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03 November 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         npj Quantum Information - first articles published Publishing the latest open access research on quantum information, npj Quantum Information has now published its first content. The journal is part of the Nature Partner Journals series, and published in partnership with the University of New South Wales, Australia. Read inaugural editorial and all articles freely available online.           Physical Sciences               Interfacial effect on physical properties of composite media: Interfacial volume fraction with non-spherical hard-core-soft-shell-structured particles ▶     Wenxiang Xu, Qinglin Duan, Huaifa Ma et al.     Interfaces are known to be crucial in a variety of fields and the interfacial volume fraction dramatically affects physical properties of composite media. However, it is an open …             Strong optomechanical interactions in a sliced photonic crystal nanobeam ▶     Rick Leijssen, Ewold Verhagen     Coupling between mechanical and optical degrees of freedom is strongly enhanced by using subwavelength optical mode profiles. We realize an optomechanical system based on a …             Three Dimensional Hybrids of Vertical Graphene-nanosheet Sandwiched by Ag-nanoparticles for Enhanced Surface Selectively Catalytic Reactions ▶     Jing Zhao, Mentao Sun, Zhe Liu et al.     Three dimensional (3D) plasmonic nanostructure is perfect for the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and also very suitable for surface catalytic reaction, but how to …             Optical Imaging of Nonuniform Ferroelectricity and Strain at the Diffraction Limit ▶     Ondrej Vlasin, Blai Casals, Nico Dix et al.     We have imaged optically the spatial distributions of ferroelectricity and piezoelectricity at the diffraction limit. Contributions to the birefringence from electro-optics …             Terahertz-induced acceleration of massive Dirac electrons in semimetal bismuth ▶     Yasuo Minami, Kotaro Araki, Thang Duy Dao et al.     Dirac-like electrons in solid state have been of great interest since they exhibit many peculiar physical behaviors analogous to relativistic mechanics. Among them, carriers in …             Spin-dependent transport properties of Fe3O4/MoS2/Fe3O4 junctions ▶     Han-Chun Wu, Cormac Ó Coileáin, Mourad Abid et al.     Magnetite is a half-metal with a high Curie temperature of 858 K, making it a promising candidate for magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). Yet, initial efforts to exploit its half …             Quantum-electrodynamical birefringence vanishing in a thermal relativistic pair plasma ▶     Y. S. Huang     Quantum electrodynamical (QED) birefringence in a thermal relativistic pair plasma with the presence of the strong crossed field: , is proposed and investigated. We clarify the …             Transition and Damping of Collective Modes in a Trapped Fermi Gas between BCS and Unitary Limits near the Phase Transition ▶     Hang Dong, Wenyuan Zhang, Li Zhou et al.     We investigate the transition and damping of low-energy collective modes in a trapped unitary Fermi gas by solving the Boltzmann-Vlasov kinetic equation in a scaled form, which …             Sensitive electrochemical nonenzymatic glucose sensing based on anodized CuO nanowires on three-dimensional porous copper foam ▶     Zhenzhen Li, Yan Chen, Yanmei Xin et al.     In this work, we proposed to utilize three-dimensional porous copper foam (CF) as conductive substrate and precursor of in-situ growth CuO nanowires (NWs) for fabricating …             Using metamaterial nanoengineering to triple the superconducting critical temperature of bulk aluminum ▶     Vera N. Smolyaninova, Kathryn Zander, Thomas Gresock et al.     Recent experiments have shown the viability of the metamaterial approach to dielectric response engineering for enhancing the transition temperature, Tc, of a superconductor. In …             Physical realization of the Glauber quantum oscillator ▶     Silvia Gentilini, Maria Chiara Braidotti, Giulia Marcucci et al.     More than thirty years ago Glauber suggested that the link between the reversible microscopic and the irreversible macroscopic world can be formulated in physical terms through …             Integrated micro-optofluidic platform for real-time detection of airborne microorganisms ▶     Jeongan Choi, Miran Kang, Jae Hee Jung     We demonstrate an integrated micro-optofluidic platform for real-time, continuous detection and quantification of airborne microorganisms. Measurements of the fluorescence and …             Invisible Hyperbolic Metamaterial Nanotube at Visible Frequency ▶     Kyoung-Ho Kim, You-Shin No, Sehwan Chang et al.     Subwavelength-scale metal and dielectric nanostructures have served as important building blocks for electromagnetic metamaterials, providing unprecedented opportunities for …             Passband switchable microwave photonic multiband filter ▶     Jia Ge, Mable P. Fok     A reconfigurable microwave photonic (MWP) multiband filter with selectable and switchable passbands is proposed and experimentally demonstrated, with a maximum of 12 simultaneous …             Mapping of multi-elements during melting and solidification using synchrotron X-rays and pixel-based spectroscopy ▶     E. Liotti, A. Lui, T. Connolley et al.     A new synchrotron-based technique for elemental imaging that combines radiography and fluorescence spectroscopy has been developed and applied to study the spatial distribution …             Quantum Oscillation Signatures of Pressure-induced Topological Phase Transition in BiTeI ▶     Joonbum Park, Kyung-Hwan Jin, Y. J. Jo et al.     