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23 June 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               Detection of highly conductive surface electron states in topological crystalline insulators Pb1−xSnxSe using laser terahertz radiation ▶     S. G. Egorova, V. I. Chernichkin, L. I. Ryabova et al.     We suggest a method for detection of highly conductive surface electron states including topological ones. The method is based on measurements of the photoelectromagnetic effect …             Atom–Photon Coupling from Nitrogen-vacancy Centres Embedded in Tellurite Microspheres ▶     Yinlan Ruan, Brant C. Gibson, Desmond W. M. Lau et al.     We have developed a technique for creating high quality tellurite microspheres with embedded nanodiamonds (NDs) containing nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres. This hybrid method …             Optimization of crystal nucleation close to a metastable fluid-fluid phase transition ▶     Jan Wedekind, Limei Xu, Sergey V. Buldyrev et al.     The presence of a metastable fluid-fluid critical point is thought to dramatically influence the crystallization pathway, increasing the nucleation rate by many orders of …             Synthesis of chiral polymorph A-enriched zeolite Beta with an extremely concentrated fluoride route ▶     Mingquan Tong, Daliang Zhang, Weibin Fan et al.     Chiral zeolitic materials with intrinsically chiral frameworks are highly desired because they can combine both shape selectivity and enantioselectivity. In the field of zeolite, …             Fill factor in organic solar cells can exceed the Shockley-Queisser limit ▶     Vasily A. Trukhanov, Vladimir V. Bruevich, Dmitry Yu. Paraschuk     The ultimate efficiency of organic solar cells (OSC) is under active debate. The solar cell efficiency is calculated from the current-voltage characteristic as a product of the …             Bio-Inspired Aggregation Control of Carbon Nanotubes for Ultra-Strong Composites ▶     Yue Han, Xiaohua Zhang, Xueping Yu et al.     High performance nanocomposites require well dispersion and high alignment of the nanometer-sized components, at a high mass or volume fraction as well. However, the road towards …             First-principles study on the structural and electronic properties of metallic HfH2 under pressure ▶     Yunxian Liu, Xiaoli Huang, Defang Duan et al.     The crystal structures and properties of hafnium hydride under pressure are explored using the first-principles calculations based on density function theory. The material …             Dynamical behavior of Borospherene: A Nanobubble ▶     Gerardo Martínez-Guajardo, José Luis Cabellos, Andres Díaz-Celaya et al.     The global minimum structure of borospherene (B40) is a cage, comprising two hexagonal and four heptagonal rings. Born-Oppenheimer Molecular Dynamics simulations show that …             Controlled Photon Switch Assisted by Coupled Quantum Dots ▶     Ming-Xing Luo, Song-Ya Ma, Xiu-Bo Chen et al.     Quantum switch is a primitive element in quantum network communication. In contrast to previous switch schemes on one degree of freedom (DOF) of quantum systems, we consider …             Dual Control of Giant Field-like Spin Torque in Spin Filter Tunnel Junctions ▶     Y. -H. Tang, F. -C. Chu, Nicholas Kioussis     We predict a giant field-like spin torque, , in spin-filter (SF) barrier tunnel junctions in sharp contrast to existing junctions based on nonmagnetic passive barriers. We …             Breathable and Stretchable Temperature Sensors Inspired by Skin ▶     Ying Chen, Bingwei Lu, Yihao Chen et al.     Flexible electronics attached to skin for healthcare, such as epidermal electronics, has to struggle with biocompatibility and adapt to specified environment of skin with respect …             Quantum coherence and correlations in quantum system ▶     Zhengjun Xi, Yongming Li, Heng Fan     Criteria of measure quantifying quantum coherence, a unique property of quantum system, are proposed recently. In this paper, we first give an uncertainty-like expression …             Implementation of quantum state manipulation in a dissipative cavity ▶     Jie Song, Jing-Yan Di, Yan Xia et al.     