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17 November 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               High-power graphene mode-locked Tm/Ho co-doped fiber laser with evanescent field interaction ▶     Xiaohui Li, Xuechao Yu, Zhipei Sun et al.     Mid-infrared ultrafast fiber lasers are valuable for various applications, including chemical and biomedical sensing, material processing and military applications. Here, we …             X-ray induced dimerization of cinnamic acid: Time-resolved inelastic X-ray scattering study ▶     Juho Inkinen, Johannes Niskanen, Tuomas Talka et al.     A classic example of solid-state topochemical reactions is the ultraviolet-light induced photodimerization of α-trans-cinnamic acid (CA). Here, we report the first observation of …             Integrated III-V Photonic Crystal – Si waveguide platform with tailored optomechanical coupling ▶     Viktor Tsvirkun, Alessandro Surrente, Fabrice Raineri et al.     Optomechanical systems, in which the vibrations of a mechanical resonator are coupled to an electromagnetic radiation, have permitted the investigation of a wealth of novel …             The Effect of Rotational Disorder on the Microwave Transmission of Checkerboard Metal Square Arrays ▶     B. Tremain, C. J. Durrant, I. E. Carter et al.     The effect of rotational disorder on the microwave transmission through thin metallic checkerboard arrays has been experimentally studied. Broad resonant features below the onset …             Rapid and robust spatiotemporal dynamics of the first-order phase transition in crystals of the organic-inorganic perovskite (C12H25NH3)2PbI4 ▶     Aymen Yangui, Mouhamadou Sy, Liang Li et al.     The dynamics of the thermally induced first-order structural phase transition in a high-quality single crystal of the organic-inorganic perovskite (C12H25NH3)2PbI4 was …             A Geometric-Structure Theory for Maximally Random Jammed Packings ▶     Jianxiang Tian, Yaopengxiao Xu, Yang Jiao et al.     Maximally random jammed (MRJ) particle packings can be viewed as prototypical glasses in that they are maximally disordered while simultaneously being mechanically rigid. The …             Structural, electronic and vibrational properties of few-layer 2H- and 1T-TaSe2 ▶     Jia-An Yan, Mack A. Dela Cruz, Brandon Cook et al.     Two-dimensional metallic transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are of interest for studying phenomena such as charge-density wave (CDW) and superconductivity. Few-layer …             Compression of X-ray Free Electron Laser Pulses to Attosecond Duration ▶     James D. Sadler, Ricky Nathvani, Piotr Oleśkiewicz et al.     State of the art X-ray Free Electron Laser facilities currently provide the brightest X-ray pulses available, typically with mJ energy and several hundred femtosecond duration. …             Graphdiyne as a promising material for detecting amino acids ▶     Xi Chen, Pengfei Gao, Lei Guo et al.     The adsorption of glycine, glutamic acid, histidine and phenylalanine on single-layer graphdiyne/ graphene is investigated by ab initio calculations. The results show that for …             Value-added Synthesis of Graphene: Recycling Industrial Carbon Waste into Electrodes for High-Performance Electronic Devices ▶     Hong-Kyu Seo, Tae-Sik Kim, Chibeom Park et al.     We have developed a simple, scalable, transfer-free, ecologically sustainable, value-added method to convert inexpensive coal tar pitch to patterned graphene films directly on …             Optical coherence tomography-guided laser microsurgery for blood coagulation with continuous-wave laser diode ▶     Feng-Yu Chang, Meng-Tsan Tsai, Zu-Yi Wang et al.     Blood coagulation is the clotting and subsequent dissolution of the clot following repair to the damaged tissue. However, inducing blood coagulation is difficult for some …             Nanostructures of Indium Gallium Nitride Crystals Grown on Carbon Nanotubes ▶     Ji-Yeon Park, Keun Man Song, Yo-Sep Min et al.     Nanostructure (NS) InGaN crystals were grown on carbon nanotubes (CNTs) using metalorganic chemical vapor deposition. The NS-InGaN crystals, grown on a ~5-μm-long CNT/Si …             Dephasing-Induced Control of Interference Nature in Three-Level Electromagnetically Induced Tansparency Systems ▶     Yong Sun, Yaping Yang, Hong Chen et al.     The influence of the dephasing on interference is investigated theoretically and experimentally in three-level electromagnetically induced transparency systems. The nature of the …             Boron nitride encapsulated copper nanoparticles: a facile one-step synthesis and their effect on thermal decomposition of ammonium perchlorate ▶     Caijin Huang, Qiuwen liu, Wenjie Fan et al.     Reactivity is of great importance for metal nanoparticles used as catalysts, biomaterials and advanced sensors, but seeking for high reactivity seems to be conflict with high …             Ultra-low Thermal Conductivity in Si/Ge Hierarchical Superlattice Nanowire ▶     Xin Mu, Lili Wang, Xueming Yang et al.     