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08 November 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Chemical Sciences               The Dependency of Nematic and Twist-bend Mesophase Formation on Bend Angle ▶     Richard J. Mandle, Craig T. Archbold, Julia P. Sarju et al.     We have prepared and studied a family of cyanobiphenyl dimers with varying linking groups with a view to exploring how molecular structure dictates the stability of the nematic …             PEPlife: A Repository of the Half-life of Peptides ▶     Deepika Mathur, Satya Prakash, Priya Anand et al.     Short half-life is one of the key challenges in the field of therapeutic peptides. Various studies have reported enhancement in the stability of peptides using methods like …             Underwater superoleophobicity, anti-oil and ultra-broadband enhanced absorption of metallic surfaces produced by a femtosecond laser inspired by fish and chameleons ▶     K. Yin, Y. X. Song, X. R. Dong et al.     Reported here is the bio-inspired and robust function of underwater superoleophobic, anti-oil metallic surfaces with ultra-broadband enhanced optical absorption obtained through …             Electronic hybridisation implications for the damage-tolerance of thin film metallic glasses ▶     Volker Schnabel, B. Nagamani Jaya, Mathias Köhler et al.     A paramount challenge in materials science is to design damage-tolerant glasses. Poisson’s ratio is commonly used as a criterion to gauge the brittle-ductile transition in …             Blu-ray-sensitive localized surface plasmon resonance for high-density optical memory ▶     Shencheng Fu, Xintong Zhang, Qiang Han et al.     Tunable spectrum-response is desired for efficient photo-energy transformation. Blu-ray (~405 nm) and polarization sensitive Ag/TiO2 nanocomposite films are thus fascinating in …             Concurrent profiling of polar metabolites and lipids in human plasma using HILIC-FTMS ▶     Xiaoming Cai, Ruibin Li     Blood plasma is the most popularly used sample matrix for metabolite profiling studies, which aim to achieve global metabolite profiling and biomarker discovery. However, most of …             The role of gibberellins in improving the resistance of tebuconazole-coated maize seeds to chilling stress by microencapsulation ▶     Lijuan Yang, Daibin Yang, Xiaojing Yan et al.     Chilling stress during germination often causes severe injury. In the present study, maize seed germination and shoot growth under chilling stress were negatively correlated with …             A Novel Non-Peptidic Agonist of the Ghrelin Receptor with Orexigenic Activity In vivo ▶     Elena Pastor-Cavada, Leticia M. Pardo, Dalia Kandil et al.     Loss of appetite in the medically ill and ageing populations is a major health problem and a significant symptom in cachexia syndromes, which is the loss of muscle and fat mass. …             An Aldol Reaction-Based Iridium(III) Chemosensor for the Visualization of Proline in Living Cells ▶     Jin-Biao Liu, Li-Juan Liu, Zhen-Zhen Dong et al.     A long-lived aldol reaction-based iridium(III) chemosensor [Ir(ppy)2(5-CHOphen)]PF6 (1, where ppy = 2-phenylpyridine and 5-CHOphen = 1,10-phenanthroline-5-carbaldehyde) for …             Predicting Subtype Selectivity for Adenosine Receptor Ligands with Three-Dimensional Biologically Relevant Spectrum (BRS-3D) ▶     Song-Bing He, Ben Hu, Zheng-Kun Kuang et al.     Adenosine receptors (ARs) are potential therapeutic targets for Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, pain, stroke and cancers. Prediction of subtype selectivity is therefore important …             High Performance Palladium Supported on Nanoporous Carbon under Anhydrous Condition ▶     Zehui Yang, Ying Ling, Yunfeng Zhang et al.     Due to the high cost of polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs), replacing platinum (Pt) with some inexpensive metal was carried out. Here, we deposited palladium nanoparticles …             Surface-Enhanced Impulsive Coherent Vibrational Spectroscopy ▶     Juan Du, Juha Harra, Matti Virkki et al.     Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has attracted a lot of attention in molecular sensing because of the remarkable ability of plasmonic metal nanostructures to enhance …             Fluorescence microscopy reveals molecular localisation at line defects in nematic liquid crystals ▶     Takuya Ohzono, Kaoru Katoh, Jun-ichi Fukuda     Topological defects easily form in liquid crystals (LCs) as a result of frustrations in spatially dependent anisotropic molecular ordering, and have been regarded as promising …             β-Synuclein suppresses both the initiation and amplification steps of α-synuclein aggregation via competitive binding to surfaces ▶     James W. P. Brown, Alexander K. Buell, Thomas C. T. Michaels et al.     α-Synuclein is an intrinsically disordered protein that is associated with the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease through the processes involved in the formation of amyloid …             Hexacoordinated nitrogen(V) stabilized by high pressure ▶     Dominik Kurzydłowski, Patryk Zaleski-Ejgierd     In all of its known connections nitrogen retains a valence shell electron count of eight therefore satisfying the golden rule of chemistry - the octet rule. Despite the diversity …             Periodic protein adsorption at the gold/biotin aqueous solution interface: evidence of kinetics with time delay ▶     H. Neff, H. M. Laborde, A. M. N. Lima     An oscillatory molecular adsorption pattern of the protein neutravidin from aqueous solution onto gold, in presence of a pre-deposited self assembled mono-molecular biotin film, …             Metal-coupled folding as the driving force for the extreme stability of Rad50 zinc hook dimer assembly ▶     Tomasz Kochańczyk, Michał Nowakowski, Dominika Wojewska et al.     The binding of metal ions at the interface of protein complexes presents a unique and poorly understood mechanism of molecular assembly. A remarkable example is the Rad50 zinc …             Trends for isolated amino acids and dipeptides: Conformation, divalent ion binding, and remarkable similarity of binding to calcium and lead ▶     M. Ropo, V. Blum, C. Baldauf     We derive structural and binding energy trends for twenty amino acids, their dipeptides, and their interactions with the divalent cations Ca2+, Ba2+, Sr2+, Cd2+, Pb2+, and Hg2+. …             Hexafluoroisopropyl alcohol mediated synthesis of 2,3-dihydro-4H-pyrido[1,2-a]pyrimidin-4-ones ▶     Mohammad A. Alam, Zakeyah Alsharif, Hessa Alkhattabi et al.     An efficient synthesis of novel 2,3-dihydro-4H-pyrido[1,2-a]pyrimidin-4-ones has been reported. Inexpensive and readily available substrates, environmentally benign reaction …             Elaborately Tuning Intramolecular Electron Transfer Through Varying Oligoacene Linkers in the Bis(diarylamino) Systems ▶     Jing Zhang, Zhao Chen, Lan Yang et al.     The research efforts on oligoacene systems are still relatively limited mainly due to the synthetic challenge and the extreme instability of longer acenes. Herein, these two …             Identification of DNA primase inhibitors via a combined fragment-based and virtual screening ▶     Stefan Ilic, Sabine R. Akabayov, Haribabu Arthanari et al.     The structural differences between bacterial and human primases render the former an excellent target for drug design. Here we describe a technique for selecting small molecule …             Pressure-Driven Spin Crossover Involving Polyhedral Transformation in Layered Perovskite Cobalt Oxyfluoride ▶     Yoshihiro Tsujimoto, Satoshi Nakano, Naoki Ishimatsu et al.     We report a novel pressure-driven spin crossover in layered cobalt oxyfluoride Sr2CoO3F with a distorted CoO5 square pyramid loosely bound with a fluoride ion. Upon increasing …             Inhomogeneous ensembles of radical pairs in chemical compasses ▶     Maria Procopio, Thorsten Ritz     The biophysical basis for the ability of animals to detect the geomagnetic field and to use it for finding directions remains a mystery of sensory biology. 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