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14 June 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Physical Sciences               Onset of frictional sliding of rubber–glass contact under dry and lubricated conditions ▶     Ari J. Tuononen     Rubber friction is critical in many applications ranging from automotive tyres to cylinder seals. The process where a static rubber sample transitions to frictional sliding is …             Silver nanostructures synthesis via optically induced electrochemical deposition ▶     Pan Li, Na Liu, Haibo Yu et al.     We present a new digitally controlled, optically induced electrochemical deposition (OED) method for fabricating silver nanostructures. Projected light patterns were used to …             Optical Twist Induced by Plasmonic Resonance ▶     Jun Chen, Neng Wang, Liyong Cui et al.     Harvesting light for optical torque is of significant importance, owing to its ability to rotate nano- or micro-objects. Nevertheless, applying a strong optical torque remains a …             Crystallization of Ge2Sb2Te5 thin films by nano- and femtosecond single laser pulse irradiation ▶     Xinxing Sun, Martin Ehrhardt, Andriy Lotnyk et al.     The amorphous to crystalline phase transformation of Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST) films by UV nanosecond (ns) and femtosecond (fs) single laser pulse irradiation at the same wavelength is …             Anomalous photoluminescence in InP1−xBix ▶     Xiaoyan Wu, Xiren Chen, Wenwu Pan et al.     Low temperature photoluminescence (PL) from InP1−xBix thin films with Bi concentrations in the 0–2.49% range reveals anomalous spectral features with strong and very broad …             Integration of inherent and induced chirality into subphthalocyanine analogue ▶     Luyang Zhao, Dongdong Qi, Kang Wang et al.     Conventional conjugated systems are characteristic of only either inherent or induced chirality because of synthetic challenge in combination of chiral segment into the main …             Robust electric-field tunable opto-electrical behavior in Pt-NiO-Pt planar structures ▶     A. Rebello, A. O. Adeyeye     Capacitor-like metal-NiO-metal structures have attracted large interest in non-volatile memory applications based on electric field control of resistance, known as resistive …             Catalytic Decarboxylation of Fatty Acids to Aviation Fuels over Nickel Supported on Activated Carbon ▶     Jianghua Wu, Juanjuan Shi, Jie Fu et al.     Decarboxylation of fatty acids over non-noble metal catalysts without added hydrogen was studied. Ni/C catalysts were prepared and exhibited excellent activity and maintenance …             Selective Deposition of SiO2 on Ion Conductive Area of Soda-lime Glass Surface ▶     Daisuke Sakai, Kenji Harada, Yuichiro Hara et al.     Selective deposition of SiO2 nanoparticles was demonstrated on a soda-lime glass surface with a periodic sodium deficient pattern formed using the electrical nanoimprint. …             Hollow Cone Electron Imaging for Single Particle 3D Reconstruction of Proteins ▶     Chun-Ying Tsai, Yuan-Chih Chang, Ivan Lobato et al.     The main bottlenecks for high-resolution biological imaging in electron microscopy are radiation sensitivity and low contrast. The phase contrast at low spatial frequencies can …             Topological states and phase transitions in Sb2Te3-GeTe multilayers ▶     Thuy-Anh Nguyen, Dirk Backes, Angadjit Singh et al.     Topological insulators (TIs) are bulk insulators with exotic ‘topologically protected’ surface conducting modes. It has recently been pointed out that when stacked together, …             Ultrafast measurements of optical spectral coherence by single-shot time-stretch interferometry ▶     Yiqing Xu, Xiaoming Wei, Zhibo Ren et al.     The palette of laser technology has significantly been enriched by the innovations in ultrafast optical pulse generation. Our knowledge of the complex pulse dynamics, which is …             A Disposable paper breathalyzer with an alcohol sensing organic electrochemical transistor ▶     Eloїse Bihar, Yingxin Deng, Takeo Miyake et al.     Breathalyzers estimate Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) from the concentration of ethanol in the breath. Breathalyzers are easy to use but are limited either by their high price and …             Optically induced metal-to-dielectric transition in Epsilon-Near-Zero metamaterials ▶     R. M. Kaipurath, M. Pietrzyk, L. Caspani et al.     Epsilon-Near-Zero materials exhibit a transition in the real part of the dielectric permittivity from positive to negative value as a function of wavelength. Here we study …             Origin of Symmetric Dimer Images of Si(001) Observed by Low-Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy ▶     Xiao-Yan Ren, Hyun-Jung Kim, Chun-Yao Niu et al.     It has been a long-standing puzzle why buckled dimers of the Si(001) surface appeared symmetric below ~20 K in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiments. Although such …             Magnetization and magneto-transport staircaselike behavior in layered perovskite Sr2CoO4 at low temperature ▶     Qiuhang Li, Xueping Yuan, Lei Xing et al.     Polycrystalline layered perovskite Sr2CoO4 sample was synthesized by high temperature and high pressure method. The staircaselike behavior has been observed in the magnetization …             Impact of climate change on larch budmoth cyclic outbreaks ▶     Sudharsana V. Iyengar, Janaki Balakrishnan, Jürgen Kurths     Periodic outbreaks of the larch budmoth Zeiraphera diniana population (and the massive forest defoliation they engender) have been recorded in the Alps over the centuries and are …             Facile and Scale Up Synthesis of Red Phosphorus-Graphitic Carbon Nitride Heterostructures for Energy and Environment Applications ▶     Sajid Ali Ansari, Mohammad Omaish Ansari, Moo Hwan Cho     The development of heterostructured materials for efficient solar energy conversion and energy storage devices are essential for practical applications. In this study, a simple …             Observation of Lévy distribution and replica symmetry breaking in random lasers from a single set of measurements ▶     Anderson S. L. Gomes, Ernesto P. Raposo, André L. Moura et al.     