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27 October 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               Exploration of tetrahedral structures in silicate cathodes using a motif-network scheme ▶     Xin Zhao, Shunqing Wu, Xiaobao Lv et al.     Using a motif-network search scheme, we studied the tetrahedral structures of the dilithium/disodium transition metal orthosilicates A2MSiO4 with A = Li or Na and M = Mn, Fe or …             The dynamic process and microscopic mechanism of extraordinary terahertz transmission through perforated superconducting films ▶     J. B. Wu, X. Zhang, B. B. Jin et al.     Superconductor is a compelling plasmonic medium at terahertz frequencies owing to its intrinsic low Ohmic loss and good tuning property. However, the microscopic physics of the …             Chelating effect in short polymers for the design of bidentate binders of increased affinity and selectivity ▶     Sara Fortuna, Federico Fogolari, Giacinto Scoles     The design of new strong and selective binders is a key step towards the development of new sensing devices and effective drugs. Both affinity and selectivity can be increased …             Highly selective detection of individual nuclear spins with rotary echo on an electron spin probe ▶     V. V. Mkhitaryan, F. Jelezko, V. V. Dobrovitski     We consider an electronic spin, such as a nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond, weakly coupled to a large number of nuclear spins, and subjected to the Rabi driving with a …             Grain Boundary Plane Orientation Fundamental Zones and Structure-Property Relationships ▶     Eric R. Homer, Srikanth Patala, Jonathan L. Priedeman     Grain boundary plane orientation is a profoundly important determinant of character in polycrystalline materials that is not well understood. This work demonstrates how boundary …             Enhanced Dispersion of TiO2 Nanoparticles in a TiO2/PEDOT:PSS Hybrid Nanocomposite via Plasma-Liquid Interactions ▶     Yazi Liu, Dan Sun, Sadegh Askari et al.     A facile method to synthesize a TiO2/PEDOT:PSS hybrid nanocomposite material in aqueous solution through direct current (DC) plasma processing at atmospheric pressure and room …             Term rules for simple metal clusters ▶     Daisuke Yoshida, Hannes Raebiger     Hund’s term rules are only valid for isolated atoms, but have no generalization for molecules or clusters of several atoms. We present a benchmark calculation of Al2 and Al3, for …             Transverse Anderson localization of light near Dirac points of photonic nanostructures ▶     Hanying Deng, Xianfeng Chen, Boris A. Malomed et al.     We perform a comparative study of the Anderson localization of light beams in disordered layered photonic nanostructures that, in the limit of periodic layer distribution, …             In-situ characterization of nanoparticle beams focused with an aerodynamic lens by Laser-Induced Breakdown Detection ▶     F.-A. Barreda, C. Nicolas, J.-B. Sirven et al.     The Laser-Induced Breakdown Detection technique (LIBD) was adapted to achieve fast in-situ characterization of nanoparticle beams focused under vacuum by an aerodynamic lens. The …             Solving the Controversy on the Wetting Transparency of Graphene ▶     Donggyu Kim, Nicola M. Pugno, Markus J. Buehler et al.     Since its discovery, the wetting transparency of graphene, the transmission of the substrate wetting property over graphene coating, has gained significant attention due to its …             Aluminum plasmonic photocatalysis ▶     Qi Hao, Chenxi Wang, Hao Huang et al.     The effectiveness of photocatalytic processes is dictated largely by plasmonic materials with the capability to enhance light absorption as well as the energy conversion …             The roles of lithium-philic giant nitrogen-doped graphene in protecting micron-sized silicon anode from fading ▶     Xiaoxu Liu, Dongliang Chao, Qiang Zhang et al.     A stable Si-based anode with a high initial coulombic efficiency (ICE) for lithium-ion batteries (LIB) is critical for energy storage. In the present paper, a new scalable method …             First Principles Study on the Electronic Structure and Interface Stability of Hybrid Silicene/Fluorosilicene Nanoribbons ▶     Q. G. Jiang, J. F. Zhang, Z. M. Ao et al.     The interface stability of hybrid silicene/fluorosilicene nanoribbons (SFNRs) has been investigated by using density functional theory calculations, where fluorosilicene is the …             Gas Evolution in Operating Lithium-Ion Batteries Studied In Situ by Neutron Imaging ▶     Barbara Michalak, Heino Sommer, David Mannes et al.     