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16 February 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports       Physical Sciences               Correlation between topological band character and chemical bonding in a Bi14Rh3I9-based family of insulators ▶     Bertold Rasche, Anna Isaeva, Michael Ruck et al.     Recently the presence of topologically protected edge-states in Bi14Rh3I9 was confirmed by scanning tunnelling microscopy consolidating this compound as a weak 3D topological …             Exfoliation and Raman Spectroscopic Fingerprint of Few-Layer NiPS3 Van der Waals Crystals ▶     Cheng-Tai Kuo, Michael Neumann, Karuppannan Balamurugan et al.     The range of mechanically cleavable Van der Waals crystals covers materials with diverse physical and chemical properties. However, very few of these materials exhibit magnetism …             Spectral variation of fluorescence lifetime near single metal nanoparticles ▶     Jia Li, Alexey V. Krasavin, Linden Webster et al.     We explore the spectral dependence of fluorescence enhancement and the associated lifetime modification of fluorescent molecules coupled to single metal nanoparticles. …             Design of defect spins in piezoelectric aluminum nitride for solid-state hybrid quantum technologies ▶     Hosung Seo, Marco Govoni, Giulia Galli     Spin defects in wide-band gap semiconductors are promising systems for the realization of quantum bits, or qubits, in solid-state environments. To date, defect qubits have only …             Observation of the Kibble–Zurek Mechanism in Microscopic Acoustic Crackling Noises ▶     H. O. Ghaffari, W. A. Griffth, P.M. Benson et al.     Characterizing the fast evolution of microstructural defects is key to understanding “crackling” phenomena during the deformation of solid materials. For example, it has been …             Determination of critical diameters for intrinsic carrier diffusion-length of GaN nanorods with cryo-scanning near-field optical microscopy ▶     Y. T. Chen, K. F. Karlsson, J. Birch et al.     Direct measurements of carrier diffusion in GaN nanorods with a designed InGaN/GaN layer-in-a-wire structure by scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM) were performed at …             Broadband coherent Raman spectroscopy running at 24,000 spectra per second ▶     Kazuki Hashimoto, Megumi Takahashi, Takuro Ideguchi et al.     We present a Fourier-transform coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (FT-CARS) spectroscopy technique that achieves broadband CARS measurements at an ultrahigh scan rate of more …             A Variable Temperature Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Study of Colossal Magnetoresistant NdMnAsO0.95F0.05 ▶     E. J. Wildman, A. C. Mclaughlin     The recent discovery of high temperature superconductivity in Fe arsenides has invigorated research into transition metal pnictides. Colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) has recently …             Stimulated photon emission and two-photon Raman scattering in a coupled-cavity QED system ▶     C. Li, Z. Song     We study the scattering problem of photon and polariton in a one-dimensional coupled-cavity system. Analytical approximate analysis and numerical simulation show that a photon …             Atomic and electronic structure of twin growth defects in magnetite ▶     Daniel Gilks, Zlatko Nedelkoski, Leonardo Lari et al.     We report the existence of a stable twin defect in Fe3O4 thin films. By using aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy and spectroscopy the atomic structure …             Role of C–N Configurations in the Photoluminescence of Graphene Quantum Dots Synthesized by a Hydrothermal Route ▶     Fitri Aulia Permatasari, Akfiny Hasdi Aimon, Ferry Iskandar et al.     Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) containing N atoms were successfully synthesized using a facile, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly hydrothermal reaction of urea and citric …             Durable, superoleophobic polymer–nanoparticle composite surfaces with re-entrant geometry via solvent-induced phase transformation ▶     Philip S. Brown, Bharat Bhushan     Superoleophobic plastic surfaces are useful in a wide variety of applications including anti-fouling, self-cleaning, anti-smudge, and low-drag. Existing examples of …             Frequency conversion of structured light ▶     Fabian Steinlechner, Nathaniel Hermosa, Valerio Pruneri et al.     Coherent frequency conversion of structured light, i.e. the ability to manipulate the carrier frequency of a wave front without distorting its spatial phase and intensity …             Assembly of coupled redox fuel cells using copper as electron acceptors to generate power and its in-situ retrieval ▶     Hui-Min Zhang, Wei Xu, Gang Li et al.     Energy extraction from waste has attracted much interest nowadays. Herein, a coupled redox fuel cell (CRFC) device using heavy metals, such as copper, as an electron acceptor is …             Detection of Brownian Torque in a Magnetically-Driven Rotating Microsystem ▶     Maria N. Romodina, Evgeny V. Lyubin, Andrey A. Fedyanin     Thermal fluctuations significantly affect the behavior of microscale systems rotating in shear flow, such as microvortexes, microbubbles, rotating micromotors, microactuators and …             Magnetoelectric effect in organic molecular solids ▶     Makoto Naka, Sumio Ishihara     The Magnetoelectric (ME) effect in solids is a prominent cross correlation phenomenon, in which the electric field (E) controls the magnetization (M) and the magnetic field (H) …             Reciprocal and unidirectional scattering of parity-time symmetric structures ▶     L. Jin, X. Z. Zhang, G. Zhang et al.     Parity-time symmetry is of great interest. The reciprocal and unidirectional features are intriguing besides the symmetry phase transition. Recently, the reciprocal …             Ultrafast Optical Microscopy of Single Monolayer Molybdenum Disulfide Flakes ▶     Minah Seo, Hisato Yamaguchi, Aditya D. Mohite et al.     We have performed ultrafast optical microscopy on single flakes of atomically thin CVD-grown molybdenum disulfide, using non-degenerate femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy to …             Thermally stable dielectric responses in uniaxially (001)-oriented CaBi4Ti4O15 nanofilms grown on a Ca2Nb3O10− nanosheet seed layer ▶     Junichi Kimura, Itaru Takuwa, Masaaki Matsushima et al.     To realize a high-temperature capacitor, uniaxially (001)-oriented CaBi4Ti4O15 films with various film thicknesses were prepared on (100)cSrRuO3/Ca2Nb3O10− nanosheet/glass …             Machine Learning Strategy for Accelerated Design of Polymer Dielectrics ▶     Arun Mannodi-Kanakkithodi, Ghanshyam Pilania, Tran Doan Huan et al.     The ability to efficiently design new and advanced dielectric polymers is hampered by the lack of sufficient, reliable data on wide polymer chemical spaces, and the difficulty of …             Superconductivity in Ta3Pd3Te14 with quasi-one-dimensional PdTe2 chains ▶     Wen-He Jiao, Lan-Po He, Yi Liu et al.     We report bulk superconductivity at 1.0 K in a low-dimensional ternary telluride Ta3Pd3Te14 containing edge-sharing PdTe2 chains along crystallographic b axis, similar to the …             Spin dynamics and relaxation in graphene dictated by electron-hole puddles ▶     Dinh Van Tuan, Frank Ortmann, Aron W. Cummings et al.     