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

01 November 2013      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         Choose Scientific Reports for fast, efficient, open access publishing  94% of authors said they are likely or very likely to recommend Scientific Reports to their colleagues* 91% of authors would publish in Scientific Reports again*   SUBMIT your paper today!    *Nature Publishing Group author survey, data correct as of September 2013           Chemical Sciences               Turning Indium Oxide into a Superior Electrocatalyst: Deterministic Heteroatoms ▶     Bo Zhang, Nan Nan Zhang, Jian Fu Chen et al.     The efficient electrocatalysts for many heterogeneous catalytic processes in energy conversion and storage systems must possess necessary surface active sites. Here we identify, …             High rate capability caused by surface cubic spinels in Li-rich layer-structured cathodes for Li-ion batteries ▶     Bohang Song, Hongwei Liu, Zongwen Liu et al.     Modified Li-rich layered cathode Li(Li0.2Mn0.54Ni0.13Co0.13)O2 has been synthesized by a simple strategy of using surface treatment with various amounts (0–30 wt.%) of Super P …             Molecular imaging of tumors and metastases using chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) MRI ▶     Michal Rivlin, Judith Horev, Ilan Tsarfaty et al.     The two glucose analogs 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) and 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) are preferentially taken up by cancer cells, undergo phosphorylation and accumulate in the …             Water transport mechanism through open capillaries analyzed by direct surface modifications on biological surfaces ▶     Daisuke Ishii, Hiroko Horiguchi, Yuji Hirai et al.     Some small animals only use water transport mechanisms passively driven by surface energies. However, little is known about passive water transport mechanisms because it is …             An investigation of electron-phonon coupling via phonon dispersion measurements in graphite using angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy ▶     Shin-ichiro Tanaka, Masaharu Matsunami, Shin-ichi Kimura     Electron-phonon coupling (EPC) plays an important role in solid state physics. Here, we demonstrate an experimental method that enables investigation of the elemental processes of …             Enhanced photocatalytic activity of TiO2-C hybrid aerogels for methylene blue degradation ▶     Xia Shao, Wencong Lu, Rui Zhang et al.     Carbon-based TiO2 composites have many advantages as photocatalysts. However, they suffer from low light efficiency due to the low contrast of TiO2 with carbon. We synthesized a …             Nanoporous gold as an active low temperature catalyst toward CO oxidation in hydrogen-rich stream ▶     Dongwei Li, Ye Zhu, Hui Wang et al.     Preferential CO oxidation (PROX) was investigated by using dealloyed nanoporous gold (NPG) catalyst under ambient conditions. Systematic investigations were carried out to …             Stabilization of metastable ferroelectric Ba1−xCaxTi2O5 by breaking Ca-site selectivity via crystallization from glass ▶     Atsunobu Masuno, Chikako Moriyoshi, Teruyasu Mizoguchi et al.     The thermal stability and dielectric and structural properties of ferroelectric Ba1−xCaxTi2O5 (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.30) prepared by crystallization from glass are investigated. The Ba1−xCaxTi…             Mechanistic understanding of surface plasmon assisted catalysis on a single particle: cyclic redox of 4-aminothiophenol ▶     Ping Xu, Leilei Kang, Nathan H. Mack et al.     Surface plasmon assisted catalysis (SPAC) reactions of 4-aminothiophenol (4ATP) to and back from 4,4′-dimercaptoazobenzene (DMAB) have been investigated by single particle surface …             Bioinspired greigite magnetic nanocrystals: chemical synthesis and biomedicine applications ▶     Mei Feng, Yang Lu, Yuan Yang et al.     Large scale greigite with uniform dimensions has stimulated significant demands for applications such as hyperthermia, photovoltaics, medicine and cell separation, etc. However, …             Size, separation, structural order, and mass density of molecules packing in water and ice ▶     Yongli Huang, Xi Zhang, Zengsheng Ma et al.     The structural symmetry and molecular separation in water and ice remain uncertain. We present herewith a solution to unifying the density, the structure order and symmetry, the …             Water dynamics: Relation between hydrogen bond bifurcations, molecular jumps, local density & hydrophobicity ▶     John Tatini Titantah, Mikko Karttunen     Structure and dynamics of water remain a challenge. Resolving the properties of hydrogen bonding lies at the heart of this puzzle. We employ ab initio Molecular Dynamics (AIMD) …             ArCH(OMe)2 - a PtIV-catalyst originator for diverse annulation catalysis ▶     Subhadeep Ghosh, Saikat Khamarui, Krishnanka S. Gayen et al.     We discover an important property of a small molecule ArCH(OMe)2 which transforms catalytically inactive PtIIBr2 procatalyst in situ to an powerful catalyst PtIV-species for …             Plutonium release from Fukushima Daiichi fosters the need for more detailed investigations ▶     Stephanie Schneider, Clemens Walther, Stefan Bister et al.     