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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               Physical Sciences               Piezoelectric Templates – New Views on Biomineralization and Biomimetics ▶     Nina Stitz, Sabine Eiben, Petia Atanasova et al.     Biomineralization in general is based on electrostatic interactions and molecular recognition of organic and inorganic phases. These principles of biomineralization have also …             A new class of large band gap quantum spin hall insulators: 2D fluorinated group-IV binary compounds ▶     J. E. Padilha, R. B. Pontes, T. M. Schmidt et al.     We predict a new class of large band gap quantum spin Hall insulators, the fluorinated PbX (X = C, Si, Ge and Sn) compounds, that are mechanically stable two-dimensional …             Corrigendum: ZnCr2O4 Nanoparticles: Facile Synthesis, Characterization, and Photocatalytic Properties ▶     Zahra Mousavi, Faezeh Soofivand, Mahdiyeh Esmaeili-Zare et al.                 Implementation of Outstanding Electronic Transport in Polar Covalent Boron Nitride Atomic Chains: another Extraordinary Odd-Even Behaviour ▶     Xiaodong Xu, Weiqi Li, Linhua Liu et al.     A theoretical investigation of the unique electronic transport properties of the junctions composed of boron nitride atomic chains bridging symmetric graphene electrodes with …             High-performance Fuel Cell with Stretched Catalyst-Coated Membrane: One-step Formation of Cracked Electrode ▶     Sang Moon Kim, Chi-Yeong Ahn, Yong-Hun Cho et al.     We have achieved performance enhancement of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) though crack generation on its electrodes. It is the first attempt to enhance the …             Melting curve of SiO2 at multimegabar pressures: implications for gas giants and super-Earths ▶     Felipe González-Cataldo, Sergio Davis, Gonzalo Gutiérrez     Ultrahigh-pressure phase boundary between solid and liquid SiO2 is still quite unclear. Here we present predictions of silica melting curve for the multimegabar pressure regime, …             Big Data Analytics for Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Ptychography ▶     S. Jesse, M. Chi, A. Belianinov et al.     Electron microscopy is undergoing a transition; from the model of producing only a few micrographs, through the current state where many images and spectra can be digitally …             Polarization induced two dimensional confinement of carriers in wedge shaped polar semiconductors ▶     S. Deb, H. P. Bhasker, Varun Thakur et al.     A novel route to achieve two dimensional (2D) carrier confinement in a wedge shaped wall structure made of a polar semiconductor has been demonstrated theoretically. Tapering of …             Migration mechanism of a GaN bicrystalline grain boundary as a model system ▶     Sung Bo Lee, Seung Jo Yoo, Young-Min Kim et al.     Using in situ high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, we have explored migration mechanism of a grain boundary in a GaN bicrystal as a model system. During annealing at …             Goos-Hänchen shift of partially coherent light fields in epsilon-near-zero metamaterials ▶     Ziauddin, You-Lin Chuang, Sajid Qamar et al.     The Goos-Hänchen (GH) shifts in the reflected light are investigated both for p and s polarized partial coherent light beams incident on epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) metamaterials. In …             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 …             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 …             Complete polarization characterization of single plasmonic nanoparticle enabled by a novel Dark-field Mueller matrix spectroscopy system ▶     Shubham Chandel, Jalpa Soni, Subir kumar Ray et al.     Information on the polarization properties of scattered light from plasmonic systems are of paramount importance due to fundamental interest and potential applications. However, …             Emission energy, exciton dynamics and lasing properties of buckled CdS nanoribbons ▶     Qi Wang, Liaoxin Sun, Jian Lu et al.     We report the modulation of emission energy, exciton dynamics and lasing properties in a single buckled CdS nanoribbon (NR) by strain-engineering. Inspired by ordered structure …             Strength of weak layers in cascading failures on multiplex networks: case of the international trade network ▶     Kyu-Min Lee, K.-I. Goh     Many real-world complex systems across natural, social, and economical domains consist of manifold layers to form multiplex networks. The multiple network layers give rise to …             Nonclassicality Invariant of General Two-Mode Gaussian States ▶     Ievgen I. Arkhipov, Jan Peřina Jr., Jiří Svozilík et al.     We introduce a new quantity for describing nonclassicality of an arbitrary optical two-mode Gaussian state which remains invariant under any global photon-number preserving …             Europium Silicide – a Prospective Material for Contacts with Silicon ▶     Dmitry V. Averyanov, Andrey M. Tokmachev, Christina G. Karateeva et al.     Metal-silicon junctions are crucial to the operation of semiconductor devices: aggressive scaling demands low-resistive metallic terminals to replace high-doped silicon in …             Correlating the Energetics and Atomic Motions of the Metal-Insulator Transition of M1 Vanadium Dioxide ▶     Jamie M. Booth, Daniel W. Drumm, Phil S. Casey et al.     Materials that undergo reversible metal-insulator transitions are obvious candidates for new generations of devices. For such potential to be realised, the underlying microscopic …             Degenerate seaweed to tilted dendrite transition and their growth dynamics in directional solidification of non-axially oriented crystals: a phase-field study ▶     Hui Xing, Xianglei Dong, Hongjing Wu et al.     