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26 January 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               NPG Asia Materials is proud to present a web focus on Magnetic materials for spintronic devices. This web focus features a selection of articles that are related to magnetic materials for potential application in magnetoelectronic and spintronic devices. Such materials include artificial multiferroics, half metallic Heusler alloys, topological insulators, Dirac semimetals, manganites, nanofibers, and spin wave materials, as well as molecular interfaces. Access the Web Focus today!                  Physical Sciences               Direct fabrication of 3D graphene on nanoporous anodic alumina by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition ▶     Hualin Zhan, David J. Garrett, Nicholas V. Apollo et al.     High surface area electrode materials are of interest for a wide range of potential applications such as super-capacitors and electrochemical cells. This paper describes a …             Large-scale synthesis of hybrid metal oxides through metal redox mechanism for high-performance pseudocapacitors ▶     Zhonghua Ren, Jianpeng Li, Yaqi Ren et al.     Electrochemical performance and production cost are the main concerns for the practical application of supercapacitors. Here we report a simple and universally applicable method …             Anisotropic lattice response induced by a linearly-polarized femtosecond optical pulse excitation in interfacial phase change memory material ▶     Kotaro Makino, Yuta Saito, Paul Fons et al.     Optical excitation of matter with linearly-polarized femtosecond pulses creates a transient non-equilibrium lattice displacement along a certain direction. Here, the pump and …             Switchable graphene-substrate coupling through formation/dissolution of an intercalated Ni-carbide layer ▶     Cristina Africh, Cinzia Cepek, Laerte L. Patera et al.     Control over the film-substrate interaction is key to the exploitation of graphene’s unique electronic properties. Typically, a buffer layer is irreversibly intercalated “from …             Broadband non-reciprocal transmission of sound with invariant frequency ▶     Zhong-ming Gu, Jie Hu, Bin Liang et al.     We design and experimentally demonstrate a broadband yet compact acoustic diode (AD) by using an acoustic nonlinear material and a pair of gain and lossy materials. Due to the …             Controllable high-fidelity quantum state transfer and entanglement generation in circuit QED ▶     Peng Xu, Xu-Chen Yang, Feng Mei et al.     We propose a scheme to realize controllable quantum state transfer and entanglement generation among transmon qubits in the typical circuit QED setup based on adiabatic passage. …             Direct Synthesis of Multicolor Fluorescent Hollow Carbon Spheres Encapsulating Enriched Carbon Dots ▶     Qiao-Ling Chen, Wen-Qing Ji, Su Chen     Multicolor fluorescent hollow carbon spheres (HCSs) are fabricated by an easy one-step route of in situ pyrolysis process with the use of natural scales and collagen powders as …             Experimental Observation of Bohr’s Nonlinear Fluidic Surface Oscillation ▶     Songky Moon, Younghoon Shin, Hojeong Kwak et al.     Niels Bohr in the early stage of his career developed a nonlinear theory of fluidic surface oscillation in order to study surface tension of liquids. His theory includes the …             All-photonic drying and sintering process via flash white light combined with deep-UV and near-infrared irradiation for highly conductive copper nano-ink ▶     Hyun-Jun Hwang, Kyung-Hwan Oh, Hak-Sung Kim     We developed an ultra-high speed photonic sintering method involving flash white light (FWL) combined with near infrared (NIR) and deep UV light irradiation to produce highly …             Controlled growth of CH3NH3PbI3 nanowires in arrays of open nanofluidic channels ▶     Massimo Spina, Eric Bonvin, Andrzej Sienkiewicz et al.     Spatial positioning of nanocrystal building blocks on a solid surface is a prerequisite for assembling individual nanoparticles into functional devices. Here, we report on the …             Boosting spin-caloritronic effects by attractive correlations in molecular junctions ▶     Ireneusz Weymann     In nanoscopic systems quantum confinement and interference can lead to an enhancement of thermoelectric properties as compared to conventional bulk materials. For nanostructures, …             Insights into cationic ordering in Re-based double perovskite oxides ▶     Tae-Won Lim, Sung-Dae Kim, Kil-Dong Sung et al.     Cationic ordering in Sr2FeReO6 (SFRO) and Sr2CrReO6 (SCRO) is investigated using magnetic property measurement, atomic-scale imaging, and first-principles calculations. We find …             Anisotropic magnetic entropy change in RFeO3 single crystals(R = Tb, Tm, or Y) ▶     Ya-Jiao Ke, Xiang-Qun Zhang, Yue Ma et al.     Compared with traditional gas-compression/expansion refrigeration, magnetic refrigeration based on magnetocaloric effect (MCE) exhibits the advantages of high energy efficiency …             Hunting for Monolayer Oxide Nanosheets and Their Architectures ▶     Hyung-Jun Kim, Minoru Osada, Yasuo Ebina et al.     In two-dimensional materials, thickness identification with a sufficient characterization range is essential to fundamental study and practical applications. Here, we report a …             Orbital Delocalization and Enhancement of Magnetic Interactions in Perovskite Oxyhydrides ▶     Kai Liu, Yusheng Hou, Xingao Gong et al.     Recent experiments showed that some perovskite oxyhydrides have surprisingly high magnetic-transition temperature. In order to unveil the origin of this interesting phenomenon, …             Organic devices based on nickel nanowires transparent electrode ▶     Jeongmo Kim, Wilson Jose da Silva, Abd. Rashid bin Mohd Yusoff et al.     