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07 July 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Chemical Sciences               Iso-Oriented Anatase TiO2 Mesocages as a High Performance Anode Material for Sodium-Ion Storage ▶     Zhensheng Hong, Kaiqiang Zhou, Zhigao Huang et al.     A major obstacle in realizing Na-ion batteries (NIBs) is the absence of suitable anode materials. Herein, we firstly report the anatase TiO2 mesocages constructed by …             A plasmon-driven selective surface catalytic reaction revealed by surface-enhanced Raman scattering in an electrochemical environment ▶     Lin Cui, Peijie Wang, Yurui Fang et al.     Plasmonic catalytic reactions of molecules with single amine or nitro groups have been investigated in recent years. However, plasmonic catalysis of molecules with multiple amine …             A Novel High-Resolution and Sensitivity-Enhanced Three-Dimensional Solid-State NMR Experiment Under Ultrafast Magic Angle Spinning Conditions ▶     Rongchun Zhang, Manoj Kumar Pandey, Yusuke Nishiyama et al.     Although magic angle spinning (MAS) solid-state NMR is a powerful technique to obtain atomic-resolution insights into the structure and dynamics of a variety of chemical and …             DNA methylation as a potential diagnosis indicator for rapid discrimination of rare cancer cells and normal cells ▶     Xingyu Si, Yaoyao Zhao, Chengdui Yang et al.     The global DNA methylation degree may be a ubiquitous and early biomarker to distinguish cancer cells from benign cells. However, its usefulness in clinical diagnosis was …             Growth, Quantitative Growth Analysis, and Applications of Graphene on γ-Al2O3 catalysts ▶     Jaehyun Park, Joohwi Lee, Jung-Hae Choi et al.     The possibilities offered by catalytic γ-Al2O3 substrates are explored, and the mechanism governing graphene formation thereon is elucidated using both numerical simulations and …             High-resolution NMR characterization of low abundance oligomers of amyloid-β without purification ▶     Samuel A. Kotler, Jeffrey R. Brender, Subramanian Vivekanandan et al.     Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by the misfolding and self-assembly of the amyloidogenic protein amyloid-β (Aβ). The aggregation of Aβ leads to diverse oligomeric states, …             Improved grazing management may increase soil carbon sequestration in temperate steppe ▶     Wenqing Chen, Ding Huang, Nan Liu et al.     Different grazing strategies impact grassland plant production and may also regulate the soil carbon formation. For a site in semiarid temperate steppe, we studied the effect of …             Tuning the isoelectric point of graphene by electrochemical functionalization ▶     Laura Zuccaro, Janina Krieg, Alessandro Desideri et al.     The ability to control the charge-potential landscape at solid-liquid interfaces is pivotal to engineer novel devices for applications in sensing, catalysis and energy …             In-Situ ESEM and EELS Observation of Water Uptake and Ice Formation in Multilayer Graphene Oxide ▶     Takeshi Daio, Thomas Bayer, Tatsuya Ikuta et al.     Graphene oxide (GO) is hydrophilic and swells significantly when in contact with water. Here, we investigate the change in thickness of multilayer graphene oxide membranes due to …             External control of reactions in microdroplets ▶     Samaneh Mashaghi, Antoine M. van Oijen     Scale reduction of chemical reactions enables novel screening and synthesis approaches that facilitate a highly parallelized and combinatorial exploration of chemical space. …             Novel macromolecules derived from coumarin: synthesis and antioxidant activity ▶     Ahmed A. Al-Amiery, Yasameen K. Al-Majedy, Abdul Amir H. Kadhum et al.     The rational design of 4-hydroxycoumarins with tailor-made antioxidant activities is required nowadays due to the wide variety of pharmacologically significant, structurally …             Carbon Quantum Dots for Zebrafish Fluorescence Imaging ▶     Yan-Fei Kang, Yu-Hao Li, Yang-Wu Fang et al.     Carbon quantum dots (C-QDs) are becoming a desirable alternative to metal-based QDs and dye probes owing to their high biocompatibility, low toxicity, ease of preparation, and …             Controlling single-molecule junction conductance by molecular interactions ▶     Y. Kitaguchi, S. Habuka, H. Okuyama et al.     