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23 August 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Physical Sciences               Analysis and modeling of Fano resonances using equivalent circuit elements ▶     Bo Lv, Rujiang Li, Jiahui Fu et al.     Fano resonance presents an asymmetric line shape formed by an interference of a continuum coupled with a discrete autoionized state. In this paper, we show several simple …             Numerical analysis of 2.7 μm lasing in Er3+-doped tellurite fiber lasers ▶     Weichao Wang, Lixiu Li, Dongdan Chen et al.     The laser performance of Er3+-doped tellurite fiber lasers operating at 2.7 μm due to 4I11/2 → 4I13/2 transition has been theoretically studied by using rate equations and …             A perovskite oxide with high conductivities in both air and reducing atmosphere for use as electrode for solid oxide fuel cells ▶     Rong Lan, Peter I. Cowin, Sivaprakash Sengodan et al.     Electrode materials which exhibit high conductivities in both oxidising and reducing atmospheres are in high demand for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) and solid oxide …             High Per formance and Flexible Supercapacitors based on Carbonized Bamboo Fibers for Wide Temperature Applications ▶     Camila Zequine, C. K. Ranaweera, Z. Wang et al.     High performance carbonized bamboo fibers were synthesized for a wide range of temperature dependent energy storage applications. The structural and electrochemical properties of …             Physical Realization of von Neumann Lattices in Rotating Bose Gases with Dipole Interatomic Interactions ▶     Szu-Cheng Cheng, Shih-Da Jheng     This paper reports a novel type of vortex lattice, referred to as a bubble crystal, which was discovered in rapidly rotating Bose gases with long-range interactions. Bubble …             Repetitive Biomimetic Self-healing of Ca2+-Induced Nanocomposite Protein Hydrogels ▶     Jun Chen, Qiuchen Dong, Xiaoyu Ma et al.     Self-healing is a capacity observed in most biological systems in which the healing processes are autonomously triggered after the damage. Inspired by this natural behavior, …             Identifying the Stern-Gerlach force of classical electron dynamics ▶     Meng Wen, Heiko Bauke, Christoph H. Keitel     Different classical theories are commonly applied in various branches of physics to describe the relativistic dynamics of electrons by coupled equations for the orbital motion …             Reconciling Local Structure Disorder and the Relaxor State in (Bi1/2Na1/2)TiO3-BaTiO3 ▶     Pedro B. Groszewicz, Melanie Gröting, Hergen Breitzke et al.     Lead-based relaxor ferroelectrics are key functional materials indispensable for the production of multilayer ceramic capacitors and piezoelectric transducers. Currently there …             Optical coherence microscopy in 1700 nm spectral band for high-resolution label-free deep-tissue imaging ▶     Masahito Yamanaka, Tatsuhiro Teranishi, Hiroyuki Kawagoe et al.     Optical coherence microscopy (OCM) is a label-free, high-resolution, three-dimensional (3D) imaging technique based on optical coherence tomography (OCT) and confocal microscopy. …             Switching of both local ferroelectric and magnetic domains in multiferroic Bi0.9La0.1FeO3 thin film by mechanical force ▶     Tingting Jia, Hideo Kimura, Zhenxiang Cheng et al.     Cross-coupling of ordering parameters in multiferroic materials by multiple external stimuli other than electric field and magnetic field is highly desirable from both practical …             On the Thermal and Thermodynamic (In)Stability of Methylammonium Lead Halide Perovskites ▶     Bruno Brunetti, Carmen Cavallo, Andrea Ciccioli et al.     The interest of the scientific community on methylammonium lead halide perovskites (MAPbX3, X = Cl, Br, I) for hybrid organic-inorganic solar cells has grown exponentially since …             Optical characterization of red blood cells from individuals with sickle cell trait and disease in Tanzania using quantitative phase imaging ▶     JaeHwang Jung, Lucas E. Matemba, KyeoReh Lee et al.     Sickle cell disease (SCD) is common across Sub-Saharan Africa. However, the investigation of SCD in this area has been significantly limited mainly due to the lack of research …             A Comparison of the Elastic Properties of Graphene- and Fullerene-Reinforced Polymer Composites: The Role of Filler Morphology and Size ▶     Chang-Tsan Lu, Asanka Weerasinghe, Dimitrios Maroudas et al.     Nanoscale carbon-based fillers are known to significantly alter the mechanical and electrical properties of polymers even at relatively low loadings. We report results from …             Spin-Hall-Effect-Assisted Electroresistance in Antiferromagnets via 105 A/cm2 dc Current ▶     Jiahao Han, Yuyan Wang, Feng Pan et al.     Antiferromagnet (AFM) spintronics with reduced electrical current is greatly expected to process information with high integration and low power consumption. In Pt/FeMn and …             A rock-salt-type Li-based oxide, Li3Ni2RuO6, exhibiting a chaotic ferrimagnetism with cluster spin-glass dynamics and thermally frozen charge carriers ▶     Sanjay Kumar Upadhyay, Kartik K. Iyer, S. Rayaprol et al.     