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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         Physical Sciences               Aligned silver nanowire-based transparent electrodes for engineering polarisation-selective optoelectronics ▶     Byoungchoo Park, In-Gon Bae, Yoon Ho Huh     We herein report on a remarkably simple, fast, and economic way of fabricating homogeneous and well oriented silver nanowires (AgNWs) that exhibit strong in-plane electrical and …             Evidencing the existence of exciting half-metallicity in two-dimensional TiCl3 and VCl3 sheets ▶     Yungang Zhou, Haifeng Lu, Xiaotao Zu et al.     Half-metallicity combined with wide half-metallic gap, unique ferromagnetic character and high Curie temperature has become a key driving force to develop next-generation …             On-chip integratable all-optical quantizer using strong cross-phase modulation in a silicon-organic hybrid slot waveguide ▶     Zhe Kang, Jinhui Yuan, Xianting Zhang et al.     High performance all-optical quantizer based on silicon waveguide is believed to have significant applications in photonic integratable optical communication links, optical …             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, …             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 …             Bi deficiency-tuned functionality in multiferroic Bi1-δFe0.95Mn0.05O3 films ▶     Jingyi Chen, Yao Wang, Hui Wang et al.     Structural evolution and ferroelectric (FE)-to-antiferroelectric (AFE) transition behaviors were observed in Bi1-δFe0.95Mn0.05O3 (100)-textured films with a carefully controlled …             A New Raman Metric for the Characterisation of Graphene oxide and its Derivatives ▶     Alice A. K. King, Benjamin R. Davies, Nikan Noorbehesht et al.     Raman spectroscopy is among the primary techniques for the characterisation of graphene materials, as it provides insights into the quality of measured graphenes including their …             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 …             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 …             Exotic vortex lattices in a rotating binary dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate ▶     Xiao-Fei Zhang, Lin Wen, Cai-Qing Dai et al.     In the last decade, considerable advances have been made in the investigation of dipolar quantum gases. Previous theoretical investigations of a rotating binary dipolar …             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 …             Vertical La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 nanorods tailored by high magnetic field assisted pulsed laser deposition ▶     Kejun Zhang, Jianming Dai, Xuebin Zhu et al.     La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 (LCMO) thin films on (LaAlO3)0.3(Sr2AlTaO6)0.7 (001) [LSAT (001)] single crystal substrates have been prepared by high magnetic field assisted pulsed laser …             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 …             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 …             Anisotropic Effects on the Thermoelectric Properties of Highly Oriented Electrodeposited Bi2Te3 Films ▶     Cristina V. Manzano, Begoña Abad, Miguel Muñoz Rojo et al.     Highly oriented [1 1 0] Bi2Te3 films were obtained by pulsed electrodeposition. The structure, composition, and morphology of these films were characterized. The thermoelectric …             Locating influential nodes in complex networks ▶     Fragkiskos D. Malliaros, Maria-Evgenia G. Rossi, Michalis Vazirgiannis     Understanding and controlling spreading processes in networks is an important topic with many diverse applications, including information dissemination, disease propagation and …             Single Droplet on Micro Square-Post Patterned Surfaces – Theoretical Model and Numerical Simulation ▶     Y. Q. Zu, Y. Y. Yan     In this study, the wetting behaviors of single droplet on a micro square-post patterned surface with different geometrical parameters are investigated theoretically and …             Direct measurement of nonlocal entanglement of two-qubit spin quantum states ▶     Liu-Yong Cheng, Guo-Hui Yang, Qi Guo et al.     We propose efficient schemes of direct concurrence measurement for two-qubit spin and photon-polarization entangled states via the interaction between single-photon pulses and …             A Novel Equivalent Agglomeration Model for Heat Conduction Enhancement in Nanofluids ▶     Jize Sui, Liancun Zheng, Xinxin Zhang et al.     We propose a multilevel equivalent agglomeration (MEA) model in which all particles in an irregular cluster are treated as a new particle with equivalent volume, the liquid …             Impurity Resonant States p-type Doping in Wide-Band-Gap Nitrides ▶     Zhiqiang Liu, Xiaoyan Yi, Zhiguo Yu et al.     