We report the pressure-induced topological quantum phase transition of BiTeI single crystals using Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations of bulk Fermi surfaces. The sizes of the inner …             Mid-infrared ultrafast laser pulses induced third harmonic generation in nitrogen molecules on an excited state ▶     Hongqiang Xie, Guihua Li, Jinping Yao et al.     We report on generation of third harmonic from nitrogen molecules on the excited state with a weak driver laser pulse at a mid-infrared wavelength. The excited nitrogen molecules …             Multiple Effects of the Second Fluid on Suspension Viscosity ▶     Jie Zhang, Hui Zhao, Weifeng Li et al.     Previous research has shown that adding a small amount of a second immiscible fluid to particulate suspension can result in a significant influence on viscosity. In this study, …             Structural phase transitions in Bi2Se3 under high pressure ▶     Zhenhai Yu, Lin Wang, Qingyang Hu et al.     Raman spectroscopy and angle dispersive X-ray diffraction (XRD) experiments of bismuth selenide (Bi2Se3) have been carried out to pressures of 35.6 and 81.2 GPa, respectively, to …             Electrical level of defects in single-layer two-dimensional TiO2 ▶     X. F. Song, L. F. Hu, D. H. Li et al.     The remarkable properties of graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have attracted increasing attention on two-dimensional materials, but the gate oxide, one of …             Universal Stochastic Multiscale Image Fusion: An Example Application for Shale Rock ▶     Kirill M. Gerke, Marina V. Karsanina, Dirk Mallants     Spatial data captured with sensors of different resolution would provide a maximum degree of information if the data were to be merged into a single image representing all …             Bridging the Gap between RF and Optical Patch Antenna Analysis via the Cavity Model ▶     G. S. Unal, M. I. Aksun     Although optical antennas with a variety of shapes and for a variety of applications have been proposed and studied, they are still in their infancy compared to their radio …             Strongly polarizing weakly coupled 13C nuclear spins with optically pumped nitrogen-vacancy center ▶     Ping Wang, Bao Liu, Wen Yang     Enhancing the polarization of nuclear spins surrounding the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond has recently attracted widespread attention due to its various applications. …             Boulders on asteroid Toutatis as observed by Chang’e-2 ▶     Yun Jiang, Jianghui Ji, Jiangchuan Huang et al.     Boulders are ubiquitously found on the surfaces of small rocky bodies in the inner solar system and their spatial and size distributions give insight into the geological …             Elasticity of polymeric nanocolloidal particles ▶     Jonas Riest, Labrini Athanasopoulou, Sergei A. Egorov et al.     Softness is an essential mechanical feature of macromolecular particles such as polymer-grafted nanocolloids, polyelectrolyte networks, cross-linked microgels as well as block …             Non-periodic outbreaks of recurrent epidemics and its network modelling ▶     Muhua Zheng, Chaoqing Wang, Jie Zhou et al.     The study of recurrent epidemic outbreaks has been attracting great attention for decades, but its underlying mechanism is still under debate. Based on a large number of real …             A novel electroporation system for efficient molecular delivery into Chlamydomonas reinhardtii with a 3-dimensional microelectrode ▶     Seongsu Kang, Kwon-Ho Kim, Yeu-Chun Kim     Electroporation is one of the most widely used transfection methods because of its high efficiency and convenience among the various transfection methods. Previous …             Waste-Glycerol-Directed Synthesis of Mesoporous Silica and Carbon with Superior Performance in Room-Temperature Hydrogen Production from Formic Acid ▶     Dong-Wook Lee, Min-Ho Jin, Ji Chan Park et al.     The development of easier, cheaper, and more ecofriendly synthetic methods for mesoporous materials remains a challenging topic to commercialize them, and the transformation of …             Phonon and magnetic structure in δ-plutonium from density-functional theory ▶     Per Söderlind, F. Zhou, A. Landa et al.     We present phonon properties of plutonium metal obtained from a combination of density-functional-theory (DFT) electronic structure and the recently developed compressive sensing …             Optical forces in nanorod metamaterial ▶     Andrey A. Bogdanov, Alexander S. Shalin, Pavel Ginzburg     Optomechanical manipulation of micro and nano-scale objects with laser beams finds use in a large span of multidisciplinary applications. Auxiliary nanostructuring could …             Erratum: Superconducting magnetoresistance in ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet trilayers ▶     D. Stamopoulos, E. Aristomenopoulou                 A New Strategy of Lithography Based on Phase Separation of Polymer Blends ▶     Xu Guo, Long Liu, Zhe Zhuang et al.     Herein, we propose a new strategy of maskless lithographic approach to fabricate micro/nano-porous structures by phase separation of polystyrene (PS)/Polyethylene glycol (PEG) …             Polarization and Thickness Dependent Absorption Properties of Black Phosphorus: New Saturable Absorber for Ultrafast Pulse Generation ▶     Diao Li, Henri Jussila, Lasse Karvonen et al.     