Scientific Reports Chemistry Table of Contents e-alert: October 2013

01 October 2013      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         Frontiers research network enables you make the most of your valuable professional network through our unique platform. Connect to colleagues, increase your impact and benefit from a 30% increase in downloads to any publication you link to your profile. Over 100,000 researchers are already here - we are just waiting for you: register today           Chemical Sciences               Mineral-Coated Polymer Membranes with Superhydrophilicity and Underwater Superoleophobicity for Effective Oil/Water Separation ▶     Peng-Cheng Chen, Zhi-Kang Xu     Oil-polluted water is a worldwide problem due to the increasing industrial oily wastewater and the frequent oil spill accidents. Here, we report a novel kind of superhydrophilic …             Size and space controlled hexagonal arrays of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanodots: magnetic studies and application ▶     Tandra Ghoshal, Tuhin Maity, Ramsankar Senthamaraikannan et al.     Highly dense hexagonally arranged iron oxide nanodots array were fabricated using PS-b-PEO self-assembled patterns. The copolymer molecular weight, composition and choice of …             Highly Efficient Bienzyme Functionalized Nanocomposite-Based Microfluidics Biosensor Platform for Biomedical Application ▶     Md. Azahar Ali, Saurabh Srivastava, Pratima R. Solanki et al.     This report describes the fabrication of a novel microfluidics nanobiochip based on a composite comprising of nickel oxide nanoparticles (nNiO) and multiwalled carbon nanotubes …             α-Helical Structures Drive Early Stages of Self-Assembly of Amyloidogenic Amyloid Polypeptide Aggregate Formation in Membranes ▶     Martina Pannuzzo, Antonio Raudino, Danilo Milardi et al.     The human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP) is the primary component in the toxic islet amyloid deposits in type-2 diabetes. hIAPP self-assembles to aggregates that permeabilize …             Hierarchical LiFePO4 with a controllable growth of the (010) facet for lithium-ion batteries ▶     Binbin Guo, Hongcheng Ruan, Cheng Zheng et al.     Hierarchically structured LiFePO4 was successfully synthesized by ionic liquid solvothermal method. These hierarchically structured LiFePO4 samples were constructed from …             Photoluminescence from Amino-Containing Polymer in the Presence of CO2: Carbamato Anion Formed as a Fluorophore ▶     Xiaoyong Pan, Guan Wang, Chee Leng Lay et al.     Organic photoluminescent materials are important to many applications especially for diagnosis and detection, and most of organic photoluminescent materials contain fluorophores …             Assignment of the Q-Bands of the Chlorophylls: Coherence Loss via Qx − Qy Mixing ▶     Jeffrey R. Reimers, Zheng-Li Cai, Rika Kobayashi et al.     We provide a new and definitive spectral assignment for the absorption, emission, high-resolution fluorescence excitation, linear dichroism, and/or magnetic circular dichroism …             Exceptional preservation of Palaeozoic steroids in a diagenetic continuum ▶     Ines Melendez, Kliti Grice, Lorenz Schwark     The occurrence of intact sterols has been restricted to immature Cretaceous (~125 Ma) sediments with one report from the Late Jurassic (~165 Ma). Here we report the oldest …             Rapid fabrication of self-ordered porous alumina with 10-/sub-10-nm-scale nanostructures by selenic acid anodizing ▶     Osamu Nishinaga, Tatsuya Kikuchi, Shungo Natsui et al.     Anodic porous alumina has been widely investigated and used as a nanostructure template in various nanoapplications. The porous structure consists of numerous hexagonal cells …             Lab on a Biomembrane: Rapid prototyping and manipulation of 2D fluidic lipid bilayers circuits ▶     Alar Ainla, Irep Gözen, Bodil Hakonen et al.     Lipid bilayer membranes are among the most ubiquitous structures in the living world, with intricate structural features and a multitude of biological functions. It is attractive …             Renewable hydrogen and carbon nanotubes from biodiesel waste glycerol ▶     Chunfei Wu, Zichun Wang, Paul T. Williams et al.     In this report, we introduce a novel and commercially viable method to recover renewable hydrogen and carbon nanotubes from waste glycerol produced in the biodiesel process. …             Artificial semiconductor/insulator superlattice channel structure for high-performance oxide thin-film transistors ▶     Cheol Hyoun Ahn, Karuppanan Senthil, Hyung Koun Cho et al.     High-performance thin-film transistors (TFTs) are the fundamental building blocks in realizing the potential applications of the next-generation displays. Atomically controlled …             Ordered mesoporous porphyrinic carbons with very high electrocatalytic activity for the oxygen reduction reaction ▶     Jae Yeong Cheon, Taeyoung Kim, YongMan Choi et al.     