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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           Physical Sciences               Fastest Formation Routes of Nanocarbons in Solution Plasma Processes ▶     Tetsunori Morishita, Tomonaga Ueno, Gasidit Panomsuwan et al.     Although solution-plasma processing enables room-temperature synthesis of nanocarbons, the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. We investigated the routes of …             Atomic insight to lattice distortions caused by carrier self-trapping in oxide materials ▶     Felix Freytag, Gábor Corradi, Mirco Imlau     We gain hitherto missing access to the spatio-temporal evolution of lattice distortions caused by carrier self-trapping in the class of oxide materials - and beyond. The joint …             Tuning carrier lifetime in InGaN/GaN LEDs via strain compensation for high-speed visible light communication ▶     Chunhua Du, Xin Huang, Chunyan Jiang et al.     In recent years, visible light communication (VLC) technology has attracted intensive attention due to its huge potential in superior processing ability and fast data …             Corrigendum: MoS2 memristor with photoresistive switching ▶     Wei Wang, Gennady N. Panin, Xiao Fu et al.                 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. …             Chip-scale cavity optomechanics in lithium niobate ▶     Wei C. Jiang, Qiang Lin     We develop a chip-scale cavity optomechanical system in single-crystal lithium niobate that exhibits high optical quality factors and a large frequency-quality product as high as …             Non-contact radio frequency shielding and wave guiding by multi-folded transformation optics method ▶     Hamza Ahmad Madni, Bin Zheng, Yihao Yang et al.     Compared with conventional radio frequency (RF) shielding methods in which the conductive coating material encloses the circuits design and the leakage problem occurs due to the …             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 …             Three orthogonal ultrasounds fabricate uniform ternary Al-Sn-Cu immiscible alloy ▶     W. Zhai, B. J. Wang, H. M. Liu et al.     The production of Al based monotectic alloys with uniform microstructure is usually difficult due to the large density difference between the two immiscible liquid phases, which …             Reinforcement of nylon 6,6/nylon 6,6 grafted nanodiamond composites by in situ reactive extrusion ▶     Eun-Yeob Choi, Kiho Kim, Chang-Keun Kim et al.     Nanodiamond (ND), an emerging new carbon material, was exploited to reinforce nylon 6,6 (PA66) polymer composites. Surface modified nanodiamonds with acyl chloride end groups …             Hydrogen-bond potential for ice VIII-X phase transition ▶     Xi Zhang, Shun Chen, Jichen Li     Repulsive force between the O-H bonding electrons and the O:H nonbonding pair within hydrogen bond (O-H:O) is an often overlooked interaction which dictates the extraordinary …             Revealing the core-shell interactions of a giant strain relaxor ferroelectric 0.75Bi1/2Na1/2TiO3-0.25SrTiO3 ▶     Na Liu, Matias Acosta, Shuai Wang et al.     Lead-free relaxor ferroelectrics that feature a core-shell microstructure provide an excellent electromechanical response. They even have the potential to replace the …             Independent and collective roles of surface structures at different length scales on pool boiling heat transfer ▶     Calvin H. Li, Russell P. Rioux     Spherical Cu nanocavity surfaces are synthesized to examine the individual role of contact angles in connecting lateral Rayleigh-Taylor wavelength to vertical Kevin-Helmholtz …             Spin relaxation signature of colossal magnetic anisotropy in platinum atomic chains ▶     Anders Bergman, Johan Hellsvik, Pavel F. Bessarab et al.     Recent experimental data demonstrate emerging magnetic order in platinum atomically thin nanowires. Furthermore, an unusual form of magnetic anisotropy – colossal magnetic …             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 …             Reversible voltage dependent transition of abnormal and normal bipolar resistive switching ▶     Guangyu Wang, Chen Li, Yan Chen et al.     Clear understanding the mechanism of resistive switching is the important prerequisite for the realization of high performance nonvolatile resistive random access memory. In this …             Multi-scale Adaptive Computational Ghost Imaging ▶     Shuai Sun, Wei-Tao Liu, Hui-Zu Lin et al.     