Black phosphorus (BP) has recently been rediscovered as a new and interesting two-dimensional material due to its unique electronic and optical properties. Here, we study the …             Topological Superfluid and Majorana Zero Modes in Synthetic Dimension ▶     Zhongbo Yan, Shaolong Wan, Zhong Wang     Recently it has been shown that multicomponent spin-orbit-coupled fermions in one-dimensional optical lattices can be viewed as spinless fermions moving in two-dimensional …             An NMR Study of Biomimetic Fluorapatite – Gelatine Mesocrystals ▶     Anastasia Vyalikh, Paul Simon, Elena Rosseeva et al.     The mesocrystal system fluoroapatite—gelatine grown by double-diffusion is characterized by hierarchical composite structure on a mesoscale. In the present work we apply solid …             Optical Surface Transformation: Changing the optical surface by homogeneous optic-null medium at will ▶     Fei Sun, Sailing He     A new theory on designing electromagnetic/optical devices is proposed, namely, an optical surface transformation (OST). One arbitrary surface can establish the corresponding …             3D chemical imaging in the laboratory by hyperspectral X-ray computed tomography ▶     C. K. Egan, S. D. M. Jacques, M. D. Wilson et al.     We report the development of laboratory based hyperspectral X-ray computed tomography which allows the internal elemental chemistry of an object to be reconstructed and …             Predicting the behavior of microfluidic circuits made from discrete elements ▶     Krisna C. Bhargava, Bryant Thompson, Danish Iqbal et al.     Microfluidic devices can be used to execute a variety of continuous flow analytical and synthetic chemistry protocols with a great degree of precision. The growing availability …             Fast synthesis of platinum nanopetals and nanospheres for highly-sensitive non-enzymatic detection of glucose and selective sensing of ions ▶     Irene Taurino, Gabriella Sanzó, Franco Mazzei et al.     Novel methods to obtain Pt nanostructured electrodes have raised particular interest due to their high performance in electrochemistry. Several nanostructuration methods proposed …             Griffiths phase behaviour in a frustrated antiferromagnetic intermetallic compound ▶     Krishanu Ghosh, Chandan Mazumdar, R. Ranganathan et al.     The rare coexistence of a Griffiths phase (GP) and a geometrically frustrated antiferromagnetism in the non-stoichiometric intermetallic compound GdFe0.17Sn2 (the paramagnetic …             Dual Tuning of Biomass-Derived Hierarchical Carbon Nanostructures for Supercapacitors: the Role of Balanced Meso/Microporosity and Graphene ▶     Zhengju Zhu, Hao Jiang, Shaojun Guo et al.     Rational design of advanced carbon nanomaterials with a balanced mesoporosity to microporosity is highly desirable for achieving high energy/power density for supercapacitors …             Multishock Compression Properties of Warm Dense Argon ▶     Jun Zheng, Qifeng Chen, Gu Yunjun et al.     Warm dense argon was generated by a shock reverberation technique. The diagnostics of warm dense argon were performed by a multichannel optical pyrometer and a velocity …             Perfect spin filtering effect and negative differential behavior in phosphorus-doped zigzag graphene nanoribbons ▶     Fei Zou, Lin Zhu, Kailun Yao     On the basis of the density functional theory combined with the Keldysh nonequilibrium Green’s function method, we investigate the spin-dependent transport properties of …             Micro-Fresnel-Zone-Plate Array on Flexible Substrate for Large Field-of-View and Focus Scanning ▶     Mohammad J. Moghimi, Jayer Fernandes, Aditi Kanhere et al.     Field of view and accommodative focus are two fundamental attributes of many imaging systems, ranging from human eyes to microscopes. Here, we present arrays of Fresnel zone …             Facile Synthesis of Defective TiO2−x Nanocrystals with High Surface Area and Tailoring Bandgap for Visible-light Photocatalysis ▶     Muhammad Wajid Shah, Yunqing Zhu, Xiaoyun Fan et al.     A facile hydrothermal approach has been developed to prepare defective TiO2−x nanocrystals using Ti(III)-salt as a precursor and L-ascorbic acid as reductant and structure …             Electronic Properties of Fluoride and Half–fluoride Superlattices KZnF3/KAgF3 and SrTiO3/KAgF3 ▶     Xiaoping Yang, Haibin Su     We present the formation of cupratelike electronic structures in KAgF3–related superlattices resulted from the confinement together with structural chemical modification by using …             The quantum Ising model: finite sums and hyperbolic functions ▶     Bogdan Damski     We derive exact closed-form expressions for several sums leading to hyperbolic functions and discuss their applicability for studies of finite-size Ising spin chains. We show how …             Two Quantum Protocols for Oblivious Set-member Decision Problem ▶     Run-hua Shi, Yi Mu, Hong Zhong et al.     In this paper, we defined a new secure multi-party computation problem, called Oblivious Set-member Decision problem, which allows one party to decide whether a secret of another …             Coexistence of Antiferromagnetism and Superconductivity in Heavy Fermion Cerium Compound Ce3PdIn11 ▶     M. Kratochvílová, J. Prokleška, K. Uhlířová et al.     Many current research efforts in strongly correlated systems focus on the interplay between magnetism and superconductivity. Here we report on coexistence of both cooperative …             Nanorod Surface Plasmon Enhancement of Laser-Induced Ultrafast Demagnetization ▶     Haitian Xu, Ghazal Hajisalem, Geoffrey M. Steeves et al.     Ultrafast laser-induced magnetization dynamics in ferromagnetic thin films were measured using a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser in a pump-probe magneto-optic Kerr effect setup. …             Highly efficient organic light emitting diodes formed by solution processed red emitters with evaporated blue common layer structure ▶     Ye Ram Cho, Hyung Suk Kim, Young-Jun Yu et al.     