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30 August 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Physical Sciences               Scaling crossover in thin-film drag dynamics of fluid drops in the Hele-Shaw cell ▶     Misato Yahashi, Natsuki Kimoto, Ko Okumura     We study both experimentally and theoretically the descending motion due to gravity of a fluid drop surrounded by another immiscible fluid in a confined space between two …             Simulation of water impregnation through vertically aligned CNT forests using a molecular dynamics method ▶     Tomohiro Tajiri, Ryosuke Matsuzaki, Yoshinobu Shimamura     The flow rate of water through carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes is considerably large. Hence, CNT membranes can be used in nanofluidic applications. In this work, we performed a …             Sonochemical Assisted Solvothermal Synthesis of Gallium Oxynitride Nanosheets and their Solar-Driven Photoelectrochemical Water-Splitting Applications ▶     Naseer Iqbal, Ibrahim Khan, Zain H. Yamani et al.     Gallium oxynitride (GaON) nanosheets for photoelectrochemical (PEC) analysis are synthesized via direct solvothermal approach. Their FE-SEM revealed nanosheets morphology of GaON …             Faithful conditional quantum state transfer between weakly coupled qubits ▶     M. Miková, I. Straka, M. Mičuda et al.     One of the strengths of quantum information theory is that it can treat quantum states without referring to their particular physical representation. In principle, quantum states …             Sharp Contradiction for Local-Hidden-State Model in Quantum Steering ▶     Jing-Ling Chen, Hong-Yi Su, Zhen-Peng Xu et al.     In quantum theory, no-go theorems are important as they rule out the existence of a particular physical model under consideration. For instance, the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger …             Patterned FeNi soft magnetic strips film with tunable resonance frequency from 1 to 10.6 GHz ▶     Yong Ren, Xinxi Li, Yan Wang et al.     Soft magnetic films with a wide-range tunable ferromagnetic resonance frequency are suitable for miniaturization and multifunctionalization of microwave integrated circuits. …             The optical measurement of large cluster tracks in a gas jet ▶     Zhiyuan Chen, Dong Liu, Jifeng Han et al.     We propose an optical method based on Rayleigh scattering for the direct measurement of cluster tracks produced by a high-pressure gas jet. The tracks of the argon and methane …             Precipitation behavior of AlxCoCrFeNi high entropy alloys under ion irradiation ▶     Tengfei Yang, Songqin Xia, Shi Liu et al.     Materials performance is central to the satisfactory operation of current and future nuclear energy systems due to the severe irradiation environment in reactors. Searching for …             Facile synthesis of diverse graphene nanomeshes based on simultaneous regulation of pore size and surface structure ▶     Jia Zhang, Huaibing Song, Dawen Zeng et al.     Recently, graphene nanomesh (GNM) has attracted great attentions due to its unique porous structure, abundant active sites, finite band gap and possesses potential applications …             Novel Hydrogel Material as a Potential Embolic Agent in Embolization Treatments ▶     Feng Zhou, Liming Chen, Qingzhu An et al.     We report a novel graphene-oxide (GO) enhanced polymer hydrogel (GPH) as a promising embolic agent capable of treating cerebrovascular diseases and malignant tumors, using the …             Unique Crystallization of Fullerenes: Fullerene Flowers ▶     Jungah Kim, Chibeom Park, Intek Song et al.     Solution-phase crystallization of fullerene molecules strongly depends on the types of solvent and their ratios because solvent molecules are easily included in the crystal …             Cellulose as an adhesion agent for the synthesis of lignin aerogel with strong mechanical performance, Sound-absorption and thermal Insulation ▶     Chao Wang, Ye Xiong, Bitao Fan et al.     The lignin aerogels that are both high porosity and compressibility would have promising implications for bioengineering field to sound-adsorption and damping materials; however, …             Rapidly patterning micro/nano devices by directly assembling ions and nanomaterials ▶     Na Liu, Feifei Wang, Lianqing Liu et al.     