The understanding of spin dynamics and relaxation mechanisms in clean graphene, and the upper time and length scales on which spin devices can operate, are prerequisites to …             Activity induces traveling waves, vortices and spatiotemporal chaos in a model actomyosin layer ▶     Rajesh Ramaswamy, Frank Jülicher     Inspired by the actomyosin cortex in biological cells, we investigate the spatiotemporal dynamics of a model describing a contractile active polar fluid sandwiched between two …             Quantum-mechanical machinery for rational decision-making in classical guessing game ▶     Jeongho Bang, Junghee Ryu, Marcin Pawłowski et al.     In quantum game theory, one of the most intriguing and important questions is, “Is it possible to get quantum advantages without any modification of the classical game?” The …             Optimal architectures for long distance quantum communication ▶     Sreraman Muralidharan, Linshu Li, Jungsang Kim et al.     Despite the tremendous progress of quantum cryptography, efficient quantum communication over long distances (≥1000 km) remains an outstanding challenge due to fiber attenuation …             Self-assembled platinum nanoparticles on sulfonic acid-grafted graphene as effective electrocatalysts for methanol oxidation in direct methanol fuel cells ▶     Jinlin Lu, Yanhong Li, Shengli Li et al.     In this article, sulfonic acid-grafted reduced graphene oxide (S-rGO) were synthesized using a one-pot method under mild conditions, and used as Pt catalyst supports to prepare …             Periodic, Quasi-periodic and Chaotic Dynamics in Simple Gene Elements with Time Delays ▶     Yoko Suzuki, Mingyang Lu, Eshel Ben-Jacob et al.     Regulatory gene circuit motifs play crucial roles in performing and maintaining vital cellular functions. Frequently, theoretical studies of gene circuits focus on steady-state …             Occam’s Quantum Strop: Synchronizing and Compressing Classical Cryptic Processes via a Quantum Channel ▶     John R. Mahoney, Cina Aghamohammadi, James P. Crutchfield     A stochastic process’ statistical complexity stands out as a fundamental property: the minimum information required to synchronize one process generator to another. How much …             Feasible logic Bell-state analysis with linear optics ▶     Lan Zhou, Yu-Bo Sheng     We describe a feasible logic Bell-state analysis protocol by employing the logic entanglement to be the robust concatenated Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (C-GHZ) state. This …             Targeted and controlled anticancer drug delivery and release with magnetoelectric nanoparticles ▶     Alexandra Rodzinski, Rakesh Guduru, Ping Liang et al.     It is a challenge to eradicate tumor cells while sparing normal cells. We used magnetoelectric nanoparticles (MENs) to control drug delivery and release. The physics is due to …             Involvement of an octose ketoreductase and two acyltransferases in the biosynthesis of paulomycins ▶     Jine Li, Min Wang, Yong Ding et al.     C-4 hydroxyethyl branched octoses have been observed in polysaccharides of several genera of gram negative bacteria and in various antibiotics produced by gram positive bacteria. …             Ribosomal small subunit domains radiate from a central core ▶     Burak Gulen, Anton S. Petrov, C. Denise Okafor et al.     The domain architecture of a large RNA can help explain and/or predict folding, function, biogenesis and evolution. We offer a formal and general definition of an RNA domain and …             “Nanofiltration” Enabled by Super-Absorbent Polymer Beads for Concentrating Microorganisms in Water Samples ▶     Xing Xie, Janina Bahnemann, Siwen Wang et al.     Detection and quantification of pathogens in water is critical for the protection of human health and for drinking water safety and security. When the pathogen concentrations are …             D-β-aspartyl residue exhibiting uncommon high resistance to spontaneous peptide bond cleavage ▶     Kenzo Aki, Emiko Okamura     Although L-amino acids were selected as main constituents of peptides and proteins during chemical evolution, D-aspartyl (Asp) residue is found in a variety of living tissues. In …             The Role of Physical Stabilization in Whole Blood Preservation ▶     Keith H. K. Wong, Rebecca D. Sandlin, Thomas R. Carey et al.     The rapid degradation of blood ex vivo imposes logistical limitations on the utilization of blood-borne cells in medical diagnostics and scientific investigations. A fundamental …             Plain to point network reduced graphene oxide - activated carbon composites decorated with platinum nanoparticles for urine glucose detection ▶     Mohammad Faruk Hossain, Jae Y. Park     In this study, a hydrothermal technique was applied to synthesize glucose-treated reduced graphene oxide-activated carbon (GRGO/AC) composites. Platinum nanoparticles (PtNP) were …             Co-delivery of doxorubicin and curcumin by pH-sensitive prodrug nanoparticle for combination therapy of cancer ▶     Yumin Zhang, Cuihong Yang, Weiwei Wang et al.     Ample attention has focused on cancer drug delivery via prodrug nanoparticles due to their high drug loading property and comparatively lower side effects. In this study, we …             Visualising the molecular alteration of the calcite (104) – water interface by sodium nitrate ▶     Sascha Hofmann, Kislon Voïtchovsky, Peter Spijker et al.     The reactivity of calcite, one of the most abundant minerals in the earth’s crust, is determined by the molecular details of its interface with the contacting solution. Recently, …             Drug testing and flow cytometry analysis on a large number of uniform sized tumor spheroids using a microfluidic device ▶     Bishnubrata Patra, Chien-Chung Peng, Wei-Hao Liao et al.     Three-dimensional (3D) tumor spheroid possesses great potential as an in vitro model to improve predictive capacity for pre-clinical drug testing. In this paper, we combine …             Optimization of a nanotechnology based antimicrobial platform for food safety applications using Engineered Water Nanostructures (EWNS) ▶     Georgios Pyrgiotakis, Pallavi Vedantam, Caroline Cirenza et al.     A chemical free, nanotechnology-based, antimicrobial platform using Engineered Water Nanostructures (EWNS) was recently developed. EWNS have high surface charge, are loaded with …             Simulating Chiral Magnetic and Separation Effects with Spin-Orbit Coupled Atomic Gases ▶     Xu-Guang Huang     The chiral magnetic and chiral separation effects—quantum-anomaly-induced electric current and chiral current along an external magnetic field in parity-odd quark-gluon …             Out-coupling of Longitudinal Photoacoustic Pulses by Mitigating the Phase Cancellation ▶     Taehwa Lee, Qiaochu Li, L. Jay Guo     Waves of any kinds, including sound waves and light waves, can interfere constructively or destructively when they are overlapped, allowing for myriad applications. However, …             Three-dimensional full-field X-ray orientation microscopy ▶     Nicola Viganò, Alexandre Tanguy, Simon Hallais et al.     A previously introduced mathematical framework for full-field X-ray orientation microscopy is for the first time applied to experimental near-field diffraction data acquired from …             Magnetic field induced motion behavior of gas bubbles in liquid ▶     Keliang Wang, Pucheng Pei, Yu Pei et al.     The oxygen evolution reaction generally exists in electrochemical reactions. It is a ubiquitous problem about how to control the motion of oxygen bubbles released by the …             Sub-nanometre resolution of atomic motion during electronic excitation in phase-change materials ▶     Kirill V. Mitrofanov, Paul Fons, Kotaro Makino et al.     