Due to interfacial phonon scattering and nanoscale size effect, silicon/germanium (Si/Ge) superlattice nanowire (SNW) can have very low thermal conductivity, which is very …             High-efficiency exfoliation of layered materials into 2D nanosheets in switchable CO2/Surfactant/H2O system ▶     Nan Wang, Qun Xu, Shanshan Xu et al.     Layered materials present attractive and important properties due to their two-dimensional (2D) structure, allowing potential applications including electronics, optoelectronics, …             Signature of a continuous quantum phase transition in non-equilibrium energy absorption: Footprints of criticality on higher excited states ▶     Sirshendu Bhattacharyya, Subinay Dasgupta, Arnab Das     Understanding phase transitions in quantum matters constitutes a significant part of present day condensed matter physics. Quantum phase transitions concern ground state …             Plasmon-Enhanced Surface Photovoltage of ZnO/Ag Nanogratings ▶     Minji Gwon, Ahrum Sohn, Yunae Cho et al.     We investigated the surface photovoltage (SPV) behaviors of ZnO/Ag one-dimensional (1D) nanogratings using Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM). The grating structure could …             Conditional cooling limit for a quantum channel going through an incoherent environment ▶     Ivo Straka, Martina Miková, Michal Mičuda et al.     We propose and experimentally verify a cooling limit for a quantum channel going through an incoherent environment. The environment consists of a large number of independent …             Hybrid Toffoli gate on photons and quantum spins ▶     Ming-Xing Luo, Song-Ya Ma, Xiu-Bo Chen et al.     Quantum computation offers potential advantages in solving a number of interesting and difficult problems. Several controlled logic gates, the elemental building blocks of …             Linear monogamy of entanglement in three-qubit systems ▶     Feng Liu, Fei Gao, Qiao-Yan Wen     For any three-qubit quantum systems ABC, Oliveira et al. numerically found that both the concurrence and the entanglement of formation (EoF) obey the linear monogamy relations in …             Disease-induced resource constraints can trigger explosive epidemics ▶     L. Böttcher, O. Woolley-Meza, N. A. M. Araújo et al.     Advances in mathematical epidemiology have led to a better understanding of the risks posed by epidemic spreading and informed strategies to contain disease spread. However, a …             Bubbler: A Novel Ultra-High Power Density Energy Harvesting Method Based on Reverse Electrowetting ▶     Tsung-Hsing Hsu, Supone Manakasettharn, J. Ashley Taylor et al.     We have proposed and successfully demonstrated a novel approach to direct conversion of mechanical energy into electrical energy using microfluidics. The method combines …             Artificially produced rare-earth free cosmic magnet ▶     Akihiro Makino, Parmanand Sharma, Kazuhisa Sato et al.     Chemically ordered hard magnetic L10-FeNi phase of higher grade than cosmic meteorites is produced artificially. Present alloy design shortens the formation time from hundreds of …             Cost-Effective and Highly Photoresponsive Nanophosphor-P3HT Photoconductive Nanocomposite for Near-Infrared Detection ▶     Yi Tong, Xinyu Zhao, Mei Chee Tan et al.     The advent of flexible optoelectronic devices has accelerated the development of semiconducting polymeric materials. We seek to replace conventional expensive semiconducting …             A Deep Look Into Erionite Fibres: an Electron Microscopy Investigation of their Self-Assembly ▶     Roberto Matassa, Giuseppe Familiari, Michela Relucenti et al.     The exposure of humans to erionite fibres of appropriate morphology and dimension has been unambiguously linked to the occurrence of Malignant Mesothelioma. For this reason, a …             From Soybean residue to advanced supercapacitors ▶     G. A. Ferrero, A. B. Fuertes, M. Sevilla     Supercapacitor technology is an extremely timely area of research with fierce international competition to develop cost-effective, environmentally friendlier EC electrode …             Molecular Designs for Enhancement of Polarity in Ferroelectric Soft Materials ▶     Ryo Ohtani, Manabu Nakaya, Hitomi Ohmagari et al.     The racemic oxovanadium(IV) salmmen complexes, [VO((rac)-(4-X-salmmen))] (X = C12C10C5 (1), C16 (2), and C18 (3); salmmen = N,N′-monomethylenebis-salicylideneimine) with “banana …             The Emergence of Relationship-based Cooperation ▶     Bo Xu, Jianwei Wang     This paper investigates the emergence of relationship-based cooperation by coupling two simple mechanisms into the model: tie strength based investment preference and homophily …             Synthesis and Properties Evolution of a Family of Tiara-like Phenylethanethiolated Palladium Nanoclusters ▶     Jishi Chen, Liren Liu, Linhong Weng et al.     