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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         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.           Physical Sciences               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 …             Demonstration of polarization-insensitive spatial light modulation using a single polarization-sensitive spatial light modulator ▶     Jun Liu, Jian Wang     We present a simple configuration incorporating a single polarization-sensitive phase-only liquid crystal spatial light modulator (LC-SLM) to facilitate polarization-insensitive …             Limits Of Quantum Information In Weak Interaction Processes Of Hyperons ▶     B. C. Hiesmayr     We analyze the achievable limits of the quantum information processing of the weak interaction revealed by hyperons with spin. We find that the weak decay process corresponds to …             Atomic-Scale Interfacial Magnetism in Fe/Graphene Heterojunction ▶     W. Q. Liu, W. Y. Wang, J. J. Wang et al.     Successful spin injection into graphene makes it a competitive contender in the race to become a key material for quantum computation, or the spin-operation-based data processing …             Magnetization due to localized states on graphene grain boundary ▶     Sudipta Dutta, Katsunori Wakabayashi     Magnetism in graphene has been found to originate from various defects, e.g., vacancy, edge formation, add-atoms etc. Here, we discuss about an alternate route of achieving …             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 …             The Integration of Sub-10 nm Gate Oxide on MoS2 with Ultra Low Leakage and Enhanced Mobility ▶     Wen Yang, Qing-Qing Sun, Yang Geng et al.     The integration of ultra-thin gate oxide, especially at sub-10 nm region, is one of the principle problems in MoS2 based transistors. In this work, we demonstrate sub-10 nm …             Core-shell Au@Pd nanoparticles with enhanced catalytic activity for oxygen reduction reaction via core-shell Au@Ag/Pd constructions ▶     Dong Chen, Chengyin Li, Hui Liu et al.     Core-shell nanoparticles often exhibit improved catalytic properties due to the lattice strain created in these core-shell particles. Herein, we demonstrate the synthesis of …             Gas Sensing Properties of Epitaxial LaBaCo2O5.5+δ Thin Films ▶     M. Liu, S. P. Ren, R. Y. Zhang et al.     Chemical reactivity and stability of highly epitaxial mixed-conductive LaBaCo2O5.5+δ (LBCO) thin films on (001) LaAlO3 (LAO) single-crystalline substrates, fabricated by using …             Boosting Photovoltaic Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Using Silver Nanoparticle-Decorated N,S-Co-Doped-TiO2 Photoanode ▶     Su Pei Lim, Alagarsamy Pandikumar, Hong Ngee Lim et al.     A silver nanoparticle-decorated N,S-co-doped TiO2 nanocomposite was successfully prepared and used as an efficient photoanode in high-performance dye-sensitized solar cells …             Motif analysis in directed ordered networks and applications to food webs ▶     Pavel V. Paulau, Christoph Feenders, Bernd Blasius     The analysis of small recurrent substructures, so called network motifs, has become a standard tool of complex network science to unveil the design principles underlying the …             Two-photon directed evolution of green fluorescent proteins ▶     Caleb R. Stoltzfus, Lauren M. Barnett, Mikhail Drobizhev et al.     Directed evolution has been used extensively to improve the properties of a variety of fluorescent proteins (FPs). Evolutionary strategies, however, have not yet been used to …             Novel ZnO hollow-nanocarriers containing paclitaxel targeting folate-receptors in a malignant pH-microenvironment for effective monitoring and promoting breast tumor regression ▶     Nagaprasad Puvvada, Shashi Rajput, B.N. Prashanth Kumar et al.     Low pH in the tumor micromilieu is a recognized pathological feature of cancer. This attribute of cancerous cells has been targeted herein for the controlled release of …             Assessing viability of extracorporeal preserved muscle transplants using external field stimulation: a novel tool to improve methods prolonging bridge-to-transplantation time ▶     Christian D. Taeger, Oliver Friedrich, Adrian Dragu et al.     Preventing ischemia-related cell damage is a priority when preserving tissue for transplantation. Perfusion protocols have been established for a variety of applications and …             Deterministic Domain Wall Motion Orthogonal To Current Flow Due To Spin Orbit Torque ▶     Debanjan Bhowmik, Mark E. Nowakowski, Long You et al.     Spin-polarized electrons can move a ferromagnetic domain wall through the transfer of spin angular momentum when current flows in a magnetic nanowire. Such current induced …             High-resolution quantitative determination of dielectric function by using scattering scanning near-field optical microscopy ▶     D. E. Tranca, S. G. Stanciu, R. Hristu et al.     A new method for high-resolution quantitative measurement of the dielectric function by using scattering scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) is presented. The method …             The Three-Dimensional Morphology of Growing Dendrites ▶     J. W. Gibbs, K. A. Mohan, E. B. Gulsoy et al.     The processes controlling the morphology of dendrites have been of great interest to a wide range of communities, since they are examples of an out-of-equilibrium pattern forming …             Highly responsive MoS2 photodetectors enhanced by graphene quantum dots ▶     Caiyun Chen, Hong Qiao, Shenghuang Lin et al.     