Phase-change materials based on Ge-Sb-Te alloys are widely used in industrial applications such as nonvolatile memories, but reaction pathways for crystalline-to-amorphous …             Optical brush: Imaging through permuted probes ▶     Barmak Heshmat, Ik Hyun Lee, Ramesh Raskar     The combination of computational techniques and ultrafast imaging have enabled sensing through unconventional settings such as around corners, and through diffusive media. We …             Spontaneous and strong multi-layer graphene n-doping on soda-lime glass and its application in graphene-semiconductor junctions ▶     D. M. N. M. Dissanayake, A. Ashraf, D. Dwyer et al.     Scalable and low-cost doping of graphene could improve technologies in a wide range of fields such as microelectronics, optoelectronics, and energy storage. While achieving …             Prediction Methods in Solar Sunspots Cycles ▶     Kim Kwee Ng     An understanding of the Ohl’s Precursor Method, which is used to predict the upcoming sunspots activity, is presented by employing a simplified movable divided-blocks diagram. Us…             3D Polyaniline Architecture by Concurrent Inorganic and Organic Acid Doping for Superior and Robust High Rate Supercapacitor Performance ▶     Yogesh Gawli, Abhik Banerjee, Dipti Dhakras et al.     A good high rate supercapacitor performance requires a fine control of morphological (surface area and pore size distribution) and electrical properties of the electrode …             The ion microscope as a tool for quantitative measurements in the extreme ultraviolet ▶     N. Tsatrafyllis, B. Bergues, H. Schröder et al.     We demonstrate a tool for quantitative measurements in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) spectral region measuring spatially resolved atomic ionization products at the focus of an EUV…             An Investigation of the Behavior of Solvent based Polycaprolactone ink for Material Jetting ▶     Yinfeng He, Ricky D. Wildman, Chris J. Tuck et al.     An initial study of processing bioresorbable polycaprolactone (PCL) through material jetting was conducted using a Fujifilm Dimatix DMP-2830 material printer. The aim of this …             Head-on collision and overtaking collision between an envelope solitary wave and a KdV solitary wave in a dusty plasma ▶     Heng Zhang, Wen-Shan Duan, Xin Qi et al.     Head-on collision and overtaking collision between a KdV solitary wave and an envelope solitary wave are first studied in present paper by using Particle-in-cell (PIC) method in …             Chromatic-aberration-corrected diffractive lenses for ultra-broadband focusing ▶     Peng Wang, Nabil Mohammad, Rajesh Menon     We exploit the inherent dispersion in diffractive optics to demonstrate planar chromatic-aberration-corrected lenses. Specifically, we designed, fabricated and characterized …             Electron work functions of ferrite and austenite phases in a duplex stainless steel and their adhesive forces with AFM silicon probe ▶     Liqiu Guo, Guomin Hua, Binjie Yang et al.     Local electron work function, adhesive force, modulus and deformation of ferrite and austenite phases in a duplex stainless steel were analyzed by scanning force microscopy. It …             Optical detection of radon decay in air ▶     Johan Sand, Sakari Ihantola, Kari Peräjärvi et al.     An optical radon detection method is presented. Radon decay is directly measured by observing the secondary radiolumines cence light that alpha particles excite in air, and the …             Limits of Coherency and Strain Transfer in Flexible 2D van der Waals Heterostructures: Formation of Strain Solitons and Interlayer Debonding ▶     Hemant Kumar, Liang Dong, Vivek B. Shenoy     In flexible 2D-devices, strain transfer between different van-der Waals stacked layers is expected to play an important role in determining their optoelectronic performances and …             Dislocation-enhanced experimental-scale vacancy loop formation in hcp Zirconium in one single collision cascade ▶     Wei Zhou, Jiting Tian, Jian Zheng et al.     Large defects are the main factor leading to the degradation of material properties under irradiation environments. It is commonly assumed that the large defects are mainly …             Protecting the properties of monolayer MoS2 on silicon based substrates with an atomically thin buffer ▶     Michael K. L. Man, Skylar Deckoff-Jones, Andrew Winchester et al.     Semiconducting 2D materials, like transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), have gained much attention for their potential in opto-electronic devices, valleytronic schemes, and …             Room temperature spin valve effect in NiFe/WS2/Co junctions ▶     Muhammad Zahir Iqbal, Muhammad Waqas Iqbal, Salma Siddique et al.     The two-dimensional (2D) layered electronic materials of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have been recently proposed as an emerging canddiate for spintronic …             Anomalous magneto-elastic and charge doping effects in thallium-doped BaFe2As2 ▶     Athena S. Sefat, Li Li, Huibo B. Cao et al.     Within the BaFe2As2 crystal lattice, we partially substitute thallium for barium and report the effects of interlayer coupling in Ba1-xTlxFe2As2 crystals. We demonstrate the …             Control of Multilayer Networks ▶     Giulia Menichetti, Luca Dall’Asta, Ginestra Bianconi     The controllability of a network is a theoretical problem of relevance in a variety of contexts ranging from financial markets to the brain. Until now, network controllability …             Tightening slip knots in raw and degummed silk to increase toughness without losing strength ▶     Maria F. Pantano, Alice Berardo, Nicola M. Pugno     Knots are fascinating topological elements, which can be found in both natural and artificial systems. While in most of the cases, knots cannot be loosened without breaking the …             Origin of colossal dielectric permittivity of rutile Ti0.9In0.05Nb0.05O2: single crystal and polycrystalline ▶     Yongli Song, Xianjie Wang, Yu Sui et al.     In this paper, we investigated the dielectric properties of (In + Nb) co-doped rutile TiO2 single crystal and polycrystalline ceramics. Both of them showed colossal, up to 104, …             The local density of optical states of a metasurface ▶     Per Lunnemann, A. Femius Koenderink     While metamaterials are often desirable for near-field functions, such as perfect lensing, or cloaking, they are often quantified by their response to plane waves from the far …             Periodic Mesoporous Organosilica Nanocubes with Ultrahigh Surface Areas for Efficient CO2 Adsorption ▶     Yong Wei, Xiaomin Li, Renyuan Zhang et al.     Ultrahigh surface area single-crystals of periodic mesoporous organosilica (PMOs) with uniform cubic or truncated-cubic morphology and organic/inorganic components homogeneously …             Corrigendum: Point-of-service, quantitative analysis of ascorbic acid in aqueous humor for evaluating anterior globe integrity ▶     Manas R. Gartia, Santosh K. Misra, Mao Ye et al.                 Electronic structures of greigite (Fe3S4): A hybrid functional study and prediction for a Verwey transition ▶     Min Wu, John S Tse, Yuanming Pan     Greigite (Fe3S4) is a ferrimagnetic mineral with vital functions in both the bio-geochemical cycle and novel technological applications. However, the ground state electronic …             Oxidation-Induced Degradable Nanogels for Iron Chelation ▶     Zhi Liu, Yan Wang, Max Purro et al.     Iron overload can increase cellular oxidative stress levels due to formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS); untreated, it can be extremely destructive to organs and fatal to …             On spatial pattern of concentration distribution for Taylor dispersion process ▶     Zi Wu, Xudong Fu, Guangqian Wang     Taylor dispersion is a key concept in many fields. In the present paper, we characterize the pattern of the complete spatial concentration distribution for laminar tube flow; the …             Choroidal vascularity index as a measure of vascular status of the choroid: Measurements in healthy eyes from a population-based study ▶     Rupesh Agrawal, Preeti Gupta, Kara-Anne Tan et al.     