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01 July 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               Controlled Vapor Phase Growth of Single Crystalline, Two-Dimensional GaSe Crystals with High Photoresponse ▶     Xufan Li, Ming-Wei Lin, Alexander A. Puretzky et al.     Compared with their bulk counterparts, atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) crystals exhibit new physical properties, and have the potential to enable next-generation electronic …             Random bits, true and unbiased, from atmospheric turbulence ▶     Davide G. Marangon, Giuseppe Vallone, Paolo Villoresi     Random numbers represent a fundamental ingredient for secure communications and numerical simulation as well as to games and in general to Information Science. Physical processes …             Fabrication of graphene-based electrode in less than a minute through hybrid microwave annealing ▶     Duck Hyun Youn, Ji-Wook Jang, Jae Young Kim et al.     Highly efficient and stable MoS2 nanocrystals on graphene sheets (MoS2/GR) are synthesized via a hybrid microwave annealing process. Through only 45 second-irradiation using a …             Microwave Memristive-like Nonlinearity in a Dielectric Metamaterial ▶     Hongya Wu, Ji Zhou, Chuwen Lan et al.     Memristor exhibit interesting and valuable circuit properties and have thus become the subject of increasing scientific interest. Scientists wonder if they can conceive a …             Shortest path and Schramm-Loewner Evolution ▶     N. Posé, K. J. Schrenk, N. A. M. Araújo et al.     We numerically show that the statistical properties of the shortest path on critical percolation clusters are consistent with the ones predicted for Schramm-Loewner evolution …             Defection and extortion as unexpected catalysts of unconditional cooperation in structured populations ▶     Attila Szolnoki, Matjaž Perc     We study the evolution of cooperation in the spatial prisoner's dilemma game, where besides unconditional cooperation and defection, tit-for-tat, win-stay-lose-shift and extortion …             From nanocorals to nanorods to nanoflowers nanoarchitecture for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells at relatively low film thickness: All Hydrothermal Process ▶     Sawanta S. Mali, Chirayath A. Betty, Popatrao N. Bhosale et al.     Simple and low temperature hydrothermal process is employed to synthesize exotic nanostructures of TiO2. The nanostructures are obtained merely by changing the nature of the …             Graphene from Amorphous Titanium Carbide by Chlorination under 200°C and Atmospheric Pressures ▶     Tao Peng, Zongkui Kou, Hui Wu et al.     The synthesis of graphene via decomposition of SiC has opened a promising route for large-scale production of graphene. However, extremely high requirements for almost perfectly …             Spin nano–oscillator–based wireless communication ▶     Hyun Seok Choi, Sun Yool Kang, Seong Jun Cho et al.     Spin–torque nano–oscillators (STNOs) have outstanding advantages of a high degree of compactness, high–frequency tunability, and good compatibility with the standard complementary …             Synergistic effect on the visible light activity of Ti3+ doped TiO2 nanorods/boron doped graphene composite ▶     Mingyang Xing, Xiao Li, Jinlong Zhang     TiO2/graphene (TiO2-x/GR) composites, which are Ti3 self-doped TiO2 nanorods decorated on boron doped graphene sheets, were synthesized via a simple one-step hydrothermal method …             Preparation of protein imprinted materials by hierarchical imprinting techniques and application in selective depletion of albumin from human serum ▶     Jinxiang Liu, Qiliang Deng, Dingyin Tao et al.     Hierarchical imprinting was developed to prepare the protein imprinted materials, as the artificial antibody, for the selective depletion of HSA from the human serum proteome. …             Bluffing promotes overconfidence on social networks ▶     Kun Li, Rui Cong, Te Wu et al.     The overconfidence, a well-established bias, in fact leads to unrealistic expectations or faulty assessment. So it remains puzzling why such psychology of self-deception is …             Nuclear quantum dynamics in dense hydrogen ▶     Dongdong Kang, Huayang Sun, Jiayu Dai et al.     