In this work, a new strategy for achieving efficient p-type doping in high bandgap nitride semiconductors to overcome the fundamental issue of high activation energy has been …             Ion-beam assisted laser fabrication of sensing plasmonic nanostructures ▶     Aleksandr Kuchmizhak, Stanislav Gurbatov, Oleg Vitrik et al.     Simple high-performance, two-stage hybrid technique was developed for fabrication of different plasmonic nanostructures, including nanorods, nanorings, as well as more complex …             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 …             X-ray PIV measurement of blood flow in deep vessels of a rat: An in vivo feasibility study ▶     Hanwook Park, Eunseop Yeom, Sang Joon Lee     X-ray PIV measurement is a noninvasive approach to measure opaque blood flows. However, it is not easy to measure real pulsatile blood flows in the blood vessels located at deep …             Thermally triggered phononic gaps in liquids at THz scale ▶     Dima Bolmatov, Mikhail Zhernenkov, Dmitry Zav’yalov et al.     In this paper we present inelastic X-ray scattering experiments in a diamond anvil cell and molecular dynamic simulations to investigate the behavior of phononic excitations in …             Revisiting the concept of a symmetric index of agreement for continuous datasets ▶     Gregory Duveiller, Dominique Fasbender, Michele Meroni     Quantifying how close two datasets are to each other is a common and necessary undertaking in scientific research. The Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient r is a …             Nanofibril scaffold assisted MEMS artificial hydrogel neuromasts for enhanced sensitivity flow sensing ▶     Ajay Giri Prakash Kottapalli, Meghali Bora, Mohsen Asadnia et al.     We present the development and testing of superficial neuromast-inspired flow sensors that also attain high sensitivity and resolution through a biomimetic hyaulronic acid-based …             Magnetic phase separation in double layer ruthenates Ca3(Ru1−xTix)2O7 ▶     Jin Peng, J. Y. Liu, J. Hu et al.     A phase transition from metallic AFM-b antiferromagnetic state to Mott insulating G-type antiferromagnetic (G-AFM) state was found in Ca3(Ru1−xTix)2O7 at about x = 0.03 in our …             One-Minute Room-Temperature Transfer-Free Production of Mono- and Few-Layer Polycrystalline Graphene on Various Substrates ▶     Shenglin Jiang, Yike Zeng, Wenli Zhou et al.     Graphene deposited on various substrates has attracted the attention of the scientific and technical communities for use in a wide range of applications. Graphene on substrates …             Mapping of Low-Frequency Raman Modes in CVD-Grown Transition Metal Dichalcogenides: Layer Number, Stacking Orientation and Resonant Effects ▶     Maria O’Brien, Niall McEvoy, Damien Hanlon et al.     Layered inorganic materials, such as the transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), have attracted much attention due to their exceptional electronic and optical properties. …             Fabrication of in-situ grown graphene reinforced Cu matrix composites ▶     Yakun Chen, Xiang Zhang, Enzuo Liu et al.     Graphene/Cu composites were fabricated through a graphene in-situ grown approach, which involved ball-milling of Cu powders with PMMA as solid carbon source, in-situ growth of …             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) …             Graphene quantum dots as the electrolyte for solid state supercapacitors ▶     Su Zhang, Yutong Li, Huaihe Song et al.     We propose that graphene quantum dots (GQDs) with a sufficient number of acidic oxygen-bearing functional groups such as -COOH and -OH can serve as solution- and solid- type …             Geometry Dependent Evolution of the Resonant Mode in ZnO Elongated Hexagonal Microcavity ▶     Hongxing Dong, Yang Liu, Shulin Sun et al.     We have developed a novel but simple approach to obtain ZnO microcombs with parallelogram stems and elongated hexagonal branches. We found that the present elongated hexagonal …             Angle Insensitive Color Filters in Transmission Covering the Visible Region ▶     Kening Mao, Weidong Shen, Chenying Yang et al.     Angle insensitive color filter based on Metal-SiOx-Metal structure is proposed in this paper, which can keep the same perceived transmitted color when the incidence angle changes …             Bonding and Anti-bonding Modes of Plasmon Coupling Effects in TiO2-Ag Core-shell Dimers ▶     Quanshui Li, Zhili Zhang     Bonding and anti-bonding modes of plasmon coupling effects are numerically investigated in TiO2-Ag core-shell nano dimers. First, splitting phenomena of the coupled anti-bonding …             Generation of attosecond electron packets via conical surface plasmon electron acceleration ▶     S. R. Greig, A. Y. Elezzabi     We present a method for the generation of high kinetic energy attosecond electron packets via magnetostatic and aperture filtering of conical surface plasmon (SP) accelerated …             Two-dimensional Topological Crystalline Insulator Phase in Sb/Bi Planar Honeycomb with Tunable Dirac Gap ▶     Chia-Hsiu Hsu, Zhi-Quan Huang, Christian P. Crisostomo et al.     