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16 June 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               Growth from behind: Intercalation-growth of two-dimensional FeO moiré structure underneath of metal-supported graphene ▶     Arjun Dahal, Matthias Batzill     Growth of graphene by chemical vapor deposition on metal supports has become a promising approach for the large-scale synthesis of high quality graphene. Decoupling of the …             Integrated travel network model for studying epidemics: Interplay between journeys and epidemic ▶     Zhongyuan Ruan, Chaoqing Wang, Pak Ming Hui et al.     The ease of travelling between cities has contributed much to globalization. Yet, it poses a threat on epidemic outbreaks. It is of great importance for network science and …             Imaging Nanoscale Electromagnetic Near-Field Distributions Using Optical Forces ▶     Fei Huang, Venkata Ananth Tamma, Zahra Mardy et al.     We demonstrate the application of Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) for mapping optical near-fields with nanometer resolution, limited only by the AFM probe geometry. By detecting …             Homoepitaxial SrTiO3(111) Film with High Dielectric Performance and Atomically Well-Defined Surface ▶     Yan Liang, Wentao Li, Shuyuan Zhang et al.     The six-fold symmetry possessed by the (111) surfaces of perovskite oxides allows the epitaxial growth of novel quantum materials such as topological insulators. The dielectric …             Anderson localization and Mott insulator phase in the time domain ▶     Krzysztof Sacha     Particles in space periodic potentials constitute standard models for investigation of crystalline phenomena in solid state physics. Time periodicity of periodically driven …             Super-resolution of fluorescence-free plasmonic nanoparticles using enhanced dark-field illumination based on wavelength-modulation ▶     Peng Zhang, Seungah Lee, Hyunung Yu et al.     Super-resolution imaging of fluorescence-free plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) was achieved using enhanced dark-field (EDF) illumination based on wavelength-modulation. …             Optical Concentrators with Simple Layered Designs ▶     Mohammad Mehdi Sadeghi, Lin Xu, Hamid Nadgaran et al.     A microwave prototype of field concentrator was recently fabricated, based on the combination of transformation optics and Fabry-Pérot resonances. Perfect electric conductors …             Origin of the non-monotonic variance of Tc in the 1111 iron based superconductors with isovalent doping ▶     Hidetomo Usui, Katsuhiro Suzuki, Kazuhiko Kuroki     Motivated by recent experimental investigations of the isovalent doping iron-based superconductors LaFe(AsxP1-x)O1-yFy and NdFe(AsxP1-x)O1-yFy, we theoretically study the …             Bursts in discontinuous Aeolian saltation ▶     M. V. Carneiro, K. R. Rasmussen, H. J. Herrmann     Close to the onset of Aeolian particle transport through saltation we find in wind tunnel experiments a regime of discontinuous flux characterized by bursts of activity. Scaling …             Analytic descriptions of cylindrical electromagnetic waves in a nonlinear medium ▶     Hao Xiong, Liu-Gang Si, Xiaoxue Yang et al.     A simple but highly efficient approach for dealing with the problem of cylindrical electromagnetic waves propagation in a nonlinear medium is proposed based on an exact solution …             Recursion-Transform method to a non-regular m×n cobweb with an arbitrary longitude ▶     Zhi-Zhong Tan     A general Recursion-Transform method is put forward and is applied to resolving a difficult problem of the two-point resistance in a non-regular m × n cobweb network with an …             Interfacial exchange coupling and magnetization reversal in perpendicular [Co/Ni]N/TbCo composite structures ▶     M. H. Tang, Zongzhi Zhang, S. Y. Tian et al.     Interfacial exchange coupling and magnetization reversal characteristics in the perpendicular heterostructures consisting of an amorphous ferrimagnetic (FI) TbxCo100–x alloy …             Quantum magnetism in strongly interacting one-dimensional spinor Bose systems ▶     Amin Dehkharghani, Artem Volosniev, Jonathan Lindgren et al.     Strongly interacting one-dimensional quantum systems often behave in a manner that is distinctly different from their higher-dimensional counterparts. When a particle attempts to …             Network nanostructured polypyrrole hydrogel/Au composites as enhanced electrochemical biosensing platform ▶     Qinfeng Rong, Hongliang Han, Feng Feng et al.     