Molybdenum disulphide (MoS2), which is a typical semiconductor from the family of layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), is an attractive material for optoelectronic …             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 …             Acoustothermal heating of polydimethylsiloxane microfluidic system ▶     Byung Hang Ha, Kang Soo Lee, Ghulam Destgeer et al.     We report an observation of rapid (exceeding 2,000 K/s) heating of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), one of the most popular microchannel materials, under cyclic loadings at high …             Can plasmonic Al nanoparticles improve absorption in triple junction solar cells? ▶     L. Yang, S. Pillai, M. A. Green     Plasmonic nanoparticles located on the illuminated surface of a solar cell can perform the function of an antireflection layer, as well as a scattering layer, facilitating …             Enhancement of electroluminescence from embedded Si quantum dots/SiO2multilayers film by localized-surface-plasmon and surface roughening ▶     Wei Li, Shaolei Wang, Mingyue Hu et al.     In this paper, we prepared a novel structure to enhance the electroluminescence intensity from Si quantum dots/SiO2multilayers. An amorphous Si/SiO2 multilayer film was …             All-organic electrostrictive polymer composites with low driving electrical voltages for micro-fluidic pump applications ▶     Minh Quyen Le, Jean-Fabien Capsal, Jérémy Galineau et al.     This paper focuses on the improvement of a relaxor ferroelectric terpolymer, i.e., poly (vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene-chlorofluoroethylene) [P(VDF-TrFE-CFE)], filled …             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 …             Structural colour in Chondrus crispus ▶     Chris J. Chandler, Bodo D. Wilts, Silvia Vignolini et al.     The marine world is incredibly rich in brilliant and intense colours. Photonic structures are found in many different species and provide extremely complex optical responses that …             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 …             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, …             Machine learning plus optical flow: a simple and sensitive method to detect cardioactive drugs ▶     Eugene K. Lee, Yosuke K. Kurokawa, Robin Tu et al.     Current preclinical screening methods do not adequately detect cardiotoxicity. Using human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (iPS-CMs), more physiologically …             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 …             Nano-sized Superlattice Clusters Created by Oxygen Ordering in Mechanically Alloyed Fe Alloys ▶     Yong-Jie Hu, Jing Li, Kristopher A. Darling et al.     Creating and maintaining precipitates coherent with the host matrix, under service conditions is one of the most effective approaches for successful development of alloys for …             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 …             Ionic liquid flow along the carbon nanotube with DC electric field ▶     Jung Hwal Shin, Geon Hwee Kim, Intae Kim et al.     Liquid pumping can occur along the outer surface of an electrode under a DC electric field. For biological applications, a better understanding of the ionic solution pumping …             Directional radiation of Babinet-inverted optical nanoantenna integrated with plasmonic waveguide ▶     Jineun Kim, Young-Geun Roh, Sangmo Cheon et al.     We present a Babinet-inverted optical nanoantenna integrated with a plasmonic waveguide. Using an integrated nanoantenna, we can couple the plasmon guide mode in a …             Tunable continuous wave emission via phase-matched second harmonic generation in a ZnSe microcylindrical resonator ▶     N. Vukovic, N. Healy, J. R. Sparks et al.     Whispering gallery mode microresonators made from crystalline materials are of great interest for studies of low threshold nonlinear phenomena. Compared to amorphous materials, …             Black Hydroxylated Titanium Dioxide Prepared via Ultrasonication with Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity ▶     Chenyao Fan, Chao Chen, Jia Wang et al.     The amorphous TiO2 derived from hydroxylation has become an effective approach for the enhancement of photocatalytic activity of TiO2 since a kind of special black TiO2 was …             Anatase TiO2 ultrathin nanobelts derived from room-temperature-synthesized titanates for fast and safe lithium storage ▶     Wei Wen, Jin-ming Wu, Yin-zhu Jiang et al.     Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are promising energy storage devices for portable electronics, electric vehicles, and power-grid applications. It is highly desirable yet challenging …             Circuital characterisation of space-charge motion with a time-varying applied bias ▶     Chul Kim, Eun-Yi Moon, Jungho Hwang et al.     Understanding the behaviour of space-charge between two electrodes is important for a number of applications. The Shockley-Ramo theorem and equivalent circuit models are useful …             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 …             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 …             Multiple scale model for cell migration in monolayers: Elastic mismatch between cells enhances motility ▶     Benoit Palmieri, Yony Bresler, Denis Wirtz et al.     