In some cases of imaging, wide spatial range and high spatial resolution are both required, which requests high performance of detection devices and huge resource consumption for …             Improved Diagnostics by Assessing the Micromorphology of Breast Calcifications via X-Ray Dark-Field Radiography ▶     Kai Scherer, Eva Braig, Sebastian Ehn et al.     Breast microcalcifications play an essential role in the detection and evaluation of early breast cancer in clinical diagnostics. However, in digital mammography, …             An anomalous interlayer exciton in MoS2 ▶     Dilna Azhikodan, Tashi Nautiyal, Sam Shallcross et al.     The few layer transition metal dichalcogenides are two dimensional materials that have an intrinsic gap of the order of ≈2 eV. The reduced screening in two dimensions implies a …             Detection-dependent six-photon Holland-Burnett state interference ▶     Rui-Bo Jin, Mikio Fujiwara, Ryosuke Shimizu et al.     The NOON state, and its experimental approximation the Holland-Burnett state, have important applications in phase sensing measurement with enhanced sensitivity. However, most of …             Corrigendum: Role of Excessive Autophagy Induced by Mechanical Overload in Vein Graft Neointima Formation: Prediction and Prevention ▶     Ya-Ju Chang, Hui-Chun Huang, Yuan-Yu Hsueh et al.                 Atomic force microscopy characterization of kinase-mediated phosphorylation of a peptide monolayer ▶     Roman Zhuravel, Einav Amit, Shir Elbaz et al.     We describe the detailed microscopic changes in a peptide monolayer following kinase-mediated phosphorylation. A reversible electrochemical transformation was observed using …             Effect of Schmidt number on mass transfer across a sheared gas-liquid interface in a wind-driven turbulence ▶     Naohisa Takagaki, Ryoichi Kurose, Atsushi Kimura et al.     The mass transfer across a sheared gas-liquid interface strongly depends on the Schmidt number. Here we investigate the relationship between mass transfer coefficient on the …             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.                 Three-dimensional broadband acoustic illusion cloak for sound-hard boundaries of curved geometry ▶     Weiwei Kan, Bin Liang, Ruiqi Li et al.     Acoustic illusion cloaks that create illusion effects by changing the scattered wave have many potential applications in a variety of scenarios. However, the experimental …             Corrigendum: Lateral photovoltaic effect in flexible free-standing reduced graphene oxide film for self-powered position-sensitive detection ▶     In Kyu Moon, Bugeun Ki, Seonno Yoon et al.                 Streaming current magnetic fields in a charged nanopore ▶     Abraham Mansouri, Peyman Taheri, Larry W. Kostiuk     Magnetic fields induced by currents created in pressure driven flows inside a solid-state charged nanopore were modeled by numerically solving a system of steady state continuum …             Electrically Tunable Nd:YAG waveguide laser based on Graphene ▶     Linan Ma, Yang Tan, Shavkat Akhmadaliev et al.     We demonstrate a tunable hybrid Graphene-Nd:YAG cladding waveguide laser exploiting the electro-optic and the Joule heating effects of Graphene. A cladding Nd:YAG waveguide was …             Multicore-shell nanofiber architecture of polyimide/polyvinylidene fluoride blend for thermal and long-term stability of lithium ion battery separator ▶     Sejoon Park, Chung Woo Son, Sungho Lee et al.     Li-ion battery, separator, multicoreshell structure, thermal stability, long-term stability. A nanofibrous membrane with multiple cores of polyimide (PI) in the shell of …             Backward transfer entropy: Informational measure for detecting hidden Markov models and its interpretations in thermodynamics, gambling and causality ▶     Sosuke Ito     The transfer entropy is a well-established measure of information flow, which quantifies directed influence between two stochastic time series and has been shown to be useful in …             Predicted reentrant melting of dense hydrogen at ultra-high pressures ▶     Hua Y. Geng, Q. Wu     The phase diagram of hydrogen is one of the most important challenges in high-pressure physics and astrophysics. Especially, the melting of dense hydrogen is complicated by dimer …             Freeze-Dried Platelet-Rich Plasma Accelerates Bone Union with Adequate Rigidity in Posterolateral Lumbar Fusion Surgery Model in Rats ▶     Yasuhiro Shiga, Sumihisa Orita, Go Kubota et al.     Fresh platelet-rich plasma (PRP) accelerates bone union in rat model. However, fresh PRP has a short half-life. We suggested freeze-dried PRP (FD-PRP) prepared in advance and …             Speeding up GW Calculations to Meet the Challenge of Large Scale Quasiparticle Predictions ▶     Weiwei Gao, Weiyi Xia, Xiang Gao et al.     