We predict planar Sb/Bi honeycomb to harbor a two-dimensional (2D) topological crystalline insulator (TCI) phase based on first-principles computations. Although buckled Sb and …             Benchmarking Deep Networks for Predicting Residue-Specific Quality of Individual Protein Models in CASP11 ▶     Tong Liu, Yiheng Wang, Jesse Eickholt et al.     Quality assessment of a protein model is to predict the absolute or relative quality of a protein model using computational methods before the native structure is available. …             Transparent superwetting nanofilms with enhanced durability at model physiological condition ▶     Sunghee Hwangbo, Jiwoong Heo, Xiangde Lin et al.     There have been many studies on superwetting surfaces owing to the variety of their potential applications. There are some drawbacks to developing these films for biomedical …             Facile Synthesis of Non-Graphitizable Polypyrrole-Derived Carbon/Carbon Nanotubes for Lithium-ion Batteries ▶     Bo Jin, Fan Gao, Yong-Fu Zhu et al.     Graphite is usually used as an anode material in the commercial lithium ion batteries (LIBs). The relatively low lithium storage capacity of 372 mAh g–1 and the confined rate …             Harnessing click detectors for the genuine characterization of light states ▶     René Heilmann, Jan Sperling, Armando Perez-Leija et al.     The key requirement for harnessing the quantum properties of light is the capability to detect and count individual photons. Of particular interest are photon-number-resolving …             Water as an agent for the morphology modification of metal oxalate materials on the nanoscale: from sheets to rods ▶     Minog Kim, YooJin Kim, WonJong Kwon et al.     A number of approaches have been used to control the shape of metal oxalates, which often used as precursors for metal oxide nanomaterials. However, attempts to use water as a …             Effect of spatial constraints on Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium ▶     Yi-Shin Chen, Yi-Cheng Su, Wei Pan     Panmixia is a key issue in maintaining genetic diversity, which facilitates evolutionary potential during environmental changes. Additionally, conservation biologists suggest the …             Modular structure of brain functional networks: breaking the resolution limit by Surprise ▶     Carlo Nicolini, Angelo Bifone     The modular organization of brain networks has been widely investigated using graph theoretical approaches. Recently, it has been demonstrated that graph partitioning methods …             Stabilizing Off-pathway Oligomers by Polyphenol Nanoassemblies for IAPP Aggregation Inhibition ▶     Praveen Nedumpully-Govindan, Aleksandr Kakinen, Emily H. Pilkington et al.     Experimental studies have shown that many naturally occurring polyphenols have inhibitory effect on the aggregation of several proteins. Here, we use discrete molecular dynamics …             Architecture and Function of Mechanosensitive Membrane Protein Lattices ▶     Osman Kahraman, Peter D. Koch, William S. Klug et al.     Experiments have revealed that membrane proteins can form two-dimensional clusters with regular translational and orientational protein arrangements, which may allow cells to …             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 …             InGaN/Dilute-As GaNAs Interface Quantum Well for Red Emitters ▶     Chee-Keong Tan, Damir Borovac, Wei Sun et al.     The design of InGaN/dilute-As GaNAs interface quantum well (QW) leads to significant redshift in the transition wavelength with improvement in electron-hole wave function overlap …             Two-Photon Excitation STED Microscopy with Time-Gated Detection ▶     Iván Coto Hernández, Marco Castello, Luca Lanzanò et al.     We report on a novel two-photon excitation stimulated emission depletion (2PE-STED) microscope based on time-gated detection. The time-gated detection allows for the effective …             Long-distance continuous-variable quantum key distribution by controlling excess noise ▶     Duan Huang, Peng Huang, Dakai Lin et al.     Quantum cryptography founded on the laws of physics could revolutionize the way in which communication information is protected. Significant progresses in long-distance quantum …             Electrical current through individual pairs of phosphorus donor atoms and silicon dangling bonds ▶     K. Ambal, P. Rahe, A. Payne et al.     Nuclear spins of phosphorus [P] donor atoms in crystalline silicon are among the most coherent qubits found in nature. For their utilization in scalable quantum computers, …             Observation of giant Goos-Hänchen and angular shifts at designed metasurfaces ▶     Venkata Jayasurya Yallapragada, Ajith P. Ravishankar, Gajendra L. Mulay et al.     Metasurfaces with sub-wavelength features are useful in modulating the phase, amplitude or polarization of electromagnetic fields. While several applications are reported for …             Hyperuniform disordered terahertz quantum cascade laser ▶     R. Degl’Innocenti, Y. D. Shah, L. Masini et al.     