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21 July 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               Erratum: Low-Cost, Disposable, Flexible and Highly Reproducible Screen Printed SERS Substrates for the Detection of Various Chemicals ▶     Wei Wu, Li Liu, Zhigao Dai et al.                 Dynamically reconfigurable nanoscale modulators utilizing coupled hybrid plasmonics ▶     Charles Lin, Amr S. Helmy     The balance between extinction ratio (ER) and insertion loss (IL) dictates strict trade-off when designing travelling-wave electro-optic modulators. This in turn entails …             Ultralow charge-transfer resistance with ultralow Pt loading for hydrogen evolution and oxidation using Ru@Pt core-shell nanocatalysts ▶     Jia X. Wang, Yu Zhang, Christopher B. Capuano et al.     We evaluated the activities of well-defined Ru@Pt core-shell nanocatalysts for hydrogen evolution and oxidation reactions (HER-HOR) using hanging strips of gas diffusion …             Electronic, Dielectric, and Plasmonic Properties of Two-Dimensional Electride Materials X2N (X=Ca, Sr): A First-Principles Study ▶     Shan Guan, Shengyuan A. Yang, Liyan Zhu et al.     Based on first-principles calculations, we systematically study the electronic, dielectric, and plasmonic properties of two-dimensional (2D) electride materials X2N (X = Ca, Sr). …             Studying the Polarization Switching in Polycrystalline BiFeO3 Films by 2D Piezoresponse Force Microscopy ▶     Yaming Jin, Xiaomei Lu, Junting Zhang et al.     For rhombohedral multiferroelectrics, non-180° ferroelectric domain switching may induce ferroelastic and/or (anti-)ferromagnetic effect. So the determination and control of …             Surface Termination Conversion during SrTiO3 Thin Film Growth Revealed by X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy ▶     Christoph Baeumer, Chencheng Xu, Felix Gunkel et al.     Emerging electrical and magnetic properties of oxide interfaces are often dominated by the termination and stoichiometry of substrates and thin films, which depend critically on …             A simple preparation of very high methanol tolerant cathode electrocatalyst for direct methanol fuel cell based on polymer-coated carbon nanotube/platinum ▶     Zehui Yang, Naotoshi Nakashima     The development of a durable and methanol tolerant electrocatalyst with a high oxygen reduction reaction activity is highly important for the cathode side of direct methanol fuel …             Corrigendum: Versatile multi-wavelength ultrafast fiber laser mode-locked by carbon nanotubes ▶     Xueming Liu, Dongdong Han, Zhipei Sun et al.                 Visible-light-driven Photocatalytic N-arylation of Imidazole Derivatives and Arylboronic Acids on Cu/graphene catalyst ▶     Yan-Li Cui, Xiao-Ning Guo, Ying-Yong Wang et al.     N-aryl imidazoles play an important role as structural and functional units in many natural products and biologically active compounds. Herein, we report a photocatalytic route …             Generating optical superimposed vortex beam with tunable orbital angular momentum using integrated devices ▶     Yu Wang, Xue Feng, Dengke Zhang et al.     An integrated device, which consists of a variable amplitude splitter and an orbital angular momentum (OAM) emitter, is proposed for the superposition of optical vortex beams. …             A Josephson radiation comb generator ▶     P. Solinas, S. Gasparinetti, D. Golubev et al.     We propose the implementation of a Josephson Radiation Comb Generator (JRCG) based on a dc superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) driven by an external magnetic …             New Insight into Phase Formation of MxMg2Al4+xSi5−xO18:Eu2+ Solid Solution Phosphors and Its Luminescence Properties ▶     Jun Zhou, Zhiguo Xia, Mingyue Chen et al.     Here we reported the phase formation of MxMg2Al4+xSi5−xO18:Eu2+ (M = K, Rb) solid solution phosphors, where M+ ions were introduced into the void channels of Mg2Al4Si5O18 via Al3+…             Switching Behaviors of Graphene-Boron Nitride Nanotube Heterojunctions ▶     Vyom Parashar, Corentin P. Durand, Boyi Hao et al.     