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26 April 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Discovery and technology for human health Now open for submissions Straddling the life sciences, the physical sciences and engineering, Nature Biomedical Engineering will publish -weekly and online-only - biological, medical and engineering advances that can directly inspire or lead to improvements in human health or healthcare.                 Physical Sciences               Modulation of Protein Fouling and Interfacial Properties at Carbon Surfaces via Immobilization of Glycans Using Aryldiazonium Chemistry ▶     Federico Zen, M. Daniela Angione, James A. Behan et al.     Carbon materials and nanomaterials are of great interest for biological applications such as implantable devices and nanoparticle vectors, however, to realize their potential it …             3D Printed Reversible Shape Changing Components with Stimuli Responsive Materials ▶     Yiqi Mao, Zhen Ding, Chao Yuan et al.     The creation of reversibly-actuating components that alter their shapes in a controllable manner in response to environmental stimuli is a grand challenge in active materials, …             Optimized 2D array of thin silicon pillars for efficient antireflective coatings in the visible spectrum ▶     Julien Proust, Anne-Laure Fehrembach, Frédéric Bedu et al.     Light reflection occuring at the surface of silicon wafers is drastically diminished by etching square pillars of height 110 nm and width 140 nm separated by a 100 nm gap …             Electronic and chemical structure of the H2O/GaN(0001) interface under ambient conditions ▶     Xueqiang Zhang, Sylwia Ptasinska     We employed ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to investigate the electronic and chemical properties of the H2O/GaN(0001) interface under elevated pressures and/or …             A comprehensive simulation framework for imaging single particles and biomolecules at the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser ▶     Chun Hong Yoon, Mikhail V. Yurkov, Evgeny A. Schneidmiller et al.     The advent of newer, brighter, and more coherent X-ray sources, such as X-ray Free-Electron Lasers (XFELs), represents a tremendous growth in the potential to apply coherent …             A general and highly regioselective synthesis approach to multi-functionalized organoimido derivatives of Polyoxometalates ▶     Yichao Huang, Jiangwei Zhang, Jian Hao et al.     Organoimidoylization of Polyoxometalates (POMs) can dramatically modify the electronic structures of POMs and gives rise to novel “value-adding” properties of the POMs for …             Closed-form solutions and scaling laws for Kerr frequency combs ▶     William H. Renninger, Peter T. Rakich     A single closed-form analytical solution of the driven nonlinear Schrödinger equation is developed, reproducing a large class of the behaviors in Kerr-comb systems, including …             Large gap electron-hole superfluidity and shape resonances in coupled graphene nanoribbons ▶     M. Zarenia, A. Perali, F. M. Peeters et al.     We predict enhanced electron-hole superfluidity in two coupled electron-hole armchair-edge terminated graphene nanoribbons separated by a thin insulating barrier. In contrast to …             Bare and boron-doped cubic silicon carbide nanowires for electrochemical detection of nitrite sensitively ▶     Tao Yang, Liqin Zhang, Xinmei Hou et al.     Fabrication of eletrochemical sensors based on wide bandgap compound semiconductors has attracted increasing interest in recent years. Here we report for the first time …             Amplitude dynamics favors synchronization in complex networks ▶     Lucia Valentina Gambuzza, Jesus Gómez-Gardeñes, Mattia Frasca     In this paper we study phase synchronization in random complex networks of coupled periodic oscillators. In particular, we show that, when amplitude dynamics is not negligible, …             Two-Dimensional NMR Lineshape Analysis ▶     Christopher A. Waudby, Andres Ramos, Lisa D. Cabrita et al.     NMR titration experiments are a rich source of structural, mechanistic, thermodynamic and kinetic information on biomolecular interactions, which can be extracted through the …             Mechano-adaptive sensory mechanism of α-catenin under tension ▶     Koichiro Maki, Sung-Woong Han, Yoshinori Hirano et al.     The contractile forces in individual cells drive the tissue processes, such as morphogenesis and wound healing, and maintain tissue integrity. In these processes, α-catenin …             Three-Dimensional Super-Resolution Morphology by Near-Field Assisted White-Light Interferometry ▶     Feifei Wang, Lianqing Liu, Peng Yu et al.     