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12 April 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports       Physical Sciences               Ultrasmall all-optical plasmonic switch and its application to superresolution imaging ▶     Hsueh-Yu Wu, Yen-Ta Huang, Po-Ting Shen et al.     Because of their exceptional local-field enhancement and ultrasmall mode volume, plasmonic components can integrate photonics and electronics at nanoscale, and active control of …             How to describe disordered structures ▶     Kengo Nishio, Takehide Miyazaki     Disordered structures such as liquids and glasses, grains and foams, galaxies, etc. are often represented as polyhedral tilings. Characterizing the associated polyhedral tiling …             Tailored CVD graphene coating as a transparent and flexible gas barrier ▶     Tae Hoon Seo, Seula Lee, Hyunjin Cho et al.     The chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method to obtain tailored graphene as a transparent and flexible gas barrier has been developed. By separating nucleation step from growth, we …             High Power Q-Switched Thulium Doped Fibre Laser using Carbon Nanotube Polymer Composite Saturable Absorber ▶     Maria Chernysheva, Chengbo Mou, Raz Arif et al.     We have proposed and demonstrated a Q-switched Thulium doped fibre laser (TDFL) with a ‘Yin-Yang’ all-fibre cavity scheme based on a combination of nonlinear optical loop mirror …             Heteroaromatic organic compound with conjugated multi-carbonyl as cathode material for rechargeable lithium batteries ▶     Meixiang Lv, Fen Zhang, Yiwen Wu et al.     The heteroaromatic organic compound, N,N’-diphenyl-1,4,5,8-naphthalenetetra- carboxylic diimide (DP-NTCDI-250) as the cathode material of lithium batteries is prepared through a …             An Allosteric Cross-Talk Between the Activation Loop and the ATP Binding Site Regulates the Activation of Src Kinase ▶     Encarna Pucheta-Martínez, Giorgio Saladino, Maria Agnese Morando et al.     Phosphorylation of the activation loop is a fundamental step in the activation of most protein kinases. In the case of the Src tyrosine kinase, a prototypical kinase due to its …             Restoring electronic coherence/decoherence for a trajectory-based nonadiabatic molecular dynamics ▶     Chaoyuan Zhu     By utilizing the time-independent semiclassical phase integral, we obtained modified coupled time-dependent Schrödinger equations that restore coherences and induce decoherences …             Pressure-induced topological phases of KNa2Bi ▶     I. Yu. Sklyadneva, I. P. Rusinov, R. Heid et al.     We report an ab initio study of the effect of hydrostatic pressure and uniaxial strain on electronic properties of KNa2Bi, a cubic bialkali bismuthide. It is found that this …             Oxygen vacancies controlled multiple magnetic phases in epitaxial single crystal Co0.5(Mg0.55Zn0.45)0.5O1-v thin films ▶     Dapeng Zhu, Qiang Cao, Ruimin Qiao et al.     High quality single-crystal fcc-Cox(MgyZn1-y)1-xO1-v epitaxial thin films with high Co concentration up to x = 0.5 have been fabricated by molecular beam epitaxy. Systematic …             Achieving High Performance in AC-Field Driven Organic Light Sources ▶     Junwei Xu, David L. Carroll, Gregory M. Smith et al.     Charge balance in organic light emitting structures is essential to simultaneously achieving high brightness and high efficiency. In DC-driven organic light emitting devices …             Molecular Recognition of Biomolecules by Chiral CdSe Quantum Dots ▶     Maria V. Mukhina, Ivan V. Korsakov, Vladimir G. Maslov et al.     Molecular recognition is one of the most important phenomena in Chemistry and Biology. Here we present a new way of enantiomeric molecular recognition using intrinsically chiral …             Helical Majorana fermions in dx2−y2 + idxy-wave topological superconductivity of doped correlated quantum spin Hall insulators ▶     Shih-Jye Sun, Chung-Hou Chung, Yung-Yeh Chang et al.     There has been growing interest in searching for exotic self-conjugate, charge-neutral low-energy fermionic quasi-particles, known as Majorana fermions (MFs) in solid state …             Nanoporous-Gold-Based Hybrid Cantilevered Actuator Dealloyed and Driven by A Modified Rotary Triboelectric Nanogenerator ▶     Xuequan Li, Mengmeng Liu, Baisheng Huang et al.     