We prepared highly-efficient solution-processed red phosphorescent organic light emitting diodes (PHOLEDs) with a blue common layer structure that can reasonably confine the …             Screen printed passive components for flexible power electronics ▶     Aminy E. Ostfeld, Igal Deckman, Abhinav M. Gaikwad et al.     Additive and low-temperature printing processes enable the integration of diverse electronic devices, both power-supplying and power-consuming, on flexible substrates at low …             Large Scale Laser Crystallization of Solution-based Alumina-doped Zinc Oxide (AZO) Nanoinks for Highly Transparent Conductive Electrode ▶     Qiong Nian, Michael Callahan, Mojib Saei et al.     A new method combining aqueous solution printing with UV Laser crystallization (UVLC) and post annealing is developed to deposit highly transparent and conductive Aluminum doped …             Influence of dust and mud on the optical, chemical, and mechanical properties of a pv protective glass ▶     Bekir Sami. Yilbas, Haider Ali, Mazen M. Khaled et al.     Recent developments in climate change have increased the frequency of dust storms in the Middle East. Dust storms significantly influence the performances of solar energy …             Formation of charged ferroelectric domain walls with controlled periodicity ▶     Petr S. Bednyakov, Tomas Sluka, Alexander K. Tagantsev et al.     Charged domain walls in proper ferroelectrics were shown recently to possess metallic-like conductivity. Unlike conventional heterointerfaces, these walls can be displaced inside …             Modeling the effect of comprehensive interventions on Ebola virus transmission ▶     Mingwang Shen, Yanni Xiao, Libin Rong     Since the re-emergence of Ebola in West Africa in 2014, comprehensive and stringent interventions have been implemented to decelerate the spread of the disease. The effectiveness …             Ultrafast traveling wave dominates the electric organ discharge of Apteronotus leptorhynchus: an inverse modelling study ▶     Aaron R. Shifman, André Longtin, John E. Lewis     Identifying and understanding the current sources that give rise to bioelectric fields is a fundamental problem in the biological sciences. It is very difficult, for example, to …             Tunable Multi-switching in Plasmonic Waveguide with Kerr Nonlinear Resonator ▶     Zhihui He, Hongjian Li, Shiping Zhan et al.     We propose a nanoplasmonic waveguide side-coupled with bright-dark-dark resonators in our paper. A multi-oscillator theory derived from the typical two-oscillator model, is …             Multiblock copolymers exhibiting spatio-temporal structure with autonomous viscosity oscillation ▶     Michika Onoda, Takeshi Ueki, Mitsuhiro Shibayama et al.     Here we report an ABA triblock copolymer that can express microscopic autonomous formation and break-up of aggregates under constant condition to generate macroscopic …             Fractional Solitons in Excitonic Josephson Junctions ▶     Ya-Fen Hsu, Jung-Jung Su     The Josephson effect is especially appealing to physicists because it reveals macroscopically the quantum order and phase. In excitonic bilayers the effect is even subtler due to …             Dynamical Buildup of Lasing in Mesoscale Devices ▶     T. Wang, G. P. Puccioni, G. L. Lippi     The classical description of laser field buildup, based on time-averaged photon statistics of Class A lasers, rests on a statistical mixture of coherent and incoherent photons. …             Erratum: Quantitative analysis of magnetic spin and orbital moments from an oxidized iron (1 1 0) surface using electron magnetic circular dichroism ▶     Thomas Thersleff, Jan Rusz, Stefano Rubino et al.                 Nanoscale volume confinement and fluorescence enhancement with double nanohole aperture ▶     Raju Regmi, Ahmed A. Al Balushi, Hervé Rigneault et al.     Diffraction ultimately limits the fluorescence collected from a single molecule, and sets an upper limit to the maximum concentration to isolate a single molecule in the …             Parsimonious description for predicting high-dimensional dynamics ▶     Yoshito Hirata, Tomoya Takeuchi, Shunsuke Horai et al.     When we observe a system, we often cannot observe all its variables and may have some of its limited measurements. Under such a circumstance, delay coordinates, vectors made of …             Coherent ultrafast spin-dynamics probed in three dimensional topological insulators ▶     F. Boschini, M. Mansurova, G. Mussler et al.     Topological insulators are candidates to open up a novel route in spin based electronics. Different to traditional ferromagnetic materials, where the carrier spin-polarization …             Erratum: Electric-field control of magnetic moment in Pd ▶     Aya Obinata, Yuki Hibino, Daichi Hayakawa et al.                 Heartbeat of the Sun from Principal Component Analysis and prediction of solar activity on a millenium timescale ▶     V. V. Zharkova, S. J. Shepherd, E. Popova et al.     We derive two principal components (PCs) of temporal magnetic field variations over the solar cycles 21–24 from full disk magnetograms covering about 39% of data variance, with σ…             Electrical stimulation of non-classical photon emission from diamond color centers by means of sub-superficial graphitic electrodes ▶     Jacopo Forneris, Paolo Traina, Daniele Gatto Monticone et al.     Focused MeV ion beams with micrometric resolution are suitable tools for the direct writing of conductive graphitic channels buried in an insulating diamond bulk, as already …             CH-π Interaction Driven Macroscopic Property Transition on Smart Polymer Surface ▶     Minmin Li, Guangyan Qing, Yuting Xiong et al.     