Recent developments in far-field fluorescent microscopy have enabled nanoscale imaging of biological entities by ingenious applications of fluorescent probes. For …             Snapshot Hyperspectral Volumetric Microscopy ▶     Jiamin Wu, Bo Xiong, Xing Lin et al.     The comprehensive analysis of biological specimens brings about the demand for capturing the spatial, temporal and spectral dimensions of visual information together. However, …             Mechanism Analysis of the Inverse Doppler Effect in Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal based on Phase Evolution ▶     Qiang Jiang, Jiabi Chen, Yan Wang et al.     Although the inverse Doppler effect has been observed experimentally at optical frequencies in photonic crystal with negative effective refractive index, its explanation is based …             Exact comprehensive equations for the photon management properties of silicon nanowire ▶     Yingfeng Li, Meicheng Li, Ruike Li et al.     Unique photon management (PM) properties of silicon nanowire (SiNW) make it an attractive building block for a host of nanowire photonic devices including photodetectors, …             Laser-synthesized oxide-passivated bright Si quantum dots for bioimaging ▶     M. B. Gongalsky, L. A. Osminkina, A. Pereira et al.     Crystalline silicon (Si) nanoparticles present an extremely promising object for bioimaging based on photoluminescence (PL) in the visible and near-infrared spectral regions, but …             Multispectral imaging using a single bucket detector ▶     Liheng Bian, Jinli Suo, Guohai Situ et al.     Existing multispectral imagers mostly use available array sensors to separately measure 2D data slices in a 3D spatial-spectral data cube. Thus they suffer from low photon …             Microwave-assisted Facile and Ultrafast Growth of ZnO Nanostructures and Proposition of Alternative Microwave-assisted Methods to Address Growth Stoppage ▶     Abu ul Hassan Sarwar Rana, Mingi Kang, Hyun-Seok Kim     The time constraint in the growth of ZnO nanostructures when using a hydrothermal method is of paramount importance in contemporary research, where a long fabrication time rots …             Corrigendum: Laser spectrometry for multi-elemental imaging of biological tissues ▶     L. Sancey, V. Motto-Ros, B. Busser et al.                 Erratum: Optical detection of radon decay in air ▶     Johan Sand, Sakari Ihantola, Kari Peräjärvi et al.                 Erratum: Phase transitions via selective elemental vacancy engineering in complex oxide thin films ▶     Sang A. Lee, Hoidong Jeong, Sungmin Woo et al.                 Corrigendum: Improving Low-dose Cardiac CT Images based on 3D Sparse Representation ▶     Luyao Shi, Yining Hu, Yang Chen et al.                 Fabrication of Radially Symmetric Graded Porous Silicon using a Novel Cell Design ▶     Mingrui Zhao, Manish Keswani     A contactless method using a novel design of the experimental cell for formation of porous silicon with morphological gradient is reported. Fabricated porous silicon layers show …             Integratable quarter-wave plates enable one-way angular momentum conversion ▶     Yao Liang, Fengchun Zhang, Jiahua Gu et al.     Nanophotonic waveguides are the building blocks of integrated photonics. To date, while quarter-wave plates (QWPs) are widely used as common components for a wide range of …             Randomly Distributed Fabry-Pérot-type Metal Nanowire Resonators and Their Lasing Action ▶     Kyungmok Kwon, Youngho Jung, Minkyung Kim et al.     Optical feedback mechanisms are often obtained from well-defined resonator structures fabricated by top-down processes. Here, we demonstrate that two-dimensional networks of …             A new approach to epitaxially grow high-quality GaN films on Si substrates: the combination of MBE and PLD ▶     Wenliang Wang, Haiyan Wang, Weijia Yang et al.     High-quality GaN epitaxial films have been grown on Si substrates with Al buffer layer by the combination of molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and pulsed laser deposition (PLD) …             Exceptional points and asymmetric mode conversion in quasi-guided dual-mode optical waveguides ▶     S. N. Ghosh, Y. D. Chong     Non-Hermitian systems host unconventional physical effects that be used to design new optical devices. We study a non-Hermitian system consisting of 1D planar optical waveguides …             Oxygen-enabled control of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in ultra-thin magnetic films ▶     Abderrezak Belabbes, Gustav Bihlmayer, Stefan Blügel et al.     