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19 January 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         Chemical Sciences               Disorder and defects are not intrinsic to boron carbide ▶     Swastik Mondal, Elena Bykova, Somnath Dey et al.     A unique combination of useful properties in boron-carbide, such as extreme hardness, excellent fracture toughness, a low density, a high melting point, thermoelectricity, …             Carbon incorporation effects and reaction mechanism of FeOCl cathode materials for chloride ion batteries ▶     Xiangyu Zhao, Qiang Li, Tingting Yu et al.     Metal oxychlorides are proved to be new cathode materials for chloride ion batteries. However, this kind of cathode materials is still in a very early stage of research and …             Ptychographic Imaging of Branched Colloidal Nanocrystals Embedded in Free-Standing Thick Polystyrene Films ▶     Liberato De Caro, Davide Altamura, Milena Arciniegas et al.     Research on composite materials is facing, among others, the challenging task of incorporating nanocrystals, and their superstructures, in polymer matrices. Electron microscopy …             Polarized Raman scattering study of kesterite type Cu2ZnSnS4 single crystals ▶     Maxim Guc, Sergiu Levcenko, Ivan V. Bodnar et al.     A non-destructive Raman spectroscopy has been widely used as a complimentary method to X-ray diffraction characterization of Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) thin films, yet our knowledge of the …             Development of a luminescent G-quadruplex-selective iridium(III) complex for the label-free detection of adenosine ▶     Lihua Lu, Hai-Jing Zhong, Bingyong He et al.     A panel of six luminescent iridium(III) complexes were synthesized and evaluated for their ability to act as G-quadruplex-selective probes. The novel iridium(III) complex 1 was …             Magnetic MoS2 pizzas and sandwiches with Mnn (n = 1–4) cluster toppings and fillings: A first-principles investigation ▶     Meng Zhang, Zhongjia Huang, Xiao Wang et al.     The inorganic layered crystal (ILC) MoS2 in low dimensions is considered as one of the most promising and efficient semiconductors. To enable the magnetism and keep intrinsic …             Fabrication of Wide–Range–Visible Photocatalyst Bi2WO6−x nanoplates via Surface Oxygen Vacancies ▶     Yanhui Lv, Wenqing Yao, Ruilong Zong et al.     Bi2WO6 as a high visible-light-driven catalyst has been aroused broad interest. However, it can only be excitated by the light with λ < 450 nm and the solar energy utilization …             Graphene/GaSe-Nanosheet Hybrid: Towards High Gain and Fast Photoresponse ▶     Rongtao Lu, Jianwei Liu, Hongfu Luo et al.     While high photoconductive gain has been recently achieved in graphene-based hybrid phototransistors using semiconductor two-dimensional transition/post-transition metal …             Perovskite LaFeO3/montmorillonite nanocomposites: synthesis, interface characteristics and enhanced photocatalytic activity ▶     Kang Peng, Liangjie Fu, Huaming Yang et al.     Perovskite LaFeO3/montmorillonite nanocomposites (LaFeO3/MMT) have been successfully prepared via assembling LaFeO3 nanoparticles on the surface of montmorillonite with citric …             Matrix-Assisted Plasma Atomization Emission Spectrometry for Surface Sampling Elemental Analysis ▶     Xin Yuan, Xuefang Zhan, Xuemei Li et al.     An innovative technology has been developed involving a simple and sensitive optical spectrometric method termed matrix-assisted plasma atomization emission spectrometry (MAPAES) …             Ruthenium(II) Complexes with 2-Phenylimidazo[4,5-f][1,10]phenanthroline Derivatives that Strongly Combat Cisplatin-Resistant Tumor Cells ▶     Leli Zeng, Yu Chen, Jiangping Liu et al.     Cisplatin was the first metal-based therapeutic agent approved for the treatment of human cancers, but its clinical activity is greatly limited by tumor drug resistance. This …             Crystal-Size Effects on Carbon Dioxide Capture of a Covalently Alkylamine-Tethered Metal-Organic Framework Constructed by a One-Step Self-Assembly ▶     Yun Kyeong Kim, Sung-min Hyun, Jae Hwa Lee et al.     