Tiara-like thiolated group 10 transition metal (Ni, Pd, Pt) nanoclusters have attracted extensive interest due to their fundamental scientific significance and potential …             Large-scale production of bioactive recombinant human acidic fibroblast growth factor in transgenic silkworm cocoons ▶     Feng Wang, Riyuan Wang, Yuancheng Wang et al.     With an increasing clinical demand for functional therapeutic proteins every year, there is an increasing requirement for the massive production of bioactive recombinant human …             Influence of copper content on the electrocatalytic activity toward methanol oxidation of CoχCuy alloy nanoparticles-decorated CNFs ▶     Zafar Khan Ghouri, Nasser A. M. Barakat, Hak Yong Kim     In this study, CoCu alloy nanoparticles-incorporated carbon nanofibers are introduced as effective non precious electrocatalyst for methanol oxidation in alkaline medium. The …             Quasi suppression of higher-order diffractions with inclined rectangular apertures gratings ▶     Yuwei Liu, Xiaoli Zhu, Yulin Gao et al.     Advances in the fundamentals and applications of diffraction gratings have received much attention. However, conventional diffraction gratings often suffer from higher-order …             Electronic band-gap modified passive silicon optical modulator at telecommunications wavelengths ▶     Rui Zhang, Haohai Yu, Huaijin Zhang et al.     The silicon optical modulator is considered to be the workhorse of a revolution in communications. In recent years, the capabilities of externally driven active silicon optical …             Visualization of polymer relaxation in viscoelastic turbulent micro-channel flow ▶     Jiayan Tai, Chun Ping Lim, Yee Cheong Lam     In micro-channels, the flow of viscous liquids e.g. water, is laminar due to the low Reynolds number in miniaturized dimensions. An aqueous solution becomes viscoelastic with a …             Modal engineering of Surface Plasmons in apertured Au Nanoprisms ▶     Aurélien Cuche, Sviatlana Viarbitskaya, Jadab Sharma et al.     Crystalline gold nanoprisms of sub-micrometric size sustain high order plasmon modes in the visible and near infrared range that open a new realm for plasmon modal design, …             Carbon-Encapsulated Co3O4 Nanoparticles as Anode Materials with Super Lithium Storage Performance ▶     Xuning Leng, Sufeng Wei, Zhonghao Jiang et al.     A high-performance anode material for lithium storage was successfully synthesized by glucose as carbon source and cobalt nitrate as Co3O4 precursor with the assistance of sodium …             Magnetic field-dependent shape anisotropy in small patterned films studied using rotating magnetoresistance ▶     Xiaolong Fan, Hengan Zhou, Jinwei Rao et al.     Based on the electric rotating magnetoresistance method, the shape anisotropy of a Co microstrip has been systematically investigated. We find that the shape anisotropy is …             Minimal evolution time and quantum speed limit of non-Markovian open systems ▶     Xiangyi Meng, Chengjun Wu, Hong Guo     We derive a sharp bound as the quantum speed limit (QSL) for the minimal evolution time of quantum open systems in the non-Markovian strong-coupling regime with initial mixed …             Broadband All-Polymer Phototransistors with Nanostructured Bulk Heterojunction Layers of NIR-Sensing n-Type and Visible Light-Sensing p-Type Polymers ▶     Hyemi Han, Sungho Nam, Jooyeok Seo et al.     We report ‘broadband light-sensing’ all-polymer phototransistors with the nanostructured bulk heterojunction (BHJ) layers of visible (VIS) light-sensing electron-donating …             High catalytic activity and pollutants resistivity using Fe-AAPyr cathode catalyst for microbial fuel cell application ▶     Carlo Santoro, Alexey Serov, Claudia W. Narvaez Villarrubia et al.     For the first time, a new generation of innovative non-platinum group metal catalysts based on iron and aminoantipyrine as precursor (Fe-AAPyr) has been utilized in a …             A novel violet/blue light-emitting device based on Ce2Si2O7 ▶     Ling Li, Shenwei Wang, Guangyao Mu et al.     Rare-earth silicates are highly efficient materials for silicon-based light sources. Here we report a novel light-emitting device based on Ce2Si2O7. Intense violet/blue …             Imprinting bulk amorphous alloy at room temperature ▶     Song-Yi Kim, Eun-Soo Park, Ryan T. Ott et al.     We present investigations on the plastic deformation behavior of a brittle bulk amorphous alloy by simple uniaxial compressive loading at room temperature. A patterning is …             High-Performance Planar-Type Photodetector on (100) Facet of MAPbI3 Single Crystal ▶     Zhipeng Lian, Qingfeng Yan, Qianrui Lv et al.     Recently, the discovery of organometallic halide perovskites provides promising routes for fabricating optoelectronic devices with low cost and high performance. Previous …             Optimally conductive networks in randomly dispersed CNT:graphene hybrids ▶     Wonbo Shim, Youbin Kwon, Seung-Yeol Jeon et al.     