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28 July 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               Towards highest peak intensities for ultra-short MeV-range ion bunches ▶     Simon Busold, Dennis Schumacher, Christian Brabetz et al.     A laser-driven, multi-MeV-range ion beamline has been installed at the GSI Helmholtz center for heavy ion research. The high-power laser PHELIX drives the very short (picosecond) …             Crystal Orientation Dynamics of Collective Zn dots before Preferential Nucleation ▶     Chun-Chu Liu, Jun-Han Huang, Ching-Shun Ku et al.     The island nucleation in the context of heterogeneous thin film growth is often complicated by the growth kinetics involved in the subsequent thermodynamics. We show how the …             Orbital Reconstruction in a Self-assembled Oxygen Vacancy Nanostructure ▶     H. Jang, G. Kerr, J. S. Lim et al.     We demonstrate the microscopic role of oxygen vacancies spatially confined within nanometer inter-spacing (about 1 nm) in BiFeO3, using resonant soft X-ray scattering techniques …             Pressure-induced dissociation of water molecules in ice VII ▶     Toshiaki Iitaka, Hiroshi Fukui, Zhi Li et al.     The neutron diffraction pattern of D2O ice was recently measured at pressures up to 52 GPa by Guthrie et al., who proposed an octahedral interstitial model for ice at pressures …             Passively mode-locked fiber laser by a cell-type WS2 nanosheets saturable absorber ▶     Peiguang Yan, Aijiang Liu, Yushan Chen et al.     A cell-type saturable absorber has been demonstrated by filling the single mode photonic crystal fiber (SMPCF) with tungsten disulfide (WS2) nanosheets. The modulation depth, …             Time-lapse Raman imaging of osteoblast differentiation ▶     Aya Hashimoto, Yoshinori Yamaguchi, Liang-da Chiu et al.     Osteoblastic mineralization occurs during the early stages of bone formation. During this mineralization, hydroxyapatite (HA), a major component of bone, is synthesized, …             Decoherence of interacting Majorana modes ▶     H. T. Ng     We study the decoherence of Majorana modes of a fermion chain, where the fermions interact with their nearest neighbours. We investigate the effect of dissipation and dephasing …             Polarization-tuned Dynamic Color Filters Incorporating a Dielectric-loaded Aluminum Nanowire Array ▶     Vivek Raj Shrestha, Sang-Shin Lee, Eun-Soo Kim et al.     Nanostructured spectral filters enabling dynamic color-tuning are saliently attractive for implementing ultra-compact color displays and imaging devices. Realization of …             Efficient Scheme for Perfect Collective Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering ▶     M. Wang, Q. H. Gong, Z. Ficek et al.     A practical scheme for the demonstration of perfect one-sided device-independent quantum secret sharing is proposed. The scheme involves a three-mode optomechanical system in …             Automated chest-radiography as a triage for Xpert testing in resource-constrained settings: a prospective study of diagnostic accuracy and costs ▶     R. H. H. M. Philipsen, C. I. Sánchez, P. Maduskar et al.     Molecular tests hold great potential for tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis, but are costly, time consuming, and HIV-infected patients are often sputum scarce. Therefore, alternative …             Three-dimensional visualization of the microvasculature of bile duct ligation-induced liver fibrosis in rats by x-ray phase-contrast imaging computed tomography ▶     Ruijiao Xuan, Xinyan Zhao, Doudou Hu et al.     X-ray phase-contrast imaging (PCI) can substantially enhance contrast, and is particularly useful in differentiating biological soft tissues with small density differences. …             Electric-field-induced Spontaneous Magnetization and Phase Transitions in Zigzag Boron Nitride Nanotubes ▶     Lang Bai, Gangxu Gu, Gang Xiang et al.     We demonstrate an alternative scheme for realizing spin polarizations in semiconductor nanostructures by an all-electric way. The electronic and magnetic properties of the model …             Large-mode-area single-mode-output Neodymium-doped silicate glass all-solid photonic crystal fiber ▶     Wentao Li, Danping Chen, Zhou Qinling et al.     We have demonstrated a 45 μm core diameter Neodymium-doped all-solid silicate glass photonic crystal fiber laser with a single mode laser output. The structure parameters and …             Intrinsic Polarization and Tunable Color of Electroluminescence from Organic Single Crystal-based Light-Emitting Devices ▶     Ran Ding, Jing Feng, Wei Zhou et al.     A single crystal-based organic light-emitting device (OLED) with intrinsically polarized and color-tunable electroluminescence (EL) has been demonstrated without any subsequent …             Graphene mobility mapping ▶     Jonas D. Buron, Filippo Pizzocchero, Peter U. Jepsen et al.     