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11 August 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         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. Visit our website for further advice on the funding options available, and guidance in approaching funders and institutions, or email openaccess@nature.com for more information.           Physical Sciences               Bottom-up assembly of metallic germanium ▶     Giordano Scappucci, Wolfgang M. Klesse, LaReine A. Yeoh et al.     Extending chip performance beyond current limits of miniaturisation requires new materials and functionalities that integrate well with the silicon platform. Germanium fits these …             Quantum Phase Coherence in Mesoscopic Transport Devices with Two-Particle Interaction ▶     Zhimei Wang, Xiaofang Guo, Haibin Xue et al.     In this paper we demonstrate a new type of quantum phase coherence (QPC), which is generated by the two-body interaction. This conclusion is based on quantum master equation …             An antenna model for the Purcell effect ▶     Alexander E. Krasnok, Alexey P. Slobozhanyuk, Constantin R. Simovski et al.     The Purcell effect is defined as a modification of the spontaneous emission rate of a quantum emitter at the presence of a resonant cavity. However, a change of the emission rate …             Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensor Based on Smart Phone Platforms ▶     Yun Liu, Qiang Liu, Shimeng Chen et al.     We demonstrate a fiber optic surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensor based on smart phone platforms. The light-weight optical components and sensing element are connected by …             DNA sequencing with MspA: Molecular Dynamics simulations reveal free-energy differences between sequencing and non-sequencing mutants ▶     Richard M.A. Manara, E. Jayne Wallace, Syma Khalid     MspA has been identified as a promising candidate protein as a component of a nanopore-based DNA-sequencing device. However the wildtype protein must be engineered to incorporate …             Improving battery safety by reducing the formation of Li dendrites with the use of amorphous silicon polymer anodes ▶     Hitoshi Maruyama, Hideyuki Nakano, Masahiro Ogawa et al.     To provide safe lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) at low cost, battery materials which lead to reduced Li dendrite formation are needed. The currently used anode materials have low …             Ultrathin MoS2 Nanosheets with Superior Extreme Pressure Property as Boundary Lubricants ▶     Zhe Chen, Xiangwen Liu, Yuhong Liu et al.     In this paper, a new kind of oil-soluble ultrathin MoS2 nanosheets is prepared through a one-pot process. A superior extreme pressure property, which has not been attained with …             Germanium-Vacancy Single Color Centers in Diamond ▶     Takayuki Iwasaki, Fumitaka Ishibashi, Yoshiyuki Miyamoto et al.     Atomic-sized fluorescent defects in diamond are widely recognized as a promising solid state platform for quantum cryptography and quantum information processing. For these …             Effect of Temperature on the Aging rate of Li Ion Battery Operating above Room Temperature ▶     Feng Leng, Cher Ming Tan, Michael Pecht     Temperature is known to have a significant impact on the performance, safety, and cycle lifetime of lithium-ion batteries (LiB). However, the comprehensive effects of temperature …             Stabilization of weak ferromagnetism by strong magnetic response to epitaxial strain in multiferroic BiFeO3 ▶     Hemant Dixit, Jun Hee Lee, Jaron T. Krogel et al.     Multiferroic BiFeO3 exhibits excellent magnetoelectric coupling critical for magnetic information processing with minimal power consumption. However, the degenerate nature of the …             Inherent structure length in metallic glasses: simplicity behind complexity ▶     Yuan Wu, Hui Wang, Yongqiang Cheng et al.     One of the central themes in materials science is the structure-property relationship. In conventional crystalline metals, their mechanical behaviour is often dictated by …             Rational Design of Photonic Dust from Nanoporous Anodic Alumina Films: A Versatile Photonic Nanotool for Visual Sensing ▶     Yuting Chen, Abel Santos, Ye Wang et al.     Herein, we present a systematic study on the development, optimisation and applicability of interferometrically coloured distributed Bragg reflectors based on nanoporous anodic …             Current-induced giant polarization rotation using a ZnO single crystal doped with nitrogen ions ▶     Naoya Tate, Tadashi Kawazoe, Wataru Nomura et al.     