A predictive model is proposed that quantitatively describes the synergistic behavior of the electrical conductivities of CNTs and graphene in CNT:graphene hybrids. The number of …             Fiber-optic control and thermometry of single-cell thermosensation logic ▶     I.V. Fedotov, N.A. Safronov, Yu.G. Ermakova et al.     Thermal activation of transient receptor potential (TRP) cation channels is one of the most striking examples of temperature-controlled processes in cell biology. As the evidence …             Variations in Crystalline Structures and Electrical Properties of Single Crystalline Boron Nitride Nanosheets ▶     Ali Aldalbahi, Andrew Feng Zhou, Peter Feng     We report the studies of (1) the basic mechanism underlying the formation of defect-free, single crystalline boron nitride nanosheets (BNNSs) synthesized using pulsed laser …             Phonon limited superconducting correlations in metallic nanograins ▶     M. D. Croitoru, A. A. Shanenko, A. Vagov et al.     Conventional superconductivity is inevitably suppressed in ultra-small metallic grains for characteristic sizes smaller than the Anderson limit. Experiments have shown that above …             Vibrational Properties of h-BN and h-BN-Graphene Heterostructures Probed by Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy ▶     Suyong Jung, Minkyu Park, Jaesung Park et al.     Inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy is a powerful technique for investigating lattice dynamics of nanoscale systems including graphene and small molecules, but establishing …             Microstructures and growth mechanisms of GaN films epitaxially grown on AlN/Si hetero-structures by pulsed laser deposition at different temperatures ▶     Wenliang Wang, Weijia Yang, Yunhao Lin et al.     2 inch-diameter GaN films with homogeneous thickness distribution have been grown on AlN/Si(111) hetero-structures by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) with laser rastering …             Layered polymeric nitrogen in RbN3 at high pressures ▶     Xiaoli Wang, Jianfu Li, Ning Xu et al.     The structural evolutionary behaviors of nitrogen in RbN3 have been studied up to 300 GPa using a particle swarm optimization structure searching method combined with density …             Perovskite/c-Si tandem solar cell with inverted nanopyramids: realizing high efficiency by controllable light trapping ▶     Dai Shi, Yang Zeng, Wenzhong Shen     Perovskite/c-Si tandem solar cells (TSCs) have become a promising candidate in recent years for achieving efficiency over 30%. Although general analysis has shown very high upper …             Digital quantum simulators in a scalable architecture of hybrid spin-photon qubits ▶     Alessandro Chiesa, Paolo Santini, Dario Gerace et al.     Resolving quantum many-body problems represents one of the greatest challenges in physics and physical chemistry, due to the prohibitively large computational resources that …             Time-Domain Filtering of Metasurfaces ▶     Hiroki Wakatsuchi     In general electromagnetic response of each material to a continuous wave does not vary in time domain if the frequency component remains the same. Recently, it turned out that …             Reduced cortical microvascular oxygenation in multiple sclerosis: a blinded, case-controlled study using a novel quantitative near-infrared spectroscopy method ▶     Runze Yang, Jeff F. Dunn     Hypoxia (low oxygen) is associated with many brain disorders as well as inflammation, but the lack of widely available technology has limited our ability to study hypoxia in …             Electromagnetic Initiation and Propagation of Bipolar Radiofrequency Tissue Reactions via Invasive Non-Insulated Microneedle Electrodes ▶     Jongju Na, Zhenlong Zheng, Christopher Dannaker et al.     Radiofrequency (RF) energy can be emitted into the skin, either non- or invasively, via a monopolar mode that utilizes an active electrode and a grounded electrode or via a …             CalQuo: automated, simultaneous single-cell and population-level quantification of global intracellular Ca2+ responses ▶     Marco Fritzsche, Ricardo A. Fernandes, Huw Colin-York et al.     Detecting intracellular calcium signaling with fluorescent calcium indicator dyes is often coupled with microscopy techniques to follow the activation state of non-excitable …             Combined free nitrous acid and hydrogen peroxide pre-treatment of waste activated sludge enhances methane production via organic molecule breakdown ▶     Tingting Zhang, Qilin Wang, Liu Ye et al.     This study presents a novel pre-treatment strategy using combined free nitrous acid (FNA i.e. HNO2) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) to enhance methane production from WAS, with the …             X-ray phase-contrast tomography for high-spatial-resolution zebrafish muscle imaging ▶     William Vågberg, Daniel H. Larsson, Mei Li et al.     