Although the GW approximation is recognized as one of the most accurate theories for predicting materials excited states properties, scaling up conventional GW calculations for …             Multistate Memristive Tantalum Oxide Devices for Ternary Arithmetic ▶     Wonjoo Kim, Anupam Chattopadhyay, Anne Siemon et al.     Redox-based resistive switching random access memory (ReRAM) offers excellent properties to implement future non-volatile memory arrays. Recently, the capability of two-state …             Photo-electrons unveil topological transitions in graphene-like systems ▶     Lucila Peralta Gavensky, Gonzalo Usaj, C. A. Balseiro     The topological structure of the wavefunctions of particles in periodic potentials is characterized by the Berry curvature Ωkn whose integral on the Brillouin zone is a …             Controlled tip wear on high roughness surfaces yields gradual broadening and rounding of cantilever tips ▶     Daan Vorselen, Ernst S. Kooreman, Gijs J. L. Wuite et al.     Tip size in atomic force microscopy (AFM) has a major impact on the resolution of images and on the results of nanoindentation experiments. Tip wear is therefore a key limitation …             Enhanced critical-current in P-doped BaFe2As2 thin films on metal substrates arising from poorly aligned grain boundaries ▶     Hikaru Sato, Hidenori Hiramatsu, Toshio Kamiya et al.     Thin films of the iron-based superconductor BaFe2(As1−xPx)2 (Ba122:P) were fabricated on polycrystalline metal-tape substrates with two kinds of in-plane grain boundary …             Demonstration of Tunable Steering and Multiplexing of Two 28 GHz Data Carrying Orbital Angular Momentum Beams Using Antenna Array ▶     Guodong Xie, Zhe Zhao, Yan Yan et al.     In line-of-sight communication systems, accurate alignment between the transmitter and receiver is important to guarantee sufficient signal power at the receiver. Such alignment …             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, …             Photothermal therapy improves the efficacy of a MEK inhibitor in neurofibromatosis type 1-associated malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors ▶     Elizabeth E. Sweeney, Rachel A. Burga, Chaoyang Li et al.     Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNSTs) are aggressive tumors with low survival rates and the leading cause of death in neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) patients under 40 …             Impacts of brown carbon from biomass burning on surface UV and ozone photochemistry in the Amazon Basin ▶     Jungbin Mok, Nickolay A. Krotkov, Antti Arola et al.     The spectral dependence of light absorption by atmospheric particulate matter has major implications for air quality and climate forcing, but remains uncertain especially in …             Dual-wavelength pump-probe microscopy analysis of melanin composition ▶     Andrew Thompson, Francisco E. Robles, Jesse W. Wilson et al.     Pump-probe microscopy is an emerging technique that provides detailed chemical information of absorbers with sub-micrometer spatial resolution. Recent work has shown that the …             Ni-Co bimetal nanowires filled multiwalled carbon nanotubes for the highly sensitive and selective non-enzymatic glucose sensor applications ▶     K. Ramachandran, T. Raj kumar, K. Justice Babu et al.     The facile, time and cost efficient and environmental benign approach has been developed for the preparation of Nickel (Ni)-Cobalt (Co) alloy nanowires filled multiwalled carbon …             Erlotinib-Conjugated Iron Oxide Nanoparticles as a Smart Cancer-Targeted Theranostic Probe for MRI ▶     Ahmed Atef Ahmed Ali, Fei-Ting Hsu, Chia-Ling Hsieh et al.     We designed and synthesized novel theranostic nanoparticles that showed the considerable potential for clinical use in targeted therapy, and non-invasive real-time monitoring of …             Exploring time- and frequency- dependent functional connectivity and brain networks during deception with single-trial event-related potentials ▶     Jun-feng Gao, Yong Yang, Wen-tao Huang et al.     To better characterize the cognitive processes and mechanisms that are associated with deception, wavelet coherence was employed to evaluate functional connectivity between …             Importance of the Hubbard correction on the thermal conductivity calculation of strongly correlated materials: a case study of ZnO ▶     Anthony Consiglio, Zhiting Tian     The wide bandgap semiconductor, ZnO, has gained interest recently as a promising option for use in power electronics such as thermoelectric and piezoelectric generators, as well …             Conformal mapping for multiple terminals ▶     Weimin Wang, Wenying Ma, Qiang Wang et al.     