High electron mobility of graphene has enabled their application in high-frequency analogue devices but their gapless nature has hindered their use in digital switches. In …             Sphere Drag and Heat Transfer ▶     Zhipeng Duan, Boshu He, Yuanyuan Duan     Modelling fluid flows past a body is a general problem in science and engineering. Historical sphere drag and heat transfer data are critically examined. The appropriate drag …             Brain Performance versus Phase Transitions ▶     Joaquín J. Torres, J. Marro     We here illustrate how a well-founded study of the brain may originate in assuming analogies with phase-transition phenomena. Analyzing to what extent a weak signal endures in …             Anatase TiO2 Nanoparticles with Exposed {001} Facets for Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells ▶     Liang Chu, Zhengfei Qin, Jianping Yang et al.     Anatase TiO2 nanoparticles with exposed {001} facets were synthesized from Ti powder via a sequential hydrothermal reaction process. At the first-step hydrothermal reaction, …             Conversion of 4-N,N-dimethylamino-4’-N’-methyl-stilbazolium tosylate (DAST) from a Simple Optical Material to a Versatile Optoelectronic Material ▶     Xiangdong Xu, Ziqiang Sun, Kai Fan et al.     4-N,N-dimethylamino-4’-N’-methyl-stilbazolium tosylate (DAST) is an important optical material, but its poor conductivity limits applications in devices. To tackle this problem, …             Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and magnetization dynamics in oxidized CoFeAl films ▶     Di Wu, Zhe Zhang, Le Li et al.     Half-metallic Co-based full-Heusler alloys with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA), such as Co2FeAl in contact with MgO, are receiving increased attention recently due to …             Bioresponsive antisense DNA gold nanobeacons as a hybrid in vivo theranostics platform for the inhibition of cancer cells and metastasis ▶     Chenchen Bao, João Conde, James Curtin et al.     Gold nanobeacons can be used as a powerful tool for cancer theranostics. Here, we proposed a nanomaterial platform based on gold nanobeacons to detect, target and inhibit the …             Predicting the extinction of Ebola spreading in Liberia due to mitigation strategies ▶     L. D. Valdez, H. H. Aragão Rêgo, H. E. Stanley et al.     The Ebola virus is spreading throughout West Africa and is causing thousands of deaths. In order to quantify the effectiveness of different strategies for controlling the spread, …             Effects of age and blood pressure on the retinal arterial wall, analyzed using adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy ▶     Shigeta Arichika, Akihito Uji, Sotaro Ooto et al.     The wall-to-lumen ratio (WLR) of the vasculature is a promising early marker of retinal microvascular changes. Recently, adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO) …             Engineering functionalized multi-phased silicon/silicon oxide nano-biomaterials to passivate the aggressive proliferation of cancer ▶     P. Premnath, B. Tan, K. Venkatakrishnan     Currently, the use of nano silicon in cancer therapy is limited as drug delivery vehicles and markers in imaging, not as manipulative/controlling agents. This is due to limited …             LRP-1-mediated intracellular antibody delivery to the Central Nervous System ▶     Xiaohe Tian, Sophie Nyberg, Paul S. Sharp et al.     The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is by far the most important target in developing new approaches to improve delivery of drugs and diagnostic tools into the Central Nervous System …             Corrigendum: H+-type and OH−-type biological protonic semiconductors and complementary devices ▶     Yingxin Deng, Erik Josberger, Jungho Jin et al.                 Theoretical requirements for broadband perfect absorption of acoustic waves by ultra-thin elastic meta-films ▶     Yuetao Duan, Jie Luo, Guanghao Wang et al.     We derive and numerically demonstrate that perfect absorption of elastic waves can be achieved in two types of ultra-thin elastic meta-films: one requires a large value of almost …             Hidden non-Fermi liquid behavior caused by magnetic phase transition in Ni-doped Ba-122 pnictides ▶     Seokbae Lee, Ki-Young Choi, Eilho Jung et al.     We studied two BaFe2−xNixAs2 (Ni-doped Ba-122) single crystals at two different doping levels (underdoped and optimally doped) using an optical spectroscopic technique. The …             Simple method for the generation of multiple homogeneous field volumes inside the bore of superconducting magnets ▶     Ching-Yu Chou, Fabien Ferrage, Guy Aubert et al.     