Herein, we demonstrate a facile approach to synthesize long nickel nanowires and discuss its suitability to replace our commonly used transparent electrode, indium-tin-oxide …             Hydrothermal preparation of silver telluride nanostructures and photo-catalytic investigation in degradation of toxic dyes ▶     Sousan Gholamrezaei, Masoud Salavati-Niasari, Davood Ghanbari et al.     Different morphologies of Ag2Te nanostructures were synthesized using TeCl4 as a new precursor and hydrazine hydrate as reducing agent by a hydrothermal method. Various …             Waveguide Characterization of S-Band Microwave Mantle Cloaks for Dielectric and Conducting Objects ▶     Antonino Vitiello, Massimo Moccia, Gian Paolo Papari et al.     We present the experimental characterization of mantle cloaks designed so as to minimize the electromagnetic scattering of moderately-sized dielectric and conducting cylinders at …             Exponential decay of spatial correlation in driven diffusive system: A universal feature of macroscopic homogeneous state ▶     Qing-Yi Hao, Rui Jiang, Mao-Bin Hu et al.     Driven diffusive systems have been a paradigm for modelling many physical, chemical, and biological transport processes. In the systems, spatial correlation plays an important …             Resistive Switching Memory Phenomena in PEDOT PSS: Coexistence of Switchable Diode Effect and Write Once Read Many Memory ▶     Viet Cuong Nguyen, Pooi See Lee     We study resistive switching memory phenomena in conducting polymer PEDOT PSS. In the same film, there are two types of memory behavior coexisting; namely, the switchable diode …             Targeting and retention enhancement of quantum dots decorated with amino acids in an invertebrate model organism ▶     Rui Xing, Xue-Dong Chen, Yan-Feng Zhou et al.     The use of quantum dots (QDs) in biological imaging applications and targeted drug delivery is expected to increase. However, the efficiency of QDs in drug targeting needs to be …             Automatic and objective oral cancer diagnosis by Raman spectroscopic detection of keratin with multivariate curve resolution analysis ▶     Po-Hsiung Chen, Rintaro Shimada, Sohshi Yabumoto et al.     We have developed an automatic and objective method for detecting human oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) tissues with Raman microspectroscopy. We measure 196 independent Raman …             Global effects of local food-production crises: a virtual water perspective ▶     Stefania Tamea, Francesco Laio, Luca Ridolfi     By importing food and agricultural goods, countries cope with the heterogeneous global water distribution and often rely on water resources available abroad. The virtual …             Improving sodium laser guide star brightness by polarization switching ▶     Tingwei Fan, Tianhua Zhou, Yan Feng     Optical pumping with circularly polarized light has been used to enhance the brightness of sodium laser guide star. But the benefit is reduced substantially due to the precession …             Raman fingerprint for semi-metal WTe2 evolving from bulk to monolayer ▶     Y. C. Jiang, J. Gao, L. Wang     Tungsten ditelluride (WTe2), a layered transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD), has recently demonstrated an extremely large magnetoresistance effect, which is unique among TMDs. …             Controlling condensation and frost growth with chemical micropatterns ▶     Jonathan B. Boreyko, Ryan R. Hansen, Kevin R. Murphy et al.     In-plane frost growth on chilled hydrophobic surfaces is an inter-droplet phenomenon, where frozen droplets harvest water from neighboring supercooled liquid droplets to grow ice …             Hydrophilic Mineral Coating of Membrane Substrate for Reducing Internal Concentration Polarization (ICP) in Forward Osmosis ▶     Qing Liu, Jingguo Li, Zhengzhong Zhou et al.     Internal concentration polarization (ICP) is a major issue in forward osmosis (FO) as it can significantly reduce the water flux in FO operations. It is known that a hydrophilic …             Scaling law for electrocaloric temperature change in antiferroelectrics ▶     S. Lisenkov, B. K. Mani, E. Glazkova et al.     A combination of theoretical and first-principles computational methods, along with experimental evidence from the literature, were used to predict the existence of a scaling law …             Insights into the geometries, electronic and magnetic properties of neutral and charged palladium clusters ▶     Xiaodong Xing, Andreas Hermann, Xiaoyu Kuang et al.     We performed an unbiased structure search for low-lying energetic minima of neutral and charged palladium PdnQ (n = 2–20, Q = 0, + 1 and –1) clusters using CALYPSO method in …             Three-dimensional skeleton networks of graphene wrapped polyaniline nanofibers: an excellent structure for high-performance flexible solid-state supercapacitors ▶     Nantao Hu, Liling Zhang, Chao Yang et al.     Thin, robust, lightweight, and flexible supercapacitors (SCs) have aroused growing attentions nowadays due to the rapid development of flexible electronics. Graphene-polyaniline …             Characterization of Adsorption Enthalpy of Novel Water-Stable Zeolites and Metal-Organic Frameworks ▶     Hyunho Kim, H. Jeremy Cho, Shankar Narayanan et al.     Water adsorption is becoming increasingly important for many applications including thermal energy storage, desalination, and water harvesting. To develop such applications, it …             Ringing phenomenon based whispering-gallery-mode sensing ▶     Ming-Yong Ye, Mei-Xia Shen, Xiu-Min Lin     Highly sensitive sensing is one of the most important applications of whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) microresonators, which is usually accomplished through a tunable …             Growing GaN LEDs on amorphous SiC buffer with variable C/Si compositions ▶     Chih-Hsien Cheng, An-Jye Tzou, Jung-Hung Chang et al.     