Nuclear dynamics in dense hydrogen, which is determined by the key physics of large-angle scattering or many-body collisions between particles, is crucial for the dynamics of …             Shape-Controllable Formation of Poly-imidazolium Salts for Stable Palladium N-Heterocyclic Carbene Polymers ▶     Huaixia Zhao, Liuyi Li, Yangxin Wang et al.     The imidazolium-based main-chain organic polymers are one of promising platforms in heterogeneous catalysis, the size and outer morphology of polymer particles are known to have …             Highly Sensitive and Wide-Band Tunable Terahertz Response of Plasma Waves Based on Graphene Field Effect Transistors ▶     Lin Wang, Xiaoshuang Chen, Anqi Yu et al.     Terahertz (THz) technology is becoming a spotlight of scientific interest due to its promising myriad applications including imaging, spectroscopy, industry control and …             Colloidal Nanocrystals Fluoresced by Surface Coordination Complexes ▶     Guan Wang, Jianwei Ji, Xinwen Zhang et al.     Colloidal Nanocrystals (NCs) with fluorescence originating from surface complexes are successfully prepared. The components of these NCs range from insulator, semiconductor to …             Graphene/Ionic Liquid Composite Films and Ion Exchange ▶     Yufei Mo, Yunfang Wan, Alicia Chau et al.     Wettability of graphene is adjusted by the formation of various ionic surfaces combining ionic liquid (IL) self-assembly with ion exchange. The functionalized ILs were designed …             An NCN-pincer ligand dysprosium single-ion magnet showing magnetic relaxation via the second excited state ▶     Yun-Nan Guo, Liviu Ungur, Garrett E. Granroth et al.     Single-molecule magnets are compounds that exhibit magnetic bistability purely of molecular origin. The control of anisotropy and suppression of quantum tunneling to obtain a …             Critical coupling with graphene-based hyperbolic metamaterials ▶     Yuanjiang Xiang, Xiaoyu Dai, Jun Guo et al.     In order to effectively realize and control the critical coupling, a graphene-based hyperbolic metamaterial has been proposed to replace the absorbing thin film in the critically …             Effects of surface defects on two-dimensional electron gas at NdAlO3/SrTiO3 interface ▶     X. Xiang, L. Qiao, H. Y. Xiao et al.     Density functional theory calculations of NdAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructure show that two-dimensional electron gas (2-DEG) is produced at the interface with a built-in potential of …             Subdigital setae of chameleon feet: Friction-enhancing microstructures for a wide range of substrate roughness ▶     Marlene Spinner, Guido Westhoff, Stanislav N. Gorb     Hairy adhesive systems of microscopic setae with triangular flattened tips have evolved convergently in spiders, insects and arboreal lizards. The ventral sides of the feet and …             Does the Dirac Cone Exist in Silicene on Metal Substrates? ▶     Ruge Quhe, Yakun Yuan, Jiaxin Zheng et al.     Absence of the Dirac cone due to a strong band hybridization is revealed to be a common feature for epitaxial silicene on metal substrates according to our first-principles …             High mobility polymer based on a π-extended benzodithiophene and its application for fast switching transistor and high gain photoconductor ▶     Sungmin Park, Byung Tack Lim, BongSoo Kim et al.     Here we present synthesis and electronic properties of a new alternating copolymer composed of dithieno[2,3-d;2′,3′-d′]benzo[1,2-b;4,5-b′]dithiophene (DTBDT) and …             Bulk induced phase transition in driven diffusive systems ▶     Yu-Qing Wang, Rui Jiang, Anatoly B. Kolomeisky et al.     This paper studies a weakly and asymmetrically coupled three-lane driven diffusive system. A non-monotonically changing density profile in the middle lane has been observed. When …             Metal Dichalcogenides Monolayers: Novel Catalysts for Electrochemical Hydrogen Production ▶     Hui Pan     Catalyst-driven electrolysis of water is considered as a “cleanest” way for hydrogen production. Finding cheap and abundant catalysts is critical to the large-scale implementation …             Heterojunction Hybrid Devices from Vapor Phase Grown MoS2 ▶     Chanyoung Yim, Maria O'Brien, Niall McEvoy et al.     