We report the results of a phase-field study of degenerate seaweed to tilted dendrite transition and their growth dynamics during directional solidification of a binary alloy. …             Conductive Paper with Antibody-Like Film for Electrical Readings of Biomolecules ▶     Ana P. M. Tavares, Nádia S. Ferreira, Liliana A. A. N. A. Truta et al.     This work reports a novel way of producing an inexpensive substrate support to assemble a sensing film, designed for the electrical transduction of an intended biomolecule. The …             Using Network Dynamical Influence to Drive Consensus ▶     Giuliano Punzo, George F. Young, Malcolm Macdonald et al.     Consensus and decision-making are often analysed in the context of networks, with many studies focusing attention on ranking the nodes of a network depending on their relative …             Biodegradable Magnesium (Mg) Implantation Does Not Impose Related Metabolic Disorders in Rats with Chronic Renal Failure ▶     Jiali Wang, Jiankun Xu, Waiching Liu et al.     Mg and its alloys have been considered as one of the most promising biodegradable medical devices, but it was still unclear whether hypermagnesemia involved health risks would …             Magnesium inference screw supports early graft incorporation with inhibition of graft degradation in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction ▶     Pengfei Cheng, Pei Han, Changli Zhao et al.     Patients after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgery commonly encounters graft failure in the initial phase of rehabilitation. The inhibition of graft …             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 …             Spontaneous Migration of Polyethylene Molecule Sheathed inside Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube for Nano-Heat Pipe ▶     Quanwen Liao, Zhichun Liu, Nuo Yang et al.     Development of nanoscale thermal exchanging devices is critical to thermal management in nanoscale. The spontaneous migration of polyethylene molecule sheathed inside …             Dynamic finite-element model for efficient modelling of electric currents in electroporated tissue ▶     J. Langus, M. Kranjc, B. Kos et al.     In silico experiments (numerical simulations) are a valuable tool for non-invasive research of the influences of tissue properties, electrode placement and electric pulse …             Deep learning as a tool for increased accuracy and efficiency of histopathological diagnosis ▶     Geert Litjens, Clara I. Sánchez, Nadya Timofeeva et al.     Pathologists face a substantial increase in workload and complexity of histopathologic cancer diagnosis due to the advent of personalized medicine. Therefore, diagnostic …             Predominance of sperm motion in corners ▶     Reza Nosrati, Percival J. Graham, Qiaozhi Liu et al.     Sperm migration through the female tract is crucial to fertilization, but the role of the complex and confined structure of the fallopian tube in sperm guidance remains unknown. …             A Subject-Specific Acoustic Model of the Upper Airway for Snoring Sounds Generation ▶     Shumit Saha, T. Douglas Bradley, Mahsa Taheri et al.     Monitoring variations in the upper airway narrowing during sleep is invasive and expensive. Since snoring sounds are generated by air turbulence and vibrations of the upper …             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 …             Uncovering three-dimensional gradients in fibrillar orientation in an impact-resistant biological armour ▶     Y. Zhang, O. Paris, N. J. Terrill et al.     The complex hierarchical structure in biological and synthetic fibrous nanocomposites entails considerable difficulties in the interpretation of the crystallographic texture from …             Highly Sensitive Homogeneous Immunoassays Based on Construction of Silver Triangular Nanoplates-Quantum Dots FRET System ▶     Qinghui Zeng, Qin Li, Wenyu Ji et al.     With growing concerns about health issues worldwide, elegant sensors with high sensitivity and specificity for virus/antigens (Ag) detection are urgent to be developed. …             Periodically pulsed wet annealing approach for low-temperature processable amorphous InGaZnO thin film transistors with high electrical performance and ultrathin thickness ▶     Ye Kyun Kim, Cheol Hyoun Ahn, Myeong Gu Yun et al.     In this paper, a simple and controllable “wet pulse annealing” technique for the fabrication of flexible amorphous InGaZnO thin film transistors (a-IGZO TFTs) processed at low …             Erratum: The heterogeneous energy landscape expression of KWW relaxation ▶     J. H. Wu, Q. Jia                 Correction of the Electrical and Thermal Extrinsic Effects in Thermoelectric Measurements by the Harman Method ▶     Min-Su Kang, Im-Jun Roh, Yun Goo Lee et al.     Although the Harman method evaluates the thermoelectric figure-of-merit in a rapid and simple fashion, the accuracy of this method is affected by several electrical and thermal …             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 …             Inverted Gabor holography principle for tailoring arbitrary shaped three-dimensional beams ▶     Tatiana Latychevskaia, Hans-Werner Fink     It is well known that by modifying the wavefront in a certain manner, the light intensity can be turned into a certain shape. However, all known light modulation techniques allow …             A dual-detector optical receiver for PDM signals detection ▶     Guanyu Chen, Yu Yu, Xinliang Zhang     We propose and fabricate a silicon based dual-detector optical receiver, which consists of a two dimensional (2D) grating coupler (GC) and two separate germanium photodetectors …             Points, skyrmions and torons in chiral nematic droplets ▶     Gregor Posnjak, Simon Čopar, Igor Muševič     Chiral nematic droplets with perpendicular surface alignment of liquid crystalline molecules frustrate the helical structure into convoluted 3D textures with complex topology. We …             Enhanced visible light photocatalytic activity of Gd-doped BiFeO3 nanoparticles and mechanism insight ▶     Ning Zhang, Da Chen, Feng Niu et al.     