The vascularity of the choroid has been implicated in the pathogenesis of various eye diseases. To date, no established quantifiable parameters to estimate vascular status of the …             Bioelectric modulation of macrophage polarization ▶     Chunmei Li, Michael Levin, David L. Kaplan     Macrophages play a critical role in regulating wound healing and tissue regeneration by changing their polarization state in response to local microenvironmental stimuli. The …             Multiple Imputation for General Missing Data Patterns in the Presence of High-dimensional Data ▶     Yi Deng, Changgee Chang, Moges Seyoum Ido et al.     Multiple imputation (MI) has been widely used for handling missing data in biomedical research. In the presence of high-dimensional data, regularized regression has been used as …             Biosurfactant as a Promoter of Methane Hydrate Formation: Thermodynamic and Kinetic Studies ▶     Amit Arora, Swaranjit Singh Cameotra, Rajnish Kumar et al.     Natural gas hydrates (NGHs) are solid non-stoichiometric compounds often regarded as a next generation energy source. Successful commercialization of NGH is curtailed by lack of …             Novel electronic ferroelectricity in an organic charge-order insulator investigated with terahertz-pump optical-probe spectroscopy ▶     H. Yamakawa, T. Miyamoto, T. Morimoto et al.     In electronic-type ferroelectrics, where dipole moments produced by the variations of electron configurations are aligned, the polarization is expected to be rapidly controlled …             Chemotyping the distribution of vitamin D metabolites in human serum ▶     Miriam J. Müller, Caroline S. Stokes, Frank Lammert et al.     Most studies examining the relationships between vitamin D and disease or health focus on the main 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25(OH)D3) metabolite, thus potentially overlooking …             Highly bendable bilayer-type photo-actuators comprising of reduced graphene oxide dispersed in hydrogels ▶     Dowan Kim, Heon Sang Lee, Jinhwan Yoon     To avoid the problem of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) restacking in aqueous solution, the preparation of light-responsive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) incorporating rGO …             An Ultra-wideband and Polarization-independent Metasurface for RCS Reduction ▶     Pei Su, Yongjiu Zhao, Shengli Jia et al.     In this paper, an ultra-wideband and polarization-independent metasurface for radar cross section (RCS) reduction is proposed. The unit cell of the metasurface operates in a …             Ultra-high-throughput Production of III-V/Si Wafer for Electronic and Photonic Applications ▶     Dae-Myeong Geum, Min-Su Park, Ju Young Lim et al.     Si-based integrated circuits have been intensively developed over the past several decades through ultimate device scaling. However, the Si technology has reached the physical …             Self-sacrifice Template Formation of Hollow Hetero-Ni7S6/Co3S4 Nanoboxes with Intriguing Pseudo-capacitance for High-performance Electrochemical Capacitors ▶     Hui Hua, Sijia Liu, Zhiyi Chen et al.     Herein, we report a simple yet efficient self-sacrifice template protocol to smartly fabricate hollow hetero-Ni7S6/Co3S4 nanoboxes (Ni-Co-S NBs). Uniform nickel cobalt carbonate …             Exploring structural phase transitions of ion crystals ▶     L. L. Yan, W. Wan, L. Chen et al.     Phase transitions have been a research focus in many-body physics over past decades. Cold ions, under strong Coulomb repulsion, provide a repealing paradigm of exploring phase …             A novel solid state photocatalyst for living radical polymerization under UV irradiation ▶     Qiang Fu, Thomas G. McKenzie, Jing M. Ren et al.     This study presents the development of a novel solid state photocatalyst for the photoinduced controlled radical polymerization of methacrylates under mild UV irradiation (λmax…             Self-induced synthesis of phase-junction TiO2 with a tailored rutile to anatase ratio below phase transition temperature ▶     Wei-Kang Wang, Jie-Jie Chen, Xing Zhang et al.     The surface phase junction of nanocrystalline TiO2 plays an essential role in governing its photocatalytic activity. Thus, facile and simple methods for preparing phase-junction …             Static and Dynamic Magnetization of Gradient FeNi Alloy Nanowire ▶     Haozhe Yang, Yi Li, Min Zeng et al.     FeNi binary nanowires with gradient composition are fabricated by the electrodeposition method. The energy dispersive spec-trometer line-sweep results show that the composition …             Simultaneous resonant x-ray diffraction measurement of polarization inversion and lattice strain in polycrystalline ferroelectrics ▶     S. Gorfman, H. Simons, T. Iamsasri et al.     Structure-property relationships in ferroelectrics extend over several length scales from the individual unit cell to the macroscopic device, and with dynamics spanning a broad …             Mirror-symmetry protected non-TRIM surface state in the weak topological insulator Bi2TeI ▶     I. P. Rusinov, T. V. Menshchikova, A. Isaeva et al.     Strong topological insulators (TIs) support topological surfaces states on any crystal surface. In contrast, a weak, time-reversal-symmetry-driven TI with at least one non-zero v1…             Titanium Dioxide Photocatalytic Polymerization of Acrylamide for Gel Electrophoresis (TIPPAGE) of Proteins and Structural Identification by Mass Spectrometry ▶     Wenyang Zhang, Zhiwei Yuan, Lulu Huang et al.     Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) coupled with mass spectrometry has been well established for separating, identifying and quantifying protein mixtures from cell lines, …             Broadband perfect light trapping in the thinnest monolayer graphene-MoS2 photovoltaic cell: the new application of spectrum-splitting structure ▶     Yun-Ben Wu, Wen Yang, Tong-Biao Wang et al.     The light absorption of a monolayer graphene-molybdenum disulfide photovoltaic (GM-PV) cell in a wedge-shaped microcavity with a spectrum-splitting structure is investigated …             Persistence in eye movement during visual search ▶     Tatiana A. Amor, Saulo D. S. Reis, Daniel Campos et al.     As any cognitive task, visual search involves a number of underlying processes that cannot be directly observed and measured. In this way, the movement of the eyes certainly …             Increasing the information rates of optical communications via coded modulation: a study of transceiver performance ▶     Robert Maher, Alex Alvarado, Domaniç Lavery et al.     Optical fibre underpins the global communications infrastructure and has experienced an astonishing evolution over the past four decades, with current commercial systems …             High-mobility capacitively-induced two-dimensional electrons in a lateral superlattice potential ▶     T. M. Lu, D. Laroche, S.-H. Huang et al.     In the presence of a lateral periodic potential modulation, two-dimensional electrons may exhibit interesting phenomena, such as a graphene-like energy-momentum dispersion, Bloch …             Alternative interpretations for decreasing voltage with increasing charge in ferroelectric capacitors ▶     Seul Ji Song, Yu Jin Kim, Min Hyuk Park et al.     Recent claim on the direct observation of a negative capacitance (NC) effect from a single layer epitaxial Pb(Zr0.2,Ti0.8)O3 (PZT) thin film was carefully reexamined, and …             Optical Dark Rogue Wave ▶     Benoit Frisquet, Bertrand Kibler, Philippe Morin et al.     