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12 January 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         Have you read the following key article from npj Quantum Information? Replicating the benefits of Deutschian closed timelike curves without breaking causality   npj Quantum Information is an online-only, open access journal providing important updates on quantum information research and theory, including quantum computing and communications.   Visit www.nature.com/npjqi to explore latest research and to sign up to receive free article e-alerts.           Physical Sciences               Strong interband Faraday rotation in 3D topological insulator Bi2Se3 ▶     L. Ohnoutek, M. Hakl, M. Veis et al.     The Faraday effect is a representative magneto-optical phenomenon, resulting from the transfer of angular momentum between interacting light and matter in which time-reversal …             Tunable atomic spin-orbit coupling synthesized with a modulating gradient magnetic field ▶     Xinyu Luo, Lingna Wu, Jiyao Chen et al.     We report the observation of synthesized spin-orbit coupling (SOC) for ultracold spin-1 87Rb atoms. Different from earlier experiments where a one dimensional (1D) atomic SOC of …             Bright and photostable push-pull pyrene dye visualizes lipid order variation between plasma and intracellular membranes ▶     Yosuke Niko, Pascal Didier, Yves Mely et al.     Imaging lipid organization in cell membranes requires advanced fluorescent probes. Here, we show that a recently synthesized push-pull pyrene (PA), similarly to popular probe …             Forests as a natural seismic metamaterial: Rayleigh wave bandgaps induced by local resonances ▶     Andrea Colombi, Philippe Roux, Sebastien Guenneau et al.     We explore the thesis that resonances in trees result in forests acting as locally resonant metamaterials for Rayleigh surface waves in the geophysics context. A geophysical …             A novel 2D silicon nano-mold fabrication technique for linear nanochannels over a 4 inch diameter substrate ▶     Zhifu Yin, Liping Qi, Helin Zou et al.     A novel low-cost 2D silicon nano-mold fabrication technique was developed based on Cu inclined-deposition and Ar+ (argon ion) etching. With this technique, sub-100 nm 2D (two …             Liquid crystal phases of two-dimensional dipolar gases and Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless melting ▶     Zhigang Wu, Jens K. Block, Georg M. Bruun     Liquid crystals are phases of matter intermediate between crystals and liquids. Whereas classical liquid crystals have been known for a long time and are used in electro-optical …             Picosecond x-ray strain rosette reveals direct laser excitation of coherent transverse acoustic phonons ▶     Sooheyong Lee, G. Jackson Williams, Maria I. Campana et al.     Using a strain-rosette, we demonstrate the existence of transverse strain using time-resolved x-ray diffraction from multiple Bragg reflections in laser-excited bulk gallium …             Overlapping illusions by transformation optics without any negative refraction material ▶     Fei Sun, Sailing He     A novel method to achieve an overlapping illusion without any negative refraction index material is introduced with the help of the optic-null medium (ONM) designed by an …             Low-photon-number optical switch and AND/OR logic gates based on quantum dot-bimodal cavity coupling system ▶     Shen Ma, Han Ye, Zhong-Yuan Yu et al.     We propose a new scheme based on quantum dot-bimodal cavity coupling system to realize all-optical switch and logic gates in low-photon-number regime. Suppression of mode …             Control of Surface Segregation in Bimetallic NiCr Nanoalloys Immersed in Ag Matrix ▶     Murtaza Bohra, Vidyadhar Singh, Panagiotis Grammatikopoulos et al.     Cr-surface segregation is a main roadblock encumbering many magneto-biomedical applications of bimetallic M-Cr nanoalloys (where M = Fe, Co and Ni). To overcome this problem, we …             Thermal and Electrical Conduction of Single-crystal Bi2Te3 Nanostructures grown using a one step process ▶     Dambi Park, Sungjin Park, Kwangsik Jeong et al.     Single-crystal Bi2Te3 nanowires (NWs) and nanoribbons (NRs) were synthesized by a vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) method from Bi2Te3 powder. To investigate the thermal properties of the …             High performance broadband photodetector using fabricated nanowires of bismuth selenide ▶     Alka Sharma, Biplab Bhattacharyya, A. K. Srivastava et al.     Recently, very exciting optoelectronic properties of Topological insulators (TIs) such as strong light absorption, photocurrent sensitivity to the polarization of light, layer …             On Wiener polarity index of bicyclic networks ▶     Jing Ma, Yongtang Shi, Zhen Wang et al.     Complex networks are ubiquitous in biological, physical and social sciences. Network robustness research aims at finding a measure to quantify network robustness. A number of …             Experimental distinction of Autler-Townes splitting from electromagnetically induced transparency using coupled mechanical oscillators system ▶     Jingliang Liu, Hujiang Yang, Chuan Wang et al.     Here we experimentally demonstrated the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and Autler-Townes splitting (ATS) effects in mechanical coupled pendulums. The analogue of …             Spatial potential ripples of azimuthal surface modes in topological insulator Bi2Te3 nanowires ▶     Miguel Muñoz Rojo, Yingjie Zhang, Cristina V. Manzano et al.     Topological insulators (TI) nanowires (NW) are an emerging class of structures, promising both novel quantum effects and potential applications in low-power electronics, …             Exploration of multiphoton entangled states by using weak nonlinearities ▶     Ying-Qiu He, Dong Ding, Feng-Li Yan et al.     We propose a fruitful scheme for exploring multiphoton entangled states based on linear optics and weak nonlinearities. Compared with the previous schemes the present method is …             Electrical and mechanical switching of ferroelectric polarization in the 70 nm BiFeO3 film ▶     Liufang Chen, Zhihao Cheng, Wenting Xu et al.     Ferroelectric polarization switching and its domain evolution play a key role on the macroscopic electric properties of ferroelectric or piezoelectric devices. Mechanical …             Ranking of Molecular Biomarker Interaction with Targeted DNA Nucleobases via Full Atomistic Molecular Dynamics ▶     Wenjun Zhang, Ming L. Wang, Steven W. Cranford     DNA-based sensors can detect disease biomarkers, including acetone and ethanol for diabetes and H2S for cardiovascular diseases. Before experimenting on thousands of potential …             In vivo articular cartilage deformation: noninvasive quantification of intratissue strain during joint contact in the human knee ▶     Deva D. Chan, Luyao Cai, Kent D. Butz et al.     