In this work, a new network nanocomposite composed of polypyrrole hydrogel (PPy hydrogel) loaded gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) was prepared. The PPy hydrogel was directly …             pH-Taxis of Biohybrid Microsystems ▶     Jiang Zhuang, Rika Wright Carlsen, Metin Sitti     The last decade has seen an increasing number of studies developing bacteria and other cell-integrated biohybrid microsystems. However, the highly stochastic motion of these …             Three-dimensional Nanowire Structures for Ultra-Fast Separation of DNA, Protein and RNA Molecules ▶     Sakon Rahong, Takao Yasui, Takeshi Yanagida et al.     Separation and analysis of biomolecules represent crucial processes for biological and biomedical engineering development; however, separation resolution and speed for …             Physical Limits to Auditory Transduction of Hair-Cell Bundles probed by a Biomimetic System ▶     Taegeun Song, Woo Seok Lee, Kang-Hun Ahn     Inspired by auditory hair cells of lower vertebrates, we design and fabricate an opto-electro-mechanical sensor at the border of its spontaneous activity, called Hopf bifurcation …             Achieving waste to energy through sewage sludge gasification using hot slags: syngas production ▶     Yongqi Sun, Jinichiro Nakano, Lili Liu et al.     To relieve the environmental issues of sewage sludge (SS) disposal and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission in China, we proposed an integrated method for the first time to …             Rapid, automated, parallel quantitative immunoassays using highly integrated microfluidics and AlphaLISA ▶     Zeta Tak For Yu, Huijiao Guan, Mei Ki Cheung et al.     Immunoassays represent one of the most popular analytical methods for detection and quantification of biomolecules. However, conventional immunoassays such as ELISA and flow …             Thermal and UV Hydrosilylation of Alcohol-Based Bifunctional Alkynes on Si (111) surfaces: How surface radicals influence surface bond formation ▶     Y. L. Khung, S. H. Ngalim, A. Scaccabarozi et al.     Using two different hydrosilylation methods, low temperature thermal and UV initiation, silicon (111) hydrogenated surfaces were functionalized in presence of an OH-terminated …             Atomic-layer molybdenum sulfide optical modulator for visible coherent light ▶     Yuxia Zhang, Shuxian Wang, Haohai Yu et al.     Coherent light sources in the visible range are playing important roles in our daily life and modern technology, since about 50% of the capability of the our human brains is …             Imaging of built-in electric field at a p-n junction by scanning transmission electron microscopy ▶     Naoya Shibata, Scott D. Findlay, Hirokazu Sasaki et al.     Precise measurement and characterization of electrostatic potential structures and the concomitant electric fields at nanodimensions are essential to understand and control the …             Brillouin scattering in multi-core optical fibers for sensing applications ▶     Yosuke Mizuno, Neisei Hayashi, Hiroki Tanaka et al.     We measure the Brillouin gain spectra in two cores (the central core and one of the outer cores) of a ~3-m-long, silica-based, 7-core multi-core fiber (MCF) with incident light …             Tungsten Ditelluride: a layered semimetal ▶     Chia-Hui Lee, Eduardo Cruz Silva, Lazaro Calderin et al.     Tungsten ditelluride (WTe2) is a transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) with physical and electronic properties that make it attractive for a variety of electronic applications. …             Frequency-resolved optical gating technique for retrieving the amplitude of a vibrational wavepacket ▶     Yasuo Nabekawa, Yusuke Furukawa, Tomoya Okino et al.     We propose a novel method to determine the complex amplitude of each eigenfunction composing a vibrational wavepacket of / molecular ions evolving with a ~10 fs time scale. We …             Electrical Switchability and Dry-Wash Durability of Conductive Textiles ▶     Bangting Wu, Bowu Zhang, Jingxia Wu et al.     There is growing interest in the area of conductive textiles in the scientific and industrial community. Herein, we successfully prepared a conductive textile via covalently …             Robustness of Rashba and Dirac Fermions against Strong Disorder ▶     Domenico Di Sante, Paolo Barone, Evgeny Plekhanov et al.     By addressing the interplay between substitutional disorder and spin-orbit-coupling in chalcogenide alloys, we predict a strong robustness of spectral features at the Fermi …             Monolithic Magneto-Optical Nanocomposites of Barium Hexaferrite Platelets in PMMA ▶     Gregor Ferk, Peter Krajnc, Anton Hamler et al.     