Random lasers have been recently exploited as a photonic platform for studies of complex systems. This cross-disciplinary approach opened up new important avenues for the …             New materials for Li-ion batteries: synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of Li2(FeMnCo)SiO4 cathode materials ▶     Stefania Ferrari, Maria Cristina Mozzati, Marco Lantieri et al.     Improving cathode materials is mandatory for next-generation Li-ion batteries. Exploring polyanion compounds with high theoretical capacity such as the lithium metal …             A novel way to detect correlations on multi-time scales, with temporal evolution and for multi-variables ▶     Naiming Yuan, Elena Xoplaki, Congwen Zhu et al.     In this paper, two new methods, Temporal evolution of Detrended Cross-Correlation Analysis (TDCCA) and Temporal evolution of Detrended Partial-Cross-Correlation Analysis …             Thermochemical hydrolysis of macroalgae Ulva for biorefinery: Taguchi robust design method ▶     Rui Jiang, Yoav Linzon, Edward Vitkin et al.     Understanding the impact of all process parameters on the efficiency of biomass hydrolysis and on the final yield of products is critical to biorefinery design. Using Taguchi …             Low-Pressure Burst-Mode Focused Ultrasound Wave Reconstruction and Mapping for Blood-Brain Barrier Opening: A Preclinical Examination ▶     Jingjing Xia, Po-Hsiang Tsui, Hao-Li Liu     Burst-mode focused ultrasound (FUS) exposure has been shown to induce transient blood-brain barrier (BBB) opening for potential CNS drug delivery. FUS-BBB opening requires …             Compressed Sensing Electron Tomography for Determining Biological Structure ▶     Matthew D. Guay, Wojciech Czaja, Maria A. Aronova et al.     There has been growing interest in applying compressed sensing (CS) theory and practice to reconstruct 3D volumes at the nanoscale from electron tomography datasets of inorganic …             Deciphering the Counterplay of Aspergillus fumigatus Infection and Host Inflammation by Evolutionary Games on Graphs ▶     Johannes Pollmächer, Sandra Timme, Stefan Schuster et al.     Microbial invaders are ubiquitously present and pose the constant risk of infections that are opposed by various defence mechanisms of the human immune system. A tight regulation …             High-Throughput Single-Cell Derived Sphere Formation for Cancer Stem-Like Cell Identification and Analysis ▶     Yu-Chih Chen, Patrick N. Ingram, Shamileh Fouladdel et al.     Considerable evidence suggests that many malignancies are driven by a cellular compartment that displays stem cell properties. Cancer stem-like cells (CSCs) can be identified by …             A seismic metamaterial: The resonant metawedge ▶     Andrea Colombi, Daniel Colquitt, Philippe Roux et al.     Critical concepts from three different fields, elasticity, plasmonics and metamaterials, are brought together to design a metasurface at the geophysical scale, the resonant …             Strain Engineering to Modify the Electrochemistry of Energy Storage Electrodes ▶     Nitin Muralidharan, Rachel Carter, Landon Oakes et al.     Strain engineering has been a critical aspect of device design in semiconductor manufacturing for the past decade, but remains relatively unexplored for other applications, such …             The role of macrocyclic compounds in the extraction and possible separation of platinum and rhodium from chloride solutions ▶     Rajesh Kumar Jyothi, Jin-Young Lee     Macrocyclic compounds (crown ethers), specifically 18-crown-6 (18-C-6), benzo-15-crown-5 (B-15-C-5), di-benzo-18-crown-6 (DB-18-C-6) and di-cyclohexano-18-crown-6 (DC-18C-6), are …             Erratum: Closed-form solutions and scaling laws for Kerr frequency combs ▶     William H. Renninger, Peter T. Rakich                 Nanoscale arrays of antimony telluride single crystals by selective chemical vapor deposition ▶     Ruomeng Huang, Sophie L. Benjamin, Chitra Gurnani et al.     Arrays of individual single nanocrystals of Sb2Te3 have been formed using selective chemical vapor deposition (CVD) from a single source precursor. Crystals are self-assembled …             Fourier ptychographic reconstruction using Poisson maximum likelihood and truncated Wirtinger gradient ▶     Liheng Bian, Jinli Suo, Jaebum Chung et al.     Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) is a novel computational coherent imaging technique for high space-bandwidth product imaging. Mathematically, Fourier ptychographic (FP) …             Engineering integrated photonics for heralded quantum gates ▶     Thomas Meany, Devon N. Biggerstaff, Matthew A. Broome et al.     Scaling up linear-optics quantum computing will require multi-photon gates which are compact, phase-stable, exhibit excellent quantum interference, and have success heralded by …             Corrigendum: Excitation of dark multipolar plasmonic resonances at terahertz frequencies ▶     Lin Chen, YuMing Wei, XiaoFei Zang et al.                 Barrier inhomogeneities limited current and 1/f noise transport in GaN based nanoscale Schottky barrier diodes ▶     Ashutosh Kumar, M. Heilmann, Michael Latzel et al.     The electrical behaviour of Schottky barrier diodes realized on vertically standing individual GaN nanorods and array of nanorods is investigated. The Schottky diodes on …             Refraction-Assisted Solar Thermoelectric Generator based on Phase-Change Lens ▶     Myoung-Soo Kim, Min-Ki Kim, Sung-Eun Jo et al.     Solar thermoelectric generators (STEGs), which are used for various applications, (particularly small size electronic devices), have optical concentration systems for high energy …             Optical communication beyond orbital angular momentum ▶     Abderrahmen Trichili, Carmelo Rosales-Guzmán, Angela Dudley et al.     Mode division multiplexing (MDM) is mooted as a technology to address future bandwidth issues, and has been successfully demonstrated in free space using spatial modes with …             High current gain transistor laser ▶     Song Liang, Lijun Qiao, Hongliang Zhu et al.     A transistor laser (TL), having the structure of a transistor with multi-quantum wells near its base region, bridges the functionality gap between lasers and transistors. …             Rotman Lens-Based Circular Array for Generating Five-mode OAM Radio Beams ▶     Xu-Dong Bai, Xian-Ling Liang, Jian-Ping Li et al.     