The in vivo measurement of articular cartilage deformation is essential to understand how mechanical forces distribute throughout the healthy tissue and change over time in the …             Magnetic Properties Controlled by Interstitial or Interlayer Cations in Iron Chalcogenides ▶     Shan-Chang Tang, Ming-Cui Ding, Yu-Zhong Zhang     By applying density functional theory calculations to iron chalcogenides, we find that magnetic order in Fe1+yTe and magnetic instability at (π, π) in KyFe2Se2 are controlled by …             Precise Analysis of Polymer Rotational Dynamics ▶     Jun Mo Kim, Chunggi Baig     Through the analysis of individual chain dynamics alongside the corresponding molecular structures under shear via nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations of C178H358 …             Fingerprinting Electronic Molecular Complexes in Liquid ▶     Peter Nirmalraj, Andrea La Rosa, Damien Thompson et al.     Predicting the electronic framework of an organic molecule under practical conditions is essential if the molecules are to be wired in a realistic circuit. This demands a clear …             Route towards Localization for Quantum Anomalous Hall Systems with Chern Number 2 ▶     Zhi-Gang Song, Yan-Yang Zhang, Jun-Tao Song et al.     The quantum anomalous Hall system with Chern number 2 can be destroyed by sufficiently strong disorder. During its process towards localization, it was found that the electronic …             Hierarchical ZnO Nanowires-loaded Sb-doped SnO2-ZnO Micrograting Pattern via Direct Imprinting-assisted Hydrothermal Growth and Its Selective Detection of Acetone Molecules ▶     Hak-Jong Choi, Seon-Jin Choi, Soyoung Choo et al.     We propose a novel synthetic route by combining imprinting transfer of a Sb-doped SnO2 (ATO)-ZnO composite micrograting pattern (MP), i.e., microstrip lines, on a sensor …             Directional Movement of Droplets in Grooves: Suspended or Immersed? ▶     Wei Xu, Zhong Lan, Benli Peng et al.     The behavior of droplets trapped in geometric structures is essential to droplet manipulation applications such as for droplet transport. Here we show that directional droplet …             Ti nanorod arrays with a medium density significantly promote osteogenesis and osteointegration ▶     Chengyun Ning, Shuangying Wang, Ye Zhu et al.     Ti implants are good candidates in bone repair. However, how to promote bone formation on their surface and their consequent perfect integration with the surrounding tissue is …             Surfactants for Bubble Removal against Buoyancy ▶     Md. Qaisar Raza, Nirbhay Kumar, Rishi Raj     The common phenomenon of buoyancy-induced vapor bubble lift-off from a heated surface is of importance to many areas of science and technology. In the absence of buoyancy in zero …             On the shedding of impaled droplets: The role of transient intervening layers ▶     Christos Stamatopoulos, Thomas M. Schutzius, Christian J. Köppl et al.     Maintaining the non-wetting property of textured hydrophobic surfaces is directly related to the preservation of an intervening fluid layer (gaseous or immiscible liquid) between …             Skill complementarity enhances heterophily in collaboration networks ▶     Wen-Jie Xie, Ming-Xia Li, Zhi-Qiang Jiang et al.     Much empirical evidence shows that individuals usually exhibit significant homophily in social networks. We demonstrate, however, skill complementarity enhances heterophily in …             Frustration of Negative Capacitance in Al2O3/BaTiO3 Bilayer Structure ▶     Yu Jin Kim, Min Hyuk Park, Young Hwan Lee et al.     Enhancement of capacitance by negative capacitance (NC) effect in a dielectric/ferroelectric (DE/FE) stacked film is gaining a greater interest. While the previous theory on NC …             Built-in Electric Field Induced Mechanical Property Change at the Lanthanum Nickelate/Nb-doped Strontium Titanate Interfaces ▶     TeYu Chien, Jian Liu, Andrew J. Yost et al.     The interactions between electric field and the mechanical properties of materials are important for the applications of microelectromechanical and nanoelectromechanical systems, …             Remarkably high mobility ultra-thin-film metal-oxide transistor with strongly overlapped orbitals ▶     Chen Wei Shih, Albert Chin, Chun Fu Lu et al.     High mobility channel thin-film-transistor (TFT) is crucial for both display and future generation integrated circuit. We report a new metal-oxide TFT that has an ultra-thin …             The Influence of Doping on the Optoelectronic Properties of PbS Colloidal Quantum Dot Solids ▶     P. Papagiorgis, A. Stavrinadis, A. Othonos et al.     We report on an extensive spectroscopic investigation of the impact of substitutional doping on the optoelectronic properties of PbS colloidal quantum dot (CQD) solids. N-doping …             Extraction, purification and anti-fatigue activity of γ-aminobutyric acid from mulberry (Morus alba L.) leaves ▶     Hengwen Chen, Xuanhui He, Yan Liu et al.     Mulberry (Morus alba L.) is a tree species of Moraceae widely distributed in Southern China. In the present study, the white crystal of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) was purified …             Corrigendum: Three Dimensional Hybrids of Vertical Graphene-nanosheet Sandwiched by Ag-nanoparticles for Enhanced Surface Selectively Catalytic Reactions ▶     Jing Zhao, Mengtao Sun, Zhe Liu et al.                 Corrigendum: 3D hierarchical porous graphene aerogel with tunable meso-pores on graphene nanosheets for high-performance energy storage ▶     Long Ren, K. N. Hui, K. S. Hui et al.                 Acoustic dispersive prism ▶     Hussein Esfahlani, Sami Karkar, Herve Lissek et al.     The optical dispersive prism is a well-studied element, which allows separating white light into its constituent spectral colors, and stands in nature as water droplets. In …             Compact Nonlinear Yagi-Uda Nanoantennas ▶     Xiaoyan Y. Z. Xiong, Li Jun Jiang, Wei E. I. Sha et al.     Nanoantennas have demonstrated unprecedented capabilities for manipulating the intensity and direction of light emission over a broad frequency range. The directional beam …             Unveiling laser diode “fossil” and the dynamic analysis for heliotropic growth of catastrophic optical damage in high power laser diodes ▶     Qiang Zhang, Yihan Xiong, Haiyan An et al.     Taking advantage of robust facet passivation, we unveil a laser “fossil” buried within a broad area laser diode (LD) cavity when the LD was damaged by applying a high current. …             Efficient OPSL-pumped mode-locked Yb:Lu2O3 laser with 67% optical-to-optical efficiency ▶     Alexander M. Heuer, Clara J. Saraceno, Kolja Beil et al.     We present a mode-locked Yb:Lu2O3 laser with up to 67% of optical-to-optical efficiency. By utilizing a high brightness optically pumped semiconductor laser (OPSL) as a pump …             Self-assembled nanostructured resistive switching memory devices fabricated by templated bottom-up growth ▶     Ji-Min Song, Jang-Sik Lee     Metal-oxide-based resistive switching memory device has been studied intensively due to its potential to satisfy the requirements of next-generation memory devices. Active …             Experimental demonstration of plasmon enhanced energy transfer rate in NaYF4:Yb3+,Er3+ upconversion nanoparticles ▶     Dawei Lu, Chenchen Mao, Suehyun K. Cho et al.     