Giant polarization rotation in a ZnO single crystal was experimentally demonstrated based on a novel phenomenon occurring at the nanometric scale. The ZnO crystal was doped with N…             Facile Synthesis of Carbon Nanosphere/NiCo2O4 Core-shell Sub-microspheres for High Performance Supercapacitor ▶     Delong Li, Youning Gong, Yupeng Zhang et al.     This paper introduced a process to prepare the carbon nanosphere (CNS)/NiCo2O4 core-shell sub-microspheres. That is: 1) CNSs were firstly prepared via a simple hydrothermal …             Caustics and Rogue Waves in an Optical Sea ▶     Amaury Mathis, Luc Froehly, Shanti Toenger et al.     There are many examples in physics of systems showing rogue wave behaviour, the generation of high amplitude events at low probability. Although initially studied in …             Turing instabilities on Cartesian product networks ▶     Malbor Asllani, Daniel M. Busiello, Timoteo Carletti et al.     The problem of Turing instabilities for a reaction-diffusion system defined on a complex Cartesian product network is considered. To this end we operate in the linear regime and …             Positron kinetics in an idealized PET environment ▶     R. E. Robson, M. J. Brunger, S. J. Buckman et al.     The kinetic theory of non-relativistic positrons in an idealized positron emission tomography PET environment is developed by solving the Boltzmann equation, allowing for …             Highly Efficient Processing of Multi-photon States ▶     Qing Lin, Bing He     How to implement multi-qubit gates is an important problem in quantum information processing. Based on cross phase modulation, we present an approach to realizing a family of …             Antibacterial and residual antimicrobial activities against Enterococcus faecalis biofilm: A comparison between EDTA, chlorhexidine, cetrimide, MTAD and QMix ▶     Rui Zhang, Min Chen, Yan Lu et al.     We compared the antibacterial and residual antimicrobial activities of five root canal irrigants (17% EDTA,2% chlorhexidine,0.2% cetrimide, MTAD, and QMix) in a model of …             Ultrafast excited-state dynamics and fluorescence deactivation of near-infrared fluorescent proteins engineered from bacteriophytochromes ▶     Jingyi Zhu, Daria M. Shcherbakova, Yusaku Hontani et al.     Near-infrared fluorescent proteins, iRFPs, are recently developed genetically encoded fluorescent probes for deep-tissue in vivo imaging. Their functions depend on the …             Molecular mobility on graphene nanoroads ▶     Mehdi Jafary-Zadeh, Yong-Wei Zhang     We study molecular mobility on a graphene nanoroad (GNRD), a pristine graphene strip embedded in between two hydrogenated graphene domains serving as a nanoscale pathway for …             Erratum: Moisture-responsive films of cellulose stearoyl esters showing reversible shape transitions ▶     Kai Zhang, Andreas Geissler, Michaela Standhardt et al.                 Glucose recovery from aqueous solutions by adsorption in metal–organic framework MIL-101: a molecular simulation study ▶     Krishna M. Gupta, Kang Zhang, Jianwen Jiang     A molecular simulation study is reported on glucose recovery from aqueous solutions by adsorption in metal-organic framework MIL-101. The F atom of MIL-101 is identified to be …             Corrigendum: Development of biodegradable Zn-1X binary alloys with nutrient alloying elements Mg, Ca and Sr ▶     H. F. Li, X. H. Xie, Y. F. Zheng et al.                 Erratum: An all-silicon single-photon source by unconventional photon blockade ▶     Hugo Flayac, Dario Gerace, Vincenzo Savona                 Visualizing Non-abrupt Transition of Quantum Well States at Stepped Silver Surfaces ▶     Srijan Kumar Saha, Sujit Manna, Valeri S. Stepanyuk et al.     We use scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) experiments and first-principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations to address a fundamental question of how quantum well …             A room-temperature sodium rechargeable battery using an SO2-based nonflammable inorganic liquid catholyte ▶     Goojin Jeong, Hansu Kim, Hyo Sug Lee et al.     Sodium rechargeable batteries can be excellent alternatives to replace lithium rechargeable ones because of the high abundance and low cost of sodium; however, there is a need to …             Bifunctional Mesoporous Carbon Nitride: Highly Efficient Enzyme-like Catalyst for One-pot Deacetalization-Knoevenagel Reaction ▶     Lin Zhong, Chokkalingam Anand, Kripal Singh Lakhi et al.     Recently, mesoporous carbon nitride (MCN) has aroused extensive interest for its potential applications in organocatalysis, photo- and electrochemistry and CO2 capture. However, …             Dissipative Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) model ▶     Andrea Smirne, Angelo Bassi     Collapse models explain the absence of quantum superpositions at the macroscopic scale, while giving practically the same predictions as quantum mechanics for microscopic …             Field-effect control of superconductivity and Rashba spin-orbit coupling in top-gated LaAlO3/SrTiO3 devices ▶     S. Hurand, A. Jouan, C. Feuillet-Palma et al.     