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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               An open access, online-only, multidisciplinary research journal dedicated to publishing the most important scientific advances in the life sciences, physical sciences, and engineering fields that are facilitated by spaceflight and analogue platforms. Explore the benefits of submitting your next research article.                 Physical Sciences               Focused helium-ion beam irradiation effects on electrical transport properties of few-layer WSe2: enabling nanoscale direct write homo-junctions ▶     Michael G. Stanford, Pushpa Raj Pudasaini, Alex Belianinov et al.     Atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are currently receiving significant attention due to their promising opto-electronic properties. Tuning optical and …             Integrated ultracompact and broadband wavelength demultiplexer based on multi-component nano-cavities ▶     Cuicui Lu, Yong-Chun Liu, Xiaoyong Hu et al.     Integrated nanoscale photonic devices have wide applications ranging from optical interconnects and optical computing to optical communications. Wavelength demultiplexer is an …             High-contrast grating resonators for label-free detection of disease biomarkers ▶     Tianbo Sun, Shu Kan, Gerard Marriott et al.     A label-free optical biosensor is described that employs a silicon-based high-contrast grating (HCG) resonator with a spectral linewidth of ~500 pm that is sensitive to …             Spatial confinement governs orientational order in patchy particles ▶     Yasutaka Iwashita, Yasuyuki Kimura     Orientational order in condensed matter plays a key role in determining material properties such as ferromagnetism, viscoelasticity or birefringence. We studied purely …             Reversible Bending Behaviors of Photomechanical Soft Actuators Based on Graphene Nanocomposites ▶     Dong Niu, Weitao Jiang, Hongzhong Liu et al.     Photomechanical nanocomposites embedded with light-absorbing nanoparticles show promising applications in photoresponsive actuations. Near infrared (nIR)-responsive …             Large transverse Hall-like signal in topological Dirac semimetal Cd3As2 ▶     Shih-Ting Guo, R. Sankar, Yung-Yu Chien et al.     Cadmium arsenide (Cd3As2) is known for its inverted band structure and ultra-high electron mobility. It has been theoretically predicted and also confirmed by ARPES experiments …             Noise Response Data Reveal Novel Controllability Gramian for Nonlinear Network Dynamics ▶     Kenji Kashima     Control of nonlinear large-scale dynamical networks, e.g., collective behavior of agents interacting via a scale-free connection topology, is a central problem in many scientific …             Exceptional high fatigue strength in Cu-15at.%Al alloy with moderate grain size ▶     Rui Liu, Yanzhong Tian, Zhenjun Zhang et al.     It is commonly proposed that the fatigue strength can be enhanced by increasing the tensile strength, but this conclusion needs to be reconsidered according to our study. Here a …             Robust, Self-Healing Superhydrophobic Fabrics Prepared by One-Step Coating of PDMS and Octadecylamine ▶     Chao-Hua Xue, Xue Bai, Shun-Tian Jia     A robust, self-healing superhydrophobic poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) fabric was fabricated by a convenient solution-dipping method using an easily available material system …             Thermal transport in bismuth telluride quintuple layer: mode-resolved phonon properties and substrate effects ▶     Cheng Shao, Hua Bao     The successful exfoliation of atomically-thin bismuth telluride (Bi2Te3) quintuple layer (QL) attracts tremendous research interest in this strongly anharmonic …             Imprinting superconducting vortex footsteps in a magnetic layer ▶     Jérémy Brisbois, Maycon Motta, Jonathan I. Avila et al.     Local polarization of a magnetic layer, a well-known method for storing information, has found its place in numerous applications such as the popular magnetic drawing board toy …             Widely tunable Tm-doped mode-locked all-fiber laser ▶     Zhiyu Yan, Biao Sun, Xiaohui Li et al.     We demonstrated a widely tunable Tm-doped mode-locked all-fiber laser, with the widest tunable range of 136 nm, from 1842 to 1978 nm. Nonlinear polarization evolution (NPE) …             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 …             Three dimensional Graphene aerogels as binder-less, freestanding, elastic and high-performance electrodes for lithium-ion batteries ▶     Zhihang Chen, Hua Li, Ran Tian et al.     In this work it is shown how porous graphene aerogels fabricated by an eco-friendly and simple technological process, could be used as electrodes in lithium- ion batteries. The …             Comb-locked Lamb-dip spectrometer ▶     Davide Gatti, Riccardo Gotti, Alessio Gambetta et al.     Overcoming the Doppler broadening limit is a cornerstone of precision spectroscopy. Nevertheless, the achievement of a Doppler-free regime is severely hampered by the need of …             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…             Fermi level position, Coulomb gap, and Dresselhaus splitting in (Ga,Mn)As ▶     S. Souma, L. Chen, R. Oszwałdowski et al.     Carrier-induced nature of ferromagnetism in a ferromagnetic semiconductor, (Ga,Mn)As, offers a great opportunity to observe novel spin-related phenomena as well as to demonstrate …             Enhanced ordering reduces electric susceptibility of liquids confined to graphene slit pores ▶     Jeronimo Terrones, Patrick J. Kiley, James A. Elliott     The behaviours of a range of polar and non-polar organic liquids (acetone, ethanol, methanol, N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP), carbon tetrachloride and water) confined to 2D …             Free-Standing Undoped ZnO Microtubes with Rich and Stable Shallow Acceptors ▶     Qiang Wang, Yinzhou Yan, Yong Zeng et al.     