The search for chiral magnetic textures in systems lacking spatial inversion symmetry has attracted a massive amount of interest in the recent years with the real space …             Ultra-sensitive Magnetic Microscopy with an Optically Pumped Magnetometer ▶     Young Jin Kim, Igor Savukov     Optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) based on lasers and alkali-metal vapor cells are currently the most sensitive non-cryogenic magnetic field sensors. Many applications in …             Terahertz and mid-infrared reflectance of epitaxial graphene ▶     Cristiane N. Santos, Frédéric Joucken, Domingos De Sousa Meneses et al.     Graphene has emerged as a promising material for infrared (IR) photodetectors and plasmonics. In this context, wafer scale epitaxial graphene on SiC is of great interest in a …             Particulate-free porous silicon networks for efficient capacitive deionization water desalination ▶     Thomas Metke, Andrew S. Westover, Rachel Carter et al.     Energy efficient water desalination processes employing low-cost and earth-abundant materials is a critical step to sustainably manage future human needs for clean water …             Coherent Charge Transport in Ballistic InSb Nanowire Josephson Junctions ▶     S. Li, N. Kang, D. X. Fan et al.     Hybrid InSb nanowire-superconductor devices are promising for investigating Majorana modes and topological quantum computation in solid-state devices. An experimental realisation …             Modular design and development methodology for robotic multi-axis F/M sensors ▶     Qiao-Kang Liang, Dan Zhang, Gianmarc Coppola et al.     Accurate Force/Moment (F/M) measurements are required in many applications, and multi-axis F/M sensors have been utilized a wide variety of robotic systems since 1970s. A …             Size-Dependent Raman Shifts for nanocrystals ▶     Yukun Gao, Xinmei Zhao, Penggang Yin et al.     Raman spectroscopy is a very sensitive tool for probing semiconductor nanocrystals. The underlying mechanism behind the size-dependent Raman shifts is still quite controversial. …             Physical Modeling of Activation Energy in Organic Semiconductor Devices based on Energy and Momentum Conservations ▶     Ling-Feng Mao, H. Ning, Changjun Hu et al.     Field effect mobility in an organic device is determined by the activation energy. A new physical model of the activation energy is proposed by virtue of the energy and momentum …             Black Phosphorus Based Field Effect Transistors with Simultaneously Achieved Near Ideal Subthreshold Swing and High Hole Mobility at Room Temperature ▶     Xinke Liu, Kah-Wee Ang, Wenjie Yu et al.     Black phosphorus (BP) has emerged as a promising two-dimensional (2D) material for next generation transistor applications due to its superior carrier transport properties. Among …             Digital Signal Processing and Control for the Study of Gene Networks ▶     Yong-Jun Shin     Thanks to the digital revolution, digital signal processing and control has been widely used in many areas of science and engineering today. It provides practical and powerful …             Abrupt current switching in graphene bilayer tunnel transistors enabled by van Hove singularities ▶     Georgy Alymov, Vladimir Vyurkov, Victor Ryzhii et al.     In a continuous search for the energy-efficient electronic switches, a great attention is focused on tunnel field-effect transistors (TFETs) demonstrating an abrupt dependence of …             Negative thermal expansion and broad band photoluminescence in a novel material of ZrScMo2VO12 ▶     Xianghong Ge, Yanchao Mao, Xiansheng Liu et al.     In this paper, we present a novel material with the formula of ZrScMo2VO12 for the first time. It was demonstrated that this material exhibits not only excellent negative thermal …             Antiferromagnetic Skyrmion: Stability, Creation and Manipulation ▶     Xichao Zhang, Yan Zhou, Motohiko Ezawa     Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like topological excitations in ferromagnets, which have the topo-logical number Q = ± 1, and hence show the skyrmion Hall effect (SkHE) due to …             1700 nm dispersion managed mode-locked bismuth fiber laser ▶     Teppo Noronen, Sergei Firstov, Evgeny Dianov et al.     We demonstrate the first 1.7 μm bismuth-doped fiber laser generating ultrashort pulses via passive mode-locking. Pulse operation has been achieved for both anomalous and normal …             Diffraction-free beams in fractional Schrödinger equation ▶     Yiqi Zhang, Hua Zhong, Milivoj R. Belić et al.     We investigate the propagation of one-dimensional and two-dimensional (1D, 2D) Gaussian beams in the fractional Schrödinger equation (FSE) without a potential, analytically and …             Role of an Oxidant Mixture as Surface Modifier of Porous Silicon Microstructures Evaluated by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry ▶     Zeuz Montiel-González, Salvador Escobar, Rocío Nava et al.     