The synthesis and assembly of components are key steps in micro/nano device manufacturing. In this article, we report an optically controlled assembly method that can rapidly …             A spiral plasmonic lens with directional excitation of surface plasmons ▶     Qingrui Guo, Chi Zhang, Xinhua Hu     Conventional plasmonic lenses are composed of curved slits carved through metallic films. Here, we propose a new plasmonic lens based on a metallic slit with an auxiliary groove. …             Active modulation of visible light with graphene-loaded ultrathin metal plasmonic antennas ▶     Renwen Yu, Valerio Pruneri, F. Javier García de Abajo     Electro-optical modulation of visible and near-infrared light is important for a wide variety of applications, ranging from communications to sensing and smart windows. However, …             Ice VII from aqueous salt solutions: From a glass to a crystal with broken H-bonds ▶     S. Klotz, K. Komatsu, F. Pietrucci et al.     It has been known for decades that certain aqueous salt solutions of LiCl and LiBr readily form glasses when cooled to below ≈160 K. This fact has recently been exploited to …             Measurement and Modeling of Short and Medium Range Order in Amorphous Ta2O5 Thin Films ▶     Badri Shyam, Kevin H. Stone, Riccardo Bassiri et al.     Amorphous films and coatings are rapidly growing in importance. Yet, there is a dearth of high-quality structural data on sub-micron films. Not understanding how these materials …             Turbulent jet flow generated downstream of a low temperature dielectric barrier atmospheric pressure plasma device ▶     Richard D. Whalley, James L. Walsh     Flowing low temperature atmospheric pressure plasma devices have been used in many technological applications ranging from energy efficient combustion through to wound healing …             Influence of chemical ordering on the thermal conductivity and electronic relaxation in FePt thin films in heat assisted magnetic recording applications ▶     Ashutosh Giri, Sung Hun Wee, Shikha Jain et al.     We report on the out-of-plane thermal conductivities of tetragonal L10 FePt (001) easy-axis and cubic A1 FePt thin films via time-domain thermoreflectance over a temperature …             Directional Reflective Surface Formed via Gradient-Impeding Acoustic Meta-Surfaces ▶     Kyungjun Song, Jedo Kim, Shin Hur et al.     Artificially designed acoustic meta-surfaces have the ability to manipulate sound energy to an extraordinary extent. Here, we report on a new type of directional reflective …             s± pairing near a Lifshitz transition ▶     Vivek Mishra, Douglas J. Scalapino, Thomas A. Maier     Observations of robust superconductivity in some of the iron based superconductors in the vicinity of a Lifshitz point where a spin density wave instability is suppressed as the …             A Novel Surface Structure Consisting of Contact-active Antibacterial Upper-layer and Antifouling Sub-layer Derived from Gemini Quaternary Ammonium Salt Polyurethanes ▶     Wei He, Yi Zhang, Jiehua Li et al.     Contact-active antibacterial surfaces play a vital role in preventing bacterial contamination of artificial surfaces. In the past, numerous researches have been focused on …             Insight into the template effect of vesicles on the laccase-catalyzed oligomerization of N-phenyl-1,4-phenylenediamine from Raman spectroscopy and cyclic voltammetry measurements ▶     Aleksandra Janoševic Ležaić, Sandra Luginbühl, Danica Bajuk-Bogdanović et al.     We report about the first Raman spectroscopy study of a vesicle-assisted enzyme-catalyzed oligomerization reaction. The aniline dimer N-phenyl-1,4-phenylenediamine (= p…             Individual-based approach to epidemic processes on arbitrary dynamic contact networks ▶     Luis E. C. Rocha, Naoki Masuda     The dynamics of contact networks and epidemics of infectious diseases often occur on comparable time scales. Ignoring one of these time scales may provide an incomplete …             Dual-Band Dual-Mode Substrate Integrated Waveguide Filters with Independently Reconfigurable TE101 Resonant Mode ▶     Yongle Wu, Yuqing Chen, Lingxiao Jiao et al.     A novel perturbation approach using additional metalized via-holes for implementation of the dual-band or wide-band dual-mode substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) filters is …             Particle Size Controls on Water Adsorption and Condensation Regimes at Mineral Surfaces ▶     Merve Yeşilbaş, Jean-François Boily     Atmospheric water vapour interacting with hydrophilic mineral surfaces can produce water films of various thicknesses and structures. In this work we show that mineral particle …             Generation of a macroscopic entangled coherent state using quantum memories in circuit QED ▶     Tong Liu, Qi-Ping Su, Shao-Jie Xiong et al.     W-type entangled states can be used as quantum channels for, e.g., quantum teleportation, quantum dense coding, and quantum key distribution. In this work, we propose a way to …             Magneto-elasto-electroporation (MEEP): In-vitro visualization and numerical characteristics ▶     Soutik Betal, Binita Shrestha, Moumita Dutta et al.     