We discuss a method to perform dissipation-assisted quantum state manipulation in a cavity. We show that atomic spontaneous emission and cavity decay might be exploited to drive …             Probing Majorana bound states via counting statistics of a single electron transistor ▶     Zeng-Zhao Li, Chi-Hang Lam, J. Q. You     We propose an approach for probing Majorana bound states (MBSs) in a nanowire via counting statistics of a nearby charge detector in the form of a single-electron transistor …             Highly porous Zinc Stannate (Zn2SnO4) nanofibers scaffold photoelectrodes for efficient methyl ammonium halide perovskite solar cells ▶     Sawanta S. Mali, Chang Su Shim, Chang Kook Hong     Development of ternary metal oxide (TMO) based electron transporting layer (ETL) for perovskite solar cell open a new approaches toward efficient a unique strategy for solid …             Optical regulation of cell chain ▶     Xiaoshuai Liu, Jianbin Huang, Yao Zhang et al.     Formation of cell chains is a straightforward and efficient method to study the cell interaction. By regulating the contact sequence and interaction distance, the influence of …             Edge co-occurrences can account for rapid categorization of natural versus animal images ▶     Laurent U. Perrinet, James A. Bednar     Making a judgment about the semantic category of a visual scene, such as whether it contains an animal, is typically assumed to involve high-level associative brain areas. …             Accumulation of nanoparticles in “jellyfish” mucus: a bio-inspired route to decontamination of nano-waste ▶     Amit Patwa, Alain Thiéry, Fabien Lombard et al.     The economic and societal impacts of nano-materials are enormous. However, releasing such materials in the environment could be detrimental to human health and the ecological …             Understanding of sub-band gap absorption of femtosecond-laser sulfur hyperdoped silicon using synchrotron-based techniques ▶     Mukta V. Limaye, S. C. Chen, C. Y. Lee et al.     The correlation between sub-band gap absorption and the chemical states and electronic and atomic structures of S-hyperdoped Si have been extensively studied, using …             Bloodstain Pattern Analysis: implementation of a fluid dynamic model for position determination of victims ▶     Nick Laan, Karla G. de Bruin, Denise Slenter et al.     Bloodstain Pattern Analysis is a forensic discipline in which, among others, the position of victims can be determined at crime scenes on which blood has been shed. To determine …             A unique in vivo approach for investigating antimicrobial materials utilizing fistulated animals ▶     Kyle J. Berean, Eric M. Adetutu, Jian Zhen Ou et al.     Unique in vivo tests were conducted through the use of a fistulated ruminant, providing an ideal environment with a diverse and vibrant microbial community. Utilizing such a …             Buckling-induced retraction of spherical shells: A study on the shape of aperture ▶     Sen Lin, Yi Min Xie, Qing Li et al.     Buckling of soft matter is ubiquitous in nature and has attracted increasing interest recently. This paper studies the retractile behaviors of a spherical shell perforated by …             Interfacial reaction control and its mechanism of AlN epitaxial films grown on Si(111) substrates by pulsed laser deposition ▶     Wenliang Wang, Weijia Yang, Zuolian Liu et al.     High-quality AlN epitaxial films have been grown on Si substrates by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) by effective control of the interfacial reactions between AlN films and Si …             Diffusive Propagation of Exciton-Polaritons through Thin Crystal Slabs ▶     D. A. Zaitsev, N. D. Il’ynskaya, A. V. Koudinov et al.     If light beam propagates through matter containing point impurity centers, the amount of energy absorbed by the media is expected to be either independent of the impurity …             Domain Walls Conductivity in Hybrid Organometallic Perovskites and Their Essential Role in CH3NH3PbI3 Solar Cell High Performance ▶     Sergey N. Rashkeev, Fedwa El-Mellouhi, Sabre Kais et al.     