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21 June 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Microsystems & Nanoengineering is a fully open access, peer-reviewed journal, which publishes original articles and reviews on cutting-edge and emerging topics related to MEMS/ NEMS and nanotechnology. Submit your manuscript.                 Physical Sciences               Improved oil recovery in nanopores: NanoIOR ▶     James Moraes de Almeida, Caetano Rodrigues Miranda     Fluid flow through minerals pores occurs in underground aquifers, oil and shale gas reservoirs. In this work, we explore water and oil flow through silica nanopores. Our …             Gate Tuning of Förster Resonance Energy Transfer in a Graphene - Quantum Dot FET Photo-Detector ▶     Ruifeng Li, Lorenz Maximilian Schneider, Wolfram Heimbrodt et al.     Graphene photo-detectors functionalized by colloidal quantum dots (cQDs) have been demonstrated to show effective photo-detection. Although the transfer of charge carriers or …             Leach-proof magnetic thrombolytic nanoparticles and coatings of enhanced activity ▶     Andrey S. Drozdov, Vasiliy V. Vinogradov, Ivan P. Dudanov et al.     Despite the fact that magnetic thrombolytic composites is an emerging area, all known so far systems are based on the similar mechanism of action: thrombolytic enzyme releases …             Corrigendum: High Color-Purity Green, Orange, and Red Light-Emitting Diodes Based on Chemically Functionalized Graphene Quantum Dots ▶     Woosung Kwon, Young-Hoon Kim, Ji-Hee Kim et al.                 Detection of orbital angular momentum using a photonic integrated circuit ▶     Guanghao Rui, Bing Gu, Yiping Cui et al.     Orbital angular momentum (OAM) state of photons offer an attractive additional degree of freedom that has found a variety of applications. Measurement of OAM state, which is a …             Multiple magnetic scattering in small-angle neutron scattering of Nd–Fe–B nanocrystalline magnet ▶     Tetsuro Ueno, Kotaro Saito, Masao Yano et al.     We have investigated the influence of multiple scattering on the magnetic small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) from a Nd–Fe–B nanocrystalline magnet. We performed …             Reversible proton-switchable fluorescence controlled by conjugation effect in an organically-functionalized polyoxometalate ▶     Chunlin Lv, Kun Chen, Junjie Hu et al.     A novel monosubstituted organoimido hexamolybdate containing 6-nitroquinoline moiety has been successfully synthesized. This organically-functionalized polyoxometalate exhibits …             Direct acceleration of electrons by a CO2 laser in a curved plasma waveguide ▶     Longqing Yi, Alexander Pukhov, Baifei Shen     Laser plasma interaction with micro-engineered targets at relativistic intensities has been greatly promoted by recent progress in the high contrast lasers and the manufacture of …             Corrigendum: TiO2-catalyzed synthesis of sugars from formaldehyde in extraterrestrial impacts on the early Earth ▶     Svatopluk Civiš, Rafał Szabla, Bartłomiej M. Szyja et al.                 Translation and Rotation of Transformation Media under Electromagnetic Pulse ▶     Fei Gao, Xihang Shi, Xiao Lin et al.     It is well known that optical media create artificial geometry for light, and curved geometry acts as an effective optical medium. This correspondence originates from the form …             Dynamic Behavior of Engineered Lattice Materials ▶     J. A. Hawreliak, J. Lind, B. Maddox et al.     Additive manufacturing (AM) is enabling the fabrication of materials with engineered lattice structures at the micron scale. These mesoscopic structures fall between the length …             Cosmological flux noise and measured noise power spectra in SQUIDs ▶     Christian Beck     The understanding of the origin of 1/f magnetic flux noise commonly observed in superconducting devices such as SQUIDs and qubits is still a major unsolved puzzle. Here we …             High Area Capacity Lithium-Sulfur Full-cell Battery with Prelitiathed Silicon Nanowire-Carbon Anodes for Long Cycling Stability ▶     Andreas Krause, Susanne Dörfler, Markus Piwko et al.     We show full Li/S cells with the use of balanced and high capacity electrodes to address high power electro-mobile applications. The anode is made of an assembly comprising of …             Elastic metamaterials for tuning circular polarization of electromagnetic waves ▶     Yair Zárate, Sahab Babaee, Sung H. Kang et al.     