Imaging of muscular structure with cellular or subcellular detail in whole-body animal models is of key importance for understanding muscular disease and assessing interventions. …             Loss resilience for two-qubit state transmission using distributed phase sensitive amplification ▶     James M. Dailey, Anjali Agarwal, Paul Toliver et al.     We transmit phase-encoded non-orthogonal quantum states through a 5-km long fibre-based distributed optical phase-sensitive amplifier (OPSA) using telecom-wavelength photonic …             Deceleration of single-stranded DNA passing through a nanopore using a nanometre-sized bead structure ▶     Yusuke Goto, Takanobu Haga, Itaru Yanagi et al.     DNA sequencing with a solid-state nanopore requires a reduction of the translocation speeds of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) over 10 μs/base. In this study, we report that a …             Surface hydrogenation regulated wrinkling and torque capability of hydrogenated graphene annulus under circular shearing ▶     Yinfeng Li, Silin Liu, Dibakar Datta et al.     Wrinkles as intrinsic topological feature have been expected to affect the electrical and mechanical properties of atomically thin graphene. Molecular dynamics simulations are …             Dual-polarity metamaterial circular polarizer based on giant extrinsic chirality ▶     J. H. Shi, Q. C. Shi, Y. X. Li et al.     Chirality is ubiquitous in nature. The associated optical activity has received much attention due to important applications in spectroscopy, analytical chemistry, …             Sequential Folding using Light-activated Polystyrene Sheet ▶     Yonghee Lee, Hyeok Lee, Taesoon Hwang et al.     A pre-strained polystyrene (PS) polymer sheet is deformed when it approaches the glass transition state as a result of light absorption. By controlling the light absorption of …             Spectral separation of optical spin based on antisymmetric Fano resonances ▶     Xianji Piao, Sunkyu Yu, Jiho Hong et al.     We propose a route to the spectral separation of optical spin angular momentum based on spin-dependent Fano resonances with antisymmetric spectral profiles. By developing a …             Pressure-induced superconductivity in H2-containing hydride PbH4(H2)2 ▶     Ya Cheng, Chao Zhang, Tingting Wang et al.     High pressure structure, stability, metallization, and superconductivity of PbH4(H2)2, a H2-containing compound combining one of the heaviest elements with the lightest element, …             Can silicon carbide serve as a saturable absorber for passive mode-locked fiber lasers? ▶     Chih-Hsien Cheng, Yung-Hsiang Lin, Ting-Hui Chen et al.     The study presents a novel demonstration of a passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) that is based on a silicon carbide (SixC1−x) saturable absorber. When the C/Si …             Cancellation of the zeroth order by a low-contrast grating ▶     Bo Wang     The cancellation of the 0th order is described by a low-contrast fused-silica grating. In reported works, the high-contrast grating and complicated structure were applied with …             Electrochemical and Dry Sand Impact Erosion Studies on Carbon Steel ▶     M. Y. Naz, N. I. Ismail, S. A. Sulaiman et al.     This study investigated the dry and aqueous erosion of mild steel using electrochemical and dry sand impact techniques. In dry sand impact experiments, mild steel was eroded with …             Superior removal of arsenic from water with zirconium metal-organic framework UiO-66 ▶     Chenghong Wang, Xinlei Liu, J. Paul Chen et al.     In this study, water stable zirconium metal-organic framework (UiO-66) has been synthesized and for the first time applied as an adsorbent to remove aquatic arsenic …             Single florescent nanodiamond in a three dimensional ABEL trap ▶     Metin Kayci, Aleksandra Radenovic     Three dimensional single particle trapping and manipulation is an outstanding challenge in various fields ranging from basic physics to life sciences. By monitoring the response …             Grain boundary resistance to amorphization of nanocrystalline silicon carbide ▶     Dong Chen, Fei Gao, Bo Liu     Under the C displacement condition, we have used molecular dynamics simulation to examine the effects of grain boundaries (GBs) on the amorphization of nanocrystalline silicon …             Guided Self-Assembly of Nano-Precipitates into Mesocrystals ▶     H. Liu, Y. Gao, Z. Xu et al.     We show by a combination of computer simulation and experimental characterization guided self-assembly of coherent nano-precipitates into a mesocrystal having a honeycomb …             Quantitative Neutron Dark-field Imaging through Spin-Echo Interferometry ▶     Markus Strobl, Morten Sales, Jeroen Plomp et al.     Neutron dark-field imaging constitutes a seminal progress in the field of neutron imaging as it combines real space resolution capability with information provided by one of the …             Spin Exchange Interaction in Substituted Copper Phthalocyanine Crystalline Thin Films ▶     Naveen Rawat, Zhenwen Pan, Cody J. Lamarche et al.     