The past several years has witnessed a surge of interest in organometallic trihalide perovskites, which are at the heart of the new generation of solid-state solar cells. Here, …             Maximal Holevo Quantity Based on Weak Measurements ▶     Yao-Kun Wang, Shao-Ming Fei, Zhi-Xi Wang et al.     The Holevo bound is a keystone in many applications of quantum information theory. We propose “ maximal Holevo quantity for weak measurements” as the generalization of the …             Complex Learning in Bio-plausible Memristive Networks ▶     Lei Deng, Guoqi Li, Ning Deng et al.     The emerging memristor-based neuromorphic engineering promises an efficient computing paradigm. However, the lack of both internal dynamics in the previous feedforward memristive …             Synthesis, characterization and observation of antisite defects in LiNiPO4 nanomaterials ▶     Murukanahally Kempaiah Devaraju, Quang Duc Truong, Hiroshi Hyodo et al.     Structural studies of high voltage cathode materials are necessary to understand their chemistry to improve the electrochemical performance for applications in lithium ion …             Large-area soft-imprinted nanowire networks as light trapping transparent conductors ▶     Jorik van de Groep, Dhritiman Gupta, Marc A. Verschuuren et al.     Using soft-imprint nanolithography, we demonstrate large-area application of engineered two-dimensional polarization-independent networks of silver nanowires as transparent …             Intersubband Transition in GaN/InGaN Multiple Quantum Wells ▶     G. Chen, X. Q. Wang, X. Rong et al.     Utilizing the growth temperature controlled epitaxy, high quality GaN/In0.15Ga0.85N multiple quantum wells designed for intersubband transition (ISBT) as novel candidates in …             Tuneable Magnetic Phase Transitions in Layered CeMn2Ge2-xSix Compounds ▶     M. F. Md Din, J. L. Wang, Z. X. Cheng et al.     The structural and magnetic properties of seven CeMn2Ge2-xSix compounds with x = 0.0–2.0 have been investigated in detail. Substitution of Ge with Si leads to a monotonic …             The peculiarity of the metal-ceramic interface ▶     Zaoli Zhang, Yao Long, S. Cazottes et al.     Important properties of materials are strongly influenced or controlled by the presence of solid interfaces, i.e. from the atomic arrangement in a region which is a few atomic …             Violacein as a genetically-controlled, enzymatically amplified and photobleaching-resistant chromophore for optoacoustic bacterial imaging ▶     Yuanyuan Jiang, Felix Sigmund, Josefine Reber et al.     There is growing interest in genetically expressed reporters for in vivo studies of bacterial colonization in the context of infectious disease research, studies of the bacterial …             Imaging Shock Waves in Diamond with Both High Temporal and Spatial Resolution at an XFEL ▶     Andreas Schropp, Robert Hoppe, Vivienne Meier et al.     The advent of hard x-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) has opened up a variety of scientific opportunities in areas as diverse as atomic physics, plasma physics, nonlinear optics …             Magnetic skyrmion transistor: skyrmion motion in a voltage-gated nanotrack ▶     Xichao Zhang, Yan Zhou, Motohiko Ezawa et al.     Magnetic skyrmions are localized and topologically protected spin configurations, which are of both fundamental and applied interests for future electronics. In this work, we …             Mechanical Failure Mode of Metal Nanowires: Global Deformation versus Local Deformation ▶     Duc Tam Ho, Youngtae Im, Soon-Yong Kwon et al.     It is believed that the failure mode of metal nanowires under tensile loading is the result of the nucleation and propagation of dislocations. Such failure modes can be slip, …             Detection of trace metallic elements in oral lichenoid contact lesions using SR-XRF, PIXE, and XAFS ▶     Tomoko Sugiyama, Motohiro Uo, Takahiro Wada et al.     Oral lichen planus (OLP) and oral lichenoid contact lesions (OLCL) are chronic inflammatory mucocutaneous reactions with a risk of malignant transformation that alter the …             Insertion of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells in Textiles using a Conventional Weaving Process ▶     Min Ju Yun, Seung I. Cha, Seon Hee Seo et al.     