To investigate the effect of Gd doping on photocatalytic activity of BiFeO3 (BFO), Gd-doped BFO nanoparticles containing different Gd doping contents (Bi(1−x)GdxFeO3, x = 0.00, …             Independent modulations of the transmission amplitudes and phases by using Huygens metasurfaces ▶     Xiang Wan, Sheng Li Jia, Tie Jun Cui et al.     We propose ultrathin Huygens metasurfaces to control transmission amplitudes and phases of electromagnetic waves independently, in which each unit cell is comprised of an …             Pulsed laser deposited GeTe-rich GeTe-Sb2Te3 thin films ▶     M. Bouška, S. Pechev, Q. Simon et al.     Pulsed laser deposition technique was used for the fabrication of Ge-Te rich GeTe-Sb2Te3 (Ge6Sb2Te9, Ge8Sb2Te11, Ge10Sb2Te13, and Ge12Sb2Te15) amorphous thin films. To evaluate …             Nonmetallization and band inversion in beryllium dicarbide at high pressure ▶     Henan Du, Wanxiang Feng, Fei Li et al.     Carbides have attracted much attention owing to their interesting physical and chemical properties. Here, we systematically investigated global energetically stable structures of …             Reducing-Agent-Free Instant Synthesis of Carbon-Supported Pd Catalysts in a Green Leidenfrost Droplet Reactor and Catalytic Activity in Formic Acid Dehydrogenation ▶     Dong-Wook Lee, Min-Ho Jin, Young-Joo Lee et al.     The development of green synthesis methods for supported noble metal catalysts remains important challenges to improve their sustainability. Here we first synthesized …             Temperature-mediated phase transformation, pore geometry and pore hysteresis transformation of borohydride derived in-born porous zirconium hydroxide nanopowders ▶     Nadiya B. Nayak, Bibhuti B. Nayak     Development of in-born porous nature of zirconium hydroxide nanopowders through a facile hydrogen (H2) gas-bubbles assisted borohydride synthesis route using sodium borohydride …             Memristive Sisyphus circuit for clock signal generation ▶     Yuriy V. Pershin, Sergey N. Shevchenko, Franco Nori     Frequency generators are widely used in electronics. Here, we report the design and experimental realization of a memristive frequency generator employing a unique combination of …             Clogging-free microfluidics for continuous size-based separation of microparticles ▶     Yousang Yoon, Seonil Kim, Jusin Lee et al.     In microfluidic filtration systems, one of the leading obstacles to efficient, continuous operation is clogging of the filters. Here, we introduce a lateral flow microfluidic …             Correlative nonlinear optical microscopy and infrared nanoscopy reveals collagen degradation in altered parchments ▶     Gaël Latour, Laurianne Robinet, Alexandre Dazzi et al.     This paper presents the correlative imaging of collagen denaturation by nonlinear optical microscopy (NLO) and nanoscale infrared (IR) spectroscopy to obtain morphological and …             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 …             Enhanced power factor via the control of structural phase transition in SnSe ▶     Hulei Yu, Shuai Dai, Yue Chen     Tin selenide has attracted much research interest due to its unprecedentedly high thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT). For real applications, it is desirable to increase the ZT …             Investigations of metastable Ca2IrO4 epitaxial thin-films: systematic comparison with Sr2IrO4 and Ba2IrO4 ▶     M. Souri, J. H. Gruenewald, J. Terzic et al.     We have synthesized thermodynamically metastable Ca2IrO4 thin-films on YAlO3 (110) substrates by pulsed laser deposition. The epitaxial Ca2IrO4 thin-films are of K2NiF4-type …             Diversified pulse generation from frequency shifted feedback Tm-doped fibre lasers ▶     He Chen, Sheng-Ping Chen, Zong-Fu Jiang et al.     Pulsed fibre lasers operating in the eye-safe 2 μm spectral region have numerous potential applications in areas such as remote sensing, medicine, mid-infrared frequency …             Triboluminescence dominated by crystallographic orientation ▶     Kuifang Wang, Liran Ma, Xuefeng Xu et al.     Triboluminescence (TL) is an optical phenomenon that has a long and varied history with broad applications, such as damage detection, X-ray source, and mass health monitoring …             High-energy side-peak emission of exciton-polariton condensates in high density regime ▶     Tomoyuki Horikiri, Makoto Yamaguchi, Kenji Kamide et al.     In a standard semiconductor laser, electrons and holes recombine via stimulated emission to emit coherent light, in a process that is far from thermal equilibrium. …             Synthesis of advanced aluminide intermetallic coatings by low-energy Al-ion radiation ▶     Mingli Shen, Yan Gu, Panpan Zhao et al.     Metals that work at high temperatures (for instance, superalloys in gas-turbines) depend on thermally grown oxide (TGO, commonly alumina) to withstand corrosion attack. Nickel …             Plasmon enhanced optical tweezers with gold-coated black silicon ▶     D. G. Kotsifaki, M. Kandyla, P. G. Lagoudakis     Plasmonic optical tweezers are a ubiquitous tool for the precise manipulation of nanoparticles and biomolecules at low photon flux, while femtosecond-laser optical tweezers can …             Dynamic compression of dense oxide (Gd3Ga5O12) from 0.4 to 2.6 TPa: Universal Hugoniot of fluid metals ▶     N. Ozaki, W. J. Nellis, T. Mashimo et al.     Materials at high pressures and temperatures are of great current interest for warm dense matter physics, planetary sciences, and inertial fusion energy research. …             Strain-induced growth instability and nanoscale surface patterning in perovskite thin films ▶     Shishir Pandya, Anoop R. Damodaran, Ruijuan Xu et al.     