Gas generation as a result of electrolyte decomposition is one of the major issues of high-performance rechargeable batteries. Here, we report the direct observation of gassing …             Self-aligned, full solution process polymer field-effect transistor on flexible substrates ▶     Yan Yan, Long-Biao Huang, Ye Zhou et al.     Conventional techniques to form selective surface energy regions on rigid inorganic substrates are not suitable for polymer interfaces due to sensitive and soft limitation of …             Five-wave-packet quantum error correction based on continuous-variable cluster entanglement ▶     Shuhong Hao, Xiaolong Su, Caixing Tian et al.     Quantum error correction protects the quantum state against noise and decoherence in quantum communication and quantum computation, which enables one to perform fault-torrent …             Carbon Nanotubes Act as Contaminant Carriers and Translocate within Plants ▶     Guosheng Chen, Junlang Qiu, Yan Liu et al.     Nanotechnology permits broad advances in agriculture. However, as it is still at a relatively early stage of development, the potential risks remain unclear. Herein, for the …             Gold Nanoparticle Aggregation as a Probe of Antifreeze (Glyco) Protein-Inspired Ice Recrystallization Inhibition and Identification of New IRI Active Macromolecules ▶     Daniel E. Mitchell, Thomas Congdon, Alison Rodger et al.     Antifreeze (glyco)proteins are found in polar fish species and act to slow the rate of growth of ice crystals; a property known as ice recrystallization inhibition. The ability …             Thermodynamics of protein denaturation at temperatures over 100 °C: CutA1 mutant proteins substituted with hydrophobic and charged residues ▶     Yoshinori Matsuura, Michiyo Takehira, Yasumasa Joti et al.     Although the thermodynamics of protein denaturation at temperatures over 100 °C is essential for the rational design of highly stable proteins, it is not understood well because …             Mechanical origin of aftershocks ▶     E. Lippiello, F. Giacco, W. Marzocchi et al.     Aftershocks are the most striking evidence of earthquake interactions and the physical mechanisms at the origin of their occurrence are still intensively debated. Novel insights …             A Highly Similar Mathematical Model for Cerebral Blood Flow Velocity in Geriatric Patients with Suspected Cerebrovascular Disease ▶     Bo Liu, Qi Li, Jisheng Wang et al.     Cerebral blood flow velocity(CBFV) is an important parameter for study of cerebral hemodynamics. However, a simple and highly similar mathematical model has not yet been …             Blood-Brain Barrier Opening in Behaving Non-Human Primates via Focused Ultrasound with Systemically Administered Microbubbles ▶     Matthew E. Downs, Amanda Buch, Maria Eleni Karakatsani et al.     Over the past fifteen years, focused ultrasound coupled with intravenously administered microbubbles (FUS) has been proven an effective, non-invasive technique to open the …             Detecting the existence of an invisibility cloak using temporal steering ▶     Shin-Liang Chen, Ching-Shiang Chao, Yueh-Nan Chen     An invisibility cloak provides a way to hide an object under the detection of waves. A good cloak guides the incident waves through the cloaking shell with few distortion. Even …             A new mutually reinforcing network node and link ranking algorithm ▶     Zhenghua Wang, Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio, Jamie E. Padgett     This study proposes a novel Normalized Wide network Ranking algorithm (NWRank) that has the advantage of ranking nodes and links of a network simultaneously. This algorithm …             Optically secured information retrieval using two authenticated phase-only masks ▶     Xiaogang Wang, Wen Chen, Shengtao Mei et al.     We propose an algorithm for jointly designing two phase-only masks (POMs) that allow for the encryption and noise-free retrieval of triple images. The images required for optical …             Novel reversible and switchable electrolytes based on magneto-rheology ▶     Jie Ding, Gangrou Peng, Kewei Shu et al.     Replacing organic liquid electrolytes with solid electrolytes has led to a new perspective on batteries, enabling high-energy battery chemistry with intrinsically safe cell …             Quasi-steady-state air plasma channel produced by a femtosecond laser pulse sequence ▶     Xin Lu, Shi-You Chen, Jing-Long Ma et al.     