Current research on porous silicon includes the construction of complex structures with luminescent and/or photonic properties. However, their preparation with both …             Broadband mode conversion via gradient index metamaterials ▶     HaiXiao Wang, YaDong Xu, Patrice Genevet et al.     We propose a design for broadband waveguide mode conversion based on gradient index metamaterials (GIMs). Numerical simulations demonstrate that the zeroth order of transverse …             In situ 3D topographic and shape analysis by synchrotron radiation X-ray microtomography for crystal form identification in polymorphic mixtures ▶     Xian-Zhen Yin, Ti-Qiao Xiao, Ashwini Nangia et al.     Polymorphism denotes the existence of more than one crystal structure of a substance, and great practical and theoretical interest for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. …             New mechanism of kinetic exchange interaction induced by strong magnetic anisotropy ▶     Naoya Iwahara, Liviu F. Chibotaru     It is well known that the kinetic exchange interaction between single-occupied magnetic orbitals (s-s) is always antiferromagnetic, while between single- and double-occupied …             Nearly diffraction-limited X-ray focusing with variable-numerical-aperture focusing optical system based on four deformable mirrors ▶     Satoshi Matsuyama, Hiroki Nakamori, Takumi Goto et al.     Unlike the electrostatic and electromagnetic lenses used in electron microscopy, most X-ray focusing optical systems have fixed optical parameters with constant numerical …             Highly Efficient Domain Walls Injection in Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy Nanowire ▶     S. F. Zhang, W. L. Gan, J. Kwon et al.     Electrical injection of magnetic domain walls in perpendicular magnetic anisotropy nanowire is crucial for data bit writing in domain wall-based magnetic memory and logic …             Theoretical screening of intermetallic ThMn12-type phases for new hard-magnetic compounds with low rare earth content ▶     Wolfgang Körner, Georg Krugel, Christian Elsässer     We report on theoretical investigations of intermetallic phases derived from the ThMn12-type crystal structure. Our computational high-throughput screening (HTS) approach is …             Interaction driven quantum Hall effect in artificially stacked graphene bilayers ▶     Muhammad Zahir Iqbal, Muhammad Waqas Iqbal, Salma Siddique et al.     The honeycomb lattice structure of graphene gives rise to its exceptional electronic properties of linear dispersion relation and its chiral nature of charge carriers. The …             Molecular adsorbates as probes of the local properties of doped graphene ▶     Van Dong Pham, Frédéric Joucken, Vincent Repain et al.     Graphene-based sensors are among the most promising of graphene’s applications. The ability to signal the presence of molecular species adsorbed on this atomically thin substrate …             Precise control of coupling strength in photonic molecules over a wide range using nanoelectromechanical systems ▶     Han Du, Xingwang Zhang, Guoqiang Chen et al.     Photonic molecules have a range of promising applications including quantum information processing, where precise control of coupling strength is critical. Here, by laterally …             Liquid–liquid phase separation of N-isopropylpropionamide aqueous solutions above the lower critical solution temperature ▶     Kenji Mochizuki, Tomonari Sumi, Kenichiro Koga     We investigate driving forces of the liquid–liquid phase separation of N-isopropylpropionamide (NiPPA) aqueous solutions above the lower critical solution temperature using …             Radiation Resistant Vanadium-Graphene Nanolayered Composite ▶     Youbin Kim, Jinwook Baek, Sunghwan Kim et al.     Ultra high strength V-graphene nanolayers were developed for the first time that was demonstrated to have an excellent radiation tolerance as revealed by the He+ irradiation …             Joint Analysis of Radiative and Non-Radiative Electronic Relaxation Upon X-ray Irradiation of Transition Metal Aqueous Solutions ▶     Ronny Golnak, Sergey I. Bokarev, Robert Seidel et al.     