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08 July 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               Demonstration of higher colour response with ambient refractive index in Papilio blumei as compared to Morphorhetenor ▶     Wanlin Wang, Wang Zhang, Xiaotian Fang et al.     Multilayer structures are known to produce vivid iridescent colouration in many butterflies. Morpho butterflies are well known for their high reflectance, which appears to remain …             One-step shell polymerization of inorganic nanoparticles and their applications in SERS/nonlinear optical imaging, drug delivery, and catalysis ▶     Tzu-Ming Liu, Jiashing Yu, C. Allen Chang et al.     Surface functionalized nanoparticles have found their applications in several fields including biophotonics, nanobiomedicine, biosensing, drug delivery, and catalysis. Quite …             Graphene/Si CMOS Hybrid Hall Integrated Circuits ▶     Le Huang, Huilong Xu, Zhiyong Zhang et al.     Graphene/silicon CMOS hybrid integrated circuits (ICs) should provide powerful functions which combines the ultra-high carrier mobility of graphene and the sophisticated functions …             ERRATUM: Kinetic behaviour of the cells touching substrate: the interfacial stiffness guides cell spreading ▶     Jianjun Li, Dong Han, Ya-Pu Zhao                 Crack Propagation in Bamboo's Hierarchical Cellular Structure ▶     Meisam K. Habibi, Yang Lu     Bamboo, as a natural hierarchical cellular material, exhibits remarkable mechanical properties including excellent flexibility and fracture toughness. As far as bamboo as a …             Room temperature electrical spin injection into GaAs by an oxide spin injector ▶     Shwetha G. Bhat, P. S. Anil Kumar     Spin injection, manipulation and detection are the integral parts of spintronics devices and have attracted tremendous attention in the last decade. It is necessary to judiciously …             Electronic correlations determine the phase stability of iron up to the melting temperature ▶     I. Leonov, A. I. Poteryaev, Yu. N. Gornostyrev et al.     We present theoretical results on the high-temperature phase stability and phonon spectra of paramagnetic bcc iron which explicitly take into account many-body effects. Several …             Spectromicroscopy of electronic phase separation in KxFe2−ySe2 superconductor ▶     M. Bendele, A. Barinov, B. Joseph et al.     Structural phase separation in AxFe2−ySe2 system has been studied by different experimental techniques, however, it should be important to know how the electronic uniformity is …             High-performance graphene-quantum-dot photodetectors ▶     Chang Oh Kim, Sung Won Hwang, Sung Kim et al.     Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) have received much attention due to their novel phenomena of charge transport and light absorption/emission. The optical transitions are known to be …             Laser Actuation of Cantilevers for Picometre Amplitude Dynamic Force Microscopy ▶     Drew R. Evans, Ponlawat Tayati, Hongjie An et al.     As nanoscale and molecular devices become reality, the ability to probe materials on these scales is increasing in importance. To address this, we have developed a dynamic force …             Opinion Dynamics and Influencing on Random Geometric Graphs ▶     Weituo Zhang, Chjan C. Lim, G. Korniss et al.     We investigate the two-word Naming Game on two-dimensional random geometric graphs. Studying this model advances our understanding of the spatial distribution and propagation of …             All-optical differential equation solver with constant-coefficient tunable based on a single microring resonator ▶     Ting Yang, Jianji Dong, Liangjun Lu et al.     Photonic integrated circuits for photonic computing open up the possibility for the realization of ultrahigh-speed and ultra wide-band signal processing with compact size and low …             Photoluminescence quenching in gold - MoS2 hybrid nanoflakes ▶     Udai Bhanu, Muhammad R. Islam, Laurene Tetard et al.     