A magnetically controlled elastically driven electroporation phenomenon, or magneto-elasto-electroporation (MEEP), is discovered while studying the interactions between …             The lightest organic radical cation for charge storage in redox flow batteries ▶     Jinhua Huang, Baofei Pan, Wentao Duan et al.     In advanced electrical grids of the future, electrochemically rechargeable fluids of high energy density will capture the power generated from intermittent sources like solar and …             Corrigendum: Electron pair escape from fullerene cage via collective modes ▶     Michael Schüler, Yaroslav Pavlyukh, Paola Bolognesi et al.                 Erratum: Efficient second-harmonic imaging of collagen in histological slides using Bessel beam excitation ▶     Nelly Vuillemin, Pierre Mahou, Delphine Débarre et al.                 Investigation of mechanism: spoof SPPs on periodically textured metal surface with pyramidal grooves ▶     Lili Tian, Jianlong Liu, Keya Zhou et al.     In microwave and terahertz frequency band, a textured metal surface can support spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SSPPs). In this paper, we explore a SSPPs waveguide composed of …             Erratum: Percolation-based precursors of transitions in extended systems ▶     Víctor Rodríguez-Méndez, Víctor M. Eguíluz, Emilio Hernández-García et al.                 Red Mud as an Efficient, Stable, and Cost-Free Catalyst for COx-Free Hydrogen Production from Ammonia ▶     Samira Fatma Kurtoğlu, Alper Uzun     Red mud, one of the mostly produced industrial wastes, was converted into a catalyst with exceptionally high and stable performance for hydrogen production from ammonia. Results …             A fast multispectral light synthesiser based on LEDs and a diffraction grating ▶     Gregor Belušič, Marko Ilić, Andrej Meglič et al.     Optical experiments often require fast-switching light sources with adjustable bandwidths and intensities. We constructed a wavelength combiner based on a reflective planar …             Large fluctuations at the lasing threshold of solid- and liquid-state dye lasers ▶     Supratim Basak, Alvaro Blanco, Cefe López     Intensity fluctuations in lasers are commonly studied above threshold in some special configurations (especially when emission is fed back into the cavity or when two lasers are …             Nonlinear deformation and localized failure of bacterial streamers in creeping flows ▶     Ishita Biswas, Ranajay Ghosh, Mohtada Sadrzadeh et al.     We investigate the failure of bacterial floc mediated streamers in a microfluidic device in a creeping flow regime using both experimental observations and analytical modeling. …             Corrigendum: Identifying a set of influential spreaders in complex networks ▶     Jian-Xiong Zhang, Duan-Bing Chen, Qiang Dong et al.                 Erratum: 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.                 Erratum: Determining Chemically and Spatially Resolved Atomic Profile of Low Contrast Interface Structure with High Resolution ▶     Maheswar Nayak, P. C. Pradhan, G. S. Lodha et al.                 Multilayer Network Analysis of Nuclear Reactions ▶     Liang Zhu, Yu-Gang Ma, Qu Chen et al.     The nuclear reaction network is usually studied via precise calculation of differential equation sets, and much research interest has been focused on the characteristics of …             Experiment and simulation of novel liquid crystal plasma mirrors for high contrast, intense laser pulses ▶     P. L. Poole, A. Krygier, G. E. Cochran et al.     We describe the first demonstration of plasma mirrors made using freely suspended, ultra-thin films formed dynamically and in-situ. We also present novel particle-in-cell …             Comb-referenced laser distance interferometer for industrial nanotechnology ▶     Yoon-Soo Jang, Guochao Wang, Sangwon Hyun et al.     A prototype laser distance interferometer is demonstrated by incorporating the frequency comb of a femtosecond laser for mass-production of optoelectronic devices such as flat …             Evolution of Electronic Circuits using Carbon Nanotube Composites ▶     M. K. Massey, A. Kotsialos, D. Volpati et al.     Evolution-in-materio concerns the computer controlled manipulation of material systems using external stimuli to train or evolve the material to perform a useful function. In …             One-step Solution Processing of Ag, Au and Pd@MXene Hybrids for SERS ▶     Elumalai Satheeshkumar, Taron Makaryan, Armen Melikyan et al.     