For the rational design of single-molecular electronic devices, it is essential to understand environmental effects on the electronic properties of a working molecule. Here we …             Characterization of Three Tetrabromobisphenol-S Derivatives in Mollusks from Chinese Bohai Sea: A Strategy for Novel Brominated Contaminants Identification ▶     Ai-feng Liu, Yong Tian, Nuo-ya Yin et al.     Identification of novel brominated contaminants in the environment, especially the derivatives and byproducts of brominated flame retardants (BFRs), has become a wide concern …             New Insulating Antiferromagnetic Quaternary Iridates MLa10Ir4O24 (M = Sr, Ba) ▶     Qingbiao Zhao, Fei Han, Constantinos C. Stoumpos et al.     Recently, oxides of Ir4+ have received renewed attention in the condensed matter physics community, as it has been reported that certain iridates have a strongly spin-orbital …             Electrically switchable polymer stabilised broadband infrared reflectors and their potential as smart windows for energy saving in buildings ▶     Hitesh Khandelwal, Roel C. G. M. Loonen, Jan L. M. Hensen et al.     Electrically switchable broadband infrared reflectors that are relatively transparent in the visible region have been fabricated using polymer stabilised cholesteric liquid …             A simple methodological validation of the gas/particle fractionation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in ambient air ▶     Yong-Hyun Kim, Ki-Hyun Kim     The analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in ambient air requires the tedious experimental steps of both sampling and pretreatment (e.g., extraction or clean-up). To …             Hydrogel-derived non-precious electrocatalysts for efficient oxygen reduction ▶     Bo You, Peiqun Yin, Junli Zhang et al.     The development of highly active, cheap and robust oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) electrocatalysts to replace precious metal platinum is extremely urgent and challenging for …             Hydrodynamic chronoamperometry for probing kinetics of anaerobic microbial metabolism – case study of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii ▶     Antonin Prévoteau, Annelies Geirnaert, Jan B.A. Arends et al.     Monitoring in vitro the metabolic activity of microorganisms aids bioprocesses and enables better understanding of microbial metabolism. Redox mediators can be used for this …             Highly homologous proteins exert opposite biological activities by using different interaction interfaces ▶     Anat Iosub Amir, Martijn van Rosmalen, Guy Mayer et al.     We present a possible molecular basis for the opposite activity of two homologues proteins that bind similar ligands and show that this is achieved by fine-tuning of the …             Hierarchical Core/Shell NiCo2O4@NiCo2O4 Nanocactus Arrays with Dual-functionalities for High Performance Supercapacitors and Li-ion Batteries ▶     Jinbing Cheng, Yang Lu, Kangwen Qiu et al.     We report the synthesis of three dimensional (3D) NiCo2O4@NiCo2O4 nanocactus arrays grown directly on a Ni current collector using a facile solution method followed by …             An Interfacial Europium Complex on SiO2 Nanoparticles: Reduction-Induced Blue Emission System ▶     Ayumi Ishii, Miki Hasegawa     In this study, Eu-coated SiO2 nanoparticles have been prepared, consisting of an interfacial complex of Eu and 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) at the solid surfaces of the SiO2/Eu …             Corrigendum: Generation of the SCN1A epilepsy mutation in hiPS cells using the TALEN technique ▶     Wanjuan Chen, Jingxin Liu, Longmei Zhang et al.                 Direct Reading of Bona Fide Barcode Assays for Diagnostics with Smartphone Apps ▶     Jessica X. H. Wong, Xiaochun Li, Frank S. F. Liu et al.     The desire to develop new point-of-care (POC) diagnostic tools has led to the adaptation of smartphones to tackle limitations in state-of-the-art instrumentation and centralized …             Conservation laws, radiative decay rates, and excited state localization in organometallic complexes with strong spin-orbit coupling ▶     B. J. Powell     There is longstanding fundamental interest in 6-fold coordinated d6 () transition metal complexes such as [Ru(bpy)3]2+ and Ir(ppy)3, particularly their phosphorescence. 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