Life systems have evolved to utilize weak noncovalent interactions, particularly CH-π interaction, to achieve various biofunctions, for example cellular communication, immune …             Bending light via adiabatic optical transition in longitudinally modulated photonic lattices ▶     Bin Han, Lei Xu, Yiling Dou et al.     Bending light in a controllable way is desired in various applications such as beam steering, navigating and cloaking. Different from the conventional way to bend light by …             Electrospun Fibrous Membranes with Super-large-strain Electric Superhydrophobicity ▶     Hua Zhou, Hongxia Wang, Haitao Niu et al.     Large-strain elastic superhydrophobicity is highly desirable for its enhanced use performance and functional reliability in mechanically dynamic environments, but remains …             Printing Highly Controlled Suspended Carbon Nanotube Network on Micro-patterned Superhydrophobic Flexible Surface ▶     Bo Li, Xin Wang, Hyun Young Jung et al.     Suspended single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) offer unique functionalities for electronic and electromechanical systems. Due to their outstanding flexible nature, suspended …             Gradual edge enhancement in spiral phase contrast imaging with fractional vortex filters ▶     Jikang Wang, Wuhong Zhang, Qianqian Qi et al.     In the spiral phase contrast imaging, the integer spiral phase plate (SPP) are generally employed to perform the radial Hilbert transform on the object. Here we introduce …             PVP-Assisted Solvothermal Synthesis of High-Yielded Bi2Te3 Hexagonal Nanoplates: Application in Passively Q-Switched Fiber Laser ▶     Xin He, Hang Zhang, Wei Lin et al.     High-yielded Bi2Te3 hexagonal nanoplates were fabricated via a facile solvothermal method with the assistance of poly (vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVP). Effects of PVP molecular weight …             Direct Conversion of CH3NH3PbI3 from Electrodeposited PbO for Highly Efficient Planar Perovskite Solar Cells ▶     Jin-hua Huang, Ke-jian Jiang, Xue-ping Cui et al.     Organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite materials have recently been identified as a promising light absorber for solar cells. In the efficient solar cells, the perovskite active …             Gap state analysis in electric-field-induced band gap for bilayer graphene ▶     Kaoru Kanayama, Kosuke Nagashio     The origin of the low current on/off ratio at room temperature in dual-gated bilayer graphene field-effect transistors is considered to be the variable range hopping in gap …             Fluidic Active Transducer for Electricity Generation ▶     YoungJun Yang, Junwoo Park, Soon-Hyung Kwon et al.     Flows in small size channels have been studied for a long time over multidisciplinary field such as chemistry, biology and medical through the various topics. Recently, the …             Magnetic-charge ordering and phase transitions in monopole-conserved square spin ice ▶     Y.-L. Xie, Z.-Z. Du, Z.-B. Yan et al.     Magnetic-charge ordering and corresponding magnetic/monopole phase transitions in spin ices are the emergent topics of condensed matter physics. In this work, we investigate a …             Superadiabatic Controlled Evolutions and Universal Quantum Computation ▶     Alan C. Santos, Marcelo S. Sarandy     Adiabatic state engineering is a powerful technique in quantum information and quantum control. However, its performance is limited by the adiabatic theorem of quantum mechanics. …             Toward industrial scale synthesis of ultrapure singlet nanoparticles with controllable sizes in a continuous gas-phase process ▶     Jicheng Feng, George Biskos, Andreas Schmidt-Ott     Continuous gas-phase synthesis of nanoparticles is associated with rapid agglomeration, which can be a limiting factor for numerous applications. In this report, we challenge …             An analytic model for accurate spring constant calibration of rectangular atomic force microscope cantilevers ▶     Rui Li, Hongfei Ye, Weisheng Zhang et al.     Spring constant calibration of the atomic force microscope (AFM) cantilever is of fundamental importance for quantifying the force between the AFM cantilever tip and the sample. …             Erratum: Structural Mechanism for Regulation of Bcl-2 protein Noxa by phosphorylation ▶     Christine B. Karim, L. Michel Espinoza-Fonseca, Zachary M. James et al.                 X-ray Scatter Imaging of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Mouse Model Using Nanoparticle Contrast Agents ▶     Danielle Rand, Zoltan Derdak, Rolf Carlson et al.     Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common malignant tumors worldwide and is almost uniformly fatal. Current methods of detection include ultrasound examination and …             Dual-Modality Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Imaging System for Noninvasive Sentinel Lymph Node Detection in Patients with Breast Cancer ▶     Alejandro Garcia-Uribe, Todd N. Erpelding, Arie Krumholz et al.     The detection of regional lymph node metastases is important in cancer staging as it guides the prognosis of the patient and the strategy for treatment. Sentinel lymph node …             A Gaze Independent Brain-Computer Interface Based on Visual Stimulation through Closed Eyelids ▶     Han-Jeong Hwang, Valeria Y. Ferreria, Daniel Ulrich et al.     A classical brain-computer interface (BCI) based on visual event-related potentials (ERPs) is of limited application value for paralyzed patients with severe oculomotor …             Electronic transport properties of Ir-decorated graphene ▶     Yilin Wang, Shudong Xiao, Xinghan Cai et al.     