A long air plasma channel can be formed by filamentation of intense femtosecond laser pulses. However, the lifetime of the plasma channel produced by a single femtosecond laser …             Graphene-supported Pd catalyst for highly selective hydrogenation of resorcinol to 1, 3-cyclohexanedione through giant π-conjugate interactions ▶     Zuojun Wei, Ruofei Pan, Yaxin Hou et al.     The selective hydrogenation of resorcinol (RES) to 1, 3-cyclohexanedione (1,3-CHD) without the addition of alkali is a big challenge. In this article, a novel reduced graphene …             Detecting Lateral Motion using Light’s Orbital Angular Momentum ▶     Neda Cvijetic, Giovanni Milione, Ezra Ip et al.     Interrogating an object with a light beam and analyzing the scattered light can reveal kinematic information about the object, which is vital for applications ranging from …             Crystal structure, equation of state, and elasticity of phase H (MgSiO4H2) at Earth’s lower mantle pressures ▶     Jun Tsuchiya, Mainak Mookherjee     Dense hydrous magnesium silicate (DHMS) phases play a crucial role in transporting water in to the Earth’s interior. A newly discovered DHMS, phase H (MgSiO4H2), is stable at …             Significant Performance Enhancement in Asymmetric Supercapacitors based on Metal Oxides, Carbon nanotubes and Neutral Aqueous Electrolyte ▶     Arvinder Singh, Amreesh Chandra     Amongst the materials being investigated for supercapacitor electrodes, carbon based materials are most investigated. However, pure carbon materials suffer from inherent physical …             New aspects in the phase behaviour of poly-N-isopropyl acrylamide: systematic temperature dependent shrinking of PNiPAM assemblies well beyond the LCST ▶     Irmgard Bischofberger, Veronique Trappe     We investigate the phase behaviour of aqueous dispersions of poly-N-isopropyl acrylamide (PNiPAM) microgels above their lower critical solution temperature (LCST) and find that …             Right handed chiral superstructures from achiral molecules: self-assembly with a twist ▶     Anuradha, Duong Duc La, Mohammad Al Kobaisi et al.     The induction and development of chiral supramolecular structures from hierarchical self-assembly of achiral compounds is closely related to the evolution of life and the chiral …             Non-destructive mapping of grain orientations in 3D by laboratory X-ray microscopy ▶     S. A. McDonald, P. Reischig, C. Holzner et al.     The ability to characterise crystallographic microstructure, non-destructively and in three-dimensions, is a powerful tool for understanding many aspects related to damage and …             Super-strengthening and stabilizing with carbon nanotube harnessed high density nanotwins in metals by shock loading ▶     Dong Lin, Mojib Saei, Sergey Suslov et al.     CNTs reinforced metal composites has great potential due to their superior properties, such as light weight, high strength, low thermal expansion and high thermal conductivity. …             One-step large-scale deposition of salt-free DNA origami nanostructures ▶     Veikko Linko, Boxuan Shen, Kosti Tapio et al.     DNA origami nanostructures have tremendous potential to serve as versatile platforms in self-assembly -based nanofabrication and in highly parallel nanoscale patterning. However, …             Highly sensitive and selective sugar detection by terahertz nano-antennas ▶     Dong-Kyu Lee, Ji-Hun Kang, Jun-Seok Lee et al.     Molecular recognition and discrimination of carbohydrates are important because carbohydrates perform essential roles in most living organisms for energy metabolism and …             Dynamics of quantum correlation between separated nitrogen-vacancy centers embedded in plasmonic waveguide ▶     Wan-li Yang, Jun-Hong An, Cheng-jie Zhang et al.     We investigate the dynamics of quantum correlation between two separated nitrogen vacancy centers (NVCs) placed near a one-dimensional plasmonic waveguide. As a common medium of …             Spontaneous symmetry breaking in vortex systems with two repulsive lengthscales ▶     P. J. Curran, W. M. Desoky, M. V. Milos̆ević et al.     Scanning Hall probe microscopy (SHPM) has been used to study vortex structures in thin epitaxial films of the superconductor MgB2. Unusual vortex patterns observed in MgB2 single …             Ba(Zn1−2xMnxCux)2As2: A Bulk Form Diluted Ferromagnetic Semiconductor with Mn and Cu Codoping at Zn Sites ▶     Huiyuan Man, Shengli Guo, Yu Sui et al.     