Despite extensive studies on the effects of epitaxial strain on the evolution of the lattice and properties of materials, considerably less work has explored the impact of strain …             Nano-electro-mechanical pump: Giant pumping of water in carbon nanotubes ▶     Amir Barati Farimani, Mohammad Heiranian, Narayana R. Aluru     A fully controllable nano-electro-mechanical device that can pump fluids at nanoscale is proposed. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we show that an applied electric field to …             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 …             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 …             High-Q side-coupled semi-2D-photonic crystal cavity ▶     Jianhao Zhang, Weixi Liu, Yaocheng Shi et al.     High-Q semi-2D-photonic crystal cavities with a tapered edge and side-coupled bus waveguide are demonstrated. With a quadratic design, the unloaded cavity presents a theoretical …             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 …             Large-Scale and Defect-Free Silicon Metamaterials with Magnetic Response ▶     Ningbo Yi, Shang Sun, Yisheng Gao et al.     All-dielectric metamaterials offer a potential low-loss alternative to plasmonic metamaterials at optical frequencies. Here, we experimentally demonstrate a silicon based …             Surface modification of nanoparticles enables selective evasion of phagocytic clearance by distinct macrophage phenotypes ▶     Yaqing Qie, Hengfeng Yuan, Christina A. von Roemeling et al.     Nanomedicine is a burgeoning industry but an understanding of the interaction of nanomaterials with the immune system is critical for clinical translation. Macrophages play a …             Terahertz Modulator based on Metamaterials integrated with Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Varactors ▶     Muhammad Tayyab Nouman, Hyun-Woong Kim, Jeong Min Woo et al.     The terahertz (THz) band of the electromagnetic spectrum, with frequencies ranging from 300 GHz to 3 THz, has attracted wide interest in recent years owing to its potential …             Removal of electrostatic artifacts in magnetic force microscopy by controlled magnetization of the tip: application to superparamagnetic nanoparticles ▶     Livia Angeloni, Daniele Passeri, Melania Reggente et al.     Magnetic force microscopy (MFM) has been demonstrated as valuable technique for the characterization of magnetic nanomaterials. To be analyzed by MFM techniques, nanomaterials …             Competing covalent and ionic bonding in Ge-Sb-Te phase change materials ▶     Saikat Mukhopadhyay, Jifeng Sun, Alaska Subedi et al.     Ge2Sb2Te5 and related phase change materials are highly unusual in that they can be readily transformed between amorphous and crystalline states using very fast melt, quench, …             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 …             Coaxial Dual-wavelength Interferometric Method for a Thermal Infrared Focal-plane-array with Integrated Gratings ▶     Yuanfang Shang, Xiongying Ye, Liangcai Cao et al.     Uncooled infrared (IR) focal-plane-array (FPA) with both large sensing range and high sensitivity is a great challenge due to the limited dynamic range of the detected signals. A …             Quantum coherence and quantum phase transitions ▶     Yan-Chao Li, Hai-Qing Lin     We study the connections between local quantum coherence (LQC) based on Wigner-Yanase skew information and quantum phase transitions (QPTs). When applied on the one-dimensional …             Methodological considerations of electron spin resonance spin trapping techniques for measuring reactive oxygen species generated from metal oxide nanomaterials ▶     Min Sook Jeong, Kyeong-Nam Yu, Hyun Hoon Chung et al.     Qualitative and quantitative analyses of reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated on the surfaces of nanomaterials are important for understanding their toxicity and toxic …             Amplification, Decoherence, and the Acquisition of Information by Spin Environments ▶     Michael Zwolak, C. Jess Riedel, Wojciech H. Zurek     Quantum Darwinism recognizes the role of the environment as a communication channel: Decoherence can selectively amplify information about the pointer states of a system of …             Long-distance temporal quantum ghost imaging over optical fibers ▶     Shuai Dong, Wei Zhang, Yidong Huang et al.     Since the first quantum ghost imaging (QGI) experiment in 1995, many QGI schemes have been put forward. However, the position-position or momentum-momentum correlation required …             Densely charged polyelectrolyte-stuffed nanochannel arrays for power generation from salinity gradient ▶     Su Hong Kwak, Seung-Ryong Kwon, Seol Baek et al.     We devised anodized aluminium oxide (AAO) frame-supported polyelectrolytic ion-exchange membranes for the application of electrical power generation systems where salinity …             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 …             A first report of hydroxylated apatite as structural biomineral in Loasaceae – plants’ teeth against herbivores ▶     Hans-Jürgen Ensikat, Thorsten Geisler, Maximilian Weigend     Biomineralization provides living organisms with various materials for the formation of resilient structures. Calcium phosphate is the main component of teeth and bones in …             Diverse Chemistry of Stable Hydronitrogens, and Implications for Planetary and Materials Sciences ▶     Guang-Rui Qian, Haiyang Niu, Chao-Hao Hu et al.     Nitrogen hydrides, e.g., ammonia (NH3), hydrazine (N2H4) and hydrazoic acid (HN3), are compounds of great fundamental and applied importance. Their high-pressure behavior is …             In actio optophysiological analyses reveal functional diversification of dopaminergic neurons in the nematode C. elegans ▶     Yuki Tanimoto, Ying Grace Zheng, Xianfeng Fei et al.     