The epitaxy of high-power gallium nitride (GaN) light-emitting diode (LED) on amorphous silicon carbide (a-SixC1−x) buffer is demonstrated. The a-SixC1−x buffers with different …             All-optical central-frequency-programmable and bandwidth-tailorable radar ▶     Weiwen Zou, Hao Zhang, Xin Long et al.     Radar has been widely used for military, security, and rescue purposes, and modern radar should be reconfigurable at multi-bands and have programmable central frequencies and …             Ratchet transport powered by chiral active particles ▶     Bao-quan Ai     We numerically investigate the ratchet transport of mixtures of active and passive particles in a transversal asymmetric channel. A big passive particle is immersed in a ‘sea’ of …             On-chip modulation for rotating sensing of gyroscope based on ring resonator coupled with Mach-Zehnder interferometer ▶     Hao Zhang, Jiayang Chen, Junjie Jin et al.     An improving structure for resonance optical gyro inserting a Mach-Zehnder Interferomete (MZI) into coupler region between ring resonator and straight waveguide was proposed. The …             A simple and novel way of maintaining constant wall temperature in microdevices ▶     V. S. Duryodhan, Abhimanyu Singh, Shiv Govind Singh et al.     Constant wall temperature /homogeneity in wall temperature is the need of various lab-on-chip devices employed in biological and chemical investigations. However method to …             Printability of alloys for additive manufacturing ▶     T. Mukherjee, J. S. Zuback, A. De et al.     Although additive manufacturing (AM), or three dimensional (3D) printing, provides significant advantages over existing manufacturing techniques, metallic parts produced by AM …             Highly photoresponsive and wavelength-selective circularly-polarized-light detector based on metal-oxides hetero-chiral thin film ▶     Seung Hee Lee, Dhruv Pratap Singh, Ji Ho Sung et al.     A highly efficient circularly-polarized-light detector with excellent wavelength selectivity is demonstrated with an elegant and simple microelectronics-compatible way. The …             Raman and fluorescence characteristics of resonant inelastic X-ray scattering from doped superconducting cuprates ▶     H. Y. Huang, C. J. Jia, Z. Y. Chen et al.     Measurements of spin excitations are essential for an understanding of spin-mediated pairing for superconductivity; and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) provides a …             Achromatic flat optical components via compensation between structure and material dispersions ▶     Yang Li, Xiong Li, Mingbo Pu et al.     Chromatism causes great quality degradation of the imaging system, especially for diffraction imaging. The most commonly method to overcome chromatism is refractive/diffractive …             A flexible proximity sensor formed by duplex screen/screen-offset printing and its application to non-contact detection of human breathing ▶     Ken-ichi Nomura, Ryosaku Kaji, Shiro Iwata et al.     We describe a flexible capacitance-type sensor that can detect an approaching human without contact, fabricated by developing and applying duplex conductive-ink printing to a …             Threshold Dependence of Deep- and Near-subwavelength Ripples Formation on Natural MoS2 Induced by Femtosecond Laser ▶     Yusong Pan, Ming Yang, Yumei Li et al.     Deep sub-wavelength ripples (DSRs) and near sub-wavelength ripples (NSRs) with uniform periods of ~160 nm and ~660 nm generated at the MoS2-vacuum interface is reported for the …             Synthesis and characterization of a novel eco-friendly corrosion inhibition for mild steel in 1 M hydrochloric acid ▶     Ahmed A. Al-Amiery, Fatin A. Binti Kassim, Abdul Amir H. Kadhum et al.     The acid corrosion inhibition process of mild steel in 1 M HCl by azelaic acid dihydrazide has been investigated using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), …             Magnetism and exchange interaction of small rare-earth clusters; Tb as a representative ▶     Lars Peters, Saurabh Ghosh, Biplab Sanyal et al.     Here we follow, both experimentally and theoretically, the development of magnetism in Tb clusters from the atomic limit, adding one atom at a time. The exchange interaction is, …             Comprehensive analyses of how tubule occlusion and advanced glycation end-products diminish strength of aged dentin ▶     Yuko Shinno, Takuya Ishimoto, Mitsuru Saito et al.     In clinical dentistry, since fracture is a major cause of tooth loss, better understanding of mechanical properties of teeth structures is important. Dentin, the major hard …             A Two-Photon Fluorescent Probe for Lysosomal Thiols in Live Cells and Tissues ▶     Jiangli Fan, Zhichao Han, Yao Kang et al.     Lysosome-specific fluorescent probes are exclusive to elucidate the functions of lysosomal thiols. Moreover, two-photon microscopy offers advantages of less phototoxicity, better …             From phenotype to genotype in complex brain networks ▶     Massimiliano Zanin, Marco Correia, Pedro A. C. Sousa et al.     Generative models are a popular instrument for illuminating the relationships between the hidden variables driving the growth of a complex network and its final topological …             Chimera-like States in Modular Neural Networks ▶     Johanne Hizanidis, Nikos E. Kouvaris, Zamora-López Gorka et al.     Chimera states, namely the coexistence of coherent and incoherent behavior, were previously analyzed in complex networks. However, they have not been extensively studied in …             In vivo vascularization of MSC-loaded porous hydroxyapatite constructs coated with VEGF-functionalized collagen/heparin multilayers ▶     Kai Jin, Bo Li, Lixia Lou et al.     