Conformal mapping is an important mathematical tool that can be used to solve various physical and engineering problems in many fields, including electrostatics, fluid mechanics, …             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 …             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 …             Corrigendum: Effective pinning energy landscape perturbations for propagating magnetic domain walls ▶     D. M. Burn, D. Atkinson                 A facile one-pot oxidation-assisted dealloying protocol to massively synthesize monolithic core-shell architectured nanoporous copper@cuprous oxide nanonetworks for photodegradation of methyl orange ▶     Wenbo Liu, Long Chen, Xin Dong et al.     In this report, a facile and effective one-pot oxidation-assisted dealloying protocol has been developed to massively synthesize monolithic core-shell architectured nanoporous …             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 …             Patterned Microstructure Fabrication: Polyelectrolyte Complexes vs Polyelectrolyte Multilayers ▶     Meiyu Gai, Johannes Frueh, Valeriya L. Kudryavtseva et al.     Polyelectrolyte complexes (PEC) are formed by mixing the solutions of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes, which were hitherto deemed “impossible” to process, since they are …             One-DOF Superimposed Rigid Origami with Multiple States ▶     Xiang Liu, Joseph M. Gattas, Yan Chen     Origami-inspired engineering design is increasingly used in the development of self-folding structures. The majority of existing self-folding structures either use a bespoke …             Trap-mediated electronic transport properties of gate-tunable pentacene/MoS2 p-n heterojunction diodes ▶     Jae-Keun Kim, Kyungjune Cho, Tae-Young Kim et al.     We investigated the trap-mediated electronic transport properties of pentacene/molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) p-n heterojunction devices. We observed that the hybrid p-n …             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 …             Electronic bonding analyses and mechanical strengths of incompressible tetragonal transition metal dinitrides TMN2 (TM = Ti, Zr, and Hf) ▶     Meiguang Zhang, Ke Cheng, Haiyan Yan et al.     Motivated by recent successful synthesis of transition metal dinitride TiN2, the electronic structure and mechanical properties of the discovered TiN2 and other two family …             Erratum: Large Fermi Surface of Heavy Electrons at the Border of Mott Insulating State in NiS2 ▶     S. Friedemann, H. Chang, M. B. Gamża et al.                 Effect of nematic ordering on electronic structure of FeSe ▶     A. Fedorov, A. Yaresko, T. K. Kim et al.     Electronically driven nematic order is often considered as an essential ingredient of high-temperature superconductivity. Its elusive nature in iron-based superconductors …             Spin exchange broadening of magnetic resonance lines in a high-sensitivity rotating K-Rb-21Ne co-magnetometer ▶     Yao Chen, Wei Quan, Sheng Zou et al.     Atomic co-magnetometers can be utilized for high-precision angular velocity sensing or fundamental physics tests. The sensitivity of a co-magnetometer determines the angle random …             Origin of the Photoluminescence Quantum Yields Enhanced by Alkane-Termination of Freestanding Silicon Nanocrystals: Temperature-Dependence of Optical Properties ▶     Batu Ghosh, Masaki Takeguchi, Jin Nakamura et al.     On the basis of the systematic study on temperature dependence of photoluminescence (PL) properties along with relaxation dynamics we revise a long-accepted mechanism for …             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 …             Graphlet characteristics in directed networks ▶     Igor Trpevski, Tamara Dimitrova, Tommy Boshkovski et al.     Graphlet analysis is part of network theory that does not depend on the choice of the network null model and can provide comprehensive description of the local network structure. …             A dynamic in vivo-like organotypic blood-brain barrier model to probe metastatic brain tumors ▶     Hui Xu, Zhongyu Li, Yue Yu et al.     The blood-brain barrier (BBB) restricts the uptake of many neuro-therapeutic molecules, presenting a formidable hurdle to drug development in brain diseases. We proposed a new …             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 …             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 …             High-gain polymer optical waveguide amplifiers based on core-shell NaYF4/NaLuF4: Yb3+, Er3+ NPs-PMMA covalent-linking nanocomposites ▶     Meiling Zhang, Weiwei Zhang, Fei Wang et al.     