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10 May 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Free naturejobs webcast From bench to business: Top tips from experts and entrepreneurs on how to take your research all the way from idea to product. You’ll also learn how to find the right funding and how to create the perfect pitch to get your research off the ground. Wednesday May 25th, 2016 at 8AM PST, 11AM EST, 4PM BST & 5PM CEST Register for the webcast and the live Q&A session Produced with support from: Novo Nordisk                 Physical Sciences               Corrigendum: Quantum-confinement and Structural Anisotropy result in Electrically-Tunable Dirac Cone in Few-layer Black Phosphorous ▶     Kapildeb Dolui, Su Ying Quek                 Electron Paramagnetic Resonance of Single Magnetic Moment on a Surface ▶     P. Berggren, J. Fransson     We address electron spin resonance of single magnetic moments in a tunnel junction using time-dependent electric fields and spin-polarized current. We show that the tunneling …             Anomalous bond length behavior and a new solid phase of bromine under pressure ▶     Min Wu, John S. Tse, Yuanming Pan     The behavior of diatomic molecular solids under pressure have attracted great interest and been extensively studied. Under ambient pressure, the structure of bromine is known to …             Dynamics of supersonic microparticle impact on elastomers revealed by real–time multi–frame imaging ▶     David Veysset, Alex J. Hsieh, Steven Kooi et al.     Understanding high–velocity microparticle impact is essential for many fields, from space exploration to medicine and biology. Investigations of microscale impact have hitherto …             The effect of ageing on the mechanical properties of the silk of the bridge spider Larinioides cornutus (Clerck, 1757) ▶     Emiliano Lepore, Marco Isaia, Stefano Mammola et al.     Spider silk is regarded as one of the best natural polymer fibers especially in terms of low density, high tensile strength and high elongation until breaking. Since only a few …             Bottom-up synthesis of ordered metal/oxide/metal nanodots on substrates for nanoscale resistive switching memory ▶     Un-Bin Han, Jang-Sik Lee     The bottom-up approach using self-assembled materials/processes is thought to be a promising solution for next-generation device fabrication, but it is often found to be not …             Dynamical detection of network communities ▶     Marcos G. Quiles, Elbert E. N. Macau, Nicolás Rubido     A prominent feature of complex networks is the appearance of communities, also known as modular structures. Specifically, communities are groups of nodes that are densely …             Immobilization of Polyoxometalate in the Metal-Organic Framework rht-MOF-1: Towards a Highly Effective Heterogeneous Catalyst and Dye Scavenger ▶     Jing-Wen Sun, Peng-Fei Yan, Guang-Hui An et al.     A series of three remarkable complexes [PMo12O40]@[Cu6O(TZI)3(H2O)9]4·OH·31H2O (H3TZI = 5-tetrazolylisophthalic acid; denoted as HLJU-1, HLJU = Heilongjiang University), [SiMo12O…             Dynamic Onset of Feynman Relation in the Phonon Regime ▶     Y. Li, C. J. Zhu, E. W. Hagley et al.     The Feynman relation, a much celebrated condensed matter physics gemstone for more than 70 years, predicts that the density excitation spectrum and structure factor of a …             A spin dynamics approach to solitonics ▶     Konstantinos Koumpouras, Anders Bergman, Olle Eriksson et al.     In magnetic materials a variety of non-collinear ground state configurations may emerge as a result of competition among exchange, anisotropy, and dipole-dipole interaction, …             Electromagnetic Thermography Nondestructive Evaluation: Physics-based Modeling and Pattern Mining ▶     Bin Gao, Wai Lok Woo, Gui Yun Tian     Electromagnetic mechanism of Joule heating and thermal conduction on conductive material characterization broadens their scope for implementation in real thermography based …             Predicting the optoelectronic properties of nanowire films based on control of length polydispersity ▶     Matthew J. Large, Jake Burn, Alice A. King et al.     We demonstrate that the optoelectronic properties of percolating thin films of silver nanowires (AgNWs) are predominantly dependent upon the length distribution of the …             Joining Chemical Pressure and Epitaxial Strain to Yield Y-doped BiFeO3 Thin Films with High Dielectric Response ▶     N. D. Scarisoreanu, F. Craciun, R. Birjega et al.     BiFeO3 is one of the most promising multiferroic materials but undergoes two major drawbacks: low dielectric susceptibility and high dielectric loss. Here we report high in-plane …             Orientation-and polarization-dependent optical properties of the single Ag nanowire/glass substrate system excited by the evanescent wave ▶     Mu Yang, Wei Cai, Yingjie Wang et al.     As an important plasmon one-dimensional material, orientation- and polarization-dependent properties of single Ag nanowires/glass substrate system are investigated by a powerful …             Octahedral Ni-nanocluster (Ni85) for Efficient and Selective Reduction of Nitric Oxide (NO) to Nitrogen (N2) ▶     Arup Mahata, Kuber Singh Rawat, Indrani Choudhuri et al.     