Many neuronal groups such as dopamine-releasing (dopaminergic) neurons are functionally divergent, although the details of such divergence are not well understood. Dopamine in …             Uniform electric field generation in circular multi-well culture plates using polymeric inserts ▶     Hsieh-Fu Tsai, Ji-Yen Cheng, Hui-Fang Chang et al.     Applying uniform electric field (EF) in vitro in the physiological range has been achieved in rectangular shaped microchannels. However, in a circular-shaped device, it is …             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 …             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 …             Sustainable, Rapid Synthesis of Bright-Luminescent CuInS2-ZnS Alloyed Nanocrystals: Multistage Nano-xenotoxicity Assessment and Intravital Fluorescence Bioimaging in Zebrafish-Embryos ▶     S. Shashank Chetty, S. Praneetha, Sandeep Basu et al.     Near-infrared (NIR) luminescent CuInS2-ZnS alloyed nanocrystals (CIZS-NCs) for highly fluorescence bioimaging have received considerable interest in recent years. Owing, they …             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 …             Highly Efficient and Scalable Separation of Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes via Weak Field Centrifugation ▶     Wieland G. Reis, R. Thomas Weitz, Michel Kettner et al.     The identification of scalable processes that transfer random mixtures of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) into fractions featuring a high content of semiconducting …             Quantum state transfer via Bloch oscillations ▶     Dario Tamascelli, Stefano Olivares, Stefano Rossotti et al.     The realization of reliable quantum channels, able to transfer a quantum state with high fidelity, is a fundamental step in the construction of scalable quantum devices. In this …             Pressure-induced magnetic transitions with change of the orbital configuration in dimerised systems ▶     Dmitry M. Korotin, Vladimir I. Anisimov, Sergey V. Streltsov     We suggest a possible scenario for magnetic transition under pressure in dimerised systems where electrons are localised on molecular orbitals. The mechanism of transition is not …             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 …             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, …             Tunable Picosecond Laser Pulses via the Contrast of Two Reverse Saturable Absorption Phases in a Waveguide Platform ▶     Yang Tan, Lianwei Chen, Dong Wang et al.     How to enhance the optical nonlinearity of saturable absorption materials is an important question to improve the functionality of various applications ranging from the high …             Velocity-dependent quantum phase slips in 1D atomic superfluids ▶     Luca Tanzi, Simona Scaffidi Abbate, Federica Cataldini et al.     Quantum phase slips are the primary excitations in one-dimensional superfluids and superconductors at low temperatures but their existence in ultracold quantum gases has not been …             Rotating carbon nanotube membrane filter for water desalination ▶     Qingsong Tu, Qiang Yang, Hualin Wang et al.     We have designed a porous nanofluidic desalination device, a rotating carbon nanotube membrane filter (RCNT-MF), for the reverse osmosis desalination that can turn salt water …             Enhanced Performance by Enlarged Nano-pores of Holly Leaf-derived Lamellar Carbon for Sodium-ion Battery Anode ▶     Peng Zheng, Ting Liu, Xiaoyan Yuan et al.     Lamellar hard carbon derived from holly leaf with enlarged pores of tiny graphite-like domains and meso-pores was prepared by hydrothermal followed high temperature pyrolysis …             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 …             A multiband perfect absorber based on hyperbolic metamaterials ▶     Kandammathe Valiyaveedu Sreekanth, Mohamed ElKabbash, Yunus Alapan et al.     In recent years, considerable research efforts have been focused on near-perfect and perfect light absorption using metamaterials spanning frequency ranges from microwaves to …             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 …             Evolution of Moiré Profiles from van der Waals Superstructures of Boron Nitride Nanosheets ▶     Yunlong Liao, Wei Cao, John W. Connell et al.     Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) superstructures, or vdW solids, are formed by the precise restacking of 2D nanosheet lattices, which can lead to unique physical and …             Ferromagnetism controlled by electric field in tilted phosphorene nanoribbon ▶     M. Umar Farooq, Arqum Hashmi, Jisang Hong     Study on phosphorene nanoribbon was mostly focused on zigzag and armchair structures and no ferromagnetic ground state was observed in these systems. Here, we investigated the …             Structural evaluations and temperature dependent photoluminescence characterizations of Eu3+-activated SrZrO3 hollow spheres for luminescence thermometry applications ▶     Subrata Das, Sudipta Som, Che-Yuan Yang et al.     This research is focused on the temperature sensing ability of perovskite SrZrO3:Eu3+ hollow spheres synthesized via the sol-gel method followed by heating. The Rietveld …             Phase-reference monitoring in coherent-state discrimination assisted by a photon-number resolving detector ▶     Matteo Bina, Alessia Allevi, Maria Bondani et al.     Phase estimation represents a crucial challenge in many fields of Physics, ranging from Quantum Metrology to Quantum Information Processing. This task is usually pursued by means …             On the general constraints in single qubit quantum process tomography ▶     Ramesh Bhandari, Nicholas A. Peters     We briefly review single-qubit quantum process tomography for trace-preserving and nontrace-preserving processes, and derive explicit forms of the general constraints for fitting …             Universal quantum correlation close to quantum critical phenomena ▶     Meng Qin, Zhong-Zhou Ren, Xin Zhang     We study the ground state quantum correlation of Ising model in a transverse field (ITF) by implementing the quantum renormalization group (QRG) theory. It is shown that various …             Structural effects of naphthalimide-based fluorescent sensor for hydrogen sulfide and imaging in live zebrafish ▶     Seon-Ae Choi, Chul Soon Park, Oh Seok Kwon et al.     Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is an important biological messenger, but few biologically-compatible methods are available for its detection in aqueous solution. Herein, we report a …             High Resolution X-ray-Induced Acoustic Tomography ▶     Liangzhong Xiang, Shanshan Tang, Moiz Ahmad et al.     Absorption based CT imaging has been an invaluable tool in medical diagnosis, biology, and materials science. However, CT requires a large set of projection data and high …             Matching relations for optimal entanglement concentration and purification ▶     Fan-Zhen Kong, Hui-Zhi Xia, Ming Yang et al.     The bilateral controlled NOT (CNOT) operation plays a key role in standard entanglement purification process, but the CNOT operation may not be the optimal joint operation in the …             Witnesses of causal nonseparability: an introduction and a few case studies ▶     Cyril Branciard     It was recently realised that quantum theory allows for so-called causally nonseparable processes, which are incompatible with any definite causal order. This was first suggested …             Quantum Critical Behavior in a Concentrated Ternary Solid Solution ▶     Brian C. Sales, Ke Jin, Hongbin Bei et al.     The face centered cubic (fcc) alloy NiCoCrx with x ≈ 1 is found to be close to the Cr concentration where the ferromagnetic transition temperature, Tc, goes to 0. Near this …             Computational quantum-classical boundary of noisy commuting quantum circuits ▶     Keisuke Fujii, Shuhei Tamate     It is often said that the transition from quantum to classical worlds is caused by decoherence originated from an interaction between a system of interest and its surrounding …             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 …             Multicolor 4D Fluorescence Microscopy using Ultrathin Bessel Light Sheets ▶     Teng Zhao, Sze Cheung Lau, Ying Wang et al.     We demonstrate a simple and efficient method for producing ultrathin Bessel (‘non-diffracting’) light sheets of any color using a line-shaped beam and an annulus filter. With …             The contribution of inflammasome components on macrophage response to surface nanotopography and chemistry ▶     Susan Christo, Akash Bachhuka, Kerrilyn R. Diener et al.     Implantable devices have become an established part of medical practice. However, often a negative inflammatory host response can impede the integration and functionality of the …             Infused polymers for cell sheet release ▶     Nidhi Juthani, Caitlin Howell, Haylea Ledoux et al.     Tissue engineering using whole, intact cell sheets has shown promise in many cell-based therapies. However, current systems for the growth and release of these sheets can be …             Superparamagnetic Properties of Hemozoin ▶     M. Inyushin, Yu. Kucheryavih, L. Kucheryavih et al.     We report that hemozoin nanocrystals demonstrate superparamagnetic properties, with direct measurements of the synthetic hemozoin magnetization. The results show that the …             Efficient artificial mineralization route to decontaminate Arsenic(III) polluted water - the Tooeleite Way ▶     Arindam Malakar, Bidisa Das, Samirul Islam et al.     Increasing exposure to arsenic (As) contaminated ground water is a great threat to humanity. Suitable technology for As immobilization and removal from water, especially for …             Lingunite-a high-pressure plagioclase polymorph at mineral interfaces in doleritic rock of the Lockne impact structure (Sweden) ▶     Amar Agarwal, Boris Reznik, Agnes Kontny et al.     Lingunite nanocrystals and amorphous plagioclase (maskelynite) are identified at the contacts between augite and labradorite wedge-shaped interfaces in the doleritic rocks of the …             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 …             Single Molecule Spectroscopy of Monomeric LHCII: Experiment and Theory ▶     Pavel Malý, J. Michael Gruber, Rienk van Grondelle et al.     We derive approximate equations of motion for excited state dynamics of a multilevel open quantum system weakly interacting with light to describe fluorescence-detected single …             Topological distortion and reorganized modular structure of gut microbial co-occurrence networks in inflammatory bowel disease ▶     Steven N. Baldassano, Danielle S. Bassett     The gut microbiome plays a key role in human health, and alterations of the normal gut flora are associated with a variety of distinct disease states. Yet, the natural …             High-performance flexible energy storage and harvesting system for wearable electronics ▶     Aminy E. Ostfeld, Abhinav M. Gaikwad, Yasser Khan et al.     This paper reports on the design and operation of a flexible power source integrating a lithium ion battery and amorphous silicon solar module, optimized to supply power to a …             Parallel Polarization State Generation ▶     Alan She, Federico Capasso     The control of polarization, an essential property of light, is of wide scientific and technological interest. The general problem of generating arbitrary time-varying states of …             Correlative near-infrared light and cathodoluminescence microscopy using Y2O3:Ln, Yb (Ln = Tm, Er) nanophosphors for multiscale, multicolour bioimaging ▶     S. Fukushima, T. Furukawa, H. Niioka et al.     