L-edge soft X-ray spectroscopy has been proven to be a powerful tool to unravel the peculiarities of electronic structure of transition metal compounds in solution. However, the …             Self Calibrated Wireless Distributed Environmental Sensory Networks ▶     Barak Fishbain, Erick Moreno-Centeno     Recent advances in sensory and communication technologies have made Wireless Distributed Environmental Sensory Networks (WDESN) technically and economically feasible. WDESNs …             A study on the electron transport properties of ZnON semiconductors with respect to the relative anion content ▶     Jozeph Park, Yang Soo Kim, Kyung-Chul Ok et al.     High-mobility zinc oxynitride (ZnON) semiconductors were grown by RF sputtering using a Zn metal target in a plasma mixture of Ar, N2, and O2 gas. The RF power and the O2 to N2 …             Sub-kT/q Subthreshold-Slope Using Negative Capacitance in Low-Temperature Polycrystalline-Silicon Thin-Film Transistor ▶     Jae Hyo Park, Gil Su Jang, Hyung Yoon Kim et al.     Realizing a low-temperature polycrystalline-silicon (LTPS) thin-film transistor (TFT) with sub-kT/q subthreshold slope (SS) is significantly important to the development of next …             Sparsity-Based Pixel Super Resolution for Lens-Free Digital In-line Holography ▶     Jun Song, Christine Leon Swisher, Hyungsoon Im et al.     Lens-free digital in-line holography (LDIH) is a promising technology for portable, wide field-of-view imaging. Its resolution, however, is limited by the inherent pixel size of …             Highly Efficient F, Cu doped TiO2 anti-bacterial visible light active photocatalytic coatings to combat hospital-acquired infections ▶     Nigel S. Leyland, Joanna Podporska-Carroll, John Browne et al.     Bacterial infections are a major threat to the health of patients in healthcare facilities including hospitals. One of the major causes of patient morbidity is infection with …             Automated microfluidic platform of bead-based electrochemical immunosensor integrated with bioreactor for continual monitoring of cell secreted biomarkers ▶     Reza Riahi, Seyed Ali Mousavi Shaegh, Masoumeh Ghaderi et al.     There is an increasing interest in developing microfluidic bioreactors and organs-on-a-chip platforms combined with sensing capabilities for continual monitoring of cell-secreted …             Thioflavin T as an efficient fluorescence sensor for selective recognition of RNA G-quadruplexes ▶     Shujuan Xu, Qian Li, Junfeng Xiang et al.     RNA G-quadruplexes (G4s) play important roles in translational regulation, mRNA processing events and gene expression. Therefore, a fluorescent probe that is capable of …             Use of handheld X-ray fluorescence as a non-invasive method to distinguish between Asian and African elephant tusks ▶     Kittisak Buddhachat, Chatchote Thitaram, Janine L. Brown et al.     We describe the use of handheld X-ray fluorescence, for elephant tusk species identification. Asian (n = 72) and African (n = 85) elephant tusks were scanned and we utilized the …             Emission of direct-gap band in germanium with Ge-GeSn layers on one-dimensional structure ▶     Zhong-Mei Huang, Wei-Qi Huang, Shi-Rong Liu et al.     In our experiment, it was observed that the emission of direct-gap band in germanium with Ge-GeSn layers on one-dimensional (1D) structure. The results of experiment and …             Genipin crosslinking reduced the immunogenicity of xenogeneic decellularized porcine whole-liver matrices through regulation of immune cell proliferation and polarization ▶     Yujia Wang, Ji Bao, Xiujuan Wu et al.     Decellularized xenogeneic whole-liver matrices are plausible biomedical materials for the bioengineering of liver transplantation. A common method to reduce the inflammatory …             Erratum: Acoustic resolution photoacoustic Doppler velocimetry in blood-mimicking fluids ▶     Joanna Brunker, Paul Beard                 Corrigendum: Nonvolatile modulation of electronic structure and correlative magnetism of L10-FePt films using significant strain induced by shape memory substrates ▶     Chun Feng, Jiancheng Zhao, Feng Yang et al.                 Diffractive optics for combined spatial- and mode- division demultiplexing of optical vortices: design, fabrication and optical characterization ▶     Gianluca Ruffato, Michele Massari, Filippo Romanato     During the last decade, the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light has attracted growing interest as a new degree of freedom for signal channel multiplexing in order to increase …             Theoretical Investigations of Optical Origins of Fluorescent Graphene Quantum Dots ▶     Jingang Wang, Shuo Cao, Yong Ding et al.     The optical properties of graphene quantum dots (GQDs) were investigated theoretically. We focused on the photoinduced charge transfer and electron-hole coherence of single-layer …             Corrigendum: Enhancement of artificial magnetism via resonant bianisotropy ▶     Dmitry Markovich, Kseniia Baryshnikova, Alexander Shalin et al.                 