Rapid and adequate vascularization is vital to the long-term success of porous orbital enucleation implants. In this study, porous hydroxyapatite (HA) scaffolds coated with …             Predicting DNA Methylation State of CpG Dinucleotide Using Genome Topological Features and Deep Networks ▶     Yiheng Wang, Tong Liu, Dong Xu et al.     The hypo- or hyper-methylation of the human genome is one of the epigenetic features of leukemia. However, experimental approaches have only determined the methylation state of a …             Tuning and Freezing Disorder in Photonic Crystals using Percolation Lithography ▶     Ian B. Burgess, Navid Abedzadeh, Theresa M. Kay et al.     Although common in biological systems, synthetic self-assembly routes to complex 3D photonic structures with tailored degrees of disorder remain elusive. Here we show how liquids …             Dual strain mechanisms in a lead-free morphotropic phase boundary ferroelectric ▶     Julian Walker, Hugh Simons, Denis O. Alikin et al.     Electromechanical properties such as d33 and strain are significantly enhanced at morphotropic phase boundaries (MPBs) between two or more different crystal structures. Many …             Physics of transportation: Towards optimal capacity using the multilayer network framework ▶     Wen-Bo Du, Xing-Lian Zhou, Marko Jusup et al.     Because of the critical role of transportation in modern times, one of the most successful application areas of statistical physics of complex networks is the study of traffic …             Optimization Of PVDF-TrFE Processing Conditions For The Fabrication Of Organic MEMS Resonators ▶     Pierre-Henri Ducrot, Isabelle Dufour, Cédric Ayela     This paper reports a systematic optimization of processing conditions of PVDF-TrFE piezoelectric thin films, used as integrated transducers in organic MEMS resonators. Indeed, …             Corrigendum: Thermal invisibility based on scattering cancellation and mantle cloaking ▶     M. Farhat, P.-Y. Chen, H. Bagci et al.                 Turn on the super-elastic collision nature of coronal mass ejections through low approaching speed ▶     Fang Shen, Yuming Wang, Chenglong Shen et al.     It has been proved from the observations and numerical simulations that the collision between solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs), the largest plasmoids in the heliosphere, could …             Adaptive Strategies for Materials Design using Uncertainties ▶     Prasanna V. Balachandran, Dezhen Xue, James Theiler et al.     We compare several adaptive design strategies using a data set of 223 M2AX family of compounds for which the elastic properties [bulk (B), shear (G), and Young’s (E) modulus] …             Effects of asymmetric nanostructures on the extinction difference properties of actin biomolecules and filaments ▶     E. H. Khoo, Eunice S. P. Leong, S. J. Wu et al.     In this paper, symmetric and asymmetric tapering on the arms of the gammadion nanostructure is proposed to enhance both local field distribution and extinction difference (ED). …             Permanent Rabi oscillations in coupled exciton-photon systems with PT -symmetry ▶     Igor Yu. Chestnov, Sevak S. Demirchyan, Alexander P. Alodjants et al.     We propose a physical mechanism which enables permanent Rabi oscillations in driven-dissipative condensates of exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities subjected to …             Priority Choice Experimental Two-Qubit Tomography: Measuring One by One All Elements of Density Matrices ▶     Karol Bartkiewicz, Antonín Černoch, Karel Lemr et al.     In standard optical tomographic methods, the off-diagonal elements of a density matrix ρ are measured indirectly. Thus, the reconstruction of ρ, even if it is based on linear …             Combining intra- and intermolecular charge-transfer: a new strategy towards molecular ferromagnets and multiferroics ▶     Francesco Di Maiolo, Cristina Sissa, Anna Painelli     Organic ferroelectric materials are currently a hot research topic, with mixed stack charge transfer crystals playing a prominent role with their large, electronic-in-origin …             Role of Ag2S coupling on enhancing the visible-light-induced catalytic property of TiO2 nanorod arrays ▶     Zhengcao Li, Shan Xiong, Guojing Wang et al.     In order to obtain a better photocatalytic performance under visible light, Ag2S-coupled TiO2 nanorod arrays (NRAs) were prepared through the electron beam deposition with …             Charge carrier thermalization in organic diodes ▶     N. J. van der Kaap, L. J. A. Koster     Charge carrier mobilities of organic semiconductors are often characterized using steady-state measurements of space charge limited diodes. These measurements assume that charge …             A Simple Approach for Molecular Controlled Release based on Atomic Layer Deposition Hybridized Organic-Inorganic Layers ▶     Christian Boehler, Firat Güder, Umut M. Kücükbayrak et al.     On-demand release of bioactive substances with high spatial and temporal control offers ground-breaking possibilities in the field of life sciences. However, available strategies …             A novel non-fluorescent excited state intramolecular proton transfer phenomenon induced by intramolecular hydrogen bonds: an experimental and theoretical investigation ▶     Hang Yin, Hui Li, Guomin Xia et al.     Two molecules, 1-hydroxypyrene-2-carbaldehyde (HP) and 1-methoxypyrene-2-carbaldehyde (MP) were explored. We investigated their photophysical properties, using experimental …             Novel Quantum Criticality in Two Dimensional Topological Phase transitions ▶     Gil Young Cho, Eun-Gook Moon     Topological quantum phase transitions intrinsically intertwine self-similarity and topology of many-electron wave-functions, and divining them is one of the most significant ways …             Lifetime of Ionic Vacancy Created in Redox Electrode Reaction Measured by Cyclotron MHD Electrode ▶     Atsushi Sugiyama, Ryoichi Morimoto, Tetsuya Osaka et al.     