The incorporation of magnetic barium hexaferrite nanoparticles in a transparent polymer matrix of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) is reported for the first time. The barium …             Rational design of binder-free noble metal/metal oxide arrays with nanocauliflower structure for wide linear range nonenzymatic glucose detection ▶     Zhenzhen Li, Yanmei Xin, Zhonghai Zhang et al.     One-dimensional nanocomposites of metal-oxide and noble metal were expected to present superior performance for nonenzymatic glucose detection due to its good conductivity and …             Direct observation of solid-state reversed transformation from crystals to quasicrystals in a Mg alloy ▶     Jian-Fang Liu, Zhi-Qing Yang, Heng-Qiang Ye     Phase transformation of quasicrystals is of interest in various fields of science and technology. Interestingly, we directly observed unexpected solid-state epitaxial nucleation …             Reconstruction of pulse noisy images via stochastic resonance ▶     Jing Han, Hongjun Liu, Qibing Sun et al.     We investigate a practical technology for reconstructing nanosecond pulse noisy images via stochastic resonance, which is based on the modulation instability. A theoretical model …             Oxygen Vacancy Induced Flat Phonon Mode at FeSe /SrTiO3 interface ▶     Yun Xie, Hai-Yuan Cao, Yang Zhou et al.     A high-frequency optical phonon mode of SrTiO3 (STO) was found to assist the high-temperature superconductivity observed recently at the interface between monolayer FeSe and STO …             Synergetic effect of metal nickel and graphene as a cocatalyst for enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution via dye sensitization ▶     Weiying Zhang, Yuexiang Li, Xianping Zeng et al.     Exploiting new, low-cost and efficient electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is important to resolve the energy crisis and environment pollution. In this work, …             Optomechanically-induced transparency in parity-time-symmetric microresonators ▶     H. Jing, Şahin K. Özdemir, Z. Geng et al.     Optomechanically-induced transparency (OMIT) and the associated slowing of light provide the basis for storing photons in nanoscale devices. Here we study OMIT in parity-time (PT…             Schottky barrier formation and band bending revealed by first- principles calculations ▶     Yang Jiao, Anders Hellman, Yurui Fang et al.     The formation of a Schottky barrier at the metal-semiconductor interface is widely utilised in semiconductor devices. With the emerging of novel Schottky barrier based …             Effective D-A-D type chromophore of fumaronitrile-core and terminal alkylated bithiophene for solution-processed small molecule organic solar cells ▶     M. Nazim, Sadia Ameen, Hyung-Kee Seo et al.     A new and novel organic π-conjugated chromophore (named as RCNR) based on fumaronitrile-core acceptor and terminal alkylated bithiophene was designed, synthesized and utilized as …             Transition to turbulence in Taylor-Couette ferrofluidic flow ▶     Sebastian Altmeyer, Younghae Do, Ying-Cheng Lai     It is known that in classical fluids turbulence typically occurs at high Reynolds numbers. But can turbulence occur at low Reynolds numbers? Here we investigate the transition to …             Ultrasonic application to boost hydroxyl radical formation during Fenton oxidation and release organic matter from sludge ▶     Changxiu Gong, Jianguo Jiang, De’an Li et al.     We examined the effects of ultrasound and Fenton reagent on ultrasonic coupling Fenton oxidation (U+F) pre-treatment processes for the disintegration of wastewater treatment …             Surface modification of microparticles causes differential uptake responses in normal and tumoral human breast epithelial cells ▶     Tania Patiño, Jorge Soriano, Lleonard Barrios et al.     The use of micro- and nanodevices as multifunctional systems for biomedical applications has experienced an exponential growth during the past decades. Although a large number of …             Removal of ecotoxicity of 17α-ethinylestradiol using TAML/peroxide water treatment ▶     Matthew R. Mills, Karla Arias-Salazar, Alice Baynes et al.     17α-ethinylestradiol (EE2), a synthetic oestrogen in oral contraceptives, is one of many pharmaceuticals found in inland waterways worldwide as a result of human consumption and …             Decoherence control by quantum decoherence itself ▶     Katarzyna Roszak, Radim Filip, Tomáš Novotný     We propose a general approach of protecting a two-level system against decoherence via quantum engineering of non-classical multiple superpositions of coherent states in a …             Wrapping cytochrome c around single-wall carbon nanotube: engineered nanohybrid building blocks for infrared detection at high quantum efficiency ▶     Youpin Gong, Qingfeng Liu, Jamie Samantha Wilt et al.     