We report on one-step hybridization of silver, gold and palladium nanoparticles from solution onto exfoliated two-dimensional (2D) Ti3C2 titanium carbide (MXene) nanosheets. The …             The emergence of superstructural order in insulin amyloid fibrils upon multiple rounds of self-seeding ▶     Weronika Surmacz-Chwedoruk, Viktoria Babenko, Robert Dec et al.     Typically, elongation of an amyloid fibril entails passing conformational details of the mother seed to daughter generations of fibrils with high fidelity. There are, however, …             The interplay of crack hopping, delamination and interface failure in drying nanoparticle films ▶     Bin Yang, James S. Sharp, Mike I. Smith     Films formed through the drying of nanoparticle suspensions release the build-up of strain through a variety of different mechanisms including shear banding, crack formation and …             Miniature Surface Plasmon Polariton Amplitude Modulator by Beat Frequency and Polarization Control ▶     Cheng-Wei Chang, Chu-En Lin, Chih-Jen Yu et al.     The miniaturization of modulators keeps pace for the compact devices in optical applications. Here, we present a miniature surface plasmon polariton amplitude modulator (SPPAM) …             Formation mechanism of guided resonances and bound states in the continuum in photonic crystal slabs ▶     Xingwei Gao, Chia Wei Hsu, Bo Zhen et al.     We develop a formalism, based on the mode expansion method, to describe the guided resonances and bound states in the continuum (BICs) in photonic crystal slabs with …             Multiscale dispersion-state characterization of nanocomposites using optical coherence tomography ▶     Simon Schneider, Florian Eppler, Marco Weber et al.     Nanocomposite materials represent a success story of nanotechnology. However, development of nanomaterial fabrication still suffers from the lack of adequate analysis tools. In …             Frobenius-norm-based measures of quantum coherence and asymmetry ▶     Yao Yao, G. H. Dong, Xing Xiao et al.     We formulate the Frobenius-norm-based measures for quantum coherence and asymmetry respectively. In contrast to the resource theory of coherence and asymmetry, we construct a …             Patterning nanofibrils through the templated growth of multiple modified amyloid peptides ▶     Hiroki Sakai, Ken Watanabe, Fuki Kudoh et al.     There has been considerable interest in the patterning of functionalized nanowires because of the potential applications of these materials to the construction of nanodevices. A …             A mir-231-Regulated Protection Mechanism against the Toxicity of Graphene Oxide in Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans ▶     Ruilong Yang, Mingxia Ren, Qi Rui et al.     Recently, several dysregulated microRNAs (miRNAs) have been identified in organisms exposed to graphene oxide (GO). However, their biological functions and mechanisms of the …             Highly Efficient Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Reaction at Insulating Boron Nitride Nanosheet on Inert Gold Substrate ▶     Kohei Uosaki, Ganesan Elumalai, Hung Cuong Dinh et al.     It is demonstrated that electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) proceeds very efficiently at Au electrode, an inert substrate for HER, modified with BNNS, an insulator. …             A micromechanical comparison of human and porcine skin before and after preservation by freezing for medical device development ▶     S. A. Ranamukhaarachchi, S. Lehnert, S. L. Ranamukhaarachchi et al.     Collecting human skin samples for medical research, including developing microneedle-based medical devices, is challenging and time-consuming. Researchers rely on human skin …             Native cellulose nanofibrills induce immune tolerance in vitro by acting on dendritic cells ▶     Sergej Tomić, Vanja Kokol, Dušan Mihajlović et al.     Cellulose nanofibrills (CNFs) are attractive biocompatible, natural nanomaterials for wide biomedical applications. However, the immunological mechanisms of CNFs have been poorly …             A ruthenium polypyridyl intercalator stalls DNA replication forks, radiosensitizes human cancer cells and is enhanced by Chk1 inhibition ▶     Martin R. Gill, Siti Norain Harun, Swagata Halder et al.     Ruthenium(II) polypyridyl complexes can intercalate DNA with high affinity and prevent cell proliferation; however, the direct impact of ruthenium-based intercalation on cellular …             Graphene-based extremely wide-angle tunable metamaterial absorber ▶     Jacob Linder, Klaus Halterman     We investigate the absorption properties of graphene-based anisotropic metamaterial structures where the metamaterial layer possesses an electromagnetic response corresponding to …             Charge density waves in disordered media circumventing the Imry-Ma argument ▶     Hitesh J. Changlani, Norm M. Tubman, Taylor L. Hughes     Two powerful theoretical predictions, Anderson localization and the Imry-Ma argument, impose significant restrictions on the phases of matter that can exist in the presence of …             Tunable magnetism in metal adsorbed fluorinated nanoporous graphene ▶     Pankaj Kumar, Vinit Sharma, Fernando A. Reboredo et al.     