Carrier mobility and chemical doping level are essential figures of merit for graphene, and large-scale characterization of these properties and their uniformity is a …             Periodic almost-Schrödinger equation for quasicrystals ▶     Igor V. Blinov     A new method for finding electronic structure and wavefunctions of electrons in quasiperiodic potential is introduced. To obtain results it uses slightly modified Schrödinger …             Variable-angle high-angle annular dark-field imaging: application to three-dimensional dopant atom profiling ▶     Jack Y. Zhang, Jinwoo Hwang, Brandon J. Isaac et al.     Variable-angle high-angle annular dark-field (HAADF) imaging in scanning transmission electron microscopy is developed for precise and accurate determination of three-dimensional …             High-power THz to IR emission by femtosecond laser irradiation of random 2D metallic nanostructures ▶     Liangliang Zhang, Kaijun Mu, Yunsong Zhou et al.     Terahertz (THz) spectroscopic sensing and imaging has identified its potentials in a number of areas such as standoff security screening at portals, explosive detection at battle …             Rogue waves lead to the instability in GaN semiconductors ▶     M. E. Yahia, R. E. Tolba, N. A. El-Bedwehy et al.     A new approach to understand the electron/hole interfaced plasma in GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs). A quantum hydrodynamic model is constructed to include …             Method for Controlling Electrical Properties of Single-Layer Graphene Nanoribbons via Adsorbed Planar Molecular Nanoparticles ▶     Hirofumi Tanaka, Ryo Arima, Minoru Fukumori et al.     A simple method for fabricating single-layer graphene nanoribbons (sGNRs) from double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWNTs) was developed. A sonication treatment was employed to unzip …             Dynamics of Glass Forming Liquids with Randomly Pinned Particles ▶     Saurish Chakrabarty, Smarajit Karmakar, Chandan Dasgupta     It is frequently assumed that in the limit of vanishing cooling rate, the glass transition phenomenon becomes a thermodynamic transition at a temperature TK. However, with any …             Solution-Processed Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes with Ultralow Driving Voltage and Very High Power Efficiency ▶     Shumeng Wang, Xingdong Wang, Bing Yao et al.     To realize power efficient solution-processed phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes (s-PhOLEDs), the corresponding high driving voltage issue should be well solved. To …             Low-cost flexible supercapacitors with high-energy density based on nanostructured MnO2 and Fe2O3 thin films directly fabricated onto stainless steel ▶     Girish S. Gund, Deepak P. Dubal, Nilesh R. Chodankar et al.     The facile and economical electrochemical and successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR) methods have been employed in order to prepare manganese oxide (MnO2) and …             Quasiparticle self-consistent GW study of cuprates: electronic structure, model parameters, and the two-band theory for Tc ▶     Seung Woo Jang, Takao Kotani, Hiori Kino et al.     Despite decades of progress, an understanding of unconventional superconductivity still remains elusive. An important open question is about the material dependence of the …             Magnetic frustration, short-range correlations and the role of the paramagnetic Fermi surface of PdCrO2 ▶     David Billington, David Ernsting, Thomas E. Millichamp et al.     Frustrated interactions exist throughout nature, with examples ranging from protein folding through to frustrated magnetic interactions. Whilst magnetic frustration is observed …             Quantitative determination of target gene with electrical sensor ▶     Xuzhi Zhang, Qiufen Li, Xianshi Jin et al.     Integrating loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) with capacitively coupled contactless conductivity detection (C4D), we have developed an electrical sensor for the …             Design and performance of a sericin-alginate interpenetrating network hydrogel for cell and drug delivery ▶     Yeshun Zhang, Jia Liu, Lei Huang et al.     Although alginate hydrogels have been extensively studied for tissue engineering applications, their utilization is limited by poor mechanical strength, rapid drug release, and a …             Fluorescence Polarization Switching from a Single Silicon Vacancy Colour Centre in Diamond ▶     Yan Liu, Gengxu Chen, Youying Rong et al.     Single-photon emitters with stable and uniform photoluminescence properties are important for quantum technology. However, in many cases, colour centres in diamond exhibit …             Carbon hybridized halloysite nanotubes for high-performance hydrogen storage capacities ▶     Jiao Jin, Liangjie Fu, Huaming Yang et al.     