Recently, vortex beam carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) for radio communications has attracted much attention for its potential of transmitting multiple signals …             Heterogeneously Assembled Metamaterials and Metadevices via 3D Modular Transfer Printing ▶     Seungwoo Lee, Byungsoo Kang, Hohyun Keum et al.     Metamaterials have made the exotic control of the flow of electromagnetic waves possible, which is difficult to achieve with natural materials. In recent years, the emergence of …             Mechanobiological induction of long-range contractility by diffusing biomolecules and size scaling in cell assemblies ▶     K. Dasbiswas, E. Alster, S. A. Safran     Mechanobiological studies of cell assemblies have generally focused on cells that are, in principle, identical. Here we predict theoretically the effect on cells in culture of …             Corrigendum: Femtosecond X-ray absorption study of electron localization in photoexcited anatase TiO2 ▶     F. G. Santomauro, A. Lübcke, J. Rittmann et al.                 Ultra-doped n-type germanium thin films for sensing in the mid-infrared ▶     Slawomir Prucnal, Fang Liu, Matthias Voelskow et al.     A key milestone for the next generation of high-performance multifunctional microelectronic devices is the monolithic integration of high-mobility materials with Si technology. …             Inference of causality in epidemics on temporal contact networks ▶     Alfredo Braunstein, Alessandro Ingrosso     Investigating into the past history of an epidemic outbreak is a paramount problem in epidemiology. Based on observations about the state of individuals, on the knowledge of the …             Metal [100] Nanowires with Negative Poisson’s Ratio ▶     Duc Tam Ho, Soon-Yong Kwon, Sung Youb Kim     When materials are under stretching, occurrence of lateral contraction of materials is commonly observed. This is because Poisson’s ratio, the quantity describes the relationship …             Speedup of quantum evolution of multiqubit entanglement states ▶     Ying-Jie Zhang, Wei Han, Yun-Jie Xia et al.     As is well known, quantum speed limit time (QSLT) can be used to characterize the maximal speed of evolution of quantum systems. We mainly investigate the QSLT of generalized …             Color calibration and fusion of lens-free and mobile-phone microscopy images for high-resolution and accurate color reproduction ▶     Yibo Zhang, Yichen Wu, Yun Zhang et al.     Lens-free holographic microscopy can achieve wide-field imaging in a cost-effective and field-portable setup, making it a promising technique for point-of-care and telepathology …             Modelling Adaptive Learning Behaviours for Consensus Formation in Human Societies ▶     Chao Yu, Guozhen Tan, Hongtao Lv et al.     Learning is an important capability of humans and plays a vital role in human society for forming beliefs and opinions. In this paper, we investigate how learning affects the …             Moxifloxacin: Clinically compatible contrast agent for multiphoton imaging ▶     Taejun Wang, Won Hyuk Jang, Seunghun Lee et al.     Multiphoton microscopy (MPM) is a nonlinear fluorescence microscopic technique widely used for cellular imaging of thick tissues and live animals in biological studies. However, …             The BUME method: a new rapid and simple chloroform-free method for total lipid extraction of animal tissue ▶     Lars Löfgren, Gun-Britt Forsberg, Marcus Ståhlman     In this study we present a simple and rapid method for tissue lipid extraction. Snap-frozen tissue (15–150 mg) is collected in 2 ml homogenization tubes. 500 μl BUME mixture …             Interoccurrence time statistics in fully-developed turbulence ▶     Pouya Manshour, Mehrnaz Anvari, Nico Reinke et al.     Emergent extreme events are a key characteristic of complex dynamical systems. The main tool for detailed and deep understanding of their stochastic dynamics is the statistics of …             High-energy proton imaging for biomedical applications ▶     M. Prall, M. Durante, T. Berger et al.     The charged particle community is looking for techniques exploiting proton interactions instead of X-ray absorption for creating images of human tissue. Due to multiple Coulomb …             Single Cell Proteolytic Assays to Investigate Cancer Clonal Heterogeneity and Cell Dynamics Using an Efficient Cell Loading Scheme ▶     Yu-Chih Chen, Yu-Heng Cheng, Patrick Ingram et al.     Proteolytic degradation of the extracellular matrix (ECM) is critical in cancer invasion, and recent work suggests that heterogeneous cancer populations cooperate in this …             Multimodal Imaging and Lighting Bias Correction for Improved μPAD-based Water Quality Monitoring via Smartphones ▶     Katherine E. McCracken, Scott V. Angus, Kelly A. Reynolds et al.     Smartphone image-based sensing of microfluidic paper analytical devices (μPADs) offers low-cost and mobile evaluation of water quality. However, consistent quantification is a …             Stable and null current hysteresis perovskite solar cells based nitrogen doped graphene oxide nanoribbons hole transport layer ▶     Jeongmo Kim, Mohd Asri Mat Teridi, Abd. Rashid bin Mohd Yusoff et al.     Perovskite solar cells are becoming one of the leading technologies to reduce our dependency on traditional power sources. However, the frequently used component …             Temperature dependent local atomic displacements in ammonia intercalated iron selenide superconductor ▶     E. Paris, L. Simonelli, T. Wakita et al.     Recently, ammonia-thermal reaction has been used for molecular intercalation in layered FeSe, resulting a new Lix(NH3)yFe2Se2 superconductor with Tc ~ 45 K. Here, we have used …             Proposal for probing energy transfer pathway by single-molecule pump-dump experiment ▶     Ming-Jie Tao, Qing Ai, Fu-Guo Deng et al.     The structure of Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) light-harvesting complex had long been recognized as containing seven bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) molecules. Recently, an additional …             Engineered disorder and light propagation in a planar photonic glass ▶     Sergei G. Romanov, Sergej Orlov, Daniel Ploss et al.     