The origins of spin exchange in crystalline thin films of Copper Octabutoxy Phthalocyanine (Cu-OBPc) are investigated using Magnetic Circular Dichroism (MCD) spectroscopy. These …             Nondestructive nanofabrication on Si(100) surface by tribochemistry-induced selective etching ▶     Jian Guo, Bingjun Yu, Lei Chen et al.     A tribochemistry-induced selective etching approach is proposed for the first time to produce silicon nanostructures without lattice damage. With a ~1 nm thick SiOx film as …             Crystallization and precipitation of phosphate from swine wastewater by magnesium metal corrosion ▶     Haiming Huang, Jiahui Liu, Yang Jiang     This paper presents a unique approach for magnesium dosage in struvite precipitation by Mg metal corrosion. The experimental results showed that using an air bubbling column …             Label-free colorimetric detection of mercury via Hg2+ ions-accelerated structural transformation of nanoscale metal-oxo clusters ▶     Kun Chen, Shan She, Jiangwei Zhang et al.     Mercury and its compounds are known to be extremely toxic but widely distributed in environment. Although many works have been reported to efficiently detect mercury, development …             Nanostructured gold microelectrodes for SERS and EIS measurements by incorporating ZnO nanorod growth with electroplating ▶     Xianli Zong, Rong Zhu, Xiaoliang Guo     In this paper, a fine gold nanostructure synthesized on selective planar microelectrodes in micro-chip is realized by using an advanced hybrid fabrication approach incorporating …             Erratum: Longitudinal in vivo evaluation of bone regeneration by combined measurement of multi-pinhole SPECT and micro-CT for tissue engineering ▶     Philipp S. Lienemann, Stéphanie Metzger, Anna-Sofia Kiveliö et al.                 The lung cancer breath signature: a comparative analysis of exhaled breath and air sampled from inside the lungs ▶     Rosamaria Capuano, Marco Santonico, Giorgio Pennazza et al.     Results collected in more than 20 years of studies suggest a relationship between the volatile organic compounds exhaled in breath and lung cancer. However, the origin of these …             Multiscale and multiresolution modeling of shales and their flow and morphological properties ▶     Pejman Tahmasebi, Farzam Javadpour, Muhammad Sahimi     The need for more accessible energy resources makes shale formations increasingly important. Characterization of such low-permeability formations is complicated, due to the …             Optically detecting the edge-state of a three-dimensional topological insulator under ambient conditions by ultrafast infrared photoluminescence spectroscopy ▶     Shun-ya Maezawa, Hiroshi Watanabe, Masahiro Takeda et al.     Ultrafast infrared photoluminescence spectroscopy was applied to a three-dimensional topological insulator TlBiSe2 under ambient conditions. The dynamics of the luminescence …             Extremely High Thermal Conductivity of Aligned Carbon Nanotube-Polyethylene Composites ▶     Quanwen Liao, Zhichun Liu, Wei Liu et al.     The ultra-low thermal conductivity of bulk polymers may be enhanced by combining them with high thermal conductivity materials such as carbon nanotubes. Different from random …             Floating Oscillator-Embedded Triboelectric Generator for Versatile Mechanical Energy Harvesting ▶     Myeong-Lok Seol, Jin-Woo Han, Seung-Bae Jeon et al.     A versatile vibration energy harvesting platform based on a triboelectricity is proposed and analyzed. External mechanical vibration repeats an oscillating motion of a …             Interface-designed Membranes with Shape-controlled Patterns for High-performance Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells ▶     Yukwon Jeon, Dong Jun Kim, Jong Kwan Koh et al.     Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell is a promising zero-emission power generator for stationary/automotive applications. However, key issues, such as performance and costs, …             Dissipative solitons and backfiring in the electrooxidation of CO on Pt ▶     Philipp R. Bauer, Antoine Bonnefont, Katharina Krischer     Collisions of excitation pulses in dissipative systems lead usually to their annihilation. In this paper, we report electrochemical experiments exhibiting more complex pulse …             Gapless quantum spin liquid ground state in the two-dimensional spin-1/2 triangular antiferromagnet YbMgGaO4 ▶     Yuesheng Li, Haijun Liao, Zhen Zhang et al.     Quantum spin liquid (QSL) is a novel state of matter which refuses the conventional spin freezing even at 0 K. Experimentally searching for the structurally perfect candidates is …             A Holistic Multi Evidence Approach to Study the Fragmentation Behaviour of Crystalline Mannitol ▶     Jasdip S. Koner, Ali Rajabi-Siahboomi, James Bowen et al.     