Electromagnetic resonators are integrated with advanced elastic material to develop a new type of tunable metamaterial. An electromagnetic-elastic metamaterial able to switch on …             Role of dimensionality in complex networks ▶     Samuraí Brito, L. R. da Silva, Constantino Tsallis     Deep connections are known to exist between scale-free networks and non-Gibbsian statistics. For example, typical degree distributions at the thermodynamical limit are of the …             Current-induced SQUID behavior of superconducting Nb nano-rings ▶     Omri J. Sharon, Avner Shaulov, Jorge Berger et al.     The critical temperature in a superconducting ring changes periodically with the magnetic flux threading it, giving rise to the well-known Little-Parks magnetoresistance …             Corrigendum: Identification of Leishmania donovani Topoisomerase 1 inhibitors via intuitive scaffold hopping and bioisosteric modification of known Top 1 inhibitors ▶     Rajinikanth Mamidala, Papiya Majumdar, Kunal Kumar Jha et al.                 Corrigendum: Robust Type-specific Hemisynapses Induced by Artificial Dendrites ▶     Eun Joong Kim, Chang Su Jeon, Soo Youn Lee et al.                 Changes of multi-scale structure during mimicked DSC heating reveal the nature of starch gelatinization ▶     Shujun Wang, Xiu Zhang, Shuo Wang et al.     A thorough understanding of starch gelatinization is extremely important for precise control of starch functional properties for food processing and human nutrition. Here we …             Predict or classify: The deceptive role of time-locking in brain signal classification ▶     Marco Rusconi, Angelo Valleriani     Several experimental studies claim to be able to predict the outcome of simple decisions from brain signals measured before subjects are aware of their decision. Often, these …             Ferromagnetic resonance induced large microwave magnetodielectric effect in cerium doped Y3Fe5O12 ferrites ▶     Fu Chen, Xian Wang, Yan Nie et al.     In recent years, multifunctional materials contained simultaneous ferroelectric and ferromagnetic ordering have been realized. Here, a real time room temperature adaptive …             The histone deacetylase inhibiting drug Entinostat induces lipid accumulation in differentiated HepaRG cells ▶     Abigail D. G. Nunn, Tullio Scopigno, Natalia Pediconi et al.     Dietary overload of toxic, free metabolic intermediates leads to disrupted insulin signalling and fatty liver disease. However, it was recently reported that this pathway might …             F1 rotary motor of ATP synthase is driven by the torsionally-asymmetric drive shaft ▶     O. Kulish, A. D. Wright, E. M. Terentjev     F1F0 ATP synthase (ATPase) either facilitates the synthesis of ATP in a process driven by the proton moving force (pmf), or uses the energy from ATP hydrolysis to pump protons …             Flow of Red Blood Cells in Stenosed Microvessels ▶     Koohyar Vahidkhah, Peter Balogh, Prosenjit Bagchi     A computational study is presented on the flow of deformable red blood cells in stenosed microvessels. It is observed that the Fahraeus-Lindqvist effect is significantly enhanced …             Material insights of HfO2-based integrated 1-transistor-1-resistor resistive random access memory devices processed by batch atomic layer deposition ▶     Gang Niu, Hee-Dong Kim, Robin Roelofs et al.     With the continuous scaling of resistive random access memory (RRAM) devices, in-depth understanding of the physical mechanism and the material issues, particularly by directly …             Investigation of the unidirectional spin heat conveyer effect in a 200 nm thin Yttrium Iron Garnet film ▶     Olga Wid, Jan Bauer, Alexander Müller et al.     We have investigated the unidirectional spin wave heat conveyer effect in sub-micron thick yttrium iron garnet (YIG) films using lock-in thermography (LIT). Although the effect …             Microfluidic Assessment of Frying Oil Degradation ▶     Mei Liu, Shaorong Xie, Ji Ge et al.     