Developing nanostructures with tunable magnetic states is crucial for designing novel data storage and quantum information devices. Using density functional theory, we …             Low voltage-driven oxide phototransistors with fast recovery, high signal-to-noise ratio, and high responsivity fabricated via a simple defect-generating process ▶     Myeong Gu Yun, Ye Kyun Kim, Cheol Hyoun Ahn et al.     We have demonstrated that photo-thin film transistors (photo-TFTs) fabricated via a simple defect-generating process could achieve fast recovery, a high signal to noise (S/N) …             Corrigendum: Static and Dynamical Properties of heavy actinide Monopnictides of Lutetium ▶     Showkat H. Mir, Prakash C. Jha, M. S. Islam et al.                 Hydrogen Generation using non-polar coaxial InGaN/GaN Multiple Quantum Well Structure Formed on Hollow n-GaN Nanowires ▶     Ji-Hyeon Park, Arjun Mandal, San Kang et al.     This article demonstrates for the first time to the best of our knowledge, the merits of InGaN/GaN multiple quantum wells (MQWs) grown on hollow n-GaN nanowires (NWs) as a …             Lubricity of gold nanocrystals on graphene measured using quartz crystal microbalance ▶     M. S. Lodge, C. Tang, B. T. Blue et al.     In order to test recently predicted ballistic nanofriction (ultra-low drag and enhanced lubricity) of gold nanocrystals on graphite at high surface speeds, we use the quartz …             Enhanced Capacitance of Hybrid Layered Graphene/Nickel Nanocomposite for Supercapacitors ▶     Norsaadatul Akmal Mohd Zaid, Nurul Hayati Idris     In this work, Ni nanoparticles were directly decorated on graphene (G) nanosheets via mechanical ball milling. Based on transmission electron microscopy observations, the Ni …             Hybrid α-Fe2O3@Ni(OH)2 nanosheet composite for high-rate-performance supercapacitor electrode ▶     Hong Jiang, Haifeng Ma, Ying Jin et al.     In this study, we report a facile fabrication of ultrathin two-dimensional (2D) nanosheet hybrid composite, α-Fe2O3 nanosheet@Ni(OH)2 nanosheet, by a two-step hydrothermal method …             Welding of silver nanowire networks via flash white light and UV-C irradiation for highly conductive and reliable transparent electrodes ▶     Wan-Ho Chung, Sang-Ho Kim, Hak-Sung Kim     In this work, silver nanowire inks with hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) binders were coated on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrates and welded via flash white light …             Electric field control of magnon-induced magnetization dynamics in multiferroics ▶     Vetle Risinggård, Iryna Kulagina, Jacob Linder     We consider theoretically the effect of an inhomogeneous magnetoelectric coupling on the magnon-induced dynamics of a ferromagnet. The magnon-mediated magnetoelectric torque …             A new (Ba, Ca) (Ti, Zr)O3 based multiferroic composite with large magnetoelectric effect ▶     M. Naveed-Ul-Haq, Vladimir V. Shvartsman, Soma Salamon et al.     The lead-free ferroelectric 0.5Ba(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3 − 0.5(Ba0.7Ca0.3)TiO3 (BCZT) is a promising component for multifunctional multiferroics due to its excellent room temperature …             Chemically Inhomogeneous RE-Fe-B Permanent Magnets with High Figure of Merit: Solution to Global Rare Earth Criticality ▶     Jiaying Jin, Tianyu Ma, Yujing Zhang et al.     The global rare earth (RE) criticality, especially for those closely-relied Nd/Pr/Dy/Tb in the 2:14:1-typed permanent magnets (PMs), has triggered tremendous attempts to develop …             Metamaterial-enhanced vibrational absorption spectroscopy for the detection of protein molecules ▶     Tung S. Bui, Thang D. Dao, Luu H. Dang et al.     From visible to mid-infrared frequencies, molecular sensing has been a major successful application of plasmonics because of the enormous enhancement of the surface …             Designing Quantum Spin-Orbital Liquids in Artificial Mott Insulators ▶     Xu Dou, Valeri N. Kotov, Bruno Uchoa     Quantum spin-orbital liquids are elusive strongly correlated states of matter that emerge from quantum frustration between spin and orbital degrees of freedom. A promising route …             Leaf venation, as a resistor, to optimize a switchable IR absorber ▶     M. E. Alston, R. Barber     Leaf vascular patterns are the mechanisms and mechanical support for the transportation of fluidics for photosynthesis and leaf development properties. Vascular hierarchical …             Mechanical properties, in vitro corrosion and biocompatibility of newly developed biodegradable Mg-Zr-Sr-Ho alloys for biomedical applications ▶     Yunfei Ding, Jixing Lin, Cuie Wen et al.     