Scientific Reports Physics Table of Contents e-alert: 24 June 2014

If you are unable to see the message below, click here to view.

24 June 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               Structural and electronic analysis of the atomic scale nucleation of Ag on α-Ag2WO4 induced by electron irradiation ▶     Juan Andrés, Lourdes Gracia, Patricio Gonzalez-Navarrete et al.     In this work, we utilise a combination of theory, computation and experiments to understand the early events related to the nucleation of Ag filaments on α-Ag2WO4 crystals, which …             The Italian primary school-size distribution and the city-size: a complex nexus ▶     Alessandro Belmonte, Riccardo Di Clemente, Sergey V. Buldyrev     We characterize the statistical law according to which Italian primary school-size distributes. We find that the school-size can be approximated by a log-normal distribution, with …             Fabrication of full-color InGaN-based light-emitting diodes on amorphous substrates by pulsed sputtering ▶     Jeong Woo Shon, Jitsuo Ohta, Kohei Ueno et al.     InGaN-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have been widely accepted as highly efficient light sources capable of replacing incandescent bulbs. However, applications of InGaN LEDs …             Lithographically Defined Three-dimensional Pore-patterned Carbon with Nitrogen Doping for High-Performance Ultrathin Supercapacitor Applications ▶     Da-Young Kang, Jun Hyuk Moon     Supercapacitors that exhibit long cycle lives and fast charge/discharge rates are a promising energy-storage technology for next-generation mobile or wearable electronic systems. …             Transfer Entropy and Transient Limits of Computation ▶     Mikhail Prokopenko, Joseph T. Lizier     Transfer entropy is a recently introduced information-theoretic measure quantifying directed statistical coherence between spatiotemporal processes, and is widely used in diverse …             Three-dimensional super-resolution and localization of dense clusters of single molecules ▶     Anthony Barsic, Ginni Grover, Rafael Piestun     When a single molecule is detected in a wide-field microscope, the image approximates the point spread function of the system. However, as the distribution of molecules becomes …             Triggered dynamics in a model of different fault creep regimes ▶     Srđan Kostić, Igor Franović, Matjaž Perc et al.     The study is focused on the effect of transient external force induced by a passing seismic wave on fault motion in different creep regimes. Displacement along the fault is …             Fully Roll-to-Roll Gravure Printable Wireless (13.56 MHz) Sensor-Signage Tags for Smart Packaging ▶     Hwiwon Kang, Hyejin Park, Yongsu Park et al.     Integration of sensing capabilities with an interactive signage through wireless communication is enabling the development of smart packaging wherein wireless (13.56 MHz) power …             Controllability and observability analysis for vertex domination centrality in directed networks ▶     Bingbo Wang, Lin Gao, Yong Gao et al.     Topological centrality is a significant measure for characterising the relative importance of a node in a complex network. For directed networks that model dynamic processes, …             Convenient, Sensitive and High-Throughput Method for Screening Botanic Origin ▶     Yuan Yuan, Chao Jiang, Libing Liu et al.     In this work, a rapid (within 4–5 h), sensitive and visible new method for assessing botanic origin is developed by combining loop-mediated isothermal amplification with cationic …             Mimicking subsecond neurotransmitter dynamics with femtosecond laser stimulated nanosystems ▶     Takashi Nakano, Catherine Chin, David Mo Aung Myint et al.     Existing nanoscale chemical delivery systems target diseased cells over long, sustained periods of time, typically through one-time, destructive triggering. Future directions lie …             Generation of the SCN1A epilepsy mutation in hiPS cells using the TALEN technique ▶     Wanjuan Chen, Jingxin Liu, Longmei Zhang et al.     Human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) can be used to understand the pathological mechanisms of human disease. These cells are a promising source for cell-replacement …             Professional diversity and the productivity of cities ▶     Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Horacio Samaniego, Hyejin Youn     Attempts to understand the relationship between diversity, productivity and scale have remained limited due to the scheme-dependent nature of the taxonomies describing complex …             Facile strain analysis of largely bending films by a surface-labelled grating method ▶     Norihisa Akamatsu, Wataru Tashiro, Keisuke Saito et al.     