Nitric oxide (NO) reduction pathways are systematically studied on a (111) facet of the octahedral nickel (Ni85) nanocluster in the presence/absence of hydrogen. Thermodynamic …             Mechanical interlocking of cotton fibers on slightly textured surfaces of metallic cylinders ▶     Youqiang Zhang, Yu Tian, Yonggang Meng     Mechanical interlocking is widely applied in industry and general lives of human beings. In this work, we realized the control of locking or sliding states of cotton fibers on …             Depth profiles of the interfacial strains of Si0.7Ge0.3/Si using three-beam Bragg-surface diffraction ▶     Yan-Zong Zheng, Yun-Liang Soo, Shih-Lin Chang     Interfacial strains are important factors affecting the structural and physical properties of crystalline multilayers and heterojunctions, and the performance of the devices made …             How was the proton transfer process in bis-3, 6-(2- benzoxazolyl)-pyrocatechol, single or double proton transfer? ▶     Yongjia Zhang, Mengtao Sun, Yongqing Li     A theoretical analysis of proton transfer process for the symmetric systems with two intramolecular hydrogen bonds, bis-3,6-(2-benzoxazolyl)-pyrocatechol(BBPC) in hexane solvent, …             Solvent and Intermediate Phase as Boosters for the Perovskite Transformation and Solar Cell Performance ▶     Jinhyun Kim, Taehyun Hwang, Sangheon Lee et al.     High power conversion efficiency and device stabilization are two major challenges for CH3NH3PbI3 (MAPbI3) perovskite solar cells to be commercialized. Herein, we demonstrate a …             Multilayer Patterning of High Resolution Intrinsically Stretchable Electronics ▶     Klas Tybrandt, Flurin Stauffer, Janos Vörös     Stretchable electronics can bridge the gap between hard planar electronic circuits and the curved, soft and elastic objects of nature. This has led to applications like conformal …             Evidence for Photoinduced Insulator-to-Metal transition in B-phase vanadium dioxide ▶     James Lourembam, Amar Srivastava, Chan La-o-vorakiat et al.     Ultrafast optical studies have been performed on epitaxial films of the novel B-phase of vanadium dioxide using temperature-dependent optical pump-probe technique. Signature of …             Impacts of complex behavioral responses on asymmetric interacting spreading dynamics in multiplex networks ▶     Quan-Hui Liu, Wei Wang, Ming Tang et al.     Information diffusion and disease spreading in communication-contact layered network are typically asymmetrically coupled with each other, in which disease spreading can be …             Fabrication of Ultra-Thin Printed Organic TFT CMOS Logic Circuits Optimized for Low-Voltage Wearable Sensor Applications ▶     Yasunori Takeda, Kazuma Hayasaka, Rei Shiwaku et al.     Ultrathin electronic circuits that can be manufactured by using conventional printing technologies are key elements necessary to realize wearable health sensors and …             Artificial cloud test confirms volcanic ash detection using infrared spectral imaging ▶     A. J. Prata, F. Dezitter, I. Davies et al.     Airborne volcanic ash particles are a known hazard to aviation. Currently, there are no means available to detect ash in flight as the particles are too fine (radii < 30 μm) for …             The impact of working memory and the “process of process modelling” on model quality: Investigating experienced versus inexperienced modellers ▶     Markus Martini, Jakob Pinggera, Manuel Neurauter et al.     A process model (PM) represents the graphical depiction of a business process, for instance, the entire process from online ordering a book until the parcel is delivered to the …             Galectin-3 Binds to Lubricin and Reinforces the Lubricating Boundary Layer of Articular Cartilage ▶     Heidi L. Reesink, Edward D. Bonnevie, Sherry Liu et al.     Lubricin is a mucinous, synovial fluid glycoprotein that enables near frictionless joint motion via adsorption to the surface of articular cartilage and its lubricating …             Automatic Three-dimensional Detection of Photoreceptor Ellipsoid Zone Disruption Caused by Trauma in the OCT ▶     Weifang Zhu, Haoyu Chen, Heming Zhao et al.     Detection and assessment of the integrity of the photoreceptor ellipsoid zone (EZ) are important because it is critical for visual acuity in retina trauma and other diseases. We …             Urinary arsenic profiles reveal exposures to inorganic arsenic from private drinking water supplies in Cornwall, UK ▶     D. R. S. Middleton, M. J. Watts, E. M. Hamilton et al.     Private water supplies (PWS) in Cornwall, South West England exceeded the current WHO guidance value and UK prescribed concentration or value (PCV) for arsenic of 10 μg/L in 5% …             Enhanced Salt Removal by Unipolar Ion Conduction in Ion Concentration Polarization Desalination ▶     Rhokyun Kwak, Van Sang Pham, Bumjoo Kim et al.     Chloride ion, the majority salt in nature, is ∼52% faster than sodium ion (DNa+ = 1.33, DCl− = 2.03[10−9m2s−1]). Yet, current electrochemical desalination technologies (e.g. …             Microfluidic platform combining droplets and magnetic tweezers: application to HER2 expression in cancer diagnosis ▶     Davide Ferraro, Jérôme Champ, Bruno Teste et al.     The development of precision medicine, together with the multiplication of targeted therapies and associated molecular biomarkers, call for major progress in genetic analysis …             Trans-Reflective Color Filters Based on a Phase Compensated Etalon Enabling Adjustable Color Saturation ▶     Chul-Soon Park, Vivek Raj Shrestha, Sang-Shin Lee et al.     Trans-reflective color filters, which take advantage of a phase compensated etalon (silver-titania-silver-titania) based nano-resonator, have been demonstrated to feature a …             Crackle template based metallic mesh with highly homogeneous light transmission for high-performance transparent EMI shielding ▶     Yu Han, Jie Lin, Yuxuan Liu et al.     Our daily electromagnetic environment is becoming increasingly complex with the rapid development of consumer electronics and wireless communication technologies, which in turn …             Synthesis, properties and surface self-assembly of a pentanuclear cluster based on the new π-conjugated TTF-triazole ligand ▶     Long Cui, Yan-Fang Geng, Chanel F. Leong et al.     