The area of research to discover new Li containing materials and to understand their physical properties has been of constant interest due to applications potential for …             Symmetric and Asymmetric Tendencies in Stable Complex Systems ▶     James P. L. Tan     A commonly used approach to study stability in a complex system is by analyzing the Jacobian matrix at an equilibrium point of a dynamical system. The equilibrium point is stable …             Wideband-Switchable Metamaterial Absorber Using Injected Liquid Metal ▶     Hyung Ki Kim, Dongju Lee, Sungjoon Lim     Metamaterial absorbers can provide good solutions for radar-cross-section (RCS) reduction. In spite of their attractive features of thinness, lightness, and low cost, resonant …             Fully-Enclosed Ceramic Micro-burners Using Fugitive Phase and Powder-based Processing ▶     Truong Do, Changseop Shin, Patrick Kwon et al.     Ceramic-based microchemical systems (μCSs) are more suitable for operation under harsh environments such as high temperature and corrosive reactants compared to the more …             Inversion channel diamond metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor with normally off characteristics ▶     Tsubasa Matsumoto, Hiromitsu Kato, Kazuhiro Oyama et al.     We fabricated inversion channel diamond metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) with normally off characteristics. At present, Si MOSFETs and insulated gate …             Purification of High Salinity Brine by Multi-Stage Ion Concentration Polarization Desalination ▶     Bumjoo Kim, Rhokyun Kwak, Hyukjin J. Kwon et al.     There is an increasing need for the desalination of high concentration brine (>TDS 35,000 ppm) efficiently and economically, either for the treatment of produced water from shale …             Surface thermal oxidation on titanium implants to enhance osteogenic activity and in vivo osseointegration ▶     Guifang Wang, Jinhua Li, Kaige Lv et al.     Thermal oxidation, which serves as a low-cost, effective and relatively simple/facile method, was used to modify a micro-structured titanium surface in ambient atmosphere at …             Localising the auditory N1m with event-related beamformers: localisation accuracy following bilateral and unilateral stimulation ▶     Lauren Gascoyne, Paul L. Furlong, Arjan Hillebrand et al.     The auditory evoked N1m-P2m response complex presents a challenging case for MEG source-modelling, because symmetrical, phase-locked activity occurs in the hemispheres both …             Organization of Nucleotides in Different Environments and the Formation of Pre-Polymers ▶     Sebastian Himbert, Mindy Chapman, David W. Deamer et al.     RNA is a linear polymer of nucleotides linked by a ribose-phosphate backbone. Polymerization of nucleotides occurs in a condensation reaction in which phosphodiester bonds are …             Spike-Threshold Variability Originated from Separatrix-Crossing in Neuronal Dynamics ▶     Longfei Wang, Hengtong Wang, Lianchun Yu et al.     The threshold voltage for action potential generation is a key regulator of neuronal signal processing, yet the mechanism of its dynamic variation is still not well described. In …             Erratum: Image Quality Ranking Method for Microscopy ▶     Sami Koho, Elnaz Fazeli, John E. Eriksson et al.                 Corrigendum: 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.                 Penta-BxNy sheet: a density functional theory study of two-dimensional material ▶     Jiao Li, Xinyu Fan, Yanpei Wei et al.     By using density functional theory with generalized gradient approximation, we have carried out detailed investigations of two-dimensional BxNy nanomaterials in the Cairo …             Phonon triggered rhombohedral lattice distortion in vanadium at high pressure ▶     Daniele Antonangeli, Daniel L. Farber, Alexei Bosak et al.     In spite of the simple body-centered-cubic crystal structure, the elements of group V, vanadium, niobium and tantalum, show strong interactions between the electronic properties …             Corrigendum: Six Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible Models on Scale-free Networks ▶     Satoru Morita                 Corrigendum: High-Resolution Group Quantization Phase Processing Method in Radio Frequency Measurement Range ▶     Baoqiang Du, Dazheng Feng, Yaohua Tang et al.                 Thermal noise and optomechanical features in the emission of a membrane-coupled compound cavity laser diode ▶     Lorenzo Baldacci, Alessandro Pitanti, Luca Masini et al.     We demonstrate the use of a compound optical cavity as linear displacement detector, by measuring the thermal motion of a silicon nitride suspended membrane acting as the …             Graphene oxide-enhanced sol-gel transition sensitivity and drug release performance of an amphiphilic copolymer-based nanocomposite ▶     Huawen Hu, Xiaowen Wang, Ka I Lee et al.     We report the fabrication of a highly sensitive amphiphilic copolymer-based nanocomposite incorporating with graphene oxide (GO), which exhibited a low-intensity UV …             Toxicology Study of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes and Reduced Graphene Oxide in Human Sperm ▶     Waseem Asghar, Hadi Shafiee, Vanessa Velasco et al.     