Mannitol is an essential excipient employed in orally disintegrating tablets due to its high palatability. However its fundamental disadvantage is its fragmentation during direct …             Tensile strain-induced softening of iron at high temperature ▶     Xiaoqing Li, Stephan Schönecker, Eszter Simon et al.     In weakly ferromagnetic materials, already small changes in the atomic configuration triggered by temperature or chemistry can alter the magnetic interactions responsible for the …             Highly efficient hyperentanglement concentration with two steps assisted by quantum swap gates ▶     Bao-Cang Ren, Gui Lu Long     We present a two-step hyperentanglement concentration protocol (hyper-ECP) for polarization-spatial hyperentangled Bell states based on the high-capacity character of …             Modeling crowdsourcing as collective problem solving ▶     Andrea Guazzini, Daniele Vilone, Camillo Donati et al.     Crowdsourcing is a process of accumulating the ideas, thoughts or information from many independent participants, with aim to find the best solution for a given challenge. Modern …             High Fidelity Tape Transfer Printing Based On Chemically Induced Adhesive Strength Modulation ▶     Kyoseung Sim, Song Chen, Yuhang Li et al.     Transfer printing, a two-step process (i.e. picking up and printing) for heterogeneous integration, has been widely exploited for the fabrication of functional electronics …             Dual-emissive Polymer Dots for Rapid Detection of Fluoride in Pure Water and Biological Systems with Improved Reliability and Accuracy ▶     Qiang Zhao, Chuanqi Zhang, Shujuan Liu et al.     It is of paramount importance to develop new probes that can selectively, sensitively, accurately and rapidly detect fluoride in aqueous media and biological systems, because F- …             Peptide Functionalized Gold Nanorods for the Sensitive Detection of a Cardiac Biomarker Using Plasmonic Paper Devices ▶     Sirimuvva Tadepalli, Zhifeng Kuang, Qisheng Jiang et al.     The sensitivity of localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) of metal nanostructures to adsorbates lends itself to a powerful class of label-free biosensors. Optical properties …             Inversion of Supramolecular Chirality by Sonication-Induced Organogelation ▶     Sibaprasad Maity, Priyadip Das, Meital Reches     Natural helical structures have inspired the formation of well-ordered peptide-based chiral nanostructures in vitro. These structures have drawn much attention owing to their …             Electron Beam Induced Artifacts During in situ TEM Deformation of Nanostructured Metals ▶     Rohit Sarkar, Christian Rentenberger, Jagannathan Rajagopalan     A critical assumption underlying in situ transmission electron microscopy studies is that the electron beam (e-beam) exposure does not fundamentally alter the intrinsic …             Using Quantum Confinement to Uniquely Identify Devices ▶     J. Roberts, I. E. Bagci, M. A. M. Zawawi et al.     Modern technology unintentionally provides resources that enable the trust of everyday interactions to be undermined. Some authentication schemes address this issue using devices …             Testing for Basins of Wada ▶     Alvar Daza, Alexandre Wagemakers, Miguel A. F. Sanjuán et al.     Nonlinear systems often give rise to fractal boundaries in phase space, hindering predictability. When a single boundary separates three or more different basins of attraction, …             Prediction of nested complementary pattern in argon dielectric-barrier discharge at atmospheric pressure ▶     Weiman Jiang, Jing Li, Jie Tang et al.     A two-dimensional self-consistent fluid model was employed to investigate the spatiotemporal nonlinear behavior in an argon glow-like/Townsend-like dielectric-barrier discharge …             Randomness determines practical security of BB84 quantum key distribution ▶     Hong-Wei Li, Zhen-Qiang Yin, Shuang Wang et al.     Unconditional security of the BB84 quantum key distribution protocol has been proved by exploiting the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics, but the practical quantum key …             Evolution of solidification texture during additive manufacturing ▶     H. L. Wei, J. Mazumder, T. DebRoy     Striking differences in the solidification textures of a nickel based alloy owing to changes in laser scanning pattern during additive manufacturing are examined based on theory …             Fast ion conductivity in strained defect-fluorite structure created by ion tracks in Gd2Ti2O7 ▶     Dilpuneet S. Aidhy, Ritesh Sachan, Eva Zarkadoula et al.     The structure and ion-conducting properties of the defect-fluorite ring structure formed around amorphous ion-tracks by swift heavy ion irradiation of Gd2Ti2O7 pyrochlore are …             3D vertical nanostructures for enhanced infrared plasmonics ▶     Mario Malerba, Alessandro Alabastri, Ermanno Miele et al.     