Hybrid nanotubes of carbon and halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) with different carbon:HNTs ratio were hydrothermally synthesized from natural halloysite and sucrose. The samples …             Path-programmable water droplet manipulations on an adhesion controlled superhydrophobic surface ▶     Jungmok Seo, Seoung-Ki Lee, Jaehong Lee et al.     Here, we developed a novel and facile method to control the local water adhesion force of a thin and stretchable superhydrophobic polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) substrate with …             Localization-based full-field microscopy: how to attain super-resolved images ▶     Taehwang Son, Wonju Lee, Donghyun Kim     In this study, we have investigated localization-based microscopy to achieve full-field super-resolution. For localized sampling, we have considered combs consisting of unit …             Chromium inhibition and size-selected Au nanocluster catalysis for the solution growth of low-density ZnO nanowires ▶     Vito Errico, Giuseppe Arrabito, Simon R. Plant et al.     The wet chemical synthesis of nanostructures has many crucial advantages over high-temperature methods, including simplicity, low-cost, and deposition on almost arbitrary …             Eco-friendly carbon-nanodot-based fluorescent paints for advanced photocatalytic systems ▶     So Young Park, Hyun Uk Lee, Young-Chul Lee et al.     Fluorescent carbon nanomaterials, especially zero-dimensional (0D) carbon nanodots (CDs), are widely used in broad biological and optoelectronic applications. CDs have unique …             Theoretical analysis of hot electron dynamics in nanorods ▶     Chathurangi S. Kumarasinghe, Malin Premaratne, Qiaoliang Bao et al.     Localised surface plasmons create a non-equilibrium high-energy electron gas in nanostructures that can be injected into other media in energy harvesting applications. Here, we …             Highly sensitive transient absorption imaging of graphene and graphene oxide in living cells and circulating blood ▶     Junjie Li, Weixia Zhang, Ting-Fung Chung et al.     We report a transient absorption (TA) imaging method for fast visualization and quantitative layer analysis of graphene and GO. Forward and backward imaging of graphene on …             One Dimensional Graphitic Carbon Nitrides as Effective Metal-Free Oxygen Reduction Catalysts ▶     Muhammad Tahir, Nasir Mahmood, Jinghan Zhu et al.     To explore the effect of morphology on catalytic properties of graphitic carbon nitride (GCN), we have studied oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) performance of two different …             Application of Chan-Lam cross coupling for the synthesis of N-heterocyclic carbene precursors bearing strong electron donating or withdrawing groups ▶     Liliang Huang, Chengxiang He, Zhihua Sun     Chan-Lam cross coupling allowed efficient synthesis of N,N’-disubstituted ortho-phenylene diamines bearing strong electron donating or withdrawing groups, such as nitro or …             Third type of domain wall in soft magnetic nanostrips ▶     V. D. Nguyen, O. Fruchart, S. Pizzini et al.     Magnetic domain walls (DWs) in nanostructures are low-dimensional objects that separate regions with uniform magnetisation. Since they can have different shapes and widths, DWs …             Graphene Plasmonic Metasurfaces to Steer Infrared Light ▶     Zubin Li, Kan Yao, Fengnian Xia et al.     Metasurfaces utilizing engineered metallic nanostructures have recently emerged as an important means to manipulate the propagation of light waves in a prescribed manner. …             One-dimensional porous nanofibers of Co3O4 on the carbon matrix from human hair with superior lithium ion storage performance ▶     Yanli Tan, Qiuming Gao, Chunxiao Yang et al.     One-dimensional (1D) hierarchical porous nanofibers of Co3O4 possessing of (220) facets on the carbon matrix from human hair (H2@Co3O4) with 20–30 nm in width and 3–5 μm in …             Direct observation of a Fermi liquid-like normal state in an iron-pnictide superconductor ▶     Alona Tytarenko, Yingkai Huang, Anne de Visser et al.     There are two prerequisites for understanding high-temperature (high-Tc) superconductivity: identifying the pairing interaction and obtaining a correct description of the normal …             Huygens synchronization of two clocks ▶     Henrique M. Oliveira, Luís V. Melo     The synchronization of two pendulum clocks hanging from a wall was first observed by Huygens during the XVII century. This type of synchronization is observed in other areas, and …             Synergistic High Charge-Storage Capacity for Multi-level Flexible Organic Flash Memory ▶     Minji Kang, Dongyoon Khim, Won-Tae Park et al.     