The lifetimes of ionic vacancies created in ferricyanide-ferrocyanide redox reaction have been first measured by means of cyclotron magnetohydrodynamic electrode, which is …             Unconventional Magnetism and Band Gap Formation in LiFePO4: Consequence of Polyanion Induced Non-planarity ▶     Ajit Jena, B. R. K. Nanda     Oxygen plays a critical role in strongly correlated transition metal oxides as crystal field effect is one of the key factors that determine the degree of localization of the …             Band transport across a chain of dopant sites in silicon over micron distances and high temperatures ▶     Enrico Prati, Kuninori Kumagai, Masahiro Hori et al.     Macroscopic manifestations of quantum mechanics are among the most spectacular effects of physics. In most of them, novel collective properties emerge from the quantum mechanical …             Secure Multiparty Quantum Computation for Summation and Multiplication ▶     Run-hua Shi, Yi Mu, Hong Zhong et al.     As a fundamental primitive, Secure Multiparty Summation and Multiplication can be used to build complex secure protocols for other multiparty computations, specially, numerical …             Metallic conduction induced by direct anion site doping in layered SnSe2 ▶     Sang Il Kim, Sungwoo Hwang, Se Yun Kim et al.     The emergence of metallic conduction in layered dichalcogenide semiconductor materials by chemical doping is one of key issues for two-dimensional (2D) materials engineering. At …             On-chip Microfluidic Multimodal Swimmer toward 3D Navigation ▶     Antoine Barbot, Dominique Decanini, Gilgueng Hwang     Mobile microrobots have a promising future in various applications. These include targeted drug delivery, local measurement, biopsy or microassembly. Studying mobile microrobots …             Super Soft All-Ethylene Oxide Polymer Electrolyte for Safe All-Solid Lithium Batteries ▶     Luca Porcarelli, Claudio Gerbaldi, Federico Bella et al.     Here we demonstrate that by regulating the mobility of classic −EO− based backbones, an innovative polymer electrolyte system can be architectured. This polymer electrolyte …             Revealing the Dynamics of Thylakoid Membranes in Living Cyanobacterial Cells ▶     Laura-Roxana Stingaciu, Hugh O’Neill, Michelle Liberton et al.     Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic prokaryotes that make major contributions to the production of the oxygen in the Earth atmosphere. The photosynthetic machinery in cyanobacterial …             Label-free SERS study of galvanic replacement reaction on silver nanorod surface and its application to detect trace mercury ion ▶     Yaohui Wang, Guiqing Wen, Lingling Ye et al.     It is significant to explore a rapid and highly sensitive galvanic replacement reaction (GRR) surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) method for detection of trace mercury ions. …             Precisely Determining Ultralow level UO22+ in Natural Water with Plasmonic Nanowire Interstice Sensor ▶     Raekeun Gwak, Hongki Kim, Seung Min Yoo et al.     Uranium is an essential raw material in nuclear energy generation; however, its use raises concerns about the possibility of severe damage to human health and the natural …             Rational steering of insulin binding specificity by intra-chain chemical crosslinking ▶     Jitka Viková, Michaela Collinsová, Emília Kletvíková et al.     Insulin is a key hormone of human metabolism with major therapeutic importance for both types of diabetes. New insulin analogues with more physiological profiles and better …             Cochlear Outer-Hair-Cell Power Generation and Viscous Fluid Loss ▶     Yanli Wang, Charles R. Steele, Sunil Puria     Since the discovery of otoacoustic emissions and outer hair cell (OHC) motility, the fundamental question of whether the cochlea produces mechanical power remains controversial. …             Thermomechanical Behavior of Molded Metallic Glass Nanowires ▶     Daniel J. Magagnosc, Wen Chen, Golden Kumar et al.     Metallic glasses are disordered materials that offer the unique ability to perform thermoplastic forming operations at low thermal budget while preserving excellent mechanical …             Programmable SERS active substrates for chemical and biosensing applications using amorphous/crystalline hybrid silicon nanomaterial ▶     Jeffery Alexander Powell, Krishnan Venkatakrishnan, Bo Tan     We present the creation of a unique nanostructured amorphous/crystalline hybrid silicon material that exhibits surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) activity. This …             Strong lattice correlation of non-equilibrium quasiparticles in a pseudospin-1/2 Mott insulator Sr2IrO4 ▶     Yuelin Li, Richard D. Schaller, Mengze Zhu et al.     In correlated oxides the coupling of quasiparticles to other degrees of freedom such as spin and lattice plays critical roles in the emergence of symmetry-breaking quantum …             Emission efficiency limit of Si nanocrystals ▶     Rens Limpens, Stefan L. Luxembourg, Arthur W. Weeber et al.     One of the important obstacles on the way to application of Si nanocrystals for development of practical devices is their typically low emissivity. In this study we explore the …             Curvature-enhanced Spin-orbit Coupling and Spinterface Effect in Fullerene-based Spin Valves ▶     Shiheng Liang, Rugang Geng, Baishun Yang et al.     