The recent development in the fabrication of artificial oxide heterostructures opens new avenues in the field of quantum materials by enabling the manipulation of the charge, …             Giant paramagnetic Meissner effect in multiband superconductors ▶     R. M. da Silva, M. V. Milošević, A. A. Shanenko et al.     Superconductors, ideally diamagnetic when in the Meissner state, can also exhibit paramagnetic behavior due to trapped magnetic flux. In the absence of pinning such paramagnetic …             Effective W-state fusion strategies for electronic and photonic qubits via the quantum-dot-microcavity coupled system ▶     Xue Han, Shi Hu, Qi Guo et al.     We propose effective fusion schemes for stationary electronic W state and flying photonic W state, respectively, by using the quantum-dot-microcavity coupled system. The present …             Photosensitized production of functionalized and unsaturated organic compounds at the air-sea interface ▶     Raluca Ciuraru, Ludovic Fine, Manuela van Pinxteren et al.     The sea-surface microlayer (SML) has different physical, chemical and biological properties compared to the subsurface water, with an enrichment of organic matter i.e., dissolved …             Effects of the interaction between TiO2 with different percentages of exposed {001} facets and Cu2+ on biotoxicity in Daphnia magna ▶     Lingling Liu, Wenhong Fan, Huiting Lu et al.     Anatase TiO2 nanosheets (NSs) with exposed {001} facets have been widely used because of their high activity and particular surface atomic configuration. However, investigations …             Anomalous incident-angle and elliptical-polarization rotation of an elastically refracted P-wave ▶     Lin Fa, Yuxiao Fa, Yandong Zhang et al.     We report a newly discovered anomalous incident-angle of an elastically refracted P-wave, arising from a P-wave impinging on an interface between two VTI media with strong …             Corrigendum: Worldwide variations in artificial skyglow ▶     Christopher C. M. Kyba, Kai Pong Tong, Jonathan Bennie et al.                 Simultaneous fingerprint and high-wavenumber fiber-optic Raman spectroscopy improves in vivo diagnosis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma at endoscopy ▶     Jianfeng Wang, Kan Lin, Wei Zheng et al.     This work aims to evaluate clinical value of a fiber-optic Raman spectroscopy technique developed for in vivo diagnosis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) during …             Formation of highly toxic hydrogen cyanide upon ruby laser irradiation of the tattoo pigment phthalocyanine blue ▶     Ines Schreiver, Christoph Hutzler, Peter Laux et al.     Since laser treatment of tattoos is the favored method for the removing of no longer wanted permanent skin paintings, analytical, biokinetics and toxicological data on the …             The effect of SUV discretization in quantitative FDG-PET Radiomics: the need for standardized methodology in tumor texture analysis ▶     Ralph T.H. Leijenaar, Georgi Nalbantov, Sara Carvalho et al.     FDG-PET-derived textural features describing intra-tumor heterogeneity are increasingly investigated as imaging biomarkers. As part of the process of quantifying heterogeneity, …             Reflecting microscope system with a 0.99 numerical aperture designed for three-dimensional fluorescence imaging of individual molecules at cryogenic temperatures ▶     H. Inagawa, Y. Toratani, K. Motohashi et al.     We have developed a cryogenic fluorescence microscope system, the core of which is a reflecting objective that consists of spherical and aspherical mirrors. The use of an …             New generation of two-dimensional spintronic systems realized by coupling of Rashba and Dirac fermions ▶     Sergey V. Eremeev, Stepan S. Tsirkin, Ilya A. Nechaev et al.     Intriguing phenomena and novel physics predicted for two-dimensional (2D) systems formed by electrons in Dirac or Rashba states motivate an active search for new materials or …             The electrical conductivity of Al2O3 under shock-compression ▶     Hanyu Liu, John S. Tse, W. J. Nellis     Sapphire (Al2O3) crystals are used below 100 GPa as anvils and windows in dynamic-compression experiments because of their transparency and high density. Above 100 GPa shock …             Interface Engineering through Atomic Layer Deposition towards Highly Improved Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells ▶     Hao Lu, Wei Tian, Jun Guo et al.     A composite photoanode comprising ultralong ZnO nanobelts and TiO2 nanoparticles was prepared and its performance in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) was optimized and compared …             Electric field modification of magnetism in Au/La2/3Ba1/3MnO3/Pt device ▶     Y. Q. Xiong, W. P. Zhou, Q. Li et al.     