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15 November 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports       Chemical Sciences               Rhodomollins A and B, two Diterpenoids with an Unprecedented Backbone from the Fruits of Rhododendron molle ▶     Yong Li, Yun-Bao Liu, Hui-Min Yan et al.     Two new grayanoids, rhodomollin A (1) and rhodomollin B (2), possessing an unprecedented D-homo grayanane carbon skeleton, were isolated from the fruits of Rhododendron molle. …             Layered double hydroxide of Cd-Al/C for the Mineralization and De-coloration of Dyes in Solar and Visible Light Exposure ▶     Shahid Ali Khan, Sher Bahadar Khan, Abdullah M. Asiri     Cd-Al/C layered double hydroxide (Cd-Al/C-LDH) and Cd-Sb/C nanocatalyst are reported here for the de-coloration and mineralization of organic dyes. These catalysts were largely …             The Synergy of Double Cross-linking Agents on the Properties of Styrene Butadiene Rubber Foams ▶     Liang Shao, Zhan-You Ji, Jian-Zhong Ma et al.     Sulfur (S) cross-linking styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) foams show high shrinkage due to the cure reversion, leading to reduced yield and increased processing cost. In this …             Radiocarbon Releases from the 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Accident ▶     Sheng Xu, Gordon T. Cook, Alan J. Cresswell et al.     Radiocarbon activities were measured in annual tree rings for the years 2009 to 2015 from Japanese cedar trees (Cryptomeria japonica) collected at six sites ranging from …             Quantitative fluorescence spectroscopy and flow cytometry analyses of cell-penetrating peptides internalization pathways: optimization, pitfalls, comparison with mass spectrometry quantification ▶     Françoise Illien, Nicolas Rodriguez, Mehdi Amoura et al.     The mechanism of cell-penetrating peptides entry into cells is unclear, preventing the development of more efficient vectors for biotechnological or therapeutic purposes. Here, …             Corrigendum: Time-dependent effects of ultraviolet and nonthermal atmospheric pressure plasma on the biological activity of titanium ▶     Sung-Hwan Choi, Won-Seok Jeong, Jung-Yul Cha et al.                 16-nor Limonoids from Harrisonia perforata as promising selective 11β-HSD1 inhibitors ▶     Xiao-Hui Yan, Ping Yi, Pei Cao et al.     Two new 16-nor limonoids, harperspinoids A and B (1 and 2), with a unique 7/5/5/6/5 ring system, have been isolated from the plant Harrisonia perforate together with a known one, …             Superior hydrogen storage in high entropy alloys ▶     Martin Sahlberg, Dennis Karlsson, Claudia Zlotea et al.     Metal hydrides (MHx) provide a promising solution for the requirement to store large amounts of hydrogen in a future hydrogen-based energy system. This requires the design of …             Multiscale description of avian migration: from chemical compass to behaviour modeling ▶     J. Boiden Pedersen, Claus Nielsen, Ilia A. Solov’yov     Despite decades of research the puzzle of the magnetic sense of migratory songbirds has still not been unveiled. Although the problem really needs a multiscale description, most …             Molecular Mechanism and Energy Basis of Conformational Diversity of Antibody SPE7 Revealed by Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Principal Component Analysis ▶     Jianzhong Chen, Jinan Wang, Weiliang Zhu     More and more researchers are interested in and focused on how a limited repertoire of antibodies can bind and correspondingly protect against an almost limitless diversity of …             Additive manufacturing of micrometric crystallization vessels and single crystals ▶     Oded Halevi, Hui Jiang, Christian Kloc et al.     We present an all-additive manufacturing method that is performed at mild conditions, for the formation of organic single crystals at specific locations, without any …             A RGB-Type Quantum Dot-based Sensor Array for Sensitive Visual Detection of Trace Formaldehyde in Air ▶     Hui Xia, Jing Hu, Jie Tang et al.     