This paper presents a new correlative bioimaging technique using Y2O3:Tm, Yb and Y2O3:Er, Yb nanophosphors (NPs) as imaging probes that emit luminescence excited by both …             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 …             Prospect of quantum anomalous Hall and quantum spin Hall effect in doped kagome lattice Mott insulators ▶     Daniel Guterding, Harald O. Jeschke, Roser Valentí     Electronic states with non-trivial topology host a number of novel phenomena with potential for revolutionizing information technology. The quantum anomalous Hall effect provides …             Dirac Cellular Automaton from Split-step Quantum Walk ▶     Arindam Mallick, C. M. Chandrashekar     Simulations of one quantum system by an other has an implication in realization of quantum machine that can imitate any quantum system and solve problems that are not accessible …             Uniaxial ferroelectric quantum criticality in multiferroic hexaferrites BaFe12O19 and SrFe12O19 ▶     S. E. Rowley, Yi-Sheng Chai, Shi-Peng Shen et al.     BaFe12O19 is a popular M-type hexaferrite with a Néel temperature of 720 K and is of enormous commercial value ($3 billion/year). It is an incipient ferroelectric with an …             Three-dimensional ghost imaging lidar via sparsity constraint ▶     Wenlin Gong, Chengqiang Zhao, Hong Yu et al.     Three-dimensional (3D) remote imaging attracts increasing attentions in capturing a target’s characteristics. Although great progress for 3D remote imaging has been made with …             Feasibility demonstration of a massively parallelizable optical near-field sensor for sub-wavelength defect detection and imaging ▶     Mahkamehossadat Mostafavi, Rodolfo E. Diaz     To detect and resolve sub-wavelength features at optical frequencies, beyond the diffraction limit, requires sensors that interact with the electromagnetic near-field of those …             Ultralow-phase-noise millimetre-wave signal generator assisted with an electro-optics-modulator-based optical frequency comb ▶     A. Ishizawa, T. Nishikawa, T. Goto et al.     Low-noise millimetre-wave signals are valuable for digital sampling systems, arbitrary waveform generation for ultra-wideband communications, and coherent radar systems. However, …             Enhancing Specific Energy and Power in Asymmetric Supercapacitors - A Synergetic Strategy based on the Use of Redox Additive Electrolytes ▶     Arvinder Singh, Amreesh Chandra     The strategy of using redox additive electrolyte in combination with multiwall carbon nanotubes/metal oxide composites leads to a substantial improvements in the specific energy …             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, …             Nucleation and growth of (10͞11) semi-polar AlN on (0001) AlN by Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy ▶     Ting Liu, Jicai Zhang, Xujun Su et al.     Wurtzite AlN is widely used for deep ultraviolet optoelectronic devices (DUV), which are generally grown along the [0001]-direction of the wurtzite structure on currently …             Direct determination of three-phase contact line properties on nearly molecular scale ▶     P. M. Winkler, R. L. McGraw, P. S. Bauer et al.     Wetting phenomena in multi-phase systems govern the shape of the contact line which separates the different phases. For liquids in contact with solid surfaces wetting is …             Hierarchical Porous LiNi1/3Co1/3Mn1/3O2 Nano-/Micro Spherical Cathode Material: Minimized Cation Mixing and Improved Li+ Mobility for Enhanced Electrochemical Performance ▶     Zhen Chen, Jin Wang, Dongliang Chao et al.     Although being considered as one of the most promising cathode materials for Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), LiNi1/3Co1/3Mn1/3O2 (NCM) is currently limited by its poor rate …             Tantalum implanted entangled porous titanium promotes surface osseointegration and bone ingrowth ▶     Qi Wang, Yuqin Qiao, Mengqi Cheng et al.     Porous Ti is considered to be an ideal graft material in orthopaedic and dental surgeries due to its similar spatial structures and mechanical properties to cancellous bone. In …             Self-current induced spin-orbit torque in FeMn/Pt multilayers ▶     Yanjun Xu, Yumeng Yang, Kui Yao et al.     Extensive efforts have been devoted to the study of spin-orbit torque in ferromagnetic metal/heavy metal bilayers and exploitation of it for magnetization switching using an …             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 …             Filter-Based Dispersion-Managed Versatile Ultrafast Fibre Laser ▶     Junsong Peng, Sonia Boscolo     We present the operation of an ultrafast passively mode-locked fibre laser, in which flexible control of the pulse formation mechanism is readily realised by an in-cavity …             Interface Engineering of Organic Schottky Barrier Solar Cells and Its Application in Enhancing Performances of Planar Heterojunction Solar Cells ▶     Fangming Jin, Zisheng Su, Bei Chu et al.     In this work, we describe the performance of organic Schottky barrier solar cells with the structure of ITO/molybdenum oxide (MoOx)/boron subphthalocyanine chloride …             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 …             Gaseous NH3 Confers Porous Pt Nanodendrites Assisted by Halides ▶     Shuanglong Lu, Kamel Eid, Weifeng Li et al.     Tailoring the morphology of Pt nanocrystals (NCs) is of great concern for their enhancement in catalytic activity and durability. In this article, a novel synthetic strategy is …             Cross-Split of Dislocations: An Athermal and Rapid Plasticity Mechanism ▶     Roman Kositski, Oleg Kovalenko, Seok-Woo Lee et al.     The pathways by which dislocations, line defects within the lattice structure, overcome microstructural obstacles represent a key aspect in understanding the main mechanisms that …             Detection of one-dimensional migration of single self-interstitial atoms in tungsten using high-voltage electron microscopy ▶     T. Amino, K. Arakawa, H. Mori     The dynamic behaviour of atomic-size disarrangements of atoms—point defects (self-interstitial atoms (SIAs) and vacancies)—often governs the macroscopic properties of crystalline …             Robust two-dimensional superconductivity and vortex system in Bi2Te3/FeTe heterostructures ▶     Hong-Chao Liu, Hui Li, Qing Lin He et al.     