Graphene decorated with 5d transitional metal atoms is predicted to exhibit many intriguing properties; for example iridium adatoms are proposed to induce a substantial …             On-chip plasmonic waveguide optical waveplate ▶     Linfei Gao, Yijie Huo, Kai Zang et al.     Polarization manipulation is essential in almost every photonic system ranging from telecommunications to bio-sensing to quantum information. This is traditionally achieved using …             a-SiNx:H-based ultra-low power resistive random access memory with tunable Si dangling bond conduction paths ▶     Xiaofan Jiang, Zhongyuan Ma, Jun Xu et al.     The realization of ultra-low power Si-based resistive switching memory technology will be a milestone in the development of next generation non-volatile memory. Here we show that …             Plasmon-Induced Transparency by Hybridizing Concentric-Twisted Double Split Ring Resonators ▶     Mohammad Parvinnezhad Hokmabadi, Elizabath Philip, Elmer Rivera et al.     As a classical analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency, plasmon induced transparency (PIT) has attracted great attention by mitigating otherwise cumbersome …             Interface control of electronic transport across the magnetic phase transition in SrRuO3/SrTiO3 heterointerface ▶     S. Roy, C. Autieri, B. Sanyal et al.     The emerging material class of complex-oxides, where manipulation of physical properties lead to new functionalities at their heterointerfaces, is expected to open new frontiers …             High sensitive space electric field sensing based on micro fiber interferometer with field force driven gold nanofilm ▶     Tao Zhu, Liming Zhou, Min Liu et al.     The traditional electrical field sensing can be realized by utilizing electro-optic materials or liquid crystals, and has limitations of easy breakdown, free assembly and …             Corrigendum: Collective Motion of Swarming Agents Evolving on a Sphere Manifold: A Fundamental Framework and Characterization ▶     Wei Li                 Effect of the thin-film limit on the measurable optical properties of graphene ▶     Jakub Holovský, Sylvain Nicolay, Stefaan De Wolf et al.     The fundamental sheet conductance of graphene can be directly related to the product of its absorption coefficient, thickness and refractive index. The same can be done for …             High-Gain High-Field Fusion Plasma ▶     Ge Li     A Faraday wheel (FW)—an electric generator of constant electrical polarity that produces huge currents—could be implemented in an existing tokamak to study high-gain high-field …             Optical Characterization of Strong UV Luminescence Emitted from the Excitonic Edge of Nickel Oxide Nanotowers ▶     Ching-Hwa Ho, Yi-Ming Kuo, Ching-Hsiang Chan et al.     NiO had been claimed to have the potential for application in transparent conducting oxide, electrochromic device for light control, and nonvolatile memory device. However, the …             Topological computation based on direct magnetic logic communication ▶     Shilei Zhang, Alexander A. Baker, Stavros Komineas et al.     Non-uniform magnetic domains with non-trivial topology, such as vortices and skyrmions, are proposed as superior state variables for nonvolatile information storage. So far, the …             Sources of plutonium in the atmosphere and stratosphere-troposphere mixing ▶     Katsumi Hirose, Pavel P. Povinec     Plutonium isotopes have primarily been injected to the stratosphere by the atmospheric nuclear weapon tests and the burn-up of the SNAP-9A satellite. Here we show by using …             Density dependent composition of InAs quantum dots extracted from grazing incidence x-ray diffraction measurements ▶     Manjula Sharma, Milan K. Sanyal, Ian Farrer et al.     Epitaxial InAs quantum dots grown on GaAs substrate are being used in several applications ranging from quantum communications to solar cells. The growth mechanism of these dots …             Shortcuts to adiabatic passage for fast generation of Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states by transitionless quantum driving ▶     Ye-Hong Chen, Yan Xia, Jie Song et al.     Berry’s approach on “transitionless quantum driving” shows how to set a Hamiltonian which drives the dynamics of a system along instantaneous eigenstates of a reference …             Systemic Risk Analysis on Reconstructed Economic and Financial Networks ▶     Giulio Cimini, Tiziano Squartini, Diego Garlaschelli et al.     We address a fundamental problem that is systematically encountered when modeling real-world complex systems of societal relevance: the limitedness of the information available. …             Tunable magnetocaloric effect in transition metal alloys ▶     Dustin D. Belyea, M. S. Lucas, E. Michel et al.     The unpredictability of geopolitical tensions and resulting supply chain and pricing instabilities make it imperative to explore rare earth free magnetic materials. As such, we …             Running and tumbling with E. coli in polymeric solutions ▶     A. E. Patteson, A. Gopinath, M. Goulian et al.     Run-and-tumble motility is widely used by swimming microorganisms including numerous prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. Here, we experimentally investigate the run-and-tumble …             Synergistic anti-tumor therapy by a comb-like multifunctional antibody nanoarray with exceptionally potent activity ▶     Huafei Li, Yun Sun, Di Chen et al.     