The new π-extended redox-active ligand with both TTF and triazole units, 6-(4,5-bis(propylthio)-1,3-dithiol-2-ylidene)-1H-[1,3]dithiolo[4′,5′:4,5]benzo [1,2-d] [1–3]triazole, has …             Meta-q-plate for complex beam shaping ▶     Wei Ji, Chun-Hong Lee, Peng Chen et al.     Optical beam shaping plays a key role in optics and photonics. In this work, meta-q-plate featured by arbitrarily space-variant optical axes is proposed and demonstrated via …             Hierarchical hollow Fe2O3@MIL-101(Fe)/C derived from metal-organic frameworks for superior sodium storage ▶     Chengping Li, Qian Hu, Yan Li et al.     A facile generic template-free strategy is employed to prepare hierarchical hollow hybrid Fe2O3@MIL-101(Fe)/C materials derived from metal-organic frameworks as anode materials …             3D plasmonic crystal metamaterials for ultra-sensitive biosensing ▶     Andrey I. Aristov, Maria Manousidaki, Artem Danilov et al.     We explore the excitation of plasmons in 3D plasmon crystal metamaterials and report the observation of a delocalized plasmon mode, which provides extremely high spectral …             Voltage assisted asymmetric nanoscale wear on ultra-smooth diamond like carbon thin films at high sliding speeds ▶     Sukumar Rajauria, Erhard Schreck, Bruno Marchon     The understanding of tribo- and electro-chemical phenomenons on the molecular level at a sliding interface is a field of growing interest. Fundamental chemical and physical …             Theoretical approach to resonant inelastic x-ray scattering in iron-based superconductors at the energy scale of the superconducting gap ▶     Pasquale Marra, Jeroen van den Brink, Steffen Sykora     We develop a phenomenological theory to predict the characteristic features of the momentum-dependent scattering amplitude in resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) at the …             Tunable one-dimensional electron gas carrier densities at nanostructured oxide interfaces ▶     Houlong L. Zhuang, Lipeng Zhang, Haixuan Xu et al.     The emergence of two-dimensional metallic states at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 (LAO/STO) heterostructure interface is known to occur at a critical thickness of four LAO layers. This …             Feature Adaptive Sampling for Scanning Electron Microscopy ▶     Tim Dahmen, Michael Engstler, Christoph Pauly et al.     A new method for the image acquisition in scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was introduced. The method used adaptively increased pixel-dwell times to improve the signal-to-noise …             Computational investigation of dynamical transitions in Trp-cage miniprotein powders ▶     Sang Beom Kim, Devansh R. Gupta, Pablo G. Debenedetti     We investigate computationally the dynamical transitions in Trp-cage miniprotein powders, at three levels of hydration: 0.04, 0.26 and 0.4 g water/g protein. We identify two …             Pinned orbital moments – A new contribution to magnetic anisotropy ▶     P. Audehm, M. Schmidt, S. Brück et al.     Reduced dimensionality and symmetry breaking at interfaces lead to unusual local magnetic configurations, such as glassy behavior, frustration or increased anisotropy. The …             Asymmetric magnetic proximity effect in a Pd/Co/Pd trilayer system ▶     Dong-Ok Kim, Kyung Mee Song, Yongseong Choi et al.     In spintronic devices consisting of ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic systems, the ferromagnet-induced magnetic moment in the adjacent nonmagnetic material significantly influences the …             Positive impedance humidity sensors via single-component materials ▶     Jingwen Qian, Zhijian Peng, Zhenguang Shen et al.     Resistivity-type humidity sensors have been investigated with great interest due to the increasing demands in industry, agriculture and daily life. To date, most of the available …             A new structure of two-dimensional allotropes of group V elements ▶     Ping Li, Weidong Luo     The elemental two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene, silicene, germanene, and black phosphorus have attracted considerable attention due to their fascinating physical …             Silk Fibroin as Edible Coating for Perishable Food Preservation ▶     B. Marelli, M. A. Brenckle, D. L. Kaplan et al.     The regeneration of structural biopolymers into micelles or nanoparticles suspended in water has enabled the design of new materials with unique and compelling properties that …             Active Adoption of Void Formation in Metal-Oxide for All Transparent Super-Performing Photodetectors ▶     Malkeshkumar Patel, Hong-Sik Kim, Hyeong-Ho Park et al.     Could ‘defect-considered’ void formation in metal-oxide be actively used? Is it possible to realize stable void formation in a metal-oxide layer, beyond unexpected observations, …             Corrigendum: Kinetics of protein-ligand unbinding via smoothed potential molecular dynamics simulations ▶     Luca Mollica, Sergio Decherchi, Syeda Rehana Zia et al.                 Ultrapure laser-synthesized Si-based nanomaterials for biomedical applications: in vivo assessment of safety and biodistribution ▶     Tarek Baati, Ahmed Al-Kattan, Marie-Anne Esteve et al.     Si/SiOx nanoparticles (NPs) produced by laser ablation in deionized water or aqueous biocompatible solutions present a novel extremely promising object for biomedical …             The mechanism of deceleration of nucleation and crystal growth by the small addition of transition metals to lithium disilicate glasses ▶     Katrin Thieme, Isak Avramov, Christian Rüssel     The addition of small amounts of niobium or tantalum oxide to lithium disilicate glass provokes a drastic decrease of the steady-state nucleation rates and the crystal growth …             Mechanism of Ribonuclease III Catalytic Regulation by Serine Phosphorylation ▶     Swapna Gone, Mercedes Alfonso-Prieto, Samridhdi Paudyal et al.     