Carbon-based nanomaterials such as single-walled carbon nanotubes and reduced graphene oxide are currently being evaluated for biomedical applications including in vivo drug …             Corrigendum: Synthesis and Characterization of an Alumina Forming Nanolaminated Boride: MoAlB ▶     Sankalp Kota, Eugenio Zapata-Solvas, Alexander Ly et al.                 Intravital assessment of myelin molecular order with polarimetric multiphoton microscopy ▶     Raphaël Turcotte, Danette J. Rutledge, Erik Bélanger et al.     Myelin plays an essential role in the nervous system and its disruption in diseases such as multiple sclerosis may lead to neuronal death, thus causing irreversible functional …             Ammonia intercalated flower-like MoS2 nanosheet film as electrocatalyst for high efficient and stable hydrogen evolution ▶     F. Z. Wang, M. J. Zheng, B. Zhang et al.     Ammonia intercalated flower-like MoS2 electrocatalyst film assembled by vertical orientated ultrathin nanosheet on graphite sheethas been successfully synthesized using one-step …             Thermo-tunable hybrid photonic crystal fiber based on solution-processed chalcogenide glass nanolayers ▶     Christos Markos     The possibility to combine silica photonic crystal fiber (PCF) as low-loss platform with advanced functional materials, offers an enormous range of choices for the development of …             Saving Moore’s Law Down To 1 nm Channels With Anisotropic Effective Mass ▶     Hesameddin Ilatikhameneh, Tarek Ameen, Bozidar Novakovic et al.     Scaling transistors’ dimensions has been the thrust for the semiconductor industry in the last four decades. However, scaling channel lengths beyond 10 nm has become …             A magnetic synapse: multilevel spin-torque memristor with perpendicular anisotropy ▶     Steven Lequeux, Joao Sampaio, Vincent Cros et al.     Memristors are non-volatile nano-resistors which resistance can be tuned by applied currents or voltages and set to a large number of levels. Thanks to these properties, …             Large Hysteresis effect in Synchronization of Nanocontact Vortex Oscillators by Microwave Fields ▶     S. Perna, L. Lopez-Diaz, M. d’Aquino et al.     Current-induced vortex oscillations in an extended thin-film with point-contact geometry are considered. The synchronization of these oscillations with a microwave external …             Practical Quantum Private Database Queries Based on Passive Round-Robin Differential Phase-shift Quantum Key Distribution ▶     Jian Li, Yu-Guang Yang, Xiu-Bo Chen et al.     A novel quantum private database query protocol is proposed, based on passive round-robin differential phase-shift quantum key distribution. Compared with previous quantum …             Microstructural and Mechanical-Property Manipulation through Rapid Dendrite Growth and Undercooling in an Fe-based Multinary Alloy ▶     Ying Ruan, Amirhossein Mohajerani, Ming Dao     Rapid dendrite growth in single- or dual-phase multicomponent alloys can be manipulated to improve the mechanical properties of such metallic materials. Rapid growth of (αFe) …             Example study for granular bioreactor stratification: Three-dimensional evaluation of a sulfate-reducing granular bioreactor ▶     Tian-wei Hao, Jing-hai Luo, Kui-zu Su et al.     Recently, sulfate-reducing granular sludge has been developed for application in sulfate-laden water and wastewater treatment. However, little is known about biomass …             Live volumetric (4D) visualization and guidance of in vivo human ophthalmic surgery with intraoperative optical coherence tomography ▶     O. M. Carrasco-Zevallos, B. Keller, C. Viehland et al.     Minimally-invasive microsurgery has resulted in improved outcomes for patients. However, operating through a microscope limits depth perception and fixes the visual perspective, …             The Switch in a Genetic Toggle System with Lévy Noise ▶     Yong Xu, Yongge Li, Hao Zhang et al.     A bistable toggle switch is a paradigmatic model in the field of biology. The dynamics of the system induced by Gaussian noise has been intensively investigated, but Gaussian …             Silicon Nitride: A Synthetic Mineral for Vertebrate Biology ▶     Giuseppe Pezzotti, Bryan J. McEntire, Ryan Bock et al.     The remarkable stoichiometric flexibility of hydroxyapatite (HAp) enables the formation of a variety of charged structural sites at the material’s surface which facilitates bone …             Revisit the Correlation between the Elastic Mechanics and Fusion of Lipid Membranes ▶     Zih-An Fan, Kuan-Yu Tsang, Si-Han Chen et al.     Membrane fusion is a vital process in key cellular events. The fusion capability of a membrane depends on its elastic properties and varies with its lipid composition. It is …             Precise and selective sensing of DNA-DNA hybridization by graphene/Si-nanowires diode-type biosensors ▶     Jungkil Kim, Shin-Young Park, Sung Kim et al.     Single-Si-nanowire (NW)-based DNA sensors have been recently developed, but their sensitivity is very limited because of high noise signals, originating from small source-drain …             Ceramic planar waveguide laser of non-aqueous tape casting fabricated YAG/Yb:YAG/YAG ▶     Chao Wang, Wenxue Li, Chao Yang et al.     