Biomolecule cytochrome c (Cty c), a small molecule of a chain of amino acids with extraordinary electron transport, was helically wrapped around a semiconductive single-wall …             Corrosion Product Film-Induced Stress Facilitates Stress Corrosion Cracking ▶     Wenwen Wang, Zhiliang Zhang, Xuechong Ren et al.     Finite element analyses were conducted to clarify the role of corrosion product films (CPFs) in stress corrosion cracking (SCC). Flat and U-shaped edge-notched specimens were …             Kirigami-based stretchable lithium-ion batteries ▶     Zeming Song, Xu Wang, Cheng Lv et al.     We have produced stretchable lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) using the concept of kirigami, i.e., a combination of folding and cutting. The designated kirigami patterns have been …             A posteriori correction of camera characteristics from large image data sets ▶     Pavel Afanasyev, Raimond B. G. Ravelli, Rishi Matadeen et al.     Large datasets are emerging in many fields of image processing including: electron microscopy, light microscopy, medical X-ray imaging, astronomy, etc. Novel computer-controlled …             Tailoring the magnetic anisotropy of Py/Ni bilayer films using well aligned atomic steps on Cu(001) ▶     S. Ma, A. Tan, J. X. Deng et al.     Tailoring the spin orientation at the atomic scale has been a key task in spintronics technology. While controlling the out-of-plane to in-plane spin orientation has been …             Next-generation sequencing for molecular diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma specimens obtained by fine needle aspiration cytology ▶     Tian Qiu, Huiqin Guo, Huan Zhao et al.     Identification of multi-gene variations has led to the development of new targeted therapies in lung adenocarcinoma patients, and identification of an appropriate patient …             Novel nitrogen doped graphene sponge with ultrahigh capacitive deionization performance ▶     Xingtao Xu, Zhuo Sun, Daniel H. C. Chua et al.     As water shortage has become a serious global problem, capacitive deionization (CDI) with high energy efficiency and low cost, is considered as a promising desalination technique …             Y-junction carbon nanocoils: synthesis by chemical vapor deposition and formation mechanism ▶     Er-Xiong Ding, Jing Wang, Hong-Zhang Geng et al.     Y-junction carbon nanocoils (Y-CNCs) were synthesized by thermal chemical vapor deposition using Ni catalyst prepared by spray-coating method. According to the emerging …             Rational molecular engineering of cyclopentadithiophene-bridged D-A-π-A sensitizers combining high photovoltaic efficiency with rapid dye adsorption ▶     Qipeng Chai, Wenqin Li, Jingchuan Liu et al.     Dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) is considered as a feasible route to the clean and renewable energy conversion technique. The commercial application requires further …             Strain-controlled critical temperature in REBa2Cu3Oy-coated conductors ▶     Satoshi Awaji, Takumi Suzuki, Hidetoshi Oguro et al.     Recently, we succeeded in detwinning REBa2Cu3O7 (RE123, RE = rare-earth elements)-coated conductors by annealing under an external uniaxial strain. Using the untwinned RE123 …             In-Situ Welding Carbon Nanotubes into a Porous Solid with Super-High Compressive Strength and Fatigue Resistance ▶     Zhiqiang Lin, Xuchun Gui, Qiming Gan et al.     Carbon nanotube (CNT) and graphene-based sponges and aerogels have an isotropic porous structure and their mechanical strength and stability are relatively lower. Here, we …             Estimating the anomalous diffusion exponent for single particle tracking data with measurement errors - An alternative approach ▶     Krzysztof Burnecki, Eldad Kepten, Yuval Garini et al.     Accurately characterizing the anomalous diffusion of a tracer particle has become a central issue in biophysics. However, measurement errors raise difficulty in the …             Origin of White Electroluminescence in Graphene Quantum Dots Embedded Host/Guest Polymer Light Emitting Diodes ▶     Jung Kyu Kim, Sukang Bae, Yeonjin Yi et al.     Polymer light emitting diodes (PLEDs) using quantum dots (QDs) as emissive materials have received much attention as promising components for next-generation displays. Despite …             Construction of porous cationic frameworks by crosslinking polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane units with N-heterocyclic linkers ▶     Guojian Chen, Yu Zhou, Xiaochen Wang et al.     