Energy transfer upconversion (ETU) is known to be the most efficient frequency upconversion mechanism. Surface plasmon can further enhance the upconversion process, opening doors …             Transverse electron momentum distribution in tunneling and over the barrier ionization by laser pulses with varying ellipticity ▶     I. A. Ivanov, A. S. Kheifets, J. E. Calvert et al.     We study transverse electron momentum distribution in strong field atomic ionization driven by laser pulses with varying ellipticity. We show, both experimentally and …             High Electron Mobility in Epitaxial Trilayer Graphene on Off-axis SiC(0001) ▶     Mahdi Hajlaoui, Haikel Sediri, Debora Pierucci et al.     The van de Waals heterostructure formed by an epitaxial trilayer graphene is of particular interest due to its unique tunable electronic band structure and stacking sequence. …             Erratum: g-force induced giant efficiency of nanoparticles internalization into living cells ▶     Sandra M. Ocampo, Vanessa Rodriguez, Leonor de la Cueva et al.                 Unique Static Magnetic and Dynamic Electromagnetic Behaviors in Titanium Nitride/Carbon Composites Driven by Defect Engineering ▶     Chunhong Gong, Hongjie Meng, Xiaowei Zhao et al.     Recently, the defect-induced static magnetic behaviours of nanomaterials have been a cutting-edge issue in diluted magnetic semiconductor materials. However, the dynamic magnetic …             Synthesis and DFT investigation of new bismuth-containing MAX phases ▶     Denis Horlait, Simon C. Middleburgh, Alexander Chroneos et al.     The Mn + 1AXn phases (M = early transition metal; A = group A element and X = C and N) are materials exhibiting many important metallic and ceramic properties. In the present …             High-frequency chaotic dynamics enabled by optical phase-conjugation ▶     Émeric Mercier, Delphine Wolfersberger, Marc Sciamanna     Wideband chaos is of interest for applications such as random number generation or encrypted communications, which typically use optical feedback in a semiconductor laser. Here, …             Light scattering of rectangular slot antennas: parallel magnetic vector vs perpendicular electric vector ▶     Dukhyung Lee, Dai-Sik Kim     We study light scattering off rectangular slot nano antennas on a metal film varying incident polarization and incident angle, to examine which field vector of light is more …             Change Point Detection in Correlation Networks ▶     Ian Barnett, Jukka-Pekka Onnela     Many systems of interacting elements can be conceptualized as networks, where network nodes represent the elements and network ties represent interactions between the elements. …             Simulation of synaptic short-term plasticity using Ba(CF3SO3)2-doped polyethylene oxide electrolyte film ▶     C. T. Chang, F. Zeng, X. J. Li et al.     The simulation of synaptic plasticity using new materials is critical in the study of brain-inspired computing. Devices composed of Ba(CF3SO3)2-doped polyethylene oxide (PEO) …             Single-Readout High-Density Memristor Crossbar ▶     M. A. Zidan, H. Omran, R. Naous et al.     High-density memristor-crossbar architecture is a very promising technology for future computing systems. The simplicity of the gateless-crossbar structure is both its principal …             Experimental realization of non-adiabatic universal quantum gates using geometric Landau-Zener-Stückelberg interferometry ▶     Li Wang, Tao Tu, Bo Gong et al.     High fidelity universal gates for quantum bits form an essential ingredient of quantum information processing. In particular, geometric gates have attracted attention because …             Effect of different oxide thickness on the bending Young’s modulus of SiO2@SiC nanowires ▶     Jinyao Ma, Yanping Liu, Peida Hao et al.     The surface or sheath effect on core-shell nanowires plays an important role in the nanomechanical test. In the past few years, SiC nanowires have been synthesized using various …             Metal-free organic dyes for TiO2 and ZnO dye-sensitized solar cells ▶     Gurpreet Singh Selopal, Hui-Ping Wu, Jianfeng Lu et al.     We report the synthesis and characterization of new metal-free organic dyes (namely B18, BTD-R, and CPTD-R) which designed with D-π-A concept to extending the light absorption …             Targeted pruning of a neuron’s dendritic tree via femtosecond laser dendrotomy ▶     Mary Ann Go, Julian Min Chiang Choy, Alexandru Serban Colibaba et al.     Neurons are classified according to action potential firing in response to current injection. While such firing patterns are shaped by the composition and distribution of ion …             Two-Step Delivery: Exploiting the Partition Coefficient Concept to Increase Intratumoral Paclitaxel Concentrations In vivo Using Responsive Nanoparticles ▶     Aaron H. Colby, Rong Liu, Morgan D. Schulz et al.     Drug dose, high local target tissue concentration, and prolonged duration of exposure are essential criteria in achieving optimal drug performance. However, systemically …             Water Dynamics in Shewanella oneidensis at Ambient and High Pressure using Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering ▶     Fabrizia Foglia, Rachael Hazael, Giovanna G. Simeoni et al.     Quasielastic neutron scattering (QENS) is an ideal technique for studying water transport and relaxation dynamics at pico- to nanosecond timescales and at length scales relevant …             GeNN: a code generation framework for accelerated brain simulations ▶     Esin Yavuz, James Turner, Thomas Nowotny     Large-scale numerical simulations of detailed brain circuit models are important for identifying hypotheses on brain functions and testing their consistency and plausibility. An …             Size-dependent redox behavior of iron observed by in-situ single nanoparticle spectro-microscopy on well-defined model systems ▶     Waiz Karim, Armin Kleibert, Urs Hartfelder et al.     Understanding the chemistry of nanoparticles is crucial in many applications. Their synthesis in a controlled manner and their characterization at the single particle level is …             Coherence and resonance effects in the ultra-intense laser-induced ultrafast response of complex atoms ▶     Yongqiang Li, Cheng Gao, Wenpu Dong et al.     Both coherent pumping and energy relaxation play important roles in understanding physical processes of ultra-intense coherent light-matter interactions. Here, using a …             Rubber-like Quasi-thermosetting Polyetheramine-cured Epoxy Asphalt Composites Capable of Being Opened to Traffic Immediately ▶     Yang Kang, Qiang Wu, Rui Jin et al.     This paper reports the facile preparation, mechanical performance and linear viscoelasticity of polyetheramine-cured rubber-like epoxy asphalt composites (EACs) with different …             Local structure controls the nonaffine shear and bulk moduli of disordered solids ▶     M. Schlegel, J. Brujic, E. M. Terentjev et al.     