Standard Magnetic Resonance magnets produce a single homogeneous field volume, where the analysis is performed. Nonetheless, several modern applications could benefit from the …             Corrigendum: Influence of sociodemographic characteristics on human mobility ▶     Maxime Lenormand, Thomas Louail, Oliva G. Cantú-Ros et al.                 Renormalization group approach to the Fröhlich polaron model: application to impurity-BEC problem ▶     F. Grusdt, Y. E. Shchadilova, A. N. Rubtsov et al.     When a mobile impurity interacts with a many-body system, such as a phonon bath, a polaron is formed. Despite the importance of the polaron problem for a wide range of physical …             A dendritic nano-sized hexanuclear ruthenium(II) complex as a one- and two-photon luminescent tracking non-viral gene vector ▶     Kangqiang Qiu, Bole Yu, Huaiyi Huang et al.     Fluorescent tracking gene delivery could provide us with a better understanding of the critical steps in the transfection process. However, for in vivo tracking applications, a …             Pu isotopes in soils collected downwind from Lop Nor: regional fallout vs. global fallout ▶     Wenting Bu, Youyi Ni, Qiuju Guo et al.     For the first time, soil core samples from the Jiuquan region have been analyzed for Pu isotopes for radioactive source identification and radiological assessment. The Jiuquan …             Accelerated Sorption Diffusion for Cu(II) Retention by Anchorage of Nano-zirconium Dioxide onto Highly charged Polystyrene Material ▶     Qingrui Zhang, Qing Du, Tifeng Jiao et al.     The development of nanocomposite with strong adsorption ability exhibits great potential applications for environmental remediation. However, the pore blocking in preparation …             Pockels effect of silicate glass-ceramics: Observation of optical modulation in Mach–Zehnder system ▶     Kazuki Yamaoka, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Yoshiki Yamazaki et al.     Silicate glass has been used for long time because of its advantages from material’s viewpoint. In this paper, we report the observation of Pockels effect by Mach–Zehnder …             Steering light by a sub-wavelength metallic grating from transformation optics ▶     Yadong Xu, Yangyang Fu, Huanyang Chen     Transformation optics has shown great ability in designing devices with novel functionalities, such as invisibility cloaking. A recent work shows that it can also be used to …             Ab initio investigation of CaO-ZnO alloys under high pressure ▶     Xiaojing Sha, Fubo Tian, Da Li et al.     CaxZn1–xO alloys are potential candidates to achieve wide band-gap, which might significantly promote the band gap engineering and heterojunction design. We performed a crystal …             Reduced Graphene Oxide-Based Silver Nanoparticle-Containing Composite Hydrogel as Highly Efficient Dye Catalysts for Wastewater Treatment ▶     Tifeng Jiao, Haiying Guo, Qingrui Zhang et al.     New reduced graphene oxide-based silver nanoparticle-containing composite hydrogels were successfully prepared in situ through the simultaneous reduction of GO and noble metal …             Two-dimensional van der Waals C60 molecular crystal ▶     C. D. Reddy, Zhi Gen Yu, Yong-Wei Zhang     Two-dimensional (2D) atomic crystals, such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides et al. have drawn extraordinary attention recently. For these 2D materials, atoms …             Handedness Dependent Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Hybrid Chiral Metamaterials ▶     Lei Kang, Zhi Hao Jiang, Taiwei Yue et al.     We provide the first experimental demonstration of the handedness dependent electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in chiral metamaterials during the interaction with …             Magnetic multi-granule nanoclusters: A model system that exhibits universal size effect of magnetic coercivity ▶     Ji Sung Lee, Jin Myung Cha, Ha Young Yoon et al.     It is well known that the coercivity of magnetic nanomaterials increases up to a maximum and then decreases to zero with decreasing particle size. However, until now, no single …             Factors influencing real time internal structural visualization and dynamic process monitoring in plants using synchrotron-based phase contrast X-ray imaging ▶     Chithra Karunakaran, Rachid Lahlali, Ning Zhu et al.     