In fields of materials science and chemistry, ionic-type porous materials attract increasing attention due to significant ion-exchanging capacity for accessing diversified …             A zero density change phase change memory material: GeTe-O structural characteristics upon crystallisation ▶     Xilin Zhou, Weiling Dong, Hao Zhang et al.     Oxygen-doped germanium telluride phase change materials are proposed for high temperature applications. Up to 8 at.% oxygen is readily incorporated into GeTe, causing an …             Emergence of scale-free characteristics in socio-ecological systems with bounded rationality ▶     Dharshana Kasthurirathna, Mahendra Piraveenan     Socio–ecological systems are increasingly modelled by games played on complex networks. While the concept of Nash equilibrium assumes perfect rationality, in reality players …             Measuring multiple evolution mechanisms of complex networks ▶     Qian-Ming Zhang, Xiao-Ke Xu, Yu-Xiao Zhu et al.     Numerous concise models such as preferential attachment have been put forward to reveal the evolution mechanisms of real-world networks, which show that real-world networks are …             Modular Approach to Spintronics ▶     Kerem Yunus Camsari, Samiran Ganguly, Supriyo Datta     There has been enormous progress in the last two decades, effectively combining spintronics and magnetics into a powerful force that is shaping the field of memory devices. New …             Microrobotic tentacles with spiral bending capability based on shape-engineered elastomeric microtubes ▶     Jungwook Paek, Inho Cho, Jaeyoun Kim     Microscale soft-robots hold great promise as safe handlers of delicate micro-objects but their wider adoption requires micro-actuators with greater efficiency and …             Room Temperature, Hybrid Sodium-Based Flow Batteries with Multi-Electron Transfer Redox Reactions ▶     Jack S. Shamie, Caihong Liu, Leon L. Shaw et al.     We introduce a new concept of hybrid Na-based flow batteries (HNFBs) with a molten Na alloy anode in conjunction with a flowing catholyte separated by a solid Na-ion exchange …             Optimizing cell viability in droplet-based cell deposition ▶     Jan Hendriks, Claas Willem Visser, Sieger Henke et al.     Biofabrication commonly involves the use of liquid droplets to transport cells to the printed structure. However, the viability of the cells after impact is poorly controlled and …             Dynamic Magnetic Responsive Wall Array with Droplet Shedding-off Properties ▶     Lei Wang, Miaoxin Zhang, Weiwei Shi et al.     Directional control of droplets on a surface is an important issue for tasks of long-range liquid-transport, self-cleaning and water repellency. However, it is still challenging …             Single-chip photonic transceiver based on bulk-silicon, as a chip-level photonic I/O platform for optical interconnects ▶     Gyungock Kim, Hyundai Park, Jiho Joo et al.     When silicon photonic integrated circuits (PICs), defined for transmitting and receiving optical data, are successfully monolithic-integrated into major silicon electronic chips …             Manipulating surface-plasmon-polariton launching with quasi-cylindrical waves ▶     Chengwei Sun, Jianjun Chen, Wenjie Yao et al.     Launching the free-space light to the surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in a broad bandwidth is of importance for the future plasmonic circuits. Based on the interference of the …             Tin-Doped Inorganic Amorphous Films for Use as Transparent Monolithic Phosphors ▶     Hirokazu Masai, Hiroki Miyata, Yasuhiro Yamada et al.     Although inorganic crystalline phosphors can exhibit high quantum efficiency, their use in phosphor films has been limited by a reliance on organic binders that have poor …             Entanglement dynamics in the presence of controlled unital noise ▶     A. Shaham, A. Halevy, L. Dovrat et al.     Quantum entanglement is notorious for being a very fragile resource. Significant efforts have been put into the study of entanglement degradation in the presence of a realistic …             Optomechanically induced transparency in the presence of an external time-harmonic-driving force ▶     Jinyong Ma, Cai You, Liu-Gang Si et al.     We propose a potentially valuable scheme to measure the properties of an external time-harmonic-driving force with frequency ω via investigating its interaction with the …             Vertical Interface Induced Dielectric Relaxation in Nanocomposite (BaTiO3)1-x:(Sm2O3)x Thin Films ▶     Weiwei Li, Wei Zhang, Le Wang et al.     Vertical interfaces in vertically aligned nanocomposite thin films have been approved to be an effective method to manipulate functionalities. However, several challenges with …             Unique Urchin-like Ca2Ge7O16 Hierarchical Hollow Microspheres as Anode Material for the Lithium Ion Battery ▶     Dan Li, Chuanqi Feng, Hua Kun Liu et al.     