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24 May 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports       Chemical Sciences               Stability of numerous novel potassium chlorides at high pressure ▶     Weiwei Zhang, Artem R. Oganov, Qiang Zhu et al.     K-Cl is a simple system displaying all four main types of bonding, as it contains (i) metallic potassium, (ii) elemental chlorine made of covalently bonded Cl2 molecules held …             Artificial Autopolyploidization Modifies the Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle and GABA Shunt in Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0 ▶     Fredd Vergara, Jun Kikuchi, Christian Breuer     Autopolyploidy is a process whereby the chromosome set is multiplied and it is a common phenomenon in angiosperms. Autopolyploidy is thought to be an important evolutionary force …             Regulating Cell Apoptosis on Layer-by-Layer Assembled Multilayers of Photosensitizer-Coupled Polypeptides and Gold Nanoparticles ▶     Ruirui Xing, Tifeng Jiao, Kai Ma et al.     The design of advanced, nanostructured materials by layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly at the molecular level is of great interest because of the broad application of these materials …             Marked long-term decline in ambient CO mixing ratio in SE England, 1997–2014: evidence of policy success in improving air quality ▶     D. Lowry, M. E. Lanoisellé, R. E. Fisher et al.     Atmospheric CO at Egham in SE England has shown a marked and progressive decline since 1997, following adoption of strict controls on emissions. The Egham site is uniquely …             Nanomolar pyrophosphate detection and nucleus staining in living cells with simple terpyridine–Zn(II) complexes ▶     Duobin Chao, Shitan Ni     Great efforts have been made to develop fluorescent probes for pyrophosphate (PPi) detection. Nucleus staining with fluorescence microscopy has been also widely investigated. But …             Lanthanide-Connecting and Lone-Electron-Pair Active Trigonal-Pyramidal-AsO3 Inducing Nanosized Poly(polyoxotungstate) Aggregates and Their Anticancer Activities ▶     Jun-Wei Zhao, Hai-Lou Li, Xing Ma et al.     By virtue of the stereochemical effect of the lone-electron pair located on the trigonal-pyramidal-AsO3 groups and the one-pot self-assembly strategy in the conventional aqueous …             Freeze-drying of “pearl milk tea”: A general strategy for controllable synthesis of porous materials ▶     Yingke Zhou, Xiaohui Tian, Pengcheng Wang et al.     Porous materials have been widely used in many fields, but the large-scale synthesis of materials with controlled pore sizes, pore volumes, and wall thicknesses remains a …             Oxidation-Based Continuous Laser Writing in Vertical Nano-Crystalline Graphite Thin Films ▶     Loïc Loisel, Ileana Florea, Costel-Sorin Cojocaru et al.     Nano and femtosecond laser writing are becoming very popular techniques for patterning carbon-based materials, as they are single-step processes enabling the drawing of complex …             Ionic Conduction in Lithium Ion Battery Composite Electrode Governs Cross-sectional Reaction Distribution ▶     Yuki Orikasa, Yuma Gogyo, Hisao Yamashige et al.     Composite electrodes containing active materials, carbon and binder are widely used in lithium-ion batteries. Since the electrode reaction occurs preferentially in regions with …             Design of α-Fe2O3 nanorods functionalized tubular NiO nanostructure for discriminating toluene molecules ▶     Chen Wang, Tianshuang Wang, Boqun Wang et al.     A novel tubular NiO nanostructure was synthesized by a facile and low-cost hydrothermal strategy and then further functionalized by decorating α-Fe2O3 nanorods. The images of …             Efficient synthesis of triarylamine-based dyes for p-type dye-sensitized solar cells ▶     Martin Wild, Jan Griebel, Anna Hajduk et al.     The class of triarylamine-based dyes has proven great potential as efficient light absorbers in inverse (p-type) dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). However, detailed …             Tin phosphide-based anodes for sodium-ion batteries: synthesis via solvothermal transformation of Sn metal and phase-dependent Na storage performance ▶     Hyun-Seop Shin, Kyu-Nam Jung, Yong Nam Jo et al.     There is a great deal of current interest in the development of rechargeable sodium (Na)-ion batteries (SIBs) for low-cost, large-scale stationary energy storage systems. For the …             In-Water and Neat Batch and Continuous-Flow Direct Esterification and Transesterification by a Porous Polymeric Acid Catalyst ▶     Heeyoel Baek, Maki Minakawa, Yoichi M. A. Yamada et al.     A porous phenolsulphonic acid—formaldehyde resin (PAFR) was developed. The heterogeneous catalyst PAFR was applied to the esterification of carboxylic acids and alcohols, …             Mössbauer Spectroscopy of Iron Carbides: From Prediction to Experimental Confirmation ▶     Xing-Wu Liu, Shu Zhao, Yu Meng et al.     