Our previous studies have demonstrated that Mg-Zr-Sr alloys can be anticipated as excellent biodegradable implant materials for load-bearing applications. In general, rare earth …             Electronic structures and enhanced optical properties of blue phosphorene/transition metal dichalcogenides van der Waals heterostructures ▶     Qiong Peng, Zhenyu Wang, Baisheng Sa et al.     As a fast emerging topic, van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures have been proposed to modify two-dimensional layered materials with desired properties, thus greatly extending the …             Magnetic-flux-driven topological quantum phase transition and manipulation of perfect edge states in graphene tube ▶     S. Lin, G. Zhang, C. Li et al.     We study the tight-binding model for a graphene tube with perimeter N threaded by a magnetic field. We show exactly that this model has different nontrivial topological phases as …             Chiral light intrinsically couples to extrinsic/pseudo-chiral metasurfaces made of tilted gold nanowires ▶     Alessandro Belardini, Marco Centini, Grigore Leahu et al.     Extrinsic or pseudo-chiral (meta)surfaces have an achiral structure, yet they can give rise to circular dichroism when the experiment itself becomes chiral. Although these …             Entanglement transfer from two-mode continuous variable SU(2) cat states to discrete qubits systems in Jaynes-Cummings Dimers ▶     Du Ran, Chang-Sheng Hu, Zhen-Biao Yang     We study the entanglement transfer from a two-mode continuous variable system (initially in the two-mode SU(2) cat states) to a couple of discrete two-state systems (initially in …             A Generalized Lossy Transmission-Line Model for Tunable Graphene-Based Transmission Lines with Attenuation Phenomenon ▶     Yongle Wu, Meijun Qu, Yuanan Liu     To investigate the frequency shift phenomenon by inserting graphene, a generalized lossy transmission-line model and the related electrical parameter-extraction theory are …             New route for hollow materials ▶     C. M. Rivaldo-Gómez, F. F. Ferreira, G. T. Landi et al.     Hollow micro/nano structures form an important family of functional materials. We have used the thermal oxidation process combined with the passage of electric current during a …             Role of vacancies, light elements and rare-earth metals doping in CeO2 ▶     H. Shi, T. Hussain, R. Ahuja et al.     The magnetic properties and electronic structures of pure, doped and defective cerium oxide (CeO2) have been studied theoretically by means of ab initio calculations based on the …             Chemotaxis of bio-hybrid multiple bacteria-driven microswimmers ▶     Jiang Zhuang, Metin Sitti     In this study, in a bio-hybrid microswimmer system driven by multiple Serratia marcescens bacteria, we quantify the chemotactic drift of a large number of microswimmers towards …             Dielectric spectroscopy of isotropic liquids and liquid crystal phases with dispersed graphene oxide ▶     Shakhawan Al-Zangana, Maria Iliut, Gökçen Boran et al.     Graphene oxide (GO) flakes of different sizes were prepared and dispersed in isotropic and nematic (anisotropic) fluid media. The dielectric relaxation behaviour of …             Sub-2 nm Thick Fluoroalkylsilane Self-Assembled Monolayer-Coated High Voltage Spinel Crystals as Promising Cathode Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries ▶     Nobuyuki Zettsu, Satoru Kida, Shuhei Uchida et al.     We demonstrate herein that an ultra-thin fluoroalkylsilane self-assembled monolayer coating can be used as a modifying agent at LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4−δcathode/electrolyte interfaces in …             Pressure dependency of localization degree in heavy fermion CeIn3: A density functional theory analysis ▶     M. Yazdani-Kachoei, S. Jalali-Asadabadi, Iftikhar Ahmad et al.     Two dramatic discrepancies between previous reliable experimental and ab initio DFT results are identified to occur at two different pressures in CeIn3, as discussed through the …             Sorbent track: Quantitative monitoring of adsorbed VOCs under in-situ plasma exposure ▶     Zixian Jia, Antoine Rousseau     Sorbent-TRACK is a new device developed to monitor adsorption and surface oxidation of pollutants under direct plasma exposure. It is based on direct transmitted Fourier …             Mangifera sylvatica (Wild Mango): A new cocoa butter alternative ▶     Sayma Akhter, Morag A. McDonald, Ray Marriott     Cocoa butter is the pure butter extracted from cocoa beans and is a major ingredient in the chocolate industry. Global production of cocoa is in decline due to crop failure, …             Wireless communication system via nanoscale plasmonic antennas ▶     Juan M. Merlo, Nathan T. Nesbitt, Yitzi M. Calm et al.     