Germanium is an outstanding anode material in terms of electrochemical performance, especially rate capability, but its developments are hindered by its high price because it is …             On-Surface Observation of the Formation of Organometallic Complex in a Supramolecular Network ▶     Yibao Li, Linxiu Cheng, Chunhua Liu et al.     The on-surface formation of organometallic monomers or oligomers, especially in supramolecular network, attracts an extensive interest for chemists and material scientist. In …             Experimental verification of electro-refractive phase modulation in graphene ▶     Muhammad Mohsin, Daniel Neumaier, Daniel Schall et al.     Graphene has been considered as a promising material for opto-electronic devices, because of its tunable and wideband optical properties. In this work, we demonstrate …             Terahertz Plasmonic Field-Induced Conductivity Modulation in Gold ▶     A. Y. Elezzabi, P. Maraghechi, S. R. Greig     We report the observation of terahertz (THz) electric field induced conductivity modulation in sub-wavelength gold plasmonic media. Through all-THz pump-probe time-resolved …             Deformation twinning evolution from a single crystal in a face-centered-cubic ternary alloy ▶     Zhenyu Zhang, Song Yang, Dongming Guo et al.     Deformation twinning evolution from a single crystal is conducted by molecular dynamics simulations, to elucidate a twinned face-centered-cubic alloy in an experiment with …             Electronic polymers in lipid membranes ▶     Patrik K. Johansson, David Jullesson, Anders Elfwing et al.     Electrical interfaces between biological cells and man-made electrical devices exist in many forms, but it remains a challenge to bridge the different mechanical and chemical …             Waveguide integrated superconducting single-photon detectors with high internal quantum efficiency at telecom wavelengths ▶     Oliver Kahl, Simone Ferrari, Vadim Kovalyuk et al.     Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) provide high efficiency for detecting individual photons while keeping dark counts and timing jitter minimal. Besides …             An all-silicon single-photon source by unconventional photon blockade ▶     Hugo Flayac, Dario Gerace, Vincenzo Savona     The lack of suitable quantum emitters in silicon and silicon-based materials has prevented the realization of room temperature, compact, stable, and integrated sources of single …             Change of Electronic Structures by Dopant-Induced Local Strain ▶     Gyu Hyeong Kim, Sukmin Jeong     Ag-induced Si(111)- surfaces (-Ag) exhibit unusual electronic structures that cannot be explained by the conventional rigid band model and charge transfer model. The (-Ag …             Universal chiral-triggered magnetization switching in confined nanodots ▶     Eduardo Martinez, Luis Torres, Noel Perez et al.     Spin orbit interactions are rapidly emerging as the key for enabling efficient current-controlled spintronic devices. Much work has focused on the role of spin-orbit coupling at …             Extracting entangled qubits from Majorana fermions in quantum dot chains through the measurement of parity ▶     Li Dai, Watson Kuo, Ming-Chiang Chung     We propose a scheme for extracting entangled charge qubits from quantum-dot chains that support zero-energy edge modes. The edge mode is composed of Majorana fermions localized …             A near-wearless and extremely long lifetime amorphous carbon film under high vacuum ▶     Liping Wang, Renhui Zhang, Ulf Jansson et al.     Prolonging wear life of amorphous carbon films under vacuum was an enormous challenge. In this work, we firstly reported that amorphous carbon film as a lubricant layer …             Versatile control of metal-assisted chemical etching for vertical silicon microwire arrays and their photovoltaic applications ▶     Han-Don Um, Namwoo Kim, Kangmin Lee et al.     A systematic study was conducted into the use of metal-assisted chemical etching (MacEtch) to fabricate vertical Si microwire arrays, with several models being studied for the …             Encoded Library Synthesis Using Chemical Ligation and the Discovery of sEH Inhibitors from a 334-Million Member Library ▶     Alexander Litovchick, Christoph E. Dumelin, Sevan Habeshian et al.     A chemical ligation method for construction of DNA-encoded small-molecule libraries has been developed. Taking advantage of the ability of the Klenow fragment of DNA polymerase …             Continuous Flow Microfluidic Bioparticle Concentrator ▶     Joseph M. Martel, Kyle C. Smith, Mcolisi Dlamini et al.     