Ribonuclease III (RNase III) is a conserved, gene-regulatory bacterial endonuclease that cleaves double-helical structures in diverse coding and noncoding RNAs. RNase III is …             The accommodative ciliary muscle function is preserved in older humans ▶     Juan Tabernero, Emmanuel Chirre, Lucia Hervella et al.     Presbyopia, the loss of the eye’s accommodation capability, affects all humans aged above 45–50 years old. The two main reasons for this to happen are a hardening of the …             eEF1A1 binds and enriches protoporphyrin IX in cancer cells in 5-aminolevulinic acid based photodynamic therapy ▶     Zhichao Fan, Xiaojun Cui, Dan Wei et al.     Photodynamic therapy (PDT) with protoporphyrin IX (PpIX), which is endogenously derived from 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) or its derivatives, is a promising modality for the …             A curious interplay in the films of N-heterocyclic carbene PtII complexes upon deposition of alkali metals ▶     Anna A. Makarova, Elena V. Grachova, Dorota Niedzialek et al.     The recently synthesized series of PtII complexes containing cyclometallating (phenylpyridine or benzoquinoline) and N-heterocyclic carbene ligands possess intriguing structures, …             Ultrasonic acoustic levitation for fast frame rate X-ray protein crystallography at room temperature ▶     Soichiro Tsujino, Takashi Tomizaki     Increasing the data acquisition rate of X-ray diffraction images for macromolecular crystals at room temperature at synchrotrons has the potential to significantly accelerate …             Rigid proteins and softening of biological membranes—with application to HIV-induced cell membrane softening ▶     Himani Agrawal, Matthew Zelisko, Liping Liu et al.     A key step in the HIV-infection process is the fusion of the virion membrane with the target cell membrane and the concomitant transfer of the viral RNA. Experimental evidence …             Quantitative Study of Cell Invasion Process under Extracellular Stimulation of Cytokine in a Microfluidic Device ▶     Kin Fong Lei, Hsueh-Peng Tseng, Chia-Yi Lee et al.     Cell invasion is the first step of cancer metastasis that is the primary cause of death for cancer patients and defined as cell movement through extracellular matrix (ECM). …             Identification of side- and shear-dependent microRNAs regulating porcine aortic valve pathogenesis ▶     Swetha Rathan, Casey J. Ankeny, Sivakkumar Arjunon et al.     Aortic valve (AV) calcification is an inflammation driven process that occurs preferentially in the fibrosa. To explore the underlying mechanisms, we investigated if key …             Self-healing capacity of nuclear glass observed by NMR spectroscopy ▶     Thibault Charpentier, Laura Martel, Anamul H. Mir et al.     Safe management of high level nuclear waste is a worldwide significant issue for which vitrification has been selected by many countries. There exists a crucial need for …             Frequency-selective propagation of localized spoof surface plasmons in a graded plasmonic resonator chain ▶     Zhen Gao, Fei Gao, Kunal Krishnaraj Shastri et al.     Localized spoof surface plasmon polaritons (spoof-SPPs) in a graded spoof-plasmonic resonator chain with linearly increasing spacing are experimentally investigated at microwave …             Asymmetric masks for laboratory-based X-ray phase-contrast imaging with edge illumination ▶     Marco Endrizzi, Alberto Astolfo, Fabio A. Vittoria et al.     We report on an asymmetric mask concept that enables X-ray phase-contrast imaging without requiring any movement in the system during data acquisition. The method is compatible …             Carrier trapping and confinement in Ge nanocrystals surrounded by Ge3N4 ▶     Youngsin Park, Christopher C. S. Chan, Benjamin P. L. Reid et al.     We investigated the optical properties of Ge nanocrystals surrounded by Ge3N4. The broad emission ranging from infrared to blue is due to the dependence on the crystal size and …             Encapsulation of redox polysulphides via chemical interaction with nitrogen atoms in the organic linkers of metal-organic framework nanocrystals ▶     Jung Hyo Park, Kyung Min Choi, Dong Ki Lee et al.     Lithium polysulphides generated during discharge in the cathode of a lithium-sulphur redox cell are important, but their dissolution into the electrolyte from the cathode during …             A novel quasi-solid state electrolyte with highly effective polysulfide diffusion inhibition for lithium-sulfur batteries ▶     Hai Zhong, Chunhua Wang, Zhibin Xu et al.     Polymer solid state electrolytes are actively sought for their potential application in energy storage devices, particularly lithium metal rechargeable batteries. Herein, we …             Geometrical tuning art for entirely subwavelength grating waveguide based integrated photonics circuits ▶     Zheng Wang, Xiaochuan Xu, Donglei Fan et al.     Subwavelength grating (SWG) waveguide is an intriguing alternative to conventional optical waveguides due to the extra degree of freedom it offers in tuning a few important …             Trace Detection of RDX, HMX and PETN Explosives Using a Fluorescence Spot Sensor ▶     Chen Wang, Helin Huang, Benjamin R. Bunes et al.     1,3,5-trinitroperhydro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX), octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocine (HMX), and pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), the major components in plastic …             Negative Refraction with Superior Transmission in Graphene-Hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) Multilayer Hyper Crystal ▶     Ayed Al Sayem, Md. Masudur Rahman, M. R. C. Mahdy et al.     In this article, we have theoretically investigated the performance of graphene-hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) multilayer structure (hyper crystal) to demonstrate all angle …             Synthesis of Fe16N2 compound Free-Standing Foils with 20 MGOe Magnetic Energy Product by Nitrogen Ion-Implantation ▶     Yanfeng Jiang, Md Al Mehedi, Engang Fu et al.     