The interaction of light with matter strongly depends on the structure of the latter at wavelength scale. Ordered systems interact with light via collective modes, giving rise to …             Improved Gate Dielectric Deposition and Enhanced Electrical Stability for Single-Layer MoS2 MOSFET with an AlN Interfacial Layer ▶     Qingkai Qian, Baikui Li, Mengyuan Hua et al.     Transistors based on MoS2 and other TMDs have been widely studied. The dangling-bond free surface of MoS2 has made the deposition of high-quality high-k dielectrics on MoS2 a …             Remote Control Effect of Li+, Na+, K+ Ions on the Super Energy Transfer Process in ZnMoO4:Eu3+, Bi3+ Phosphors ▶     Weiguang Ran, Lili Wang, Lingling Tan et al.     Luminescent properties are affected by lattice environment of luminescence centers. The lattice environment of emission centers can be effectively changed due to the diversity of …             Highly selective and sensitive phosphate anion sensors based on AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors functionalized by ion imprinted polymer ▶     Xiuling Jia, Dunjun Chen, Liu Bin et al.     A novel ion-imprinted electrochemical sensor based on AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) was developed to detect trace amounts of phosphate anion. This sensor …             Active dynamics of colloidal particles in time-varying laser speckle patterns ▶     Silvio Bianchi, Riccardo Pruner, Gaszton Vizsnyiczai et al.     Colloidal particles immersed in a dynamic speckle pattern experience an optical force that fluctuates both in space and time. The resulting dynamics presents many interesting …             High-responsivity vertical-illumination Si/Ge uni-traveling-carrier photodiodes based on silicon-on-insulator substrate ▶     Chong Li, ChunLai Xue, Zhi Liu et al.     Si/Ge uni-traveling carrier photodiodes exhibit higher output current when space-charge effect is overcome and the thermal effects is suppressed. High current is beneficial for …             Fermentation based carbon nanotube multifunctional bionic composites ▶     Luca Valentini, Silvia Bittolo Bon, Stefano Signetti et al.     The exploitation of the processes used by microorganisms to digest nutrients for their growth can be a viable method for the formation of a wide range of so called biogenic …             Optical control of filamentation-induced damage to DNA by intense, ultrashort, near-infrared laser pulses ▶     J. A. Dharmadhikari, A. K. Dharmadhikari, K. C. Kasuba et al.     We report on damage to DNA in an aqueous medium induced by ultrashort pulses of intense laser light of 800 nm wavelength. Focusing of such pulses, using lenses of various focal …             Structural disorder in metallic glass-forming liquids ▶     Shao-Peng Pan, Shi-Dong Feng, Li-Min Wang et al.     We investigated structural disorder by a new structural parameter, quasi-nearest atom (QNA), in atomistic configurations of eight metallic glass-forming systems generated through …             Large Size Color-tunable Electroluminescence from Cationic Iridium Complexes-based Light-emitting Electrochemical Cells ▶     Qunying Zeng, Fushan Li, Tailiang Guo et al.     Solution-processable light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs) with simple device architecture have become an attractive candidate for application in next generation lighting …             Lens-based wavefront sensorless adaptive optics swept source OCT ▶     Yifan Jian, Sujin Lee, Myeong Jin Ju et al.     Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has revolutionized modern ophthalmology, providing depth resolved images of the retinal layers in a system that is suited to a clinical …             Scaling Law for Irreversible Entropy Production in Critical Systems ▶     Danh-Tai Hoang, B. Prasanna Venkatesh, Seungju Han et al.     We examine the Jarzynski equality for a quenching process across the critical point of second-order phase transitions, where absolute irreversibility and the effect of …             Electromagnetically induced transparency metamaterial based on spoof localized surface plasmons at terahertz frequencies ▶     Zhen Liao, Shuo Liu, Hui Feng Ma et al.     We numerically and experimentally demonstrate a plasmonic metamaterial whose unit cell is composed of an ultrathin metallic disk and four ultrathin metallic spiral arms at …             Self-Heating and Failure in Scalable Graphene Devices ▶     Thomas E. Beechem, Ryan A. Shaffer, John Nogan et al.     Self-heating induced failure of graphene devices synthesized from both chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and epitaxial means is compared using a combination of infrared …             Strong modulation of plasmons in Graphene with the use of an Inverted pyramid array diffraction grating ▶     N. Matthaiakakis, H. Mizuta, M. D. B. Charlton     An optical device configuration allowing efficient electrical tuning of surface plasmon wavelength and absorption in a suspended/conformal graphene film is reported. An …             Novel p-wave superfluids of fermionic polar molecules ▶     A. K. Fedorov, S. I. Matveenko, V. I. Yudson et al.     Recently suggested subwavelength lattices offer remarkable prospects for the observation of novel superfluids of fermionic polar molecules. It becomes realistic to obtain a …             A new approach for two-terminal electronic memory devices - Storing information on silicon nanowires ▶     Konstantina Saranti, Sultan Alotaibi, Shashi Paul     The work described in this paper focuses on the utilisation of silicon nanowires as the information storage element in flash-type memory devices. Silicon nanostructures have …             Free-Standing Organic Transistors and Circuits with Sub-Micron Thicknesses ▶     Kenjiro Fukuda, Tomohito Sekine, Rei Shiwaku et al.     The realization of wearable electronic devices with extremely thin and flexible form factors has been a major technological challenge. While substrates typically limit the …             Tracking airborne CO2 mitigation and low cost transformation into valuable carbon nanotubes ▶     Jiawen Ren, Stuart Licht     Primary evidence of the direct uptake of atmospheric CO2 and direct transformation into carbon nanotubes, CNTs, is demonstrated through isotopic labeling, and provides a new high …             1H-detected solid-state NMR of proteins entrapped in bioinspired silica: a new tool for biomaterials characterization ▶     Enrico Ravera, Linda Cerofolini, Tommaso Martelli et al.     