We investigate a vertically-stacked hybrid photodiode consisting of a thin n-type molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) layer transferred onto p-type silicon. The fabrication is scalable as …             Self-Assembly and Horizontal Orientation Growth of VO2 Nanowires ▶     Chun Cheng, Hua Guo, Abbas Amini et al.     Single-crystalline vanadium dioxide (VO2) nanostructures have attracted an intense research interest recently because of their unique single-domain metal-insulator phase …             Abnormal drop in electrical resistivity with impurity doping of single-crystal Ag ▶     Ji Young Kim, Min-Wook Oh, Seunghun Lee et al.     Resistivity is an intrinsic feature that specifies the electrical properties of a material and depends on electron-phonon scattering near room temperature. Reducing the …             Why are some Interfaces in Materials Stronger than others? ▶     S. J. Fensin, E. K. Cerreta, G. T. Gray III et al.     Grain boundaries (GBs) are often the preferred sites for void nucleation in ductile metals. However, it has been observed that all boundaries do not contribute equally to this …             InPBi Single Crystals Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy ▶     K. Wang, Y. Gu, H. F. Zhou et al.     InPBi was predicted to be the most robust infrared optoelectronic material but also the most difficult to synthesize within In-VBi (V=P, As and Sb) 25 years ago. We report the …             ERRATUM: Untangling complex dynamical systems via derivative-variable correlations ▶     Zoran Levnajić, Arkady Pikovsky                 Electricity from the Silk Cocoon Membrane ▶     Brindan Tulachan, Sunil Kumar Meena, Ratan Kumar Rai et al.     Silk cocoon membrane (SCM) is an insect engineered structure. We studied the electrical properties of mulberry (Bombyx mori) and non-mulberry (Tussar, Antheraea mylitta) SCM. When …             A Theoretical Study of Single-Atom Catalysis of CO Oxidation Using Au Embedded 2D h-BN Monolayer: A CO-Promoted O2 Activation ▶     Keke Mao, Lei Li, Wenhua Zhang et al.     The CO oxidation behaviors on single Au atom embedded in two-dimensional h-BN monolayer are investigated on the basis of first-principles calculations, quantum Born-Oppenheim …             Spin-orbit-coupled superconductivity ▶     Shun-Tsung Lo, Shih-Wei Lin, Yi-Ting Wang et al.     Superconductivity and spin-orbit (SO) interaction have been two separate emerging fields until very recently that the correlation between them seemed to be observed. However, …             High-Performance Few-layer Mo-doped ReSe2 Nanosheet Photodetectors ▶     Shengxue Yang, Sefaattin Tongay, Qu Yue et al.     Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have recently been the focus of extensive research activity owing to their fascinating physical properties. As a new member of TMDCs, Mo …             Single and double bosonic stimulation of THz emission in polaritonic systems ▶     M. A. Kaliteevski, K. A. Ivanov, G. Pozina et al.     The influence of the surrounding cavity on the efficiency of different types of polaritonic emitters of THz radiation has been analysed. It is demonstrated that THz lasing …             Fast temperature measurement following single laser-induced cavitation inside a microfluidic gap ▶     Pedro A. Quinto-Su, Madoka Suzuki, Claus-Dieter Ohl     Single transient laser-induced microbubbles have been used in microfluidic chips for fast actuation of the liquid (pumping and mixing), to interact with biological materials …             Versatile, High Quality and Scalable Continuous Flow Production of Metal-Organic Frameworks ▶     Marta Rubio-Martinez, Michael P. Batten, Anastasios Polyzos et al.     Further deployment of Metal-Organic Frameworks in applied settings requires their ready preparation at scale. Expansion of typical batch processes can lead to unsuccessful or low …             Focusing and Extraction of Light mediated by Bloch Surface Waves ▶     Angelo Angelini, Elsie Barakat, Peter Munzert et al.     The control of emission from localized light sources is an objective of outstanding relevance in nanophotonics. In a recent past, a large number of metallic nanostructures has …             A New Biocompatible and Antibacterial Phosphate Free Glass-Ceramic for Medical Applications ▶     Belén Cabal, Luís Alou, Fabio Cafini et al.     