Ceramic YAG/Yb:YAG/YAG planar waveguide lasers were realized on continuous-wave and mode-locked operations. The straight waveguide, fabricated by non-aqueous tape casting and …             Specific polyunsaturated fatty acids modulate lipid delivery and oocyte development in C. elegans revealed by molecular-selective label-free imaging ▶     Wei-Wen Chen, Yung-Hsiang Yi, Cheng-Hao Chien et al.     Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) exhibit critical functions in biological systems and their importance during animal oocyte maturation has been increasingly recognized. …             Nanochips of Tantalum Oxide Nanodots as artificial-microenvironments for monitoring Ovarian cancer progressiveness ▶     Udesh Dhawan, Ssu-Meng Wang, Ying Hao Chu et al.     Nanotopography modulates cell characteristics and cell behavior. Nanotopological cues can be exploited to investigate the in-vivo modulation of cell characteristics by the …             Nonvolatile and tunable switching of lateral photo-voltage triggered by laser and electric pulse in metal dusted metal-oxide-semiconductor structures ▶     Peiqi Zhou, Zhikai Gan, Xu Huang et al.     Owing to the innate stabilization of built-in potential in p–n junction or metal-oxide-semiconductor structure, the sensitivity and linearity of most lateral photovoltaic effect …             Synaptic plasticity and neuronal refractory time cause scaling behaviour of neuronal avalanches ▶     L. Michiels van Kessenich, L. de Arcangelis, H. J. Herrmann     Neuronal avalanches measured in vitro and in vivo in different cortical networks consistently exhibit power law behaviour for the size and duration distributions with exponents …             A Doping Lattice of Aluminum and Copper with Accelerated Electron Transfer Process and Enhanced Reductive Degradation Performance ▶     Lin Zhang, Xue Gao, Zhixuan Zhang et al.     Treatment of azo dye effluents has received increasing concerns over the years due to their potential harms to natural environment and human health. The present study described …             Localization of Waves in Merged Lattices ▶     G. Alagappan, C. E. Png     This article describes a new two–dimensional physical topology–merged lattice, that allows dense number of wave localization states. Merged lattices are obtained as a result of …             Giant and Tunable Anisotropy of Nanoscale Friction in Graphene ▶     Clara M. Almeida, Rodrigo Prioli, Benjamin Fragneaud et al.     The nanoscale friction between an atomic force microscopy tip and graphene is investigated using friction force microscopy (FFM). During the tip movement, friction forces are …             Electrically Controllable Microparticle Synthesis and Digital Microfluidic Manipulation by Electric-Field-Induced Droplet Dispensing into Immiscible Fluids ▶     Taewoong Um, Jiwoo Hong, Do Jin Im et al.     The dispensing of tiny droplets is a basic and crucial process in a myriad of applications, such as DNA/protein microarray, cell cultures, chemical synthesis of microparticles, …             Multi-scale structure and topological anomaly detection via a new network statistic: The onion decomposition ▶     Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Joshua A. Grochow, Antoine Allard     We introduce a network statistic that measures structural properties at the micro-, meso-, and macroscopic scales, while still being easy to compute and interpretable at a …             Temperature dependence of phonon-defect interactions: phonon scattering vs. phonon trapping ▶     M. B. Bebek, C. M. Stanley, T. M. Gibbons et al.     The interactions between thermal phonons and defects are conventionally described as scattering processes, an idea proposed almost a century ago. In this contribution, ab-initio …             A smart temperature and magnetic-responsive gating carbon nanotube membrane for ion and protein transportation ▶     Hailin Cong, Xiaodan Xu, Bing Yu et al.     Carbon nanotube (CNT) nanoporous membranes based on pre-aligned CNTs have superior nano-transportation properties in biological science. Herein, we report a smart temperature- …             Resonant Zener tunnelling via zero-dimensional states in a narrow gap diode ▶     D. M. Di Paola, M. Kesaria, O. Makarovsky et al.     Interband tunnelling of carriers through a forbidden energy gap, known as Zener tunnelling, is a phenomenon of fundamental and technological interest. Its experimental …             Supercritical Carbon Dioxide-Assisted Process for Well-Dispersed Silicon/Graphene Composite as a Li ion Battery Anode ▶     Sang Ha Lee, Sengyoen Park, Min Kim et al.     The silicon (Si)/graphene composite has been touted as one of the most promising anode materials for lithium ion batteries. However, the optimal fabrication method for this …             Insights into the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of V-doped copper clusters: comparison with pure copper clusters ▶     Dong Die, Ben-Xia Zheng, Lan-Qiong Zhao et al.     The structural, electronic and magnetic properties of Cun+1 and CunV (n = 1–12) clusters have been investigated by using density functional theory. The growth behaviors reveal …             Enhancement of superconductivity under pressure and the magnetic phase diagram of tantalum disulfide single crystals ▶     M. Abdel-Hafiez, X.-M. Zhao, A. A. Kordyuk et al.     