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12 May 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         Open for Submissions   A new open access, online-only, multidisciplinary research journal dedicated to publishing the most important scientific advances in the life sciences, physical sciences, and engineering fields that are facilitated by spaceflight and analogue platforms.   Explore the benefits of submitting your next research article: http://bit.ly/1olVyvc           Physical Sciences               Partial dark-field microscopy for investigating domain structures of double-layer microsphere film ▶     Joon Heon Kim, Jung Su Park     A lateral dislocation in a double-layer microsphere film is very difficult to identify because the constituent domains have the same two-dimensional crystalline orientation. …             Spatially and spectrally engineered spin-orbit interaction for achromatic virtual shaping ▶     Mingbo Pu, Zeyu Zhao, Yanqin Wang et al.     The geometries of objects are deterministic in electromagnetic phenomena in all aspects of our world, ranging from imaging with spherical eyes to stealth aircraft with bizarre …             Tuning the optical response of a dimer nanoantenna using plasmonic nanoring loads ▶     Anastasios H. Panaretos, Yu A. Yuwen, Douglas H. Werner et al.     The optical properties of a dimer type nanoantenna loaded with a plasmonic nanoring are investigated through numerical simulations and measurements of fabricated prototypes. It …             Tail-scope: Using friends to estimate heavy tails of degree distributions in large-scale complex networks ▶     Young-Ho Eom, Hang-Hyun Jo     Many complex networks in natural and social phenomena have often been characterized by heavy-tailed degree distributions. However, due to rapidly growing size of network data and …             Odd-parity magnetoresistance in pyrochlore iridate thin films with broken time-reversal symmetry ▶     T. C. Fujita, Y. Kozuka, M. Uchida et al.     A new class of materials termed topological insulators have been intensively investigated due to their unique Dirac surface state carrying dissipationless edge spin currents. …             Brightening Gold Nanoparticles: New Sensing Approach Based on Plasmon Resonance Energy Transfer ▶     Lei Shi, Chao Jing, Zhen Gu et al.     Scattering recovered plasmonic resonance energy transfer (SR-PRET) was reported by blocking the plasmon resonance energy transfer (PRET) from gold nanoparticle (GNP) to the …             Four-state ferroelectric spin-valve ▶     Andy Quindeau, Ignasi Fina, Xavi Marti et al.     Spin-valves had empowered the giant magnetoresistance (GMR) devices to have memory. The insertion of thin antiferromagnetic (AFM) films allowed two stable magnetic field-induced …             Low Temperature Vacuum Synthesis of Triangular CoO Nanocrystal/Graphene Nanosheets Composites with Enhanced Lithium Storage Capacity ▶     Qun Guan, Jianli Cheng, Xiaodong Li et al.     CoO nanocrystal/graphene nanosheets (GNS) composites, consisting of a triangular CoO nanocrystal of 2~20 nm on the surface of GNS, are synthesized by a mild synthetic method. …             High energetic excitons in carbon nanotubes directly probe charge-carriers ▶     Giancarlo Soavi, Francesco Scotognella, Daniele Viola et al.     Theory predicts peculiar features for excited-state dynamics in one dimension (1D) that are difficult to be observed experimentally. Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are an …             Ambipolar light-emitting organic single-crystal transistors with a grating resonator ▶     Kenichi Maruyama, Kosuke Sawabe, Tomo Sakanoue et al.     Electrically driven organic lasers are among the best lasing devices due to their rich variety of emission colors as well as other advantages, including printability, …             Multilayer thin films with compositional PbZr0.52Ti0.48O3/Bi1.5Zn1.0Nb1.5O7 layers for tunable applications ▶     Shihui Yu, Lingxia Li, Weifeng Zhang et al.     The dielectric properties and tunability of multilayer thin films with compositional PbZr0.52Ti0.48O3/Bi1.5Zn1.0Nb1.5O7 (PZT/BZN) layers (PPBLs) fabricated by pulsed laser …             Simple metal under tensile stress: layer-dependent herringbone reconstruction of thin potassium films on graphite ▶     Feng Yin, Sampo Kulju, Pekka Koskinen et al.     