Monochromatic X-Ray Induced Novel Synthesis of Plasmonic Nanostructure for Photovoltaic Application ▶     Amardeep Bharti, Richa Bhardwaj, Ashish K. Agrawal et al.     It has been universally delineated that the plasmonic metal nanoparticles can enhance the efficiency of photovoltaic cell by increasing the probability of energetic solar photons …             Landauer’s formula with finite-time relaxation: Kramers’ crossover in electronic transport ▶     Daniel Gruss, Kirill A. Velizhanin, Michael Zwolak     Landauer’s formula is the standard theoretical tool to examine ballistic transport in nano- and meso-scale junctions, but it necessitates that any variation of the junction with …             Spin-orbital effects in metal-dichalcogenide semiconducting monolayers ▶     J. A. Reyes-Retana, F. Cervantes-Sodi     Metal-dioxide & metal-dichalcogenide monolayers are studied by means of Density Functional Theory. For an accurate reproduction of the electronic structure of transition metal …             The noisy voter model on complex networks ▶     Adrián Carro, Raúl Toral, Maxi San Miguel     We propose a new analytical method to study stochastic, binary-state models on complex networks. Moving beyond the usual mean-field theories, this alternative approach is based …             Fast Flexible Transistors with a Nanotrench Structure ▶     Jung-Hun Seo, Tao Ling, Shaoqin Gong et al.     The simplification of fabrication processes that can define very fine patterns for large-area flexible radio-frequency (RF) applications is very desirable because it is generally …             Corrigendum: Impurity Resonant States p-type Doping in Wide-Band-Gap Nitrides ▶     Zhiqiang Liu, Xiaoyan Yi, Zhiguo Yu et al.                 Bio-inspired dewetted surfaces based on SiC/Si interlocked structures for enhanced-underwater stability and regenerative-drag reduction capability ▶     By Junghan Lee, Zhuo Zhang, Seunghyun Baek et al.     Drag reduction has become a serious issue in recent years in terms of energy conservation and environmental protection. Among diverse approaches for drag reduction, …             Thermal frequency shift and tunable microwave absorption in BiFeO3 family ▶     Yong Li, Xiaoyong Fang, Maosheng Cao     Tunable frequency is highly sought-after task of researcher, because of the potential for applications in selecting frequency, absorber, imaging and biomedical diagnosis. Here, …             Temporal correlations in neuronal avalanche occurrence ▶     F. Lombardi, H. J. Herrmann, D. Plenz et al.     Ongoing cortical activity consists of sequences of synchronized bursts, named neuronal avalanches, whose size and duration are power law distributed. These features have been …             Nanocarbon synthesis by high-temperature oxidation of nanoparticles ▶     Ken-ichi Nomura, Rajiv K. Kalia, Ying Li et al.     High-temperature oxidation of silicon-carbide nanoparticles (nSiC) underlies a wide range of technologies from high-power electronic switches for efficient electrical grid and …             Breakdown of the Migdal approximation at Lifshitz transitions with giant zero-point motion in the H3S superconductor ▶     Thomas Jarlborg, Antonio Bianconi     While 203 K high temperature superconductivity in H3S has been interpreted by BCS theory in the dirty limit here we focus on the effects of hydrogen zero-point-motion and the …             Corrigendum: A universal mechanism of extreme events and critical phenomena ▶     J. H. Wu, Q. Jia                 Corrigendum: Non-ionizing radiofrequency electromagnetic waves traversing the head can be used to detect cerebrovascular autoregulation responses ▶     M. Oziel, M. Hjouj, C. A. Gonzalez et al.                 Ultrafast charge separation dynamics in opaque, operational dye-sensitized solar cells revealed by femtosecond diffuse reflectance spectroscopy ▶     Elham Ghadiri, Shaik M. Zakeeruddin, Anders Hagfeldt et al.     Efficient dye-sensitized solar cells are based on highly diffusive mesoscopic layers that render these devices opaque and unsuitable for ultrafast transient absorption …             Nanodroplet-Vaporization-Assisted Sonoporation for Highly Effective Delivery of Photothermal Treatment ▶     Wei-Wen Liu, Shu-Wei Liu, Yu-Ren Liou et al.     Sonoporation refers to the use of ultrasound and acoustic cavitation to temporarily enhance the permeability of cellular membranes so as to enhance the delivery efficiency of …             Molecular Structures of Al/Si and Fe/Si Coprecipitates and the Implication for Selenite Removal ▶     Ya-Ting Chan, Wen-Hui Kuan, Yu-Min Tzou et al.     