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08 September 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Chemical Sciences               Long-Range Ruthenium-Amine Electronic Communication through the para-Oligophenylene Wire ▶     Jun-Jian Shen, Yu-Wu Zhong     The studies of long-range electronic communication are hampered by solubility and potential-splitting issues. A “hybridized redox-asymmetry” method using a combination of organic …             Mechanisms for Enhanced Hydrophobicity by Atomic-Scale Roughness ▶     Yumi Katasho, Yunfeng Liang, Sumihiko Murata et al.     It is well known that the close-packed CF3-terminated solid surface is among the most hydrophobic surfaces in nature. Molecular dynamic simulations show that this hydrophobicity …             Tunable growth of silver nanobelts on monolithic activated carbon with size-dependent plasmonic response ▶     Hong Zhao, Yuesheng Ning, Binyuan Zhao et al.     Silver is one of the most important materials in plasmonics. Tuning the size of various silver nanostructures has been actively pursued in the last decade. However, silver …             Stability of a new cubic monoxide of Thorium under pressure ▶     Weiwei Sun, Wei Luo, Rajeev Ahuja     Density functional theory has been applied to elucidate the stability of thorium monoxide (ThO). It is found out that the pressure can stabilize the rocksalt phase of ThO, and …             Highly Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production of Flower-like Cadmium Sulfide Decorated by Histidine ▶     Qizhao Wang, Juhong Lian, Jiajia Li et al.     Morphology-controlled synthesis of CdS can significantly enhance the efficiency of its photocatalytic hydrogen production. In this study, a novel three-dimensional (3D) …             The impact of surface chemistry on the performance of localized solar-driven evaporation system ▶     Shengtao Yu, Yao Zhang, Haoze Duan et al.     This report investigates the influence of surface chemistry (or wettability) on the evaporation performance of free-standing double-layered thin film on the surface of water. …             Quantifying Molecular-Level Cell Adhesion on Electroactive Conducting Polymers using Electrochemical-Single Cell Force Spectroscopy ▶     Hongrui Zhang, Paul J. Molino, Gordon G. Wallace et al.     Single Cell Force Spectroscopy was combined with Electrochemical-AFM to quantify the adhesion between live single cells and conducting polymers whilst simultaneously applying a …             The Hardest Superconducting Metal Nitride ▶     Shanmin Wang, Daniel Antonio, Xiaohui Yu et al.     Transition–metal (TM) nitrides are a class of compounds with a wide range of properties and applications. Hard superconducting nitrides are of particular interest for electronic …             High-performance multi-functional reverse osmosis membranes obtained by carbon nanotube·polyamide nanocomposite ▶     Shigeki Inukai, Rodolfo Cruz-Silva, Josue Ortiz-Medina et al.     Clean water obtained by desalinating sea water or by purifying wastewater, constitutes a major technological objective in the so-called water century. In this work, a …             Layered Seed-Growth of AgGe Football-like Microspheres via Precursor-Free Picosecond Laser Synthesis in Water ▶     Dongshi Zhang, Bilal Gökce, Christian Notthoff et al.     Hybrid particles are of great significance in terms of their adjustable optical, electronic, magnetic, thermal and mechanical properties. As a novel technique, laser ablation in …             Boron-rich benzene and pyrene derivatives for the detection of thermal neutrons ▶     Henok A. Yemam, Adam Mahl, Unsal Koldemir et al.     A synthetic methodology is developed to generate boron rich aromatic small molecules based on benzene and pyrene moieties for the detection of thermal neutrons. The prepared …             Droplet Digital Enzyme-Linked Oligonucleotide Hybridization Assay for Absolute RNA Quantification ▶     Weihua Guan, Liben Chen, Tushar D. Rane et al.     We present a continuous-flow droplet-based digital Enzyme-Linked Oligonucleotide Hybridization Assay (droplet digital ELOHA) for sensitive detection and absolute quantification …             Unravelling the origin of the giant Zn deficiency in wurtzite type ZnO nanoparticles ▶     Adèle Renaud, Laurent Cario, Xavier Rocquelfelte et al.     Owing to its high technological importance for optoelectronics, zinc oxide received much attention. In particular, the role of defects on its physical properties has been …             Intermediates in the cation reactions in solution probed by an in situ surface enhanced Raman scattering method ▶     Chih-Shan Tan, Hung-Ying Chen, Hsueh-Szu Chen et al.     For chemical reactions in liquid state, such as catalysis, understanding of dynamical changes is conducive to practical applications. Solvation of copper salts in aqueous …             Assembling strategy to synthesize palladium modified kaolin nanocomposites with different morphologies ▶     Xiaoyu Li, Jing Ouyang, Yonghua Zhou et al.     Nanocomposites of aluminosilicate minerals, kaolins (kaolinite and halloysite) with natural different morphologies assembling with palladium (Pd) nanoparticles have been …             Polyhedral Palladium–Silver Alloy Nanocrystals as Highly Active and Stable Electrocatalysts for the Formic Acid Oxidation Reaction ▶     Geng-Tao Fu, Chang Liu, Qi Zhang et al.     Polyhedral noble–metal nanocrystals have received much attention and wide applications as electrical and optical devices as well as catalysts. In this work, a straightforward and …             Europium Luminescence: Electronic Densities and Superdelocalizabilities for a Unique Adjustment of Theoretical Intensity Parameters ▶     José Diogo L. Dutra, Nathalia B. D. Lima, Ricardo O. Freire et al.     We advance the concept that the charge factors of the simple overlap model and the polarizabilities of Judd-Ofelt theory for the luminescence of europium complexes can be …             Formation and stabilization of the telomeric antiparallel G-quadruplex and inhibition of telomerase by novel benzothioxanthene derivatives with anti-tumor activity ▶     Wen Zhang, Min Chen, Yan Ling Wu et al.     G-quadruplexes formed in telomeric DNA sequences at human chromosome ends can be a novel target for the development of therapeutics for the treatment of cancer patients. Herein, …             Corrigendum: Selecting water-alcohol mixed solvent for synthesis of polydopamine nano-spheres using solubility parameter ▶     Xiaoli Jiang, Yinling Wang, Maoguo Li                 Understanding Phase-Change Memory Alloys from a Chemical Perspective ▶     A.V. Kolobov, P. Fons, J. Tominaga     Phase-change memories (PCM) are associated with reversible ultra-fast low-energy crystal-to-amorphous switching in GeTe-based alloys co-existing with the high stability of the …             Carrier density effect on recombination in PTB7-based solar cell ▶     Yutaka Moritomo, Kouhei Yonezawa, Takeshi Yasuda     Organic solar cells (OSCs) are promising alternatives to the conventional inorganic solar cells due to their low-cost processing and compatibility with flexible substrates. The …             Stable magnesium peroxide at high pressure ▶     Sergey S. Lobanov, Qiang Zhu, Nicholas Holtgrewe et al.     Rocky planets are thought to comprise compounds of Mg and O as these are among the most abundant elements, but knowledge of their stable phases may be incomplete. MgO is known to …             One-Step Synthesis of Chiral Oxindole-type Analogues with Potent Anti-inflammatory and Analgesic Activities ▶     Yulong Sun, Jia Liu, Xianxing Jiang et al.     Here we report a facile approach to synthesize highly optically active oxindole-type analogues with both high yield and enantioselectivity. 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