Monitoring the quality of frying oil is important for the health of consumers. This paper reports a microfluidic technique for rapidly quantifying the degradation of frying oil. …             Feedback damping of a microcantilever at room temperature to the minimum vibration amplitude limited by the noise level ▶     Y. Kawamura, R. Kanegae     Cooling the vibration amplitude of a microcantilever as low as possible is important to improve the sensitivity and resolutions of various types of scanning type microscopes and …             Theoretical Limits of Energy Density in Silicon-Carbon Composite Anode Based Lithium Ion Batteries ▶     Ranjan Dash, Sreekanth Pannala     Silicon (Si) is under consideration as a potential next-generation anode material for the lithium ion battery (LIB). Experimental reports of up to 40% increase in energy density …             Dynamical signatures of molecular symmetries in nonequilibrium quantum transport ▶     Juzar Thingna, Daniel Manzano, Jianshu Cao     Symmetries play a crucial role in ubiquitous systems found in Nature. In this work, we propose an elegant approach to detect symmetries by measuring quantum currents. Our …             A Quasi-Solid State DSSC with 10.1% Efficiency through Molecular Design of the Charge-Separation and -Transport ▶     Michio Suzuka, Naoki Hayashi, Takashi Sekiguchi et al.     Organic-based solar cells potentially offer a photovoltaic module with low production costs and low hazard risk of the components. We report organic dye-sensitized solar cells, …             Large enhancement of the photovoltaic effect in ferroelectric complex oxides through bandgap reduction ▶     Hyunji An, Jun Young Han, Bongjae Kim et al.     Tuning the bandgap in ferroelectric complex oxides is a possible route for improving the photovoltaic activity of materials. Here, we report the realization of this effect in …             3d Transition Metal Adsorption Induced the valley-polarized Anomalous Hall Effect in Germanene ▶     P. Zhou, L. Z. Sun     Based on DFT +  and Berry curvature calculations, we study the electronic structures and topological properties of 3d transition metal (TM) atom (from Ti to Co) adsorbed …             High-dimensional entanglement certification ▶     Zixin Huang, Lorenzo Maccone, Akib Karim et al.     Quantum entanglement is the ability of joint quantum systems to possess global properties (correlation among systems) even when subsystems have no definite individual property. …             Tuning the electrocaloric enhancement near the morphotropic phase boundary in lead-free ceramics ▶     Florian Le Goupil, Ruth McKinnon, Vladimir Koval et al.     The need for more energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly alternatives in the refrigeration industry to meet global emission targets has driven efforts towards materials …             Continuously Tunable, Polarization Controlled, Colour Palette Produced from Nanoscale Plasmonic Pixels ▶     Eugeniu Balaur, Catherine Sadatnajafi, Shan Shan Kou et al.     Colour filters based on nano-apertures in thin metallic films have been widely studied due to their extraordinary optical transmission and small size. These properties make them …             Duality picture of Superconductor-insulator transitions on Superconducting nanowire ▶     Kazumasa Makise, Hirotaka Terai, Yukihiro Tominari et al.     In this study, we investigated the electrical transport properties of niobium titanium nitride (NbTiN) nanowire with four-terminal geometries to clarify the superconducting phase …             Robust Denaturation of Villin Headpiece by MoS2 Nanosheet: Potential Molecular Origin of the Nanotoxicity ▶     Zonglin Gu, Zaixing Yang, Seung-gu Kang et al.     MoS2 nanosheet, a new two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides nanomaterial, has attracted significant attentions lately due to many potential promising biomedical …             Composition analysis of fractions of extracellular polymeric substances from an activated sludge culture and identification of dominant forces affecting microbial aggregation ▶     Xuan Guo, Xu Wang, Junxin Liu     Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) appear to play a critical role in the formation of bioaggregates, such as sludge flocs, in activated sludge processes. Here, we …             Au Nanocage Functionalized with Ultra-small Fe3O4 Nanoparticles for Targeting T1–T2Dual MRI and CT Imaging of Tumor ▶     Guannan Wang, Wei Gao, Xuanjun Zhang et al.     