Aluminum and iron oxides have been often used in the coagulation processes during water purification due to their unique surface properties toward anions. In the presence of …             Rapid, controllable growth of silver nanostructured surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrates for red blood cell detection ▶     Shu Zhang, Xueli Tian, Jun Yin et al.     Silver nanostructured films suitable for use as surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates are prepared in just 2 hours by the solid-state ionics method. By changing the …             Bi1−xLaxCuSeO as New Tunable Full Solar Light Active Photocatalysts ▶     Huanchun Wang, Shun Li, Yaochun Liu et al.     Photocatalysis is attracting enormous interest driven by the great promise of addressing current energy and environmental crises by converting solar light directly into chemical …             Improved Anatomical Specificity of Non-invasive Neuro-stimulation by High Frequency (5 MHz) Ultrasound ▶     Guo-Feng Li, Hui-Xia Zhao, Hui Zhou et al.     Low frequency ultrasound (<1 MHz) has been demonstrated to be a promising approach for non-invasive neuro-stimulation. However, the focal width is limited to be half centimeter …             Receptor residence time trumps drug-likeness and oral bioavailability in determining efficacy of complement C5a antagonists ▶     Vernon Seow, Junxian Lim, Adam J. Cotterell et al.     Drug discovery and translation are normally based on optimizing efficacy by increasing receptor affinity, functional potency, drug-likeness (rule-of-five compliance) and oral …             Angle-dependent magnetotransport in GaAs/InAs core/shell nanowires ▶     Fabian Haas, Tobias Wenz, Patrick Zellekens et al.     We study the impact of the direction of magnetic flux on the electron motion in GaAs/InAs core/shell nanowires. At small tilt angles, when the magnetic field is aligned nearly …             Intrinsic beam emittance of laser-accelerated electrons measured by x-ray spectroscopic imaging ▶     G. Golovin, S. Banerjee, C. Liu et al.     The recent combination of ultra-intense lasers and laser-accelerated electron beams is enabling the development of a new generation of compact x-ray light sources, the coherence …             Nucleation processes of nanobubbles at a solid/water interface ▶     Chung-Kai Fang, Hsien-Chen Ko, Chih-Wen Yang et al.     Experimental investigations of hydrophobic/water interfaces often return controversial results, possibly due to the unknown role of gas accumulation at the interfaces. Here, …             Universal lineshapes at the crossover between weak and strong critical coupling in Fano-resonant coupled oscillators ▶     Simone Zanotto, Alessandro Tredicucci     In this article we discuss a model describing key features concerning the lineshapes and the coherent absorption conditions in Fano-resonant dissipative coupled oscillators. The …             Ordered Monolayer Gold Nano-urchin Structures and Their Size Induced Control for High Gas Sensing Performance ▶     Ylias M. Sabri, Ahmad Esmaielzadeh Kandjani, Samuel J. Ippolito et al.     The synthesis of ordered monolayers of gold nano-urchin (Au-NU) nanostructures with controlled size, directly on thin films using a simple electrochemical method is reported in …             Topologic connection between 2-D layered structures and 3-D diamond structures for conventional semiconductors ▶     Jianwei Wang, Yong Zhang     When coming to identify new 2D materials, our intuition would suggest us to look from layered instead of 3D materials. However, since graphite can be hypothetically derived from …             Orbital Reconstruction Enhanced Exchange Bias in La0.6Sr0.4MnO3/Orthorhombic YMnO3 Heterostructures ▶     Dongxing Zheng, Chao Jin, Peng Li et al.     The exchange bias in ferromagnetic/multiferroic heterostructures is usually considered to originate from interfacial coupling. In this work, an orbital reconstruction enhanced …             Predicting the epidemic threshold of the susceptible-infected-recovered model ▶     Wei Wang, Quan-Hui Liu, Lin-Feng Zhong et al.     Researchers have developed several theoretical methods for predicting epidemic thresholds, including the mean-field like (MFL) method, the quenched mean-field (QMF) method, and …             Superhydrophobic Ceramic Coatings by Solution Precursor Plasma Spray ▶     Yuxuan Cai, Thomas W. Coyle, Gisele Azimi et al.     This work presents a novel coating technique to manufacture ceramic superhydrophobic coatings rapidly and economically. A rare earth oxide (REO) was selected as the coating …             Dual-functional transdermal drug delivery system with controllable drug loading based on thermosensitive poloxamer hydrogel for atopic dermatitis treatment ▶     Wenyi Wang, Elaine Wat, Patrick C. L. Hui et al.     