We investigated curvature-enhanced spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and spinterface effect in carbon-based organic spin valves (OSVs) using buckyball C60 and C70 molecules. Since the …             Charge transport through one-dimensional Moiré crystals ▶     Roméo Bonnet, Aurélien Lherbier, Clément Barraud et al.     Moiré superlattices were generated in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals heterostructures and have revealed intriguing electronic structures. The appearance of mini-Dirac cones …             Corrigendum: MoS2 Surface Structure Tailoring via Carbonaceous Promoter ▶     Yumeng Shi, Henan Li, Jen It Wong et al.                 Poly (acrylic acid sodium) grafted carboxymethyl cellulose as a high performance polymer binder for silicon anode in lithium ion batteries ▶     Liangming Wei, Changxin Chen, Zhongyu Hou et al.     The design of novel binder systems is required for the high capacity silicon (Si) anodes which usually undergo huge volume change during the charge/discharge cycling. Here, we …             Non-synchronization of lattice and carrier temperatures in light-emitting diodes ▶     Jihong Zhang, Tienmo Shih, Yijun Lu et al.     Pulse implementation or switching-off (PISO) of electrical currents has become a common operation in junction-temperature (Tj) measurements for semiconductor devices since 2004. …             In-Situ High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy Investigation of Overheating of Cu Nanoparticles ▶     Chunlin Chen, Ziyu Hu, Yanfen Li et al.     Synthesizing and functionalizing metal nanoparticles supported on substrates is currently the subject of intensive study owing to their outstanding catalytic performances for …             Impact of correlated noise in an energy depot model ▶     Chunhua Zeng, Jiakui Zeng, Feng Liu et al.     Based on the depot model of the motion of active Brownian particles (ABPs), the impact of cross-correlated multiplicative and additive noises has been investigated. Using a …             Ultrashort broadband polarization beam splitter based on a combined hybrid plasmonic waveguide ▶     Ken-Wei Chang, Chia-Chien Huang     We propose an ultracompact broadband polarization beam splitter (PBS) based on a combined hybrid plasmonic waveguide (HPW). The proposed PBS separates transverse-electric (TE) …             Enhanced energy transport owing to nonlinear interface interaction ▶     Ruixia Su, Zongqiang Yuan, Jun Wang et al.     It is generally expected that the interface coupling leads to the suppression of thermal transport through coupled nanostructures due to the additional interface phonon-phonon …             Stress Induced Mechano-electrical Writing-Reading of Polymer Film Powered by Contact Electrification Mechanism ▶     Sumita Goswami, Suman Nandy, Tomás R. Calmeiro et al.     Mechano-electrical writing and reading in polyaniline (PANI) thin film are demonstrated via metal-polymer contact electrification mechanism (CEM). An innovative conception for a …             Non-Markovianity hinders Quantum Darwinism ▶     Fernando Galve, Roberta Zambrini, Sabrina Maniscalco     We investigate Quantum Darwinism and the emergence of a classical world from the quantum one in connection with the spectral properties of the environment. We use a microscopic …             Quantum Criticality in the Biased Dicke Model ▶     Hanjie Zhu, Guofeng Zhang, Heng Fan     The biased Dicke model describes a system of biased two-level atoms coupled to a bosonic field, and is expected to produce new phenomena that are not present in the original …             Epitaxial stabilization and phase instability of VO2 polymorphs ▶     Shinbuhm Lee, Ilia N. Ivanov, Jong K. Keum et al.     The VO2 polymorphs, i.e., VO2(A), VO2(B), VO2(M1) and VO2(R), have a wide spectrum of functionalities useful for many potential applications in information and energy …             Millimeter-wave sensor based on a λ/2-line resonator for identification and dielectric characterization of non-ionic surfactants ▶     H. Rodilla, A. A. Kim, G. D. M. Jeffries et al.     Studies of biological and artificial membrane systems, such as niosomes, currently rely on the use of fluorescent tags, which can influence the system under investigation. For …             Imaging and radiation effects of gold nanoparticles in tumour cells ▶     Harold N. McQuaid, Mark F. Muir, Laura E. Taggart et al.     Gold nanoparticle radiosensitization represents a novel technique in enhancement of ionising radiation dose and its effect on biological systems. Variation between theoretical …             Biophysical regulation of Chlamydia pneumoniae-infected monocyte recruitment to atherosclerotic foci ▶     Shankar J. Evani, Anand K. Ramasubramanian     Chlamydia pneumoniae infection is implicated in atherosclerosis although the contributory mechanisms are poorly understood. We hypothesize that C. pneumoniae infection favors the …             Noninvasive, Targeted, and Non-Viral Ultrasound-Mediated GDNF-Plasmid Delivery for Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease ▶     Ching-Hsiang Fan, Chien-Yu Ting, Chung‐Yin Lin et al.     Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) supports the growth and survival of dopaminergic neurons. CNS gene delivery currently relies on invasive intracerebral …             Optically induced mode splitting in self-assembled, high quality-factor conjugated polymer microcavities ▶     Daniel Braam, Soh Kushida, Robert Niemöller et al.     We investigate the whispering gallery modes (WGMs) of self-assembled single microspheres. They consist of a recently developed highly fluorescent π-conjugated copolymer and …             Perfect and broadband acoustic absorption by critically coupled sub-wavelength resonators ▶     V. Romero-García, G. Theocharis, O. Richoux et al.     