Mechanical properties of flexible films, for example surface strain of largely bending films, are key to design of stretchable electronic devices, wearable biointegrated devices, …             Connecting Core Percolation and Controllability of Complex Networks ▶     Tao Jia, Márton Pósfai     Core percolation is a fundamental structural transition in complex networks related to a wide range of important problems. Recent advances have provided us an analytical framework …             Graphene/Si-nanowire heterostructure molecular sensors ▶     Jungkil Kim, Si Duk Oh, Ju Hwan Kim et al.     Wafer-scale graphene/Si-nanowire (Si-NW) array heterostructures for molecular sensing have been fabricated by vertically contacting single-layer graphene with high-density Si NWs. …             Mean first-passage time for maximal-entropy random walks in complex networks ▶     Yuan Lin, Zhongzhi Zhang     We perform an in-depth study for mean first-passage time (MFPT)—a primary quantity for random walks with numerous applications—of maximal-entropy random walks (MERW) performed in …             The Strength of the Strongest Ties in Collaborative Problem Solving ▶     Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, Arkadiusz Stopczynski, Erez Shmueli et al.     Complex problem solving in science, engineering, and business has become a highly collaborative endeavor. Teams of scientists or engineers collaborate on projects using their …             Wetting failure of hydrophilic surfaces promoted by surface roughness ▶     Meng-Hua Zhao, Xiao-Peng Chen, Qing Wang     Wetting failure is of vital importance to many physical phenomena, such as industrial coating and drop emission. Here we show when and how the surface roughness promotes the …             New Vanadium Compounds in Venezuela Heavy Crude Oil Detected by Positive-ion Electrospray Ionization Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry ▶     Xu Zhao, Quan Shi, Murray R. Gray et al.     Metalloporphyrins are ubiquitous in nature, particularly iron porphyrins (hemes) and magnesium dihydroporphyrins or chlorophylls. Oxovanadium (IV) complexes of alkyl porphyrins …             Layer Anti-Ferromagnetism on Bilayer Honeycomb Lattice ▶     Hong-Shuai Tao, Yao-Hua Chen, Heng-Fu Lin et al.     Bilayer honeycomb lattice, with inter-layer tunneling energy, has a parabolic dispersion relation, and the inter-layer hopping can cause the charge imbalance between two …             Strong Anisotropy of Dirac Cones in SrMnBi2 and CaMnBi2 Revealed by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy ▶     Ya Feng, Zhijun Wang, Chaoyu Chen et al.     The Dirac materials, such as graphene and three-dimensional topological insulators, have attracted much attention because they exhibit novel quantum phenomena with their low …             Metal Oxide Induced Charge Transfer Doping and Band Alignment of Graphene Electrodes for Efficient Organic Light Emitting Diodes ▶     Jens Meyer, Piran R. Kidambi, Bernhard C. Bayer et al.     The interface structure of graphene with thermally evaporated metal oxide layers, in particular molybdenum trioxide (MoO3), is studied combining photoemission spectroscopy, sheet …             Induced Ferromagnetism at BiFeO3/YBa2Cu3O7 Interfaces ▶     Jian-Xin Zhu, Xiao-Dong Wen, J. T. Haraldsen et al.     Transition metal oxides (TMOs) exhibit many emergent phenomena ranging from high-temperature superconductivity and giant magnetoresistance to magnetism and ferroelectricity. In …             Hybrid architecture for encoded measurement-based quantum computation ▶     M. Zwerger, H. J. Briegel, W. Dür     We present a hybrid scheme for quantum computation that combines the modular structure of elementary building blocks used in the circuit model with the advantages of a …             Spatial correlation analysis of cascading failures: Congestions and Blackouts ▶     Li Daqing, Jiang Yinan, Kang Rui et al.     Cascading failures have become major threats to network robustness due to their potential catastrophic consequences, where local perturbations can induce global propagation of …             Atomic force microscopy based nanoassay: a new method to study α-Synuclein-dopamine bioaffinity interactions ▶     Stefania Corvaglia, Barbara Sanavio, Rolando P. Hong Enriquez et al.     Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDPs) are characterized by the lack of well-defined 3-D structure and show high conformational plasticity. For this reason, they are a strong …             Tyrosinase-catalyzed site-specific immobilization of engineered C-phycocyanin to surface ▶     Greta Faccio, Michael M. Kämpf, Chiara Piatti et al.     Enzymatic crosslinking of proteins is often limited by the steric availability of the target residues, as of tyrosyl side chains in the case of tyrosinase. Carrying an N-terminal …             Surface Nanostructures in Manganite Films ▶     A. Gambardella, P. Graziosi, I. Bergenti et al.     