Electret and organic floating-gate memories are next-generation flash storage mediums for printed organic complementary circuits. While each flash memory can be easily fabricated …             Two universal physical principles shape the power-law statistics of real-world networks ▶     Tom Lorimer, Florian Gomez, Ruedi Stoop     The study of complex networks has pursued an understanding of macroscopic behaviour by focusing on power-laws in microscopic observables. Here, we uncover two universal …             Small Dielectric Spheres with High Refractive Index as New Multifunctional Elements for Optical Devices ▶     Michael I. Tribelsky, Jean-Michel Geffrin, Amelie Litman et al.     The future of ultra-fast optical communication systems is inevitably connected with progress in optical circuits and nanoantennas. One of the key points of this progress is the …             Lead-free epitaxial ferroelectric material integration on semiconducting (100) Nb-doped SrTiO3 for low-power non-volatile memory and efficient ultraviolet ray detection ▶     Souvik Kundu, Michael Clavel, Pranab Biswas et al.     We report lead-free ferroelectric based resistive switching non-volatile memory (NVM) devices with epitaxial (1-x)BaTiO3-xBiFeO3 (x = 0.725) (BT-BFO) film integrated on …             Ultra Wideband Polarization-Selective Conversions of Electromagnetic Waves by Metasurface under Large-Range Incident Angles ▶     Jia Yuan Yin, Xiang Wan, Qian Zhang et al.     We propose an ultra-wideband polarization-conversion metasurface with polarization selective and incident-angle insensitive characteristics using anchor-shaped units through …             Anion-Responsive Metallopolymer Hydrogels for Healthcare Applications ▶     Jiuyang Zhang, Jing Yan, Parasmani Pageni et al.     Metallopolymers combine a processable, versatile organic polymeric skeleton with functional metals, providing multiple functions and methodologies in materials science. Taking …             A route to possible civil engineering materials: the case of high-pressure phases of lime ▶     A. Bouibes, A. Zaoui     Lime system has a chemical composition CaO, which is known as thermodynamically stable. The purpose here is to explore further possible phases under pressure, by means of …             Pushing back the limits of Raman imaging by coupling super-resolution and chemometrics for aerosols characterization ▶     Marc Offroy, Myriam Moreau, Sophie Sobanska et al.     The increasing interest in nanoscience in many research fields like physics, chemistry, and biology, including the environmental fate of the produced nano-objects, requires …             Analysing calcium signalling of cells under high shear flows using discontinuous dielectrophoresis ▶     Rebecca Soffe, Sara Baratchi, Shi-Yang Tang et al.     Immobilisation of cells is an important feature of many cellular assays, as it enables the physical/chemical stimulation of cells; whilst, monitoring cellular processes using …             A Novel Bio-carrier Fabricated Using 3D Printing Technique for Wastewater Treatment ▶     Yang Dong, Shu-Qian Fan, Yu Shen et al.     The structure of bio-carriers is one of the key operational characteristics of a biofilm reactor. The goal of this study is to develop a series of novel fullerene-type …             “Do-it-yourself in vitro vasculature that recapitulates in vivo geometries for investigating endothelial-blood cell interactions” ▶     Robert G. Mannino, David R. Myers, Byungwook Ahn et al.     Investigating biophysical cellular interactions in the circulation currently requires choosing between in vivo models, which are difficult to interpret due in part to the …             Magnetically tunable broadband transmission through a single small aperture ▶     Ke Bi, Wenjun Liu, Yunsheng Guo et al.     Extraordinary transmission through a small aperture is of great interest. However, it faces a limitation that most of approaches can not realize the tunable transmission …             Ab initio-predicted micro-mechanical performance of refractory high-entropy alloys ▶     Xiaoqing Li, Fuyang Tian, Stephan Schönecker et al.     Recently developed high-entropy alloys (HEAs) consisting of multiple principal elements represent a new field of metallurgy and have demonstrated appealing properties for a wide …             Tunability Limit of Photoluminescence in Colloidal Silicon Nanocrystals ▶     Xiaoming Wen, Pengfei Zhang, Trevor A. Smith et al.     Luminescent silicon nanocrystals (Si NCs) have attracted tremendous research interest. Their size dependent photoluminescence (PL) shows great promise in various optoelectronic …             Experimental demonstration of a quantum router ▶     X. X. Yuan, J.-J. Ma, P.-Y. Hou et al.     