The contamination of Japan after the Fukushima accident has been investigated mainly for volatile fission products, but only sparsely for actinides such as plutonium. Only small …             Self-healing of the superhydrophobicity by ironing for the abrasion durable superhydrophobic cotton fabrics ▶     Jingxia Wu, Jingye Li, Bo Deng et al.     Self-healing of the superhydrophobic cotton fabric (SCF) obtained by the radiation-induced graft polymerization of lauryl methacrylate (LMA) and n-hexyl methacrylate (HMA), can be …             Hierarchically Structured Co3O4@Pt@MnO2 Nanowire Arrays for High-Performance Supercapacitors ▶     Hui Xia, Dongdong Zhu, Zhentao Luo et al.     Here we proposed a novel architectural design of a ternary MnO2-based electrode – a hierarchical Co3O4@Pt@MnO2 core-shell-shell structure, where the complemental features of the …             A new class of fluorescent-dots: long luminescent lifetime bio-dots self-assembled from DNA at low temperatures ▶     Chun Xian Guo, Jiale Xie, Bin Wang et al.     Quantum-dots (QDs) have fuelled up intensive research efforts over the past two decades. Nevertheless, currently developed two classes of fluorescent QDs, colloidal semiconductor …             Empirical Prediction of Electronic Potentials of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes With a Specific Chirality (n,m) ▶     Yasuhiko Hirana, Gergely Juhasz, Yuhei Miyauchi et al.     The determination of the electronic states of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with a specific chirality has been a central issue in the science of SWNTs. Here we present …             Superphobicity/philicity Janus Fabrics with Switchable, Spontaneous, Directional Transport Ability to Water and Oil Fluids ▶     Hua Zhou, Hongxia Wang, Haitao Niu et al.     Herein we demonstrate that switchable, spontaneous, directional-transport ability to both water and oil fluids can be created on fabric materials through wet-chemistry coating and …             Structural basis for a class of nanomolar influenza A neuraminidase inhibitors ▶     Philip S. Kerry, Sankar Mohan, Rupert J. M. Russell et al.     The influenza virus neuraminidase (NA) is essential for the virus life cycle. The rise of resistance mutations against current antiviral therapies has increased the need for the …             Electromechanics in MoS2 and WS2: nanotubes vs. monolayers ▶     Mahdi Ghorbani-Asl, Nourdine Zibouche, Mohammad Wahiduzzaman et al.     The transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMD) MoS2 and WS2 show remarkable electromechanical properties. Strain modifies the direct band gap into an indirect one, and substantial …             Spontaneous chiral resolution directed by symmetry restriction and π-π interaction ▶     Jin-Tao Yu, Yan-Yan Shi, Junliang Sun et al.     In order to understand and rationally construct homochiral self-assembled structures from racemic molecules, two novel crystalline metal-organic frameworks with chiral cavities …             Palladium nanoparticles deposited on silanized halloysite nanotubes: synthesis, characterization and enhanced catalytic property ▶     Yi Zhang, Xi He, Jing Ouyang et al.     Palladium (Pd) nanoparticles were deposited on the surface of halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) modified with γ-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES) to produce Pd/NH2-HNTs nanocomposites. …             Mesostructural Bi-Mo-O catalyst: correct structure leading to high performance ▶     Li Wang, Bo Peng, Luming Peng et al.     Structure-activity relationship has been one of the main topics of research on catalysts all the time. Component and structure are the two moieties governing the performance of …             A two-photon ratiometric fluorescence probe for Cupric Ions in Live Cells and Tissues ▶     Anwei Zhu, Changqin Ding, Yang Tian     Development of sensitive and selective probes for cupric ions (Cu2) at cell and tissue level is a challenging work for progress in understanding the biological effects of Cu2. …             Bioinspired tilt-angle fabricated structure gradient fibers: micro-drops fast transport in a long-distance ▶     Yuan Chen, Lin Wang, Yan Xue et al.     Issues of surfaces, e.g., inspired from beetle's back, spider silk, cactus stem, etc., become the active area of research on designing novel materials in need of human beings to …             Hydrogen production by Tuning the Photonic Band Gap with the Electronic Band Gap of TiO2 ▶     G. I. N. Waterhouse, A. K. Wahab, M. Al-Oufi et al.     Tuning the photonic band gap (PBG) to the electronic band gap (EBG) of Au/TiO2 catalysts resulted in considerable enhancement of the photocatalytic water splitting to hydrogen …             Mechanics of metal-catecholate complexes: The roles of coordination state and metal types ▶     Zhiping Xu     There have been growing evidences for the critical roles of metal-coordination complexes in defining structural and mechanical properties of unmineralized biological materials, …             Adsorption of Carbon Dioxide by MIL-101(Cr): Regeneration Conditions and Influence of Flue Gas Contaminants ▶     Qing Liu, Liqi Ning, Shudong Zheng et al.     