Photonics enables to develop simple lab experiments that mimic water rogue wave generation phenomena, as well as relativistic gravitational effects such as event horizons, …             Majorana bound states from exceptional points in non-topological superconductors ▶     Pablo San-Jose, Jorge Cayao, Elsa Prada et al.     Recent experimental efforts towards the detection of Majorana bound states have focused on creating the conditions for topological superconductivity. Here we demonstrate an …             Mitochondrial Dynamics Tracking with Two-Photon Phosphorescent Terpyridyl Iridium(III) Complexes ▶     Huaiyi Huang, Pingyu Zhang, Kangqiang Qiu et al.     Mitochondrial dynamics, including fission and fusion, control the morphology and function of mitochondria, and disruption of mitochondrial dynamics leads to Parkinson’s disease, …             Femtosecond laser for cavity preparation in enamel and dentin: ablation efficiency related factors ▶     H. Chen, H. Li, YC. Sun et al.     To study the effects of laser fluence (laser energy density), scanning line spacing and ablation depth on the efficiency of a femtosecond laser for three-dimensional ablation of …             Probing electron-phonon excitations in molecular junctions by quantum interference ▶     C. Bessis, M. L. Della Rocca, C. Barraud et al.     Electron-phonon coupling is a fundamental inelastic interaction in condensed matter and in molecules. Here we probe phonon excitations using quantum interference in electron …             Calcium and Magnesium Ions Are Membrane-Active against Stationary-Phase Staphylococcus aureus with High Specificity ▶     Yuntao Xie, Lihua Yang     Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is notorious for its ability to acquire antibiotic-resistance, and antibiotic-resistant S. aureus has become a wide-spread cause of high …             Satellite gravity gradient grids for geophysics ▶     Johannes Bouman, Jörg Ebbing, Martin Fuchs et al.     The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite aimed at determining the Earth’s mean gravity field. GOCE delivered gravity gradients containing …             Seasonal forecasting of lightning and thunderstorm activity in tropical and temperate regions of the world ▶     Andrew J. Dowdy     Thunderstorms are convective systems characterised by the occurrence of lightning. Lightning and thunderstorm activity has been increasingly studied in recent years in relation …             A Trans-omics Mathematical Analysis Reveals Novel Functions of the Ornithine Metabolic Pathway in Cancer Stem Cells ▶     Jun Koseki, Hidetoshi Matsui, Masamitsu Konno et al.     Bioinformatics and computational modelling are expected to offer innovative approaches in human medical science. In the present study, we performed computational analyses and …             Integration of lipidomics and transcriptomics unravels aberrant lipid metabolism and defines cholesteryl oleate as potential biomarker of prostate cancer ▶     Jia Li, Shancheng Ren, Hai-long Piao et al.     In-depth delineation of lipid metabolism in prostate cancer (PCa) is significant to open new insights into prostate tumorigenesis and progression, and provide potential …             Learning (from) the errors of a systems biology model ▶     Benjamin Engelhardt, Holger Frőhlich, Maik Kschischo     Mathematical modelling is a labour intensive process involving several iterations of testing on real data and manual model modifications. In biology, the domain knowledge guiding …             Membrane tubule formation by banana-shaped proteins with or without transient network structure ▶     Hiroshi Noguchi     In living cells, membrane morphology is regulated by various proteins. Many membrane reshaping proteins contain a Bin/Amphiphysin/Rvs (BAR) domain, which consists of a …             Multifunctional flexible free-standing titanate nanobelt membranes as efficient sorbents for the removal of radioactive 90Sr2+ and 137Cs+ ions and oils ▶     Tao Wen, Zhiwei Zhao, Congcong Shen et al.     For the increasing attention focused on saving endangered environments, there is a growing need for developing membrane materials able to perform complex functions such as …             Intrinsic and membrane-facilitated α-synuclein oligomerization revealed by label-free detection through solid-state nanopores ▶     Rui Hu, Jiajie Diao, Ji Li et al.     α-Synuclein (α-Syn) is an abundant cytosolic protein involved in the release of neurotransmitters in presynaptic terminal and its aberrant aggregation is found to be associated …             Focal Adhesion Kinase Signaling Mediated the Enhancement of Osteogenesis of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Induced by Extracorporeal Shockwave ▶     Jun Hu, Haojie Liao, Zebin Ma et al.     Extracorporeal shockwave (ESW) has been shown of great potential in promoting the osteogenesis of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs), but it is unknown whether this …             An integrated platform for large-scale data collection and precise perturbation of live Drosophila embryos ▶     Thomas J. Levario, Charles Zhao, Tel Rouse et al.     Understanding the fundamental principles governing embryogenesis is a key goal of developmental biology. Direct observation of embryogenesis via in vivo live imaging is vital to …             Microbial communities affecting albumen photography heritage: a methodological survey ▶     Andrea Puškárová, Mária Bučková, Božena Habalová et al.     This study is one of the few investigations which analyze albumen prints, perhaps the most important photographic heritage of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The chemical …             Direct Band Gap Gallium Antimony Phosphide (GaSbxP1−x) Alloys ▶     H. B. Russell, A. N. Andriotis, M. Menon et al.     Here, we report direct band gap transition for Gallium Phosphide (GaP) when alloyed with just 1–2 at% antimony (Sb) utilizing both density functional theory based computations …             Exponential Sensitivity and its Cost in Quantum Physics ▶     András Gilyén, Tamás Kiss, Igor Jex     State selective protocols, like entanglement purification, lead to an essentially non-linear quantum evolution, unusual in naturally occurring quantum processes. Sensitivity to …             Nanometer resolution optical coherence tomography using broad bandwidth XUV and soft x-ray radiation ▶     Silvio Fuchs, Christian Rödel, Alexander Blinne et al.     Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive technique for cross-sectional imaging. It is particularly advantageous for applications where conventional microscopy is not …             Anomalously strong two-electron one-photon X-ray decay transitions in CO caused by avoided crossing ▶     Rafael C. Couto, Marco Guarise, Alessandro Nicolaou et al.     The unique opportunity to study and control electron-nuclear quantum dynamics in coupled potentials offered by the resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) technique is …             Co-transfection of decorin and interleukin-10 modulates pro-fibrotic extracellular matrix gene expression in human tenocyte culture ▶     Sunny A. Abbah, Dilip Thomas, Shane Browne et al.     Extracellular matrix synthesis and remodelling are driven by increased activity of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-β1). In tendon tissue repair, increased activity of TGF-β…             Boosting the Transparency of Thin Layers by Coatings of Opposing Susceptibility: How Metals Help See Through Dielectrics ▶     Mohammed Al Shakhs, Lucian Augusto, Loïc Markley et al.     