Paradigmatic model systems, which are used to study the mechanical response of matter, are random networks of point-atoms, random sphere packings, or simple crystal lattices; all …             Indirect excitation of ultrafast demagnetization ▶     Boris Vodungbo, Bahrati Tudu, Jonathan Perron et al.     Does the excitation of ultrafast magnetization require direct interaction between the photons of the optical pump pulse and the magnetic layer? Here, we demonstrate unambiguously …             Measurement of Electron-Ion Relaxation in Warm Dense Copper ▶     B. I. Cho, T. Ogitsu, K. Engelhorn et al.     Experimental investigation of electron-ion coupling and electron heat capacity of copper in warm and dense states are presented. From time-resolved x-ray absorption spectroscopy, …             Evolutionary mechanism of the defects in the fluoride-containing phosphate based glasses induced by gamma radiation ▶     Pengfei Wang, Quanlong He, Min Lu et al.     In the laser driven inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experimental target chamber, like the 3ω (351 nm) laser irradiation, the irradiation of gamma ray and X-rays, will also …             Plasmonic phase modulator based on novel loss-overcompensated coupling between nanoresonator and waveguide ▶     Song-Jin Im, Gum-Song Ho, Da-Jie Yang et al.     We present that surface plasmon polariton, side-coupled to a gain-assisted nanoresonator where the absorption is overcompensated, exhibits a prominent phase shift up to π …             Improved Li storage performance in SnO2 nanocrystals by a synergetic doping ▶     Ning Wan, Xia Lu, Yuesheng Wang et al.     Tin dioxide (SnO2) is a widely investigated lithium (Li) storage material because of its easy preparation, two-step storage mechanism and high specific capacity for lithium-ion …             Dirac cone move and bandgap on/off switching of graphene superlattice ▶     Tian-Tian Jia, Meng-Meng Zheng, Xin-Yu Fan et al.     Using the density functional theory with generalized gradient approximation, we have studied in detail the cooperative effects of degenerate perturbation and uniaxial strain on …             Quantum dissipative effects on non-equilibrium transport through a single-molecular transistor: The Anderson-Holstein-Caldeira-Leggett model ▶     Ch. Narasimha Raju, Ashok Chatterjee     The Anderson-Holstein model with Caldeira-Leggett coupling with environment is considered to describe the damping effect in a single molecular transistor (SMT) which comprises a …             Genesis of charge orders in high temperature superconductors ▶     Wei-Lin Tu, Ting-Kuo Lee     One of the most puzzling facts about cuprate high-temperature superconductors in the lightly doped regime is the coexistence of uniform superconductivity and/or …             Geometric reduction of dynamical nonlocality in nanoscale quantum circuits ▶     E. Strambini, K. S. Makarenko, G. Abulizi et al.     Nonlocality is a key feature discriminating quantum and classical physics. Quantum-interference phenomena, such as Young’s double slit experiment, are one of the clearest …             A new way to synthesize superconducting metal-intercalated C60 and FeSe ▶     Yuuki Takahei, Keitaro Tomita, Yugo Itoh et al.     Doping with the optimum concentration of carriers (electrons or holes) can modify the physical properties of materials. Therefore, improved ways to achieve carrier doping have …             Optical nanostructures in 2D for wide-diameter and broadband beam collimation ▶     James Clark, José V. Anguita, Ying Chen et al.     Eliminating curved refracting lensing components used in conventional projection, imaging and sensing optical assemblies, is critical to enable compactness and miniaturisation of …             Aspergillus flavus Conidia-derived Carbon/Sulfur Composite as a Cathode Material for High Performance Lithium–Sulfur Battery ▶     Maowen Xu, Min Jia, Cuiping Mao et al.     A novel approach was developed to prepare porous carbon materials with an extremely high surface area of 2459.6 m2g−1 by using Aspergillus flavus conidia as precursors. The …             Unveiling the Mechanism for the Split Hysteresis Loop in Epitaxial Co2Fe1-xMnxAl Full-Heusler Alloy Films ▶     X. D. Tao, H. L. Wang, B. F. Miao et al.     Utilizing epitaxial Co2Fe1-xMnxAl full-Heusler alloy films on GaAs (001), we address the controversy over the analysis for the split hysteresis loop which is commonly found in …             Three-dimensional Sponges with Super Mechanical Stability: Harnessing True Elasticity of Individual Carbon Nanotubes in Macroscopic Architectures ▶     Zhaohe Dai, Luqi Liu, Xiaoying Qi et al.     Efficient assembly of carbon nanotube (CNT) based cellular solids with appropriate structure is the key to fully realize the potential of individual nanotubes in macroscopic …             Highly efficient light management for perovskite solar cells ▶     Dong-Lin Wang, Hui-Juan Cui, Guo-Jiao Hou et al.     Organic-inorganic halide perovskite solar cells have enormous potential to impact the existing photovoltaic industry. As realizing a higher conversion efficiency of the solar …             Terahertz beat oscillation of plasmonic electrons interacting with femtosecond light pulses ▶     Xinping Zhang, Jianfang He, Yimeng Wang et al.     Plasmon resonance in nanostructured metals is in essence collective oscillation of free electrons, which is driven by optical electric fields and oscillates at nearly the same …             Measuring the robustness of link prediction algorithms under noisy environment ▶     Peng Zhang, Xiang Wang, Futian Wang et al.     Link prediction in complex networks is to estimate the likelihood of two nodes to interact with each other in the future. As this problem has applications in a large number of …             A zero power harmonic transponder sensor for ubiquitous wireless μL liquid-volume monitoring ▶     Haiyu Huang, Pai-Yen Chen, Cheng-Hsien Hung et al.     Autonomous liquid-volume monitoring is crucial in ubiquitous healthcare. However, conventional approach is based on either human visual observation or expensive detectors, which …             Magnetization switching by combining electric field and spin-transfer torque effects in a perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction ▶     Xiangli Zhang, Chengjie Wang, Yaowen Liu et al.     Effective manipulation of magnetization orientation driven by electric field in a perpendicularly magnetized tunnel junction introduces technologically relevant possibility for …             NIR Electrofluorochromic Properties of Aza-Boron-dipyrromethene Dyes ▶     Hanwhuy Lim, Seogjae Seo, Simon Pascal et al.     The photophysical properties of near-infrared (NIR) emissive aza-boron-dipyrromethene (aza-BDP) dyes incorporating nitrofluorene and alkoxy decorations were intensively …             Qualitation and Quantitation on Microplasma Jet for Bacteria Inactivation ▶     ChangMing Du, Ya Liu, YaNi Huang et al.     