While understanding the properties of materials under stress is fundamentally important, designing experiments to probe the effects of large tensile stress is difficult. Here …             Impact of dataset diversity on accuracy and sensitivity of parallel factor analysis model of dissolved organic matter fluorescence excitation-emission matrix ▶     Huarong Yu, Heng Liang, Fangshu Qu et al.     Parallel factor (PARAFAC) analysis enables a quantitative analysis of excitation-emission matrix (EEM). The impact of a spectral variability stemmed from a diverse dataset on the …             Tissue spray ionization mass spectrometry for rapid recognition of human lung squamous cell carcinoma ▶     Yiping Wei, Liru Chen, Wei Zhou et al.     Tissue spray ionization mass spectrometry (TSI-MS) directly on small tissue samples has been shown to provide highly specific molecular information. In this study, we apply this …             Targets of drugs are generally, and targets of drugs having side effects are specifically good spreaders of human interactome perturbations ▶     Áron R. Perez-Lopez, Kristóf Z. Szalay, Dénes Türei et al.     Network-based methods are playing an increasingly important role in drug design. Our main question in this paper was whether the efficiency of drug target proteins to spread …             Stencil Nano Lithography Based on a Nanoscale Polymer Shadow Mask: Towards Organic Nanoelectronics ▶     Hoyeol Yun, Sangwook Kim, Hakseong Kim et al.     A stencil lithography technique has been developed to fabricate organic-material-based electronic devices with sub-micron resolution. Suspended polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) …             Characterization and Modeling of Nonfilamentary Ta/TaOx/TiO2/Ti Analog Synaptic Device ▶     Yu-Fen Wang, Yen-Chuan Lin, I-Ting Wang et al.     A two-terminal analog synaptic device that precisely emulates biological synaptic features is expected to be a critical component for future hardware-based neuromorphic …             Non-volatile Clocked Spin Wave Interconnect for Beyond-CMOS Nanomagnet Pipelines ▶     Sourav Dutta, Sou-Chi Chang, Nickvash Kani et al.     The possibility of using spin waves for information transmission and processing has been an area of active research due to the unique ability to manipulate the amplitude and …             Fabrication of ordered arrays of micro- and nanoscale features with control over their shape and size via templated solid-state dewetting ▶     Jongpil Ye     Templated solid-state dewetting of single-crystal films has been shown to be used to produce regular patterns of various shapes. However, the materials for which this patterning …             Synthesis and structural characterisation of amides from picolinic acid and pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylic acid ▶     Prarthana Devi, Sarah M. Barry, Kate M. Houlihan et al.     Coupling picolinic acid (pyridine-2-carboxylic acid) and pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylic acid with N-alkylanilines affords a range of mono- and bis-amides in good to moderate yields. …             Enhanced piezoelectric properties of vertically aligned single-crystalline NKN nano-rod arrays ▶     Min-Gyu Kang, Seung-Min Oh, Woo-Suk Jung et al.     Piezoelectric materials capable of converting between mechanical and electrical energy have a great range of potential applications in micro- and nano-scale smart devices; …             Synthesis of new metastable nanoalloys of immiscible metals with a pulse laser technique ▶     Zaneta Swiatkowska-Warkocka, Alexander Pyatenko, Franciszek Krok et al.     The generation of nanoalloys of immiscible metals is still a challenge using conventional methods. However, because these materials are currently attracting much attention, …             Controlled motion of electrically neutral microparticles by pulsed direct current ▶     Xinfang Zhang, Rongshan Qin     A controlled motion of electrically neutral microparticles in a conductive liquid at high temperatures has not yet been realized under the uniform direct electric current field. …             Transparent conductive graphene textile fibers ▶     A. I. S. Neves, T. H. Bointon, L. V. Melo et al.     