Perfect absorption is an interdisciplinary topic with a large number of applications, the challenge of which consists of broadening its inherently narrow frequency-band …             Dual Ionic and Organic Nature of Ionic Liquids ▶     Rui Shi, Yanting Wang     Inherited the advantages of inorganic salts and organic solvents, ionic liquids (ILs) exhibit many superior properties allowing them promising green solvents for the future. …             Perpendicularly oriented sub-10-nm block copolymer lamellae by atmospheric thermal annealing for one minute ▶     Takehiro Seshimo, Rina Maeda, Rin Odashima et al.     The directed self-assembly (DSA) of block co-polymers (BCPs) can realize next-generation lithography for semiconductors and a variety of soft materials. It is imperative to …             Machine learning bandgaps of double perovskites ▶     G. Pilania, A. Mannodi-Kanakkithodi, B. P. Uberuaga et al.     The ability to make rapid and accurate predictions on bandgaps of double perovskites is of much practical interest for a range of applications. While quantum mechanical …             Towards a fully functional integrated photonic-electronic platform via a single SiGe growth step ▶     Callum G. Littlejohns, Thalia Dominguez Bucio, Milos Nedeljkovic et al.     Silicon-germanium (Si1-xGex) has become a material of great interest to the photonics and electronics industries due to its numerous interesting properties including higher …             Fractality à la carte: a general particle aggregation model ▶     J. R. Nicolás-Carlock, J. L. Carrillo-Estrada, V. Dossetti     In nature, fractal structures emerge in a wide variety of systems as a local optimization of entropic and energetic distributions. The fractality of these systems determines many …             Quantum speed limit and a signal of quantum criticality ▶     Yong-Bo Wei, Jian Zou, Zhao-Ming Wang et al.     We study the quantum speed limit time (QSLT) of a coupled system consisting of a central spin and its surrounding environment, and the environment is described by a general XY …             Symmetry induced semimetal-semiconductor transition in doped graphene ▶     Hansika I. Sirikumara, Erika Putz, Mohammed Al-Abboodi et al.     Substitutional chemical doping is one way of introducing an electronic bandgap in otherwise semimetallic graphene. A small change in dopant arrangement can convert graphene from …             Preparation of Pd supported on La(Sr)-Mn-O Perovskite by microwave Irradiation Method and Its Catalytic Performances for the Methane Combustion ▶     Wei Wang, Fulong Yuan, Xiaoyu Niu et al.     In this work, a series of palladium supported on the La0.8Sr0.2MnO3.15 perovskite catalysts (Pd/LSM-x) with different Pd loading were prepared by microwave irradiation processing …             A Nanoplasmonic Strategy for Precision in-situ Measurements of Tip-enhanced Raman and Fluorescence Spectroscopy ▶     Lingyan Meng, Mengtao Sun, Jianing Chen et al.     We theoretically investigate an optimized tip-film system that supports in-situ measurement of tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) and tip-enhanced fluorescence (TEF) of dye …             How Do the Size, Charge and Shape of Nanoparticles Affect Amyloid β Aggregation on Brain Lipid Bilayer? ▶     Yuna Kim, Ji-Hyun Park, Hyojin Lee et al.     Here, we studied the effect of the size, shape, and surface charge of Au nanoparticles (AuNPs) on amyloid beta (Aβ) aggregation on a total brain lipid-based supported lipid …             Combined Labelled and Label-free SERS Probes for Triplex Three-dimensional Cellular Imaging ▶     Yong Chen, Xiangru Bai, Le Su et al.     Cells are complex chemical systems, where the molecular composition at different cellular locations and specific intracellular chemical interactions determine the biological …             Anomalous anti-damping in sputtered β-Ta/Py bilayer system ▶     Nilamani Behera, Sujeet Chaudhary, Dinesh K. Pandya     Anomalous decrease in effective damping parameter αeff in sputtered Ni81Fe19 (Py) thin films in contact with a very thin β-Ta layer without necessitating the flow of DC-current …             The nature of free-carrier transport in organometal halide perovskites ▶     Tomoya Hakamata, Kohei Shimamura, Fuyuki Shimojo et al.     Organometal halide perovskites are attracting great attention as promising material for solar cells because of their high power conversion efficiency. The high performance has …             Preservation of carbon dioxide clathrate hydrate in the presence of trehalose under freezer conditions ▶     Hironori D. Nagashima, Satoshi Takeya, Tsutomu Uchida et al.     To investigate the preservation of CO2 clathrate hydrate in the presence of sugar for the novel frozen dessert, mass fractions of CO2 clathrate hydrate in CO2 clathrate hydrate …             Tuned Magnetic Properties of L10-MnGa/Co(001) Films by Epitaxial Strain ▶     Dongyoo Kim, Levente Vitos     We demonstrate that the interface structure has a significant influence on the magnetic state of MnGa/Co films consisting of L10-MnGa on face-centered-cubic Co(001) surface. We …             A Combination of Chemometrics and Quantum Mechanics Methods Applied to Analysis of Femtosecond Transient Absorption Spectrum of Ortho-Nitroaniline ▶     Jing Yi, Ying Xiong, Kemei Cheng et al.     A combination of the advanced chemometrics method with quantum mechanics calculation was for the first time applied to explore a facile yet efficient analysis strategy to …             Design and Fabrication of 3D printed Scaffolds with a Mechanical Strength Comparable to Cortical Bone to Repair Large Bone Defects ▶     Seyed-Iman Roohani-Esfahani, Peter Newman, Hala Zreiqat     A challenge in regenerating large bone defects under load is to create scaffolds with large and interconnected pores while providing a compressive strength comparable to cortical …             Hierarchically ordered mesoporous Co3O4 materials for high performance Li-ion batteries ▶     Shijiao Sun, Xiangyu Zhao, Meng Yang et al.     