Rare-earth-free magnets are highly demanded by clean and renewable energy industries because of the supply constraints and environmental issues. A promising permanent magnet …             Single-indicator-based Multidimensional Sensing: Detection and Identification of Heavy Metal Ions and Understanding the Foundations from Experiment to Simulation ▶     Yumin Leng, Sihua Qian, Yuhui Wang et al.     Multidimensional sensing offers advantages in accuracy, diversity and capability for the simultaneous detection and discrimination of multiple analytes, however, the previous …             Frequency Up-Conversion Photon-Type Terahertz Imager ▶     Z. L. Fu, L. L. Gu, X. G. Guo et al.     Terahertz imaging has many important potential applications. Due to the failure of Si readout integrated circuits (ROICs) and the thermal mismatch between the photo-detector …             Femtosecond laser filament induced condensation and precipitation in a cloud chamber ▶     Jingjing Ju, Jiansheng Liu, Hong Liang et al.     A unified picture of femtosecond laser induced precipitation in a cloud chamber is proposed. Among the three principal consequences of filamentation from the point of view of …             Autonomous self-healing structural composites with bio-inspired design ▶     Eleonora D’Elia, Salvador Eslava, Miriam Miranda et al.     Strong and tough natural composites such as bone, silk or nacre are often built from stiff blocks bound together using thin interfacial soft layers that can also provide …             Synthesis of Self-Assembled Multifunctional Nanocomposite Catalysts with Highly Stabilized Reactivity and Magnetic Recyclability ▶     Xu Yu, Gong Cheng, Si-Yang Zheng     In this paper, a multifunctional Fe3O4@SiO2@PEI-Au/Ag@PDA nanocomposite catalyst with highly stabilized reactivity and magnetic recyclability was synthesized by a self-assembled …             Improved Superconducting properties in the Mg11B2 low activation superconductor prepared by low-temperature sintering ▶     Fang Cheng, Yongchang Liu, Zongqing Ma et al.     Mg11B2 has a great application prospect in the superconducting coils for fusion reactor as the “low activation superconductors”. The un-doped Mg11B2 and Cu-doped Mg11B2 bulks …             Presence of Li Clusters in Molten LiCl-Li ▶     Augustus Merwin, William C. Phillips, Mark A. Williamson et al.     Molten mixtures of lithium chloride and metallic lithium are of significant interest in various metal oxide reduction processes. These solutions have been reported to exhibit …             Zeeman-Field-Tuned Topological Phase Transitions in a Two-Dimensional Class-DIII Superconductor ▶     W. Y. Deng, H. Geng, W. Luo et al.     We investigate the topological phase transitions in a two-dimensional time-reversal invariant topological superconductor in the presence of a Zeeman field. Based on the spin …             Real-time locating and speed measurement of fibre fuse using optical frequency-domain reflectometry ▶     Shoulin Jiang, Lin Ma, Xinyu Fan et al.     We propose and experimentally demonstrate real-time locating and speed measurement of fibre fuse by analysing the Doppler shift of reflected light using optical frequency-domain …             Controlling Kondo-like Scattering at the SrTiO3-based Interfaces ▶     K. Han, N. Palina, S. W. Zeng et al.     The observation of magnetic interaction at the interface between nonmagnetic oxides has attracted much attention in recent years. In this report, we show that the Kondo-like …             The Capacity Gain of Orbital Angular Momentum Based Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output System ▶     Zhuofan Zhang, Shilie Zheng, Yiling Chen et al.     Wireless communication using electromagnetic wave carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) has attracted increasing interest in recent years, and its potential to increase channel …             Centimeter Scale Patterned Growth of Vertically Stacked Few Layer Only 2D MoS2/WS2 van der Waals Heterostructure ▶     Nitin Choudhary, Juhong Park, Jun Yeon Hwang et al.     Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waal (vdW) heterostructures composed of vertically-stacked multiple transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and …             Highly Visible Light Responsive, Narrow Band gap TiO2 Nanoparticles Modified by Elemental Red Phosphorus for Photocatalysis and Photoelectrochemical Applications ▶     Sajid Ali Ansari, Moo Hwan Cho     This paper reports that the introduction of elemental red phosphorus (RP) into TiO2 can shift the light absorption ability from the UV to the visible region, and confirmed that …             Cryo-Imaging of Hydrogels Supermolecular Structure ▶     Clement Marmorat, Arkadii Arinstein, Naama Koifman et al.     Gelatin, derived from collagen, has both the mechanical properties required for tissue growth, as well the functional domains required for cell binding. In its natural state, …             A Chemical Template for Synthesis of Molecular Sheets of Calcium Carbonate ▶     Ina Rianasari, Farah Benyettou, Sudhir Kumar Sharma et al.     Inspired by the discovery of graphene and its unique properties, we focused our research to develop a scheme to create nacre like lamellar structures of molecular sheets of CaCO3 …             Evolution of cooperation by the introduction of the probabilistic peer-punishment based on the difference of payoff ▶     Tetsushi Ohdaira     There are two types of costly punishment, i.e. peer-punishment and pool-punishment. While peer-punishment applies direct face to face punishment, pool-punishment is based on …             Comparison of size modulation and conventional standard automated perimetry with the 24-2 test protocol in glaucoma patients ▶     Kazunori Hirasawa, Nobuyuki Shoji, Masayuki Kasahara et al.     