Increasing demands for wearable energy sources and highly flexible, lightweight photovoltaic devices have stimulated the development of textile-structured solar cells. However, …             An organic jelly made fractal logic gate with an infinite truth table ▶     Subrata Ghosh, Daisuke Fujita, Anirban Bandyopadhyay     Widely varying logic gates invented over a century are all finite. As data deluge problem looms large on the information processing and communication industry, the thrust to …             Porous Au-embedded WO3 Nanowire Structure for Efficient Detection of CH4 and H2S ▶     Nguyen Minh Vuong, Dojin Kim, Hyojin Kim     We developed a facile method to fabricate highly porous Au-embedded WO3 nanowire structures for efficient sensing of CH4 and H2S gases. Highly porous single-wall carbon nanotubes …             CMOS compatible high-Q photonic crystal nanocavity fabricated with photolithography on silicon photonic platform ▶     Yuta Ooka, Tomohiro Tetsumoto, Akihiro Fushimi et al.     Progress on the fabrication of ultrahigh-Q photonic-crystal nanocavities (PhC-NCs) has revealed the prospect for new applications including silicon Raman lasers that require a …             Analysis of circadian properties and healthy levels of blue light from smartphones at night ▶     Ji Hye Oh, Heeyeon Yoo, Hoo Keun Park et al.     This study proposes representative figures of merit for circadian and vision performance for healthy and efficient use of smartphone displays. The recently developed figures of …             Separating read and write units in multiferroic devices ▶     Kuntal Roy     Strain-mediated multiferroic composites, i.e., piezoelectric-magnetostrictive heterostructures, hold profound promise for energy-efficient computing in beyond Moore’s law era. …             Phase-Lock Requirements in a Serial Array of Spin Transfer Nano-Oscillators ▶     T. Qu, R.H. Victora     The most promising approach to attain a narrow linewidth and a large output power simultaneously in spin torque oscillators is self-phase-locking of an array of oscillators. Two …             Interfacial Coupling and Electronic Structure of Two-Dimensional Silicon Grown on the Ag(111) Surface at High Temperature ▶     Jiagui Feng, Sean R. Wagner, Pengpeng Zhang     Freestanding silicene, a monolayer of Si arranged in a honeycomb structure, has been predicted to give rise to massless Dirac fermions, akin to graphene. However, Si structures …             Reconstructing propagation networks with temporal similarity ▶     Hao Liao, An Zeng     Node similarity significantly contributes to the growth of real networks. In this paper, based on the observed epidemic spreading results we apply the node similarity metrics to …             Fermi-surface-free superconductivity in underdoped (Bi,Pb)(Sr,La)2CuO6+δ (Bi2201) ▶     Peter Mistark, Hasnain Hafiz, Robert S. Markiewicz et al.     Fermi-surface-free superconductivity arises when the superconducting order pulls down spectral weight from a band that is completely above the Fermi energy in the normal state. …             Growth kinetics of plasma-polymerized films ▶     Sukyoung Hwang, Hosung Seo, Dong-Cheol Jeong et al.     The growth kinetics of polymer thin films prepared by plasma-based deposition method were explored using atomic force microscopy. The growth behavior of the first layer of the …             Non-monotonic dynamics and crosstalk in signaling pathways and their implications for pharmacology ▶     Roeland van Wijk, Sander J. Tans, Pieter Rein ten Wolde et al.     Currently, drug discovery approaches commonly assume a monotonic dose-response relationship. However, the assumption of monotonicity is increasingly being challenged. Here we …             Failure dynamics of the global risk network ▶     Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Xin Lin, Andrea Asztalos et al.     