We report the synthesis and characterization of a bulk form diluted magnetic semiconductor Ba(Zn1−2xMnxCux)2As2 with the crystal structure identical to that of “122” family iron …             Multiple Simulated Annealing-Molecular Dynamics (MSA-MD) for Conformational Space Search of Peptide and Miniprotein ▶     Ge-Fei Hao, Wei-Fang Xu, Sheng-Gang Yang et al.     Protein and peptide structure predictions are of paramount importance for understanding their functions, as well as the interactions with other molecules. However, the use of …             Visual Identification of Light-Driven Breakage of the Silver-Dithiocarbamate Bond by Single Plasmonic Nanoprobes ▶     Peng Fei Gao, Bin Fang Yuan, Ming Xuan Gao et al.     Insight into the nature of metal-sulfur bond, a meaningful one in life science, interface chemistry and organometallic chemistry, is interesting but challenging. By utilizing the …             In vivo optical modulation of neural signals using monolithically integrated two-dimensional neural probe arrays ▶     Yoojin Son, Hyunjoo Jenny Lee, Jeongyeon Kim et al.     Integration of stimulation modalities (e.g. electrical, optical, and chemical) on a large array of neural probes can enable an investigation of important underlying mechanisms of …             A Versatile Microarray Platform for Capturing Rare Cells ▶     Falko Brinkmann, Michael Hirtz, Anna Haller et al.     Analyses of rare events occurring at extremely low frequencies in body fluids are still challenging. We established a versatile microarray-based platform able to capture single …             Rapid Hepatobiliary Excretion of Micelle-Encapsulated/Radiolabeled Upconverting Nanoparticles as an Integrated Form ▶     Hyo Jung Seo, Sang Hwan Nam, Hyung-Jun Im et al.     In the field of nanomedicine, long term accumulation of nanoparticles (NPs) in the mononuclear phagocyte system (MPS) such as liver is the major hurdle in clinical translation. …             Programmable gradational micropatterning of functional materials using maskless lithography controlling absorption ▶     Yushin Jung, Howon Lee, Tae-Joon Park et al.     The demand for patterning functional materials precisely on surfaces of stimuli-responsive devices has increased in many research fields. In situ polymerization technology is one …             Racah materials: role of atomic multiplets in intermediate valence systems ▶     A. B. Shick, L. Havela, A. I. Lichtenstein et al.     We address the long-standing mystery of the nonmagnetic insulating state of the intermediate valence compound SmB6. Within a combination of the local density approximation (LDA) …             Spectrometry of the Earth using Neutrino Oscillations ▶     C. Rott, A. Taketa, D. Bose     The unknown constituents of the interior of our home planet have provoked the human imagination and driven scientific exploration. We herein demonstrate that large neutrino …             Ultralow thermal sensitivity of phase and propagation delay in hollow core optical fibres ▶     Radan Slavík, Giuseppe Marra, Eric Numkam Fokoua et al.     Propagation time through an optical fibre changes with the environment, e.g., a change in temperature alters the fibre length and its refractive index. These changes have …             Diameter Dependence of Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Study from Ab Initio ▶     Sheng-Ying Yue, Tao Ouyang, Ming Hu     The effects of temperature, tube length, defects, and surface functionalization on the thermal conductivity (κ) of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) were well documented in …             Immobilization of gold nanoclusters inside porous electrospun fibers for selective detection of Cu(II): A strategic approach to shielding pristine performance ▶     Anitha Senthamizhan, Asli Celebioglu, Brabu Balusamy et al.     Here, a distinct demonstration of highly sensitive and selective detection of copper (Cu2+) in a vastly porous cellulose acetate fibers (pCAF) has been carried out using …             Bioinspired superhydrophobic surfaces, fabricated through simple and scalable roll-to-roll processing ▶     Sung-Hoon Park, Sangeui Lee, David Moreira et al.     A simple, scalable, non-lithographic, technique for fabricating durable superhydrophobic (SH) surfaces, based on the fingering instabilities associated with non-Newtonian flow …             Stepwise work hardening induced by individual grain boundary in Cu bicrystal micropillars ▶     L. L. Li, Z. J. Zhang, J. Tan et al.     