Fabrication of reliable large-sized p-ZnO is a major challenge to realise ZnO-based electronic device applications. Here we report a novel technique to grow high-quality …             Supersonic Dislocation Bursts in Silicon ▶     E. N. Hahn, S. Zhao, E. M. Bringa et al.     Dislocations are the primary agents of permanent deformation in crystalline solids. Since the theoretical prediction of supersonic dislocations over half a century ago, there is …             NanoARPES of twisted bilayer graphene on SiC: absence of velocity renormalization for small angles ▶     I. Razado-Colambo, J. Avila, J.-P. Nys et al.     The structural and electronic properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) on SiC(000) grown by Si flux-assisted molecular beam epitaxy were investigated using scanning tunneling …             Smart window coating based on F-TiO2-KxWO3 nanocomposites with heat shielding, ultraviolet isolating, hydrophilic and photocatalytic performance ▶     Tongyao Liu, Bin Liu, Jing Wang et al.     A series of smart window coated multifunctional NIR shielding-photocatalytic films were fabricated successfully through KxWO3 and F-TiO2 in a low-cost and environmentally …             Ultrahigh photoconductivity of bandgap-graded CdSxSe1−x nanowires probed by terahertz spectroscopy ▶     Hongwei Liu, Junpeng Lu, Zongyin Yang et al.     Superiorly high photoconductivity is desirable in optoelectronic materials and devices for information transmission and processing. Achieving high photoconductivity via bandgap …             Tensional acoustomechanical soft metamaterials ▶     Fengxian Xin, Tianjian Lu     We create acoustomechanical soft metamaterials whose response to uniaxial tensile stressing can be easily tailored by programming acoustic wave inputs, resulting in force versus …             Virtual unrolling and deciphering of Herculaneum papyri by X-ray phase-contrast tomography ▶     I. Bukreeva, A. Mittone, A. Bravin et al.     A collection of more than 1800 carbonized papyri, discovered in the Roman ‘Villa dei Papiri’ at Herculaneum is the unique classical library survived from antiquity. These papyri …             Critical behavior in a stochastic model of vector mediated epidemics ▶     E. Alfinito, M. Beccaria, G. Macorini     The extreme vulnerability of humans to new and old pathogens is constantly highlighted by unbound outbreaks of epidemics. This vulnerability is both direct, producing illness in …             Novel Proton Conducting Solid Bio-polymer Electrolytes Based on Carboxymethyl Cellulose Doped with Oleic Acid and Plasticized with Glycerol ▶     M. N. Chai, M. I. N. Isa     The plasticized solid bio-polymer electrolytes (SBEs) system has been formed by introducing glycerol (Gly) as the plasticizer into the carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) doped with …             Intense, stable and excitation wavelength-independent photoluminescence emission in the blue-violet region from phosphorene quantum dots ▶     Shuaipeng Ge, Lisheng Zhang, Peijie Wang et al.     Nanoscale phosphorene quantum dots (PQDs) with few-layer structures were fabricated by pulsed laser ablation of a bulk black phosphorus target in diethyl ether. An intense and …             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. …             Clear-cut observation of clearance of sustainable upconverting nanoparticles from lymphatic system of small living mice ▶     Hye Sun Park, Sang Hwan Nam, Jongwoo Kim et al.     The significance of lymphatic system has gathered great attention for immunotechnology related to cancer metastasis and immunotherapy. To develop innovative immunodiagnostics and …             Silica ecosystem for synergistic biotransformation ▶     Baris R. Mutlu, Jonathan K. Sakkos, Sujin Yeom et al.     Synergistical bacterial species can perform more varied and complex transformations of chemical substances than either species alone, but this is rarely used commercially because …             Synchrotron X-ray microtransections: a non invasive approach for epileptic seizures arising from eloquent cortical areas ▶     B. Pouyatos, C. Nemoz, T. Chabrol et al.     Synchrotron-generated X-ray (SRX) microbeams deposit high radiation doses to submillimetric targets whilst minimizing irradiation of neighboring healthy tissue. We developed a …             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 …             An Automated High-throughput Array Microscope for Cancer Cell Mechanics ▶     Jeremy A. Cribb, Lukas D. Osborne, Kellie Beicker et al.     Changes in cellular mechanical properties correlate with the progression of metastatic cancer along the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Few high-throughput …             All-Optical Fiber Hanbury Brown & Twiss Interferometer to study 1300 nm single photon emission of a metamorphic InAs Quantum Dot ▶     G. Muñoz-Matutano, D. Barrera, C.R. Fernández-Pousa et al.     New optical fiber based spectroscopic tools open the possibility to develop more robust and efficient characterization experiments. Spectral filtering and light reflection have …             Atomic and electronic structure of Lomer dislocations at CdTe bicrystal interface ▶     Ce Sun, Tadas Paulauskas, Fatih G. Sen et al.     Extended defects are of considerable importance in determining the electronic properties of semiconductors, especially in photovoltaics (PVs), due to their effects on …             Nanomechanical probing of the layer/substrate interface of an exfoliated InSe sheet on sapphire ▶     Ryan Beardsley, Andrey V. Akimov, Jake D. G. Greener et al.     