MIL-101(Cr) has drawn much attention due to its high stability compared with other metal-organic frameworks. In this study, three trace flue gas contaminants (H2O, NO, SO2) were …             Peel-and-Stick: Mechanism Study for Efficient Fabrication of Flexible/Transparent Thin-film Electronics ▶     Chi Hwan Lee, Jae-Han Kim, Chenyu Zou et al.     Peel-and-stick process, or water-assisted transfer printing (WTP), represents an emerging process for transferring fully fabricated thin-film electronic devices with high yield …             Molecular degradation of ancient documents revealed by 1H HR-MAS NMR spectroscopy ▶     Carmelo Corsaro, Domenico Mallamace, Joanna Łojewska et al.     For centuries mankind has stored its knowledge on paper, a remarkable biomaterial made of natural cellulose fibers. However, spontaneous cellulose degradation phenomena weaken and …             Hollow Fibers Networked with Perovskite Nanoparticles for H2 Production from Heavy Oil ▶     Yukwon Jeon, Dae-Hwan Park, Joo-Il Park et al.     Design of catalytic materials has been highlighted to build ultraclean use of heavy oil including liquid-to-gas technology to directly convert heavy hydrocarbons into H2–rich gas …             Growing Hyperbranched Polymers Using Natural Sunlight ▶     Jun-Jie Yan, Jiao-Tong Sun, Ye-Zi You et al.     In nature, a sapling can grow into a big tree under irradiation of sunlight. In chemistry, a similar concept that a small molecule only exposing to sunlight grows into a …             Facet-dependent electrochemical properties of Co3O4 nanocrystals toward heavy metal ions ▶     Xin-Yao Yu, Qiang-Qiang Meng, Tao Luo et al.     We revealed an interesting facet-dependent electrochemical behavior toward heavy metal ions (HMIs) based on their adsorption behaviors. The (111) facet of Co3O4 nanoplates has …             Rational syntheses of core-shell Fex@Pt nanoparticles for the study of electrocatalytic oxygen reduction reaction ▶     Ji-Hoon Jang, Eunjik Lee, Jinwoo Park et al.     We report on the syntheses of core-shell Fex@Pt (x=0.4–1.2) nanoparticles (NPs) with Pt-shell thickness systematically controlled while the overall particle size is constant. …             In-situ Photoelectron Microspectroscopy and Imaging of Electrochemical Processes at the Electrodes of a Self-driven Cell ▶     Benedetto Bozzini, Matteo Amati, Luca Gregoratti et al.     The challenges in development of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are reducing their dimensions and increasing their efficiency and durability, which requires physicochemical …             Robust Self-Healing Hydrogels Assisted by Cross-Linked Nanofiber Networks ▶     Yuan Fang, Cai-Feng Wang, Zhi-Hong Zhang et al.     Given increasing environmental and energy issues, mimicking nature to confer synthetic materials with self-healing property to expand their lifespan is highly desirable. Just like …             Diesel exhaust rapidly degrades floral odours used by honeybees ▶     Robbie D. Girling, Inka Lusebrink, Emily Farthing et al.     Honeybees utilise floral odours when foraging for flowers; we investigated whether diesel exhaust pollution could interrupt these floral odour stimuli. A synthetic blend of eight …             Soccer goes BOXing: Synthetic access to novel [6:0] hexakis[(bisoxazolinyl)methano]fullerenes ▶     Stefan M. Seifermann, Céline Réthoré, Thierry Muller et al.     The syntheses of [6:0] hexakis[(bisoxazolinyl)methano]fullerenes are presented. Two derivatives could be directly obtained using conditions developed by the Sun group. For the …             The Non-innocent Phenalenyl Unit: An Electronic Nest to Modulate the Catalytic Activity in Hydroamination Reaction ▶     Arup Mukherjee, Tamal K. Sen, Pradip Kr Ghorai et al.     The phenalenyl unit has played intriguing role in different fields of research spanning from chemistry, material chemistry to device physics acting as key electronic reservoir …             Tuning interactions between zeolite and supported metal by physical-sputtering to achieve higher catalytic performances ▶     Xin-Gang Li, Cheng Liu, Jian Sun et al.     To substitute for petroleum, Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) is an environmentally benign process to produce synthetic diesel (n-paraffin) from syngas. Industrially, the synthetic …             Bottom-Up Catalytic Approach towards Nitrogen-Enriched Mesoporous Carbons/Sulfur Composites for Superior Li-S Cathodes ▶     Fugen Sun, Jitong Wang, Huichao Chen et al.     We demonstrate a sustainable and efficient approach to produce high performance sulfur/carbon composite cathodes via a bottom-up catalytic approach. The selective oxidation of H2S …             Structural evolution of calcite at high temperatures: Phase V unveiled ▶     Nobuo Ishizawa, Hayato Setoguchi, Kazumichi Yanagisawa     The calcite form of calcium carbonate CaCO3 undergoes a reversible phase transition between Rc and Rm at ~1240 K under a CO2 atmosphere of ~0.4 MPa. The joint probability density …             One-Step Instant Synthesis of Protein-Conjugated Quantum Dots at Room Temperature ▶     Xuewen He, Li Gao, Nan Ma     We present a new general facile strategy for the preparation of protein-functionalized QDs in a single step at ambient conditions. We demonstrated that highly luminescent red to …                 Nature Communications is ranked #3 in the Multidisciplinary Sciences with an Impact Factor of 10.015*   Your research. Our reach. 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