In low-dimensional electron systems, charge density waves (CDW) and superconductivity are two of the most fundamental collective quantum phenomena. For all known …             Hierarchical organization of functional connectivity in the mouse brain: a complex network approach ▶     Giampiero Bardella, Angelo Bifone, Andrea Gabrielli et al.     This paper represents a contribution to the study of the brain functional connectivity from the perspective of complex networks theory. More specifically, we apply graph …             A plasmonic colorimetric strategy for visual miRNA detection based on hybridization chain reaction ▶     Jie Miao, Jingsheng Wang, Jinyang Guo et al.     In this work, a novel colorimetric strategy for miRNA analysis is proposed based on hybridization chain reaction (HCR)-mediated localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) …             Adsorption of Antibiotics on Graphene and Biochar in Aqueous Solutions Induced by π-π Interactions ▶     Bingquan Peng, Liang Chen, Chenjing Que et al.     The use of carbon based materials on the removal of antibiotics with high concentrations has been well studied, however the effect of this removal method is not clear on the …             HematoPorphyrin Monomethyl Ether polymer contrast agent for ultrasound/photoacoustic dual-modality imaging-guided synergistic high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy ▶     Sijing Yan, Min LU, Xiaoya Ding et al.     This study is to prepare a hematoporphyrin monomethyl ether (HMME)-loaded poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) microcapsules (HMME/PLGA), which could not only function as …             Endovascular Electrodes for Electrical Stimulation of Blood Vessels for Vasoconstriction – a Finite Element Simulation Study ▶     Noa Kezurer, Nairouz Farah, Yossi Mandel     Hemorrhagic shock accounts for 30–40 percent of trauma mortality, as bleeding may sometimes be hard to control. Application of short electrical pulses on blood vessels was …             Distinguishing autocrine and paracrine signals in hematopoietic stem cell culture using a biofunctional microcavity platform ▶     Eike Müller, Weijia Wang, Wenlian Qiao et al.     Homeostasis of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) in the mammalian bone marrow stem cell niche is regulated by signals of the local microenvironment. Besides juxtacrine, endocrine …             The microstructure matters: breaking down the barriers with single crystalline silicon as negative electrode in Li-ion batteries ▶     M. Sternad, M. Forster, M. Wilkening     Silicon-based microelectronics forms a major foundation of our modern society. Small lithium-ion batteries act as the key enablers of its success and have revolutionised portable …             Resonant vortex-core reversal in magnetic nano-spheres as robust mechanism of efficient energy absorption and emission ▶     Sang-Koog Kim, Myoung-Woo Yoo, Jehyun Lee et al.     We report on novel vortex-core reversal dynamics in nano-spheres of single-vortex spin configuration as revealed by micromagnetic simulations combined with analytical …             Effect of pristine graphene incorporation on charge storage mechanism of three-dimensional graphene oxide: superior energy and power density retention ▶     Kiran Pal Singh, Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjya, Fatemeh Razmjooei et al.     In the race of gaining higher energy density, carbon’s capacity to retain power density is generally lost due to defect incorporation and resistance increment in carbon …             Mussel-inspired Polydopamine-treated Copper Foil as a Current Collector for High-performance Silicon Anodes ▶     Inseong Cho, Seokhyeon Gong, Danoh Song et al.     A new Cu current collector was prepared by introducing a mussel-inspired polydopamine coating onto a Cu foil surface to improve the electrochemical performance of a Si electrode. …             High Pressure Experimental Studies on CuO: Indication of Re-entrant Multiferroicity at Room Temperature ▶     Rajesh Jana, Pinku Saha, Vivek Pareek et al.     We have carried out detailed experimental investigations on polycrystalline CuO using dielectric constant, dc resistance, Raman spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction measurements at …             Detailed Experimental Study of Ion Acceleration by Interaction of an Ultra-Short Intense Laser with an Underdense Plasma ▶     S. Kahaly, F. Sylla, A. Lifschitz et al.     Ion acceleration from intense (Iλ2 > 1018 Wcm−2 μm2) laser-plasma interaction is experimentally studied within a wide range of He gas densities. Focusing an ultrashort pulse …             Light-Driven Reversible Shaping of Individual Azopolymeric Micro-Pillars ▶     Federica Pirani, Angelo Angelini, Francesca Frascella et al.     Azopolymers are known to exhibit a strong light responsivity known as athermal photofluidization. Although the underlying physics is still under debate, athermal …             Understanding the growth mechanism of graphene on Ge/Si(001) surfaces ▶     J. Dabrowski, G. Lippert, J. Avila et al.     The practical difficulties to use graphene in microelectronics and optoelectronics is that the available methods to grow graphene are not easily integrated in the mainstream …             Microgravity Level Measurement of the Beijing Drop Tower Using a Sensitive Accelerometer ▶     T. Y. Liu, Q. P. Wu, B. Q. Sun et al.     