The exploitation of surface plasmon polaritons has been mostly limited to the visible and near infrared range, due to the low frequency limit for coherent plasmon excitation and …             Ranking nodes in growing networks: When PageRank fails ▶     Manuel Sebastian Mariani, Matúš Medo, Yi-Cheng Zhang     PageRank is arguably the most popular ranking algorithm which is being applied in real systems ranging from information to biological and infrastructure networks. Despite its …             Doubly curved nanofiber-reinforced optically transparent composites ▶     Md. Iftekhar Shams, Hiroyuki Yano     Doubly curved nanofiber-reinforced optically transparent composites with low thermal expansion of 15 ppm/k are prepared by hot pressing vacuum-filtered Pickering emulsions of …             A Hybrid Circuit for Spoof Surface Plasmons and Spatial Waveguide Modes to Reach Controllable Band-Pass Filters ▶     Qian Zhang, Hao Chi Zhang, Han Wu et al.     We propose a hybrid circuit for spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) and spatial waveguide modes to develop new microwave devices. The hybrid circuit includes a spoof SPP …             Strain induced piezoelectric effect in black phosphorus and MoS2 van der Waals heterostructure ▶     Le Huang, Yan Li, Zhongming Wei et al.     The structural, electronic, transport and optical properties of black phosphorus/MoS2 (BP/MoS2) van der Waals (vdw) heterostructure are investigated by using first principles …             Electrostatic Field Invisibility Cloak ▶     Chuwen Lan, Yuping Yang, Zhaoxin Geng et al.     The invisibility cloak has been drawing much attention due to its new concept for manipulating many physical fields, from oscillating wave fields (electromagnetic, acoustic and …             The breakdown of superlubricity by driving-induced commensurate dislocations ▶     A. Benassi, Ming Ma, M. Urbakh et al.     In the framework of a Frenkel-Kontorova-like model, we address the robustness of the superlubricity phenomenon in an edge-driven system at large scales, highlighting the …             Phase diagram of the layered oxide SnO: GW and electron-phonon studies ▶     Peng-Jen Chen, Horng-Tay Jeng     First-principles calculations are performed to study the electronic properties and the electron-phonon interactions of the layered oxide semiconductor SnO. In addition to the …             Liquid-liquid phase separation of freely falling undercooled ternary Fe-Cu-Sn alloy ▶     W .L. Wang, Y. H. Wu, L. H. Li et al.     The active modulation and control of the liquid phase separation for high-temperature metallic systems are still challenging the development of advanced immiscible alloys. Here …             Probing the interactions of CdTe quantum dots with pseudorabies virus ▶     Ting Du, Kaimei Cai, Heyou Han et al.     Quantum dots (QDs) have become one of the most promising luminescent materials for tracking viral infection in living cells. However, several issues regarding how QDs interact …             A mineralogical study in contrasts: highly mineralized whale rostrum and human enamel ▶     Zhen Li, Maisoon AI-Jawad, Samera Siddiqui et al.     The outermost enamel of the human tooth and the rostrum of the whale Mesoplodon densirostris are two highly mineralized tissues that contain over 95 wt.% mineral, i.e., …             Synthesis of Hierarchical Nanoporous Microstructures via the Kirkendall Effect in Chemical Reduction Process ▶     Ling Gao, Chao Pang, Dafang He et al.     A series of novel hierarchical nanoporous microstructures have been synthesized through one-step chemical reduction of micron size Cu2O and Co3O4 particles. By controlling the …             Near-infrared (NIR) up-conversion optogenetics ▶     Shoko Hososhima, Hideya Yuasa, Toru Ishizuka et al.     Non-invasive remote control technologies designed to manipulate neural functions have been long-awaited for the comprehensive and quantitative understanding of neuronal network …             Basal Lamina Mimetic Nanofibrous Peptide Networks for Skeletal Myogenesis ▶     I. Ceren Yasa, Nuray Gunduz, Murat Kilinc et al.     Extracellular matrix (ECM) is crucial for the coordination and regulation of cell adhesion, recruitment, differentiation and death. Therefore, equilibrium between cell-cell and …             Interval analysis of interictal EEG: pathology of the alpha rhythm in focal epilepsy ▶     Jan Pyrzowski, Mariusz Siemiński, Anna Sarnowska et al.     The contemporary use of interictal scalp electroencephalography (EEG) in the context of focal epilepsy workup relies on the visual identification of interictal epileptiform …             Fast-moving dislocations trigger flash weakening in carbonate-bearing faults during earthquakes ▶     Elena Spagnuolo, Oliver Plümper, Marie Violay et al.     Rupture fronts can cause fault displacement, reaching speeds up to several ms−1 within a few milliseconds, at any distance away from the earthquake nucleation area. In the case …                 npj Quantum Information - first articles published Publishing the latest open access research on quantum information, npj Quantum Information has now published its first content. 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