Transparent and flexible electrodes are widely used on a variety of substrates such as plastics and glass. Yet, to date, transparent electrodes on a textile substrate have not …             Selectivity Mechanism of the Voltage-gated Proton Channel, HV1 ▶     Todor Dudev, Boris Musset, Deri Morgan et al.     Voltage-gated proton channels, HV1, trigger bioluminescence in dinoflagellates, enable calcification in coccolithophores, and play multifarious roles in human health. Because the …             Prediction of novel alloy phases of Al with Sc or Ta ▶     Ante Bilić, Julian D. Gale, Mark A. Gibson et al.     Using the evolutionary optimization algorithm, as implemented in the USPEX crystal predictor program, and first principles total energy calculations, the compositional phase …             Thermally induced collision of droplets in an immiscible outer fluid ▶     Ashkan Davanlou, Ranganathan Kumar     Micro-total analysis systems (μTAS) have attracted wide attention and are identified as a promising solution for sample transport, filtration, chemical reactions, separation and …             Blind Depth-variant Deconvolution of 3D Data in Wide-field Fluorescence Microscopy ▶     Boyoung Kim, Takeshi Naemura     This paper proposes a new deconvolution method for 3D fluorescence wide-field microscopy. Most previous methods are insufficient in terms of restoring a 3D cell structure, since a …             Decoupling the Lattice Distortion and Charge Doping Effects on the Phase Transition Behavior of VO2 by Titanium (Ti4+) Doping ▶     Yanfei Wu, Lele Fan, Qinghua Liu et al.     The mechanism for regulating the critical temperature (TC) of metal-insulator transition (MIT) in ions-doped VO2 systems is still a matter of debate, in particular, the unclear …             Soret Fishnet Metalens Antenna ▶     Bakhtiyar Orazbayev, Miguel Beruete, Víctor Pacheco-Peña et al.     At the expense of frequency narrowing, binary amplitude-only diffractive optical elements emulate refractive lenses without the need of large profiles. Unfortunately, they also …             In Vitro Study of Surface Modified Poly(ethylene glycol)-Impregnated Sintered Bovine Bone Scaffolds on Human Fibroblast Cells ▶     Sumit Pramanik, Forough Ataollahi, Belinda Pingguan-Murphy et al.     Scaffold design from xenogeneic bone has the potential for tissue engineering (TE). However, major difficulties impede this potential, such as the wide range of properties in …             Generalized quantum interference of correlated photon pairs ▶     Heonoh Kim, Sang Min Lee, Han Seb Moon     Superposition and indistinguishablility between probability amplitudes have played an essential role in observing quantum interference effects of correlated photons. The …             Design of On-Chip N-Fold Orbital Angular Momentum Multicasting Using V-Shaped Antenna Array ▶     Jing Du, Jian Wang     We design a V-shaped antenna array to realize on-chip multicasting from a single Gaussian beam to four orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams. A pattern search assisted iterative …             Using “Tender” X-ray Ambient Pressure X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy as A Direct Probe of Solid-Liquid Interface ▶     Stephanus Axnanda, Ethan J. Crumlin, Baohua Mao et al.     We report a new method to probe the solid-liquid interface through the use of a thin liquid layer on a solid surface. An ambient pressure XPS (AP-XPS) endstation that is capable …             Layer-selective half-metallicity in bilayer graphene nanoribbons ▶     Gi Wan Jeon, Kyu Won Lee, Cheol Eui Lee     Half-metallicity recently predicted in the zigzag-edge graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) and the hydrogenated carbon nanotubes (CNTs) enables fully spin-polarized electric currents, …             Unfolding grain size effects in barium titanate ferroelectric ceramics ▶     Yongqiang Tan, Jialiang Zhang, Yanqing Wu et al.     