Waveguide amplifiers have always been significant key components for optical communication. Unfortunately, the low concentration of rare earth ions doped in the host material and …             Role of the interface between distributed fibre optic strain sensor and soil in ground deformation measurement ▶     Cheng-Cheng Zhang, Hong-Hu Zhu, Bin Shi     Recently the distributed fibre optic strain sensing (DFOSS) technique has been applied to monitor deformations of various earth structures. However, the reliability of soil …             First-Principles Studies on the Structural Stability of Spinel ZnCo2O4 as an Electrode Material for Lithium-ion Batteries ▶     Wei-Wei Liu, M. T. Jin, W. M. Shi et al.     Systematic first principles calculations were performed for ZnCo2O4 to clarify its structural and electronic properties, and particularly the structural stability as an electrode …             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 …             High brightness formamidinium lead bromide perovskite nanocrystal light emitting devices ▶     Ajay Perumal, Sushant Shendre, Mingjie Li et al.     Formamidinium lead halide (FAPbX3) has attracted greater attention and is more prominent recently in photovoltaic devices due to its broad absorption and higher thermal stability …             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 …             Nonlinear network model analysis of vibrational energy transfer and localisation in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex ▶     Sarah E. Morgan, Daniel J. Cole, Alex W. Chin     Collective protein modes are expected to be important for facilitating energy transfer in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) complex of photosynthetic green sulphur bacteria, however …             Fast generation of W states of superconducting qubits with multiple Schrödinger dynamics ▶     Yi-Hao Kang, Ye-Hong Chen, Qi-Cheng Wu et al.     In this paper, we present a protocol to generate a W state of three superconducting qubits (SQs) by using multiple Schrödinger dynamics. The three SQs are respective embedded in …             Completely Chiral Optical Force for Enantioseparation ▶     Ivan D. Rukhlenko, Nikita V. Tepliakov, Anvar S. Baimuratov et al.     Fast and reliable separation of enantiomers of chiral nanoparticles requires elimination of all the forces that are independent of the nanoparticle handedness and creation of a …             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 …             Synchronization and Bellerophon states in conformist and contrarian oscillators ▶     Tian Qiu, Stefano Boccaletti, Ivan Bonamassa et al.     The study of synchronization in generalized Kuramoto models has witnessed an intense boost in the last decade. Several collective states were discovered, such as partially …             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 …             Quantifying distinct associations on different temporal scales: comparison of DCCA and Pearson methods ▶     Lin Piao, Zuntao Fu     Cross-correlation between pairs of variables takes multi-time scale characteristic, and it can be totally different on different time scales (changing from positive correlation …             Non-invasive cardiac pacing with image-guided focused ultrasound ▶     Fabrice Marquet, Pierre Bour, Fanny Vaillant et al.     Currently, no non-invasive cardiac pacing device acceptable for prolonged use in conscious patients exists. High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) can be used to perform remote …             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 …             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 …             Capturing Structural Dynamics in Crystalline Silicon Using Chirped Electrons from a Laser Wakefield Accelerator ▶     Z.-H. He, B. Beaurepaire, J. A. Nees et al.     Recent progress in laser wakefield acceleration has led to the emergence of a new generation of electron and X-ray sources that may have enormous benefits for ultrafast science. …             Bulk heterojunction morphology of polymer:fullerene blends revealed by ultrafast spectroscopy ▶     Almis Serbenta, Oleg V. Kozlov, Giuseppe Portale et al.     Morphology of organic photovoltaic bulk heterojunctions (BHJs) – a nanoscale texture of the donor and acceptor phases – is one of the key factors influencing efficiency of …             Three-waveform bidirectional pumping of single electrons with a silicon quantum dot ▶     Tuomo Tanttu, Alessandro Rossi, Kuan Yen Tan et al.     