Proton-detection in solid-state NMR, enabled by high magnetic fields (>18 T) and fast magic angle spinning (>50 kHz), allows for the acquisition of traditional 1H-15N experiments …             Core-shell nanocarriers with high paclitaxel loading for passive and active targeting ▶     Zhu Jin, Yaqi Lv, Hui Cao et al.     Rapid blood clearance and premature burst release are inherent drawbacks of conventional nanoparticles, resulting in poor tumor selectivity. iRGD peptide is widely recognized as …             Relationships between physical properties and sequence in silkworm silks ▶     Ali D. Malay, Ryota Sato, Kenjiro Yazawa et al.     Silk has attracted widespread attention due to its superlative material properties and promising applications. However, the determinants behind the variations in material …             Microdevice for plasma separation from whole human blood using bio-physical and geometrical effects ▶     Siddhartha Tripathi, Y. V. BalaVarun Kumar, Amit Agrawal et al.     In this research work, we present a simple and efficient passive microfluidic device for plasma separation from pure blood. The microdevice has been fabricated using conventional …             Multiplex giant magnetoresistive biosensor microarrays identify interferon-associated autoantibodies in systemic lupus erythematosus ▶     Jung-Rok Lee, D. James Haddon, Hannah E. Wand et al.     High titer, class-switched autoantibodies are a hallmark of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Dysregulation of the interferon (IFN) pathway is observed in individuals with …             Homeostatic maintenance via degradation and repair of elastic fibers under tension ▶     Calebe Alves, Ascanio D. Araújo, Cláudio L. N. Oliveira et al.     Cellular maintenance of the extracellular matrix requires an effective regulation that balances enzymatic degradation with the repair of collagen fibrils and fibers. Here, we …             Ultrasound characterization of the mastoid for detecting middle ear effusion: A preliminary clinical validation ▶     Chin-Kuo Chen, Jui Fang, Yung-Liang Wan et al.     Ultrasound detection of middle ear effusion (MEE) is an emerging technique in otolaryngology. This study proposed using ultrasound characterization of the mastoid to …             Aqueous Two Phase System Assisted Self-Assembled PLGA Microparticles ▶     Nitish Yeredla, Taisuke Kojima, Yi Yang et al.     Here, we produce poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) based microparticles with varying morphologies, and temperature responsive properties utilizing a Pluronic F127/dextran aqueous …             Enhancement of toughness and wear resistance in boron nitride nanoplatelet (BNNP) reinforced Si3N4 nanocomposites ▶     Bin Lee, Dongju Lee, Jun Ho Lee et al.     Ceramics have superior hardness, strength and corrosion resistance, but are also associated with poor toughness. Here, we propose the boron nitride nanoplatelet (BNNP) as a novel …             Rapid Synthesis of Thin and Long Mo17O47 Nanowire-Arrays in an Oxygen Deficient Flame ▶     Patrick Allen, Lili Cai, Lite Zhou et al.     Mo17O47 nanowire-arrays are promising active materials and electrically-conductive supports for batteries and other devices. While high surface area resulting from long, thin, …             Giant reversible anisotropy changes at room temperature in a (La,Sr)MnO3/Pb(Mg,Nb,Ti)O3 magneto-electric heterostructure ▶     Rajesh Vilas Chopdekar, Michele Buzzi, Catherine Jenkins et al.     In a model artificial multiferroic system consisting of a (011)-oriented ferroelectric Pb(Mg,Nb,Ti)O3 substrate intimately coupled to an epitaxial ferromagnetic (La,Sr)MnO3 film, …             Resonantly Enhanced Betatron Hard X-rays from Ionization Injected Electrons in a Laser Plasma Accelerator ▶     K. Huang, Y. F. Li, D. Z. Li et al.     Ultrafast betatron x-ray emission from electron oscillations in laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) has been widely investigated as a promising source. Betatron x-rays are …             Towards the Better: Intrinsic Property Amelioration in Bulk Metallic Glasses ▶     Baran Sarac, Long Zhang, Konrad Kosiba et al.     Tailoring the intrinsic length-scale effects in bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) via post-heat treatment necessitates a systematic analyzing strategy. Although various achievements …             Dynamical control on helicity of electromagnetic waves by tunable metasurfaces ▶     He-Xiu Xu, Shulin Sun, Shiwei Tang et al.     Manipulating the polarization states of electromagnetic (EM) waves, a fundamental issue in optics, attracted intensive attention recently. However, most of the devices realized …             Purification of Nanoparticles by Size and Shape ▶     James D. Robertson, Loris Rizzello, Milagros Avila-Olias et al.     Producing monodisperse nanoparticles is essential to ensure consistency in biological experiments and to enable a smooth translation into the clinic. Purification of samples into …             Nitrogen Chemistry and Coke Transformation of FCC Coked Catalyst during the Regeneration Process ▶     Junjun Shi, Jianyu Guan, Dawei Guo et al.     Regeneration of the coked catalyst is an important process of fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) in petroleum refining, however, this process will emit environmentally harmful gases …             Fast 180° magnetization switching in a strain-mediated multiferroic heterostructure driven by a voltage ▶     Ren-Ci Peng, Jia-Mian Hu, Kasra Momeni et al.     Voltage-driven 180° magnetization switching provides a low-power alternative to current-driven magnetization switching widely used in spintronic devices. Here we computationally …             Distinct characteristics of asymmetric magnetic reconnections: Observational results from the exhaust region at the dayside magnetopause ▶     Y. C. Zhang     Magnetic reconnection plays a key role in the conversion of magnetic energy into the thermal and kinetic energy of plasma. On either side of the diffusion region in space plasma, …             Monolithically, widely tunable quantum cascade lasers based on a heterogeneous active region design ▶     Wenjia Zhou, Neelanjan Bandyopadhyay, Donghai Wu et al.     Quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) have become important laser sources for accessing the mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectral range, achieving watt-level continuous wave operation in a …             Ultrafast-Contactless Flash Sintering using Plasma Electrodes ▶     Theo Saunders, Salvatore Grasso, Michael J. Reece     This paper presents a novel derivative of flash sintering, in which contactless flash sintering (CFS) is achieved using plasma electrodes. In this setup, electrical contact with …             Structural, electronic and kinetic properties of the phase-change material Ge2Sb2Te5 in the liquid state ▶     Mathias Schumacher, Hans Weber, Pál Jóvári et al.     Phase-change materials exhibit fast and reversible transitions between an amorphous and a crystalline state at high temperature. The two states display resistivity contrast, …             Generation of an ultra-short electrical pulse with width shorter than the excitation laser ▶     Wei Shi, Shaoqiang Wang, Cheng Ma et al.     We demonstrate experimentally a rare phenomenon that the width of an electrical response is shorter than that of the excitation laser. In this work, generation of an ultrashort …             Realization of Plasmonic Microcavity with Full Transverse and Longitudinal Mode Selection ▶     Ju Liu, Yue-Gang Chen, Lin Gan et al.     Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) manipulation is of vital importance to construct ultracompact integrated micro/nano-optical devices and systems. Here we report the design, …             Wideband nonlinear spectral broadening in ultra-short ultra - silicon rich nitride waveguides ▶     Ju Won Choi, George F. R. Chen, D. K. T. Ng et al.     CMOS-compatible nonlinear optics platforms with high Kerr nonlinearity facilitate the generation of broadband spectra based on self-phase modulation. Our ultra – silicon rich …             Detachment of secondary dendrite arm in a directionally solidified Sn-Ni peritectic alloy under deceleration growth condition ▶     Peng Peng, Xinzhong Li, Jiangong Li et al.     In order to better understand the detachment mechanism of secondary dendrite arm during peritectic solidification, the detachment of secondary dendrite arm from the primary …             Cell Deformation by Single-beam Acoustic Trapping: A Promising Tool for Measurements of Cell Mechanics ▶     Jae Youn Hwang, Jihun Kim, Jin Man Park et al.     We demonstrate a noncontact single-beam acoustic trapping method for the quantification of the mechanical properties of a single suspended cell with label-free. Experimentally …             Rate dependent of strength in metallic glasses at different temperatures ▶     Y. W. Wang, X. L. Bian, S. W. Wu et al.     The correlation between the strength at the macroscale and the elastic deformation as well as shear cracking behavior at the microscale of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) is …             Fast formation and growth of high-density Sn whiskers in Mg/Sn-based solder/Mg joints by ultrasonic-assisted soldering: Phenomena, mechanism and prevention ▶     M. Y. Li, H. F. Yang, Z. H. Zhang et al.     A universally applicable method for promoting the fast formation and growth of high-density Sn whiskers on solders was developed by fabricating Mg/Sn-based solder/Mg joints using …             Switching of chiral magnetic skyrmions by picosecond magnetic field pulses via transient topological states ▶     Changhoon Heo, Nikolai S. Kiselev, Ashis Kumar Nandy et al.     Magnetic chiral skyrmions are vortex like spin structures that appear as stable or meta-stable states in magnetic materials due to the interplay between the symmetric and …             Dissolved oxygen content prediction in crab culture using a hybrid intelligent method ▶     Huihui Yu, Yingyi Chen, ShahbazGul Hassan et al.     A precise predictive model is needed to obtain a clear understanding of the changing dissolved oxygen content in outdoor crab ponds, to assess how to reduce risk and to optimize …             Advanced and flexible multi-carrier receiver architecture for high-count multi-core fiber based space division multiplexed applications ▶     Rameez Asif     Space division multiplexing (SDM), incorporating multi-core fibers (MCFs), has been demonstrated for effectively maximizing the data capacity in an impending capacity crunch. To …             Hot carrier multiplication on graphene/TiO2 Schottky nanodiodes ▶     Young Keun Lee, Hongkyw Choi, Hyunsoo Lee et al.     Carrier multiplication (i.e. generation of multiple electron–hole pairs from a single high-energy electron, CM) in graphene has been extensively studied both theoretically and …             Multifunctional metasurface lens for imaging and Fourier transform ▶     Dandan Wen, Fuyong Yue, Marcus Ardron et al.     A metasurface can manipulate light in a desirable manner by imparting local and space-variant abrupt phase change. Benefiting from such an unprecedented capability, the …             Origin of Shear Stability and Compressive Ductility Enhancement of Metallic Glasses by Metal Coating ▶     B. A. Sun, S. H. Chen, Y. M. Lu et al.     Metallic glasses (MGs) are notorious for the poor macroscopic ductility and to overcome the weakness various intrinsic and extrinsic strategies have been proposed in past …             (±)-Japonones A and B, two pairs of new enantiomers with anti-KSHV activities from Hypericum japonicum ▶     Linzhen Hu, Hucheng Zhu, Lei Li et al.     Two pairs of new enantiomers with unusual 5,5-spiroketal cores, termed (±)-japonones A and B [(±)-1 and (±)-2], were obtained from Hypericum japonicum Thunb. The absolute …             Inhibition of inflammatory reactions in 2,4-Dinitrochlorobenzene induced Nc/Nga atopic dermatitis mice by non-thermal plasma ▶     Jeong-Hae Choi, Yeon-Suk Song, Hae-June Lee et al.     