Laser cavities have been realized in various different photonic systems. One of the forefront research fields regards the investigation of the physics of amplifying random …             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, …             A Fluctuating State in the Framework Compounds (Ba,Sr)Al2O4 ▶     Yui Ishii, Hirofumi Tsukasaki, Eri Tanaka et al.     The structural fluctuation in hexagonal Ba1−xSrxAl2O4 with a corner-sharing AlO4 tetrahedral network was characterized at various temperatures using transmission electron …             Stiffness in vortex—like structures due to chirality-domains within a coupled helical rare-earth superlattice ▶     Amitesh Paul     Vortex domain walls poses chirality or ‘handedness’ which can be exploited to act as memory units by changing their polarity with electric field or driving/manupulating the …             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 …             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 …             Synthesis of Large-Area WS2 monolayers with Exceptional Photoluminescence ▶     Kathleen M. McCreary, Aubrey T. Hanbicki, Glenn G. Jernigan et al.     Monolayer WS2 offers great promise for use in optical devices due to its direct bandgap and high photoluminescence intensity. While fundamental investigations can be performed on …             Liquid-induced colour change in a beetle: the concept of a photonic cell ▶     Sébastien R. Mouchet, Eloise Van Hooijdonk, Victoria L. Welch et al.     The structural colour of male Hoplia coerulea beetles is notable for changing from blue to green upon contact with water. In fact, reversible changes in both colour and …             Direct comparison of shot-to-shot noise performance of all normal dispersion and anomalous dispersion supercontinuum pumped with sub-picosecond pulse fiber-based laser ▶     Mariusz Klimczak, Grzegorz Soboń, Rafał Kasztelanic et al.     Coherence of supercontinuum sources is critical for applications involving characterization of ultrafast or rarely occurring phenomena. With the demonstrated spectral coverage of …             Field-induced magnetic instability and quantum criticality in the antiferromagnet CeCu2Ge2 ▶     Yi Liu, Donghua Xie, Xiaoying Wang et al.     The magnetic quantum criticality in strongly correlated electron systems has been considered to be closely related with the occurrence of unconventional superconductivity. …             Single-crystalline ZnO sheet Source-Gated Transistors ▶     A. S. Dahiya, C. Opoku, R. A. Sporea et al.     Due to their fabrication simplicity, fully compatible with low-cost large-area device assembly strategies, source-gated transistors (SGTs) have received significant research …             Uncoupling shear and uniaxial elastic moduli of semiflexible biopolymer networks: compression-softening and stretch-stiffening ▶     Anne S. G. van Oosten, Mahsa Vahabi, Albert J. Licup et al.     Gels formed by semiflexible filaments such as most biopolymers exhibit non-linear behavior in their response to shear deformation, e.g., with a pronounced strain stiffening and …             Temperature based Restricted Boltzmann Machines ▶     Guoqi Li, Lei Deng, Yi Xu et al.     Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs), which apply graphical models to learning probability distribution over a set of inputs, have attracted much attention recently since being …             A True Metasurface Antenna ▶     Mohamed El Badawe, Thamer S. Almoneef, Omar M. Ramahi     We present a true metasurface antenna based on electrically-small resonators. The resonators are placed on a flat surface and connected to one feed point using corporate feed. Un…             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 …             Surface passivation of semiconducting oxides by self-assembled nanoparticles ▶     Dae-Sung Park, Haiyuan Wang, Sepehr K. Vasheghani Farahani et al.     Physiochemical interactions which occur at the surfaces of oxide materials can significantly impair their performance in many device applications. As a result, surface …             Unveiling Spatial Epidemiology of HIV with Mobile Phone Data ▶     Sanja Brdar, Katarina Gavrić, Dubravko Ćulibrk et al.     An increasing amount of geo-referenced mobile phone data enables the identification of behavioral patterns, habits and movements of people. With this data, we can extract the …             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 …             Localized crystallization in shear bands of a metallic glass ▶     Zhijie Yan, Kaikai Song, Yong Hu et al.     Stress-induced viscous flow is the characteristic of atomic movements during plastic deformation of metallic glasses in the absence of substantial temperature increase, which …             Use of a novel smart heating sleeping bag to improve wearers’ local thermal comfort in the feet ▶     W. F. Song, C. J. Zhang, D. D. Lai et al.     