Semiconductor-based quantum dot single-electron pumps are currently the most promising candidates for the direct realization of the emerging quantum standard of the ampere in the …             Suppression of radiation-induced point defects by rhenium and osmium interstitials in tungsten ▶     Tomoaki Suzudo, Akira Hasegawa     Modeling the evolution of radiation-induced defects is important for finding radiation-resistant materials, which would be greatly appreciated in nuclear applications. We apply …             Observations on the long-lived Mossbauer effects of 93mNb ▶     Yao Cheng, Shi-Hui Yang, Michael Lan et al.     Several observations of the Nb long-lived Mossbauer phenomena are presented, in consequence of an irradiation increased by an order of magnitude compared with previous work. …             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 …             Evidence of Magnetic Inversion in Single Ni Nanoparticles ▶     W. Jiang, P. Gartland, D. Davidović     Superparamagnetism is an unwanted property of small magnetic particles where the magnetization of the particle flips randomly in time, due to thermal noise. There has been an …             Continuous, One-pot Synthesis and Post-Synthetic Modification of NanoMOFs Using Droplet Nanoreactors ▶     Sachin R. Jambovane, Satish K. Nune, Ryan T. Kelly et al.     Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs); also known as porous coordination polymers (PCP) are a class of porous crystalline materials constructed by connecting metal clusters via organic …             Synthesis and Characterization of Superhydrophobic, Self-cleaning NIR-reflective Silica Nanoparticles ▶     Deepa Sriramulu, Ella Louise Reed, Meenakshi Annamalai et al.     Multifunctional coatings offer many advantages towards protecting various surfaces. Here we apply aggregation induced segregation of perylene diimide (PDI) to control the surface …             Improvement in the transport critical current density and microstructure of isotopic Mg11B2 monofilament wires by optimizing the sintering temperature ▶     Wenbin Qiu, Hyunseock Jie, Dipak Patel et al.     Superconducting wires are widely used in fabricating magnetic coils in fusion reactors. In consideration of the stability of 11B against neutron irradiation and lower induced …             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 …             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. The visual fluorescence …             Establishing the limits of efficiency of perovskite solar cells from first principles modeling ▶     Oscar Grånäs, Dmitry Vinichenko, Efthimios Kaxiras     The recent surge in research on metal-halide-perovskite solar cells has led to a seven-fold increase of efficiency, from ~3% in early devices to over 22% in research prototypes. …             Determination of plane stress state using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy ▶     Zhiyong Wang, Kai Kang, Shibin Wang et al.     THz wave has been increasingly applied in engineering practice. One of its outstanding advantages is the penetrability through certain optically opaque materials, whose interior …             Laser Printing of Superhydrophobic Patterns from Mixtures of Hydrophobic Silica Nanoparticles and Toner Powder ▶     Chi-Vinh Ngo, Doo-Man Chun     In this work, a new and facile dry printing method was developed for the direct fabrication of superhydrophobic patterns based on silica nanoparticles. Mixtures of hydrophobic …             Normal incidence filters using symmetry-protected modes in dielectric subwavelength gratings ▶     Xuan Cui, Hao Tian, Yan Du et al.     We investigate narrowband transmission filters based on subwavelength-grating reflectors at normal incidence. Computational results show that the filtering is realized through …             Photoswitchable non-fluorescent thermochromic dye-nanoparticle hybrid probes ▶     Walter N. Harrington, Mwafaq R. Haji, Ekaterina I. Galanzha et al.     Photoswitchable fluorescent proteins with controllable light–dark states and spectral shifts in emission in response to light have led to breakthroughs in the study of cell …             Electromagnetically induced transparency of a plasmonic metamaterial light absorber based on multilayered metallic nanoparticle sheets ▶     Koichi Okamoto, Daisuke Tanaka, Ryo Degawa et al.     In this study, we observed the peak splitting of absorption spectra for two-dimensional sheets of silver nanoparticles due to the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) …             Extremely Sensitive Dependence of SnOx Film Properties on Sputtering Power ▶     Yunpeng Li, Qian Xin, Lulu Du et al.     