We propose a multiscale model for monolayer of motile cells that comprise normal and cancer cells. In the model, the two types of cells have identical properties except for their …             Liquid on Paper: Rapid Prototyping of Soft Functional Components for Paper Electronics ▶     Yu Long Han, Hao Liu, Cheng Ouyang et al.     This paper describes a novel approach to fabricate paper-based electric circuits consisting of a paper matrix embedded with three-dimensional (3D) microchannels and liquid metal. …             Quantum-confinement and Structural Anisotropy result in Electrically-Tunable Dirac Cone in Few-layer Black Phosphorous ▶     Kapildeb Dolui, Su Ying Quek     Two-dimensional (2D) materials are well-known to exhibit interesting phenomena due to quantum confinement. Here, we show that quantum confinement, together with structural …             Chromosome Scaffold is a Double-Stranded Assembly of Scaffold Proteins ▶     Rawin Poonperm, Hideaki Takata, Tohru Hamano et al.     Chromosome higher order structure has been an enigma for over a century. The most important structural finding has been the presence of a chromosome scaffold composed of …             Energy landscape scheme for an intuitive understanding of complex domain dynamics in ferroelectric thin films ▶     Tae Heon Kim, Jong-Gul Yoon, Seung Hyub Baek et al.     Fundamental understanding of domain dynamics in ferroic materials has been a longstanding issue because of its relevance to many systems and to the design of nanoscale …             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 …             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 …             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 …             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 …             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 …             The Inhibition of the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability by Rotation ▶     Kyle A. Baldwin, Matthew M. Scase, Richard J. A. Hill     It is well-established that the Coriolis force that acts on fluid in a rotating system can act to stabilise otherwise unstable flows. Chandrasekhar considered theoretically the …             Defect-Engineered Heat Transport in Graphene: A Route to High Efficient Thermal Rectification ▶     Weiwei Zhao, Yanlei Wang, Zhangting Wu et al.     Low-dimensional materials such as graphene provide an ideal platform to probe the correlation between thermal transport and lattice defects, which could be engineered at the …             Large-Area Semiconducting Graphene Nanomesh Tailored by Interferometric Lithography ▶     Alireza Kazemi, Xiang He, Seyedhamidreza Alaie et al.     Graphene nanostructures are attracting a great deal of interest because of newly emerging properties originating from quantum confinement effects. We report on using …             Evaluation of thrombolysis by using ultrasonic imaging: an in vitro study ▶     Jui Fang, Po-Hsiang Tsui     The hematocrit of a thrombus is a key factor associated with the susceptibility to thrombolysis. Ultrasonic imaging is currently the first-line screening tool for thrombus …             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 …             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 …             Optimizing fluorescent protein trios for 3-Way FRET imaging of protein interactions in living cells ▶     Brandon L. Scott, Adam D. Hoppe     Powerful new methods have extended FRET microscopy to the imaging of three or more interacting proteins inside living cells. Here, we compared widely available fluorescent …             Identification of malaria parasite-infected red blood cell surface aptamers by inertial microfluidic SELEX (I-SELEX) ▶     Christina M. Birch, Han Wei Hou, Jongyoon Han et al.     Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites invade and remodel human red blood cells (RBCs) by trafficking parasite-synthesized proteins to the RBC surface. While these proteins …             Crystallinity of tellurium capping and epitaxy of ferromagnetic topological insulator films on SrTiO3 ▶     Jihwey Park, Yeong-Ah Soh, Gabriel Aeppli et al.     Thin films of topological insulators are often capped with an insulating layer since topological insulators are known to be fragile to degradation. However, capping can hinder …             Large transport Jc in Cu-sheathed Sr0.6K0.4Fe2As2 superconducting tape conductors ▶     He Lin, Chao Yao, Haitao Zhang et al.     Copper sheath is the first choice for manufacturing high-Tc superconducting wires and tapes because of its high electrical and thermal conductivities, low-cost and good …             Corrigendum: Carnival or football, is there a real risk for acquiring dengue fever in Brazil during holidays seasons? ▶     Maíra Aguiar, Filipe Rocha, José Eduardo Marques Pessanha et al.                 High performance wash-free magnetic bioassays through microfluidically enhanced particle specificity ▶     Daniel J.B. Bechstein, Jung-Rok Lee, Chin Chun Ooi et al.     Magnetic biosensors have emerged as a sensitive and versatile platform for high performance medical diagnostics. These magnetic biosensors require well-tailored magnetic …             Parity effect of bipolar quantum Hall edge transport around graphene antidots ▶     Sadashige Matsuo, Shu Nakaharai, Katsuyoshi Komatsu et al.     