Vast experiments have demonstrated that the external specimen size makes a large difference in the deformation behavior of crystalline materials. However, as one important kind …             Fluorine doping: a feasible solution to enhancing the conductivity of high-resistance wide bandgap Mg0.51Zn0.49O active components ▶     Lishu Liu, Zengxia Mei, Yaonan Hou et al.     N-type doping of high-resistance wide bandgap semiconductors, wurtzite high-Mg-content MgxZn1–xO for instance, has always been a fundamental application-motivated research issue. …             Sculpting the band gap: a computational approach ▶     Kiran Prasai, Parthapratim Biswas, D. A. Drabold     Materials with optimized band gap are needed in many specialized applications. In this work, we demonstrate that Hellmann-Feynman forces associated with the gap states can be …             Valley depolarization in monolayer WSe2 ▶     Tengfei Yan, Xiaofen Qiao, Pingheng Tan et al.     We have systematically examined the circular polarization of monolayer WSe2 at different temperature, excitation energy and exciton density. The valley depolarization in WSe2 is …             Phase Diagram and High-Temperature Superconductivity of Compressed Selenium Hydrides ▶     Shoutao Zhang, Yanchao Wang, Jurong Zhang et al.     Recent discovery of high-temperature superconductivity (Tc = 190 K) in sulfur hydrides at megabar pressures breaks the traditional belief on the Tc limit of 40 K for conventional …             Evolution of the dense packings of spherotetrahedral particles: from ideal tetrahedra to spheres ▶     Weiwei Jin, Peng Lu, Shuixiang Li     Particle shape plays a crucial role in determining packing characteristics. Real particles in nature usually have rounded corners. In this work, we systematically investigate the …             Corrigendum: Quantifying the Antiviral Effect of IFN on HIV-1 Replication in Cell Culture ▶     Hiroki Ikeda, Ana Godinho-Santos, Sylvie Rato et al.                 Filament Geometry Induced Bipolar, Complementary, and Unipolar Resistive Switching under the Same Set Current Compliance in Pt/SiOx/TiN ▶     Dong-Hyeok Lim, Ga-Yeon Kim, Jin-Ho Song et al.     The decidedly unusual co-occurrence of bipolar, complementary, and unipolar resistive switching (BRS, CRS, and URS, respectively) behavior under the same high set current …             Principal nonlinear dynamical modes of climate variability ▶     Dmitry Mukhin, Andrey Gavrilov, Alexander Feigin et al.     We suggest a new nonlinear expansion of space-distributed observational time series. The expansion allows constructing principal nonlinear manifolds holding essential part of …             In vivo sub-femtoliter resolution photoacoustic microscopy with higher frame rates ▶     Szu-Yu Lee, Yu-Hung Lai, Kai-Chih Huang et al.     Microscopy based on non-fluorescent absorption dye staining is widely used in various fields of biomedicine for 400 years. Unlike its fluorescent counterpart, non-fluorescent …             Geometries for the coherent control of four-wave mixing in graphene multilayers ▶     Shraddha M. Rao, Ashley Lyons, Thomas Roger et al.     Deeply sub-wavelength two-dimensional films may exhibit extraordinarily strong nonlinear effects. Here we show that 2D films exhibit the remarkable property of a …             Kinetic surface roughening and wafer bow control in heteroepitaxial growth of 3C-SiC on Si(111) substrates ▶     Li Wang, Glenn Walker, Jessica Chai et al.     A thin, chemically inert 3C-SiC layer between GaN and Si helps not only to avoid the “melt-back” effect, but also to inhibit the crack generation in the grown GaN layers. The …             Recovery of strain-hardening rate in Ni-Si alloys ▶     C. L. Yang, Z. J. Zhang, T. Cai et al.     In this study, the recovery of strain-hardening rate (RSHR) was discovered for the first time in polycrystalline materials (Ni-Si alloys) that have only dislocation activities …             Excitation, detection, and electrostatic manipulation of terahertz-frequency range plasmons in a two-dimensional electron system ▶     Jingbo Wu, Alexander S. Mayorov, Christopher D. Wood et al.     Terahertz frequency time-domain spectroscopy employing free-space radiation has frequently been used to probe the elementary excitations of low-dimensional systems. The …             Ag Nanorods Coated with Ultrathin TiO2 Shells as Stable and Recyclable SERS Substrates ▶     Lingwei Ma, Yu Huang, Mengjing Hou et al.     TiO2-coated Ag nanorods (Ag@TiO2 NRs) have been fabricated as multifunctional surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates. Uniform TiO2 shells could sufficiently protect …             Toward a terahertz-driven electron gun ▶     W. Ronny Huang, Emilio A. Nanni, Koustuban Ravi et al.     