This prospective randomized study compared test results of size modulation standard automated perimetry (SM-SAP) performed with the Octopus 600 and conventional SAP (C-SAP) …             Learning Bayesian Networks from Correlated Data ▶     Harold Bae, Stefano Monti, Monty Montano et al.     Bayesian networks are probabilistic models that represent complex distributions in a modular way and have become very popular in many fields. There are many methods to build …             Engineering the Charge Transfer in all 2D Graphene-Nanoplatelets Heterostructure Photodetectors ▶     A. Robin, E. Lhuillier, X. Z. Xu et al.     Two dimensional layered (i.e. van der Waals) heterostructures open up great prospects, especially in photodetector applications. In this context, the control of the charge …             Extraordinary wavelength reduction in terahertz graphene-cladded photonic crystal slabs ▶     Ian A. D. Williamson, S. Hossein Mousavi, Zheng Wang     Photonic crystal slabs have been widely used in nanophotonics for light confinement, dispersion engineering, nonlinearity enhancement, and other unusual effects arising from …             Spin-Cherenkov effect in a magnetic nanostrip with interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction ▶     Jing Xia, Xichao Zhang, Ming Yan et al.     Spin-Cherenkov effect enables strong excitations of spin waves (SWs) with nonlinear wave dispersions. The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) results in anisotropy and …             Sorting quantum systems efficiently ▶     Radu Ionicioiu     Measuring the state of a quantum system is a fundamental process in quantum mechanics and plays an essential role in quantum information and quantum technologies. One method to …             Determining the Origin of Half-bandgap-voltage Electroluminescence in Bifunctional Rubrene/C60 Devices ▶     Qiusong Chen, Weiyao Jia, Lixiang Chen et al.     Lowering the driving voltage of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) is an important approach to reduce their energy consumption. We have fabricated a series of bifunctional …             Airy beam optical parametric oscillator ▶     A. Aadhi, N. Apurv Chaitanya, M. V. Jabir et al.     Airy beam, a non-diffracting waveform, has peculiar properties of self-healing and self-acceleration. Due to such unique properties, the Airy beam finds many applications …             Spin Vortex Resonance in Non-planar Ferromagnetic Dots ▶     Junjia Ding, Pavel Lapa, Shikha Jain et al.     In planar structures, the vortex resonance frequency changes little as a function of an in-plane magnetic field as long as the vortex state persists. Altering the topography of …             Corrigendum: Mechanical Fracturing of Core-Shell Undercooled Metal Particles for Heat-Free Soldering ▶     Simge Çınar, Ian D. Tevis, Jiahao Chen et al.                 Thickness-dependent transport channels in topological insulator Bi2Se3 thin films grown by magnetron sputtering ▶     Wen Jie Wang, Kuang Hong Gao, Zhi Qing Li     We study the low-temperature transport properties of Bi2Se3 thin films grown by magnetron sputtering. A positive magnetoresistance resulting from the weak antilocalization (WAL) …             Enhanced DSSCs efficiency via Cooperate co-absorbance (CdS QDs) and plasmonic core-shell nanoparticle (Ag@PVP) ▶     Omid Amiri, Masoud Salavati-Niasari, Samira Bagheri et al.     This paper describes cooperate the co-absorbance (CdS QDs) and the plasmonic core-shell nanoparticles (Ag@PVP) of dye synthesized solar cells in which CdS QDs and Ag@PVP are …             Fluorographene based Ultrasensitive Ammonia Sensor ▶     Kiran Kumar Tadi, Shubhadeep Pal, Tharangattu N. Narayanan     Single molecule detection using graphene can be brought by tuning the interactions via specific dopants. Electrostatic interaction between the most electronegative element …             Near-Infrared Quantum Cutting Long Persistent Luminescence ▶     Zehua Zou, Lin Feng, Cheng Cao et al.     By combining the unique features of the quantum cutting luminescence and long persistent luminescence, we design a new concept called “near-infrared quantum cutting long …             Diffraction-limited ultrabroadband terahertz spectroscopy ▶     M. Baillergeau, K. Maussang, T. Nirrengarten et al.     Diffraction is the ultimate limit at which details of objects can be resolved in conventional optical spectroscopy and imaging systems. In the THz spectral range, spectroscopy …             Enhanced high-frequency absorption of anisotropic Fe3O4/graphene nanocomposites ▶     Yichao Yin, Min Zeng, Jue Liu et al.     Anisotropic Fe3O4 nanoparticle and a series of its graphene composites have been successfully prepared as high-frequency absorbers. The crystal structure, morphology and magnetic …             Novel chemical synthesis and characterization of copper pyrovanadate nanoparticles and its influence on the flame retardancy of polymeric nanocomposites ▶     Maryam Ghiyasiyan-Arani, Maryam Masjedi-Arani, Davood Ghanbari et al.     In this work, copper pyrovanadate (Cu3V2O7(OH)2(H2O)2) nanoparticles have been synthesized by a simple and rapid chemical precipitation method. Different copper-organic complexes …             Superior thermal conductivity in suspended bilayer hexagonal boron nitride ▶     Chengru Wang, Jie Guo, Lan Dong et al.     We reported the basal-plane thermal conductivity in exfoliated bilayer hexagonal boron nitride h-BN that was measured using suspended prepatterned microstructures. The h-BN …             Employing Synergetic Effect of Doping and Thin Film Coating to Boost the Performance of Lithium-Ion Battery Cathode Particles ▶     Rajankumar L. Patel, Ying-Bing Jiang, Amitava Choudhury et al.     