We propose a hypothesis that a very thin layer can be made more transparent by adding a thin coating with susceptibility of opposing sign. Two experimental tests backed by a …             Experimental demonstration on the deterministic quantum key distribution based on entangled photons ▶     Hua Chen, Zhi-Yuan Zhou, Alaa Jabbar Jumaah Zangana et al.     As an important resource, entanglement light source has been used in developing quantum information technologies, such as quantum key distribution(QKD). There are few experiments …             Silicene nanomeshes: bandgap opening by bond symmetry breaking and uniaxial strain ▶     Tian-Tian Jia, Xin-Yu Fan, Meng-Meng Zheng et al.     Based on the first-principles calculations, we have investigated in detail the bandgap opening of silicene nanomeshes. Different to the mechanism of bandgap opening induced by …             Anisotropic structural and optical properties of semi-polar (11–22) GaN grown on m-plane sapphire using double AlN buffer layers ▶     Guijuan Zhao, Lianshan Wang, Shaoyan Yang et al.     We report the anisotropic structural and optical properties of semi-polar (11–22) GaN grown on m-plane sapphire using a three-step growth method which consisted of a low …             Novel nanowire-structured polypyrrole-cobalt composite as efficient catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction ▶     Xianxia Yuan, Lin Li, Zhong Ma et al.     A novel nanowire-structured polypyrrole-cobalt composite, PPy-CTAB-Co, is successfully synthesized with a surfactant of cetyltrimethylammounium bromide (CTAB). As an …             Symmetry constraints during the development of anisotropic spinodal patterns ▶     Luis Sánchez-Muñoz, Adolfo del Campo, José F. Fernández     Spinodal decomposition is a phase-separation phenomenon occurring at non-equilibrium conditions. In isotropic materials, it is expected to improve the physical properties, in …             φXANES: In vivo imaging of metal-protein coordination environments ▶     Simon A. James, Dominic J. Hare, Nicole L. Jenkins et al.     We have developed an X-ray absorption near edge structure spectroscopy method using fluorescence detection for visualizing in vivo coordination environments of metals in …             Excess Entropy Scaling Law for Diffusivity in Liquid Metals ▶     N. Jakse, A. Pasturel     Understanding how dynamic properties depend on the structure and thermodynamics in liquids is a long-standing open problem in condensed matter physics. A very simple approach is …             Automatic graphene transfer system for improved material quality and efficiency ▶     Alberto Boscá, Jorge Pedrós, Javier Martínez et al.     In most applications based on chemical vapor deposition (CVD) graphene, the transfer from the growth to the target substrate is a critical step for the final device performance. …             Add-on unidirectional elastic metamaterial plate cloak ▶     Min Kyung Lee, Yoon Young Kim     Metamaterial cloaks control the propagation of waves to make an object invisible or insensible. To manipulate elastic waves in space, a metamaterial cloak is typically embedded …             Nanoscopic substructures of raft-mimetic liquid-ordered membrane domains revealed by high-speed single-particle tracking ▶     Hsiao-Mei Wu, Ying-Hsiu Lin, Tzu-Chi Yen et al.     Lipid rafts are membrane nanodomains that facilitate important cell functions. Despite recent advances in identifying the biological significance of rafts, nature and regulation …             Near-field engineering of Fano resonances in a plasmonic assembly for maximizing CARS enhancements ▶     Jinna He, Chunzhen Fan, Pei Ding et al.     Surface enhanced coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (SECARS) is a sensitive tool and promising for single molecular detection and chemical selective imaging. However, the …             Uniform Nickel Vanadate (Ni3V2O8) Nanowire Arrays Organized by Ultrathin Nanosheets with Enhanced Lithium Storage Properties ▶     Chang Wang, Dong Fang, Hong’en Wang et al.     Development of three-dimensional nano-architectures on current collectors has emerged as an effective strategy for enhancing rate capability and cycling stability of the …             Complex-shaped three-dimensional multi-compartmental microparticles generated by diffusional and Marangoni microflows in centrifugally discharged droplets ▶     Masayuki Hayakawa, Hiroaki Onoe, Ken H. Nagai et al.     We report a versatile method for the generation of complex-shaped three-dimensional multi-compartmental (3D-MC) microparticles. Complex-shaped microparticles have recently …             Few layer epitaxial germanene: a novel two-dimensional Dirac material ▶     María Eugenia Dávila, Guy Le Lay     Monolayer germanene, a novel graphene-like germanium allotrope akin to silicene has been recently grown on metallic substrates. Lying directly on the metal surfaces the …             Purcell effect and Lamb shift as interference phenomena ▶     Mikhail V. Rybin, Sergei F. Mingaleev, Mikhail F. Limonov et al.     The Purcell effect and Lamb shift are two well-known physical phenomena which are usually discussed in the context of quantum electrodynamics, with the zero-point vibrations as a …             Field-programmable beam reconfiguring based on digitally-controlled coding metasurface ▶     Xiang Wan, Mei Qing Qi, Tian Yi Chen et al.     Digital phase shifters have been applied in traditional phased array antennas to realize beam steering. However, the phase shifter deals with the phase of the induced current; …             Unencapsulated Air-stable Organic Field Effect Transistor by All Solution Processes for Low Power Vapor Sensing ▶     Linrun Feng, Wei Tang, Jiaqing Zhao et al.     With its excellent mechanical flexibility, low-cost and low-temperature processing, the solution processed organic field-effect transistor (OFET) is a promising platform …             Yttrium Iron Garnet Thin Films with Very Low Damping Obtained by Recrystallization of Amorphous Material ▶     Christoph Hauser, Tim Richter, Nico Homonnay et al.     We have investigated recrystallization of amorphous Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) by annealing in oxygen atmosphere. Our findings show that well below the melting temperature the …             Thickness scaling of atomic-layer-deposited HfO2 films and their application to wafer-scale graphene tunnelling transistors ▶     Seong-Jun Jeong, Yeahyun Gu, Jinseong Heo et al.     The downscaling of the capacitance equivalent oxide thickness (CET) of a gate dielectric film with a high dielectric constant, such as atomic layer deposited (ALD) HfO2, is a …             Upper Critical Field and Kondo Effects in Fe(Te0.9Se0.1) Thin Films by Pulsed Field Measurements ▶     Myron B. Salamon, Nicholas Cornell, Marcelo Jaime et al.     The transition temperatures of epitaxial films of Fe(Te0:9Se0:1) are remarkably insensitive to applied magnetic field, leading to predictions of upper critical fields Bc2(T = 0) …             Effects of Current-injection Firing with Ag Paste in a Boron Emitter ▶     Chanseok Kim, Jae-Wook Choi, Sungjin Choi et al.     A high contact resistance for screen-printed contacts was observed when a conventional Ag paste was used on a boron emitter. The results of this study suggest that electron …             Deterministic error correction for nonlocal spatial-polarization hyperentanglement ▶     Tao Li, Guan-Yu Wang, Fu-Guo Deng et al.     Hyperentanglement is an effective quantum source for quantum communication network due to its high capacity, low loss rate, and its unusual character in teleportation of quantum …             Functionalized graphene as a model system for the two-dimensional metal-insulator transition ▶     M. S. Osofsky, S. C. Hernández, A. Nath et al.     