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27 May 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               Ultrahigh Performance C60 Nanorod Large Area Flexible Photoconductor Devices via Ultralow Organic and Inorganic Photodoping ▶     Rinku Saran, Vlad Stolojan, Richard J. Curry     One dimensional single-crystal nanorods of C60 possess unique optoelectronic properties including high electron mobility, high photosensitivity and an excellent electron accepting …             Ultrafast spontaneous emission of copper-doped silicon enhanced by an optical nanocavity ▶     HISASHI SUMIKURA, EIICHI KURAMOCHI, HIDEAKI TANIYAMA et al.     Dopants in silicon (Si) have attracted attention in the fields of photonics and quantum optics. However, the optical characteristics are limited by the small spontaneous emission …             A deformation mechanism of hard metal surrounded by soft metal during roll forming ▶     Hailiang YU, A. Kiet TIEU, Cheng LU et al.     It is interesting to imagine what would happen when a mixture of soft-boiled eggs and stones is deformed together. A foil made of pure Ti is stronger than that made of Cu. When a …             Spectroscopic properties and energy transfer parameters of Er3+- doped fluorozirconate and oxyfluoroaluminate glasses ▶     Feifei Huang, Xueqiang Liu, Lili Hu et al.     Er3- doped fluorozirconate (ZrF4-BaF2-YF3-AlF3) and oxyfluoroaluminate glasses are successfully prepared here. These glasses exhibit significant superiority compared with …             Wavelength-Versatile Graphene-Gold Film Saturable Absorber Mirror for Ultra-Broadband Mode-Locking of Bulk Lasers ▶     Jie Ma, Guoqiang Xie, Peng Lv et al.     An ultra-broadband graphene-gold film saturable absorber mirror (GG-SAM) with a spectral coverage exceeding 1300 nm is experimentally demonstrated for mode-locking of bulk …             Highly exposed {001} facets of titanium dioxide modified with reduced graphene oxide for dopamine sensing ▶     Gregory Thien Soon How, Alagarsamy Pandikumar, Huang Nay Ming et al.     Titanium dioxide (TiO2) with highly exposed {001} facets was synthesized through a facile solvo-thermal method and its surface was decorated by using reduced graphene oxide (rGO) …             Direct fabrication of graphene on SiO2 enabled by thin film stress engineering ▶     Daniel Q. McNerny, B. Viswanath, Davor Copic et al.     We demonstrate direct production of graphene on SiO2 by CVD growth of graphene at the interface between a Ni film and the SiO2 substrate, followed by dry mechanical delamination …             Crystal-momentum dispersion of ultrafast spin change in fcc Co ▶     M. S. Si, J. Y. Li, D. Z. Yang et al.     Nearly twenty years ago, Beaurepaire and coworkers showed that when an ultrafast laser impinges on a ferromagnet, its spin moment undergoes a dramatic change, but how it works …             Room temperature plasmonic lasing in a continuous wave operation mode from an InGaN/GaN single nanorod with a low threshold ▶     Y. Hou, P. Renwick, B. Liu et al.     It is crucial to fabricate nano photonic devices such as nanolasers in order to meet the requirements for the integration of photonic and electronic circuits on the nanometre …             Transistor application of alkyl-substituted picene ▶     Hideki Okamoto, Shino Hamao, Hidenori Goto et al.     Field-effect transistors (FETs) were fabricated with a thin film of 3,10-ditetradecylpicene, picene-(C14H29)2, formed using either a thermal deposition or a deposition from …             Birth and death of links control disease spreading in empirical contact networks ▶     Petter Holme, Fredrik Liljeros     We investigate what structural aspects of a collection of twelve empirical temporal networks of human contacts are important to disease spreading. We scan the entire parameter …             Strong non-classical induction forces in ion-surface interactions: General origin of Hofmeister effects ▶     Xinmin Liu, Hang Li, Rui Li et al.     Hofmeister effects continue to defy all-encompassing theories, and their origin is still a matter of debate. We observed strong Hofmeister effects in Ca2/Na exchange on a …             Relativistic Quantum Metrology: Exploiting relativity to improve quantum measurement technologies ▶     Mehdi Ahmadi, David Edward Bruschi, Carlos Sabín et al.     We present a framework for relativistic quantum metrology that is useful for both Earth-based and space-based technologies. Quantum metrology has been so far successfully applied …             Untangling complex dynamical systems via derivative-variable correlations ▶     Zoran Levnaji, Arkady Pikovsky     Inferring the internal interaction patterns of a complex dynamical system is a challenging problem. Traditional methods often rely on examining the correlations among the …             Direct observation of ionic structure at solid-liquid interfaces: a deep look into the Stern Layer ▶     Igor Siretanu, Daniel Ebeling, Martin P. Andersson et al.     