The La2/3Ba1/3MnO3 film is deposited in a CMOS-compatible Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si substrate with the oxygen pressure of 10 Pa for investigating magnetoelectric effect. Bipolar resistive …             Thermal Transport in Fullerene Derivatives Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations ▶     Liang Chen, Xiaojia Wang, Satish Kumar     In order to study the effects of alkyl chain on the thermal properties of fullerene derivatives, we perform molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to predict the thermal …             Epitaxial diamond-hexagonal silicon nano-ribbon growth on (001) silicon ▶     Y. Qiu, H. Bender, O. Richard et al.     Silicon crystallizes in the diamond-cubic phase and shows only a weak emission at 1.1 eV. Diamond-hexagonal silicon however has an indirect bandgap at 1.5 eV and has therefore …             A comparative study of ZnAl2O4 nanoparticles synthesized from different aluminum salts for use as fluorescence materials ▶     Shi-Fa Wang, Guang-Zhuang Sun, Lei-Ming Fang et al.     Three ZnAl2O4 samples were prepared via a modified polyacrylamide gel method using a citric acid solution with different aluminum salt starting materials, including AlCl3∙6H2O, Al…             Origin of anomalous giant dielectric performance in novel perovskite: Bi0.5−xLaxNa0.5−xLixTi1−yMyO3 (M = Mg2+, Ga3+) ▶     Xiao Liu, Huiqing Fan, Jing Shi et al.     Dielectric properties and dielectric relaxation behaviors of A/B sites co-substituted Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3 perovskite-type ferroelectrics are reported. The Bi0.5−xLaxNa0.5−xLixTi1−yMyO3…             Protein-Based Three-Dimensional Whispering-Gallery-Mode Micro-Lasers with Stimulus-Responsiveness ▶     Yun-Lu Sun, Zhi-Shan Hou, Si-Ming Sun et al.     For the first time, proteins, a promising biocompatible and functionality-designable biomacromolecule material, acted as the host material to construct three-dimensional (3D) …             Low Work-function Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxylenethiophene): Poly(styrene sulfonate) as Electron-transport Layer for High-efficient and Stable Polymer Solar Cells ▶     Yong Zhang, Lie Chen, Xiaotian Hu et al.     Low-work-function poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) modified with polyethylenimine (PEIE) was used as an electron transport layer (ETL) for …             Enhanced Broadband Electromagnetic Absorption in Silicon Film with Photonic Crystal Surface and Random Gold Grooves Reflector ▶     Zhi-Hui Chen, Na Qiao, Yibiao Yang et al.     We show a hybrid structure consisting of Si film with photonic crystal surface and random triangular gold grooves reflector at the bottom, which is capable of realizing …             Ideal Spintronics in Molecule-Based Novel Organometallic Nanowires ▶     Qilong Sun, Ying Dai, Yandong Ma et al.     With the purpose of searching for new intriguing nanomaterial for spintronics, a series of novel metalloporphyrin nanowires (M-PPNW, M = Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu and Zn) and hybrid …             A Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Sensor Integrated with Battery-Controlled Fluidic Device for Capture and Detection of Trace Small Molecules ▶     Qitao Zhou, Guowen Meng, Peng Zheng et al.     For surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) sensors, one of the important issues is the development of substrates not only with high SERS-activity but also with strong ability …             Low-field Switching Four-state Nonvolatile Memory Based on Multiferroic Tunnel Junctions ▶     H. M. Yau, Z. B. Yan, N. Y. Chan et al.     Multiferroic tunneling junction based four-state non-volatile memories are very promising for future memory industry since this kind of memories hold the advantages of not only …             A Polymer Lithium-Oxygen Battery ▶     Giuseppe Antonio Elia, Jusef Hassoun     Herein we report the characteristics of a lithium-oxygen battery using a solid polymer membrane as the electrolyte separator. The polymer electrolyte, fully characterized in …             Robust quantum control using smooth pulses and topological winding ▶     Edwin Barnes, Xin Wang, S. Das Sarma     The greatest challenge in achieving the high level of control needed for future technologies based on coherent quantum systems is the decoherence induced by the environment. …             Novel Two-Dimensional Mechano-Electric Generators and Sensors Based on Transition Metal Dichalcogenides ▶     Sheng Yu, Kwesi Eshun, Hao Zhu et al.     Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), such as MoS2 and WSe2, provide two-dimensional atomic crystals with semiconductor band gap. In this work, we present a design of new …             Maximal rectification ratios for idealized bi-segment thermal rectifiers ▶     Tien-Mo Shih, Zhaojing Gao, Ziquan Guo et al.     Thermal rectifiers whose forward heat fluxes are greater than reverse counterparts have been extensively studied. Here we have discovered, idealized, and derived the ultimate …             Broadband Epsilon-Near-Zero Perfect Absorption in the Near-Infrared ▶     Junho Yoon, Ming Zhou, Md. Alamgir Badsha et al.     Perfect absorption (PA) of incident light is important for both fundamental light-matter interaction studies and practical device applications. PA studies so far have mainly used …             Using non-Markovian measures to evaluate quantum master equations for photosynthesis ▶     Hong-Bin Chen, Neill Lambert, Yuan-Chung Cheng et al.     When dealing with system-reservoir interactions in an open quantum system, such as a photosynthetic light-harvesting complex, approximations are usually made to obtain the …             Emergence of Multiple Superconducting Phases in (NH3)yMxFeSe (M: Na and Li) ▶     Lu Zheng, Xiao Miao, Yusuke Sakai et al.     We previously discovered multiple superconducting phases in the ammoniated Na-doped FeSe material, (NH3)yNaxFeSe. To clarify the origin of the multiple superconducting phases, …             Real-Time MRI-Guided Catheter Tracking Using Hyperpolarized Silicon Particles ▶     Nicholas Whiting, Jingzhe Hu, Jay V. Shah et al.     Visualizing the movement of angiocatheters during endovascular interventions is typically accomplished using x-ray fluoroscopy. There are many potential advantages to developing …             Aerogel Poly(butylene succinate) Biomaterial Substrate for RF and Microwave Applications ▶     M. Habib Ullah, W. N. L. Mahadi, T. A. Latef     Polybutylene succinate (PBS) has become a potential candidate, similar to polypropylene (PP) and acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), for use as an organic plastic material due …             Thickness controlled proximity effects in C-type antiferromagnet/superconductor heterostructure ▶     Awadhesh Mani, T. Geetha Kumary, J. G. Lin     Modulation of the superconducting state possessing a C-type antiferromagnetic phase in the Nd0.35Sr0.65MnO3/YBa2Cu3O7 heterostructure is investigated, with the Nd0.35Sr0.65MnO3 …             Memristive crypto primitive for building highly secure physical unclonable functions ▶     Yansong Gao, Damith C. Ranasinghe, Said F. Al-Sarawi et al.     Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) exploit the intrinsic complexity and irreproducibility of physical systems to generate secret information. The advantage is that PUFs have …             Vitroprocines, new antibiotics against Acinetobacter baumannii, discovered from marine Vibrio sp. QWI-06 using mass-spectrometry-based metabolomics approach ▶     Chih-Chuang Liaw, Pei-Chin Chen, Chao-Jen Shih et al.     A robust and convenient research strategy integrating state-of-the-art analytical techniques is needed to efficiently discover novel compounds from marine microbial resources. In …             Chlorophyll catalyse the photo-transformation of carcinogenic benzo[a]pyrene in water ▶     Lijuan Luo, Xueying Lai, Baowei Chen et al.     Algal blooms cause great damage to water quality and aquaculture. However, this study showed that dead algal cells and chlorophyll could accelerate the photo-transformation of …             Visceral fat area is associated with HbA1c but not dialysate-related glucose load in nondiabetic PD patients ▶     Li-chun Ho, Chung-Jen Yen, Chia-Ter Chao et al.     Factors associated with increased visceral fat area (VFA) have been well documented in the general population but rarely explored in nondiabetic individuals on peritoneal …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Research Associate     University College London (UCL)            Post-doctoral Research Scholar     University of Miami            Investigator Scientist     Medical Research Council - Laboratory of Molecular Biology            Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography     University of Glasgow            Doctoral Program Fellowships     Graduate School of Life Sciences (GSLS), University of Würzburg            Research Associate     The University of Warwick            Research Associate     Parkinson's Institute and Clinical Center            Research Associate in Mixed Methods     University of Bristol            Bioinformatician     The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC)            Postdoctoral position(s)     INSERM - IMRB U955 - Team 10           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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