A simple colorimetric sensor array based on red-emitting CdTe QDs and green-colored fluorescein that exhibited RGB-type color change was proposed for visual detection of trace …             Crosslinked polyarylene ether nitrile film as flexible dielectric materials with ultrahigh thermal stability ▶     Ruiqi Yang, Renbo Wei, Kui Li et al.     Dielectric film with ultrahigh thermal stability based on crosslinked polyarylene ether nitrile is prepared and characterized. The film is obtained by solution-casting of …             Radiation Damage in XFEL: Case study from the oxygen-evolving complex of Photosystem II ▶     Muhamed Amin, Ashraf Badawi, S. S. Obayya     Structural changes induced by radiation damage in X-ray crystallography hinder the ability to understand the structure/function relationship in chemical reactions. Serial …             Self-Supported Crack-Free Conducting Polymer Films with Stabilized Wrinkling Patterns and Their Applications ▶     Jixun Xie, Xue Han, Haipeng Ji et al.     Self-supported conducting polymer films with controlled microarchitectures are highly attractive from fundamental and applied points of view. Here a versatile strategy is …             Clean thermal decomposition of tertiary-alkyl metal thiolates to metal sulfides: environmentally-benign, non-polar inks for solution-processed chalcopyrite solar cells ▶     Jungwoo Heo, Gi-Hwan Kim, Jaeki Jeong et al.     We report the preparation of Cu2S, In2S3, CuInS2 and Cu(In,Ga)S2 semiconducting films via the spin coating and annealing of soluble tertiary-alkyl thiolate complexes. The …             The role of water molecules in stereoselectivity of glucose/galactose-binding protein ▶     Minsup Kim, Art E. Cho     Using molecular dynamics (MD) simulation methods, we attempted to explain the experimental results on ligand specificity of glucose/galactose-binding protein (GGBP) to …             Band gap modulation in polythiophene and polypyrrole-based systems ▶     Thaneshwor P. Kaloni, Georg Schreckenbach, Michael S. Freund     In this paper, the structural and electronic properties of polythiophene and polyprrrole-based systems have been investigated using first-principles calculations both in periodic …             High adaptability of the omega loop underlies the substrate-spectrum-extension evolution of a class A β-lactamase, PenL ▶     Hyojeong Yi, Jin Myung Choi, Junghyun Hwang et al.     The omega loop in β-lactamases plays a pivotal role in substrate recognition and catalysis, and some mutations in this loop affect the adaptability of the enzymes to new …             Potent Inducers of Endogenous Antimicrobial Peptides for Host Directed Therapy of Infections ▶     H. Ottosson, F. Nylén, P. Sarker et al.     A new concept for treatment of infections is induction of our own antimicrobial peptides and the presented novel class of inducer, aroylated phenylenediamines (APDs), gives up to …             Rational Design and Synthesis of [5]Helicene-Derived Phosphine Ligands and Their Application in Pd-Catalyzed Asymmetric Reactions ▶     Kosuke Yamamoto, Takashi Shimizu, Kazunobu Igawa et al.     A series of novel optically active [5]helicene-derived phosphine ligands (L1, with a 7,8-dihydro[5]helicene core structure- and L2, with a fully aromatic [5]helicene core …             Evidences for redox reaction driven charge transfer and mass transport in metal-assisted chemical etching of silicon ▶     Lingyu Kong, Binayak Dasgupta, Yi Ren et al.     In this work, we investigate the transport processes governing the metal-assisted chemical etching (MacEtch) of silicon (Si). We show that in the oxidation of Si during the …             An Innovative Metal Ions Sensitive “Test Paper” Based on Virgin Nanoporous Silicon Wafer: Highly Selective to Copper(II) ▶     Shaoyuan Li, Xiuhua Chen, Wenhui Ma et al.     Developing an innovative “Test Paper” based on virgin nanoporous silicon (NPSi) which shows intense visible emission and excellent fluorescence stability. 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