Achieving tunability of two dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) functions calls for the introduction of hybrid 2D materials by means of localized interactions …             Multifunctional Interface Modification of Energy Relay Dye in Quasi-solid Dye-sensitized Solar Cells ▶     Rui Gao, Yixiu Cui, Xiaojiang Liu et al.     In this paper, 4-(dicyanomethylene)-2-t-butyl-6(1,1,7,7-tetramethyljulolidyl-9-enyl)-4H-pyran (DCJTB) has been used in interface modification of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) …             An opto-magneto-mechanical quantum interface between distant superconducting qubits ▶     Keyu Xia, Michael R. Vanner, Jason Twamley     A quantum internet, where widely separated quantum devices are coherently connected, is a fundamental vision for local and global quantum information networks and processing. …             Magnetic field and temperature sensing with atomic-scale spin defects in silicon carbide ▶     H. Kraus, V. A. Soltamov, F. Fuchs et al.     Quantum systems can provide outstanding performance in various sensing applications, ranging from bioscience to nanotechnology. Atomic-scale defects in silicon carbide are very …             Wide-field imaging and flow cytometric analysis of cancer cells in blood by fluorescent nanodiamond labeling and time gating ▶     Yuen Yung Hui, Long-Jyun Su, Oliver Yenjyh Chen et al.     Nanodiamonds containing high density ensembles of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV−) centers are promising fluorescent biomarkers due to their excellent photostability and …             Pattern recognition of estradiol, testosterone and dihydrotestosterone in children's saliva samples using stochastic microsensors ▶     Raluca-Ioana Stefan-van Staden, Livia Alexandra Gugoaşă, Bogdan Calenic et al.     Stochastic microsensors based on diamond paste and three types of electroactive materials (maltodextrin (MD), α-cyclodextrin (α-CD) and 5,10,15,20-tetraphenyl-21H,23H porphyrin …             Searching for superspreaders of information in real-world social media ▶     Sen Pei, Lev Muchnik, José S. Andrade, Jr. et al.     A number of predictors have been suggested to detect the most influential spreaders of information in online social media across various domains such as Twitter or Facebook. In …             Realization of Tunable Photonic Spin Hall Effect by Tailoring the Pancharatnam-Berry Phase ▶     Xiaohui Ling, Xinxing Zhou, Weixing Shu et al.     Recent developments in the field of photonic spin Hall effect (SHE) offer new opportunities for advantageous measurement of the optical parameters (refractive index, thickness, …             How congestion shapes cities: from mobility patterns to scaling ▶     Rémi Louf, Marc Barthelemy     The recent availability of data for cities has allowed scientists to exhibit scalings which present themselves in the form of a power-law dependence on population of various …             Encapsulated Annealing: Enhancing the Plasmon Quality Factor in Lithographically–Defined Nanostructures ▶     Michel Bosman, Lei Zhang, Huigao Duan et al.     Lithography provides the precision to pattern large arrays of metallic nanostructures with varying geometries, enabling systematic studies and discoveries of new phenomena in …             Mechanical Resonances of Helically Coiled Carbon Nanowires ▶     D. Saini, H. Behlow, R. Podila et al.     Despite their wide spread applications, the mechanical behavior of helically coiled structures has evaded an accurate understanding at any length scale (nano to macro) mainly due …             Extraordinary Second Harmonic Generation in Tungsten Disulfide Monolayers ▶     Corey Janisch, Yuanxi Wang, Ding Ma et al.     We investigate Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) in monolayer WS2 both deposited on a SiO2/Si substrate or suspended using transmission electron microscopy grids. We find unusually …             Realizing Synchronous Energy Harvesting and Ion Separation with Graphene Oxide Membranes ▶     Pengzhan Sun, Feng Zheng, Miao Zhu et al.     A synchronous ion separation and electricity generation process has been developed using G-O membranes. In addition to the size effect proposed prevsiouly, the separation of ions …             Cellulose Nanofiber Paper as an Ultra Flexible Nonvolatile Memory ▶     Kazuki Nagashima, Hirotaka Koga, Umberto Celano et al.     