Parity effect, which means that even-odd property of an integer physical parameter results in an essential difference, ubiquitously appears and enables us to grasp its physical …             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: Complex structures of different CaFe2As2 samples ▶     Bayrammurad Saparov, Claudia Cantoni, Minghu Pan et al.                 MoS2 Heterojunctions by Thickness Modulation ▶     Mahmut Tosun, Deyi Fu, Sujay B. Desai et al.     In this work, we report lateral heterojunction formation in as-exfoliated MoS2 flakes by thickness modulation. Kelvin probe force microscopy is used to map the surface potential …             A Broadband Bessel Beam Launcher Using Metamaterial Lens ▶     Mei Qing Qi, Wen Xuan Tang, Tie Jun Cui     An approach of generating broadband Bessel beams is presented. The broadband Bessel beams are produced by a gradient index (GRIN) metamaterial lens illuminated by broadband …             Rapid endosomal escape of prickly nanodiamonds: implications for gene delivery ▶     Zhiqin Chu, Kaikei Miu, Pingsai Lung et al.     The prickly nanodiamonds easily entered cells via endocytosis followed by unique intracellular translocation characteristics—quick endosomal escape followed by stable residence …             Extrapolating Dynamic Leidenfrost Principles to Metallic Nanodroplets on Asymmetrically Textured Surfaces ▶     Joseph E. Horne, Nickolay V. Lavrik, Humberto Terrones et al.     In an effort to enhance our knowledge on how to control the movement of metallic nanodroplets, here we have used classical molecular dynamics simulations to investigate whether …             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. This …             Facile route to freestanding CH3NH3PbI3 crystals using inverse solubility ▶     Jeannette M. Kadro, Kazuteru Nonomura, David Gachet et al.     CH3NH3PbI3 was found to exhibit inverse solubility at high temperatures in γ-butyrolactone. Making use of this unusual, so far unreported phenomenon, we present a facile method …             Structural, mechanical, and electronic properties of Rh2B and RhB2: first-principles calculations ▶     Binhua Chu, Da Li, Fubo Tian et al.     The crystal structures of Rh2B and RhB2 at ambient pressure were explored by using the evolutionary methodology. A monoclinic P21/m structure of Rh2B was predicted and donated as …             Corrigendum: Label-Free Characterization of Emerging Human Neuronal Networks ▶     Mustafa Mir, Taewoo Kim, Anirban Majumder et al.                 Corrigendum: Generation of the SCN1A epilepsy mutation in hiPS cells using the TALEN technique ▶     Wanjuan Chen, Jingxin Liu, Longmei Zhang et al.                 Corrigendum: Variability in mutational fitness effects prevents full lethal transitions in large quasispecies populations ▶     Josep Sardanyés, Carles Simó, Regina Martínez 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 …             Linking Precursor Alterations to Nanoscale Structure and Optical Transparency in Polymer Assisted Fast-Rate Dip-Coating of Vanadium Oxide Thin Films ▶     Colm Glynn, Donal Creedon, Hugh Geaney et al.     Solution processed metal oxide thin films are important for modern optoelectronic devices ranging from thin film transistors to photovoltaics and for functional optical coatings. …             Two-Dimensional Pnictogen Honeycomb Lattice: Structure, On-Site Spin-Orbit Coupling and Spin Polarization ▶     Jason Lee, Wen-Chuan Tian, Wei-Liang Wang et al.     Because of its novel physical properties, two-dimensional materials have attracted great attention. From first-principle calculations and vibration frequencies analysis, we …             Nanodomained Nickel Unite Nanocrystal Strength with Coarse-Grain Ductility ▶     Xiaolei Wu, Fuping Yuan, Muxin Yang et al.     Conventional metals are routinely hardened by grain refinement or by cold working with the expense of their ductility. Recent nanostructuring strategies have attempted to evade …             Superdiffusion dominates intracellular particle motion in the supercrowded cytoplasm of pathogenic Acanthamoeba castellanii ▶     Julia F. Reverey, Jae-Hyung Jeon, Han Bao et al.     Acanthamoebae are free-living protists and human pathogens, whose cellular functions and pathogenicity strongly depend on the transport of intracellular vesicles and granules …             A Novel Audiovisual Brain-Computer Interface and Its Application in Awareness Detection ▶     Fei Wang, Yanbin He, Jiahui Pan et al.     Currently, detecting awareness in patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) is a challenging task, which is commonly addressed through behavioral observation scales such as …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Senior Scientist     University of Cambridge            Assistant or Associate Professor (3 posts available)     The University of Warwick            PhD Student (F / M)     Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne            Postdoctoral Fellow     University of California - San Francisco            Postdoctoral Researcher     NUI Galway            Junior Research Chairs at Postdoctoral Level     International Centre for Fundamental Physics - Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS-ICFP)            Post-doctoral Researcher     The Research Institute at Nationwide Children Hospital             Research Assistant     University of Bristol            Postdoctoral / senios scientist position     Medical University of Vienna            Lectureship in Psychology x 3 (new posts)     The University of York          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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