The router is a key element for a network. We describe a scheme to realize genuine quantum routing of single-photon pulses based on cascading of conditional quantum gates in a …             Computational Prediction of One-Step Synthesis of Seven-membered Fused Rings by (5+2) Cycloaddition Utilising Cycloalkenes ▶     Chen-Chen Zhou, Xiao-Na Ke, Xiu-Fang Xu     The (5+2) cycloaddition reaction utilising cycloalkenes is rare, although it is one of the most efficient methods of constructing seven-membered fused rings because of its high …             Vacuum-free transparent quantum dot light-emitting diodes with silver nanowire cathode ▶     Pengtao Jing, Wenyu Ji, Qinghui Zeng et al.     Efficient transparent quantum-dot light emitting diodes (QD-LEDs) are demonstrated by using a silver nanowire (AgNW) cathode. The devices are fabricated through a solution …             Asymmetry in Time Evolution of Magnetization in Magnetic Nanostructures ▶     Jaroslav Tóbik, Vladimir Cambel, Goran Karapetrov     Strong interest in nanomagnetism stems from the promise of high storage densities of information through control of ever smaller and smaller ensembles of spins. There is a broad …             High-performance ultraviolet photodetectors based on solution-grown ZnS nanobelts sandwiched between graphene layers ▶     Yeonho Kim, Sang Jin Kim, Sung-Pyo Cho et al.     Ultraviolet (UV) light photodetectors constructed from solely inorganic semiconductors still remain unsatisfactory because of their low electrical performances. To overcome this …             Direct experimental observation of weakly-bound character of the attached electron in europium anion ▶     Shi-Bo Cheng, A. W. Castleman Jr.     Direct experimental determination of precise electron affinities (EAs) of lanthanides is a longstanding challenge to experimentalists. Considerable debate exists in previous …             Flower-like Palladium Nanoclusters Decorated Graphene Electrodes for Ultrasensitive and Flexible Hydrogen Gas Sensing ▶     Dong Hoon Shin, Jun Seop Lee, Jaemoon Jun et al.     Flower-like palladium nanoclusters (FPNCs) are electrodeposited onto graphene electrode that are prepared by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The CVD graphene layer is …             Exploiting Non-Markovianity for Quantum Control ▶     Daniel M. Reich, Nadav Katz, Christiane P. Koch     Quantum technology, exploiting entanglement and the wave nature of matter, relies on the ability to accurately control quantum systems. Quantum control is often compromised by …             A versatile class of prototype dynamical systems for complex bifurcation cascades of limit cycles ▶     Bulcsú Sándor, Claudius Gros     A general class of prototype dynamical systems is introduced, which allows to study the generation of complex bifurcation cascades of limit cycles, including bifurcations …             Anisotropic bias dependent transport property of defective phosphorene layer ▶     M. Umar Farooq, Arqum Hashmi, Jisang Hong     Phosphorene is receiving great research interests because of its peculiar physical properties. Nonetheless, no systematic studies on the transport properties modified due to …             Prediction of Links and Weights in Networks by Reliable Routes ▶     Jing Zhao, Lili Miao, Jian Yang et al.     Link prediction aims to uncover missing links or predict the emergence of future relationships from the current network structure. Plenty of algorithms have been developed for …             Intrinsic hierarchical structural imperfections in a natural ceramic of bivalve shell with distinctly graded properties ▶     Da Jiao, Zengqian Liu, Zhenjun Zhang et al.     Despite the extensive investigation on the structure of natural biological materials, insufficient attention has been paid to the structural imperfections by which the mechanical …             Functional Loss of Bmsei Causes Thermosensitive Epilepsy in Contractile Mutant Silkworm, Bombyx mori ▶     Hongyi Nie, Tingcai Cheng, Xiaofeng Huang et al.     The thermoprotective mechanisms of insects remain largely unknown. We reported the Bombyx mori contractile (cot) behavioral mutant with thermo-sensitive seizures phenotype. At …             Implementation of iodine biokinetic model for interpreting I-131 contamination in breast milk after the Fukushima nuclear disaster ▶     Kotaro Tani, Osamu Kurihara, Eunjoo Kim et al.     After the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant run by Tokyo Electric Power Company in 2011, breast milk samples obtained from volunteers living in Fukushima and …             The stochastic thermodynamics of a rotating Brownian particle in a gradient flow ▶     Yueheng Lan, Erik Aurell     We compute the entropy production engendered in the environment from a single Brownian particle which moves in a gradient flow, and show that it corresponds in expectation to …             Ultra-broadband and high-responsive photodetectors based on bismuth film at room temperature ▶     J. D. Yao, J. M. Shao, G. W. Yang     Bismuth (Bi) has undergone researches for dozens of years on account of its abundant physics including the remarkably high mobility, exceptional large positive magnetoresistance …             Control of the wrinkle structure on surface-reformed poly(dimethylsiloxane) via ion-beam bombardment ▶     Hong-Gyu Park, Hae-Chang Jeong, Yoon Ho Jung et al.     