Minimally invasive investigation of plant parts (root, stem, leaves, and flower) has good potential to elucidate the dynamics of plant growth, morphology, physiology, and …             Effects of Four Different Regulatory Mechanisms on the Dynamics of Gene Regulatory Cascades ▶     Sabine Hansen, Sandeep Krishna, Szabolcs Semsey et al.     Gene regulatory cascades (GRCs) are common motifs in cellular molecular networks. A given logical function in these cascades, such as the repression of the activity of a …             Geometric diffusion of quantum trajectories ▶     Fan Yang, Ren-Bao Liu     A quantum object can acquire a geometric phase (such as Berry phases and Aharonov–Bohm phases) when evolving along a path in a parameter space with non-trivial gauge structures. …             Stable and catalytically active iron porphyrin-based porous organic polymer: Activity as both a redox and Lewis acid catalyst ▶     Ali R. Oveisi, Kainan Zhang, Ahmad Khorramabadi-zad et al.     A new porphyrin-based porous organic polymer (POP) with BET surface area ranging from 780 to 880 m2/g was synthesized in free-base form via the reaction of meso-tetrakis…             Active charge state control of single NV centres in diamond by in-plane Al-Schottky junctions ▶     C. Schreyvogel, V. Polyakov, R. Wunderlich et al.     In this paper, we demonstrate an active control of the charge state of a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre by using in-plane Schottky-diode geometries with aluminium on …             Erratum: Soret Fishnet Metalens Antenna ▶     Bakhtiyar Orazbayev, Miguel Beruete, Víctor Pacheco-Peña et al.                 Stretchable Loudspeaker using Liquid Metal Microchannel ▶     Sang Woo Jin, Jeongwon Park, Soo Yeong Hong et al.     Considering the various applications of wearable and bio-implantable devices, it is desirable to realize stretchable acoustic devices for body-attached applications such as …             Thermodynamic explanation of the universal correlation between oxygen evolution activity and corrosion of oxide catalysts ▶     Tobias Binninger, Rhiyaad Mohamed, Kay Waltar et al.     In recent years, the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) has attracted increased research interest due to its crucial role in electrochemical energy conversion devices for renewable …             Visual measurement of the evaporation process of a sessile droplet by dual-channel simultaneous phase-shifting interferometry ▶     Peng Sun, Liyun Zhong, Chunshu Luo et al.     To perform the visual measurement of the evaporation process of a sessile droplet, a dual-channel simultaneous phase-shifting interferometry (DCSPSI) method is proposed. Based on …             High accuracy determination of the thermal properties of supported 2D materials ▶     Jarosław Judek, Arkadiusz P. Gertych, Michał Świniarski et al.     We present a novel approach for the simultaneous determination of the thermal conductivity κ and the total interface conductance g of supported 2D materials by the enhanced …             Regioselective Halogenation of 1,4-Benzodiazepinones via CH Activation ▶     Hajer Abdelkafi, Jean-Christophe Cintrat     This article reports an efficient CH activation process for regioselective halogenation of 1,4-benzodiazepinones. Direct halogenation with NXS (X = Br, I) affords halogenated …             Reformation Capability of Short-Range Order and Their Medium-Range Connections Regulates Deformability of Bulk Metallic Glasses ▶     Congling Li, Yujie Wei, Xinghua Shi     Metallic glasses (MGs) typically have high yield strength while low ductility, and the latter is commonly considered as the Achilles’ heel of MGs. Elucidate the mechanism for …             Binocular Goggle Augmented Imaging and Navigation System provides real-time fluorescence image guidance for tumor resection and sentinel lymph node mapping ▶     Suman B. Mondal, Shengkui Gao, Nan Zhu et al.     The inability to identify microscopic tumors and assess surgical margins in real-time during oncologic surgery leads to incomplete tumor removal, increases the chances of tumor …             Memory-built-in quantum cloning in a hybrid solid-state spin register ▶     W.-B. Wang, C. Zu, L. He et al.     As a way to circumvent the quantum no-cloning theorem, approximate quantum cloning protocols have received wide attention with remarkable applications. Copying of quantum states …             Versatile MoS2 Nanosheets in ITO-Free and Semi-transparent Polymer Power-generating Glass ▶     Xiaotian Hu, Lie Chen, Licheng Tan et al.     