In this work, a self-made microplasma jet system was used to conduct the qualitation and quantitation of inactivation with Escherichia coli as the target bacteria. The …             Manifold angles, the concept of self-similarity, and angle-enhanced bifurcation diagrams ▶     Marcus W. Beims, Jason A. C. Gallas     Chaos and regularity are routinely discriminated by using Lyapunov exponents distilled from the norm of orthogonalized Lyapunov vectors, propagated during the temporal evolution …             Intracellular Doppler Signatures of Platinum Sensitivity Captured by Biodynamic Profiling in Ovarian Xenografts ▶     Daniel Merrill, Ran An, Hao Sun et al.     Three-dimensional (3D) tissue cultures are replacing conventional two-dimensional (2D) cultures for applications in cancer drug development. However, direct comparisons of in …             Electronic resonances in broadband stimulated Raman spectroscopy ▶     G. Batignani, E. Pontecorvo, G. Giovannetti et al.     Spontaneous Raman spectroscopy is a formidable tool to probe molecular vibrations. Under electronic resonance conditions, the cross section can be selectively enhanced enabling …             Experimental and theoretical investigation of the precise transduction mechanism in giant magnetoresistive biosensors ▶     Jung-Rok Lee, Noriyuki Sato, Daniel J. B. Bechstein et al.     Giant magnetoresistive (GMR) biosensors consisting of many rectangular stripes are being developed for high sensitivity medical diagnostics of diseases at early stages, but many …             Alfvén waves as a solar-interplanetary driver of the thermospheric disturbances ▶     Jianpeng Guo, Fengsi Wei, Xueshang Feng et al.     Alfvén waves have been proposed as an important mechanism for the heating of the Sun’s outer atmosphere and the acceleration of solar wind, but they are generally believed to …             Enhancement of Thermoelectric Properties of PEDOT:PSS and Tellurium-PEDOT:PSS Hybrid Composites by Simple Chemical Treatment ▶     Eun Jin Bae, Young Hun Kang, Kwang-Suk Jang et al.     The thermoelectric properties of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) and tellurium-PEDOT:PSS (Te-PEDOT:PSS) hybrid composites were enhanced via …             Three Dimensional Sculpturing of Vertical Nanowire Arrays by Conventional Photolithography ▶     Run Shi, Chengzi Huang, Linfei Zhang et al.     Ordered nanoarchitectures have attracted an intense research interest recently because of their promising device applications. They are always fabricated by self-assembling …             Gold nanoparticles supported on mesoporous silica: origin of high activity and role of Au NPs in selective oxidation of cyclohexane ▶     Pingping Wu, Peng Bai, Zifeng Yan et al.     Homogeneous immobilization of gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) on mesoporous silica has been achieved by using a one-pot synthesis method in the presence of organosilane …             Room Temperature Quantum Spin Hall Insulator in Ethynyl-Derivative Functionalized Stanene Films ▶     Run-wu Zhang, Chang-wen Zhang, Wei-xiao Ji et al.     Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators feature edge states that topologically protected from backscattering. However, the major obstacles to application for QSH effect are the lack …             Antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in the half-Heusler semimetal HoPdBi ▶     Orest Pavlosiuk, Dariusz Kaczorowski, Xavier Fabreges et al.     We observed the coexistence of superconductivity and antiferromagnetic order in the single-crystalline ternary pnictide HoPdBi, a plausible topological semimetal. The compound …             EPR pairing dynamics in Hubbard model with resonant U ▶     X. Z. Zhang, Z. Song     We study the dynamics of the collision between two fermions in Hubbard model with on-site interaction strength . The exact solution shows that the scattering matrix for …             Ultrahigh Performance of Novel Capacitive Deionization Electrodes based on A Three-Dimensional Graphene Architecture with Nanopores ▶     Wenhui Shi, Haibo Li, Xiehong Cao et al.     In order to achieve optimal desalination during capacitive deionization (CDI), CDI electrodes should possess high electrical conductivity, large surface area, good wettability to …             Visualization of terahertz surface waves propagation on metal foils ▶     Xinke Wang, Sen Wang, Wenfeng Sun et al.     Exploitation of surface plasmonic devices (SPDs) in the terahertz (THz) band is always beneficial for broadening the application potential of THz technologies. To clarify …             Quasi-particles ultrafastly releasing kink bosons to form Fermi arcs in a cuprate superconductor ▶     Y. Ishida, T. Saitoh, T. Mochiku et al.     In a conventional framework, superconductivity is lost at a critical temperature (Tc) because, at higher temperatures, gluing bosons can no longer bind two electrons into a …             Anomalous temperature-dependent spin-valley polarization in monolayer WS2 ▶     A.T. Hanbicki, G. Kioseoglou, M. Currie et al.     Single layers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are direct gap semiconductors with nondegenerate valley indices. An intriguing possibility for these materials is the use …             Origin of the Avalanche-Like Photoluminescence from Metallic Nanowires ▶     Zongwei Ma, Ying Yu, Shaoxin Shen et al.     Surface plasmonic systems provide extremely efficient ways to modulate light-matter interaction in photon emission, light harvesting, energy conversion and transferring, etc. …             Weak-coupling superconductivity in a strongly correlated iron pnictide ▶     A. Charnukha, K. W. Post, S. Thirupathaiah et al.     Iron-based superconductors have been found to exhibit an intimate interplay of orbital, spin, and lattice degrees of freedom, dramatically affecting their low-energy electronic …             Coherent beam control with an all-dielectric transformation optics based lens ▶     Jianjia YI, Shah Nawaz Burokur, Gérard-Pascal Piau et al.     Transformation optics (TO) concept well known for its huge possibility in patterning the path of electromagnetic waves is exploited to design a beam steering lens. The broadband …             Structural and configurational properties of nanoconfined monolayer ice from first principles ▶     Fabiano Corsetti, Paul Matthews, Emilio Artacho     Understanding the structural tendencies of nanoconfined water is of great interest for nanoscience and biology, where nano/micro-sized objects may be separated by very few layers …             Probing the molecular design of hyper-branched aryl polyesters towards lubricant applications ▶     Joshua W. Robinson, Yan Zhou, Priyanka Bhattacharya et al.     We report novel polymeric materials that may be used as viscosity index improvers (VII) for lubricant applications. Our efforts included probing the comb-burst hyper-branched …             Direct ultrasensitive electrochemical biosensing of pathogenic DNA using homogeneous target-initiated transcription amplification ▶     Yurong Yan, Shijia Ding, Dan Zhao et al.     