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15 December 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         Small steps can lead to big impact - Tips for promoting your research Our Author Tips site guides you through simple steps you can take to disseminate your research through the use of social media and online communities. Learn about blogging, enhancing your online profile, and how your peers are using social media to engage in scientific conversation.            Chemical Sciences               Isotope effect on the circular dichroism spectrum of methyl α-D-glucopyranoside in aqueous solution ▶     Yusuke Kanematsu, Yukiko Kamiya, Koichi Matsuo et al.     H/D isotope effect on the circular dichroism spectrum of methyl α-D-glucopyranoside in aqueous solution has been analyzed by multicomponent density functional theory calculations …             Influence of Water on Chemical Vapor Deposition of Ni and Co thin films from ethanol solutions of acetylacetonate precursors ▶     Theodor Weiss, Volkmar Zielasek, Marcus Bäumer     In chemical vapor deposition experiments with pulsed spray evaporation (PSE-CVD) of liquid solutions of Ni and Co acetylacetonate in ethanol as precursors, the influence of water …             Facile Isolation of Adsorbent-Free Long and Highly-Pure Chirality-Selected Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Using A Hydrogen-bonding Supramolecular Polymer ▶     Fumiyuki Toshimitsu, Naotoshi Nakashima     The ideal form of semiconducting-single-walled carbon nanotubes (sem-SWNTs) for science and technology is long, defect-free, chirality pure and chemically pure isolated narrow …             Zepto-molar electrochemical detection of Brucella genome based on gold nanoribbons covered by gold nanoblooms ▶     Amid Rahi, Naghmeh Sattarahmady, Hossein Heli     Gold nanoribbons covered by gold nanoblooms were sonoelectrodeposited on a polycrystalline gold surface at −1800 mV (vs. AgCl) with the assistance of ultrasound and co-occurrence …             Condensation and dissolution of nematic droplets in dispersions of colloidal rods with thermo–sensitive depletants ▶     Anna Modlińska, Ahmed M. Alsayed, Thomas Gibaud     Nematic droplets are droplets composed of elongated molecules that tend to point in the same direction but do not have any positional order. Such droplets are well known to adopt …             Anomalous Dynamics of a Lipid Recognition Protein on a Membrane Surface ▶     Eiji Yamamoto, Antreas C. Kalli, Takuma Akimoto et al.     Pleckstrin homology (PH) domains are lipid-binding modules present in peripheral membrane proteins which interact with phosphatidyl-inositol phosphates (PIPs) in cell membranes. …             Conservation of the pure adiabatic state in Ehrenfest dynamics of the photoisomerization of molecules ▶     Yoshiyuki Miyamoto, Yoshitaka Tateyama, Norihisa Oyama et al.     We examined real-time-propagation time-dependent density functional theory (rtp-TDDFT) coupled with molecular dynamics (MD), which uses single-particle representation of …             Hydroxypropyl Cellulose Based Non-Volatile Gel Polymer Electrolytes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Applications using 1-methyl-3-propylimidazolium iodide ionic liquid ▶     Mohammad Hassan Khanmirzaei, S. Ramesh, K. Ramesh     Gel polymer electrolytes using imidazolium based ionic liquids have attracted much attention in dye-sensitized solar cell applications. Hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC), sodium …             Intrinsic Localized Modes in Proteins ▶     Adrien Nicolaï, Patrice Delarue, Patrick Senet     Protein dynamics is essential for proteins to function. Here we predicted the existence of rare, large nonlinear excitations, termed intrinsic localized modes (ILMs), of the main …             Preparation of wood-like structured copper with superhydrophobic properties ▶     Tianchi Wang, Guiju Liu, Jian Kong     Here, we report a method to use natural wood lauan as a template to fabricate superhydrophobic biomorphic copper on a carbon substrate (Cu/C). First, a carbon substrate with the …             Ballistic Thermal Transport in Carbyne and Cumulene with Micron-Scale Spectral Acoustic Phonon Mean Free Path ▶     Mingchao Wang, Shangchao Lin     The elastic modulus of carbyne, a one-dimensional carbon chain, was recently predicted to be much higher than graphene. Inspired by this discovery and the fundamental correlation …             Effective Energy Transfer via Plasmon-Activated High-Energy Water Promotes Its Fundamental Activities of Solubility, Ionic Conductivity, and Extraction at Room Temperature ▶     Chih-Ping Yang, Hsiao-Chien Chen, Ching-Chiung Wang et al.     Water is a ubiquitous solvent in biological, physical, and chemical processes. Unique properties of water result from water’s tetrahedral hydrogen-bonded (HB) network (THBN). The …             Reactivity of Metal-Free and Metal-Associated Amyloid-β with Glycosylated Polyphenols and Their Esterified Derivatives ▶     Kyle J. Korshavn, Milim Jang, Yeon Ju Kwak et al.     Both amyloid-β (Aβ) and transition metal ions are shown to be involved in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), though the importance of their interactions remains …             Combined DNA, toxicological and heavy metal analyses provides an auditing toolkit to improve pharmacovigilance of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) ▶     Megan L. Coghlan, Garth Maker, Elly Crighton et al.     Globally, there has been an increase in the use of herbal remedies including traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). There is a perception that products are natural, safe and …             A Petal-type Chiral NADH Model: Design, Synthesis and its Asymmetric Reduction ▶     Cui-Bing Bai, Nai-Xing Wang, Yan-Jing Wang et al.     A new type of NADH model compound has been synthesized by an efficient and convenient method. This model compound exhibits high reactivity and enantioselectivity in asymmetric …             Partial Geometric Frustration in Inorganic Supramolecular Spin Systems with One-Dimensional Trigonally Aligned Magnetic Chains ∞1(MCl4)2− (M = Fe2+, Co2+) ▶     Xiao-Ming Jiang, Xiao-Guo Li, Ming-Jian Zhang et al.     Exploration of new spin systems with low-dimensional subunits have been of great interest in the past decades due to their interesting physical properties and potential …             Long-lived Aqueous Rechargeable Lithium Batteries Using Mesoporous LiTi2(PO4)3@C Anode ▶     Dan Sun, Yougen Tang, Kejian He et al.     The instability of anode materials during cycling has been greatly limiting the lifetime of aqueous rechargeable lithium batteries (ARLBs). Here, to tackle this issue, mesoporous …             Exceptional surface and bulk electronic structures in a topological insulator, Bi2Se3 ▶     Deepnarayan Biswas, Sangeeta Thakur, Geetha Balakrishnan et al.     The outstanding problem in topological insulators is the bulk metallicity underneath topologically ordered surface states and the appearance of Dirac point far away from the …             Selective self-assembly of adenine-silver nanoparticles forms rings resembling the size of cells ▶     Sungmoon Choi, Soonyoung Park, Seon-Ah Yang et al.     Self-assembly has played critical roles in the construction of functional nanomaterials. 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