The treatment of atopic dermatitis (AD) has long been viewed as a problematic issue by the medical profession. Although a wide variety of complementary therapies have been …             Refinement and growth enhancement of Al2Cu phase during magnetic field assisting directional solidification of hypereutectic Al-Cu alloy ▶     Jiang Wang, Sheng Yue, Yves Fautrelle et al.     Understanding how the magnetic fields affect the formation of reinforced phase during solidification is crucial to tailor the structure and therefor the performance of metal …             Unsteady stagnation-point flow and heat transfer of a special third grade fluid past a permeable stretching/shrinking sheet ▶     Kohilavani Naganthran, Roslinda Nazar, Ioan Pop     In this paper, the unsteady stagnation-point boundary layer flow and heat transfer of a special third grade fluid past a permeable stretching/shrinking sheet has been studied. …             Femtomagnetism in graphene induced by core level excitation of organic adsorbates ▶     Abhilash Ravikumar, Anu Baby, He Lin et al.     We predict the induction or suppression of magnetism in the valence shell of physisorbed and chemisorbed organic molecules on graphene occurring on the femtosecond time scale as …             Three-dimensional multiway power dividers based on transformation optics ▶     Yong-Le Wu, Zheng Zhuang, Li Deng et al.     The two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) multiway power dividers based on transformation optical theory are proposed in this paper. It comprises of several nonisotropic …             Design and development of novel MRI compatible zirconium- ruthenium alloys with ultralow magnetic susceptibility ▶     H.F. Li, F.Y. Zhou, L. Li et al.     In the present study, novel MRI compatible zirconium-ruthenium alloys with ultralow magnetic susceptibility were developed for biomedical and therapeutic devices under MRI …             Capacitive-coupled Series Spoof Surface Plasmon Polaritons ▶     Jia Yuan Yin, Jian Ren, Hao Chi Zhang et al.     A novel method to realize stopband within the operating frequency of spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) is presented. The stopband is introduced by a new kind of …             Steady-state mechanical squeezing in a hybrid atom-optomechanical system with a highly dissipative cavity ▶     Dong-Yang Wang, Cheng-Hua Bai, Hong-Fu Wang et al.     Quantum squeezing of mechanical resonator is important for studying the macroscopic quantum effects and the precision metrology of weak forces. Here we give a theoretical study …             Solution-Processed Donor-Acceptor Polymer Nanowire Network Semiconductors For High-Performance Field-Effect Transistors ▶     Yanlian Lei, Ping Deng, Jun Li et al.     Organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) represent a low-cost transistor technology for creating next-generation large-area, flexible and ultra-low-cost electronics. Conjugated …             Rate-dependent interface capture beyond the coffee-ring effect ▶     Yanan Li, Qiang Yang, Mingzhu Li et al.     The mechanism of droplet drying is a widely concerned fundamental issue since controlling the deposition morphology of droplet has significant influence on printing, biology …             Oscillatory penetration of near-fields in plasmonic excitation at metal-dielectric interfaces ▶     S. C. Lee, J. H. Kang, Q-H. Park et al.     The electric field immediately below an illuminated metal-film that is perforated with a hole array on a dielectric consists of direct transmission and scattering of the incident …             Dynamic and quantitative assessment of blood coagulation using optical coherence elastography ▶     Xiangqun Xu, Jiang Zhu, Zhongping Chen     Reliable clot diagnostic systems are needed for directing treatment in a broad spectrum of cardiovascular diseases and coagulopathy. Here, we report on non-contact measurement of …             N7-(carboxymethyl)guanine-Lithium Crystalline Complex: A Bioinspired Solid Electrolyte ▶     Dipak Dutta, N. 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An approach to control previously uncontrollable seizures in …             A reliable Raman-spectroscopy-based approach for diagnosis, classification and follow-up of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia ▶     Stefano Managò, Carmen Valente, Peppino Mirabelli et al.     Acute lymphoblastic leukemia type B (B-ALL) is a neoplastic disorder that shows high mortality rates due to immature lymphocyte B-cell proliferation. 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