Risks threatening modern societies form an intricately interconnected network that often underlies crisis situations. Yet, little is known about how risk materializations in …             Effects of time delay and space on herbivore dynamics: linking inducible defenses of plants to herbivore outbreak ▶     Gui-Quan Sun, Su-Lan Wang, Qian Ren et al.     Empirical results indicate that inducible defenses of plants have effects on herbivore populations. However, little is known about how inducible defenses of plants have …             A hybrid computational model to predict chemotactic guidance of growth cones ▶     Iolanda Morana Roccasalvo, Silvestro Micera, Pier Nicola Sergi     The overall strategy used by growing axons to find their correct paths during the nervous system development is not yet completely understood. Indeed, some emergent and …             The cuttlefish Sepia officinalis (Sepiidae, Cephalopoda) constructs cuttlebone from a liquid-crystal precursor ▶     Antonio G. Checa, Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Isabel Sánchez-Almazo et al.     Cuttlebone, the sophisticated buoyancy device of cuttlefish, is made of extensive superposed chambers that have a complex internal arrangement of calcified pillars and organic …             Momentum Distribution of Near-Zero-Energy Photoelectrons in the Strong-Field Tunneling Ionization in the Long Wavelength Limit ▶     Q. Z. Xia, D. F. Ye, L. B. Fu et al.     We investigate the ionization dynamics of Argon atoms irradiated by an ultrashort intense laser of a wavelength up to 3100 nm, addressing the momentum distribution of the …             Dynamic creation of a topologically-ordered Hamiltonian using spin-pulse control in the Heisenberg model ▶     Tetsufumi Tanamoto, Keiji Ono, Yu-xi Liu et al.     Hamiltonian engineering is an important approach for quantum information processing, when appropriate materials do not exist in nature or are unstable. So far there is no stable …             Microwave-enhanced photocatalysis on CdS quantum dots - Evidence of acceleration of photoinduced electron transfer ▶     Fuminao Kishimoto, Takashi Imai, Satoshi Fujii et al.     The rate of electron transfer is critical in determining the efficiency of photoenergy conversion systems and is controlled by changing the relative energy gap of components, …             Alternating current line-filter based on electrochemical capacitor utilizing template-patterned graphene ▶     Zhenkun Wu, Liyi Li, Ziyin Lin et al.     Aluminum electrolytic capacitors (AECs) are widely used for alternating current (ac) line-filtering. However, their bulky size is becoming more and more incompatible with the …             Orthogonal Cherenkov sound in spin-orbit coupled systems ▶     Sergey Smirnov     Conventionally the Cherenkov sound is governed by orbital degrees of freedom and is excited by supersonic particles. Additionally, it usually has a forward nature with a conic …             White Light Emission from Vegetable Extracts ▶     Vikram Singh, Ashok K. Mishra     A mixture of extracts from two common vegetables, red pomegranate and turmeric, when photoexcited at 380 nm, produced almost pure white light emission (WLE) with Commission …             Enhanced Mechanical Stability of Gold Nanotips through Carbon Nanocone Encapsulation ▶     Abraham G. Cano-Marquez, Wesller G. Schmidt, Jenaina Ribeiro-Soares et al.     Gold is a noble metal that, in comparison with silver and copper, has the advantage of corrosion resistance. Despite its high conductivity, chemical stability and …             Gas hydrate inhibition by perturbation of liquid water structure ▶     Jeong-Hoon Sa, Gye-Hoon Kwak, Kunwoo Han et al.     Natural gas hydrates are icy crystalline materials that contain hydrocarbons, which are the primary energy source for this civilization. The abundance of naturally occurring gas …             High Performance Graphene Nano-ribbon Thermoelectric Devices by Incorporation and Dimensional Tuning of Nanopores ▶     Md Sharafat Hossain, Feras Al-Dirini, Faruque M. Hossain et al.     