Present on-chip optical communication technology uses near-infrared light, but visible wavelengths would allow system miniaturization and higher energy confinement. Towards this …             Stochastic modeling of biochemical systems with multistep reactions using state-dependent time delay ▶     Qianqian Wu, Tianhai Tian     To deal with the growing scale of molecular systems, sophisticated modelling techniques have been designed in recent years to reduce the complexity of mathematical models. Among …             Understanding the spatiotemporal pattern of grazing cattle movement ▶     Kun Zhao, Raja Jurdak     Understanding the drivers of animal movement is significant for ecology and biology. Yet researchers have so far been unable to fully understand these drivers, largely due to low …             Separation of ballistic and diffusive fluorescence photons in confocal Light-Sheet Microscopy of Arabidopsis roots ▶     Tobias Meinert, Olaf Tietz, Klaus J. Palme et al.     Image quality in light-sheet fluorescence microscopy is strongly affected by the shape of the illuminating laser beam inside embryos, plants or tissue. While the phase of …             Improved Compressive Sensing of Natural Scenes Using Localized Random Sampling ▶     Victor J. Barranca, Gregor Kovačič, Douglas Zhou et al.     Compressive sensing (CS) theory demonstrates that by using uniformly-random sampling, rather than uniformly-spaced sampling, higher quality image reconstructions are often …             Toward the Autism Motor Signature: Gesture patterns during smart tablet gameplay identify children with autism ▶     Anna Anzulewicz, Krzysztof Sobota, Jonathan T. Delafield-Butt     Autism is a developmental disorder evident from infancy. Yet, its clinical identification requires expert diagnostic training. New evidence indicates disruption to motor timing …             Graphene-multiferroic interfaces for spintronics applications ▶     Zeila Zanolli     Graphene and magnetoelectric multiferroics are promising materials for spintronic devices with high performance and low energy consumption. A very long spin diffusion length and …             Fast, vacancy-free climb of prismatic dislocation loops in bcc metals ▶     Thomas D. Swinburne, Kazuto Arakawa, Hirotaro Mori et al.     Vacancy-mediated climb models cannot account for the fast, direct coalescence of dislocation loops seen experimentally. An alternative mechanism, self climb, allows prismatic …             ZnO Luminescence and scintillation studied via photoexcitation, X-ray excitation, and gamma-induced positron spectroscopy ▶     J. Ji, A. M. Colosimo, W. Anwand et al.     The luminescence and scintillation properties of ZnO single crystals were studied by photoluminescence and X-ray-induced luminescence (XRIL) techniques. XRIL allowed a direct …             Fabrication of Long-Term Underwater Superoleophobic Al Surfaces and Application on Underwater Lossless Manipulation of Non-Polar Organic Liquids ▶     Jinlong Song, Liu Huang, Yao Lu et al.     Underwater superoleophobic surfaces have different applications in fields from oil/water separation to underwater lossless manipulation. This kind of surfaces can be easily …             Controlled Synthesis of Pt Nanowires with Ordered Large Mesopores for Methanol Oxidation Reaction ▶     Chengwei Zhang, Lianbin Xu, Yushan Yan et al.     Catalysts for methanol oxidation reaction (MOR) are at the heart of key green-energy fuel cell technology. 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The ground state and ferromagnetic transition in the gas, with and …             Monolithic integration of room-temperature multifunctional BaTiO3-CoFe2O4 epitaxial heterostructures on Si(001) ▶     Mateusz Scigaj, Nico Dix, Jaume Gázquez et al.     The multifunctional (ferromagnetic and ferroelectric) response at room temperature that is elusive in single phase multiferroic materials can be achieved in a proper combination …             Floquet edge states in germanene nanoribbons ▶     M. Tahir, Q. Y. Zhang, U. Schwingenschlögl     We theoretically demonstrate versatile electronic properties of germanene monolayers under circularly, linearly, and elliptically polarized light. We show for the high frequency …             Optically pumped subwavelength-scale metallodielectric nanopatch resonators ▶     Kyungmok Kwon, Jong-bum You, Jaeho Shim et al.     