The Mössbauer spectroscopy of iron carbides (α-Fe, γ'-FeC, η-Fe2C, ζ-Fe2C, χ-Fe5C2, h-Fe7C3, θ-Fe3C, o-Fe7C3, γ'-Fe4C, γ''-Fe4C, and α'-Fe16C2) is predicted utilizing the all …             HBP Builder: A Tool to Generate Hyperbranched Polymers and Hyperbranched Multi-Arm Copolymers for Coarse-grained and Fully Atomistic Molecular Simulations ▶     Chunyang Yu, Li Ma, Shanlong Li et al.     Computer simulation has been becoming a versatile tool that can investigate detailed information from the microscopic scale to the mesoscopic scale. However, the crucial first …             First-principles calculated decomposition pathways for LiBH4 nanoclusters ▶     Zhi-Quan Huang, Wei-Chih Chen, Feng-Chuan Chuang et al.     We analyze thermodynamic stability and decomposition pathways of LiBH4 nanoclusters using grand-canonical free-energy minimization based on total energies and vibrational …             Cross-linked Composite Gel Polymer Electrolyte using Mesoporous Methacrylate-Functionalized SiO2 Nanoparticles for Lithium-Ion Polymer Batteries ▶     Won-Kyung Shin, Jinhyun Cho, Aravindaraj G. Kannan et al.     Liquid electrolytes composed of lithium salt in a mixture of organic solvents have been widely used for lithium-ion batteries. However, the high flammability of the organic …             Multiple response optimization of the coagulation process for upgrading the quality of effluent from municipal wastewater treatment plant ▶     Na Li, Yi Hu, Yong-Ze Lu et al.     To meet the high quality standard of receiving water, the coagulation process using polyferric chloride (PFC) was used to further improve the water quality of effluent from …             Dispersibility of vapor phase oxygen and nitrogen functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes in various organic solvents ▶     Maryam Khazaee, Wei Xia, Gerhard Lackner et al.     The synthesis and characterization of gas phase oxygen- and nitrogen-functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes (OMWCNTs and NMWCNTs) and the dispersibility of these tubes in …             In vivo Real-Time Mass Spectrometry for Guided Surgery Application ▶     Benoit Fatou, Philippe Saudemont, Eric Leblanc et al.     Here we describe a new instrument (SpiderMass) designed for in vivo and real-time analysis. In this instrument ion production is performed remotely from the MS instrument and the …             Crystalline-Amorphous-Crystalline Transformation in a Highly Brilliant Luminescent System with Trigonal-Planar Gold(I) Centers ▶     Kosuke Igawa, Nobuto Yoshinari, Mitsutaka Okumura et al.     Photoluminescent compounds showing emission color changes in response to external stimuli have received considerable attention because of their wide range of applications. Here, …             Combination of deep eutectic solvent and ionic liquid to improve biocatalytic reduction of 2-octanone with Acetobacter pasteurianus GIM1.158 cell ▶     Pei Xu, Peng-Xuan Du, Min-Hua Zong et al.     The efficient anti-Prelog asymmetric reduction of 2-octanone with Acetobacter pasteurianus GIM1.158 cells was successfully performed in a biphasic system consisting of deep …             Synthesis of Tunable Band Gap Semiconductor Nickel Sulphide Nanoparticles: Rapid and Round the Clock Degradation of Organic Dyes ▶     Aniruddha Molla, Meenakshi Sahu, Sahid Hussain     Controlled shape and size with tuneable band gap (1.92–2.41 eV), nickel sulphide NPs was achieved in presence of thiourea or thioacetamide as sulphur sources with the variations …             Synergetic enhancement of gold nanoparticles and 2-mercaptobenzothiazole as highly-sensitive sensing strategy for tetrabromobisphenol A ▶     Xuerong Chen, Liudi Ji, Yikai Zhou et al.     Various gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) were in-situ prepared on the electrode surface through electrochemical reduction under different potentials such as −0.60, −0.50, −0.40, −0.30 …             Effects of applied potential and the initial gap between electrodes on localized electrochemical deposition of micrometer copper columns ▶     Fuliang Wang, Hongbin Xiao, Hu He     Micrometer copper columns were fabricated via a technology named localized electrochemical deposition (LECD). This paper studies the effects of applied potential and the initial …             H3O+ tetrahedron induction in large negative linear compressibility ▶     Hui Wang, Min Feng, Yu-Fang Wang et al.     Despite the rarity, large negative linear compressibility (NLC) was observed in metal-organic framework material Zn(HO3PC4H8PO3H)∙2H2O (ZAG-4) in experiment. We find a unique NLC …             One-pot hydrothermal synthesis of Nitrogen-doped graphene as high-performance anode materials for lithium ion batteries ▶     Zheng Xing, Zhicheng Ju, Yulong Zhao et al.     Nitrogen-doped (N-doped) graphene has been prepared by a simple one-step hydrothermal approach using hexamethylenetetramine (HMTA) as single carbon and nitrogen source. 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