Thermoelectric properties of Graphene nano-ribbons (GNRs) with nanopores (NPs) are explored for a range of pore dimensions in order to achieve a high performance two-dimensional …             Enhanced light collection in fluorescence microscopy using self-assembled micro-reflectors ▶     Zoltán Göröcs, Euan McLeod, Aydogan Ozcan     In fluorescence microscopy, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the optical system is directly linked to the numerical aperture (NA) of the microscope objective, which creates …             Skyrmion Superfluidity in Two-Dimensional Interacting Fermionic Systems ▶     Giandomenico Palumbo, Mauro Cirio     In this article we describe a multi-layered honeycomb lattice model of interacting fermions which supports a new kind of parity-preserving skyrmion superfluidity. We derive the …             Enhancing malaria diagnosis through microfluidic cell enrichment and magnetic resonance relaxometry detection ▶     Tian Fook Kong, Weijian Ye, Weng Kung Peng et al.     Despite significant advancements over the years, there remains an urgent need for low cost diagnostic approaches that allow for rapid, reliable and sensitive detection of malaria …             Slippage in stacking of graphene nanofragments induced by spin polarization ▶     Yanyu Lei, Wanrun Jiang, Xing Dai et al.     Spin polarization and stacking are interesting effects in complex molecular systems and are both presented in graphene-based materials. Their possible combination may provide a …             First Principles Prediction of Topological Phases in Thin Films of Pyrochlore Iridates ▶     Xiang Hu, Zhicheng Zhong, Gregory A. Fiete     While the theoretical and experimental study of topological phases of matter has experienced rapid growth over the last few years, there remain a relatively small number of …             Light-controlling, flexible and transparent ethanol gas sensor based on ZnO nanoparticles for wearable devices ▶     Z. Q. Zheng, J. D. Yao, B. Wang et al.     In recent years, owing to the significant applications of health monitoring, wearable electronic devices such as smart watches, smart glass and wearable cameras have been growing …             Preferential coupling of an incident wave to reflection eigenchannels of disordered media ▶     Wonjun Choi, Moonseok Kim, Donggyu Kim et al.     Light waves incident to a highly scattering medium are incapable of penetrating deep into the medium due to the multiple scattering process. This poses a fundamental limitation …             Development of a ferromagnetic component in the superconducting state of Fe-excess Fe1.12Te1-xSex by electronic charge redistribution ▶     Wen-Hsien Li, Sunil K. Karna, Han Hsu et al.     The general picture established so far for the links between superconductivity and magnetic ordering in iron chalcogenide Fe1+y(Te1-xSex) is that the substitution of Se for Te …             Resonantly exited precession motion of three-dimensional vortex core in magnetic nanospheres ▶     Sang-Koog Kim, Myoung-Woo Yoo, Jehyun Lee et al.     We found resonantly excited precession motions of a three-dimensional vortex core in soft magnetic nanospheres and controllable precession frequency with the sphere diameter 2R, …             Elastic Deformations in 2D van der waals Heterostructures and their Impact on Optoelectronic Properties: Predictions from a Multiscale Computational Approach ▶     Hemant Kumar, Dequan Er, Liang Dong et al.     Recent technological advances in the isolation and transfer of different 2-dimensional (2D) materials have led to renewed interest in stacked Van der Waals (vdW) …             Exploring the open-circuit voltage of organic solar cells under low temperature ▶     Boyuan Qi, Qing Zhou, Jizheng Wang     Open-circuit voltage (VOC) in organic solar cells (OSCs) is currently still not well-understood. A generally acceptable view is that VOC is mainly determined by the energy level …             Dispersionless Manipulation of Reflected Acoustic Wavefront by Subwavelength Corrugated Surface ▶     Yi-Fan Zhu, Xin-Ye Zou, Rui-Qi Li et al.     Free controls of optic/acoustic waves for bending, focusing or steering the energy of wavefronts are highly desirable in many practical scenarios. However, the dispersive nature …             Nanoplasma Formation by High Intensity Hard X-rays ▶     T. Tachibana, Z. Jurek, H. Fukuzawa et al.     