Diagnostic approaches based on multimodal imaging of clinical noninvasive imaging (eg. MRI/CT scanner) are highly developed in recent years for accurate selection of the …             Prevention and Control of Zika as a Mosquito-Borne and Sexually Transmitted Disease: A Mathematical Modeling Analysis ▶     Daozhou Gao, Yijun Lou, Daihai He et al.     The ongoing Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic in the Americas poses a major global public health emergency. While ZIKV is transmitted from human to human by bites of Aedes mosquitoes, …             Maintaining semen quality by improving cold chain equipment used in cattle artificial insemination ▶     Daniel Lieberman, Elizabeth McClure, Stephen Harston et al.     Artificial insemination of dairy cattle is a common practice in the developing world that can improve farmer incomes and food security. Maintaining the fertilizing potential of …             Organic bioelectronics probing conformational changes in surface confined proteins ▶     Eleonora Macchia, Domenico Alberga, Kyriaki Manoli et al.     The study of proteins confined on a surface has attracted a great deal of attention due to its relevance in the development of bio-systems for laboratory and clinical settings. …             FEV manoeuvre induced changes in breath VOC compositions: an unconventional view on lung function tests ▶     Pritam Sukul, Jochen K. Schubert, Peter Oertel et al.     Breath volatile organic compound (VOC) analysis can open a non-invasive window onto pathological and metabolic processes in the body. Decades of clinical breath-gas analysis have …             Long-term exposure to abnormal glucose levels alters drug metabolism pathways and insulin sensitivity in primary human hepatocytes ▶     Matthew D. Davidson, Kimberly R. Ballinger, Salman R. Khetani     Hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes mellitus has been linked to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which can progress to inflammation, fibrosis/cirrhosis, and hepatocellular …             Magneto-optical plasmonic heterostructure with ultranarrow resonance for sensing applications ▶     Daria O. Ignatyeva, Grigory A. Knyazev, Pavel O. Kapralov et al.     Currently, sensors invade into our everyday life to bring higher life standards, excellent medical diagnostic and efficient security. Plasmonic biosensors demonstrate an …             Large anomalous Nernst effect in a skyrmion crystal ▶     Yo Pierre Mizuta, Fumiyuki Ishii     Thermoelectric properties of a model skyrmion crystal were theoretically investigated, and it was found that its large anomalous Hall conductivity, corresponding to large Chern …             Ultracompact and high efficient silicon-based polarization splitter-rotator using a partially-etched subwavelength grating coupler ▶     Yin Xu, Jinbiao Xiao     On-chip polarization manipulation is pivotal for silicon-on-insulator material platform to realize polarization-transparent circuits and polarization-division-multiplexing …             Sensitivity Enhancement of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides/Silicon Nanostructure-based Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensor ▶     Qingling Ouyang, Shuwen Zeng, Li Jiang et al.     In this work, we designed a sensitivity-enhanced surface plasmon resonance biosensor structure based on silicon nanosheet and two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides. …             An Efficient Synthesis Strategy for Metal-Organic Frameworks: Dry-Gel Synthesis of MOF-74 Framework with High Yield and Improved Performance ▶     Atanu Kumar Das, Rama Sesha Vemuri, Igor Kutnyakov et al.     Vapor-assisted dry-gel synthesis of the metal-organic framework-74 (MOF-74) structure, specifically Ni-MOF-74 produced from synthetic precursors using an organic-water hybrid …             Morphology evolution and pure red upconversion mechanism of β-NaLuF4 crystals ▶     Hao Lin, Dekang Xu, Anming Li et al.     A series of β-NaLuF4 crystals were synthesized via a hydrothermal method. Hexagonal phase microdisks, microprisms, and microtubes were achieved by simply changing the amount of …             Membrane of Functionalized Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanoplates with Angstrom-Level Channels ▶     Byeongho Lee, Kunzhou Li, Hong Sik Yoon et al.     