Simultaneously blocking multiple mediators offers new hope for the treatment of complex diseases. However, the curative potential of current combination therapy by chronological …             Sexual behavior, risk perception, and HIV transmission can respond to HIV antiviral drugs and vaccines through multiple pathways ▶     Stephen Tully, Monica Cojocaru, Chris T. Bauch     There has been growing use of highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) for HIV and significant progress in developing prophylactic HIV vaccines. The simplest theories of …             Reinforcing endothelial junctions prevents microvessel permeability increase and tumor cell adhesion in microvessels in vivo ▶     Bingmei M. Fu, Jinlin Yang, Bin Cai et al.     Tumor cell adhesion to the microvessel wall is a critical step during tumor metastasis. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a secretion of tumor cells, can increase …             Strongly-coupled plasmas formed from laser-heated solids ▶     M. Lyon, S. D. Bergeson, G. Hart et al.     We present an analysis of ion temperatures in laser-produced plasmas formed from solids with different initial lattice structures. We show that the equilibrium ion temperature is …             Multifunctional Single-Phase Photocatalysts: Extended Near Infrared Photoactivity and Reliable Magnetic Recyclability ▶     Xiaoning Li, Zhu Zhu, Feng Li et al.     A practical photocatalyst should be able to integrate together various functions including the extended solar conversion, a feasible and economic recyclability, and above the …             Reconstruction of two-dimensional molecular structure with laser-induced electron diffraction from laser-aligned polyatomic molecules ▶     Chao Yu, Hui Wei, Xu Wang et al.     Imaging the transient process of molecules has been a basic way to investigate photochemical reactions and dynamics. Based on laser-induced electron diffraction and partial …             Impurity channels of the long-lived Mossbauer effect ▶     Yao-Yuan Liu, Yao Cheng     Recent reports have suggested that the nuclear resonant absorption of a long-lived Mossbauer state e.g., 93mNb is mediated by an entangled photon pair (biphoton) rather than by a …             Dense Helical Electron Bunch Generation in Near-Critical Density Plasmas with Ultrarelativistic Laser Intensities ▶     Ronghao Hu, Bin Liu, Haiyang Lu et al.     The mechanism for emergence of helical electron bunch(HEB) from an ultrarelativistic circularly polarized laser pulse propagating in near-critical density(NCD) plasma is …             Enhancement of the blue photoluminescence intensity for the porous silicon with HfO2 filling into microcavities ▶     Ran Jiang, Xianghao Du, Weideng Sun et al.     With HfO2 filled into the microcavities of the porous single-crystal silicon, the blue photoluminescence was greatly enhanced at room temperature. On one hand, HfO2 contributes …             A self-stabilized coherent phonon source driven by optical forces ▶     D. Navarro-Urrios, N. E. Capuj, J. Gomis-Bresco et al.     We report a novel injection scheme that allows for “phonon lasing” in a one-dimensional opto-mechanical photonic crystal, in a sideband unresolved regime and with cooperativity …             A Non-sulfided flower-like Ni-PTA Catalyst that Enhances the Hydrotreatment Efficiency of Plant Oil to Produce Green Diesel ▶     Jing Liu, Pan Chen, Lihong Deng et al.     The development of a novel non-sulfided catalyst with high activity for the hydrotreatment processing of plant oils, is of high interest as a way to improve the efficient …             Latticed pentamode acoustic cloak ▶     Yi Chen, Xiaoning Liu, Gengkai Hu     We report in this work a practical design of pentamode acoustic cloak with microstructure. The proposed cloak is assembled by pentamode lattice made of a single-phase solid …             Glass transition of aqueous solutions involving annealing-induced ice recrystallization resolves liquid-liquid transition puzzle of water ▶     Li-Shan Zhao, Ze-Xian Cao, Qiang Wang     Liquid-liquid transition of water is an important concept in condensed-matter physics. Recently, it was claimed to have been confirmed in aqueous solutions based on …             Fourier-transform spectroscopy using an Er-doped fiber femtosecond laser by sweeping the pulse repetition rate ▶     Keunwoo Lee, Joohyung Lee, Yoon-Soo Jang et al.     Femtosecond lasers allow for simultaneous detection of multiple absorption lines of a specimen over a broad spectral range of infrared or visible light with a single …             Sintering boron carbide ceramics without grain growth by plastic deformation as the dominant densification mechanism ▶     Wei Ji, Sahibzada Shakir Rehman, Weimin Wang et al.     A new ceramic sintering approach employing plastic deformation as the dominant mechanism is proposed, at low temperature close to the onset point of grain growth and under high …             Eco-friendly synthesis of metal dichalcogenides nanosheets and their environmental remediation potential driven by visible light ▶     Ashish Kumar Mishra, K. V. Lakshmi, Liping Huang     Exfoliated transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) such as WS2 and MoS2 have shown exciting potential for energy storage, catalysis and optoelectronics. So far, solution based …             A new nanoscale metastable iron phase in carbon steels ▶     Tianwei Liu, Danxia Zhang, Qing Liu et al.     Metastable ω phase is common in body-centred cubic (bcc) metals and alloys, including high-alloying steels. Recent theoretical calculations also suggest that the ω structure may …             Encrypted Three-dimensional Dynamic Imaging using Snapshot Time-of-flight Compressed Ultrafast Photography ▶     Jinyang Liang, Liang Gao, Pengfei Hai et al.     