Ultrathin manganite films are widely used as active electrodes in organic spintronic devices. In this study, a scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) investigation with atomic …             A High-yield Two-step Transfer Printing Method for Large-scale Fabrication of Organic Single-crystal Devices on Arbitrary Substrates ▶     Wei Deng, Xiujuan Zhang, Huanhuan Pan et al.     Single-crystal organic nanostructures show promising applications in flexible and stretchable electronics, while their applications are impeded by the large incompatibility with …             Developing Gradient Metal Alloys through Radial Deposition Additive Manufacturing ▶     Douglas C. Hofmann, Scott Roberts, Richard Otis et al.     Interest in additive manufacturing (AM) has dramatically expanded in the last several years, owing to the paradigm shift that the process provides over conventional manufacturing. …             Ultrafast and versatile spectroscopy by temporal Fourier transform ▶     Chi Zhang, Xiaoming Wei, Michel E. Marhic et al.     One of the most remarkable and useful properties of a spatially converging lens system is its inherent ability to perform the Fourier transform; the same applies for the time-lens …             High Energy Product Developed from Cobalt Nanowires ▶     Kinjal Gandha, Kevin Elkins, Narayan Poudyal et al.     Cobalt nanowires with high aspect ratio have been synthesized via a solvothermal chemical process. Based on the shape anisotropy and orientation of the nanowire assemblies, a …             Measuring spatial correlations of photon pairs by automated raster scanning with spatial light modulators ▶     E. C. Paul, M. Hor-Meyll, P. H. Souto Ribeiro et al.     We demonstrate the use of a phase-only spatial light modulator for the measurement of transverse spatial distributions of coincidence counts between twin photon beams, in a fully …             Formation mechanism and optimization of highly luminescent N-doped graphene quantum dots ▶     Dan Qu, Min Zheng, Ligong Zhang et al.     Photoluminescent graphene quantum dots (GQDs) have received enormous attention because of their unique chemical, electronic and optical properties. Here a series of GQDs were …             Effect of Mechanical Loads on Stability of Nanodomains in Ferroelectric Ultrathin Films: Towards Flexible Erasing of the Non-Volatile Memories ▶     W. J. Chen, Yue Zheng, W. M. Xiong et al.     Intensive investigations have been drawn on nanoscale ferroelectrics for their prospective applications such as developing memory devices. In contrast with the commonly used …             Novel synaptic memory device for neuromorphic computing ▶     Saptarshi Mandal, Ammaarah El-Amin, Kaitlyn Alexander et al.     This report discusses the electrical characteristics of two-terminal synaptic memory devices capable of demonstrating an analog change in conductance in response to the varying …             Long-range electronic reconstruction to a dxz,yz-dominated Fermi surface below the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface ▶     A. P. Petrović, A. Paré, T. R. Paudel et al.     Low dimensionality, broken symmetry and easily-modulated carrier concentrations provoke novel electronic phase emergence at oxide interfaces. However, the spatial extent of such …             Temporal scaling in information propagation ▶     Junming Huang, Chao Li, Wen-Qiang Wang et al.     For the study of information propagation, one fundamental problem is uncovering universal laws governing the dynamics of information propagation. This problem, from the …             All-optical regulation of gene expression in targeted cells ▶     Yisen Wang, Hao He, Shiyang Li et al.     Controllable gene expression is always a challenge and of great significance to biomedical research and clinical applications. Recently, various approaches based on …             Multifunctional Photosensitizer-Based Contrast Agents for Photoacoustic Imaging ▶     Chris Jun Hui Ho, Ghayathri Balasundaram, Wouter Driessen et al.     Photoacoustic imaging is a novel hybrid imaging modality combining the high spatial resolution of optical imaging with the high penetration depth of ultrasound imaging. Here, for …             Electrochemical response of metal complexes in homogeneous solution under photoirradiation ▶     Arisa Fukatsu, Mio Kondo, Masaya Okamura et al.     The electrochemical detection of metal complexes in the photoexcited state is important for understanding photoinduced electron transfer (PET) processes, which play a central role …             A label-free fluorescent probe for Hg2+ and biothiols based on graphene oxide and Ru-complex ▶     Linlin Wang, Tianming Yao, Shuo Shi et al.     