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07 June 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Chemical Sciences               A carnosine intervention study in overweight human volunteers: bioavailability and reactive carbonyl species sequestering effect ▶     Luca Regazzoni, Barbora de Courten, Davide Garzon et al.     Carnosine is a natural dipeptide able to react with reactive carbonyl species, which have been recently associated with the onset and progression of several human diseases. …             Impermeable flexible liquid barrier film for encapsulation of DSSC metal electrodes ▶     Junghee Yang, Misook Min, Yeoheung Yoon et al.     Encapsulation of electronic devices such as dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) is prone to degradation under normal atmospheric conditions, even with hermetic barriers on the …             Oxygen-Deficient Zirconia (ZrO2−x): A New Material for Solar Light Absorption ▶     Apurba Sinhamahapatra, Jong-Pil Jeon, Joonhee Kang et al.     Here, we present oxygen-deficient black ZrO2−x as a new material for sunlight absorption with a low band gap around ~1.5 eV, via a controlled magnesiothermic reduction in 5% H2…             Chalcone-based Selective Inhibitors of a C4 Plant Key Enzyme as Novel Potential Herbicides ▶     G. T. T. Nguyen, G. Erlenkamp, O. Jäck et al.     Weeds are a challenge for global food production due to their rapidly evolving resistance against herbicides. We have identified chalcones as selective inhibitors of …             Eigenstress model for electrochemistry of solid surfaces ▶     Hongxin Ma, Xilin Xiong, Panpan Gao et al.     Thermodynamic analysis and molecular dynamics simulations were conducted to systematically study the size-dependent electrochemical response of solids. By combining the …             Populations of the Minor α-Conformation in AcGXGNH2 and the α-Helical Nucleation Propensities ▶     Yanjun Zhou, Liu He, Wenwen Zhang et al.     Intrinsic backbone conformational preferences of different amino acids are important for understanding the local structure of unfolded protein chains. Recent evidence suggests …             Interaction Induced High Catalytic Activities of CoO Nanoparticles Grown on Nitrogen-Doped Hollow Graphene Microspheres for Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Reactions ▶     Zhong-Jie Jiang, Zhongqing Jiang     Nitrogen doped graphene hollow microspheres (NGHSs) have been used as the supports for the growth of the CoO nanoparticles. The nitrogen doped structure favors the nucleation and …             Unexpected involvement of staple leads to redesign of selective bicyclic peptide inhibitor of Grb7 ▶     Menachem J. Gunzburg, Ketav Kulkarni, Gabrielle M. Watson et al.     The design of potent and specific peptide inhibitors to therapeutic targets is of enormous utility for both proof-of-concept studies and for the development of potential new …             Erratum: Reduced Graphene Oxide Thin Film on Conductive Substrates by Bipolar Electrochemistry ▶     Anis Allagui, Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem, Hussain Alawadhi et al.                 Morphological Transformation between Nanocoils and Nanoribbons via Defragmentation Structural Rearrangement or Fragmentation-recombination Mechanism ▶     Yibin Zhang, Yingxuan Zheng, Wei Xiong et al.     Kinetic control over the assembly pathways towards novel metastable functional materials or far-from-equilibrium systems has been much less studied compared to the thermodynamic …             Interface induce growth of intermediate layer for bandgap engineering insights into photoelectrochemical water splitting ▶     Jian Zhang, Qiaoxia Zhang, Lianhui Wang et al.     A model of interface induction for interlayer growing is proposed for bandgap engineering insights into photocatalysis. In the interface of CdS/ZnS core/shell nanorods, a …             Giant Seebeck effect in Ge-doped SnSe ▶     M. Gharsallah, F. Serrano-Sánchez, N. M. Nemes et al.     Thermoelectric materials may contribute in the near future as new alternative sources of sustainable energy. Unprecedented thermoelectric properties in p-type SnSe single …             Shear-induced enhancements of crystallization kinetics and morphological transformation for long chain branched polylactides with different branching degrees ▶     Junyang Wang, Jing Bai, Yaqiong Zhang et al.     The effects of long chain branching (LCB) degree on the shear-induced isothermal crystallization kinetics of a series of LCB polylactides (LCB PLAs) have been investigated by …             4-Trifluoromethyl-p-quinols as dielectrophiles: three-component, double nucleophilic addition/aromatization reactions ▶     Jinhuan Dong, Lou Shi, Ling Pan et al.     In recent years, numerous methods have emerged for the synthesis of trifluoromethylated arenes based on the late-stage introduction of a trifluoromethyl group onto an aryl ring. …             Transition metal sulfides grown on graphene fibers for wearable asymmetric supercapacitors with high volumetric capacitance and high energy density ▶     Weihua Cai, Ting Lai, Jianwei Lai et al.     Fiber shaped supercapacitors are promising candidates for wearable electronics because they are flexible and light-weight. However, a critical challenge of the widespread …             Cytotoxicity and genotoxicity of bacterial magnetosomes against human retinal pigment epithelium cells ▶     Lei Qi, Xiujuan Lv, Tongwei Zhang et al.     A variety of nanomaterials have been developed for ocular diseases. The ability of these nanomaterials to pass through the blood-ocular barrier and their biocompatibility are …             The origin of the cooperativity in the streptavidin-biotin system: A computational investigation through molecular dynamics simulations ▶     Fengjiao Liu, John Z. H. Zhang, Ye Mei     Previous experimental study measuring the binding affinities of biotin to the wild type streptavidin (WT) and three mutants (S45A, D128A and S45A/D128A double mutant) has shown …             The hydrogen sulfide metabolite trimethylsulfonium is found in human urine ▶     Bassam Lajin, Kevin A. Francesconi     Hydrogen sulfide is the third and most recently discovered gaseous signaling molecule following nitric oxide and carbon monoxide, playing important roles both in normal …             Electrocatalytic oxidation of Epinephrine and Norepinephrine at metal oxide doped phthalocyanine/MWCNT composite sensor ▶     Ntsoaki G. Mphuthi, Abolanle S. Adekunle, Eno E. Ebenso     Glassy carbon electrode (GCE) was modified with metal oxides (MO = Fe3O4, ZnO) nanoparticles doped phthalocyanine (Pc) and functionalized MWCNTs, and the electrocatalytic …             Corrigendum: Integration of CdSe/CdSexTe1−x Type-II Heterojunction Nanorods into Hierarchically Porous TiO2 Electrode for Efficient Solar Energy Conversion ▶     Sangheon Lee, Joseph C. 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