Highly ordered mesoporous Co3O4 materials have been prepared via a nanocasting route with three-dimensional KIT-6 and two-dimensional SBA-15 ordered mesoporous silicas as …             Renormalization-group approach to quantum Fisher information in an XY model with staggered Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction ▶     X. M. Liu, W. W. Cheng, J. -M. Liu     We investigate the quantum Fisher information and quantum phase transitions of an XY spin chain with staggered Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction using the quantum …             Silver Nanoparticle-Deposited Boron Nitride Nanosheets as Fillers for Polymeric Composites with High Thermal Conductivity ▶     Fangfang Wang, Xiaoliang Zeng, Yimin Yao et al.     Polymer composites with high thermal conductivity have recently attracted much attention, along with the rapid development of the electronic devices toward higher speed and …             A Matrix Pencil Algorithm Based Multiband Iterative Fusion Imaging Method ▶     Yong Qiang Zou, Xun Zhang Gao, Xiang Li et al.     Multiband signal fusion technique is a practicable and efficient way to improve the range resolution of ISAR image. The classical fusion method estimates the poles of each …             Synthesis of two-dimensional TlxBi1−x compounds and Archimedean encoding of their atomic structure ▶     Dimitry V. Gruznev, Leonid V. Bondarenko, Andrey V. Matetskiy et al.     Crystalline atomic layers on solid surfaces are composed of a single building block, unit cell, that is copied and stacked together to form the entire two-dimensional crystal …             Complete hyperentangled-Bell-state analysis for photonic qubits assisted by a three-level Λ-type system ▶     Tie-Jun Wang, Chuan Wang     Hyperentangled Bell-state analysis (HBSA) is an essential method in high-capacity quantum communication and quantum information processing. Here by replacing the two-qubit …             Temperature stable mid-infrared GaInAsSb/GaSb Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) ▶     A. B. Ikyo, I. P. Marko, K. Hild et al.     GaInAsSb/GaSb based quantum well vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) operating in mid-infrared spectral range between 2 and 3 micrometres are of great importance for …             High resolution Hall measurements across the VO2 metal-insulator transition reveal impact of spatial phase separation ▶     Tony Yamin, Yakov M. Strelniker, Amos Sharoni     Many strongly correlated transition metal oxides exhibit a metal-insulator transition (MIT), the manipulation of which is essential for their application as active device …             Determination and correction of persistent biases in quantum annealers ▶     Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz, Bryan O’Gorman, Joseph Fluegemann et al.     Calibration of quantum computers is essential to the effective utilisation of their quantum resources. Specifically, the performance of quantum annealers is likely to be …             Controllable electrical and physical breakdown of poly-crystalline silicon nanowires by thermally assisted electromigration ▶     Jun-Young Park, Dong-Il Moon, Myeong-Lok Seol et al.     The importance of poly-crystalline silicon (poly-Si) in semiconductor manufacturing is rapidly increasing due to its highly controllable conductivity and excellent, uniform …             Quantum coherence of steered states ▶     Xueyuan Hu, Antony Milne, Boyang Zhang et al.     Lying at the heart of quantum mechanics, coherence has recently been studied as a key resource in quantum information theory. Quantum steering, a fundamental notion originally …             A Low Input Current and Wide Conversion Ratio Buck Regulator with 75% Efficiency for High-Voltage Triboelectric Nanogenerators ▶     Li-Chuan Luo, De-Chun Bao, Wu-Qi Yu et al.     It is meaningful to research the Triboelectric Nanogenerators (TENG), which can create electricity anywhere and anytime. There are many researches on the structures and materials …             Broadband nanophotonic wireless links and networks using on-chip integrated plasmonic antennas ▶     Yuanqing Yang, Qiang Li, Min Qiu     Owing to their high capacity and flexibility, broadband wireless communications have been widely employed in radio and microwave regimes, playing indispensable roles in our daily …             Regenerative memory in time-delayed neuromorphic photonic resonators ▶     B. Romeira, R. Avó, José M. L. Figueiredo et al.     We investigate a photonic regenerative memory based upon a neuromorphic oscillator with a delayed self-feedback (autaptic) connection. We disclose the existence of a unique …             Switchable DNA wire: deposition-stripping of copper nanoclusters as an “ON-OFF” nanoswitch ▶     Xiaoli Zhu, Siyu Liu, Jiepei Cao et al.     Today, a consensus that DNA working as a molecular wire shows promise in nanoscale electronics is reached. Considering that the “ON-OFF” switch is the basis of a logic circuit, …             Selective effect of cell membrane on synaptic neurotransmission ▶     Pekka A. Postila, Ilpo Vattulainen, Tomasz Róg     Atomistic molecular dynamics simulations were performed with 13 non-peptidic neurotransmitters (NTs) in three different membrane environments. The results provide compelling …             Energy-efficient population coding constrains network size of a neuronal array system ▶     Lianchun Yu, Chi Zhang, Liwei Liu et al.     We consider the open issue of how the energy efficiency of the neural information transmission process, in a general neuronal array, constrains the network size, and how well …             Operational resilience: concepts, design and analysis ▶     Alexander A. 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