We discuss subwavelength-scale semiconductor metal-optic resonators placed on the metal substrate with various top metal plate sizes. 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Basic operations of the qubit have been realized in recent …             All-optical analog comparator ▶     Pu Li, Xiaogang Yi, Xianglian Liu et al.     An analog comparator is one of the core units in all-optical analog-to-digital conversion (AO-ADC) systems, which digitizes different amplitude levels into two levels of logical …             Charge and spin transport in single and packed ruthenium-terpyridine molecular devices: Insight from first-principles calculations ▶     C. Morari, L. Buimaga-Iarinca, I. Rungger et al.     Using first-principles calculations, we study the electronic and transport properties of rutheniumterpyridine molecules sandwiched between two Au(111) electrodes. We analyse both …             Molecular vibrational trapping revisited: a case study with D2+ ▶     Péter Badankó, Gábor J. Halász, Ágnes Vibók     The present theoretical study is concerned with the vibrational trapping or bond hardening, which is a well-known phenomenon predicted by a dressed state representation of small …             Use of Bayesian Inference in Crystallographic Structure Refinement via Full Diffraction Profile Analysis ▶     Chris M. Fancher, Zhen Han, Igor Levin et al.     A Bayesian inference method for refining crystallographic structures is presented. The distribution of model parameters is stochastically sampled using Markov chain Monte Carlo. …             Structural, Electronic, and Optical Properties of BiOX1−xYx (X, Y = F, Cl, Br, and I) Solid Solutions from DFT Calculations ▶     Zong-Yan Zhao, Qing-Lu Liu, Wen-Wu Dai     Six BiOX1−xYx (X, Y = F, Cl, Br, and I) solid solutions have been systematically investigated by density functional theory calculations. BiOCl1−xBrx, BiOBr1−xIx, and BiOCl1−xIx …             Self-organized sorting limits behavioral variability in swarms ▶     Katherine Copenhagen, David A. Quint, Ajay Gopinathan     Swarming is a phenomenon where collective motion arises from simple local interactions between typically identical individuals. Here, we investigate the effects of variability in …             Staircase Quantum Dots Configuration in Nanowires for Optimized Thermoelectric Power ▶     Lijie Li, Jian-Hua Jiang     The performance of thermoelectric energy harvesters can be improved by nanostructures that exploit inelastic transport processes. One prototype is the three-terminal hopping …             Analysis of Photoluminescence Thermal Quenching: Guidance for the Design of Highly Effective p-type Doping of Nitrides ▶     Zhiqiang Liu, Yang Huang, Xiaoyan Yi et al.     A contact-free diagnostic technique for examining position of the impurity energy level of p-type dopants in nitride semiconductors was proposed based on photoluminescence …             Photonic microstructures for energy-generating clear glass and net-zero energy buildings ▶     Mikhail Vasiliev, Ramzy Alghamedi, Mohammad Nur-E-Alam et al.     Transparent energy-harvesting windows are emerging as practical building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), capable of generating electricity while simultaneously reducing heating …             Synthesis of Vertically Standing MoS2 Triangles on SiC ▶     Feifei Lan, Zhanping Lai, Yongkuan Xu et al.     Layered material MoS2 has been attracting much attention due to its excellent electronical properties and catalytic property. Here we report the synthesis of vertically standing …             Assessing the utility of autofluorescence-based pulmonary optical endomicroscopy to predict the malignant potential of solitary pulmonary nodules in humans ▶     Sohan Seth, Ahsan R. Akram, Paul McCool et al.     Solitary pulmonary nodules are common, often incidental findings on chest CT scans. The investigation of pulmonary nodules is time-consuming and often leads to protracted …             Scalable Production of Glioblastoma Tumor-initiating Cells in 3 Dimension Thermoreversible Hydrogels ▶     Qiang Li, Haishuang Lin, Ou Wang et al.     There is growing interest in developing drugs that specifically target glioblastoma tumor-initiating cells (TICs). Current cell culture methods, however, cannot cost-effectively …             Molecular and ionic-scale chemical mechanisms behind the role of nitrocyl group in the electrochemical removal of heavy metals from sludge ▶     S. W. Hasan, I. Ahmed, A. A. Housani et al.     The chemical basis for improved removal rates of toxic heavy metals such as Zn and Cu from wastewater secondary sludge has been demonstrated in this study. 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