Using electron spectroscopy, we have investigated nanoplasma formation from noble gas clusters exposed to high-intensity hard-x-ray pulses at ~5 keV. Our experiment was carried …             A pathway of nanocrystallite fabrication by photo-assisted growth in pure water ▶     Melbert Jeem, Muhammad Rafiq Mirza bin Julaihi, Junya Ishioka et al.     We report a new production pathway for a variety of metal oxide nanocrystallites via submerged illumination in water: submerged photosynthesis of crystallites (SPSC). Similar to …             Gelation-driven Dynamic Systemic Resolution: in situ Generation and Self-Selection of an Organogelator ▶     Lei Hu, Yang Zhang, Olof Ramström     An organogelator was produced and identified from a dynamic imine system, resolved and amplified by selective gelation. The formation of the organogel was monitored in situ by 1H …             Rayleigh scatter based order of magnitude increase in distributed temperature and strain sensing by simple UV exposure of optical fibre ▶     Sébastien Loranger, Mathieu Gagné, Victor Lambin-Iezzi et al.     We present a technique to improve signal strength, and therefore sensitivity in distributed temperature and strain sensing (DTSS) using Frequency domain Rayleigh scatter. A …             Inhomogeneous field in cavities of zero index metamaterials ▶     Yangyang Fu, Yadong Xu, Huangyang Chen     In common media, electromagnetic wave always possesses a fluctuant field variation, analogous to an undulant surface of sea. While electromagnetic wave in the media with zero …             Large Displacement in Relaxor Ferroelectric Terpolymer Blend Derived Actuators Using Al Electrode for Braille Displays ▶     S. G. Lu, X. Chen, T. Levard et al.     Poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) based polymers are attractive for applications for artificial muscles, high energy density storage devices etc. Recently these polymers have been …             Tip-multi-breaking in Capillary Microfluidic Devices ▶     Pingan Zhu, Tiantian Kong, Zhanxiao Kang et al.     We report tip-multi-breaking (TMB) mode of droplet breakup in capillary microfluidic devices. This new mode appears in a region embraced by Cai = 0 and lg(Cai) = − 8.371(Ca0…             Enhanced photoluminescence from CdS with SiO2 nanopillar arrays ▶     Wei Li, Shaolei Wang, Sufeng He et al.     In this paper, the enhanced photoluminescence from CdS thin film with SiO2 nanopillar array (NPA) was demonstrated. The CdS was prepared using chemical bath deposition in a …             Nanostructured fuzz growth on tungsten under low-energy and high-flux He irradiation ▶     Qi Yang, Yu-Wei You, Lu Liu et al.     We report the formation of wave-like structures and nanostructured fuzzes in the polycrystalline tungsten (W) irradiated with high-flux and low-energy helium (He) ions. From …             Developing Seedless Growth of ZnO Micro/Nanowire Arrays towards ZnO/FeS2/CuI P-I-N Photodiode Application ▶     Zhi Yang, Minqiang Wang, Sudhanshu Shukla et al.     A seedless hydrothermal method is developed to grow high density and vertically aligned ZnO micro/nanowire arrays with low defect density on metal films under the saturated …             Dehydration-mediated cluster formation of nanoparticles ▶     Sungsook Ahn, Sang Joon Lee     Drying procedure is a powerful method to modulate the bottom-up assembly of basic building component. The initially weak attraction between the components screened in a solution …             Substrate-anchored and degradation-sensitive anti-inflammatory coatings for implant materials ▶     Duo Wu, Xingyu Chen, Tianchan Chen et al.     Implant materials need to be highly biocompatible to avoid inflammation in clinical practice. Although biodegradable polymeric implants can eliminate the need for a second …             Reversible Photoswitching of Carbon Dots ▶     Syamantak Khan, Navneet Chandra Verma, Abhishek Gupta et al.     We present a method of reversible photoswitching in carbon nanodots with red emission. A mechanism of electron transfer is proposed. 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