Grain size effects on the physical properties of polycrystalline ferroelectrics have been extensively studied for decades; however there are still major controversies regarding …             Optimal search strategies on complex multi-linked networks ▶     Francesca Di Patti, Duccio Fanelli, Francesco Piazza     In this paper we consider the problem of optimal search strategies on multi-linked networks, i.e. graphs whose nodes are endowed with several independent sets of links. We focus …             Multi-Service Highly Sensitive Rectifier for Enhanced RF Energy Scavenging ▶     Negin Shariati, Wayne S. T. Rowe, James R. Scott et al.     Due to the growing implications of energy costs and carbon footprints, the need to adopt inexpensive, green energy harvesting strategies are of paramount importance for the …             Enhancement of spin-wave nonreciprocity in magnonic crystals via synthetic antiferromagnetic coupling ▶     K. Di, S. X. Feng, S. N. Piramanayagam et al.     Spin-wave nonreciprocity arising from dipole-dipole interaction is insignificant for magnon wavelengths in the sub-100 nm range. Our micromagnetic simulations reveal that for the …             Nonvolatile Bio-Memristor Fabricated with Egg Albumen Film ▶     Ying-Chih Chen, Hsin-Chieh Yu, Chun-Yuan Huang et al.     This study demonstrates the fabrication and characterization of chicken egg albumen-based bio-memristors. By introducing egg albumen as an insulator to fabricate memristor …             An automated microfluidic platform for C. elegans embryo arraying, phenotyping, and long-term live imaging ▶     Matteo Cornaglia, Laurent Mouchiroud, Alexis Marette et al.     Studies of the real-time dynamics of embryonic development require a gentle embryo handling method, the possibility of long-term live imaging during the complete embryogenesis, …             On granular elasticity ▶     Qicheng Sun, Feng Jin, Guangqian Wang et al.     Mesoscopic structures form in dense granular materials due to the self-organisation of the constituent particles. These structures have internal structural degrees of freedom in …             Antimicrobial nano-silver non-woven polyethylene terephthalate fabric via an atmospheric pressure plasma deposition process ▶     Xiaolong Deng, Anton Yu Nikiforov, Tom Coenye et al.     An antimicrobial nano-silver non-woven polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fabric has been prepared in a three step process. The fabrics were first pretreated by depositing a layer …             Ca-Mediated Electroformation of Cell-Sized Lipid Vesicles ▶     Fei Tao, Peng Yang     Cell-sized lipid giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) are formed when lipid molecules self-assemble to construct a single bilayer compartment with similar morphology to living cells. …             Characterization of the thermolysis products of Nafion membrane: A potential source of perfluorinated compounds in the environment ▶     Mingbao Feng, Ruijuan Qu, Zhongbo Wei et al.     The thermal decomposition of Nafion N117 membrane, a typical perfluorosulfonic acid membrane that is widely used in various chemical technologies, was investigated in this study. …             Direct Electrochemistry of Glucose Oxidase on Novel Free-Standing Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanospheres@Carbon Nanofibers Composite Film ▶     Xueping Zhang, Dong Liu, Libo Li et al.     We have proposed a novel free-standing nitrogen-doped carbon nanospheres@carbon nanofibers (NCNSs@CNFs) composite film with high processability for the investigation of the …             Laser-pointer-induced self-focusing effect in hybrid-aligned dye-doped liquid crystals ▶     Jing Wang, Yosuke Aihara, Motoi Kinoshita et al.     Nonlinear optics deals with phenomena where “light controls light”; e.g., there is mediation by an intensity-dependent medium through which light propagates. This field has …             The Rebirth of Waste Cooking Oil to Novel Bio-based Surfactants ▶     Qi-Qi Zhang, Bang-Xin Cai, Wen-Jie Xu et al.     Waste cooking oil (WCO) is a kind of non-edible oil with enormous quantities and its unreasonable dispose may generate negative impact on human life and environment. However, WCO …             The reduction of surface plasmon losses in quasi-suspended graphene ▶     Alexander M. Dubrovkin, Jin Tao, Xue Chao Yu et al.     Highly confined surface plasmons on graphene attract substantial interest as potential information carriers for highly integrated photonic data processing circuits. However, …             Core-like groups result in invalidation of identifying super-spreader by k-shell decomposition ▶     Ying Liu, Ming Tang, Tao Zhou et al.     