Van der Waals (vdW) layered crystals and heterostructures have attracted substantial interest for potential applications in a wide range of emerging technologies. An important, …             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 …             Retrieving orbital angular momentum distribution of light with plasmonic vortex lens ▶     Hailong Zhou, Jianji Dong, Jihua Zhang et al.     We utilize a plasmonic vortex lens (PVL) to retrieve the orbital angular momentum (OAM) distribution of light. The OAM modes are coupled to the surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) …             Altering Emulsion Stability with Heterogeneous Surface Wettability ▶     Qiang Meng, Yali Zhang, Jiang Li et al.     Emulsions–liquid droplets dispersed in another immiscible liquid–are widely used in a broad spectrum of applications, including food, personal care, agrochemical, and …             Phase-Transformation-Induced Extra Thermal Expansion Behavior of (SrxBa1–x)TiO3/Cu Composite ▶     Jie Sheng, Lidong Wang, Shouwei Li et al.     The properties of metal matrix composites (MMCs) can be optimized effectively through adjusting the type or the volume fraction of reinforcement. Generally, the coefficient of …             There’s plenty of light at the bottom: statistics of photon penetration depth in random media ▶     Fabrizio Martelli, Tiziano Binzoni, Antonio Pifferi et al.     We propose a comprehensive statistical approach describing the penetration depth of light in random media. The presented theory exploits the concept of probability density …             Defect engineering of the electronic transport through cuprous oxide interlayers ▶     Mohamed M. Fadlallah, Ulrich Eckern, Udo Schwingenschlögl     The electronic transport through Au–(Cu2O)n–Au junctions is investigated using first-principles calculations and the nonequilibrium Green’s function method. The effect of varying …             Resistance and Security Index of Networks: Structural Information Perspective of Network Security ▶     Angsheng Li, Qifu Hu, Jun Liu et al.     Recently, Li and Pan defined the metric of the K-dimensional structure entropy of a structured noisy dataset G to be the information that controls the formation of the K…             Optical diffraction for measurements of nano-mechanical bending ▶     Rodolfo I. Hermans, Benjamin Dueck, Joseph Wafula Ndieyira et al.     We explore and exploit diffraction effects that have been previously neglected when modelling optical measurement techniques for the bending of micro-mechanical transducers such …             Direct microfabrication of oxide patterns by local electrodeposition of precisely positioned electrolyte: the case of Cu2O ▶     P. Wang, R. C. Roberts, A. H. W. Ngan     An efficient technique for writing 2D oxide patterns on conductive substrates is proposed and demonstrated in this paper. The technique concerns a novel concept for selective …             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 …             Environmentally friendly power generator based on moving liquid dielectric and double layer effect ▶     D. H. Huynh, T. C. Nguyen, P. D. Nguyen et al.     An electrostatic power generator converts mechanical energy to electrical energy by utilising the principle of variable capacitance. This change in capacitance is usually …             Dissipation of Energy by Dry Granular Matter in a Rotating Cylinder ▶     Achim Sack, Thorsten Pöschel     We study experimentally the dissipation of energy in a rotating cylinder which is partially filled by granular material. We consider the range of angular velocity corresponding …             Quantum Router for Single Photons Carrying Spin and Orbital Angular Momentum ▶     Yuanyuan Chen, Dong Jiang, Ling Xie et al.     Quantum router is an essential element in the quantum network. Here, we present a fully quantum router based on interaction free measurement and quantum dots. The signal photonic …             Reconfigurable Liquid Whispering Gallery Mode Microlasers ▶     Shancheng Yang, Van Duong Ta, Yue Wang et al.     Engineering photonic devices from liquid has been emerging as a fascinating research avenue. Reconfigurably tuning liquid optical micro-devices are highly desirable but remain …             Long-Range Coulomb Effect in Intense Laser-Driven Photoelectron Dynamics ▶     Wei Quan, XiaoLei Hao, YongJu Chen et al.     In strong field atomic physics community, long-range Coulomb interaction has for a long time been overlooked and its significant role in intense laser-driven photoelectron …             Casimir switch: steering optical transparency with vacuum forces ▶     Xi-fang Liu, Yong Li, H. Jing     The Casimir force, originating from vacuum zero-point energy, is one of the most intriguing purely quantum effects. It has attracted renewed interests in current field of …             Incident Angle- and Polarization-Insensitive Metamaterial Absorber using Circular Sectors ▶     Dongju Lee, Jung Gyu Hwang, Daecheon Lim et al.     In this paper, an incident angle- and polarization-insensitive metamaterial absorber is proposed for X-band applications. A unit cell of the proposed absorber has a square patch …             Terahertz radiation driven by two-color laser pulses at near-relativistic intensities: Competition between photoionization and wakefield effects ▶     P. González de Alaiza Martínez, X. Davoine, A. Debayle et al.     We numerically investigate terahertz (THz) pulse generation by linearly-polarized, two-color femtosecond laser pulses in highly-ionized argon. Major processes consist of …             Substrate-tuning of correlated spin-orbit oxides revealed by optical conductivity calculations ▶     Bongjae Kim, Beom Hyun Kim, Kyoo Kim et al.     We have systematically investigated substrate-strain effects on the electronic structures of two representative Sr-iridates, a correlated-insulator Sr2IrO4 and a metal SrIrO3. …             Aqueous synthesis of LiFePO4 with Fractal Granularity ▶     Zahilia Cabán-Huertas, Omar Ayyad, Deepak P. Dubal et al.     Lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) electrodes with fractal granularity are reported. They were made from a starting material prepared in water by a low cost, easy and …             Gigapixel surface imaging of radical prostatectomy specimens for comprehensive detection of cancer-positive surgical margins using structured illumination microscopy ▶     Mei Wang, David B. Tulman, Andrew B. Sholl et al.     Achieving cancer-free surgical margins in oncologic surgery is critical to reduce the need for additional adjuvant treatments and minimize tumor recurrence; however, there is a …             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 …             Modeling adsorption with lattice Boltzmann equation ▶     Long Guo, Lizhi Xiao, Xiaowen Shan et al.     The research of adsorption theory has recently gained renewed attention due to its critical relevance to a number of trending industrial applications, hydrogen storage and shale …             Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering of Silicon Nanocrystals in a Silica Film ▶     Sergei Novikov, Leonid Khriachtchev     Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is an intriguing effect, efficiency of which depends on many factors and whose applicability to a given system is not obvious before the …             Cryo-thermal therapy elicits potent anti-tumor immunity by inducing extracellular Hsp70-dependent MDSC differentiation ▶     Jun Zhu, Yan Zhang, Aili Zhang et al.     Achieving control of metastatic disease is a long-sought goal in cancer therapy. Treatments that encourage a patient’s own immune system are bringing new hopes in reaching such a …             Circulatory shear flow alters the viability and proliferation of circulating colon cancer cells ▶     Rong Fan, Travis Emery, Yongguo Zhang et al.     During cancer metastasis, circulating tumor cells constantly experience hemodynamic shear stress in the circulation. Cellular responses to shear stress including cell viability …             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 …             Gene switching rate determines response to extrinsic perturbations in the self-activation transcriptional network motif ▶     Sebastiano de Franciscis, Giulio Caravagna, Giancarlo Mauri et al.     Gene switching dynamics is a major source of randomness in genetic networks, also in the case of large concentrations of the transcription factors. In this work, we consider a …             Electrical Oscillations in Two-Dimensional Microtubular Structures ▶     María del Rocío Cantero, Paula L. Perez, Mariano Smoler et al.     Microtubules (MTs) are unique components of the cytoskeleton formed by hollow cylindrical structures of αβ tubulin dimeric units. The structural wall of the MT is interspersed by …             Corrigendum: Universal lineshapes at the crossover between weak and strong critical coupling in Fano-resonant coupled oscillators ▶     Simone Zanotto, Alessandro Tredicucci                 A novel laser-collider used to produce monoenergetic 13.3 MeV 7Li (d, n) neutrons ▶     J. R. Zhao, X. P. Zhang, D. W. Yuan et al.     Neutron energy is directly correlated with the energy of the incident ions in experiments involving laser-driven nuclear reactions. Using high-energy incident ions reduces the …             Energy transfer from an individual silica nanoparticle to graphene quantum dots and resulting enhancement of photodetector responsivity ▶     Sung Kim, Dong Hee Shin, Jungkil Kim et al.     Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET), referred to as the transfer of the photon energy absorbed in donor to acceptor, has received much attention as an important physical …             Concurrent enhancement of percolation and synchronization in adaptive networks ▶     Young-Ho Eom, Stefano Boccaletti, Guido Caldarelli     Co-evolutionary adaptive mechanisms are not only ubiquitous in nature, but also beneficial for the functioning of a variety of systems. We here consider an adaptive network of …             Quench field sensitivity of two-particle correlation in a Hubbard model ▶     X. Z. Zhang, S. Lin, Z. Song     Short-range interaction can give rise to particle pairing with a short-range correlation, which may be destroyed in the presence of an external field. We study the transition …             A method for measuring rotation of a thermal carbon nanomotor using centrifugal effect ▶     Kun Cai, Jingzhou Yu, Jiao Shi et al.     A thermal nanomotor is relatively easy to fabricate and regulate as it contains just a few or even no accessory devices. Since the double-wall carbon nanotube (CNT)-based rotary …             Erratum: Reduced Graphene Oxide Thin Film on Conductive Substrates by Bipolar Electrochemistry ▶     Anis Allagui, Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem, Hussain Alawadhi et al.                 Erratum: 61Ni synchrotron radiation-based Mössbauer spectroscopy of nickel-based nanoparticles with hexagonal structure ▶     Ryo Masuda, Yasuhiro Kobayashi, Shinji Kitao et al.                 Multiplexed Cassegrain Reflector Antenna for Simultaneous Generation of Three Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) Modes ▶     Woo Jin Byun, Kwang Seon Kim, Bong Su Kim et al.     A multiplexed Cassegrain reflector antenna with a 2 × 2 open-ended rectangular waveguide (OERW) matrix feed and an orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode mux is proposed for the …             Self-Assembled 3D Flower-Like Nickel Hydroxide Nanostructures and Their Supercapacitor Applications ▶     Nazish Parveen, Moo Hwan Cho     Three-dimensional (3D) nanostructures have attracted considerable attention because of their high surface areas and unique properties which gives outstanding performance in …             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 …             X-ray characterization of mesophases of human telomeric G-quadruplexes and other DNA analogues ▶     Selcuk Yasar, Jacob B. Schimelman, M. Alphan Aksoyoglu et al.     