Femtosecond electron bunches with keV energies and eV energy spread are needed by condensed matter physicists to resolve state transitions in carbon nanotubes, molecular …             Fabrication of three dimensional patterns of wide dimensional range using microbes and their applications ▶     Sunita Mehta, Saravanan Murugeson, Balaji Prakash et al.     Inspired by the wound healing property of certain trees, we report a novel microbes based additive process for producing three dimensional patterns, which has a potential of …             Selective Area Band Engineering of Graphene using Cobalt-Mediated Oxidation ▶     Paul F. Bazylewski, Van Luan Nguyen, Robert P.C. Bauer et al.     This study reports a scalable and economical method to open a band gap in single layer graphene by deposition of cobalt metal on its surface using physical vapor deposition in …             Tunnelling anisotropic magnetoresistance due to antiferromagnetic CoO tunnel barriers ▶     K. Wang, J. G. M. Sanderink, T. Bolhuis et al.     A new approach in spintronics is based on spin-polarized charge transport phenomena governed by antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials. Recent studies have demonstrated the …             Simultaneous shaping of amplitude and phase of light in the entire output plane with a phase-only hologram ▶     Liang Wu, Shubo Cheng, Shaohua Tao     An iterative beam shaping algorithm is proposed to simultaneously shape the amplitude and phase of an optical beam. The proposed algorithm consists of one input plane and two …             Unconventional interplay between heterovalent dopant elements: Switch-and-modulator band-gap engineering in (Y, Co)-Codoped CeO2 nanocrystals ▶     T. S. Wu, H. D. Li, Y. W. Chen et al.     We report the experimental observation and theoretical explanation of an unconventional interplay between divalent Co and trivalent Y dopants, both of which incur oxygen …             Implementation of Complete Boolean Logic Functions in Single Complementary Resistive Switch ▶     Shuang Gao, Fei Zeng, Minjuan Wang et al.     The unique complementary switching behaviour of complementary resistive switches (CRSs) makes them very attractive for logic applications. The implementation of complete Boolean …             Direct monitoring of bias-dependent variations in the exciton formation ratio of working organic light emitting diodes ▶     Takahiro Takahashi, Katsuichi Kanemoto, Mariko Kanenobu et al.     In typical operation of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), excitons are assumed to generate with a ratio of 1:3 for singlet and triplet excitons, respectively, based on a …             Observation of Exchange Anisotropy in Single-Phase Layer-Structured Oxides with Long Periods ▶     Yan Huang, Guopeng Wang, Shujie Sun et al.     A remarkable exchange bias effect arising from the temperature-dependent interaction among the ferromagnetic-like cluster glasses and antiferromagnetic regions was observed in a …             Adhesion of voids to bimetal interfaces with non-uniform energies ▶     Shijian Zheng, Shuai Shao, Jian Zhang et al.     Interface engineering has become an important strategy for designing radiation-resistant materials. Critical to its success is fundamental understanding of the interactions …             Network structure of multivariate time series ▶     Lucas Lacasa, Vincenzo Nicosia, Vito Latora     Our understanding of a variety of phenomena in physics, biology and economics crucially depends on the analysis of multivariate time series. While a wide range tools and …             One-to-one encapsulation based on alternating droplet generation ▶     Hirotada Hirama, Toru Torii     This paper reports the preparation of encapsulated particles as models of cells using an alternating droplet generation encapsulation method in which the number of particles in a …             Influences of carbon concentration on crystal structures and ideal strengths of B2CxO compounds in the B-C-O system ▶     Meiguang Zhang, Haiyan Yan, Baobing Zheng et al.     The search for novel superhard materials with special structures and improved thermal stability and hardness remains considerably experimental and theoretical challenges. Recent …             Ferroelectricity in underdoped La-based cuprates ▶     Z. Viskadourakis, S. S. Sunku, S. Mukherjee et al.     