Reports of metallic behavior in two-dimensional (2D) systems such as high mobility metal-oxide field effect transistors, insulating oxide interfaces, graphene, and MoS2 have …             Experimental realization of the Yang-Baxter Equation via NMR interferometry ▶     F. Anvari Vind, A. Foerster, I. S. Oliveira et al.     The Yang-Baxter equation is an important tool in theoretical physics, with many applications in different domains that span from condensed matter to string theory. Recently, the …             Doped and undoped graphene platforms: the influence of structural properties on the detection of polyphenols ▶     Chu’Er Chng, Zdenek Sofer, Martin Pumera et al.     There is a huge interest in doped graphene and how doping can tune the material properties for the specific application. It was recently demonstrated that the effect of doping …             Towards universal quantum computation through relativistic motion ▶     David Edward Bruschi, Carlos Sabín, Pieter Kok et al.     We show how to use relativistic motion to generate continuous variable Gaussian cluster states within cavity modes. Our results can be demonstrated experimentally using …             Carrier density independent scattering rate in SrTiO3-based electron liquids ▶     Evgeny Mikheev, Santosh Raghavan, Jack Y. Zhang et al.     We examine the carrier density dependence of the scattering rate in two- and three-dimensional electron liquids in SrTiO3 in the regime where it scales with Tn (T is the …             On the reliability of powder diffraction Line Profile Analysis of plastically deformed nanocrystalline systems ▶     Luca Rebuffi, Andrea Troian, Regina Ciancio et al.     An iron-molybdenum alloy powder was extensively deformed by high energy milling, so to refine the bcc iron domain size to nanometer scale (~10 nm) and introduce a strong …             Rapid mixing of viscous liquids by electrical coiling ▶     Tiantian Kong, Jingmei Li, Zhou Liu et al.     The control for the processing of precursor liquids determines whether the properties and functions of the final material product can be engineered. An inherent challenge of …             Probing the spectral density of the surface electromagnetic fields through scattering of waveguide photons ▶     Guang-Yin Chen     The spectral density of the metal-surface electromagnetic fields will be strongly modified in the presence of a closely-spaced quantum emitter. In this work, we propose a …             Positron annihilation spectroscopy of vacancy-related defects in CdTe:Cl and CdZnTe:Ge at different stoichiometry deviations ▶     L. Šedivý, J. Čížek, E. Belas et al.     Positron annihilation spectroscopy (PAS) was used to examine the effect of defined Cd-rich and Te-rich annealing on point defects in Cl-doped CdTe and Ge-doped CdZnTe …             Vacuum template synthesis of multifunctional nanotubes with tailored nanostructured walls ▶     A. Nicolas Filippin, Manuel Macias-Montero, Zineb Saghi et al.     A three-step vacuum procedure for the fabrication of vertical TiO2 and ZnO nanotubes with three dimensional walls is presented. The method combines physical vapor deposition of …             Highly selective polymer electrolyte membranes consisting of poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline) and Cu(NO3)2 for SF6 separation ▶     Woong Gi Lee, Sang Wook Kang     Polymer electrolyte membranes consisting of Cu(NO3)2 and poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline) (POZ) were prepared for SF6/N2 separation. It was anticipated that repulsive forces would be …             Tumour-induced neoneurogenesis and perineural tumour growth: a mathematical approach ▶     Georgios Lolas, Arianna Bianchi, Konstantinos N. Syrigos     It is well-known that tumours induce the formation of a lymphatic and a blood vasculature around themselves. A similar but far less studied process occurs in relation to the …             Effects of Heterogeneous Diffuse Fibrosis on Arrhythmia Dynamics and Mechanism ▶     Ivan V. Kazbanov, Kirsten H. W. J. ten Tusscher, Alexander V. Panfilov     Myocardial fibrosis is an important risk factor for cardiac arrhythmias. Previous experimental and numerical studies have shown that the texture and spatial distribution of …             Reprogramming of Seed Metabolism Facilitates Pre-harvest Sprouting Resistance of Wheat ▶     Caixiang Liu, Feng Ding, Fuhua Hao et al.     Pre-harvest sprouting (PHS) is a worldwide problem for wheat production and transgene antisense-thioredoxin-s (anti-trx-s) facilitates outstanding resistance. To understand the …             Exploring the topological sources of robustness against invasion in biological and technological networks ▶     Fernando Alcalde Cuesta, Pablo González Sequeiros, Álvaro Lozano Rojo     For a network, the accomplishment of its functions despite perturbations is called robustness. Although this property has been extensively studied, in most cases, the network is …             Hydrolysis of Cellulose by a Mesoporous Carbon-Fe2(SO4)3/γ-Fe2O3 Nanoparticle-Based Solid Acid Catalyst ▶     Daizo Yamaguchi, Koki Watanabe, Shinya Fukumi     Carbon-based solid acid catalysts have shown significant potential in a wide range of applications, and they have been successfully synthesized using simple processes. …             Selective plasmon-driven catalysis for para-nitroaniline in aqueous environments ▶     Lin Cui, Peijie Wang, Yuanzuo Li et al.     The plasmon-driven oxidation of amine (−NH2) groups and the reduction of nitro (−NO2) groups on a nanostructured metal surface in an aqueous environment have been reported …             PCDTBT based solar cells: one year of operation under real-world conditions ▶     Yiwei Zhang, Edward Bovill, James Kingsley et al.     We present measurements of the outdoor stability of PCDTBT:PC71BM based bulk heterojunction organic solar cells for over the course of a year. We find that the devices undergo a …             Efficient graphene saturable absorbers on D-shaped optical fiber for ultrashort pulse generation ▶     J. D. Zapata, D. Steinberg, L. A. M. Saito et al.     We demonstrated a method to construct high efficiency saturable absorbers based on the evanescent light field interaction of CVD monolayer graphene deposited on side-polished …             Pentiptycene-Based Luminescent Cu (II) MOF Exhibiting Selective Gas Adsorption and Unprecedentedly High-Sensitivity Detection of Nitroaromatic Compounds (NACs) ▶     Minghui Zhang, Liangliang Zhang, Zhenyu Xiao et al.     The assembly of a fluorescent pentiptycene-based ligand with copper ion resulted in the formation of a 3D porous metal-organic framework (UPC-21) based on well-known paddlewheel …             All-carbon multi-electrode array for real-time in vitro measurements of oxidizable neurotransmitters ▶     Federico Picollo, Alfio Battiato, Ettore Bernardi et al.     We report on the ion beam fabrication of all-carbon multi electrode arrays (MEAs) based on 16 graphitic micro-channels embedded in single-crystal diamond (SCD) substrates. The …             Corrigendum: Photo-generated metamaterials induce modulation of CW terahertz quantum cascade lasers ▶     Francesco P. Mezzapesa, Lorenzo L. Columbo, Carlo Rizza et al.                 Silver Ink Formulations for Sinter-free Printing of Conductive Films ▶     Kate Black, Jetinder Singh, Danielle Mehta et al.     Inkjet printing offers an attractive method for the deposition of metal interconnects in electronic systems and enables a low-cost, environmentally friendly route to manufacture. …             Functionalization-induced changes in the structural and physical properties of amorphous polyaniline: a first-principles and molecular dynamics study ▶     X. P. Chen, Q. H. Liang, J. K. Jiang et al.     