Chemical exfoliated ultra-thin MoS2 nanosheets (NSs) with well 2D structure were demonstrated for interfacial layers and Ag nanowires composite transparent electrode in polymer …             Tuning the Emission of Cationic Iridium (III) Complexes Towards the Red Through Methoxy Substitution of the Cyclometalating Ligand ▶     Kamrul Hasan, Ashu K. Bansal, Ifor D.W. Samuel et al.     The synthesis, characterization and evaluation in solid-state devices of a series of 8 cationic iridium complexes bearing different numbers of methoxy groups on the …             Analysis of the “naming game” with learning errors in communications ▶     Yang Lou, Guanrong Chen     Naming game simulates the process of naming an objective by a population of agents organized in a certain communication network. By pair-wise iterative interactions, the …             ‘Spotted Nanoflowers’: Gold-seeded Zinc Oxide Nanohybrid for Selective Bio-capture ▶     Veeradasan Perumal, U. Hashim, Subash C.B. Gopinath et al.     Hybrid gold nanostructures seeded into nanotextured zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoflowers (NFs) were created for novel biosensing applications. The selected ‘spotted NFs’ had a …             Corrigendum: Dynamics of microdroplets over the surface of hot water ▶     Takahiro Umeki, Masahiko Ohata, Hiizu Nakanishi et al.                 Nearly isotropic piezoresistive response due to charge detour conduction in nanoparticle thin films ▶     Cheng-Wei Jiang, I.-Chih Ni, Shien-Der Tzeng et al.     Piezoresistive responses of nanoparticle thin-film strain sensors on flexible polyimide substrates were studied. Disordered interparticle tunneling introduces microscopic detour …             Corrigendum: Magnetic Transition to Antiferromagnetic Phase in Gadolinium Substituted Topological Insulator Bi2Te3 ▶     Jinsu Kim, Kyujoon Lee, Toshiro Takabatake et al.                 Ultrafast Intrinsic Photoresponse and Direct Evidence of Sub-gap States in Liquid Phase Exfoliated MoS2Thin Films ▶     Sujoy Ghosh, Andrew Winchester, Baleeswaraiah Muchharla et al.     2-Dimensional structures with swift optical response have several technological advantages, for example they could be used as components of ultrafast light modulators, …             Epidemic Model with Isolation in Multilayer Networks ▶     L. G. Alvarez Zuzek, H. E. Stanley, L. A. Braunstein     The Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model has successfully mimicked the propagation of such airborne diseases as influenza A (H1N1). Although the SIR model has recently been …             A broadband polarization-insensitive cloak based on mode conversion ▶     Chendong Gu, Yadong Xu, Sucheng Li et al.     In this work, we demonstrate an one-dimensional cloak consisting of parallel-plated waveguide with two slabs of gradient index metamaterials attached to its metallic walls. In it …             Engineering deceleration and acceleration of soliton emitted from Airy pulse with quadratic phase modulation in optical fibers without high-order effects ▶     Lifu Zhang, Kun Liu, Haizhe Zhong et al.     Soliton propagation direction can be engineered in optical fibers in the presence of high-order effects (HOEs). It is well known that Raman effects can decelerate the soliton. …             Sodium and Lithium Storage Properties of Spray-Dried Molybdenum Disulfide-Graphene Hierarchical Microspheres ▶     Sujith Kalluri, Kuok Hau Seng, Zaiping Guo et al.     Developing nano/micro-structures which can effectively upgrade the intriguing properties of electrode materials for energy storage devices is always a key research topic. Ul…             Hybrid system for rechargeable magnesium battery with high energy density ▶     Zheng Chang, Yaqiong Yang, Xiaowei Wang et al.     One of the main challenges of electrical energy storage (EES) is the development of environmentally friendly battery systems with high safety and high energy density. …             Single step transformation of sulphur to Li2S2/Li2S in Li-S batteries ▶     M. Helen, M. Anji Reddy, Thomas Diemant et al.     