Non-thermal plasma (NTP) has recently been introduced and reported as a novel tool with a range of medicinal and biological roles. Although many studies using NTP have been …             Numerical research on the anisotropic transport of thermal neutron in heterogeneous porous media with micron X-ray computed tomography ▶     Yong Wang, Wenzheng Yue, Mo Zhang     The anisotropic transport of thermal neutron in heterogeneous porous media is of great research interests in many fields. In this paper, it is the first time that a new model …             The potential of incorporation of binary salts and ionic liquid in P(VP-co-VAc) gel polymer electrolyte in electrochemical and photovoltaic performances ▶     Ng Hon Ming, S. Ramesh, K. Ramesh     In this study, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) has been assembled with poly(1-vinylpyrrolidone-co-vinyl acetate) (P(VP-co-VAc)) gel polymer electrolytes (GPEs) which have been …             The use of the terrestrial snails of the genera Megalobulimus and Thaumastus as representatives of the atmospheric carbon reservoir ▶     Kita D. Macario, Eduardo Q. Alves, Carla Carvalho et al.     In Brazilian archaeological shellmounds, many species of land snails are found abundantly distributed throughout the occupational layers, forming a contextualized set of samples …             Mesoscopic bar magnet based on ε-Fe2O3 hard ferrite ▶     Shin-ichi Ohkoshi, Asuka Namai, Takehiro Yamaoka et al.     Ferrite magnets have a long history. They are used in motors, magnetic fluids, drug delivery systems, etc. Herein we report a mesoscopic ferrite bar magnet based on rod-shaped …             Polymer Morphological Change Induced by Terahertz Irradiation ▶     Hiromichi Hoshina, Hal Suzuki, Chiko Otani et al.     As terahertz (THz) frequencies correspond to those of the intermolecular vibrational modes in a polymer, intense THz wave irradiation affects the macromolecular polymorph, which …             Broken selection rule in the quantum Rabi model ▶     P. Forn-Díaz, G. Romero, C. J. P. M. Harmans et al.     Understanding the interaction between light and matter is very relevant for fundamental studies of quantum electrodynamics and for the development of quantum technologies. The …             Rigorous intensity and phase-shift manipulation in optical frequency conversion ▶     Bo Yang, Yang-Yang Yue, Rong-er Lu et al.     A simple method is employed to investigate the nonlinear frequency conversion in optical superlattices (OSL) with pump depletion. Four rigorous phase-matching conditions for …             Local cascades induced global contagion: How heterogeneous thresholds, exogenous effects, and unconcerned behaviour govern online adoption spreading ▶     Márton Karsai, Gerardo Iñiguez, Riivo Kikas et al.     Adoption of innovations, products or online services is commonly interpreted as a spreading process driven to large extent by social influence and conditioned by the needs and …             Effect of Anatomically Realistic Full-Head Model on Activation of Cortical Neurons in Subdural Cortical Stimulation—A Computational Study ▶     Hyeon Seo, Donghyeon Kim, Sung Chan Jun     Electrical brain stimulation (EBS) is an emerging therapy for the treatment of neurological disorders, and computational modeling studies of EBS have been used to determine the …             Design of Hydrogen Storage Alloys/Nanoporous Metals Hybrid Electrodes for Nickel-Metal Hydride Batteries ▶     M. M. Li, C. C. Yang, C. C. Wang et al.     Nickel metal hydride (Ni-MH) batteries have demonstrated key technology advantages for applications in new-energy vehicles, which play an important role in reducing greenhouse …             Programmable DNA Nanosystem for Molecular Interrogation ▶     Divita Mathur, Eric R. Henderson     We describe a self-assembling DNA-based nanosystem for interrogating molecular interactions. The nanosystem contains a rigid supporting dumbbell-shaped frame, a cylindrical …             Wettability modified nanoporous ceramic membrane for simultaneous residual heat and condensate recovery ▶     H. W. Hu, G. H. Tang, D. Niu     Recovery of both latent heat and condensate from boiler flue gas is significant for improving boiler efficiency and water conservation. The condensation experiments are carried …             An Atomic Force Microscope with Dual Actuation Capability for Biomolecular Experiments ▶     Semih Sevim, Naveen Shamsudhin, Sevil Ozer et al.     We report a modular atomic force microscope (AFM) design for biomolecular experiments. The AFM head uses readily available components and incorporates deflection-based optics and …             Universal amorphous-amorphous transition in GexSe100−x glasses under pressure ▶     Can Yildirim, Matthieu Micoulaut, Punit Boolchand et al.     Pressure induced structural modifications in vitreous GexSe100−x (where 10 ≤ x ≤ 25) are investigated using X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) along with supplementary X-ray …             Fiber-based photon-pair source capable of hybrid entanglement in frequency and transverse mode, controllably scalable to higher dimensions ▶     D. Cruz-Delgado, R. Ramirez-Alarcon, E. Ortiz-Ricardo et al.     We have designed and implemented a photon-pair source, based on the spontaneous four wave mixing (SFWM) process in a few-mode fiber, in a geometry which permits multiple, …             Intra-cage dynamics of molecular hydrogen confined in cages of two different dimensions of clathrate hydrates ▶     Margarita Russina, Ewout Kemner, Ferenc Mezei     In porous materials the molecular confinement is often realized by means of weak Van der Waals interactions between the molecule and the pore surface. The understanding of the …             Tailoring the Microstructure of a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Anode Support by Calcination and Milling of YSZ ▶     Amir Reza Hanifi, Miguel A. Laguna-Bercero, Navjot Kaur Sandhu et al.     In this study, the effects of calcination and milling of 8YSZ (8 mol% yttria stabilized zirconia) used in the nickel-YSZ anode on the performance of anode supported tubular fuel …             Anomalous electronic structure and magnetoresistance in TaAs2 ▶     Yongkang Luo, R. D. McDonald, P. F. S. Rosa et al.     The change in resistance of a material in a magnetic field reflects its electronic state. In metals with weakly- or non-interacting electrons, the resistance typically increases …             2D layered transport properties from topological insulator Bi2Se3 single crystals and micro flakes ▶     Olivio Chiatti, Christian Riha, Dominic Lawrenz et al.     Low-field magnetotransport measurements of topological insulators such as Bi2Se3 are important for revealing the nature of topological surface states by quantum corrections to …             Real-time device-scale imaging of conducting filament dynamics in resistive switching materials ▶     Keundong Lee, Youngbin Tchoe, Hosang Yoon et al.     