To enhance the carbon dioxide (CO2) uptake of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), amine functionalization of their pore surfaces has been studied extensively. In general, …             High Efficiency Dye-sensitized Solar Cells Constructed with Composites of TiO2 and the Hot-bubbling Synthesized Ultra-Small SnO2 Nanocrystals ▶     Xiaoli Mao, Ru Zhou, Shouwei Zhang et al.     An efficient photo-anode for the dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) should have features of high loading of dye molecules, favorable band alignments and good efficiency in …             Accurate quantification of creatinine in serum by coupling a measurement standard to extractive electrospray ionization mass spectrometry ▶     Keke Huang, Ming Li, Hongmei Li et al.     Ambient ionization (AI) techniques have been widely used in chemistry, medicine, material science, environmental science, forensic science. AI takes advantage of direct …             Polysaccharide-based Noncovalent Assembly for Targeted Delivery of Taxol ▶     Yang Yang, Ying-Ming Zhang, Yong Chen et al.     The construction of synthetic straightforward, biocompatible and biodegradable targeted drug delivery system with fluorescent tracking abilities, high anticancer activities and …             Synthesis, optical properties, and helical self-assembly of a bivaline-containing tetraphenylethene ▶     Hongkun Li, Xiaoyan Zheng, Huimin Su et al.     A chiral tetraphenylethene derivative with two valine-containing attachments (TPE-DVAL), was synthesized by Cu(I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne “click” reaction. The optical properties …             The Mesoscopic Electrochemistry of Molecular Junctions ▶     Paulo R. Bueno, Tiago A. Benites, Jason J. Davis     Within the context of an electron dynamic (time-dependent) perspective and a voltage driving force acting to redistribute electrons between metallic and addressable molecular …             Quantitative analysis of intrinsic and extrinsic factors in the aggregation mechanism of Alzheimer-associated Aβ-peptide ▶     Georg Meisl, Xiaoting Yang, Birgitta Frohm et al.     Disease related mutations and environmental factors are key determinants of the aggregation mechanism of the amyloid-β peptide implicated in Alzheimer's disease. Here we present …             Erratum: Term rules for simple metal clusters ▶     Daisuke Yoshida, Hannes Raebiger                 Highly hydrophilic poly(vinylidene fluoride)/meso-titania hybrid mesoporous membrane for photocatalytic membrane reactor in water ▶     Meng Wang, Guang Yang, Peng Jin et al.     The high hydrophobicity of poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) membrane remains an obstacle to be applied in some purification processes of water or wastewater. Herein, a highly …             Quinary wurtzite Zn-Ga-Ge-N-O solid solutions and their photocatalytic properties under visible light irradiation ▶     Yinghao Xie, Fangfang Wu, Xiaoqin Sun et al.     Wurtzite solid solutions between GaN and ZnO highlight an intriguing paradigm for water splitting into hydrogen and oxygen using solar energy. However, large composition …             Emergence of a super-synchronized mobbing state in a large population of coupled chemical oscillators ▶     Gourab Ghoshal, Alberto P. Muñuzuri, Juan Pérez-Mercader     Oscillatory phenomena are ubiquitous in Nature. The ability of a large population of coupled oscillators to synchronize constitutes an important mechanism to express information …             Large Scale Synthesis of NiCo Layered Double Hydroxides for Superior Asymmetric Electrochemical Capacitor ▶     Ruchun Li, Zhaoxia Hu, Xiaofeng Shao et al.     We report a new environmentally-friendly synthetic strategy for large-scale preparation of 16 nm-ultrathin NiCo based layered double hydroxides (LDH). The Ni50Co50-LDH electrode …             Ab initio molecular dynamic study of solid-state transitions of ammonium nitrate ▶     Hongyu Yu, Defang Duan, Hanyu Liu et al.     High-pressure polymorphism and phase transitions have wide ranging consequences on the basic properties of ammonium nitrate. 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