We firstly designed an electrochemical system for dealloying to synthesize nanoporous gold (NPG) and also driving the novel NPG based actuator by utilizing a modified rotary …             Magnetic coherent tunnel junctions with periodic grating barrier ▶     Henan Fang, Mingwen Xiao, Wenbin Rui et al.     A new spintronic theory has been developed for the magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) with single-crystal barrier. The barrier will be treated as a diffraction grating with …             The effects of surface wettability on the fog and dew moisture harvesting performance on tubular surfaces ▶     Donghyun Seo, Junghun Lee, Choongyeop Lee et al.     The efficient water harvesting from air-laden moisture has been a subject of great interest to address world-wide water shortage issues. Recently, it has been shown that …             Effect of correlations on controllability transition in network control ▶     Sen Nie, Xu-Wen Wang, Bing-Hong Wang et al.     The network control problem has recently attracted an increasing amount of attention, owing to concerns including the avoidance of cascading failures of power-grids and the …             First-principles study of interface doping in ferroelectric junctions ▶     Pin-Zhi Wang, Tian-Yi Cai, Sheng Ju et al.     Effect of atomic monolayer insertion on the performance of ferroelectric tunneling junction is investigated in SrRuO3/BaTiO3/SrRuO3 heterostrucutures. Based on first-principles …             Self-assembly of multilevel branched rutile-type TiO2 structures via oriented lateral and twin attachment ▶     Vanja Jordan, Uroš Javornik, Janez Plavec et al.     Recent breakthrough of novel hierarchic materials, orchestrated through oriented attachment of crystal subunits, opened questions on what is the mechanism of their self-assembly. …             Single cell analysis in native tissue: Quantification of the retinoid content of hepatic stellate cells ▶     Kerstin Galler, Robert Pascal Requardt, Uwe Glaser et al.     Hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) are retinoid storing cells in the liver: The retinoid content of those cells changes depending on nutrition and stress level. There are also …             Multimodal Image Analysis in Alzheimer’s Disease via Statistical Modelling of Non-local Intensity Correlations ▶     Marco Lorenzi, Ivor J. Simpson, Alex F. Mendelson et al.     The joint analysis of brain atrophy measured with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and hypometabolism measured with positron emission tomography with fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG-PET) …             Real-time estimation of wildfire perimeters from curated crowdsourcing ▶     Xu Zhong, Matt Duckham, Derek Chong et al.     Real-time information about the spatial extents of evolving natural disasters, such as wildfire or flood perimeters, can assist both emergency responders and the general public …             Helical X-ray phase-contrast computed tomography without phase stepping ▶     M. Marschner, M. Willner, G. Potdevin et al.     X-ray phase-contrast computed tomography (PCCT) using grating interferometry provides enhanced soft-tissue contrast. The possibility to use standard polychromatic laboratory …             Knots cascade detected by a monotonically decreasing sequence of values ▶     Xin Liu, Renzo L. Ricca     Due to reconnection or recombination of neighboring strands superfluid vortex knots and DNA plasmid torus knots and links are found to undergo an almost identical cascade …             Robust and tunable itinerant ferromagnetism at the silicon surface of the antiferromagnet GdRh2Si2 ▶     M. Güttler, A. Generalov, M. M. Otrokov et al.     Spin-polarized two-dimensional electron states (2DESs) at surfaces and interfaces of magnetically active materials attract immense interest because of the idea of exploiting …             Photon statistics on the extreme entanglement ▶     Yang Zhang, Jun Zhang, Chang-shui Yu     The effects of photon bunching and antibunching correspond to the classical and quantum features of the electromagnetic field, respectively. No direct evidence suggests whether …             Dual-functional Memory and Threshold Resistive Switching Based on the Push-Pull Mechanism of Oxygen Ions ▶     Yi-Jen Huang, Shih-Chun Chao, Der-Hsien Lien et al.     