Membranes with atomic level pores or constrictions are valuable for separation and catalysis. We report a graphene-based membrane with an interlayer spacing of 3.7 angstrom (Å). …             Study on the Electrochemical Reaction Mechanism of ZnFe2O4 by In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy ▶     Qingmei Su, Shixin Wang, Libing Yao et al.     A family of mixed transition–metal oxides (MTMOs) has great potential for applications as anodes for lithium ion batteries (LIBs). However, the reaction mechanism of MTMOs anodes …             High-precision force sensing using a single trapped ion ▶     Peter A. Ivanov, Nikolay V. Vitanov, Kilian Singer     We introduce quantum sensing schemes for measuring very weak forces with a single trapped ion. They use the spin-motional coupling induced by the laser-ion interaction to …             Acoustic one-way metasurfaces: Asymmetric Phase Modulation of Sound by Subwavelength Layer ▶     Xue Jiang, Bin Liang, Xin-ye Zou et al.     We theoretically design and numerically demonstrate an acoustic one-way metasurface, which is a planar and acoustically subwavelength layer behaving like a nearly-reflectionless …             pH-regulated template-free assembly of Sb4O5Cl2 hollow microsphere crystallites with self-narrowed bandgap and optimized photocatalytic performance ▶     Liuqing Yang, Jianfeng Huang, Liyun Cao et al.     Sb4O5Cl2 hollow microspheres with self-narrowed bandgap and optimized photocatalytic performances are synthesized via a facile template-free method. It is found that the crystal …             Electronic Structures of Free-Standing Nanowires made from Indirect Bandgap Semiconductor Gallium Phosphide ▶     Gaohua Liao, Ning Luo, Ke-Qiu Chen et al.     We present a theoretical study of the electronic structures of freestanding nanowires made from gallium phosphide (GaP)—a III-V semiconductor with an indirect bulk bandgap. We …             Capacity of very noisy communication channels based on Fisher information ▶     Fabing Duan, François Chapeau-Blondeau, Derek Abbott     We generalize the asymptotic capacity expression for very noisy communication channels to now include coloured noise. For the practical scenario of a non-optimal receiver, we …             Dendrite Suppression by Shock Electrodeposition in Charged Porous Media ▶     Ji-Hyung Han, Miao Wang, Peng Bai et al.     It is shown that surface conduction can stabilize electrodeposition in random, charged porous media at high rates, above the diffusion-limited current. After linear sweep …             Facile and scalable disposable sensor based on laser engraved graphene for electrochemical detection of glucose ▶     Farshad Tehrani, Behzad Bavarian     A novel and highly sensitive disposable glucose sensor strip was developed using direct laser engraved graphene (DLEG) decorated with pulse deposited copper nanocubes (CuNCs). …             Complex network analysis of phase dynamics underlying oil-water two-phase flows ▶     Zhong-Ke Gao, Shan-Shan Zhang, Qing Cai et al.     Characterizing the complicated flow behaviors arising from high water cut and low velocity oil-water flows is an important problem of significant challenge. We design a …             Size-, electric-field-, and frequency-dependent third-order nonlinear optical properties of hydrogenated silicon nanoclusters ▶     Haipeng Li, Hu Xu, Xiaopeng Shen et al.     We investigated the electronic properties and second hyperpolarizabilities of hydrogenated silicon nanoclusters (H-SiNCs) by using the density functional theory method. The …             Nanostructural control of methane release in kerogen and its implications to wellbore production decline ▶     Tuan Anh Ho, Louise J. Criscenti, Yifeng Wang     Despite massive success of shale gas production in the US in the last few decades there are still major concerns with the steep decline in wellbore production and the large …             A rapid and practical technique for real-time monitoring of biomolecular interactions using mechanical responses of macromolecules ▶     Mehmet C. Tarhan, Nicolas Lafitte, Yannick Tauran et al.     Monitoring biological reactions using the mechanical response of macromolecules is an alternative approach to immunoassays for providing real-time information about the …             A relation to predict the failure of materials and potential application to volcanic eruptions and landslides ▶     Shengwang Hao, Chao Liu, Chunsheng Lu et al.     