, Hamad Albloushi et al.     Recently, the bubble-based systems have offered a new paradigm in microfluidics. Gas bubbles are highly flexible, controllable and barely mix with liquids, and thus can be used …             Antibacterial activity of silver-killed bacteria: the "zombies" effect ▶     Racheli Ben-Knaz Wakshlak, Rami Pedahzur, David Avnir     We report a previously unrecognized mechanism for the prolonged action of biocidal agents, which we denote as the zombies effect: biocidally-killed bacteria are capable of killing …             Enhancing participation to health screening campaigns by group interactions ▶     Raffaella Burioni, Pierluigi Contucci, Micaela Fedele et al.     Improving the prevention efficacy of health screening campaigns by increasing their attendance rate represents a challenge that calls for new strategies. This paper analyzes the …             Solitons shedding from Airy beams and bound states of breathing Airy solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media ▶     Ming Shen, Jinsong Gao, Lijuan Ge     We investigate the spatially optical solitons shedding from Airy beams and anomalous interactions of Airy beams in nonlocal nonlinear media by means of direct numerical …             Optimal percentage of inhibitory synapses in multi-task learning ▶     Vittorio Capano, Hans J. Herrmann, Lucilla de Arcangelis     Performing more tasks in parallel is a typical feature of complex brains. These are characterized by the coexistence of excitatory and inhibitory synapses, whose percentage in …             The effect of ionic strength on oil adhesion in sandstone – the search for the low salinity mechanism ▶     E. Hilner, M. P. Andersson, T. Hassenkam et al.     Core flood and field tests have demonstrated that decreasing injection water salinity increases oil recovery from sandstone reservoirs. However, the microscopic mechanism behind …             Releasing N-glycan from Peptide N-terminus by N-terminal Succinylation Assisted Enzymatic Deglycosylation ▶     Yejing Weng, Zhigang Sui, Hao Jiang et al.     Due to the important roles of N-glycoproteins in various biological processes, the global N-glycoproteome analysis has been paid much attention. However, by current strategies for …             A Pure Inorganic ZnO-Co3O4 Overlapped Membrane for Efficient Oil/Water Emulsions Separation ▶     Na Liu, Xin Lin, Weifeng Zhang et al.     The earth's environmental problems, especially for water remediation, need effective methods to solve. Materials with special wettability are developed for the separation of …             Functional Optical Coherence Tomography Enables In Vivo Physiological Assessment of Retinal Rod and Cone Photoreceptors ▶     Qiuxiang Zhang, Rongwen Lu, Benquan Wang et al.     Transient intrinsic optical signal (IOS) changes have been observed in retinal photoreceptors, suggesting a unique biomarker for eye disease detection. However, clinical …             Aerosol-spray diverse mesoporous metal oxides from metal nitrates ▶     Long Kuai, Junxin Wang, Tian Ming et al.     Transition metal oxides are widely used in solar cells, batteries, transistors, memories, transparent conductive electrodes, photocatalysts, gas sensors, supercapacitors, and …             Ballistic bipolar junctions in chemically gated graphene ribbons ▶     Jens Baringhaus, Alexander Stöhr, Stiven Forti et al.     The realization of ballistic graphene pn-junctions is an essential task in order to study Klein tunneling phenomena. Here we show that intercalation of Ge under the buffer layer …             Cell voltage versus electrode potential range in aqueous supercapacitors ▶     Zengxin Dai, Chuang Peng, Jung Hoon Chae et al.     Supercapacitors with aqueous electrolytes and nanostructured composite electrodes are attractive because of their high charging-discharging speed, long cycle life, low …             Conceptualization and validation of an open-source closed-loop deep brain stimulation system in rat ▶     Hemmings Wu, Hartwin Ghekiere, Dorien Beeckmans et al.     Conventional deep brain stimulation (DBS) applies constant electrical stimulation to specific brain regions to treat neurological disorders. Closed-loop DBS with real-time …             Sulfonium Salts as Leaving Groups for Aromatic Labelling of Drug-like Small Molecules with Fluorine-18 ▶     Kerstin Sander, Thibault Gendron, Elena Yiannaki et al.     Positron emission tomography (PET) is unique in that it allows quantification of biochemical processes in vivo, but difficulties with preparing suitably labelled radiotracers …             Effects of substrate conductivity on cell morphogenesis and proliferation using tailored, atomic layer deposition-grown ZnO thin films ▶     Won Jin Choi, Jongjin Jung, Sujin Lee et al.     We demonstrate that ZnO films grown by atomic layer deposition (ALD) can be employed as a substrate to explore the effects of electrical conductivity on cell adhesion, …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Research Fellow / Associate (Two Posts)     University of Bristol            PhD positions     Inserm Unit 1110            Postdoctoral Fellow     Indiana Univeristy School of Medicine            Tenure-Track Group Leader Positions     King's College London            Postdoctoral Fellow     University of Colorado            Tenure-Track Faculty Position     McMaster University            12 Tenure-Track Positions     NTNU - Trondheim Norwegian University of Science and Technology            Early Stage Researcher (ESR) / PhD     KU Leuven            Lecturer in Genetics / Genomics     The University of Manchester            Lab Manager Position     Princeton University          No matter what your career stage, student, postdoc or senior scientist, you will find articles on naturejobs.com to help guide you in your science career. 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