The combination of nonvolatile memory switching and volatile threshold switching functions of transition metal oxides in crossbar memory arrays is of great potential for …             Electronic and magnetic properties of Co doped MoS2 monolayer ▶     Yiren Wang, Sean Li, Jiabao Yi     First principle calculations are employed to calculate the electronic and magnetic properties of Co doped MoS2 by considering a variety of defects including all the possible …             Modelling of segmented high-performance thermoelectric generators with effects of thermal radiation, electrical and thermal contact resistances ▶     Zhongliang Ouyang, Dawen Li     In this study, segmented thermoelectric generators (TEGs) have been simulated with various state-of-the-art TE materials spanning a wide temperature range, from 300 K up to …             Effect of pH on the structure and drug release profiles of layer-by-layer assembled films containing polyelectrolyte, micelles, and graphene oxide ▶     Uiyoung Han, Younghye Seo, Jinkee Hong     Layer by layer (lbl) assembled multilayer thin films are used in drug delivery systems with attractive advantages such as unlimited selection of building blocks and free …             Imaging of Endogenous Metabolites of Plant Leaves by Mass Spectrometry Based on Laser Activated Electron Tunneling ▶     Lulu Huang, Xuemei Tang, Wenyang Zhang et al.     A new mass spectrometric imaging approach based on laser activated electron tunneling (LAET) was described and applied to analysis of endogenous metabolites of plant leaves. LAET …             Control of Radiative Exciton Recombination by Charge Transfer Induced Surface Dipoles in MoS2 and WS2 Monolayers ▶     Peng Hu, Jun Ye, Xuexia He et al.     Due to the two dimensional confinement of electrons in a monolayer of 2D materials, the properties of monolayer can be controlled by electrical field formed on the monolayer …             Crack-resistant Al2O3–SiO2 glasses ▶     Gustavo A. Rosales-Sosa, Atsunobu Masuno, Yuji Higo et al.     Obtaining “hard” and “crack-resistant” glasses have always been of great important in glass science and glass technology. However, in most commercial glasses both properties are …             Degradation Physics of High Power LEDs in Outdoor Environment and the Role of Phosphor in the degradation process ▶     Preetpal Singh, Cher Ming Tan     A moisture- electrical – temperature (MET) test is proposed to evaluate the outdoor reliability of high power blue LEDs, with and without phosphor, and to understand the …             Generation and detection of orbital angular momentum via metasurface ▶     Jinjin Jin, Jun Luo, Xiaohu Zhang et al.     Beams carrying orbital angular momentum possess a significant potential for modern optical technologies ranging from classical and quantum communication to optical manipulation. …             Fast Triggering of Shape Memory Polymers using an Embedded Carbon Nanotube Sponge Network ▶     Guoxiang Zhou, Heng Zhang, Shuping Xu et al.     In this work, a 3-D porous carbon nanotube sponge (CNTS) was embedded within a shape memory polymer (SMPs) matrix. We demonstrate complete infiltration and filling of the SMPs …             Unexpected Temperature Behavior of Polyethylene Glycol Spacers in Copolymer Dendrimers in Chloroform ▶     Denis A. Markelov, Vladimir V. Matveev, Petri Ingman et al.     We have studied copolymer dendrimer structure: carbosilane dendrimers with terminal phenylbenzoate mesogenic groups attached by poly(ethylene) glycol (PEG) spacers. In this …             Direct observation of melting in a two-dimensional driven granular system ▶     Xiaoyan Sun, Yang Li, Yuqiang Ma et al.     Melting is considered to be one of the most fundamental problems in physical science. Generally, dimensionality plays an important role in melting. In three-dimension, it’s well …             The roles of thermal insulation and heat storage in the energy performance of the wall materials: a simulation study ▶     Linshuang Long, Hong Ye     A high-performance envelope is the prerequisite and foundation to a zero energy building. The thermal conductivity and volumetric heat capacity of a wall are two thermophysical …             Modulation of electronic properties from stacking orders and spin-orbit coupling for 3R-type MoS2 ▶     Xiaofeng Fan, W. T. Zheng, Jer-Lai Kuo et al.     Two-dimensional crystals stacked by van der Waals coupling, such as twisted graphene and coupled graphene-BN layers with unusual phenomena have been a focus of research recently. …             High contrast two-photon imaging of fingermarks ▶     Caleb R. Stoltzfus, Aleksander Rebane     Optically-acquired fingermarks are widely used as evidence across law enforcement agencies as well as in the courts of law. A common technique for visualizing latent fingermarks …             High performance bias-selectable three-color Short-wave/Mid-wave/Long-wave Infrared Photodetectors based on Type-II InAs/GaSb/AlSb superlattices ▶     Anh Minh Hoang, Arash Dehzangi, Sourav Adhikary et al.     