An extremely sensitive dependence of the electronic properties of SnOx film on sputtering deposition power is discovered experimentally. The carrier transport sharply switches …             Pulse noise-hidden image reconstruction and visualization via stochastic resonance ▶     Qibing Sun, Hongjun Liu, Nan Huang et al.     We investigate the nanosecond pulse noise-hidden image reconstruction and visualization using stochastic resonance implemented by modulation instability. In particular, this …             Simultaneous multi-patch-clamp and extracellular-array recordings: Single neuron reflects network activity ▶     Roni Vardi, Amir Goldental, Shira Sardi et al.     The increasing number of recording electrodes enhances the capability of capturing the network’s cooperative activity, however, using too many monitors might alter the properties …             Achieving high mobility, low-voltage operating organic field-effect transistor nonvolatile memory by an ultraviolet-ozone treating ferroelectric terpolymer ▶     Lanyi Xiang, Wei Wang, Wenfa Xie     Poly(vinylidene fluoride–trifluoroethylene) has been widely used as a dielectric of the ferroelectric organic field-effect transistor (FE-OFET) nonvolatile memory (NVM). Some …             Length-free near infrared measurement of newborn malnutrition ▶     Fatin Hamimi Mustafa, Emily J. Bek, Jacqueline Huvanandana et al.     Under-nutrition in neonates can cause immediate mortality, impaired cognitive development and early onset adult disease. Body fat percentage measured using …             Manipulation of zebrafish’s orientation using artificial cilia in a microchannel with actively adaptive wall design ▶     Karthick Mani, Tsung-Chun Chang Chien, Bivas Panigrahi et al.     The zebrafish is a powerful genetic model organism especially in the biomedical chapter for new drug discovery and development. The genetic toolbox which this vertebrate …             Mutually Exclusive Uncertainty Relations ▶     Yunlong Xiao, Naihuan Jing     The uncertainty principle is one of the characteristic properties of quantum theory based on incompatibility. Apart from the incompatible relation of quantum states, mutually …             Coevolution of Cooperation and Partner Rewiring Range in Spatial Social Networks ▶     Tommy Khoo, Feng Fu, Scott Pauls     In recent years, there has been growing interest in the study of coevolutionary games on networks. Despite much progress, little attention has been paid to spatially embedded …             Highly sensitive dual mode electrochemical platform for microRNA detection ▶     Pawan Jolly, Marina R. Batistuti, Anna Miodek et al.     MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play crucial regulatory roles in various human diseases including cancer, making them promising biomarkers. However, given the low levels of miRNAs present in …             Non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma activates lactate in Ringer’s solution for anti-tumor effects ▶     Hiromasa Tanaka, Kae Nakamura, Masaaki Mizuno et al.     Non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma is a novel approach for wound healing, blood coagulation, and cancer therapy. A recent discovery in the field of plasma medicine is that …             Direct and indirect ENSO modulation of winter temperature over the Asian–Pacific–American region ▶     Marco Y. T. Leung, Wen Zhou     In this study, the direct and indirect atmospheric responses over the Asian–Pacific–American region to the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) are documented. Since ENSO is …             Superparamagnetic Fe3O4-PEG2K-FA@Ce6 Nanoprobes for in Vivo Dual-mode Imaging and Targeted Photodynamic Therapy ▶     Ting Yin, Peng Huang, Guo Gao et al.     The development of targeted nanoprobes is a promising approach to cancer diagnostics and therapy. In the present work, a novel multifunctional photo/magnet-diagnostic nanoprobe …             Establishing Antibacterial Multilayer Films on the Surface of Direct Metal Laser Sintered Titanium Primed with Phase-Transited Lysozyme ▶     Binbin Guan, Haorong Wang, Ruiqing Xu et al.     Direct metal laser sintering is a technology that allows the fabrication of titanium (Ti) implants with a functional gradation of porosity and surface roughness according to …             Sequence basis of Barnacle Cement Nanostructure is Defined by Proteins with Silk Homology ▶     Christopher R. So, Kenan P. Fears, Dagmar H. Leary et al.     Barnacles adhere by producing a mixture of cement proteins (CPs) that organize into a permanently bonded layer displayed as nanoscale fibers. 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