Innovative microfluidic technology has enabled massively parallelized and extremely efficient biological and clinical assays. Many biological applications developed and executed …             Modelling the Transport of Nanoparticles under Blood Flow using an Agent-based Approach ▶     Gavin Fullstone, Jonathan Wood, Mike Holcombe et al.     Blood-mediated nanoparticle delivery is a new and growing field in the development of therapeutics and diagnostics. Nanoparticle properties such as size, shape and surface …             Population Fluctuation Promotes Cooperation in Networks ▶     Steve Miller, Joshua Knowles     We consider the problem of explaining the emergence and evolution of cooperation in dynamic network-structured populations. Building on seminal work by Poncela et al., which …             Reactive Liftoff of Crystalline Cellulose Particles ▶     Andrew R. Teixeira, Christoph Krumm, Katherine P. Vinter et al.     The condition of heat transfer to lignocellulosic biomass particles during thermal processing at high temperature (>400 °C) dramatically alters the yield and quality of renewable …             A computational study of diffusion in a glass-forming metallic liquid ▶     T. Wang, F. Zhang, L. Yang et al.     Liquid phase diffusion plays a critical role in phase transformations (e.g. glass transformation and devitrification) observed in marginal glass forming systems such as Al-Sm. …             Electric tuning of magnetization dynamics and electric field-induced negative magnetic permeability in nanoscale composite multiferroics ▶     Chenglong Jia, Fenglong Wang, Changjun Jiang et al.     Steering magnetism by electric fields upon interfacing ferromagnetic (FM) and ferroelectric (FE) materials to achieve an emergent multiferroic response bears a great potential …             Universal Conductance Fluctuation in Two-Dimensional Topological Insulators ▶     Duk-Hyun Choe, K. J. Chang     Despite considerable interest in two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators (TIs), a fundamental question still remains open how mesoscopic conductance fluctuations in 2D TIs …             A fast 3D reconstruction system with a low-cost camera accessory ▶     Yiwei Zhang, Graham M. Gibson, Rebecca Hay et al.     Photometric stereo is a three dimensional (3D) imaging technique that uses multiple 2D images, obtained from a fixed camera perspective, with different illumination directions. …             An On-Demand Optical Quantum Random Number Generator with In-Future Action and Ultra-Fast Response ▶     Mario Stipčević, Rupert Ursin     Random numbers are essential for our modern information based society e.g. in cryptography. Unlike frequently used pseudo-random generators, physical random number generators do …             Highly Efficient Photon Upconversion in Self-Assembled Light-Harvesting Molecular Systems ▶     Taku Ogawa, Nobuhiro Yanai, Angelo Monguzzi et al.     To meet the world’s demands on the development of sunlight-powered renewable energy production, triplet–triplet annihilation-based photon upconversion (TTA–UC) has raised great …             Stacked optical antennas for plasmon propagation in a 5 nm-confined cavity ▶     A. Saeed, S. Panaro, R. Proietti Zaccaria et al.     The sub-wavelength concentration and propagation of electromagnetic energy are two complementary aspects of plasmonics that are not necessarily co-present in a single nanosystem. …             On the role of scales in contact mechanics and friction between elastomers and randomly rough self-affine surfaces ▶     Valentin L. Popov, Andrey Dimaki, Sergey Psakhie et al.     The paper is devoted to a qualitative analysis of friction of elastomers from the point of view of scales contributing to the force of friction. We argue that – contrary to …             Tunable broadband plasmonic field enhancement on a graphene surface using a normal-incidence plane wave at mid-infrared frequencies ▶     Tian Zhang, Lin Chen, Bing Wang et al.     We investigate optical field enhancement for a wide mid-infrared range, originating from the excitation of graphene plasmons, by introducing a graded dielectric grating of …             Enhanced magnetic refrigeration properties in Mn-rich Ni-Mn-Sn ribbons by optimal annealing ▶     Yu Zhang, Linlin Zhang, Qiang Zheng et al.     The influence of annealing time on temperature range of martensitic phase transition (ΔTA-M), thermal hysteresis (ΔThys), magnetic hysteresis loss (ΔMhys), magnetic entropy …             Flux of granular particles through a shaken sieve plate ▶     Pingping Wen, Ning Zheng, Junwei Nian et al.     We experimentally investigate a discharging flux of granular particles through a sieve plate subject to vertical vibrations. 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