Lithium-sulphur batteries have generated tremendous research interest due to their high theoretical energy density and potential cost-effectiveness. The commercial realization of …             Geometric interpretations for resonances of plasmonic nanoparticles ▶     Wei Liu, Rupert F. Oulton, Yuri S. Kivshar     The field of plasmonics can be roughly categorized into two branches: surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) propagating in waveguides and localized surface plasmons (LSPs) supported …             An Inexpensive Co-Intercalated Layered Double Hydroxide Composite with Electron Donor-Acceptor Character for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting ▶     Shufang Zheng, Jun Lu, Dongpeng Yan et al.     In this paper, the inexpensive 4,4-diaminostilbene-2,2-disulfonate (DAS) and 4,4-dinitro-stilbene-2,2- disulfonate (DNS) anions with arbitrary molar ratios were successfully …             13.2% efficiency Si nanowire/PEDOT:PSS hybrid solar cell using a transfer-imprinted Au mesh electrode ▶     Kwang-Tae Park, Han-Jung Kim, Min-Joon Park et al.     In recent years, inorganic/organic hybrid solar cell concept has received growing attention for alternative energy solution because of the potential for facile and low-cost …             Expected number of quantum channels in quantum networks ▶     Xi Chen, He-Ming Wang, Dan-Tong Ji et al.     Quantum communication between nodes in quantum networks plays an important role in quantum information processing. Here, we proposed the use of the expected number of quantum …             Charge deformation and orbital hybridization: intrinsic mechanisms on tunable chromaticity of Y3Al5O12:Ce3+ luminescence by doping Gd3+ for warm white LEDs ▶     Lei Chen, Xiuling Chen, Fayong Liu et al.     The deficiency of Y3Al5O12:Ce (YAG:Ce) luminescence in red component can be compensated by doping Gd3+, thus lead to it being widely used for packaging warm white light-emitting …             The dynamics of meaningful social interactions and the emergence of collective knowledge ▶     Marija Mitrović Dankulov, Roderick Melnik, Bosiljka Tadić     Collective knowledge as a social value may arise in cooperation among actors whose individual expertise is limited. The process of knowledge creation requires meaningful, …             Stimulated scattering effects in gold-nanorod-water samples pumped by 532 nm laser pulses ▶     Jiulin Shi, Haopeng Wu, Juan Liu et al.     Stimulated scattering in gold-nanorod-water samples has been investigated experimentally. The scattering centers are impurity particles rather than the atoms or molecules of …             Large scale systematic proteomic quantification from non-metastatic to metastatic colorectal cancer ▶     Xuefei Yin, Yang Zhang, Shaowen Guo et al.     A systematic proteomic quantification of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) colorectal cancer tissues from stage I to stage IIIC was performed in large scale. 1017 proteins …             Circulating levels of sphingosine-1-phosphate are elevated in severe, but not mild psoriasis and are unresponsive to anti-TNF-α treatment ▶     Antonio Checa, Ning Xu, Daniel G. Sar et al.     Sphingolipids are bioactive molecules with a putative role in inflammation. Alterations in sphingolipids, in particular ceramides, have been consistently observed in psoriatic …             Carbon Nanohorns Carried Iron Fluoride Nanocomposite with ultrahigh rate lithium ion storage properties ▶     Lishuang Fan, Bingjiang Li, Naiqing Zhang et al.     Novel hierarchical carbon nanohorns (CNHs) carried iron fluoride nanocomposites have been constructed by direct growth of FeF3·0.33H2O nanoparticles on CNHs. In the FeF3·0.33H2…             Stability of cooperation under image scoring in group interactions ▶     Heinrich H. Nax, Matjaž Perc, Attila Szolnoki et al.     Image scoring sustains cooperation in the repeated two-player prisoner’s dilemma through indirect reciprocity, even though defection is the uniquely dominant selfish behaviour in …             Polymerase/DNA interactions and enzymatic activity: multi-parameter analysis with electro-switchable biosurfaces ▶     Andreas Langer, Michael Schräml, Ralf Strasser et al.     The engineering of high-performance enzymes for future sequencing and PCR technologies as well as the development of many anticancer drugs requires a detailed analysis of DNA/RNA …             Band Alignment and Controllable Electron Migration between Rutile and Anatase TiO2 ▶     Yang Mi, Yuxiang Weng     TiO2 is the most promising semiconductor for photocatalytic splitting of water for hydrogen and degradation of pollutants. The highly photocatalytic active form is its mixed …             Tuning the functionalities of a mesocrystal via structural coupling ▶     Heng-Jui Liu, Yun-Ya Liu, Chih-Ya Tsai et al.     