We propose a new approach in device architecture to realize bias-selectable three-color shortwave-midwave-longwave infrared photodetectors based on InAs/GaSb/AlSb type-II …             Super Stable Ferroelectrics with High Curie Point ▶     Zhipeng Gao, Chengjia Lu, Yuhang Wang et al.     Ferroelectric materials are of great importance in the sensing technology due to the piezoelectric properties. Thermal depoling behavior of ferroelectrics determines the upper …             Finding Communities by Their Centers ▶     Yan Chen, Pei Zhao, Ping Li et al.     Detecting communities or clusters in a real-world, networked system is of considerable interest in various fields such as sociology, biology, physics, engineering science, and …             Proton mediated control of biochemical reactions with bioelectronic pH modulation ▶     Yingxin Deng, Takeo Miyake, Scott Keene et al.     In Nature, protons (H+) can mediate metabolic process through enzymatic reactions. Examples include glucose oxidation with glucose dehydrogenase to regulate blood glucose level, …             Reconfigurable all-dielectric metamaterial frequency selective surface based on high-permittivity ceramics ▶     Liyang Li, Jun Wang, Jiafu Wang et al.     Based on effective medium theory and dielectric resonator theory, we propose the design of reconfigurable all-dielectric metamaterial frequency selective surfaces (FSSs) using …             An insight in magnetic field enhanced zero-valent iron/H2O2 Fenton-like systems: Critical role and evolution of the pristine iron oxides layer ▶     Wei Xiang, Beiping Zhang, Tao Zhou et al.     This study demonstrated the synergistic degradation of 4-chlorophenol (4-CP) achieved in a magnetic field (MF) enhanced zero-valent iron (ZVI)/H2O2 Fenton-like (FL) system and …             Empirical insights into the stochasticity of small RNA sequencing ▶     Li-Xuan Qin, Thomas Tuschl, Samuel Singer     The choice of stochasticity distribution for modeling the noise distribution is a fundamental assumption for the analysis of sequencing data and consequently is critical for the …             Predicting the response of olfactory sensory neurons to odor mixtures from single odor response ▶     Addolorata Marasco, Alessandro De Paris, Michele Migliore     The response of olfactory receptor neurons to odor mixtures is not well understood. Here, using experimental constraints, we investigate the mathematical structure of the odor …             Effects of Morphology Constraint on Electrophysiological Properties of Cortical Neurons ▶     Geng Zhu, Liping Du, Lei Jin et al.     There is growing interest in engineering nerve cells in vitro to control architecture and connectivity of cultured neuronal networks or to build neuronal networks with …             Quantifying the role of motor imagery in brain-machine interfaces ▶     Silvia Marchesotti, Michela Bassolino, Andrea Serino et al.     Despite technical advances in brain machine interfaces (BMI), for as-yet unknown reasons the ability to control a BMI remains limited to a subset of users. We investigate whether …             Designing synthetic RNAs to determine the relevance of structural motifs in picornavirus IRES elements ▶     Javier Fernandez-Chamorro, Gloria Lozano, Juan Antonio Garcia-Martin et al.     The function of Internal Ribosome Entry Site (IRES) elements is intimately linked to their RNA structure. Viral IRES elements are organized in modular domains consisting of one …             Transverse spin relaxation and diffusion-constant measurements of spin-polarized 129Xe nuclei in the presence of a magnetic field gradient ▶     Xiaohu Liu, Chang Chen, Tianliang Qu et al.     The presence of a magnetic field gradient in a sample cell containing spin-polarized 129Xe atoms will cause an increased relaxation rate. We measured the transverse spin …             Optical phase conjugation assisted scattering lens: variable focusing and 3D patterning ▶     Jihee Ryu, Mooseok Jang, Tae Joong Eom et al.     Variable light focusing is the ability to flexibly select the focal distance of a lens. This feature presents technical challenges, but is significant for optical interrogation …             High Color-Purity Green, Orange, and Red Light-Emitting Didoes Based on Chemically Functionalized Graphene Quantum Dots ▶     Woosung Kwon, Young-Hoon Kim, Ji-Hee Kim et al.     