ReRAM is a compelling candidate for next-generation non-volatile memory owing to its various advantages. However, fluctuation of operation parameters are critical weakness …             Pattern Formation on Networks: from Localised Activity to Turing Patterns ▶     Nick McCullen, Thomas Wagenknecht     Networks of interactions between competing species are used to model many complex systems, such as in genetics, evolutionary biology or sociology and knowledge of the patterns of …             The second will be first: competition on directed networks ▶     Giulia Cencetti, Franco Bagnoli, Francesca Di Patti et al.     Multiple sinks competition is investigated for a walker diffusing on directed complex networks. The asymmetry of the imposed spatial support makes the system non transitive. As a …             Graph states of prime-power dimension from generalized CNOT quantum circuit ▶     Lin Chen, D. L. Zhou     We construct multipartite graph states whose dimension is the power of a prime number. This is realized by the finite field, as well as the generalized controlled-NOT quantum …             Optimal hash arrangement of tentacles in jellyfish ▶     Takuya Okabe, Jin Yoshimura     At first glance, the trailing tentacles of a jellyfish appear to be randomly arranged. However, close examination of medusae has revealed that the arrangement and developmental …             Collective electronic excitations in the ultra violet regime in 2-D and 1-D carbon nanostructures achieved by the addition of foreign atoms ▶     U. Bangert, W. Pierce, C. Boothroyd et al.     Plasmons in the visible/UV energy regime have attracted great attention, especially in nano-materials, with regards to applications in opto-electronics and light harvesting; …             Chromatographic analysis of Polygalae Radix by online hyphenating pressurized liquid extraction ▶     Yuelin Song, Qingqing Song, Jun Li et al.     Practicing “green analytical chemistry” is of great importance when profiling the chemical composition of complex matrices. Herein, a novel hybrid analytical platform was …             A-site compositional effects in Ga-doped hollandite materials of the form BaxCsyGa2x+yTi8−2x−yO16: implications for Cs immobilization in crystalline ceramic waste forms ▶     Yun Xu, Yi Wen, Rob Grote et al.     The hollandite structure is a promising crystalline host for Cs immobilization. A series of Ga-doped hollandite BaxCsyGa2x+yTi8−2x−yO16 (x = 0, 0.667, 1.04, 1.33; y = 1.33, …             NiCo nanoalloy encapsulated in graphene layers for improving hydrogen storage properties of LiAlH4 ▶     Chengli Jiao, Lixian Sun, Fen Xu et al.     NiCo nanoalloy (4–6 nm) encapsulated in grapheme layers (NiCo@G) has been prepared by thermolysis of a 3D bimetallic complex CoCo[Ni(EDTA)]2·4H2O and successfully employed as a …             Virtual Planning, Control, and Machining for a Modular-Based Automated Factory Operation in an Augmented Reality Environment ▶     Yun Suen Pai, Hwa Jen Yap, Siti Zawiah Md Dawal et al.     This study presents a modular-based implementation of augmented reality to provide an immersive experience in learning or teaching the planning phase, control system, and …             Stenosis triggers spread of helical Pseudomonas biofilms in cylindrical flow systems ▶     David R. Espeso, Ana Carpio, Esteban Martínez-García et al.     Biofilms are multicellular bacterial structures that adhere to surfaces and often endow the bacterial population with tolerance to antibiotics and other environmental insults. …             A Miniaturized Therapeutic Chromophore for Multiple Metal Pollutant Sensing, Pathological Metal Diagnosis and Logical Computing ▶     Bhimsen Rout     The efficacy of a miniaturized unimolecular analytic system is illustrated. The easily accessible therapeutic chromophore “temoporfin”, which responds differentially to bound …             Facile synthesis of sewage sludge-derived in-situ multi-doped nanoporous carbon material for electrocatalytic oxygen reduction ▶     Shi-Jie Yuan, Xiao-Hu Dai     Developing efficient, low-cost, and stable carbon-based catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) to replace the expensive platinum-based electrocatalysts remains a major …             Networks of plants: how to measure similarity in vegetable species ▶     Gianna Vivaldo, Elisa Masi, Camilla Pandolfi et al.     Despite the common misconception of nearly static organisms, plants do interact continuously with the environment and with each other. It is fair to assume that during their …             The topology of large Open Connectome networks for the human brain ▶     Michael T. Gastner, Géza Ódor     The structural human connectome (i.e. the network of fiber connections in the brain) can be analyzed at ever finer spatial resolution thanks to advances in neuroimaging. Here we …             Patient-specific Deformation Modelling via Elastography: Application to Image-guided Prostate Interventions ▶     Yi Wang, Dong Ni, Jing Qin et al.     Image-guided prostate interventions often require the registration of preoperative magnetic resonance (MR) images to real-time transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) images to provide …             Primary blast causes mild, moderate, severe and lethal TBI with increasing blast overpressures: Experimental rat injury model ▶     Vikas Mishra, Maciej Skotak, Heather Schuetz et al.     Injury severity in blast induced Traumatic Brain Injury (bTBI) increases with blast overpressure (BOP) and impulse in dose-dependent manner. Pure primary blast waves were …             Variation of outdoor illumination as a function of solar elevation and light pollution ▶     Manuel Spitschan, Geoffrey K. Aguirre, David H. Brainard et al.     The illumination of the environment undergoes both intensity and spectral changes during the 24 h cycle of a day. Daylight spectral power distributions are well described by …             High-throughput screening of filamentous fungi using nanoliter-range droplet-based microfluidics ▶     Thomas Beneyton, I. Putu Mahendra Wijaya, Prexilia Postros et al.     Filamentous fungi are an extremely important source of industrial enzymes because of their capacity to secrete large quantities of proteins. 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