Drop tower is the most common ground-based facility to provide microgravity environment and widely used in many science experiments. A differential space accelerometer has been …             Magneto-optical micromechanical systems for magnetic field mapping ▶     Alain Truong, Guillermo Ortiz, Mélissa Morcrette et al.     A new method for magnetic field mapping based on the optical response of organized dense arrays of flexible magnetic cantilevers is explored. When subjected to the stray field of …             Photo Initiated Chemical Vapour Deposition To Increase Polymer Hydrophobicity ▶     Ariane Bérard, Gregory S. Patience, Gérald Chouinard et al.     Apple growers face new challenges to produce organic apples and now many cover orchards with high-density polyethylene (HDPE) nets to exclude insects, rather than spraying …             Export dynamics as an optimal growth problem in the network of global economy ▶     Michele Caraglio, Fulvio Baldovin, Attilio L. Stella     We analyze export data aggregated at world global level of 219 classes of products over a period of 39 years. Our main goal is to set up a dynamical model to identify and …             Vitality of Neural Networks under Reoccurring Catastrophic Failures ▶     Shira Sardi, Amir Goldental, Hamutal Amir et al.     Catastrophic failures are complete and sudden collapses in the activity of large networks such as economics, electrical power grids and computer networks, which typically require …             Localization-delocalization transition in spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate ▶     Chunyan Li, Fangwei Ye, Yaroslav V. Kartashov et al.     We address the impact of the spin-orbit (SO) coupling on the localization-delocalization-transition (LDT) in a spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate in a bichromatic …             Spatially governed climate factors dominate management in determining the quantity and distribution of soil organic carbon in dryland agricultural systems ▶     Frances C. Hoyle, Rebecca A. O’Leary, Daniel V. Murphy     Few studies describe the primary drivers influencing soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks and the distribution of carbon (C) fractions in agricultural systems from semi-arid regions; …             Label-free detection of real-time DNA amplification using a nanofluidic diffraction grating ▶     Takao Yasui, Kensuke Ogawa, Noritada Kaji et al.     Quantitative DNA amplification using fluorescence labeling has played an important role in the recent, rapid progress of basic medical and molecular biological research. Here we …             Sorting protein decoys by machine-learning-to-rank ▶     Xiaoyang Jing, Kai Wang, Ruqian Lu et al.     Much progress has been made in Protein structure prediction during the last few decades. As the predicted models can span a broad range of accuracy spectrum, the accuracy of …             Surface-anchored poly(acryloyl-L(D)-valine) with enhanced chirality-selective effect on cellular uptake of gold nanoparticles ▶     Jun Deng, Sai Wu, Mengyun Yao et al.     Chirality is one of the ubiquitous phenomena in biological systems. The left handed (L-) amino acids and right handed (D-) sugars are normally found in proteins, and in RNAs and …             Frequency shift of the Bragg and Non-Bragg backscattering from periodic water wave ▶     Biyang Wen, Ke Li     Doppler effect is used to measure the relative speed of a moving target with respect to the radar, and is also used to interpret the frequency shift of the backscattering from …             Targeted nanoconjugate co-delivering siRNA and tyrosine kinase inhibitor to KRAS mutant NSCLC dissociates GAB1-SHP2 post oncogene knockdown ▶     R. Srikar, Dhananjay Suresh, Ajit Zambre et al.     A tri-block nanoparticle (TBN) comprising of an enzymatically cleavable porous gelatin nanocore encapsulated with gefitinib (tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI)) and surface …             Directed self-assembly of block copolymer films on atomically-thin graphene chemical patterns ▶     Tzu-Hsuan Chang, Shisheng Xiong, Robert M. Jacobberger et al.     Directed self-assembly of block copolymers is a scalable method to fabricate well-ordered patterns over the wafer scale with feature sizes below the resolution of conventional …             Erratum: Isotropic plasticity of β-type Ti-29Nb-13Ta-4.6Zr alloy single crystals for the development of single crystalline β-Ti implants ▶     Koji Hagihara, Takayoshi Nakano, Hideaki Maki et al.                 High Efficient Photo-Fenton Catalyst of α-Fe2O3/MoS2 Hierarchical Nanoheterostructures: Reutilization for Supercapacitors ▶     Xijia Yang, Haiming Sun, Lishu Zhang et al.     A novel three-dimensional (3D) α-Fe2O3/MoS2 hierarchical nanoheterostructure is effectively synthesized via a facile hydrothermal method. The zero-dimensional (0D) Fe2O3 …             Inhibition of methane and natural gas hydrate formation by altering the structure of water with amino acids ▶     Jeong-Hoon Sa, Gye-Hoon Kwak, Kunwoo Han et al.     