The high cost of the platinum-based cathode catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) has impeded the widespread application of polymer electrolyte fuel cells. We report …             Visible-light-driven photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic performances of Cr-doped SrTiO3/TiO2 heterostructured nanotube arrays ▶     Zhengbo Jiao, Tao Chen, Jinyan Xiong et al.     Well-aligned TiO2 nanotube arrays have become of increasing significance because of their unique highly ordered array structure, high specific surface area, unidirectional charge …             Origin of New Broad Raman D and G Peaks in Annealed Graphene ▶     Jinpyo Hong, Min Kyu Park, Eun Jung Lee et al.     Since graphene, a single sheet of graphite, has all of its carbon atoms on the surface, its property is very sensitive to materials contacting the surface. Herein, we report novel …             Ultrahigh humidity sensitivity of graphene oxide ▶     Hengchang Bi, Kuibo Yin, Xiao Xie et al.     Humidity sensors have been extensively used in various fields, and numerous problems are encountered when using humidity sensors, including low sensitivity, long response and …             Single-crystalline, wormlike hematite photoanodes for efficient solar water splitting ▶     Jae Young Kim, Ganesan Magesh, Duck Hyun Youn et al.     A hematite photoanode showing a stable, record-breaking performance of 4.32 mA/cm2 photoelectrochemical water oxidation current at 1.23 V vs. RHE under simulated 1-sun (100 mW/cm2…             A low cost, all-organic Na-ion Battery Based on Polymeric Cathode and Anode ▶     Wenwen Deng, Xinmiao Liang, Xianyong Wu et al.     Current battery systems have severe cost and resource restrictions, difficultly to meet the large scale electric storage applications. Herein, we report an all-organic Na-ion …             Anomalous interface adhesion of graphene membranes ▶     Y. He, W. F. Chen, W. B. Yu et al.     In order to understand the anomalous interface adhesion properties between graphene membranes and their substrates, we have developed a theoretical method to calibrate the …             Feeling Small: Exploring the Tactile Perception Limits ▶     Lisa Skedung, Martin Arvidsson, Jun Young Chung et al.     The human finger is exquisitely sensitive in perceiving different materials, but the question remains as to what length scales are capable of being distinguished in active touch. …             Solid State Pathways to Complex Shape Evolution and Tunable Porosity during Metallic Crystal Growth ▶     Carlos Díaz Valenzuela, Gabino A. Carriedo, María L. Valenzuela et al.     Growing complex metallic crystals, supported high index facet nanocrystal composites and tunable porosity metals, and exploiting factors that influence shape and morphology is …             When a repellent becomes an attractant: harmful saponins are kairomones attracting the symbiotic Harlequin crab ▶     Guillaume Caulier, Patrick Flammang, Pascal Gerbaux et al.     Marine organisms have developed a high diversity of chemical defences in order to avoid predators and parasites. In sea cucumbers, saponins function as repellents and many species …             Spontaneous intercalation of long-chain alkyl ammonium into edge-selectively oxidized graphite to efficiently produce high-quality graphene ▶     Liangming Wei, Fei Wu, Diwen Shi et al.     Mass production of high-quality graphene nanosheets (GNs) is essential for practical applications. We report that oxidation of graphite by low concentration KMnO4 at relatively …             Novel Porphyrinic Porous Organic Frameworks for High Performance Separation of Small Hydrocarbons ▶     Heping Ma, Hao Ren, Shuang Meng et al.     A series of Porphyrinic-CTF materials are synthesized under ionothermal condition with high surface areas (>3200 m2/g) and tunable pore sizes. The ZnP-CTFs exhibit high adsorption …             Biogenic Growth of Alloys and Core-Shell Nanostructures Using Urease as a Nanoreactor at Ambient Conditions ▶     Bhagwati Sharma, Sonam Mandani, Tridib K. Sarma     Biomineralization is an extremely efficient biologically guided process towards the advancement of nano-bio integrated materials. As a prime module of the natural world, enzymes …             Integrated Prototype Nanodevices via SnO2 Nanoparticles Decorated SnSe Nanosheets ▶     Jian-Jun Wang, Ai-Feng Lv, Yong-Qing Wang et al.     Hybrid materials made from all inorganic components are intriguing in many fields, because they have shown in-depth potential use for electronic and optoelectronic applications …             Highly sensitive and selective fluoride detection in water through fluorophore release from a metal-organic framework ▶     Florian M. Hinterholzinger, Bastian Rühle, Stefan Wuttke et al.     