Observed in the folds of guanine-rich oligonucleotides, non-canonical G-quadruplex structures are based on G-quartets formed by hydrogen bonding and cation-coordination of …             Size-confined fixed-composition and composition-dependent engineered band gap alloying induces different internal structures in L-cysteine-capped alloyed quaternary CdZnTeS quantum dots ▶     Oluwasesan Adegoke, Enoch Y. Park     The development of alloyed quantum dot (QD) nanocrystals with attractive optical properties for a wide array of chemical and biological applications is a growing research field. …             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 …             Resonant Effects in Nanoscale Bowtie Apertures ▶     Li Ding, Jin Qin, Songpo Guo et al.     Nanoscale bowtie aperture antennas can be used to focus light well below the diffraction limit with extremely high transmission efficiencies. This paper studies the spectral …             Localized Spoof Surface Plasmons based on Closed Subwavelength High Contrast Gratings: Concept and Microwave-Regime Realizations ▶     Zhuo Li, Bingzheng Xu, Liangliang Liu et al.     In this work, we report the existence of spoof localized surface plasmons (spoof-LSPs) arising with closed high contrast gratings (HCGs) at deep subwavelength scales, another …             Simultaneous identification of multi-combustion-intermediates of alkanol-air flames by femtosecond filament excitation for combustion sensing ▶     Helong Li, Wei Chu, Huailiang Xu et al.     Laser filamentation produced by the propagation of intense laser pulses in flames is opening up new possibility in application to combustion diagnostics that can provide useful …             Corrigendum: Stiffness in vortex—like structures due to chirality-domains within a coupled helical rare-earth superlattice ▶     Amitesh Paul                 Erratum: Strain-Engineered Graphene Grown on Hexagonal Boron Nitride by Molecular Beam Epitaxy ▶     Alex Summerfield, Andrew Davies, Tin S. Cheng et al.                 Magnetic Trapping of Bacteria at Low Magnetic Fields ▶     Z. M. Wang, R. G. Wu, Z. P. Wang et al.     A suspension of non-magnetic entities in a ferrofluid is referred to as an inverse ferrofluid. Current research to trap non-magnetic entities in an inverse ferrofluid focuses on …             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 …             Wide angle and narrow-band asymmetric absorption in visible and near-infrared regime through lossy Bragg stacks ▶     Shiwei Shu, Yawen Zhan, Chris Lee et al.     Absorber is an important component in various optical devices. Here we report a novel type of asymmetric absorber in the visible and near-infrared spectrum which is based on …             How the initial level of visibility and limited resource affect the evolution of cooperation ▶     Dun Han, Dandan Li, Mei Sun     This work sheds important light on how the initial level of visibility and limited resource might affect the evolution of the players’ strategies under different network …             Robust Statistical Detection of Power-Law Cross-Correlation ▶     Duncan A. J. Blythe, Vadim V. Nikulin, Klaus-Robert Müller     We show that widely used approaches in statistical physics incorrectly indicate the existence of power-law cross-correlations between financial stock market fluctuations measured …             Direct observation of polar tweed in LaAlO3 ▶     Ekhard K. H. Salje, Marin Alexe, Sergey Kustov et al.     Polar tweed was discovered in mechanically stressed LaAlO3. Local patches of strained material (diameter ca. 5 μm) form interwoven patterns seen in birefringence images, …             Radio frequency spectral characterization and model parameters extraction of high Q optical resonators ▶     Zeina Abdallah, Yann G. Boucher, Arnaud Fernandez et al.     A microwave domain characterization approach is proposed to determine the properties of high quality factor optical resonators. This approach features a very high precision in …             Insights on dramatic radial fluctuations in track formation by energetic ions ▶     Ritesh Sachan, Eva Zarkadoula, Maik Lang et al.     We report on unexpected dramatic radial variations in ion tracks formed by irradiation with energetic ions (2.3 GeV 208Pb) at a constant electronic energy-loss (~42 keV/nm) in …             Biohydrogen Production from Hydrolysates of Selected Tropical Biomass Wastes with Clostridium Butyricum ▶     Dan Jiang, Zhen Fang, Siew-xian Chin et al.     Biohydrogen production has received widespread attention from researchers in industry and academic fields. Response surface methodology (RSM) was applied to evaluate the effects …             Hormetic Effect of Chronic Hypergravity in a Mouse Model of Allergic Asthma and Rhinitis ▶     Tae Young Jang, Ah-Yeoun Jung, Young Hyo Kim     We aimed to evaluate the effect of chronic hypergravity in a mouse model of allergic asthma and rhinitis. Forty BALB/c mice were divided as: group A (n = 10, control) sensitized …             Inlay osteotome sinus floor elevation with concentrated growth factor application and simultaneous short implant placement in severely atrophic maxilla ▶     Yonghui Chen, Zhiyu Cai, Dingguo Zheng et al.     Sinus floor elevation with simultaneous implant placement in severely atrophic maxilla is challenging. The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the short-term …             Superconductivity and Charge Density Wave in ZrTe3−xSex ▶     Xiangde Zhu, Wei Ning, Lijun Li et al.     