Identifying the most influential spreaders is an important issue in understanding and controlling spreading processes on complex networks. Recent studies showed that nodes located …             Formation of Poly[d(A-T)2] Specific Z-DNA by a Cationic Porphyrin ▶     Yoon Jung Jang, Changyun Lee, Seog K. Kim     Typical CD spectrum of the right-handed poly[d(A-T)2] was reversed when trans-bis(N-methylpyrimidium-4-yl)diphenyl porphyrin (trans-BMPyP) was bound, suggesting that the helicity …             Highly Efficient Coupling of Nanolight Emitters to a Ultra-Wide Tunable Nanofibre Cavity ▶     Andreas W. Schell, Hideaki Takashima, Shunya Kamioka et al.     Solid-state microcavities combining ultra-small mode volume, wide-range resonance frequency tuning, as well as lossless coupling to a single mode fibre are integral tools for …             Hierarchically mesoporous CuO/carbon nanofiber coaxial shell-core nanowires for lithium ion batteries ▶     Seok-Hwan Park, Wan-Jin Lee     Hierarchically mesoporous CuO/carbon nanofiber coaxial shell-core nanowires (CuO/CNF) as anodes for lithium ion batteries were prepared by coating the Cu2(NO3)(OH)3 on the …             Shaping a Subwavelength Needle with Ultra-long Focal Length by Focusing Azimuthally Polarized Light ▶     Fei Qin, Kun Huang, Jianfeng Wu et al.     Flat optics, which could planarize and miniaturize the traditional optical elements, possesses the features of extremely low profile and high integration for advanced …             New Ti-decorated B40 fullerene as a promising hydrogen storage material ▶     Huilong Dong, Tingjun Hou, Shuit-Tong Lee et al.     The newly found B40 is the first experimentally observed all-boron fullerene and has potential applications in hydrogen storage. Here we investigate the binding ability and …             The phase diagram and hardness of carbon nitrides ▶     Huafeng Dong, Artem R. Oganov, Qiang Zhu et al.     Novel superhard materials, especially those with superior thermal and chemical stability, are needed to replace diamond. Carbon nitrides (C-N), which are likely to possess these …             Gate Modulation of Graphene-ZnO Nanowire Schottky Diode ▶     Ren Liu, Xu-Chen You, Xue-Wen Fu et al.     Graphene-semiconductor interface is important for the applications in electronic and optoelectronic devices. Here we report the modulation of the electric transport properties of …             Design, Synthesis and Inhibitory Activity of Photoswitchable RET Kinase Inhibitors ▶     Rubén Ferreira, Jesper R. Nilsson, Carlos Solano et al.     REarranged during Transfection (RET) is a transmembrane receptor tyrosine kinase required for normal development and maintenance of neurons of the central and peripheral nervous …             Natural carbon-based dots from humic substances ▶     Yongqiang Dong, Lisi Wan, Jianhua Cai et al.     For the first time, abundant natural carbon-based dots were found and studied in humic substances (HS). Four soluble HS including three humic acids (HA) from different sources …             Chemically Induced Fluorescence Switching of Carbon-Dots and Its Multiple Logic Gate Implementation ▶     Namasivayam Dhenadhayalan, King-Chuen Lin     Investigations were carried out on the carbon-dots (C-dots) based fluorescent off - on (Fe3 + - S2O32−) and on - off (Zn2 + - PO43−) sensors for the detection of metal ions and …             Journey of water in pine cones ▶     Kahye Song, Eunseop Yeom, Seung-Jun Seo et al.     Pine cones fold their scales when it rains to prevent seeds from short-distance dispersal. Given that the scales of pine cones consist of nothing but dead cells, this folding …             Reduced erythrocyte susceptibility and increased host clearance of young parasites slows Plasmodium growth in a murine model of severe malaria ▶     David S. Khoury, Deborah Cromer, Shannon E. Best et al.     The best correlate of malaria severity in human Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) infection is the total parasite load. Pf-infected humans could control parasite loads by two mechanisms, …             High-concentration boron doping of graphene nanoplatelets by simple thermal annealing and their supercapacitive properties ▶     Da-Young Yeom, Woojin Jeon, Nguyen Dien Kha Tu et al.     