The discovery of two-dimensional superconductivity in Bi2Te3/FeTe heterostructures provides a new platform for the search of Majorana fermions in condensed matter systems. Since …             Coupled crystal orientation-size effects on the strength of nano crystals ▶     Rui Yuan, Irene J. Beyerlein, Caizhi Zhou     We study the combined effects of grain size and texture on the strength of nanocrystalline copper (Cu) and nickel (Ni) using a crystal-plasticity based mechanics model. Within …             Exciton Recombination, Energy-, and Charge Transfer in Single- and Multilayer Quantum-Dot Films on Silver Plasmonic Resonators ▶     Taeho Shin, Kyung-Sang Cho, Dong-Jin Yun et al.     We examine exciton recombination, energy-, and charge transfer in multilayer CdS/ZnS quantum dots (QDs) on silver plasmonic resonators using photoluminescence (PL) and excitation …             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. In this …             Synergistic strengthening effect of nanocrystalline copper reinforced with carbon nanotubes ▶     Hu Wang, Zhao-Hui Zhang, Zheng-Yang Hu et al.     In this study, a novel multi-walled carbon nanotubes reinforced nanocrystalline copper matrix composite with super high strength and moderate plasticity was synthesized. We …             Competing coexisting phases in 2D water ▶     Jean-Marc Zanotti, Patrick Judeinstein, Simona Dalla-Bernardina et al.     The properties of bulk water come from a delicate balance of interactions on length scales encompassing several orders of magnitudes: i) the Hydrogen Bond (HBond) at the …             Revealing martensitic transformation and α/β interface evolution in electron beam melting three-dimensional-printed Ti-6Al-4V ▶     Xipeng Tan, Yihong Kok, Wei Quan Toh et al.     As an important metal three-dimensional printing technology, electron beam melting (EBM) is gaining increasing attention due to its huge potential applications in aerospace and …             Surface-modified Ba(Zr0.3Ti0.7)O3 nanofibers by polyvinylpyrrolidone filler for poly(vinylidene fluoride) composites with enhanced dielectric constant and energy storage density ▶     Shaohui Liu, Shuangxi Xue, Shaomei Xiu et al.     Ferroelectric-relaxor behavior of Ba(Zr0.3Ti0.7)O3 nanofibers (BZT NF) with a large aspect ratio were prepared via electrospinning and surface modified by PVP as dielectric …             β-CD Dimer-immobilized Ag Assembly Embedded Silica Nanoparticles for Sensitive Detection of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons ▶     Eunil Hahm, Daham Jeong, Myeong Geun Cha et al.     We designed a β-CD dimer on silver nanoparticles embedded with silica nanoparticles (Ag@SiO2 NPs) structure to detect polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Silica NPs were …             Logic circuits composed of flexible carbon nanotube thin-film transistor and ultra-thin polymer gate dielectric ▶     Dongil Lee, Jinsu Yoon, Juhee Lee et al.     Printing electronics has become increasingly prominent in the field of electronic engineering because this method is highly efficient at producing flexible, low-cost and …             Regulation of Irregular Neuronal Firing by Autaptic Transmission ▶     Daqing Guo, Shengdun Wu, Mingming Chen et al.     The importance of self-feedback autaptic transmission in modulating spike-time irregularity is still poorly understood. By using a biophysical model that incorporates autaptic …             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 …             Effect of the particle-hole channel on BCS–Bose-Einstein condensation crossover in atomic Fermi gases ▶     Qijin Chen     BCS–Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) crossover is effected by increasing pairing strength between fermions from weak to strong in the particle-particle channel, and has attracted …             Improved sensitivity of computed tomography towards iodine and gold nanoparticle contrast agents via iterative reconstruction methods ▶     Ally Leigh Bernstein, Amar Dhanantwari, Martina Jurcova et al.     Computed tomography is a widely used medical imaging technique that has high spatial and temporal resolution. Its weakness is its low sensitivity towards contrast media. …             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 …             Catheter-based Intramyocardial Injection of FGF1 or NRG1-loaded MPs Improves Cardiac Function in a Preclinical Model of Ischemia-Reperfusion ▶     Elisa Garbayo, Juan José Gavira, Manuel Garcia de Yebenes et al.     Cardiovascular protein therapeutics such as neuregulin (NRG1) and acidic-fibroblast growth factor (FGF1) requires new formulation strategies that allow for sustained …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Postdoctoral Fellow     The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)            Post Doctoral Fellow     University of Toronto            Postdoctoral Research Assistant     University of Dundee            Research Associate     Robert Koch Institute (RKI)            Post-Doctoral Fellow     University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center            Postdoctoral Fellow     Baylor College of Medicine (BCM)            Post-Doctoral Fellow in Tumor Immunology – Gabrilovich Lab     The Wistar Institute            Team leader Life sience     Institute of Physiology of the CAS             Postdoctoral Associate     Yale University            Max Planck Research Group Leader     Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology          No matter what your career stage, student, postdoc or senior scientist, you will find articles on naturejobs.com to help guide you in your science career. 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