We investigated the surface reformation of poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) elastomers by means of ion beam bombardment for fabricating wrinkle structures. Oxidation on the PDMS …             Low threshold optical bistability at terahertz frequencies with graphene surface plasmons ▶     Xiaoyu Dai, Leyong Jiang, Yuanjiang Xiang     We propose a modified Kretschmann-Raether configuration to realize the low threshold optical bistable devices at the terahertz frequencies. The metal layer is replaced by the …             Unveiling hidden ferrimagnetism and giant magnetoelectricity in polar magnet Fe2Mo3O8 ▶     Yazhong Wang, Gheorghe L. Pascut, Bin Gao et al.     Magnetoelectric (ME) effect is recognized for its utility for low-power electronic devices. Largest ME coefficients are often associated with phase transitions in which …             An Analog of electrically induced transparency via surface delocalized modes ▶     Xiao Xiao, Bingpu Zhou, Xinke Wang et al.     We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally an interesting opaque state, which is based on an analog of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in mechanism, in a …             Common dependence on stress for the statistics of granular avalanches and earthquakes ▶     Takahiro Hatano, Clément Narteau, Peter Shebalin     Both earthquake size-distributions and aftershock decay rates obey power laws. Recent studies have demonstrated the sensibility of their parameters to faulting properties such as …             Host-Guest Carbon Dots for Enhanced Optical Properties and Beyond ▶     Ya-Ping Sun, Ping Wang, Zhuomin Lu et al.     Carbon dots, generally small carbon nanoparticles with various forms of surface passivation, have achieved the performance level of semiconductor quantum dots in the green …             A Highly Responsive Silicon Nanowire/Amplifier MOSFET Hybrid Biosensor ▶     Jieun Lee, Jaeman Jang, Bongsik Choi et al.     This study demonstrates a hybrid biosensor comprised of a silicon nanowire (SiNW) integrated with an amplifier MOSFET to improve the current response of field-effect-transistor …             On the importance of sensor height variation for detection of magnetic labels by magnetoresistive sensors ▶     Anders Dahl Henriksen, Shan Xiang Wang, Mikkel Fougt Hansen     Magnetoresistive sensors are widely used for biosensing by detecting the signal from magnetic labels bound to a functionalized area that usually covers the entire sensor …             All-carbon based graphene field effect transistor with graphitic electrodes fabricated by e-beam direct writing on PMMA ▶     Wei Chen, Yayun Yu, Xiaoming Zheng et al.     A so called all-carbon based graphene field effect transistor (GFET) in which the electrodes are composed of graphite-like nano-sheets instead of metals in the traditional …             Surmounting intrinsic quantum-measurement uncertainties in Gaussian-state tomography with quadrature squeezing ▶     Jaroslav Řeháček, Yong Siah Teo, Zdeněk Hradil et al.     We reveal that quadrature squeezing can result in significantly better quantum-estimation performance with quantum heterodyne detection (of H. P. Yuen and J. H. Shapiro) as …             Efficient Direct Reduction of Graphene Oxide by Silicon Substrate ▶     Su Chan Lee, Surajit Some, Sung Wook Kim et al.     Graphene has been studied for various applications due to its excellent properties. Graphene film fabrication from solutions of graphene oxide (GO) have attracted considerable …             Erratum: From link-prediction in brain connectomes and protein interactomes to the local-community-paradigm in complex networks ▶     Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci, Gregorio Alanis-Lobato, Timothy Ravasi                 Dosimetric Comparison and Evaluation of Three Radiotherapy Techniques for Use after Modified Radical Mastectomy for Locally Advanced Left-sided Breast Cancer ▶     Changchun Ma, Wuzhe Zhang, Jiayang Lu et al.     This study aimed to compare the post-modified radical mastectomy radiotherapy (PMRMRT) for left-sided breast cancer utilizing 3-dimensional conformal radiotherapy with …             Cytosolic pressure provides a propulsive force comparable to actin polymerization during lamellipod protrusion ▶     Daphne Manoussaki, William D. Shin, Clare M. Waterman et al.     Does cytosolic pressure facilitate f-actin polymerization to push the leading edge of a cell forward during self-propelled motion? 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