A theoretical explanation of a time-to-failure relation is presented, with this relationship then used to describe the failure of materials. This provides the potential to …             Polarizability of the active site of cytochrome c reduces the activation barrier for electron transfer ▶     Mohammadhasan Dinpajooh, Daniel R. Martin, Dmitry V. Matyushov     Enzymes in biology’s energy chains operate with low energy input distributed through multiple electron transfer steps between protein active sites. The general challenge of …             Time-resolved absolute measurements by electro-optic effect of giant electromagnetic pulses due to laser-plasma interaction in nanosecond regime ▶     F. Consoli, R. De Angelis, L. Duvillaret et al.     We describe the first electro-optical absolute measurements of electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) generated by laser-plasma interaction in nanosecond regime. Laser intensities are …             Real-time microstructure imaging by Laue microdiffraction: A sample application in laser 3D printed Ni-based superalloys ▶     Guangni Zhou, Wenxin Zhu, Hao Shen et al.     Synchrotron-based Laue microdiffraction has been widely applied to characterize the local crystal structure, orientation, and defects of inhomogeneous polycrystalline solids by …             Dynamic terahertz spectroscopy of gas molecules mixed with unwanted aerosol under atmospheric pressure using fibre-based asynchronous-optical-sampling terahertz time-domain spectroscopy ▶     Yi-Da Hsieh, Shota Nakamura, Dahi Ghareab Abdelsalam et al.     Terahertz (THz) spectroscopy is a promising method for analysing polar gas molecules mixed with unwanted aerosols due to its ability to obtain spectral fingerprints of rotational …             Fast fringe-field switching of a liquid crystal cell by two-dimensional confinement with virtual walls ▶     Tae-Hoon Choi, Seung-Won Oh, Young-Jin Park et al.     We report a simple method for reducing the response time of a fringe-field switching liquid crystal cell by using two-dimensional confinement of the liquid crystals. Through both …             Shape-morphing composites with designed micro-architectures ▶     Jennifer N. Rodriguez, Cheng Zhu, Eric B. Duoss et al.     Shape memory polymers (SMPs) are attractive materials due to their unique mechanical properties, including high deformation capacity and shape recovery. SMPs are easier to …             Biodegradability of poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) after femtosecond laser irradiation ▶     Akimichi Shibata, Shuhei Yada, Mitsuhiro Terakawa     Biodegradation is a key property for biodegradable polymer-based tissue scaffolds because it can provide suitable space for cell growth as well as tailored sustainability …             Thermally insensitive determination of the linewidth broadening factor in nanostructured semiconductor lasers using optical injection locking ▶     Cheng Wang, Kevin Schires, Marek Osiński et al.     In semiconductor lasers, current injection not only provides the optical gain, but also induces variation of the refractive index, as governed by the Kramers-Krönig relation. The …             Dynamic nano-triboelectrification using torsional resonance mode atomic force microscopy ▶     Wei Cai, Nan Yao     Understanding the mechanism of charge generation, distribution, and transfer between surfaces is very important for energy harvesting applications based on triboelectric effect. …             Self-templated synthesis of novel carbon nanoarchitectures for efficient electrocatalysis ▶     Xi-Lin Wu, Tao Wen, Hong-Li Guo et al.     The cost-efficient large-scale production of novel carbon nanostructure with high performance is still a challenge, restricting their applications in catalysis. Herein, we …             Inflated Sporopollenin Exine Capsules Obtained from Thin-Walled Pollen ▶     Jae Hyeon Park, Jeongeun Seo, Joshua A. Jackman et al.     Sporopollenin is a physically robust and chemically resilient biopolymer that comprises the outermost layer of pollen walls and is the first line of defense against harsh …             Gradient shadow pattern reveals refractive index of liquid ▶     Wonkyoung Kim, Dong Sung Kim     We propose a simple method that uses a gradient shadow pattern (GSP) to measure the refractive index nL of liquids. A light source generates a “dark-bright-dark” GSP when it is …             Gigahertz time-domain spectroscopy and imaging for non-destructive materials research and evaluation ▶     Dmitry S. Bulgarevich, Mitsuharu Shiwa, Takashi Furuya et al.     