In this paper, we present a first-principles and molecular dynamics study to delineate the functionalization-induced changes in the local structure and the physical properties of …             Spatial Electron-hole Separation in a One Dimensional Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Lead Iodide ▶     Christopher N. Savory, Robert G. Palgrave, Hugo Bronstein et al.     The increasing efficiency of the inorganic-organic hybrid halides has revolutionised photovoltaic research. Despite this rapid progress, the significant issues of poor stability …             The Biosynthesis of Infrared-Emitting Quantum Dots in Allium Fistulosum ▶     M. Green, S. J. Haigh, E. A. Lewis et al.     The development of simple routes to emissive solid-state materials is of paramount interest, and in this report we describe the biosynthesis of infrared emitting quantum dots in …             Tunable electromagnetically induced transparency in coupled three-dimensional split-ring-resonator metamaterials ▶     Song Han, Longqing Cong, Hai Lin et al.     Metamaterials have recently enabled coupling induced transparency due to interference effects in coupled subwavelength resonators. In this work, we present a three dimensional …             Gold nanoparticle-assisted all optical localized stimulation and monitoring of Ca2+ signaling in neurons ▶     Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal, Charleen Salesse, Éric Bergeron et al.     Light-assisted manipulation of cells to control membrane activity or intracellular signaling has become a major avenue in life sciences. However, the ability to perform …             D-sorbitol-induced phase control of TiO2 nanoparticles and its application for dye-sensitized solar cells ▶     Shoyebmohamad F. Shaikh, Rajaram S. Mane, Byoung Koun Min et al.     Using a simple hydrothermal synthesis, the crystal structure of TiO2 nanoparticles was controlled from rutile to anatase using a sugar alcohol, D-sorbitol. Adding small amounts …             The remarkable activity and stability of a highly dispersive beta-brass Cu-Zn catalyst for the production of ethylene glycol ▶     Molly Meng-Jung Li, Jianwei Zheng, Jin Qu et al.     Incorporation of Zn atoms into a nanosize Cu lattice is known to alter the electronic properties of Cu, improving catalytic performance in a number of industrially important …             Quantitative assessment of radiation force effect at the dielectric air-liquid interface ▶     Otávio Augusto Capeloto, Vitor Santaella Zanuto, Luis Carlos Malacarne et al.     We induce nanometer-scale surface deformation by exploiting momentum conservation of the interaction between laser light and dielectric liquids. The effect of radiation force at …             Spin-orbit torque in Pt/CoNiCo/Pt symmetric devices ▶     Meiyin Yang, Kaiming Cai, Hailang Ju et al.     Current induced magnetization switching by spin-orbit torques offers an energy-efficient means of writing information in heavy metal/ferromagnet (FM) multilayer systems. The …             A comparative study on the in vivo degradation of poly(L-lactide) based composite implants for bone fracture fixation ▶     Zongliang Wang, Yu Wang, Yoshihiro Ito et al.     Composite of nano-hydroxyapatite (n-HAP) surface grafted with poly(L-lactide) (PLLA) (g-HAP) showed improved interface compatibility and mechanical property for bone fracture …             Multiple scattering induced negative refraction of matter waves ▶     Florian Pinsker     Starting from fundamental multiple scattering theory it is shown that negative refraction indices are feasible for matter waves passing a well-defined ensemble of scatterers. A …             Chemical insights into the roles of nanowire cores on the growth and supercapacitor performances of Ni-Co-O/Ni(OH)2 core/shell electrodes ▶     Xuesong Yin, Chunhua Tang, Liuyang Zhang et al.     Nanostructured core/shell electrodes have been experimentally demonstrated promising for high-performance electrochemical energy storage devices. However, chemical insights into …             A promising structure for fabricating high strength and high electrical conductivity copper alloys ▶     Rengeng Li, Huijun Kang, Zongning Chen et al.     To address the trade-off between strength and electrical conductivity, we propose a strategy: introducing precipitated particles into a structure composed of deformation twins. A …             Precise AuxPt1−x Alloy Nanoparticle Array of Tunable Composition for Catalytic Applications ▶     Sarah Jahn, Sebastian J. Lechner, Helene Freichels et al.     A 3-dimensional Block Copolymer Micellar nanoLithography (BCML) process was used to prepare AuxPt1−x alloy nanoparticles (NPs) monodisperse in size and composition, strongly …             Quantum entanglement of identical particles by standard information-theoretic notions ▶     Rosario Lo Franco, Giuseppe Compagno     Quantum entanglement of identical particles is essential in quantum information theory. Yet, its correct determination remains an open issue hindering the general understanding …             Towards ultrasensitive malaria diagnosis using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy ▶     Keren Chen, Clement Yuen, Yaw Aniweh et al.     We report two methods of surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) for hemozoin detection in malaria infected human blood. In the first method, silver nanoparticles were …             Erratum: Dynamic markers based on blood perfusion fluctuations for selecting skin melanocytic lesions for biopsy ▶     Gemma Lancaster, Aneta Stefanovska, Margherita Pesce et al.                 Structural modification of P-glycoprotein induced by OH radicals: Insights from atomistic simulations ▶     N. Khosravian, B. Kamaraj, E. C. Neyts et al.     This study reports on the possible effects of OH radical impact on the transmembrane domain 6 of P-glycoprotein, TM6, which plays a crucial role in drug binding in human cells. …             Tracing amino acid exchange during host-pathogen interaction by combined stable-isotope time-resolved Raman spectral imaging ▶     Abida Naemat, Hany M. Elsheikha, Radu A. Boitor et al.     This study investigates the temporal and spatial interchange of the aromatic amino acid phenylalanine (Phe) between human retinal pigment epithelial cell line (ARPE-19) and …             Dark States in the Light-Harvesting complex 2 Revealed by Two-dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy ▶     Marco Ferretti, Ruud Hendrikx, Elisabet Romero et al.     Energy transfer and trapping in the light harvesting antennae of purple photosynthetic bacteria is an ultrafast process, which occurs with a quantum efficiency close to unity. …             Robotic lower limb prosthesis design through simultaneous computer optimizations of human and prosthesis costs ▶     Matthew L. Handford, Manoj Srinivasan     Robotic lower limb prostheses can improve the quality of life for amputees. Development of such devices, currently dominated by long prototyping periods, could be sped up by …             Lanthanum and Neodymium Doped Barium Ferrite-TiO2/MCNTs/poly(3-methyl thiophene) Composites with Nest Structures: Preparation, Characterization and Electromagnetic Microwave Absorption Properties ▶     Jie Zhao, Jian Yu, Yu Xie et al.     We report herein the synthesis of a novel nest structured electromagnetic composite through in-situ chemical polymerization of 3-methyl thiophene (3MT) in the presence of the BaFe…             Dynamic monitoring of cell mechanical properties using profile microindentation ▶     L. Guillou, A. Babataheri, P.-H. Puech et al.     We have developed a simple and relatively inexpensive system to visualize adherent cells in profile while measuring their mechanical properties using microindentation. 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