In the past decades, mesocrystal, a kind of nanocrystals with specific crystallographic orientation, has drawn a lot of attention due to its intriguing functionalities. While the …             Two-Aperture Microfluidic Probes as Flow Dipole: Theory and Applications ▶     Mohammadali Safavieh, Mohammad A. Qasaimeh, Ali Vakil et al.     A microfluidic probe (MFP) is a mobile channel-less microfluidic system under which a fluid is injected from an aperture into an open space, hydrodynamically confined by a …             Quantum Emulation of Gravitational Waves ▶     Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton, Mauro Cirio, Alexander Büse et al.     Gravitational waves, as predicted by Einstein’s general relativity theory, appear as ripples in the fabric of spacetime traveling at the speed of light. We prove that the …             Studying biological membranes with extended range high-speed atomic force microscopy ▶     Adrian P. Nievergelt, Blake W. Erickson, Nahid Hosseini et al.     High—speed atomic force microscopy has proven to be a valuable tool for the study of biomolecular systems at the nanoscale. Expanding its application to larger biological …             Crystalline Ni3C as both carbon source and catalyst for graphene nucleation: a QM/MD study ▶     Menggai Jiao, Kai Li, Wei Guan et al.     Graphene nucleation from crystalline Ni3C has been investigated using quantum chemical molecular dynamics (QM/MD) simulations based on the self-consistent-charge …             Micro-concave waveguide antenna for high photon extraction from nitrogen vacancy centers in nanodiamond ▶     Ranjith Rajasekharan, Günter Kewes, Amir Djalalian-Assl et al.     The negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy colour center (NV− center) in nanodiamond is an excellent single photon source due to its stable photon generation in ambient conditions, …             Hierarchical Nanotube-Constructed Porous TiO2-B Spheres for High Performance Lithium Ion Batteries ▶     Yi Cai, Hong-En Wang, Shao -Zhuan Huang et al.     Hierarchically structured porous TiO2-B spheres have been synthesized via a hydrothermal process using amorphous titania/oleylamine composites as a self-sacrificing template. The …             Realistic wave-optics simulation of X-ray phase-contrast imaging at a human scale ▶     Yongjin Sung, W. Paul Segars, Adam Pan et al.     X-ray phase-contrast imaging (XPCI) can dramatically improve soft tissue contrast in X-ray medical imaging. Despite worldwide efforts to develop novel XPCI systems, a numerical …             Automated astatination of biomolecules – a stepping stone towards multicenter clinical trials ▶     Emma Aneheim, Per Albertsson, Tom Bäck et al.     To facilitate multicentre clinical studies on targeted alpha therapy, it is necessary to develop an automated, on-site procedure for conjugating rare, short-lived, alpha-emitting …             Characterizing unextendible product bases in qutrit-ququad system ▶     Ying-Hui Yang, Fei Gao, Guang-Bao Xu et al.     Unextendible product bases (UPBs) play an important role in quantum information theory. However, very little is known about UPBs in Hilbert space of local dimension more than …             Electron—phonon Coupling and the Superconducting Phase Diagram of the LaAlO3—SrTiO3 Interface ▶     Hans Boschker, Christoph Richter, Evangelos Fillis-Tsirakis et al.     The superconductor at the LaAlO3—SrTiO3 interface provides a model system for the study of two-dimensional superconductivity in the dilute carrier density limit. Here we …             Magnetic moment formation due to arsenic vacancies in LaFeAsO-derived superconductors ▶     Konstantin Kikoin, Stefan-Ludwig Drechsler, Klaus Koepernik et al.     Arsenic vacancies in LaFeAsO-derived superconductors are nominally non-magnetic defects. However, we find from a microscopic theory in terms of an appropriately modified …             Graph Curvature for Differentiating Cancer Networks ▶     Romeil Sandhu, Tryphon Georgiou, Ed Reznik et al.     Cellular interactions can be modeled as complex dynamical systems represented by weighted graphs. 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