The detection, differentiation and visualization of compounds such as gases, liquids or ions are key challenges for the design of selective optical chemosensors. Optical chemical …             Non-Destructive Monitoring of Charge-Discharge Cycles on Lithium Ion Batteries using 7Li Stray-Field Imaging ▶     Joel A. Tang, Sneha Dugar, Guiming Zhong et al.     Magnetic resonance imaging provides a noninvasive method for in situ monitoring of electrochemical processes involved in charge/discharge cycling of batteries. Determining how the …             A time-temperature integrator based on fluorescent and polymorphic compounds ▶     Denis Gentili, Margherita Durso, Cristian Bettini et al.     Despite the variety of functional properties of molecular materials, which make them of interest for a number of technologies, their tendency to form inhomogeneous aggregates in …             Analyzing Strawberry Spoilage via its Volatile Compounds Using Longpath Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy ▶     Daming Dong, Chunjiang Zhao, Wengang Zheng et al.     The volatile compounds from fruits vary based on the spoilage stage. We used FTIR spectroscopy to analyze and to attempt to identify the spoilage process of strawberries. To …             Surface chirality induced by rotational electrodeposition in magnetic fields ▶     Iwao Mogi, Ryoichi Morimoto, Ryoichi Aogaki et al.     The surfaces of minerals could serve important catalytic roles in the prebiotic syntheses of organic molecules, such as amino acids. Thus, the surface chirality is responsible for …             Three-dimensional dynamics of a fermionic Mott wedding-cake in clean and disordered optical lattices ▶     A. Kartsev, D. Karlsson, A. Privitera et al.     Non-equilibrium quantum phenomena are ubiquitous in nature. Yet, theoretical predictions on the real-time dynamics of many-body quantum systems remain formidably challenging, …             A unique platinum-graphene hybrid structure for high activity and durability in oxygen reduction reaction ▶     Chengming Wang, Liang Ma, Lingwen Liao et al.     It remains a grand challenge to achieve both high activity and durability in Pt electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in fuel cells. Here we develop a class of Pt …             Short peptide-directed synthesis of one-dimensional platinum nanostructures with controllable morphologies ▶     Kai Tao, Jiqian Wang, Yanpeng Li et al.     Although one dimensional (1D) Pt nanostructures with well-defined sizes and shapes have fascinating physiochemical properties, their preparation remains a great challenge. Here we …             Kinetic Evidence of an Apparent Negative Activation Enthalpy in an Organocatalytic Process ▶     Xiao Han, Richmond Lee, Tao Chen et al.     A combined kinetic and computational study on our tryptophan-based bifunctional thiourea catalyzed asymmetric Mannich reactions reveals an apparent negative activation enthalpy. …             Rationally designed porous polystyrene encapsulated zirconium phosphate nanocomposite for highly efficient fluoride uptake in waters ▶     Qingrui Zhang, Qing Du, Tifeng Jiao et al.     Fluoride pollution in waters has engulfed worldwide regions and an excess of fluoride intake always causes skeletal fluorosis. Herein, a novel hybrid nanomaterial ZrP-MPN was …             Acoustic-like dynamics of amorphous drugs in the THz regime ▶     E. A. A. Pogna, C. Rodríguez-Tinoco, M. Krisch et al.     The high frequency dynamics of Indomethacin and Celecoxib glasses has been investigated by inelastic x-ray scattering, accessing a momentum-energy region still unexplored in …             Probing the Transmembrane Structure and Topology of Microsomal Cytochrome-P450 by Solid-State NMR on Temperature-Resistant Bicelles ▶     Kazutoshi Yamamoto, Melissa Gildenberg, Shivani Ahuja et al.     Though the importance of high-resolution structure and dynamics of membrane proteins has been well recognized, optimizing sample conditions to retain the native-like folding and …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Faculty Position     Vanderbilt University            Research Associate     Cardiff University            PhD Research Associate     BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna            Postdoctoral Fellow In Developmental Neuroscience     CNRS and École Normale Supérieure            Research Associate (x 2)     Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR)            Postdoctoral Research Associate     University of Oxford            Bioinformatician     University of Oxford            Post-doctoral Researcher     Nationwide Children's Hospital, Research Institute            Research Assistant     Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research (KUSTAR)            Postdoctoral Fellow     Shantou University          No matter what your career stage, student, postdoc or senior scientist, you will find articles on naturejobs.com to help guide you in your science career. 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