For the utilization of graphene in various energy storage and conversion applications, it must be synthesized in bulk with reliable and controllable electrical properties. …             Enhancing the light-driven production of d-lactate by engineering cyanobacterium using a combinational strategy ▶     Chao Li, Fei Tao, Jun Ni et al.     It is increasingly attractive to engineer cyanobacteria for bulk production of chemicals from CO2. However, cofactor bias of cyanobacteria is different from bacteria that prefer …             Facile and Sustainable Synthesis of Shaped Iron Oxide Nanoparticles: Effect of Iron Precursor Salts on the Shapes of Iron Oxides ▶     Farheen N. Sayed, Vivek Polshettiwar     A facile and sustainable protocol for synthesis of six different shaped iron oxides is developed. Notably, all the six shapes of iron oxides can be synthesised using exactly same …             A slippery molecular assembly allows water as a self-erasable security marker ▶     Rajasekaran Thirumalai, Rahul Dev Mukhopadhyay, Vakayil K. Praveen et al.     Protection of currency and valuable documents from counterfeit continues to be a challenge. While there are many embedded security features available for document safety, they …             Pressure-stabilized superconductive yttrium hydrides ▶     Yinwei Li, Jian Hao, Hanyu Liu et al.     The search for high-temperature superconductors has been focused on compounds containing a large fraction of hydrogen, such as SiH4(H2)2, CaH6 and KH6. Through a systematic …             Diffusion control of an ion by another in LiNbO3 and LiTaO3 crystals ▶     De-Long Zhang, Qun Zhang, Cong-Xian Qiu et al.     Diffusion-doping is an effective, practical method to improve material properties and widen material application. Here, we demonstrate a new physical phenomenon: diffusion …             Electronic system with memristive synapses for pattern recognition ▶     Sangsu Park, Myonglae Chu, Jongin Kim et al.     Memristive synapses, the most promising passive devices for synaptic interconnections in artificial neural networks, are the driving force behind recent research on hardware …             Momentum-resolved spectroscopy of a Fermi liquid ▶     Elmer V. H. Doggen, Jami J. Kinnunen     We consider a recent momentum-resolved radio-frequency spectroscopy experiment, in which Fermi liquid properties of a strongly interacting atomic Fermi gas were studied. Here we …             Systematic optimization of human pluripotent stem cells media using Design of Experiments ▶     Paulo A. Marinho, Thanathom Chailangkarn, Alysson R. Muotri     Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSC) are used to study the early stages of human development in vitro and, increasingly due to somatic cell reprogramming, cellular and molecular …             Macro-to-micro cortical vascular imaging underlies regional differences in ischemic brain ▶     Suzan Dziennis, Jia Qin, Lei Shi et al.     The ability to non-invasively monitor and quantify hemodynamic responses down to the capillary level is important for improved diagnosis, treatment and management of …                 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.         • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Postdoctoral Researcher     University of Maryland Baltimore            Postdoctoral Research Assistant     University of Dundee            Postdoctoral Scientist     John Innes Centre (JIC)            Research Fellow     The University of Warwick            Tenure-track Faculty Positions     University of Kentucky            Postdoctoral Scientist     Medical Research Council            Postdoctoral Research Scientists     Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute in Glasgow            PhD Scholarship in Organic Synthesis     Technical University of Denmark (DTU)            5-Year Postdoctoral Research Fellow     London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine            Assistant Professor - Social and Behavioural Sciences (18 positions)     Utrecht 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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