Doping a “parent” antiferromagnetic Mott insulator in cuprates leads to short-range electronic correlations and eventually to high-Tc superconductivity. However, the nature of …             Experimental demonstration of high fidelity entanglement distribution over decoherence channels via qubit transduction ▶     Hyang-Tag Lim, Kang-Hee Hong, Yoon-Ho Kim     Quantum coherence and entanglement, which are essential resources for quantum information, are often degraded and lost due to decoherence. Here, we report a proof-of-principle …             One-step resonant controlled-phase gate on distant transmon qutrits in different 1D superconducting resonators ▶     Ming Hua, Ming-Jie Tao, Fu-Guo Deng et al.     We propose a scheme to construct the controlled-phase (c-phase) gate on distant transmon qutrits hosted in different resonators inter-coupled by a connected transmon qutrit. …             Fast and intense green emission of Tb3+ in borosilicate glass modified by Cu+ ▶     Fanshu Xia, Siyuan Liu, Yang Wang et al.     We present photoluminescence properties of Tb3+ doped borosilicate glasses modified by Cu+. Around 5-time enhanced emission at 541 nm due to the superposed emission of Tb3+ and Cu…             Computational evidence that fast translation speed can increase the probability of cotranslational protein folding ▶     Ercheng Wang, Jun Wang, Changjun Chen et al.     Translation speed can affect the cotranslational folding of nascent peptide. Experimental observations have indicated that slowing down translation rates of codons can increase …             Cavity enhanced atomic magnetometry ▶     Herbert Crepaz, Li Yuan Ley, Rainer Dumke     Atom sensing based on Faraday rotation is an indispensable method for precision measurements, universally suitable for both hot and cold atomic systems. Here we demonstrate an …             Highly photosensitive graphene field-effect transistor with optical memory function ▶     Shohei Ishida, Yuki Anno, Masato Takeuchi et al.     Graphene is a promising material for use in photodetectors for the ultrawide wavelength region: from ultraviolet to terahertz. Nevertheless, only the 2.3% light absorption of …             Effects of random rewiring on the degree correlation of scale-free networks ▶     Jing Qu, Sheng-Jun Wang, Marko Jusup et al.     Random rewiring is used to generate null networks for the purpose of analyzing the topological properties of scale-free networks, yet the effects of random rewiring on the degree …             Corrigendum: Method for Controlling Electrical Properties of Single-Layer Graphene Nanoribbons via Adsorbed Planar Molecular Nanoparticles ▶     Hirofumi Tanaka, Ryo Arima, Minoru Fukumori et al.                 Effect of Electron Energy Distribution on the Hysteresis of Plasma Discharge: Theory, Experiment, and Modeling ▶     Hyo-Chang Lee, Chin-Wook Chung     Hysteresis, which is the history dependence of physical systems, is one of the most important topics in physics. Interestingly, bi-stability of plasma with a huge hysteresis loop …             Corrigendum: Decoupling the role of stiffness from other hydroxyapatite signalling cues in periosteal derived stem cell differentiation ▶     Giorgio Mattei, Concetta Ferretti, Annalisa Tirella et al.                 Quantum Rabi Model with Trapped Ions ▶     J. S. Pedernales, I. Lizuain, S. Felicetti et al.     We propose the quantum simulation of the quantum Rabi model in all parameter regimes by means of detuned bichromatic sideband excitations of a single trapped ion. We show that …             A Plasmonic Spanner for Metal Particle Manipulation ▶     Yuquan Zhang, Wei Shi, Zhe Shen et al.     Typically, metal particles are difficult to manipulate with conventional optical vortex (OV) tweezers, because of their strong absorption and scattering. However, it has been …             A Novel Physical Approach for Cationic–Thiolate Protected Fluorescent Gold Nanoparticles ▶     Yohei Ishida, Chaiyathat Lee, Tetsu Yonezawa     Knowledge on the synthesis of cationically charged fluorescent gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) is limited because the electrostatic repulsion between cationic ligands on the surface …             From Crystals to Disordered Crystals: A Hidden Order-Disorder Transition ▶     Hua Tong, Peng Tan, Ning Xu     To distinguish between order and disorder is of fundamental importance to understanding solids. It becomes more significant with recent observations that solids with high …             Coupling and electrical control of structural, orbital and magnetic orders in perovskites ▶     Julien Varignon, Nicholas C. 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