Chemically derived graphene quantum dots (GQDs) to date have showed very broad emission linewidth due to many kinds of chemical bondings with different energy levels, which …             Structural properties of Sb2S3 under pressure: evidence of an electronic topological transition ▶     Ilias Efthimiopoulos, Cienna Buchan, Yuejian Wang     High-pressure Raman spectroscopy and x-ray diffraction of Sb2S3 up to 53 GPa reveals two phase transitions at 5 GPa and 15 GPa. The first transition is evidenced by noticeable …             Competing effect of spin-orbit torque terms on perpendicular magnetization switching in structures with multiple inversion asymmetries ▶     Guoqiang Yu, Mustafa Akyol, Pramey Upadhyaya et al.     Current-induced spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in structurally asymmetric multilayers have been used to efficiently manipulate magnetization. In a structure with vertical symmetry …             Antiferromagnetic Spin Wave Field-Effect Transistor ▶     Ran Cheng, Matthew W. Daniels, Jian-Gang Zhu et al.     In a collinear antiferromagnet with easy-axis anisotropy, symmetry dictates that the spin wave modes must be doubly degenerate. Theses two modes, distinguished by their opposite …             Fano resonance of Li-doped KTa1−xNbxO3 single crystals studied by Raman scattering ▶     M. M. Rahaman, T. Imai, T. Sakamoto et al.     The enhancement of functionality of perovskite ferroelectrics by local structure is one of current interests. By the Li-doping to KTa1−xNbxO3 (KTN), the large piezoelectric and …             Interactive effect of microstructure and cavity dimension on filling behavior in micro coining of pure nickel ▶     Chuanjie Wang, Chunju Wang, Jie Xu et al.     In this study, interactive effects of microstructure and cavity dimension on the filling behaviors in micro coining were investigated. The results indicate that the filling …             Three-dimensional direct measurement of cardiomyocyte volume, nuclearity, and ploidy in thick histological sections ▶     Jonathan Guy Bensley, Robert De Matteo, Richard Harding et al.     Quantitative assessment of myocardial development and disease requires accurate measurement of cardiomyocyte volume, nuclearity (nuclei per cell), and ploidy (genome copies per …             Phase transformation and deformation behavior of NiTi-Nb eutectic joined NiTi wires ▶     Liqiang Wang, Cong Wang, Lai-Chang Zhang et al.     NiTi wires were brazed together via eutectic reaction between NiTi and Nb powder deposited at the wire contact region. Phase transformation and deformation behavior of the …             On hybrid circuits exploiting thermistive properties of slime mould ▶     Xavier Alexis Walter, Ian Horsfield, Richard Mayne et al.     Slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a single cell visible by the unaided eye. Let the slime mould span two electrodes with a single protoplasmic tube: if the tube is heated to …             Sub-micron scale patterning of fluorescent silver nanoclusters using low-power laser ▶     Puskal Kunwar, Jukka Hassinen, Godofredo Bautista et al.     Noble metal nanoclusters are ultrasmall nanomaterials with tunable properties and huge application potential; however, retaining their enhanced functionality is difficult as they …             Controlling the Adhesion of Superhydrophobic Surfaces Using Electrolyte Jet Machining Techniques ▶     Xiaolong Yang, Xin Liu, Yao Lu et al.     Patterns with controllable adhesion on superhydrophobic areas have various biomedical and chemical applications. Electrolyte jet machining technique (EJM), an electrochemical …             Observation of the Zero Doppler Effect ▶     Jia Ran, Yewen Zhang, Xiaodong Chen et al.     The normal Doppler effect has well-established applications in many areas of science and technology. Recently, a few experimental demonstrations of the inverse Doppler effect …             Narrow band perfect absorber for maximum localized magnetic and electric field enhancement and sensing applications ▶     Zhengdong Yong, Senlin Zhang, Chensheng Gong et al.     Plasmonics offer an exciting way to mediate the interaction between light and matter, allowing strong field enhancement and confinement, large absorption and scattering at …             Ultrasound-promoted two-step synthesis of 3-arylselenylindoles and 3-arylthioindoles as novel combretastatin A-4 analogues ▶     Zhiyong Wen, Xiaona Li, Daiying Zuo et al.     