By using optical sampling with repetition frequency modulation of pump/probe laser pulses on photoconductive emitter/detector antennas, the high-speed time/frequency domain …             S-induced modifications of the optoelectronic properties of ZnO mesoporous nanobelts ▶     Filippo Fabbri, Lucia Nasi, Paolo Fedeli et al.     The synthesis of ZnO porous nanobelts with high surface-to-volume ratio is envisaged to enhance the zinc oxide sensing and photocatalytic properties. Yet, controlled …             Scandium and Titanium Containing Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Hydrogen Storage: a Thermodynamic and First Principle Calculation ▶     Michael Mananghaya, Dennis Yu, Gil Nonato Santos et al.     The generalized gradient approximation (GGA) to density functional theory (DFT) calculations indicate that the highly localized states derived from the defects of nitrogen doped …             The thermal and electrical properties of the promising semiconductor MXene Hf2CO2 ▶     Xian-Hu Zha, Qing Huang, Jian He et al.     With the growing interest in low dimensional materials, MXenes have also attracted considerable attention recently. In this work, the thermal and electrical properties of …             Synthesizing 2D MoS2 Nanofins on carbon nanospheres as catalyst support for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells ▶     Yan Hu, Daniel H. C. Chua     Highly dense 2D MoS2 fin-like nanostructures on carbon nanospheres were fabricated and formed the main catalyst support structure in the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) for …             Ultra-sensitive in-situ detection of near-infrared persistent luminescent tracer nanoagents in crude oil-water mixtures ▶     Yen-Jun Chuang, Feng Liu, Wei Wang et al.     Current fluorescent nanoparticles-based tracer sensing techniques for oilfield applications suffer from insufficient sensitivity, with the tracer detection limit typically at the …             Effects of introducing isotropic artificial defects on the superconducting properties of differently doped Ba-122 based single crystals ▶     V. Mishev, M. Nakajima, H. Eisaki et al.     The effects of isotropic artifical defects, introduced via fast neutron (E > 0.1 MeV) irradiation, on the physical properties of differently (Co, P and K) doped BaFe2As2 …             Electronic structure and electron-phonon coupling in TiH2 ▶     K. V. Shanavas, L. Lindsay, D. S. Parker     Calculations using first principles methods and strong coupling theory are carried out to understand the electronic structure and superconductivity in cubic and tetragonal TiH2. …             Increased Thermal Conductivity in Metal-Organic Heat Carrier Nanofluids ▶     Manjula I. Nandasiri, Jian Liu, B. Peter McGrail et al.     Metal-organic heat carriers (MOHCs) are recently developed nanofluids containing metal-organic framework (MOF) nanoparticles dispersed in various base fluids including …             Size distribution of ring polymers ▶     Shlomi Medalion, Erez Aghion, Hagai Meirovitch et al.     We present an exact solution for the distribution of sample averaged monomer to monomer distance of ring polymers. For non-interacting and local-interaction models these …             A Thermochromic Superhydrophobic Surface ▶     Pietro Cataldi, Ilker S. Bayer, Roberto Cingolani et al.     Highly enhanced solid-state thermochromism is observed in regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene), P3HT, when deposited on a superhydrophobic polymer-SiO2 nanocomposite coating. The …             The Hydration Structure at Yttria-Stabilized Cubic Zirconia (110)-Water Interface with Sub-Ångström Resolution ▶     Binyang Hou, Seunghyun Kim, Taeho Kim et al.     The interfacial hydration structure of yttria-stabilized cubic zirconia (110) surface in contact with water was determined with ~0.5 Å resolution by high-resolution X-ray …             Continuous Compressed Sensing for Surface Dynamical Processes with Helium Atom Scattering ▶     Alex Jones, Anton Tamtögl, Irene Calvo-Almazán et al.     