Previous studies have revealed that wearers had low skin temperatures and cold and pain sensations in the feet, when using sleeping bags under defined comfort and limit …             Assessing the toxicity of Pb- and Sn-based perovskite solar cells in model organism Danio rerio ▶     Aslihan Babayigit, Dinh Duy Thanh, Anitha Ethirajan et al.     Intensive development of organometal halide perovskite solar cells has lead to a dramatic surge in power conversion efficiency up to 20%. Unfortunately, the most efficient …             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: Dynamic creation of a topologically-ordered Hamiltonian using spin-pulse control in the Heisenberg model ▶     Tetsufumi Tanamoto, Keiji Ono, Yu-xi Liu et al.                 Erratum: Disordering of the vortex lattice through successive destruction of positional and orientational order in a weakly pinned Co0.0075NbSe2 single crystal ▶     Somesh Chandra Ganguli, Harkirat Singh, Garima Saraswat et al.                 Assembling carbon quantum dots to a layered carbon for high-density supercapacitor electrodes ▶     Guanxiong Chen, Shuilin Wu, Liwei Hui et al.     It is found that carbon quantum dots (CQDs) self-assemble to a layer structure at ice crystals-water interface with freeze- drying. Such layers interconnect with each other, …             Hierarchical Sheet-on-Sheet ZnIn2S4/g-C3N4 Heterostructure with Highly Efficient Photocatalytic H2 production Based on Photoinduced Interfacial Charge Transfer ▶     Zhenyi Zhang, Kuichao Liu, Zhiqing Feng et al.     We have realized in-situ growth of ultrathin ZnIn2S4 nanosheets on the sheet-like g-C3N4 surfaces to construct a “sheet-on-sheet” hierarchical heterostructure. The as-synthesized …             Direct observation of deterministic domain wall trajectory in magnetic network structures ▶     P. Sethi, C. Murapaka, S. Goolaup et al.     Controlling the domain wall (DW) trajectory in magnetic network structures is crucial for spin-based device related applications. The understanding of DW dynamics in network …             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 …             Erratum: Term rules for simple metal clusters ▶     Daisuke Yoshida, Hannes Raebiger                 Non-periodic oscillatory deformation of an actomyosin microdroplet encapsulated within a lipid interface ▶     Yukinori Nishigami, Hiroaki Ito, Seiji Sonobe et al.     Active force generation in living organisms, which is mainly involved in actin cytoskeleton and myosin molecular motors, plays a crucial role in various biological processes. …             Enhanced electromechanical coupling of a nanomechanical resonator to coupled superconducting cavities ▶     Peng-Bo Li, Hong-Rong Li, Fu-Li Li     We investigate the electromechanical coupling between a nanomechanical resonator and two parametrically coupled superconducting coplanar waveguide cavities that are driven by a …             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 …             The effect of annealing on a 3D SnO2/graphene foam as an advanced lithium-ion battery anode ▶     Ran Tian, Yangyang Zhang, Zhihang Chen et al.     3D annealed SnO2/graphene sheet foams (ASGFs) are synthesized by in situ self-assembly of graphene sheets prepared by mild chemical reduction. L-ascorbyl acid is used to …             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 …             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. However, the phase diagram of ammonium nitrate at …             A model for the compositions of non-stoichiometric intermediate phases formed by diffusion reactions, and its application to Nb3Sn superconductors ▶     X. Xu, M. D. Sumption     In this work we explore the compositions of non-stoichiometric intermediate phases formed by diffusion reactions: a mathematical framework is developed and tested against the …             The effect of surface wettability on water vapor condensation in nanoscale ▶     D. Niu, G. H. Tang     The effect of surface wettability on condensation heat transfer in a nanochannel is studied with the molecular dynamics simulations. Different from the conventional size, the …             Nanoscale mapping of plasmon and exciton in ZnO tetrapods coupled with Au nanoparticles ▶     Giovanni Bertoni, Filippo Fabbri, Marco Villani et al.     Metallic nanoparticles can be used to enhance optical absorption or emission in semiconductors, thanks to a strong interaction of collective excitations of free charges …             Insight into the mechanical, thermodynamics and superconductor properties of NbRuB via first-principles calculation ▶     Wenyan Tian, Haichuan Chen     Using the first-principles calculations, the electronic structure, chemical bonding, mechanical, thermodynamics and superconductor properties of NbRuB are investigated. 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