On the development of flexible electronics, a highly flexible nonvolatile memory, which is an important circuit component for the portability, is necessary. However, the …             Preparing two-dimensional microporous carbon from Pistachio nutshell with high areal capacitance as supercapacitor materials ▶     Jiandong Xu, Qiuming Gao, Yunlu Zhang et al.     Two-dimensional (2D) porous carbon AC-SPN-3 possessing of amazing high micropore volume ratio of 83% and large surface area of about 1069 m2 g−1 is high-yield obtained by …             Encoding a qubit with Majorana modes in superconducting circuits ▶     J. Q. You, Z. D. Wang, Wenxian Zhang et al.     Majorana fermions are long-sought exotic particles that are their own antiparticles. Here we propose to utilize superconducting circuits to construct two superconducting-qubit …             Anisotropic Fabry-Pérot resonant states confined within nano-steps on the topological insulator surface ▶     Zhen-Guo Fu, Ping Zhang, Mu Chen et al.     The peculiar nature of topological surface states, such as absence of backscattering, weak anti-localization, and quantum anomalous Hall effect, has been demonstrated mainly in …             Cooperation with both synergistic and local interactions can be worse than each alone ▶     Aming Li, Bin Wu, Long Wang     Cooperation is ubiquitous ranging from multicellular organisms to human societies. Population structures indicating individuals' limited interaction ranges are crucial to …             A ‘Clicked’ Tetrameric Hydroxamic Acid Glycopeptidomimetic Antagonizes Sugar-Lectin Interactions On The Cellular Level ▶     Hai-Lin Zhang, Yi Zang, Juan Xie et al.     A tetrameric N-acetyl galactosaminyl (GalNAc) peptidomimetic was constructed by N-acetylation of repeating proline-based hydroxamic acid units, followed by a convergent ‘click …             Multi-color broadband visible light source via GaN hexagonal annular structure ▶     Young-Ho Ko, Jie Song, Benjamin Leung et al.     Multi-color and broadband visible emission was realized thorough the hexagonal annular structure of GaN. The annular structure fabricated by selective-area growth emitted purple, …             Graphene-protected copper and silver plasmonics ▶     V. G. Kravets, R. Jalil, Y.-J. Kim et al.     Plasmonics has established itself as a branch of physics which promises to revolutionize data processing, improve photovoltaics, and increase sensitivity of bio-detection. A …             Atomic-Scale Observation of Migration and Coalescence of Au Nanoclusters on YSZ Surface by Aberration-Corrected STEM ▶     Junjie Li, Zhongchang Wang, Chunlin Chen et al.     Unraveling structural dynamics of noble metal nanoclusters on oxide supports is critical to understanding reaction process and origin of catalytic activity in heterogeneous …             Separating Oil-Water Nanoemulsions using Flux-Enhanced Hierarchical Membranes ▶     Brian R. Solomon, Md. Nasim Hyder, Kripa K. Varanasi     Membranes that separate oil-water mixtures based on contrasting wetting properties have recently received significant attention. Separation of nanoemulsions, i.e. oil-water …             Mesoporous TiO2 Bragg Stack Templated by Graft Copolymer for Dye-sensitized Solar Cells ▶     Jung Tae Park, Won Seok Chi, Sang Jin Kim et al.     Organized mesoporous TiO2 Bragg stacks (om-TiO2 BS) consisting of alternating high and low refractive index organized mesoporous TiO2 (om-TiO2) films were prepared to enhance dye …             Scale-estimation of quantum coherent energy transport in multiple-minima systems ▶     Tristan Farrow, Vlatko Vedral     A generic and intuitive model for coherent energy transport in multiple minima systems coupled to a quantum mechanical bath is shown. Using a simple spin-boson system, we …             Tumor regression achieved by encapsulating a moderately soluble drug into a polymeric thermogel ▶     Tianyuan Ci, Liang Chen, Lin Yu et al.     For cancer chemotherapy, a tumor regression without any surgical resection and severe side effects is greatly preferred to merely slowing down the growth of tumors. 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