In the attempt to find valid alternatives to classic antibiotics and in view of current limitations in the efficacy of antimicrobial-coated or loaded biomaterials, this work is …             Changes of statistical structural fluctuations unveils an early compacted degraded stage of PNS myelin ▶     Nicola Poccia, Gaetano Campi, Alessandro Ricci et al.     Degradation of the myelin sheath is a common pathology underlying demyelinating neurological diseases from Multiple Sclerosis to Leukodistrophies. Although large malformations of …             Controlled glucose consumption in yeast using a transistor-like device ▶     Yang Song, Jiapeng Wang, Siu-Tung Yau     From the point of view of systems biology, insight into controlling the functioning of biological systems is conducive to the understanding of their complexness. The development …             Plasmon-driven sequential chemical reactions in an aqueous environment ▶     Xin Zhang, Peijie Wang, Zhenglong Zhang et al.     Plasmon-driven sequential chemical reactions were successfully realized in an aqueous environment. In an electrochemical environment, sequential chemical reactions were driven by …             Quantitatively Mapping Cellular Viscosity with Detailed Organelle Information via a Designed PET Fluorescent Probe ▶     Tianyu Liu, Xiaogang Liu, David R. Spring et al.     Viscosity is a fundamental physical parameter that influences diffusion in biological processes. The distribution of intracellular viscosity is highly heterogeneous, and it is …             Cuprate-like Electronic Properties in Superlattices with AgIIF2 Square Sheet ▶     Xiaoping Yang, Haibin Su     Using the generalized gradient approximation augmented with maximally localized Wannier functions analysis, we present the formation of cuprate-like electronic structures in AgIIF2…             Robustness of Interrelated Traffic Networks to Cascading Failures ▶     Zhen Su, Lixiang Li, Haipeng Peng et al.     The vulnerability to real-life networks against small initial attacks has been one of outstanding challenges in the study of interrelated networks. We study cascading failures in …             Analysis of Entanglement Measures and LOCC Maximized Quantum Fisher Information of General Two Qubit Systems ▶     Volkan Erol, Fatih Ozaydin, Azmi Ali Altintas     Entanglement has been studied extensively for unveiling the mysteries of non-classical correlations between quantum systems. In the bipartite case, there are well known measures …             Optically-controlled extinction ratio and Q-factor tunable silicon microring resonators based on optical forces ▶     Yun Long, Jian Wang     Tunability is a desirable property of microring resonators to facilitate superior performance. Using light to control light, we present an alternative simple approach to tuning …             Evolution of microstructure, strain and physical properties in oxide nanocomposite films ▶     Aiping Chen, Marcus Weigand, Zhenxing Bi et al.     We, using LSMO:ZnO nanocomposite films as a model system, have studied the effect of film thickness on the physical properties of nanocomposites. It shows that strain, …             Highly Flexible Dye-sensitized Solar Cells Produced by Sewing Textile Electrodes on Cloth ▶     Min Ju Yun, Seung I. Cha, Seon Hee Seo et al.     Textile forms of solar cells possess special advantages over other types of solar cells, including their light weight, high flexibility, and mechanical robustness. Recent demand …             Blue shift of spontaneous emission in hyperbolic metamaterial ▶     Lei Gu, T. U. Tumkur, G. Zhu et al.     Spontaneous emission is one of the most fundamental quantum phenomena in optics. Following the seminal work of Purcell and in agreement with the Fermi's Golden Rule, its rate can …             Nature of strong hole pairing in doped Mott antiferromagnets ▶     Zheng Zhu, Hong-Chen Jiang, D. N. Sheng et al.     Cooper pairing instability in a Fermi liquid is well understood by the BCS theory, but pairing mechanism for doped Mott insulators still remains elusive. Previously it has been …             Impact of heterocirculene molecular symmetry upon two-dimensional crystallization ▶     W. D. Xiao, Y. Y. Zhang, L. 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