A novel, selective and sensitive switch-on fluorescent sensor for Hg2 and switch-off fluorescent probe for biothiols was developed by using [Ru(bpy)2(pip)]2 as the signal reporter …             A new silver nanorod SPR probe for detection of trace benzoyl peroxide ▶     Zhiliang Jiang, Guiqing Wen, Yanghe Luo et al.     The stable silver nanorod (AgNR) sol in red was prepared by the two-step procedure of NaBH4-H2O2 and citrate heating reduction. The AgNR had a transverse and a longitudinal …             PIN architecture for ultrasensitive organic thin film photoconductors ▶     Zhiwen Jin, Jizheng Wang     Organic thin film photoconductors (OTFPs) are expected to have wide applications in the field of optical communications, artificial vision and biomedical sensing due to their …             An Extended Phenacene-type Molecule, [8]Phenacene: Synthesis and Transistor Application ▶     Hideki Okamoto, Ritsuko Eguchi, Shino Hamao et al.     A new phenacene-type molecule, [8]phenacene, which is an extended zigzag chain of coplanar fused benzene rings, has been synthesised for use in an organic field-effect transistor …             Spin excitations of ferronematic order in underdoped cuprate superconductors ▶     G. Seibold, C. Di Castro, M. Grilli et al.     High-temperature superconductors exhibit a characteristic hourglass-shaped spectrum of magnetic fluctuations which most likely contribute to the pairing glue in the cuprates. …             Anomalous enhancement in interfacial perpendicular magnetic anisotropy through uphill diffusion ▶     Tanmay Das, Prabhanjan D. Kulkarni, S. C. Purandare et al.     We observed interfacial chemical sharpening due to uphill diffusion in post annealed ultrathin multilayer stack of Co and Pt, which leads to enhanced interfacial perpendicular …             Structure of local interactions in complex financial dynamics ▶     X. F. Jiang, T. T. Chen, B. Zheng     With the network methods and random matrix theory, we investigate the interaction structure of communities in financial markets. In particular, based on the random matrix …             Adsorption of tetracycline from aqueous solutions onto multi-walled carbon nanotubes with different oxygen contents ▶     Fei Yu, Jie Ma, Sheng Han     Oxidized multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) with different oxygen contents were investigated for the adsorption of tetracycline (TC) from aqueous solutions. As the surface …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Research Technician     University of Sussex            Postdoctoral Fellow     Mayo Clinic            Marie Curie Post-doctoral Fellowships     Human Genetics Foundation            Research Assistant     King's College London            Postdoctoral Fellow     Welcome Trust Sanger Institue            Research Fellow x 2     University of Aberdeen            Bioinformatician     University of Luxembourg            Post Doctoral Fellow     Emory University            Research Fellow     The University of Warwick            Junior Researcher / Assistant Professor position     Umeå 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. Keep up-to-date with the latest sector trends, vote in our reader poll and sign-up to receive the monthly Naturejobs newsletter.           • Scientific Reports events Directory featured events           natureevents directory featured events         International Conference on the History of Physics     4 September 2014 Cambridge, UK         Natureevents Directory is the premier resource for scientists looking for the latest scientific conferences, courses, meetings and symposia. Featured across Nature Publishing Group journals and centrally at natureevents.com it is an essential reference guide to scientific events worldwide.                 Your email address is in the Scientific Reports: Physics mailing list. You have been sent this Table of Contents Alert because you have opted in to receive it. You can change or discontinue your e-mail alerts at any time, by modifying your preferences on your nature.com account at: www.nature.com/nams/svc/myaccount (You will need to log in to be recognised as a nature.com registrant). For further technical assistance, please contact our registration department For other enquiries, please contact our customer feedback department Nature Publishing Group | 75 Varick Street, 9th floor | New York | NY 10013-1917 | USA Nature Publishing Group's offices: Principal offices: London - New York - Tokyo Worldwide offices: Basingstoke - Boston - Buenos Aires - Delhi - Hong Kong - Madrid - Melbourne - Munich - Paris - San Francisco - Seoul - Washington DC Macmillan Publishers Limited is a company incorporated in England and Wales under company number 785998 and whose registered office is located at Brunel Road, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. © 2014 Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved.