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01 September 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               Efficient and accurate treatment of electron correlations with Correlation Matrix Renormalization theory ▶     Y. X. Yao, J. Liu, C. Liu et al.     We present an efficient method for calculating the electronic structure and total energy of strongly correlated electron systems. The method extends the traditional Gutzwiller …             Single Shot Polarization Characterization of XUV FEL Pulses from Crossed Polarized Undulators ▶     E. Ferrari, E. Allaria, J. Buck et al.     Polarization control is a key feature of light generated by short-wavelength free-electron lasers. In this work, we report the first experimental characterization of the …             Ultrafast time-resolved electron diffraction revealing the nonthermal dynamics of near-UV photoexcitation-induced amorphization in Ge2Sb2Te5 ▶     Masaki Hada, Wataru Oba, Masashi Kuwahara et al.     Because of their robust switching capability, chalcogenide glass materials have been used for a wide range of applications, including optical storages devices. These phase …             Brillouin spectroscopy of fluid inclusions proposed as a paleothermometer for subsurface rocks ▶     Mouna El Mekki-Azouzi, Chandra Shekhar Pati Tripathi, Gaël Pallares et al.     As widespread, continuous instrumental Earth surface air temperature records are available only for the last hundred fifty years, indirect reconstructions of past temperatures …             Sensitive Fibre-Based Thermoluminescence Detectors for High Resolution In-Vivo Dosimetry ▶     Mostafa Ghomeishi, G. Amouzad Mahdiraji, F. R. Mahamd Adikan et al.     With interest in the potential of optical fibres as the basis of next-generation thermoluminescence dosimeters (TLDs), the development of suitable forms of material and their …             Hydrogel Walkers with Electro-Driven Motility for Cargo Transport ▶     Chao Yang, Wei Wang, Chen Yao et al.     In this study, soft hydrogel walkers with electro-driven motility for cargo transport have been developed via a facile mould-assisted strategy. The hydrogel walkers consisting of …             Photo-induced H2 production from a CH3OH-H2O solution at insulator surface ▶     Rengui Li, Xiuli Wang, Shaoqing Jin et al.     In a conventional photocatalytic or photochemical process, either a photocatalyst or a molecule is excited by irradiation light that has energy greater than the forbidden band …             Experimental observation of the elusive double-peak structure in R-dependent strong-field ionization rate of H2+ ▶     Han Xu, Feng He, D. Kielpinski et al.     When a diatomic molecule is ionized by an intense laser field, the ionization rate depends very strongly on the inter-nuclear separation. That dependence exhibits a pronounced …             Robust light transport in non-Hermitian photonic lattices ▶     Stefano Longhi, Davide Gatti, Giuseppe Della Valle     Combating the effects of disorder on light transport in micro- and nano-integrated photonic devices is of major importance from both fundamental and applied viewpoints. In …             Enhancing Tabletop X-Ray Phase Contrast Imaging with Nano-Fabrication ▶     Houxun Miao, Andrew A. Gomella, Katherine J. Harmon et al.     X-ray phase-contrast imaging is a promising approach for improving soft-tissue contrast and lowering radiation dose in biomedical applications. While current tabletop imaging …             Real-time terahertz digital holography with a quantum cascade laser ▶     Massimiliano Locatelli, Marco Ravaro, Saverio Bartalini et al.     Coherent imaging in the THz range promises to exploit the peculiar capabilities of these wavelengths to penetrate common materials like plastics, ceramics, paper or clothes with …             Superfluidity and Chaos in low dimensional circuits ▶     Geva Arwas, Amichay Vardi, Doron Cohen     The hallmark of superfluidity is the appearance of “vortex states” carrying a quantized metastable circulating current. Considering a unidirectional flow of particles in a ring, …             Computer simulations of the mechanical response of brushes on the surface of cancerous epithelial cells ▶     A. Gama Goicochea, S. J. Alas Guardado     We report a model for atomic force microscopy by means of computer simulations of molecular brushes on surfaces of biological interest such as normal and cancerous cervical …             Phonon properties of graphene derived from molecular dynamics simulations ▶     Emmanuel N. Koukaras, George Kalosakas, Costas Galiotis et al.     A method that utilises atomic trajectories and velocities from molecular dynamics simulations has been suitably adapted and employed for the implicit calculation of the phonon …             A facile and low-cost micro fabrication material: flash foam ▶     Yong He, Xiao Xiao, Yan Wu et al.     Although many microfabrication methods have been reported, the preliminary replication templates used in most microfabrication still depend on the expensive and long-period …             Delocalized Surface State in Epitaxial Si(111) Film with Spontaneous √3 × √3 Superstructure ▶     Jian Chen, Yi Du, Zhi Li et al.     The “multilayer silicene” films were grown on Ag(111), with increasing thickness above 30 monolayers (ML). Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) observations suggest that the …             Peculiarity of Two Thermodynamically-Stable Morphologies and Their Impact on the Efficiency of Small Molecule Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells ▶     Nuradhika Herath, Sanjib Das, Jong K. Keum et al.     Structural characteristics of the active layers in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices play a critical role in charge generation, separation and transport. Here we report on …             Synchronization Analysis of Master-Slave Probabilistic Boolean Networks ▶     Jianquan Lu, Jie Zhong, Lulu Li et al.     In this paper, we analyze the synchronization problem of master-slave probabilistic Boolean networks (PBNs). The master Boolean network (BN) is a deterministic BN, while the …             Electromagnetically Induced Entanglement ▶     Xihua Yang, Min Xiao     Quantum entanglement provides an essential resource for quantum computation, quantum communication, and quantum network. How to conveniently and efficiently produce entanglement …             Spatiotemporal dynamics of counterpropagating Airy beams ▶     Noémi Wiersma, Nicolas Marsal, Marc Sciamanna et al.     We analyse theoretically the spatiotemporal dynamics of two incoherent counterpropagating Airy beams interacting in a photorefractive crystal under focusing conditions. For a …             Dielectric relaxation, resonance and scaling behaviors in Sr3Co2Fe24O41 hexaferrite ▶     Rujun Tang, Chen Jiang, Wenhu Qian et al.     The dielectric properties of Z-type hexaferrite Sr3Co2Fe24O41 (SCFO) have been investigated as a function of temperature from 153 to 503 K between 1 and 2 GHz. The dielectric …             Coumarin derivatives from Ainsliaea fragrans and their anticoagulant activity ▶     Liang Lei, Yong-bo Xue, Zhong Liu et al.     Coumarin derivatives are an important class of C6–C3 plant metabolites that show a variety of bioactivities. Currently, most clinical anticoagulant agents are coumarins, such as …             Mathematical Modelling and Prediction of the Effect of Chemotherapy on Cancer Cells ▶     Hamidreza Namazi, Vladimir V. Kulish, Albert Wong     Cancer is a class of diseases characterized by out-of-control cells’ growth which affect DNAs and make them damaged. Many treatment options for cancer exist, with the primary …             Corrigendum: Preferential enhancement of laser-driven carbon ion acceleration from optimized nanostructured surfaces ▶     Malay Dalui, W.-M. Wang, T. Madhu Trivikram et al.                 Bottom-up Fabrication of Graphene on Silicon/Silica Substrate via a Facile Soft-hard Template Approach ▶     Yuxing Yang, Ruili Liu, Jiayang Wu et al.     In this work, a novel soft-hard template method towards the direct fabrication of graphene films on silicon/silica substrate is developed via a tri-constituent self-assembly …             A Novel Methodology to Synthesize Highly Conductive Anion Exchange Membranes ▶     Yubin He, Jiefeng Pan, Liang Wu et al.     Alkaline polyelectrolyte fuel cell now receives growing attention as a promising candidate to serve as the next generation energy-generating device by enabling the use of …             Surface Plasmon Enhanced Sensitive Detection for Possible Signature of Majorana Fermions via a Hybrid Semiconductor Quantum Dot-Metal Nanoparticle System ▶     Hua-Jun Chen, Ka-Di Zhu     In the present work, we theoretically propose an optical scheme to detect the possible signature of Majorana fermions via the optical pump-probe spectroscopy, which is very …             Siliceous spicules enhance fracture-resistance and stiffness of pre-colonial Amazonian ceramics ▶     Filipe Natalio, Tomas P. Corrales, Stephanie Wanka et al.     Pottery was a traditional art and technology form in pre-colonial Amazonian civilizations, widely used for cultural expression objects, utensils and as cooking vessels. Abundance …             Fracture Mechanism and Toughness Optimization of Macroscopic Thick Graphene Oxide Film ▶     Shibing Ye, Bin Chen, Jiachun Feng     Combined high strength and toughness of film materials are rather important for their industrial applications. As a new class of films, graphene oxide films (GOFs) attract …             Quantum walk coherences on a dynamical percolation graph ▶     Fabian Elster, Sonja Barkhofen, Thomas Nitsche et al.     Coherent evolution governs the behaviour of all quantum systems, but in nature it is often subjected to influence of a classical environment. For analysing quantum transport …             Synthesis of Structurally Diverse 2,3-Fused Indoles via Microwave-Assisted AgSbF6-Catalysed Intramolecular Difunctionalization of o-Alkynylanilines ▶     Yuanqiong Huang, Yan Yang, Hongjian Song et al.     2,3-Fused indoles are found in numerous natural products and drug molecules. Although several elegant methods for the synthesis of this structural motif have been reported, long …             Bifunctional enhancement of oxygen reduction reaction activity on Ag catalysts due to water activation on LaMnO3 supports in alkaline media ▶     Shin-Ae Park, Eun-Kyung Lee, Hannah Song et al.     Ag is considered to be one of the best candidates for oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalysts in alkaline media for application in various electrochemical energy devices. In …             The substrate matters in the Raman spectroscopy analysis of cells ▶     Lina Mikoliunaite, Raul D. Rodriguez, Evgeniya Sheremet et al.     Raman spectroscopy is a powerful analytical method that allows deposited and/or immobilized cells to be evaluated without complex sample preparation or labeling. However, a main …             Homogeneous nucleation and microstructure evolution in million-atom molecular dynamics simulation ▶     Yasushi Shibuta, Kanae Oguchi, Tomohiro Takaki et al.     Homogeneous nucleation from an undercooled iron melt is investigated by the statistical sampling of million-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations performed on a graphics …             Thermal crosstalk in 3-dimensional RRAM crossbar array ▶     Pengxiao Sun, Nianduan Lu, Ling Li et al.     High density 3-dimensional (3D) crossbar resistive random access memory (RRAM) is one of the major focus of the new age technologies. To compete with the ultra-high density NAND …             Damage evaluation in graphene underlying atomic layer deposition dielectrics ▶     Xiaohui Tang, Nicolas Reckinger, Olivier Poncelet et al.     Based on micro-Raman spectroscopy (μRS) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), we study the structural damage incurred in monolayer (1L) and few-layer (FL) graphene …             Water: Promising Opportunities For Tunable All-dielectric Electromagnetic Metamaterials ▶     Andrei Andryieuski, Svetlana M. Kuznetsova, Sergei V. Zhukovsky et al.     We reveal an outstanding potential of water as an inexpensive, abundant and bio-friendly high-refractive-index material for creating tunable all-dielectric photonic structures …             Continuous and reversible tuning of the disorder-driven superconductor–insulator transition in bilayer graphene ▶     Gil-Ho Lee, Dongchan Jeong, Kee-Su Park et al.     The influence of static disorder on a quantum phase transition (QPT) is a fundamental issue in condensed matter physics. As a prototypical example of a disorder-tuned QPT, the …             A low-phase-noise 18 GHz Kerr frequency microcomb phase-locked over 65 THz ▶     S.-W. Huang, J. Yang, J. Lim et al.     Laser frequency combs are coherent light sources that simultaneously provide pristine frequency spacings for precision metrology and the fundamental basis for ultrafast and …             Evidence for a Finite-Temperature Insulator ▶     M. Ovadia, D. Kalok, I. Tamir et al.     In superconductors the zero-resistance current-flow is protected from dissipation at finite temperatures (T) by virtue of the short-circuit condition maintained by the electrons …             Growth kinetics of Cu6Sn5 intermetallic compound at liquid-solid interfaces in Cu/Sn/Cu interconnects under temperature gradient ▶     N. Zhao, Y. Zhong, M.L. Huang et al.     The growth behavior of intermetallic compounds (IMCs) at the liquid-solid interfaces in Cu/Sn/Cu interconnects during reflow at 250 °C and 280 °C on a hot plate was investigated. …             Micro/Nano-pore Network Analysis of Gas Flow in Shale Matrix ▶     Pengwei Zhang, Liming Hu, Jay N. Meegoda et al.     The gas flow in shale matrix is of great research interests for optimized shale gas extraction. The gas flow in the nano-scale pore may fall in flow regimes such as viscous flow, …             Plaque-associated lipids in Alzheimer’s diseased brain tissue visualized by nonlinear microscopy ▶     Juris Kiskis, Helen Fink, Lena Nyberg et al.     By simultaneous coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) and 2-photon fluorescence microscopy of Thioflavin-S stained Alzheimer´s diseased human brain tissues, we show …             Non-uniform Solute Segregation at Semi-Coherent Metal/Oxide Interfaces ▶     Samrat Choudhury, Jeffery A. Aguiar, Michael J. Fluss et al.     The properties and performance of metal/oxide nanocomposites are governed by the structure and chemistry of the metal/oxide interfaces. Here we report an integrated theoretical …             Free-Space Nanometer Wiring via Nanotip Manipulation ▶     Tokushi Kizuka, Shin Ashida     Relentless efforts in semiconductor technology have driven nanometer-scale miniaturization of transistors, diodes, and interconnections in electronic chips. Free-space writing …             Wigner Crystal and Colossal Magnetoresistance in InSb Doped with Mn ▶     S. A. Obukhov, S. W. Tozer, W. A. Coniglio     We report magnetotransport investigation of nonmagnetic InSb single crystal doped with manganese at Mn concentration NMn ~ 1,5 × 1017 cm−3 in the temperature range …             Combining microscopy with mesoscopy using optical and optoacoustic label-free modes ▶     Dominik Soliman, George J. Tserevelakis, Murad Omar et al.     Biology requires observations at multiple geometrical scales, a feature that is not typically offered by a single imaging modality. We developed a hybrid optical system that not …             Superconducting magnetoresistance in ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet trilayers ▶     D. Stamopoulos, E. Aristomenopoulou     Magnetoresistance is a multifaceted effect reflecting the diverse transport mechanisms exhibited by different kinds of plain materials and hybrid nanostructures; among other, …             Controllable high-throughput high-quality femtosecond laser-enhanced chemical etching by temporal pulse shaping based on electron density control ▶     Mengjiao Zhao, Jie Hu, Lan Jiang et al.     We developed an efficient fabrication method of high-quality concave microarrays on fused silica substrates based on temporal shaping of femtosecond (fs) laser pulses. This …             Edge state magnetism in zigzag-interfaced graphene via spin susceptibility measurements ▶     T. L. Makarova, A. L. Shelankov, A. A. Zyrianova et al.     Development of graphene spintronic devices relies on transforming it into a material with a spin order. Attempts to make graphene magnetic by introducing zigzag edge states have …             Protein retention on plasma-treated hierarchical nanoscale gold-silver platform ▶     Jinghua Fang, Igor Levchenko, Anne Mai-Prochnow et al.     Dense arrays of gold-supported silver nanowires of about 100 nm in diameter grown directly in the channels of nanoporous aluminium oxide membrane were fabricated and tested as a …             Modulation of protein behavior through light responses of TiO2 nanodots films ▶     Kui Cheng, Yi Hong, Mengfei Yu et al.     In this work, the behavior of protein molecules adsorbed on TiO2 nanodots films are modulated through the light responses of the nanodots. TiO2 nanodots films are first prepared …             Strain glass state as the boundary of two phase transitions ▶     Zhijian Zhou, Jian Cui, Xiaobing Ren     A strain glass state was found to be located between B2-B19’ (cubic to monoclinic) phase transition and B2-R (cubic to rhombohedral) phase transition in Ti49Ni51 alloys after …             Geometric discord: A resource for increments of quantum key generation through twirling ▶     Xiaohua Wu, Tao Zhou     In the present work, we consider a scenario where an arbitrary two-qubit pure state is applied for the quantum key generation (QKG). Using the twirling procedure to convert the …             Two-step complete polarization logic Bell-state analysis ▶     Yu-Bo Sheng, Lan Zhou     The Bell state plays a significant role in the fundamental tests of quantum mechanics, such as the nonlocality of the quantum world. The Bell-state analysis is of vice importance …             Tailoring the Two Dimensional Electron Gas at Polar ABO3/SrTiO3 Interfaces for Oxide Electronics ▶     Changjian Li, Zhiqi Liu, Weiming Lü et al.     The 2D electron gas at the polar/non-polar oxide interface has become an important platform for several novel oxide electronic devices. In this paper, the transport properties of …             Printed dose-recording tag based on organic complementary circuits and ferroelectric nonvolatile memories ▶     Tse Nga Ng, David E. Schwartz, Ping Mei et al.     We have demonstrated a printed electronic tag that monitors time-integrated sensor signals and writes to nonvolatile memories for later readout. The tag is additively fabricated …             Corrigendum: Real sequence effects on the search dynamics of transcription factors on DNA ▶     Maximilian Bauer, Emil S. Rasmussen, Michael A. Lomholt et al.                 Rational Design of Highly Potent and Slow-Binding Cytochrome bc1 Inhibitor as Fungicide by Computational Substitution Optimization ▶     Ge-Fei Hao, Sheng-Gang Yang, Wei Huang et al.     Hit to lead (H2L) optimization is a key step for drug and agrochemical discovery. A critical challenge for H2L optimization is the low efficiency due to the lack of predictive …             Selective flow-induced vesicle rupture to sort by membrane mechanical properties ▶     Angelo Pommella, Nicholas J. Brooks, John M. Seddon et al.     Vesicle and cell rupture caused by large viscous stresses in ultrasonication is central to biomedical and bioprocessing applications. The flow-induced opening of lipid membranes …             Bi-crystallographic lattice structure directs grain boundary motion under shear stress ▶     Liang Wan, Weizhong Han, Kai Chen     Shear stress driven grain boundary (GB) migration was found to be a ubiquitous phenomenon in small grained polycrystalline materials. Here we show that the GB displacement shift …             Intrinsic Nature of Stochastic Domain Wall Pinning Phenomena in Magnetic Nanowire Devices ▶     T. J. Hayward     Finite temperature micromagnetic simulations are used to probe stochastic domain wall pinning behaviours in magnetic nanowire devices. By exploring field-induced propagation both …             Correlated random walks caused by dynamical wavefunction collapse ▶     D. J. Bedingham, H. Ulbricht     Wavefunction collapse models modify Schrödinger’s equation so that it describes the collapse of a superposition of macroscopically distinguishable states as a dynamical process. …             Controlling wave-vector of propagating surface plasmon polaritons on single-crystalline gold nanoplates ▶     Si Luo, Hangbo Yang, Yuanqing Yang et al.     Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) propagating at metal nanostructures play an important role in breaking the diffraction limit. Chemically synthesized single-crystalline metal …             Edge states and integer quantum Hall effect in topological insulator thin films ▶     Song-Bo Zhang, Hai-Zhou Lu, Shun-Qing Shen     The integer quantum Hall effect is a topological state of quantum matter in two dimensions, and has recently been observed in three-dimensional topological insulator thin films. …             Tailoring phase slip events through magnetic doping in superconductor-ferromagnet composite films ▶     Ambika Bawa, Rajveer Jha, Sangeeta Sahoo     The interplay between superconductivity (SC) and ferromagnetism (FM) when embedded together has attracted unprecedented research interest due to very rare coexistence of these …             Malaria Diagnosis Using a Mobile Phone Polarized Microscope ▶     Casey W. Pirnstill, Gerard L. Coté     Malaria remains a major global health burden, and new methods for low-cost, high-sensitivity, diagnosis are essential, particularly in remote areas with low-resource around the …             Control of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in Mn1−xFexGe: a first-principles study ▶     Takashi Koretsune, Naoto Nagaosa, Ryotaro Arita     Motivated by the recent experiment on the size and helicity control of skyrmions in Mn1−xFexGe, we study how the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction changes its size and sign …             Structural Deformation of Sm@C88 under High Pressure ▶     Jinxing Cui, Mingguang Yao, Hua Yang et al.     We have studied the structural transformation of Sm@C88 under pressure up to 18 GPa by infrared spectroscopy combined with theoretical simulations. The infrared-active …             Negative linear compressibility in a crystal of α-BiB3O6 ▶     Lei Kang, Xingxing Jiang, Siyang Luo et al.     Negative linear compressibility (NLC), a rare and important mechanical effect with many application potentials, in a crystal of α-BiB3O6 (BIBO) is comprehensively investigated …             Quantum Nonlocality of Arbitrary Dimensional Bipartite States ▶     Ming Li, Tinggui Zhang, Bobo Hua et al.     We study the nonlocality of arbitrary dimensional bipartite quantum states. By computing the maximal violation of a set of multi-setting Bell inequalities, an analytical and …             Non-Markovian Complexity in the Quantum-to-Classical Transition ▶     Heng-Na Xiong, Ping-Yuan Lo, Wei-Min Zhang et al.     The quantum-to-classical transition is due to environment-induced decoherence, and it depicts how classical dynamics emerges from quantum systems. Previously, the …             Role of initial system-bath correlation on coherence trapping ▶     Ying-Jie Zhang, Wei Han, Yun-Jie Xia et al.     We study the coherence trapping of a qubit correlated initially with a non-Markovian bath in a pure dephasing channel. By considering the initial qubit-bath correlation and the …             Localized Tail States and Electron Mobility in Amorphous ZnON Thin Film Transistors ▶     Sungsik Lee, Arokia Nathan, Yan Ye et al.     The density of localized tail states in amorphous ZnON (a-ZnON) thin film transistors (TFTs) is deduced from the measured current-voltage characteristics. The extracted values of …             Anderson attractors in active arrays ▶     Tetyana V. Laptyeva, Andrey A. Tikhomirov, Oleg I. Kanakov et al.     In dissipationless linear media, spatial disorder induces Anderson localization of matter, light, and sound waves. The addition of nonlinearity causes interaction between the …             Materials Prediction via Classification Learning ▶     Prasanna V. Balachandran, James Theiler, James M. Rondinelli et al.     In the paradigm of materials informatics for accelerated materials discovery, the choice of feature set (i.e. attributes that capture aspects of structure, chemistry and/or …             The Dynamics of Coalition Formation on Complex Networks ▶     S. Auer, J. Heitzig, U. Kornek et al.     Complex networks describe the structure of many socio-economic systems. However, in studies of decision-making processes the evolution of the underlying social relations are …             Wave trains induced by circularly polarized electric fields in cardiac tissues ▶     Xia Feng, Xiang Gao, Juan-Mei Tang et al.     Clinically, cardiac fibrillation caused by spiral and turbulent waves can be terminated by globally resetting electric activity in cardiac tissues with a single high-voltage …             Investigation of VOCs associated with different characteristics of breast cancer cells ▶     Luca Lavra, Alexandro Catini, Alessandra Ulivieri et al.     The efficacy of breath volatile organic compounds (VOCs) analysis for the screening of patients bearing breast cancer lesions has been demonstrated by using gas chromatography …                 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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