Charge density wave (CDW), the periodic modulation of the electronic charge density, will open a gap on the Fermi surface that commonly leads to decreased or vanishing …             The changing shape of vaccination: improving immune responses through geometrical variations of a microdevice for immunization ▶     Michael Lawrence Crichton, David Alexander Muller, Alexandra Christina Isobel Depelsenaire et al.     Micro-device use for vaccination has grown in the past decade, with the promise of ease-of-use, painless application, stable solid formulations and greater immune response …             Flexible Superhydrophobic and Superoleophilic MoS2 Sponge for Highly Efficient Oil-Water Separation ▶     Xiaojia Gao, Xiufeng Wang, Xiaoping Ouyang et al.     Removal of oils and organic solvents from water is an important global challenge for energy conservation and environmental protection. Advanced sorbent materials with excellent …             Apoptosis-mediated endothelial toxicity but not direct calcification or functional changes in anti-calcification proteins defines pathogenic effects of calcium phosphate bions ▶     Anton G. Kutikhin, Elena A. Velikanova, Rinat A. Mukhamadiyarov et al.     Calcium phosphate bions (CPB) are biomimetic mineralo-organic nanoparticles which represent a physiological mechanism regulating the function, transport and disposal of calcium …             A Lipid Based Antigen Delivery System Efficiently Facilitates MHC Class-I Antigen Presentation in Dendritic Cells to Stimulate CD8+ T Cells ▶     Mithun Maji, Saumyabrata Mazumder, Souparno Bhattacharya et al.     The most effective strategy for protection against intracellular infections such as Leishmania is vaccination with live parasites. Use of recombinant proteins avoids the risks …             Bound States in the Continuum in double layer structures ▶     LiangSheng Li, Hongcheng Yin     We have theoretically investigated the reflectivity spectrums of single- and double-layer photonic crystal slabs and the dielectric multilayer stack. It is shown that light can …             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 …             Tunable ultraviolet and blue light generation from Nd:YAB random laser bolstered by second-order nonlinear processes ▶     André L. Moura, Sandra J. M. Carreño, Pablo I. R. Pincheira et al.     Ultraviolet and blue light were obtained by nonlinear frequency conversion in a random laser (RL) based on Nd0.10Y0.90Al3(BO3)4 nanocrystalline powder. RL operation at 1062 nm, …             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 …             Probing local and electronic structure in Warm Dense Matter: single pulse synchrotron x-ray absorption spectroscopy on shocked Fe ▶     Raffaella Torchio, Florent Occelli, Olivier Mathon et al.     Understanding Warm Dense Matter (WDM), the state of planetary interiors, is a new frontier in scientific research. There exists very little experimental data probing WDM states …             Lower bound for the spatial extent of localized modes in photonic-crystal waveguides with small random imperfections ▶     Rémi Faggiani, Alexandre Baron, Xiaorun Zang et al.     Light localization due to random imperfections in periodic media is paramount in photonics research. The group index is known to be a key parameter for localization near photonic …             Effective Topological Charge Cancelation Mechanism ▶     Luka Mesarec, Wojciech Góźdź, Aleš Iglič et al.     Topological defects (TDs) appear almost unavoidably in continuous symmetry breaking phase transitions. The topological origin makes their key features independent of systems’ …             Quantum uncertainty switches on or off the error-disturbance tradeoff ▶     Yu-Xiang Zhang, Zu-En Su, Xuanmin Zhu et al.     The indeterminacy of quantum mechanics was originally presented by Heisenberg through the tradeoff between the measuring error of the observable A and the consequential …             Kinetic instability, symmetry breaking and role of geometric constraints on the upper bounds of disorder in two dimensional packings ▶     Raj Kishore, Shreeja Das, Zohar Nussinov et al.     Although the energetics of grain boundaries are more or less understood, their mechanical description remains challenging primarily because of very fast dynamics in the atomic …             Kennicutt-Schmidt Law in the Central Region of NGC 4321 as Seen by ALMA ▶     Jazeel H. Azeez, C.-Y. Hwang, Zamri Z. Abidin et al.     We present the Atacama Large Millimeter/Sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) cycle-0 science verification data of the CO(1–0) line emission in the central region of NGC 4321 (also known …             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. …             The Role of Trap-assisted Recombination in Luminescent Properties of Organometal Halide CH3NH3PbBr3 Perovskite Films and Quantum Dots ▶     Zhen-Yu Zhang, Hai-Yu Wang, Yan-Xia Zhang et al.     Hybrid metal halide perovskites have been paid enormous attentions in photophysics research, whose excellent performances were attributed to their intriguing charge carriers …             Large area molybdenum disulphide- epitaxial graphene vertical Van der Waals heterostructures ▶     Debora Pierucci, Hugo Henck, Carl H. Naylor et al.     Two-dimensional layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) show great potential for optoelectronic devices due to their electronic and optical properties. A …             Novel strip-cast Mg/Al clad sheets with excellent tensile and interfacial bonding properties ▶     Jung-Su Kim, Dong Ho Lee, Seung-Pill Jung et al.     In order to broaden industrial applications of Mg alloys, as lightest-weight metal alloys in practical uses, many efforts have been dedicated to manufacture various clad sheets …             Superior bit error rate and jitter due to improved switching field distribution in exchange spring magnetic recording media ▶     D. Suess, M. Fuger, C. Abert et al.     