The distribution of ions and charge at solid-water interfaces plays an essential role in a wide range of processes in biology, geology and technology. While theoretical models of …             ERRATUM: Substrate-induced Band Gap Renormalization in Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes ▶     Nicholas A. Lanzillo, Neerav Kharche, Saroj K. Nayak                 Role of the dispersion force in modeling the interfacial properties of molecule-metal interfaces: adsorption of thiophene on copper surfaces ▶     Zhi-Xin Hu, Haiping Lan, Wei Ji     We present density functional theory calculations of the geometry, adsorption energy and electronic structure of thiophene adsorbed on Cu(111), Cu(110) and Cu(100) surfaces. Our …             Cohesiveness in Financial News and its Relation to Market Volatility ▶     Matija Piškorec, Nino Antulov-Fantulin, Petra Kralj Novak et al.     Motivated by recent financial crises, significant research efforts have been put into studying contagion effects and herding behaviour in financial markets. Much less has been …             Brittle to Ductile Transition in Densified Silica Glass ▶     Fenglin Yuan, Liping Huang     Current understanding of the brittleness of glass is limited by our poor understanding and control over the microscopic structure. In this study, we used a pressure quenching …             Strengthening of Graphene Aerogels with Tunable Density and High Adsorption Capacity towards Pb2+ ▶     Zhuo Han, Zhihong Tang, Shuling Shen et al.     Graphene aerogels (GAs) with high mechanical strength, tunable density and volume have been prepared only via soaking graphene hydrogels (GHs) in ammonia solution. The density and …             Phase-locking and Pulse Generation in Multi-Frequency Brillouin Oscillator via Four Wave Mixing ▶     Thomas F. S. Büttner, Irina V. Kabakova, Darren D. Hudson et al.     There is an increasing demand for pulsed all-fibre lasers with gigahertz repetition rates for applications in telecommunications and metrology. The repetition rate of conventional …             Insights into transport velocity of colloid-associated plutonium relative to tritium in porous media ▶     Jinchuan Xie, Jiachun Lu, Jianfeng Lin et al.     Although faster transport velocities of colloid-associated actinides, bacteria, and virus than nonreactive solutes have been observed in laboratory and field experiments, some …             Characterizing the effect of population heterogeneity on evolutionary dynamics on complex networks ▶     Shaolin Tan, Jinhu Lü     Recently, the impact of network structure on evolutionary dynamics has been at the center of attention when studying the evolutionary process of structured populations. This paper …             Revealing Real-Time Emotional Responses: a Personalized Assessment based on Heartbeat Dynamics ▶     Gaetano Valenza, Luca Citi, Antonio Lanatá et al.     Emotion recognition through computational modeling and analysis of physiological signals has been widely investigated in the last decade. Most of the proposed emotion recognition …             Kinetics of 90° domain wall motions and high frequency mesoscopic dielectric response in strained ferroelectrics: A phase-field simulation ▶     P. Chu, D. P. Chen, Y. L. Wang et al.     The dielectric and ferroelectric behaviors of a ferroelectric are substantially determined by its domain structure and domain wall dynamics at mesoscopic level. A relationship …             Protein Corona Composition of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles with Various Physico-Chemical Properties and Coatings ▶     Usawadee Sakulkhu, Morteza Mahmoudi, Lionel Maurizi et al.     Because of their biocompatibility and unique magnetic properties, superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles NPs (SPIONs) are recognized as some of the most prominent agents for …             Subtractive 3D Printing of Optically Active Diamond Structures ▶     Aiden A. Martin, Milos Toth, Igor Aharonovich     Controlled fabrication of semiconductor nanostructures is an essential step in engineering of high performance photonic and optoelectronic devices. Diamond in particular has …             Probing the Role of an Atomically Thin SiNx Interlayer on the Structure of Ultrathin Carbon Films ▶     Neeraj Dwivedi, Ehsan Rismani-Yazdi, Reuben J. Yeo et al.     Filtered cathodic vacuum arc (FCVA) processed carbon films are being considered as a promising protective media overcoat material for future hard disk drives (HDDs). However, at …             PEG Molecular Net-Cloth Grafted on Polymeric Substrates and Its Bio-Merits ▶     Changwen Zhao, Zhifeng Lin, Huabing Yin et al.     Polymer brushes and hydrogels are sensitive to the environment, which can cause uncontrolled variations on their performance. Herein, for the first time, we report a non-swelling …             Powerful inner/outer controlled multi-target magnetic nanoparticle drug carrier prepared by liquid photo-immobilization ▶     Yan-Qing Guan, Zhe Zheng, Zheng Huang et al.     Nanomagnetic materials offer exciting avenues for advancing cancer therapies. Most researches have focused on efficient delivery of drugs in the body by incorporating various drug …             Modified surface plasmon polaritons for the nanoconcentration and long-range propagation of optical energy ▶     Huawei Liang, Shuangchen Ruan, Min Zhang et al.     We propose a new surface plasmon polariton concept for the nanoconcentration and long-range propagation of optical energy. 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