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25 August 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Chemical Sciences               Investigation on preparation and performance of spinel LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 with different microstructures for lithium-ion batteries ▶     Yuan Xue, Zhenbo Wang, Lili Zheng et al.     The high voltage spinel LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 is a promising cathode material in next generation of lithium ion batteries. In this study, LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 with various particle …             Metallic Sn spheres and SnO2@C core-shells by anaerobic and aerobic catalytic ethanol and CO oxidation reactions over SnO2 nanoparticles ▶     Won Joo Kim, Sung Woo Lee, Youngku Sohn     SnO2 has been studied intensely for applications to sensors, Li-ion batteries and solar cells. Despite this, comparatively little attention has been paid to the changes in …             A Caged Ret Kinase Inhibitor and its Effect on Motoneuron Development in Zebrafish Embryos ▶     David Bliman, Jesper R. Nilsson, Petronella Kettunen et al.     Proto-oncogene tyrosine-protein kinase receptor RET is implicated in the development and maintenance of neurons of the central and peripheral nervous systems. Attaching …             All-solid-state lithium-oxygen battery with high safety in wide ambient temperature range ▶     Hirokazu Kitaura, Haoshen Zhou     There is need to develop high energy storage devices with high safety to satisfy the growing industrial demands. Here, we show the potential to realize such batteries by …             Prevention of enamel demineralization with a novel fluoride strip: enamel surface composition and depth profile ▶     Bor-Shiunn Lee, Po-Hung Chou, Shu-Yu Chen et al.     There is no topically applicable low concentration fluoride delivery device available for caries prevention. This study was aimed to assess the use of a low concentration …             Surface evolution of manganese chloride aqueous droplets resulting in self-suppressed evaporation ▶     Xiping Zeng, Yifan Zhang, Zengzilu Xia et al.     The exchange kinetics of liquid water, which are of fundamental interest and have potential applications, remain unclear. A fantastic and extraordinary phenomenon was observed …             Sacrificial adhesive bonding: a powerful method for fabrication of glass microchips ▶     Renato S. Lima, Paulo A. G. C. Leão, Maria H. O. Piazzetta et al.     A new protocol for fabrication of glass microchips is addressed in this research paper. Initially, the method involves the use of an uncured SU-8 intermediate to seal two glass …             3D coral-like nitrogen-sulfur co-doped carbon-sulfur composite for high performance lithium-sulfur batteries ▶     Feng Wu, Jian Li, Yafen Tian et al.     3D coral-like, nitrogen and sulfur co-doped mesoporous carbon has been synthesized by a facile hydrothermal-nanocasting method to house sulfur for Li–S batteries. The primary …             Less is More: Design of a Highly Stable Disulfide-Deleted Mutant of Analgesic Cyclic α-Conotoxin Vc1.1 ▶     Rilei Yu, Victoria A. L. Seymour, Géza Berecki et al.     Cyclic α-conotoxin Vc1.1 (cVc1.1) is an orally active peptide with analgesic activity in rat models of neuropathic pain. It has two disulfide bonds, which can have three …             Doubling Power Output of Starch Biobattery Treated by the Most Thermostable Isoamylase from an Archaeon Sulfolobus tokodaii ▶     Kun Cheng, Fei Zhang, Fangfang Sun et al.     Biobattery, a kind of enzymatic fuel cells, can convert organic compounds (e.g., glucose, starch) to electricity in a closed system without moving parts. Inspired by natural …             Less is more: Avoiding the LIBS dimensionality curse through judicious feature selection for explosive detection ▶     Ashwin Kumar Myakalwar, Nicolas Spegazzini, Chi Zhang et al.     Despite its intrinsic advantages, translation of laser induced breakdown spectroscopy for material identification has been often impeded by the lack of robustness of developed …             Femtosecond laser ablation-based mass spectrometry: An ideal tool for stoichiometric analysis of thin films ▶     Nicole L. LaHaye, Jose Kurian, Prasoon K. Diwakar et al.     An accurate and routinely available method for stoichiometric analysis of thin films is a desideratum of modern materials science where a material’s properties depend sensitively …             Synthesis and antitumor activity of novel N-substituted carbazole imidazolium salt derivatives ▶     Lan-Xiang Liu, Xue-Quan Wang, Bei Zhou et al.     A series of novel N-substituted carbazole imidazolium salt derivatives has been prepared and investigated for their cytotoxic activity against five human tumor cell lines by MTS …             A Nucleus-Imaging Probe That Selectively Stabilizes a Minor Conformation of c-MYC G-quadruplex and Down-regulates c-MYC Transcription in Human Cancer Cells ▶     Deepanjan Panda, Manish Debnath, Samir Mandal et al.     The c-MYC proto-oncogene is a regulator of fundamental cellular processes such as cell cycle progression and apoptosis. The development of novel c-MYC inhibitors that can act by …             Quick Fabrication of Large-area Organic Semiconductor Single Crystal Arrays with a Rapid Annealing Self-Solution-Shearing Method ▶     Yunze Li, Deyang Ji, Jie Liu et al.     In this paper, we developed a new method to produce large-area single crystal arrays by using the organic semiconductor 9, 10-bis (phenylethynyl) anthracene (BPEA). This method …                 Nature Publishing Group offers a free open access funding support service to enable authors to discover and apply for article processing charge funding available to them. 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