Atomic layer deposition (ALD) has evolved as an important technique to coat conformal protective thin films on cathode and anode particles of lithium ion batteries to enhance …             Nonlinear modal interactions in parity-time (PT) symmetric lasers ▶     Li Ge, Ramy El-Ganainy     Parity-time symmetric lasers have attracted considerable attention lately due to their promising applications and intriguing properties, such as free spectral range doubling and …             Improved Drain Current Saturation and Voltage Gain in Graphene–on–Silicon Field Effect Transistors ▶     Seung Min Song, Jae Hoon Bong, Wan Sik Hwang et al.     Graphene devices for radio frequency (RF) applications are of great interest due to their excellent carrier mobility and saturation velocity. However, the insufficient current …             Waves spontaneously generated by heterogeneity in oscillatory media ▶     Xiaohua Cui, Xiaodong Huang, Gang Hu     Wave propagation is an important characteristic for pattern formation and pattern dynamics. To date, various waves in homogeneous media have been investigated extensively and …             Robust singlet dimers with fragile ordering in two-dimensional honeycomb lattice of Li2RuO3 ▶     Junghwan Park, Teck-Yee Tan, D. T. Adroja et al.     When an electronic system has strong correlations and a large spin-orbit interaction, it often exhibits a plethora of mutually competing quantum phases. How a particular quantum …             Highly Sensitive and Selective In-Situ SERS Detection of Pb2+, Hg2+, and Cd2+ Using Nanoporous Membrane Functionalized with CNTs ▶     Mohamed Shaban, A. R. Galaly     Porous Anodic Alumina (PAA) membrane was functionalized with CoFe2O4 nanoparticles and used as a substrate for the growing of very long helical-structured Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) …             Cascading failures in coupled networks with both inner-dependency and inter-dependency links ▶     Run-Ran Liu, Ming Li, Chun-Xiao Jia et al.     We study the percolation in coupled networks with both inner-dependency and inter-dependency links, where the inner- and inter-dependency links represent the dependencies between …             High current density GaAs/Si rectifying heterojunction by defect free Epitaxial Lateral overgrowth on Tunnel Oxide from nano-seed ▶     Charles Renard, Timothée Molière, Nikolay Cherkashin et al.     Interest in the heteroepitaxy of GaAs on Si has never failed in the last years due to the potential for monolithic integration of GaAs-based devices with Si integrated circuits. …             Gold@silver bimetal nanoparticles/pyramidal silicon 3D substrate with high reproducibility for high-performance SERS ▶     Chao Zhang, Shou Zhen Jiang, Cheng Yang et al.     A novel and efficient surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate has been presented based on Gold@silver/pyramidal silicon 3D substrate (Au@Ag/3D-Si). By combining the …             Surfactant-free synthesis of octahedral ZnO/ZnFe2O4 heterostructure with ultrahigh and selective adsorption capacity of malachite green ▶     Jue Liu, Min Zeng, Ronghai Yu     A new octahedral ZnO/ZnFe2O4 heterostructure has been fabricated through a facile surfactant-free solvothermal method followed by thermal treatment. It exhibits a record-high …             Identification and manipulation of the pleuromutilin gene cluster from Clitopilus passeckerianus for increased rapid antibiotic production ▶     Andy M. Bailey, Fabrizio Alberti, Sreedhar Kilaru et al.     Semi-synthetic derivatives of the tricyclic diterpene antibiotic pleuromutilin from the basidiomycete Clitopilus passeckerianus are important in combatting bacterial infections …             Stretchable Binary Fresnel Lens for Focus Tuning ▶     Xueming Li, Lei Wei, René H. Poelma et al.     This paper presents a tuneable binary amplitude Fresnel lens produced by wafer-level microfabrication. The Fresnel lens is fabricated by encapsulating lithographically defined …             Perfect Spin-filtering in graphene monolayer-bilayer superlattice with zigzag boundaries ▶     Hang Yu, Jun-Feng Liu     We show that the spontaneous magnetization is formed at the zigzag boundary between monolayer and bilayer graphene by the self-consistent calculation based on Hubbard model. In a …             New recombinant cyclohexylamine oxidase variants for deracemization of secondary amines by orthogonally assaying designed mutants with structurally diverse substrates ▶     Guangyue Li, Peiyuan Yao, Peiqian Cong et al.     To further expand the substrate range of the cyclohexylamine oxidase (CHAO) from Brevibacterium oxydans, a library of diverse mutants was created and assayed toward a group of …             Stationary bubble formation and cavity collapse in wedge-shaped hoppers ▶     Yui Yagisawa, Hui Zee Then, Ko Okumura     The hourglass is one of the apparatuses familiar to everyone, but reveals intriguing behaviors peculiar to granular materials, and many issues are remained to be explored. In …             Construction of Nontoxic Polymeric UV-Absorber with Great Resistance to UV-Photoaging ▶     Zhong Huang, Aishun Ding, Hao Guo et al.     In this article, we developed a series of new nontoxic polymeric UV-absorbers through covalently attaching a benzophenone derivative onto the main chain of poly(vinyl chloride) …             Cation Tuning toward the Inference of the Gelation Behavior of Supramolecular Gels ▶     Peng Xue, Huiqiong Wu, Xiaojuan Wang et al.     We serendipitously discovered that the tripeptide Asp–Phe–Phe trifluoroacetic acid salt (hereafter abbreviated as β-AspFF) formed a reversible thermotropic gel in chloroform …             Multi-Order Investigation of the Nonlinear Susceptibility Tensors of Individual Nanoparticles ▶     Cédric Schmidt, Jérémy Riporto, Aline Uldry et al.     