Natural gas hydrates are solid hydrogen-bonded water crystals containing small molecular gases. The amount of natural gas stored as hydrates in permafrost and ocean sediments is …             Quantifying the evolution of flow boiling bubbles by statistical testing and image analysis: toward a general model ▶     Qingtai Xiao, Jianxin Xu, Hua Wang     A new index, the estimate of the error variance, which can be used to quantify the evolution of the flow patterns when multiphase components or tracers are difficultly …             Impacts of Conformational Geometries in Fluorinated Alkanes ▶     Tim Brandenburg, Ronny Golnak, Masanari Nagasaka et al.     Research of blood substitute formulations and their base materials is of high scientific interest. Especially fluorinated microemulsions based on perfluorocarbons, with their …             Three-dimensional fluorescent microscopy via simultaneous illumination and detection at multiple planes ▶     Qian Ma, Bahar Khademhosseinieh, Eric Huang et al.     The conventional optical microscope is an inherently two-dimensional (2D) imaging tool. The objective lens, eyepiece and image sensor are all designed to capture light emitted …             Catalytic Effects of Cr on Nitridation of Silicon and Formation of One-dimensional Silicon Nitride Nanostructure ▶     Feng Liang, Lilin Lu, Liang Tian et al.     The catalytic effects of chromium (Cr) on the direct nitridation of silicon (Si) and morphology of nitridation product were investigated. Cr dramatically improved the …             Stacking orders induced direct band gap in bilayer MoSe2-WSe2 lateral heterostructures ▶     Xiaohui Hu, Liangzhi Kou, Litao Sun     The direct band gap of monolayer semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenides (STMDs) enables a host of new optical and electrical properties. However, bilayer STMDs are …             Gravity driven deterministic lateral displacement for suspended particles in a 3D obstacle array ▶     Siqi Du, German Drazer     We present a simple modification to enhance the separation ability of deterministic lateral displacement (DLD) systems by expanding the two-dimensional nature of these devices …             Visible to near-infrared supercontinuum generation in yttrium orthosilicate bulk crystal and ion implanted planar waveguide ▶     Bingxi Xiang, Xikui Ren, Shuangchen Ruan et al.     This paper reports on the supercontinuum generation in yttrium orthosilicate bulk crystal and 6-mm-long ion implanted planar waveguide. The waveguide is fabricated by 6 MeV …             Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Pt Nanopeanuts ▶     Xuemei Zhang, Zengzilu Xia, Yingzhou Huang et al.     Exploring the novel shape of Pt nanoparticles is one of the most useful ways to improve the electrocatalytic performance of Pt in fuel cells. In this work, the Pt nanopeanuts …             Polydopamine-Coated Manganese Complex/Graphene Nanocomposite for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Activity Towards Oxygen Reduction ▶     Charlette M. Parnell, Bijay Chhetri, Andrew Brandt et al.     Platinum electrodes are commonly used electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reactions (ORR) in fuel cells. However, this material is not economical due to its high cost and …             Tailoring particle translocation via dielectrophoresis in pore channels ▶     Shoji Tanaka, Makusu Tsutsui, Hu Theodore et al.     Understanding and controlling electrophoretic motions of nanoscopic objects in fluidic channels are a central challenge in developing nanopore technology for molecular analyses. …             Pressure-induced Transformations of Dense Carbonyl Sulfide to Singly Bonded Amorphous Metallic Solid ▶     Minseob Kim, Ranga Dias, Yasuo Ohishi et al.     The application of pressure, internal or external, transforms molecular solids into non-molecular extended network solids with diverse crystal structures and electronic …             Out-of-Plane Coordinated Porphyrin Nanotubes with Enhanced Singlet Oxygen Generation Efficiency ▶     Qiang Zhao, Yao Wang, Yanshuang Xu et al.     A supramolecular porphyrin nanotube displaying J-aggregation feature was constructed by out-of-plane coordinated bismuth-porphyrin. Significantly, compared to traditional …             Super-focusing of center-covered engineered microsphere ▶     Mengxue Wu, Rui Chen, Jiahao Soh et al.     Engineered microsphere possesses the advantage of strong light manipulation at sub-wavelength scale and emerges as a promising candidate to shrink the focal spot size. Here we …             Optical Addressing of Multi-Colour Photochromic Material Mixture for Volumetric Display ▶     Ryuji Hirayama, Atsushi Shiraki, Makoto Naruse et al.     This is the first study to demonstrate that colour transformations in the volume of a photochromic material (PM) are induced at the intersections of two control light channels, …             Mechanical properties and failure behaviors of the interface of hybrid graphene/hexagonal boron nitride sheets ▶     Ning Ding, Xiangfeng Chen, Chi-Man Lawrence Wu     Hybrid graphene/h-BN sheet has been fabricated recently and verified to possess unusual physical properties. During the growth process, defects such as vacancies are unavoidably …             Independent Manipulation of Topological Charges and Polarization Patterns of Optical Vortices ▶     Ching-Han Yang, Yuan-Di Chen, Shing-Trong Wu et al.     