We report two effects that lead to a significant reduction of the switching field distribution in exchange spring media. The first effect relies on a subtle mechanism of the …             Laser-resistance sensitivity to substrate pit size of multilayer coatings ▶     Yingjie Chai, Meiping Zhu, Hu Wang et al.     Nanosecond laser-resistance to dielectric multilayer coatings on substrate pits was examined with respect to the electric-field (E-field) enhancement and mechanical properties. …             SERS detection of Biomolecules at Physiological pH via aggregation of Gold Nanorods mediated by Optical Forces and Plasmonic Heating ▶     Barbara Fazio, Cristiano D’Andrea, Antonino Foti et al.     Strategies for in-liquid molecular detection via Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) are currently based on chemically-driven aggregation or optical trapping of metal …             Crystallographic Lattice Boltzmann Method ▶     Manjusha Namburi, Siddharth Krithivasan, Santosh Ansumali     Current approaches to Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) are computationally quite expensive for most realistic scientific and engineering applications of Fluid Dynamics such as …             Quasi 2D electronic states with high spin-polarization in centrosymmetric MoS2 bulk crystals ▶     Mathias Gehlmann, Irene Aguilera, Gustav Bihlmayer et al.     Time reversal dictates that nonmagnetic, centrosymmetric crystals cannot be spin-polarized as a whole. However, it has been recently shown that the electronic structure in these …             Efficient scheme for hybrid teleportation via entangled coherent states in circuit quantum electrodynamics ▶     Jaewoo Joo, Eran Ginossar     We propose a deterministic scheme for teleporting an unknown qubit state through continuous-variable entangled states in superconducting circuits. The qubit is a superconducting …             Privacy Preserving Quantum Anonymous Transmission via Entanglement Relay ▶     Wei Yang, Liusheng Huang, Fang Song     Anonymous transmission is an interesting and crucial issue in computer communication area, which plays a supplementary role to data privacy. In this paper, we put forward a …             Sustained Resistive Switching in a Single Cu:7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane Nanowire: A Promising Material for Resistive Random Access Memory ▶     Rabaya Basori, Manoranjan Kumar, Arup K. Raychaudhuri     We report a new type of sustained and reversible unipolar resistive switching in a nanowire device made from a single strand of Cu:7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (Cu:TCNQ) …             Single-shot and single-sensor high/super-resolution microwave imaging based on metasurface ▶     Libo Wang, Lianlin Li, Yunbo Li et al.     Real-time high-resolution (including super-resolution) imaging with low-cost hardware is a long sought-after goal in various imaging applications. Here, we propose broadband …             Orientation selectivity in a multi-gated organic electrochemical transistor ▶     Paschalis Gkoupidenis, Dimitrios A. Koutsouras, Thomas Lonjaret et al.     Neuromorphic devices offer promising computational paradigms that transcend the limitations of conventional technologies. A prominent example, inspired by the workings of the …             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 …             Second order anisotropy contribution in perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions ▶     A. A. Timopheev, R. Sousa, M. Chshiev et al.     Hard-axis magnetoresistance loops were measured on perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction pillars of diameter ranging from 50 to 150 nm. By fitting these loops to an analytical …             A neuron-in-capillary platform for facile collection and mass spectrometric characterization of a secreted neuropeptide ▶     Chang Young Lee, Yi Fan, Stanislav S. Rubakhin et al.     The integration of microfluidic devices—which efficiently handle small liquid volumes—with separations/mass spectrometry (MS) is an effective approach for profiling the …             Longitudinal, label-free, quantitative tracking of cell death and viability in a 3D tumor model with OCT ▶     Yookyung Jung, Oliver J. Klein, Hequn Wang et al.     Three-dimensional in vitro tumor models are highly useful tools for studying tumor growth and treatment response of malignancies such as ovarian cancer. Existing viability and …             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 …             Cholesterol Depletion from a Ceramide/Cholesterol Mixed Monolayer: A Brewster Angle Microscope Study ▶     Pritam Mandal, Pakiza Noutsi, Sahraoui Chaieb     Cholesterol is crucial to the mechanical properties of cell membranes that are important to cells’ behavior. Its depletion from the cell membranes could be dramatic. Among …             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 …             Experimental GVD engineering in slow light slot photonic crystal waveguides ▶     Samuel Serna, Pierre Colman, Weiwei Zhang et al.     The use in silicon photonics of the new optical materials developed in soft matter science (e.g. polymers, liquids) is delicate because their low refractive index weakens the …             Corrigendum: Integration of CdSe/CdSexTe1−x Type-II Heterojunction Nanorods into Hierarchically Porous TiO2 Electrode for Efficient Solar Energy Conversion ▶     Sangheon Lee, Joseph C. Flanagan, Joonhyeon Kang et al.                 