Compressed ultrafast photography (CUP), a computational imaging technique, is synchronized with short-pulsed laser illumination to enable dynamic three-dimensional (3D) imaging. …             Massive Dirac Fermion Observed in Lanthanide-Doped Topological Insulator Thin Films ▶     S. E. Harrison, L. J. Collins-McIntyre, P. Schönherr et al.     The breaking of time reversal symmetry (TRS) in three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TIs), and thus the opening of a ‘Dirac-mass gap’ in the linearly dispersed Dirac …             Quantitative micro-elastography: imaging of tissue elasticity using compression optical coherence elastography ▶     Kelsey M. Kennedy, Lixin Chin, Robert A. McLaughlin et al.     Probing the mechanical properties of tissue on the microscale could aid in the identification of diseased tissues that are inadequately detected using palpation or current …             Suppression of Shear Banding and Transition to Necking and Homogeneous Flow in Nanoglass Nanopillars ▶     Sara Adibi, Paulo S. Branicio, Shailendra P. Joshi     In order to improve the properties of metallic glasses (MG) a new type of MG structure, composed of nanoscale grains, referred to as nanoglass (NG), has been recently proposed. …             Multispectral optical metasurfaces enabled by achromatic phase transition ▶     Zeyu Zhao, Mingbo Pu, Hui Gao et al.     The independent control of electromagnetic waves with different oscillating frequencies is critical in the modern electromagnetic techniques, such as wireless communications and …             Heralded high-efficiency quantum repeater with atomic ensembles assisted by faithful single-photon transmission ▶     Tao Li, Fu-Guo Deng     Quantum repeater is one of the important building blocks for long distance quantum communication network. The previous quantum repeaters based on atomic ensembles and linear …             Strong odd-frequency correlations in fully gapped Zeeman-split superconductors ▶     Jacob Linder, Jason W. A. Robinson     It is now well established that at a superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F) interface an unconventional superconducting state arises in which the pairing is odd-frequency. The hallmark …             Spin-glass-like freezing of inner and outer surface layers in hollow γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles ▶     Hafsa Khurshid, Paula Lampen-Kelley, Òscar Iglesias et al.     Disorder among surface spins is a dominant factor in the magnetic response of magnetic nanoparticle systems. In this work, we examine time-dependent magnetization in …             Security of Semi-Device-Independent Random Number Expansion Protocols ▶     Dan-Dan Li, Qiao-Yan Wen, Yu-Kun Wang et al.     Semi-device-independent random number expansion (SDI-RNE) protocols require some truly random numbers to generate fresh ones, with making no assumptions on the internal working …             Simultaneous demultiplexing and steering of multiple orbital angular momentum modes ▶     Shuhui Li, Jian Wang     We present a simple scheme to perform simultaneous demultiplexing and steering of multiple orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes using a single complex phase mask. By designing …             Radioluminescence and photoluminescence of Th:CaF2 crystals ▶     Simon Stellmer, Matthias Schreitl, Thorsten Schumm     We study thorium-doped CaF2 crystals as a possible platform for optical spectroscopy of the 229Th nuclear isomer transition. We anticipate two major sources of background signal …             Secrets of virtuoso: neuromuscular attributes of motor virtuosity in expert musicians ▶     Shinichi Furuya, Takanori Oku, Fumio Miyazaki et al.     Musical performance requires extremely fast and dexterous limb movements. The underlying biological mechanisms have been an object of interest among scientists and non-scientists …             Retinal oxygen extraction in humans ▶     René M. Werkmeister, Doreen Schmidl, Gerold Aschinger et al.     Adequate function of the retina is dependent on proper oxygen supply. In humans, the inner retina is oxygenated via the retinal circulation. We present a method to calculate …             Three-Dimensional Blood-Brain Barrier Model for in vitro Studies of Neurovascular Pathology ▶     Hansang Cho, Ji Hae Seo, Keith H. K. Wong et al.     Blood–brain barrier (BBB) pathology leads to neurovascular disorders and is an important target for therapies. However, the study of BBB pathology is difficult in the absence of …             APOBEC3G Interacts with ssDNA by Two Modes: AFM Studies ▶     Luda S. Shlyakhtenko, Samrat Dutta, Jaspreet Banga et al.     APOBEC3G (A3G) protein has antiviral activity against HIV and other pathogenic retroviruses. A3G has two domains: a catalytic C-terminal domain (CTD) that deaminates cytidine, …             Poly-L-ornithine promotes preferred differentiation of neural stem/progenitor cells via ERK signalling pathway ▶     Hongfei Ge, Liang Tan, Pengfei Wu et al.     Neural stem/progenitor cells (NSPCs) replacement therapies are the most attractive strategies to restore an injured brain. Key challenges of such therapies are enriching NSPCs …             Annual periodicity in planktonic bacterial and archaeal community composition of eutrophic Lake Taihu ▶     Junfeng Li, Junyi Zhang, Liyang Liu et al.     Bacterioplankton plays a key role in nutrient cycling and is closely related to water eutrophication and algal bloom. We used high-throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing to profile …             A geometric network model of intrinsic grey-matter connectivity of the human brain ▶     Yi-Ping Lo, Reuben O’Dea, Jonathan J. 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