Sensitive and specific methodologies for detection of pathogenic gene at the point-of-care are still urgent demands in rapid diagnosis of infectious diseases. This work develops …             Poly (dopamine) coated superparamagnetic iron oxide nanocluster for noninvasive labeling, tracking, and targeted delivery of adipose tissue-derived stem cells ▶     Naishun Liao, Ming Wu, Fan Pan et al.     Tracking and monitoring of cells in vivo after transplantation can provide crucial information for stem cell therapy. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) combined with contrast …             Potent Antibacterial Nanoparticles against Biofilm and Intracellular Bacteria ▶     Haibo Mu, Jiangjiang Tang, Qianjin Liu et al.     The chronic infections related to biofilm and intracellular bacteria are always hard to be cured because of their inherent resistance to both antimicrobial agents and host …             Topographic confinement of epithelial clusters induces epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in compliant matrices ▶     Samila Nasrollahi, Amit Pathak     Epithelial cells disengage from their clusters and become motile by undergoing epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), an essential process for both embryonic development and …             A Flow-Through Cell Electroporation Device for Rapidly and Efficiently Transfecting Massive Amounts of Cells in vitro and ex vivo ▶     Deyao Zhao, Dong Huang, Yang Li et al.     Continuous cell electroporation is an appealing non-viral approach for genetically transfecting a large number of cells. Yet the traditional macro-scale devices suffer from the …             Multi-scale Characterisation of the 3D Microstructure of a Thermally-Shocked Bulk Metallic Glass Matrix Composite ▶     Wei Zhang, Andrew J. Bodey, Tan Sui et al.     Bulk metallic glass matrix composites (BMGMCs) are a new class of metal alloys which have significantly increased ductility and impact toughness, resulting from the ductile …             Single-photon-multi-layer-interference lithography for high-aspect-ratio and three-dimensional SU-8 micro-/nanostructures ▶     Siddharth Ghosh, G. K. Ananthasuresh     We report microstructures of SU-8 photo-sensitive polymer with high-aspect-ratio, which is defined as the ratio of height to in-plane feature size. The highest aspect ratio …             Utilization of native oxygen in Eu(RE)-doped GaN for enabling device compatibility in optoelectronic applications ▶     B. Mitchell, D. Timmerman, J. Poplawsky et al.     The detrimental influence of oxygen on the performance and reliability of V/III nitride based devices is well known. However, the influence of oxygen on the nature of the …             Energy efficient reduced graphene oxide additives: Mechanism of effective lubrication and antiwear properties ▶     Bhavana Gupta, N. Kumar, Kalpataru Panda et al.     Optimized concentration of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) in the lube is one of the important factors for effective lubrication of solid body contacts. At sufficiently lower …             Plasmon-photon conversion to near-infrared emission from Yb3+: (Au/Ag-nanoparticles) in tungsten-tellurite glasses ▶     V. A. G. Rivera, Yannick Ledemi, Marcelo A. Pereira-da-Silva et al.     This manuscript reports on the interaction between 2F5/2→2F7/2 radiative transition from Yb3+ ions and localized surface plasmon resonance (from gold/silver nanoparticles) in a …             Metal-to-insulator crossover in alkali doped zeolite ▶     Mutsuo Igarashi, Peter Jeglič, Andraž Krajnc et al.     We report a systematic nuclear magnetic resonance investigation of the 23Na spin-lattice relaxation rate, 1/T1, in sodium loaded low-silica X (LSX) zeolite, Nan/Na12-LSX, for …             Spatial Distribution of Oxygen Chemical Potential under Potential Gradients and Theoretical Maximum Power Density with 8YSZ Electrolyte ▶     Dae-Kwang Lim, Ha-Ni Im, Sun-Ju Song     The maximum power density of SOFC with 8YSZ electrolyte as the function of thickness was calculated by integrating partial conductivities of charge carriers under various DC bias …             Printed Large-Area Single-Mode Photonic Crystal Bandedge Surface-Emitting Lasers on Silicon ▶     Deyin Zhao, Shihchia Liu, Hongjun Yang et al.     We report here an optically pumped hybrid III-V/Si photoic crystal surface emitting laser (PCSEL), consisting of a heterogeneously integrated III-V InGaAsP quantum well …             Supramolecular polymerization of a prebiotic nucleoside provides insights into the creation of sequence-controlled polymers ▶     Jun Wang, Peter V. Bonnesen, E. Rangel et al.     Self-assembly of a nucleoside on Au(111) was studied to ascertain whether polymerization on well-defined substrates constitutes a promising approach for making …             Efficient Solar Energy Conversion Using CaCu3Ti4O12 Photoanode for Photocatalysis and Photoelectrocatalysis ▶     H. S. Kushwaha, Niyaz A Madhar, B. Ilahi et al.     A highly efficient third generation catalyst, CaCu3Ti4O12 (CCTO) shows excellent photoelectrochemical (PEC) and photocatalytic ability. As only 4% part of the solar spectrum …             Manual, In situ, Real-Time Nanofabrication using Cracking through Indentation ▶     Koo Hyun Nam, Young D. Suh, Junyeob Yeo et al.     Nanofabrication has seen an increasing demand for applications in many fields of science and technology, but its production still requires relatively difficult, time-consuming, …             Coalescence-Induced Jumping of Multiple Condensate Droplets on Hierarchical Superhydrophobic Surfaces ▶     Xuemei Chen, Ravi S. Patel, Justin A. Weibel et al.     Coalescence-induced jumping of condensate droplets from a superhydrophobic surface with hierarchical micro/nanoscale roughness is quantitatively characterized. Experimental …             Biological behaviour of human umbilical artery smooth muscle cell grown on nickel-free and nickel-containing stainless steel for stent implantation ▶     Liming Li, Liwen An, Xiaohang Zhou et al.     To evaluate the clinical potential of high nitrogen nickel-free austenitic stainless steel (HNNF SS), we have compared the cellular and molecular responses of human umbilical …             Ultrasensitive interplay between ferromagnetism and superconductivity in NbGd composite thin films ▶     Ambika Bawa, Anurag Gupta, Sandeep Singh et al.     A model binary hybrid system composed of a randomly distributed rare-earth ferromagnetic (Gd) part embedded in an s-wave superconducting (Nb) matrix is being manufactured to …             π Berry phase and Zeeman splitting of Weyl semimetal TaP ▶     J. Hu, J. Y. Liu, D. Graf et al.     The recent breakthrough in the discovery of Weyl fermions in monopnictide semimetals provides opportunities to explore the exotic properties of relativistic fermions in condensed …             Magnetic levitation-based electromagnetic energy harvesting: a semi-analytical non-linear model for energy transduction ▶     Marco P. Soares dos Santos, Jorge A. F. Ferreira, José A. O. Simões et al.     