We present a simple and flexible method to generate various vectorial vortex beams (VVBs) with a Pancharatnam phase based on the scheme of double reflections from a single liquid …             Self-organized Sr leads to solid state twinning in nano-scaled eutectic Si phase ▶     M. Albu, A. Pal, C. Gspan et al.     A new mechanism for twin nucleation in the eutectic Al-Si alloy with trace Sr impurities is proposed. Observations made by sub-angstrom resolution scanning transmission electron …             Crystallization characteristics in supercooled liquid zinc during isothermal relaxation: A molecular dynamics simulation study ▶     Li-li Zhou, Rang-su Liu, Ze-an Tian et al.     The crystallization characteristics in supercooled liquid Zn during isothermal relaxation were investigated using molecular dynamics simulations by adopting the cluster-type …             Magnetic properties of nitrogen-doped ZrO2: Theoretical evidence of absence of room temperature ferromagnetism ▶     Elisa Albanese, Mirko Leccese, Cristiana Di Valentin et al.     N-dopants in bulk monoclinic ZrO2 and their magnetic interactions have been investigated by DFT calculations, using the B3LYP hybrid functional. The electronic and magnetic …             Corrigendum: Metal - Insulator Transition Driven by Vacancy Ordering in GeSbTe Phase Change Materials ▶     Valeria Bragaglia, Fabrizio Arciprete, Wei Zhang et al.                 A conditional likelihood is required to estimate the selection coefficient in ancient DNA ▶     Angelo Valleriani     Time-series of allele frequencies are a useful and unique set of data to determine the strength of natural selection on the background of genetic drift. Technically, the …             Cellulose Nanofibers as a Modifier for Rheology, Curing and Mechanical Performance of Oil Well Cement ▶     Xiuxuan Sun, Qinglin Wu, Sunyoung Lee et al.     The influence of nanocellulose on oil well cement (OWC) properties is not known in detail, despite recent advances in nanocellulose technology and its related composite …             A multi-similarity spectral clustering method for community detection in dynamic networks ▶     Xuanmei Qin, Weidi Dai, Pengfei Jiao et al.     Community structure is one of the fundamental characteristics of complex networks. Many methods have been proposed for community detection. However, most of these methods are …             Kinetically driven switching and memory phenomena at the interface between a proton-conductive electrolyte and a titanium electrode ▶     Takashi Hibino, Kazuyo Kobayashi, Masahiro Nagao     Numerous studies have examined the switching properties of semi- or ion-conductors and isolators; however, most of these have focused on the ohmic resistance characteristics. …             Metal-electrode-free Window-like Organic Solar Cells with p-Doped Carbon Nanotube Thin-film Electrodes ▶     Il Jeon, Clement Delacou, Antti Kaskela et al.     Organic solar cells are flexible and inexpensive, and expected to have a wide range of applications. Many transparent organic solar cells have been reported and their success …             Impact of defect occupation on conduction in amorphous Ge2Sb2Te5 ▶     Matthias Kaes, Martin Salinga     Storage concepts employing the resistance of phase-change memory (PRAM) have matured in recent years. Attempts to model the conduction in the amorphous state of phase-change …             Structural and physical properties of the dust particles in Qatar and their influence on the PV panel performance ▶     Brahim Aïssa, Rima J. Isaifan, Vinod E. Madhavan et al.     Recently, extensive R&D has been conducted, both by industry and academia, to significantly raise the conversion efficiency of commercial photovoltaic (PV) modules. The …             Proteomics tools reveal startlingly high amounts of oxytocin in plasma and serum ▶     Ole Kristian Brandtzaeg, Elin Johnsen, Hanne Roberg-Larsen et al.     The neuropeptide oxytocin (OT) is associated with a plethora of social behaviors, and is a key topic at the intersection of psychology and biology. However, tools for measuring …             Ce3+-ion-induced visible-light photocatalytic degradation and electrochemical activity of ZnO/CeO2 nanocomposite ▶     Saravanan Rajendran, Mohammad Mansoob Khan, F. Gracia et al.     In this study, pure ZnO, CeO2 and ZnO/CeO2 nanocomposites were synthesized using a thermal decomposition method and subsequently characterized using different standard …             Nanoscopic characterization of the water vapor-salt interfacial layer reveals a unique biphasic adsorption process ▶     Liu Yang, Jianfeng He, Yi Shen et al.     Our quantitative understanding of water adsorption onto salt surfaces under ambient conditions is presently quite poor owing to the difficulties in directly characterizing this …             Neutrons describe ectoine effects on water H-bonding and hydration around a soluble protein and a cell membrane ▶     Giuseppe Zaccai, Irina Bagyan, Jérôme Combet et al.     Understanding adaptation to extreme environments remains a challenge of high biotechnological potential for fundamental molecular biology. 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