Corrigendum: The Inhibition of the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability by Rotation ▶     Kyle A. Baldwin, Matthew M. Scase, Richard J. A. Hill                 Corrigendum: Operational stability enhancement in organic light-emitting diodes with ultrathin Liq interlayers ▶     Daniel Ping-Kuen Tsang, Toshinori Matsushima, Chihaya Adachi                 Corrigendum: Velocity distribution in active particles systems ▶     Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi, Nicoletta Gnan, Matteo Paoluzzi et al.                 Corrigendum: Spin-orbit coupling enhanced superconductivity in Bi-rich compounds ABi3 (A = Sr and Ba) ▶     D. F. Shao, X. Luo, W. J. Lu et al.                 Preparation of Carbon Nanotube/TiO2 Mesoporous Hybrid Photoanode with Iron Pyrite (FeS2) Thin Films Counter Electrodes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell ▶     Bayram Kilic, Sunay Turkdogan, Aykut Astam et al.     Multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT)/TiO2 mesoporous networks can be employed as a new alternative photoanode in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). By using the MWCNT/TiO2 …             Experimental test of the no-go theorem for continuous ψ-epistemic models ▶     Kai-Yu Liao, Xin-Ding Zhang, Guang-Zhou Guo et al.     Quantum states are the key mathematical objects in quantum theory; however, there is still much debate concerning what a quantum state truly represents. One such century-old …             An electric generator using living Torpedo electric organs controlled by fluid pressure-based alternative nervous systems ▶     Yo Tanaka, Shun-ichi Funano, Yohei Nishizawa et al.     Direct electric power generation using biological functions have become a research focus due to their low cost and cleanliness. Unlike major approaches using glucose fuels or …             A Broadband THz-TDS System Based on DSTMS Emitter and LTG InGaAs/InAlAs Photoconductive Antenna Detector ▶     Ying Zhang, Xiaoling Zhang, Shaoxian Li et al.     We demonstrate a 4-f terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) system using an organic crystal DSTMS as the THz emitter and a low temperature grown (LTG) InGaAs/InAlAs …             Resistive switching behavior of reduced graphene oxide memory cells for low power nonvolatile device application ▶     Sangram K. Pradhan, Bo Xiao, Saswat Mishra et al.     Graphene Oxide (GO) based low cost flexible electronics and memory cell have recently attracted more attention for the fabrication of emerging electronic devices. As a suitable …             Self-Assembly of Hydrofluorinated Janus Graphene Monolayer: A Versatile Route for Designing Novel Janus Nanoscrolls ▶     Yakang Jin, Qingzhong Xue, Lei Zhu et al.     With remarkably interesting surface activities, two-dimensional Janus materials arouse intensive interests recently in many fields. We demonstrate by molecular dynamic …             Exact results for Schrödinger cats in driven-dissipative systems and their feedback control ▶     Fabrizio Minganti, Nicola Bartolo, Jared Lolli et al.     In quantum optics, photonic Schrödinger cats are superpositions of two coherent states with opposite phases and with a significant number of photons. Recently, these states have …             Self-Injection Locking of a Vortex Spin Torque Oscillator by Delayed Feedback ▶     Sumito Tsunegi, Eva Grimaldi, Romain Lebrun et al.     The self-synchronization of spin torque oscillators is investigated experimentally by re-injecting its radiofrequency (rf) current after a certain delay time. We demonstrate that …             Importance of Plasmonic Heating on Visible Light Driven Photocatalysis of Gold Nanoparticle Decorated Zinc Oxide Nanorods ▶     Tanujjal Bora, David Zoepfl, Joydeep Dutta     Herein we explore the role of localized plasmonic heat generated by resonantly excited gold (Au) NPs on visible light driven photocatalysis process. Au NPs are deposited on the …             Encoding, training and retrieval in ferroelectric tunnel junctions ▶     Hanni Xu, Yidong Xia, Bo Xu et al.     Ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJs) are quantum nanostructures that have great potential in the hardware basis for future neuromorphic applications. Among recently proposed …             Identifying structures of continuously-varying weighted networks ▶     Guofeng Mei, Xiaoqun Wu, Guanrong Chen et al.     Identifying network structures from dynamical observations is a fundamental problem currently pervading scientific research on complex systems, as understanding and modeling the …             The Analysis of the Influence of Odorant’s Complexity on Fractal Dynamics of Human Respiration ▶     Hamidreza Namazi, Amin Akrami, Vladimir V. Kulish     One of the major challenges in olfaction research is to relate the structural features of the odorants to different features of olfactory system. However, no relationship has …             Lanthanum induced B-to-Z transition in self-assembled Y-shaped branched DNA structure ▶     Ashok K. Nayak, Aseem Mishra, Bhabani S. Jena et al.     Controlled conversion of right-handed B-DNA to left-handed Z-DNA is one of the greatest conformational transitions in biology. Recently, the B-Z transition has been explored from …             A Microfabricated Platform for Generating Physiologically-Relevant Hepatocyte Zonation ▶     William J. McCarty, O. Berk Usta, Martin L. Yarmush     In vitro liver models have been important tools for more than 40 years for academic research and preclinical toxicity screening by the pharmaceutical industry. Hepatocytes, the …             Vascular growth responses to chronic arterial occlusion are unaffected by myeloid specific focal adhesion kinase (FAK) deletion ▶     Joshua L. Heuslein, Kelsey P. Murrell, Ryan J. Leiphart et al.     Arteriogenesis, or the lumenal expansion of pre-existing arterioles in the presence of an upstream occlusion, is a fundamental vascular growth response. 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