Magnetic levitation has been used to implement low-cost and maintenance-free electromagnetic energy harvesting. The ability of levitation-based harvesting systems to operate …             Photoluminescence and electronic transitions in cubic silicon nitride ▶     Luc Museur, Andreas Zerr, Andrei Kanaev     A spectroscopic study of cubic silicon nitride (γ-Si3N4) at cryogenic temperatures of 8 K in the near IR - VUV range of spectra with synchrotron radiation excitation provided the …             Self-Limiting Layer Synthesis of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides ▶     Youngjun Kim, Jeong-Gyu Song, Yong Ju Park et al.     This work reports the self-limiting synthesis of an atomically thin, two dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (2D TMDCs) in the form of MoS2. The layer controllability …             3D macroporous electrode and high-performance in lithium-ion batteries using SnO2 coated on Cu foam ▶     Ji Hyun Um, Myounggeun Choi, Hyeji Park et al.     A three-dimensional porous architecture makes an attractive electrode structure, as it has an intrinsic structural integrity and an ability to buffer stress in lithium-ion …             Porous honeycomb structures formed from interconnected MnO2 sheets on CNT-coated substrates for flexible all-solid-state supercapacitors ▶     Wen-Yin Ko, You-Feng Chen, Ke-Ming Lu et al.     The use of lightweight and easily-fabricated MnO2/carbon nanotube (CNT)-based flexible networks as binder-free electrodes and a polyvinyl alcohol/H2SO4 electrolyte for the …             Stability of similarity measurements for bipartite networks ▶     Jian-Guo Liu, Lei Hou, Xue Pan et al.     Similarity is a fundamental measure in network analyses and machine learning algorithms, with wide applications ranging from personalized recommendation to socio-economic …             Far-field optical imaging with subdiffraction resolution enabled by nonlinear saturation absorption ▶     Chenliang Ding, Jingsong Wei     The resolution of far-field optical imaging is required to improve beyond the Abbe limit to the subdiffraction or even the nanoscale. In this work, inspired by scanning …             Disorder-assisted quantum transport in suboptimal decoherence regimes ▶     Leonardo Novo, Masoud Mohseni, Yasser Omar     We investigate quantum transport in binary tree structures and in hypercubes for the disordered Frenkel-exciton Hamiltonian under pure dephasing noise. We compute the energy …             A general way for quantitative magnetic measurement by transmitted electrons ▶     Dongsheng Song, Gen Li, Jianwang Cai et al.     EMCD (electron magnetic circular dichroism) technique opens a new door to explore magnetic properties by transmitted electrons. The recently developed site-specific EMCD …             Evaluation of force generation mechanisms in natural, passive hydraulic actuators ▶     A. Le Duigou, M. Castro     Pine cones are well known natural actuators that can move their scales upon humidity gradient. The mechanism manifests itself through a displacement easily observable by the …             Emulating short-term synaptic dynamics with memristive devices ▶     Radu Berdan, Eleni Vasilaki, Ali Khiat et al.     Neuromorphic architectures offer great promise for achieving computation capacities beyond conventional Von Neumann machines. The essential elements for achieving this vision are …             Mid-infrared laser emission from Cr:ZnS channel waveguide fabricated by femtosecond laser helical writing ▶     Ya-Pei Peng, Xiao Zou, Zhengyuan Bai et al.     The operation of a mid-infrared laser at 2244 nm in a Cr:ZnS polycrystalline channel waveguide fabricated using direct femtosecond laser writing with a helical movement technique …             Braid Entropy of Two-Dimensional Turbulence ▶     Nicolas Francois, Hua Xia, Horst Punzmann et al.     The evolving shape of material fluid lines in a flow underlies the quantitative prediction of the dissipation and material transport in many industrial and natural processes. …             Wireless thin film transistor based on micro magnetic induction coupling antenna ▶     Byoung Ok Jun, Gwang Jun Lee, Jong Gu Kang et al.     A wireless thin film transistor (TFT) structure in which a source/drain or a gate is connected directly to a micro antenna to receive or transmit signals or power can be an …             Finding Oxygen Reservoir by Using Extremely Small Test Cell Structure for Resistive Random Access Memory with Replaceable Bottom Electrode ▶     Kentaro Kinoshita, Sang-Gyu Koh, Takumi Moriyama et al.     Although the presence of an oxygen reservoir (OR) is assumed in many models that explain resistive switching of resistive random access memory (ReRAM) with electrode/metal oxide …             Prediction of novel stable compounds in the Mg-Si-O system under exoplanet pressures ▶     Haiyang Niu, Artem R. Oganov, Xing-Qiu Chen et al.     The Mg-Si-O system is the major Earth and rocky planet-forming system. Here, through quantum variable-composition evolutionary structure explorations, we have discovered several …             Simultaneously precise frequency transfer and time synchronization using feed-forward compensation technique via 120 km fiber link ▶     Xing Chen, Jinlong Lu, Yifan Cui et al.     Precision time synchronization between two remote sites is desired in many applications such as global positioning satellite systems, long-baseline interferometry, coherent radar …             Independently tunable dual-band perfect absorber based on graphene at mid-infrared frequencies ▶     Yuping Zhang, Tongtong Li, Qi Chen et al.     We design a dual-band absorber formed by combining two cross-shaped metallic resonators of different sizes within a super-unit-cell arranged in mirror symmetry. Simulations …             Large and pristine films of reduced graphene oxide ▶     Sung Il Ahn, Kukjoo Kim, Jura Jung et al.     A new self-assembly concept is introduced to form large and pristine films (15 cm in diameter) of reduced graphene oxide (RGO). The resulting film has different degrees of …             Splitting of standing spin-wave modes in circular submicron ferromagnetic dot under axial symmetry violation ▶     S. A. Bunyaev, V. O. Golub, O. Yu. Salyuk et al.     The spin wave dynamics in patterned magnetic nanostructures is under intensive study during the last two decades. On the one hand, this interest is generated by new physics that …             Experimental realization of ultrathin, double-sided metamaterial perfect absorber at terahertz gap through stochastic design process ▶     Tsung-Yu Huang, Ching-Wei Tseng, Ting-Tso Yeh et al.     We design and demonstrate a flexible, ultrathin and double-sided metamaterial perfect absorber (MPA) at 2.39 terahertz (THz), which enables excellent light absorbance under …             From immobilized cells to motile cells on a bed-of-nails: effects of vertical nanowire array density on cell behaviour ▶     Henrik Persson, Zhen Li, Jonas O. Tegenfeldt et al.     The field of vertical nanowire array-based applications in cell biology is growing rapidly and an increasing number of applications are being explored. These applications almost …             Generating a Bessel-Gaussian beam for the application in optical engineering ▶     Xiuxiang Chu, Quan Sun, Jing Wang et al.     