Compressed Sensing (CS) techniques are used to measure and reconstruct surface dynamical processes with a helium spin-echo spectrometer for the first time. Helium atom scattering …             Atomic-resolved depth profile of strain and cation intermixing around LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces ▶     H. Zaid, M. H. Berger, D. Jalabert et al.     Novel behavior has been observed at the interface of LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures such as two dimensional metallic conductivity, magnetic scattering and superconductivity. …             Optoacoustic effect is responsible for laser-induced cochlear responses ▶     N. Kallweit, P. Baumhoff, A. Krueger et al.     Optical stimulation of the cochlea with laser light has been suggested as an alternative to conventional treatment of sensorineural hearing loss with cochlear implants. The …             Band engineering in a van der Waals heterostructure using a 2D polar material and a capping layer ▶     Sung Beom Cho, Yong-Chae Chung     Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures are expected to play a key role in next-generation electronic and optoelectronic devices. In this study, the band alignment of a vdW …             In vivo Monitoring of Serotonin by Nanomaterial Functionalized Acupuncture Needle ▶     Yu-Tao Li, Li-Na Tang, Yong Ning et al.     Acupuncture treatment is amazing but controversial. Up to now, the mechanism of treating diseases by acupuncture and moxibustion is still unclear, especially the occurrence of …             A proposed integrated approach for the preclinical evaluation of phage therapy in Pseudomonas infections ▶     Katarzyna Danis-Wlodarczyk, Dieter Vandenheuvel, Ho Bin Jang et al.     Bacteriophage therapy is currently resurging as a potential complement/alternative to antibiotic treatment. However, preclinical evaluation lacks streamlined approaches. 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A simple strategy is to choose top-r ranked nodes as …             Hydrothermal growth of VO2 nanoplate thermochromic films on glass with high visible transmittance ▶     Jiasong Zhang, Jingbo Li, Pengwan Chen et al.     The preparation of thermochromic vanadium dioxide (VO2) films in an economical way is of interest to realizing the application of smart windows. Here, we reported a successful …             3D conductive coupling for efficient generation of prominent Fano resonances in metamaterials ▶     Zhiguang Liu, Zhe Liu, Jiafang Li et al.     We demonstrate a 3D conductive coupling mechanism for the efficient generation of prominent and robust Fano resonances in 3D metamaterials (MMs) formed by integrating vertical U-…             High stability of electro-transport and magnetism against the A-site cation disorder in SrRuO3 ▶     Y. L. Wang, M. F. Liu, R. 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Films …             A Direct Method to Extract Transient Sub-Gap Density of State (DOS) Based on Dual Gate Pulse Spectroscopy ▶     Mingzhi Dai, Karim Khan, Shengnan Zhang et al.     Sub-gap density of states (DOS) is a key parameter to impact the electrical characteristics of semiconductor materials-based transistors in integrated circuits. Previously, …             Energy Landscape Topography Reveals the Underlying Link Between Binding Specificity and Activity of Enzymes ▶     Wen-Ting Chu, Jin Wang     Enzyme activity (often quantified by kcat/Km) is the main function of enzyme when it is active against the specific substrate. Higher or lower activities are highly desired for …             Encapsulation of Fe3O4 Nanoparticles into N, S co-Doped Graphene Sheets with Greatly Enhanced Electrochemical Performance ▶     Zunxian Yang, Kun Qian, Jun Lv et al.     Particular N, S co-doped graphene/Fe3O4 hybrids have been successfully synthesized by the combination of a simple hydrothermal process and a subsequent carbonization heat …             An ontology-driven, case-based clinical decision support model for removable partial denture design ▶     Qingxiao Chen, Ji Wu, Shusen Li et al.     We present the initial work toward developing a clinical decision support model for specific design of removable partial dentures (RPDs) in dentistry. We developed an ontological …             Visible to near-infrared refractive properties of freshly-excised human-liver tissues: marking hepatic malignancies ▶     Panagiotis Giannios, Konstantinos G. 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