We use Hyper Rayleigh Scattering and polarization resolved multiphoton microscopy to investigate simultaneously the second and third-order nonlinear response of Potassium Niobate …             Quantitative evaluation of fiber fuse initiation with exposure to arc discharge provided by a fusion splicer ▶     Shin-ichi Todoroki     The optical communication industry and power-over-fiber applications face a dilemma as a result of the expanding demand of light power delivery and the potential risks of …             Phase-factor-dependent symmetries and quantum phases in a three-level cavity QED system ▶     Jingtao Fan, Lixian Yu, Gang Chen et al.     Unlike conventional two-level particles, three-level particles may support some unitary-invariant phase factors when they interact coherently with a single-mode quantized light …             Accurate Electron Affinity of Iron and Fine Structures of Negative Iron ions ▶     Xiaolin Chen, Zhihong Luo, Jiaming Li et al.     Ionization potential (IP) is defined as the amount of energy required to remove the most loosely bound electron of an atom, while electron affinity (EA) is defined as the amount …             Critical Role of Diels–Adler Adducts to Realise Stretchable Transparent Electrodes Based on Silver Nanowires and Silicone Elastomer ▶     Gaeun Heo, Kyoung-hee Pyo, Da Hee Lee et al.     This paper presents the successful fabrication of a transparent electrode comprising a sandwich structure of silicone/Ag nanowires (AgNWs)/silicone equipped with Diels–Alder (DA) …             Kinetic inductance driven nanoscale 2D and 3D THz transmission lines ▶     S. Hossein Mousavi, Ian A. D. Williamson, Zheng Wang     We examine the unusual dispersion and attenuation of transverse electromagnetic waves in the few-THz regime on nanoscale graphene and copper transmission lines. Conventionally, …             Charge collection kinetics on ferroelectric polymer surface using charge gradient microscopy ▶     Yoon-Young Choi, Sheng Tong, Stephen Ducharme et al.     A charge gradient microscopy (CGM) probe was used to collect surface screening charges on poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) [P(VDF-TrFE)] thin films. These charges are …             Giant and reversible room-temperature elastocaloric effect in a single-crystalline Ni-Fe-Ga magnetic shape memory alloy ▶     Yang Li, Dewei Zhao, Jian Liu     Good mechanical properties and large adiabatic temperature change render Heusler-type Ni2FeGa-based magnetic shape memory alloys as a promising candidate material for solid-state …             Growth and characteristics of self-assembled MoS2/Mo-S-C nanoperiod multilayers for enhanced tribological performance ▶     Jiao Xu, TengFei He, LiQiang Chai et al.     Highly ordered MoS2/Mo-S-C nanoperiod multilayers are synthesized by a novel self-assembling mechanism in simultaneous sputtering of MoS2 and graphite targets. The sequential …             Giant electric-field-induced strain in lead-free piezoelectric materials ▶     Lan Chen, Yurong Yang, X. K. Meng     First-principles calculations are performed to investigate the structures, electrical, and magnetic properties of compressive BiFeO3 films under electric-field and pressure …             Coupled grain boundary motion in aluminium: the effect of structural multiplicity ▶     Kuiyu Cheng, Liang Zhang, Cheng Lu et al.     The shear-induced coupled grain boundary motion plays an important role in the deformation of nanocrystalline (NC) materials. It has been known that the atomic structure of the …             Side-chain Engineering of Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene Core-structured Small Molecules for High-Performance Organic Solar Cells ▶     Xinxing Yin, Qiaoshi An, Jiangsheng Yu et al.     Three novel small molecules have been developed by side-chain engineering on benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene (BDT) core. The typical acceptor-donor-acceptor (A-D-A) structure is …             Dislocation Majorana zero modes in perovskite oxide 2DEG ▶     Suk Bum Chung, Cheung Chan, Hong Yao     Much of the current experimental efforts for detecting Majorana zero modes have been centered on probing the boundary of quantum wires with strong spin-orbit coupling. The same …             Vacancy Structures and Melting Behavior in Rock-Salt GeSbTe ▶     Bin Zhang, Xue-Peng Wang, Zhen-Ju Shen et al.     Ge-Sb-Te alloys have been widely used in optical/electrical memory storage. Because of the extremely fast crystalline-amorphous transition, they are also expected to play a vital …             Posing for a picture: vesicle immobilization in agarose gel ▶     Rafael B. Lira, Jan Steinkühler, Roland L. Knorr et al.     Taking a photo typically requires the object of interest to stand still. In science, imaging is potentiated by optical and electron microscopy. However, living and soft matter …             In vivo 3D measurement of moxifloxacin and gatifloxacin distributions in the mouse cornea using multiphoton microscopy ▶     Seunghun Lee, Jun Ho Lee, Jin Hyoung Park et al.     Moxifloxacin and gatifloxacin are fourth-generation fluoroquinolone antibiotics used in the clinic to prevent or treat ocular infections. Their pharmacokinetics in the cornea is …             Enzymatically Regulated Peptide Pairing and Catalysis for the Bioanalysis of Extracellular Prometastatic Activities of Functionally Linked Enzymes ▶     Hao Li, Yue Huang, Yue Yu et al.     Diseases such as cancer arise from systematical reconfiguration of interactions of exceedingly large numbers of proteins in cell signaling. The study of such complicated …             Surface fractal dimension, water adsorption efficiency, and cloud nucleation activity of insoluble aerosol ▶     Ari Laaksonen, Jussi Malila, Athanasios Nenes et al.     Surface porosity affects the ability of a substance to adsorb gases. 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