Bessel beam is the important member of the family of non-diffracting beams and has many novel properties which can be used in many areas. However, the source of Bessel beam …             Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Microscopic Imaging ▶     Charles W. Ballmann, Jonathan V. Thompson, Andrew J. Traverso et al.     Two-dimensional stimulated Brillouin scattering microscopy is demonstrated for the first time using low power continuous-wave lasers tunable around 780 nm. Spontaneous Brillouin …             Dynamical transition of heat transport in a physical gel near the sol-gel transition ▶     Kazuya U. Kobayashi, Noriko Oikawa, Rei Kurita     We experimentally study heat transport in a gelatin solution near a reversible sol-gel transition point where viscosity strongly depends on temperature. We visualize the …             Spoof surface plasmon based planar antennas for the realization of Terahertz hotspots ▶     Yusheng Zhang, Zhanghua Han     Novel spoof surface plasmon based terahertz (THz) antennas are realized using a few number of rectangular grooves perforated in ultrathin metal stripes and the properties of …             Defect-Mediated Lithium Adsorption and Diffusion on Monolayer Molybdenum Disulfide ▶     Xiaoli Sun, Zhiguo Wang, Y. Q. Fu     Monolayer Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2) is a promising anode material for lithium ion batteries because of its high capacities. In this work, first principle calculations based on …             Engineering interface-type resistive switching in BiFeO3 thin film switches by Ti implantation of bottom electrodes ▶     Tiangui You, Xin Ou, Gang Niu et al.     BiFeO3 based MIM structures with Ti-implanted Pt bottom electrodes and Au top electrodes have been fabricated on Sapphire substrates. The resulting metal-insulator-metal (MIM) …             A Smart Colorful Supercapacitor with One Dimensional Photonic Crystals ▶     Cihui Liu, Xing Liu, Hongyun Xuan et al.     To meet the pressing demands for portable and flexible equipment in contemporary society, developing flexible, lightweight, and sustainable supercapacitor systems with large …             Electronic Structure of Oxide Interfaces: A Comparative Analysis of GdTiO3/SrTiO3 and LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Interfaces ▶     Hrishit Banerjee, Sumilan Banerjee, Mohit Randeria et al.     Emergent phases in the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) formed at the interface between two insulating oxides have attracted great attention in the past decade. We present …             Gauge Physics of Spin Hall Effect ▶     Seng Ghee Tan, Mansoor B. A. Jalil, Cong Son Ho et al.     Spin Hall effect (SHE) has been discussed in the context of Kubo formulation, geometric physics, spin orbit force, and numerous semi-classical treatments. It can be confusing if …             Topological constraints on network control profiles ▶     Colin Campbell, Justin Ruths, Derek Ruths et al.     Network models are designed to capture properties of empirical networks and thereby provide insight into the processes that underlie the formation of complex systems. As new …             Quantifying electron transfer reactions in biological systems: what interactions play the major role? ▶     Emil Sjulstok, Jógvan Magnus Haugaard Olsen, Ilia A. Solov’yov     Various biological processes involve the conversion of energy into forms that are usable for chemical transformations and are quantum mechanical in nature. Such processes involve …             Classical hypercorrelation and wave-optics analogy of quantum superdense coding ▶     Pengyun Li, Yifan Sun, Zhenwei Yang et al.     We report the first experimental realization of classical hypercorrelation, correlated simultaneously in every degree of freedom (DOF), from observing a Bell-type inequality …             Microscopic optical buffering in a harmonic potential ▶     M. Sumetsky     In the early days of quantum mechanics, Schrödinger noticed that oscillations of a wave packet in a one-dimensional harmonic potential well are periodic and, in contrast to those …             Renal Denervation Findings on Cardiac and Renal Fibrosis in Rats with Isoproterenol Induced Cardiomyopathy ▶     Qian Liu, Qi Zhang, Kai Wang et al.     Cardio-renal fibrosis plays key roles in heart failure and chronic kidney disease. We sought to determine the effects of renal denervation (RDN) on cardiac and renal fibrosis in …             HIV-1 Protease Dimerization Dynamics Reveals a Transient Druggable Binding Pocket at the Interface ▶     Fabio Pietrucci, Attilio Vittorio Vargiu, Agata Kranjc     The binding mechanism of HIV-1 protease monomers leading to the catalytically competent dimeric enzyme has been investigated by means of state-of-the-art atomistic simulations. …             Hierarchy is Detrimental for Human Cooperation ▶     Katherine A. Cronin, Daniel J. Acheson, Penélope Hernández et al.     Studies of animal behavior consistently demonstrate that the social environment impacts cooperation, yet the effect of social dynamics has been largely excluded from studies of …             Torque-induced precession of bacterial flagella ▶     Yuji Shimogonya, Yoichiro Sawano, Hiromichi Wakebe et al.     The bacterial flagellar motor is an ion-driven rotary machine in the cell envelope of bacteria. Using a gold nanoparticle as a probe, we observed the precession of flagella …             Long-term Autophagy and Nrf2 Signaling in the Hippocampi of Developing Mice after Carbon Ion Exposure ▶     Fei Ye, Ting Zhao, Xiongxiong Liu et al.     To explore charged particle radiation-induced long-term hippocampus damage, we investigated the expression of autophagy and antioxidant Nrf2 signaling-related proteins in the …             Global insights into acetic acid resistance mechanisms and genetic stability of Acetobacter pasteurianus strains by comparative genomics ▶     Bin Wang, Yanchun Shao, Tao Chen et al.     Acetobacter pasteurianus (Ap) CICC 20001 and CGMCC 1.41 are two acetic acid bacteria strains that, because of their strong abilities to produce and tolerate high concentrations …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       MRC Postdoctoral Scientist (CSC 74)     Medical Research Council            Biostatistician     The Henry M.Jackson Foundation            Postdoctoral Fellow / Doctoral Student     Helmholtz Association            Research Associate     University College London (UCL)            Charity Officer     Myrovlytis Trust            Research Associate (Fixed Term)     University of Cambridge            Postdoctoral Fellow     Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute            Postdoc Position     Weill Cornell College of Medicine            Postdoctoral Researcher     INSERM U1100            Research Scientist     MIT          No matter what your career stage, student, postdoc or senior scientist, you will find articles on naturejobs.com to help guide you in your science career. 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