A series of 3-(3′-hydroxy-4′-methoxyphenyl)selenyl-5,6,7-trimethoxy-1H-indoles and 3-(3′-hydroxy-4′-methoxyphenyl)thio-5,6,7-trimethoxy-1H-indoles were obtained as a new class of …             Clustering mechanism of ethanol-water mixtures investigated with photothermal microfluidic cantilever deflection spectroscopy ▶     M. S. Ghoraishi, J. E. Hawk, Arindam Phani et al.     The infrared-active (IR) vibrational mode of ethanol (EtOH) associated with the asymmetrical stretching of the C-C-O bond in pico-liter volumes of EtOH-water binary mixtures is …             Interplay of charge density wave and multiband superconductivity in 2H-PdxTaSe2 ▶     D. Bhoi, S. Khim, W. Nam et al.     2H-TaSe2 has been one of unique transition metal dichalcogenides exhibiting several phase transitions due to a delicate balance among competing electronic ground states. An …             Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds by Self-assembled Monolayer Coated Sensor Array with Concentration-independent Fingerprints ▶     Ye Chang, Ning Tang, Hemi Qu et al.     In this paper, we have modeled and analyzed affinities and kinetics of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) adsorption (and desorption) on various surface chemical groups using …             Large-scale Growth and Simultaneous Doping of Molybdenum Disulfide Nanosheets ▶     Seong Jun Kim, Min-A Kang, Sung Ho Kim et al.     A facile method that uses chemical vapor deposition (CVD) for the simultaneous growth and doping of large-scale molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanosheets was developed. We employed …             Controlling superconducting spin flow with spin-flip immunity using a single homogeneous ferromagnet ▶     Sol H. Jacobsen, Iryna Kulagina, Jacob Linder     Spin transport via electrons is typically plagued by Joule heating and short decay lengths due to spin-flip scattering. It is known that dissipationless spin currents can arise …             The topological Anderson insulator phase in the Kane-Mele model ▶     Christoph P. Orth, Tibor Sekera, Christoph Bruder et al.     It has been proposed that adding disorder to a topologically trivial mercury telluride/cadmium telluride (HgTe/CdTe) quantum well can induce a transition to a topologically …             Realization of Minimum and Maximum Gate Function in Ta2O5-based Memristive Devices ▶     Thomas Breuer, Lutz Nielen, Bernd Roesgen et al.     Redox-based resistive switching devices (ReRAM) are considered key enablers for future non-volatile memory and logic applications. Functionally enhanced ReRAM devices could …             High mobility and high stability glassy metal-oxynitride materials and devices ▶     Eunha Lee, Taeho Kim, Anass Benayad et al.     In thin film technology, future semiconductor and display products with high performance, high density, large area, and ultra high definition with three-dimensional …             Unfolding mechanism of thrombin-binding aptamer revealed by molecular dynamics simulation and Markov State Model ▶     Xiaojun Zeng, Liyun Zhang, Xiuchan Xiao et al.     Thrombin-binding aptamer (TBA) with the sequence 5′GGTTGGTGTGGTTGG3′ could fold into G-quadruplex, which correlates with functionally important genomic regionsis. However, …             Discovery of a small-molecule binder of the oncoprotein gankyrin that modulates gankyrin activity in the cell ▶     Anasuya Chattopadhyay, Cornelius J. O’Connor, Fengzhi Zhang et al.     Gankyrin is an ankyrin-repeat oncoprotein whose overexpression has been implicated in the development of many cancer types. Elevated gankyrin levels are linked to aberrant …             90Sr in teeth of cattle abandoned in evacuation zone: Record of pollution from the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident ▶     Kazuma Koarai, Yasushi Kino, Atsushi Takahashi et al.     Here we determined the 90Sr concentrations in the teeth of cattle abandoned in the evacuation area of the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) accident. 90Sr activity …             Predator-prey dynamics stabilised by nonlinearity explain oscillations in dust-forming plasmas ▶     A. E. Ross, D. R. McKenzie     Dust-forming plasmas are ionised gases that generate particles from a precursor. In nature, dust-forming plasmas are found in flames, the interstellar medium and comet tails. 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