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04 August 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         An online open access journal providing a platform for the latest important research on quantum information, including quantum computing, quantum communications and quantum information theory. The Journal is now open for submissions. Explore the benefits of submitting your next research article.           Physical Sciences               Erratum: The reduction of surface plasmon losses in quasi-suspended graphene ▶     Alexander M. Dubrovkin, Jin Tao, Xue Chao Yu et al.                 Residual Defect Density in Random Disks Deposits ▶     Nikola Topic, Thorsten Pöschel, Jason A. C. Gallas     We investigate the residual distribution of structural defects in very tall packings of disks deposited randomly in large channels. By performing simulations involving the …             Proximity-induced magnetism in transition-metal substituted graphene ▶     Charles B. Crook, Costel Constantin, Towfiq Ahmed et al.     We investigate the interactions between two identical magnetic impurities substituted into a graphene superlattice. Using a first-principles approach, we calculate the electronic …             Superconductivity Series in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides by Ionic Gating ▶     Wu Shi, Jianting Ye, Yijin Zhang et al.     Functionalities of two-dimensional (2D) crystals based on semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have now stemmed from simple field effect transistors (FETs) to a …             Charge carrier mobility in hybrid halide perovskites ▶     Carlo Motta, Fedwa El-Mellouhi, Stefano Sanvito     The charge transport properties of hybrid halide perovskites are investigated with a combination of density functional theory including van der Waals interaction and the …             Reformulating the Quantum Uncertainty Relation ▶     Jun-Li Li, Cong-Feng Qiao     Uncertainty principle is one of the cornerstones of quantum theory. In the literature, there are two types of uncertainty relations, the operator form concerning the variances of …             Erratum: Parity effect of bipolar quantum Hall edge transport around graphene antidots ▶     Sadashige Matsuo, Shu Nakaharai, Katsuyoshi Komatsu et al.                 Engineering Cyclodextrin Clicked Chiral Stationary Phase for High-Efficiency Enantiomer Separation ▶     Jian Tang, Shapopeng Zhang, Yuzhou Lin et al.     The separation of racemic molecules is of crucial significance not only for fundamental research but also for technical application. Enantiomers remain challenging to be …             Theory of Kerr and Faraday rotations and linear dichroism in Topological Weyl Semimetals ▶     Mehdi Kargarian, Mohit Randeria, Nandini Trivedi     We consider the electromagnetic response of a topological Weyl semimetal (TWS) with a pair of Weyl nodes in the bulk and corresponding Fermi arcs in the surface Brillouin zone. …             Three-Dimensional Porous Copper-Graphene Heterostructures with Durability and High Heat Dissipation Performance ▶     Hokyun Rho, Seungmin Lee, Sukang Bae et al.     Porous materials have historically been of interest for a wide range of applications in thermal management, for example, in heat exchangers and thermal barriers. Rapid progress …             Ultra-high-performance core–shell structured Ru@Pt/C catalyst prepared by a facile pulse electrochemical deposition method ▶     Dan Chen, Yuexia Li, Shijun Liao et al.     Core–shell structured catalysts, made by placing either a monolayer or a thin layer of a noble metal on relatively cheap core-metal nanoparticles, are fascinating and promising …             Suppressed N2O formation during NH3 selective catalytic reduction using vanadium on zeolitic microporous TiO2 ▶     Seung Gwan Lee, Hyun Jeong Lee, Inhak Song et al.     Emission of N2O from mobile and off-road engine is now being currently regulated because of its high impact compared to that of CO2, thereby implying that N2O formation from the …             Simultaneous morphology manipulation and upconversion luminescence enhancement of β-NaYF4:Yb3+/Er3+ microcrystals by simply tuning the KF dosage ▶     Mingye Ding, Daqin Chen, Shilong Yin et al.     A strategy has been adopted for simultaneous morphology manipulation and upconversion luminescence enhancement of β-NaYF4:Yb3+/Er3+ microcrystals by simply tuning the KF dosage. …             Advances in nowcasting influenza-like illness rates using search query logs ▶     Vasileios Lampos, Andrew C. Miller, Steve Crossan et al.     User-generated content can assist epidemiological surveillance in the early detection and prevalence estimation of infectious diseases, such as influenza. Google Flu Trends …             The electronic properties of impurities (N, C, F, Cl, and S) in Ag3PO4: A hybrid functional method study ▶     Yang Huang, Tai Ma, Qing-yuan Chen et al.     The transition energies and formation energies of N, C, F, Cl, and S as substitutional dopants in Ag3PO4 are studied using first-principles calculations based on the hybrid …             Quasi-Static Magnetic Field Shielding Using Longitudinal Mu-Near-Zero Metamaterials ▶     Guy Lipworth, Joshua Ensworth, Kushal Seetharam et al.     The control of quasi-static magnetic fields is of considerable interest in applications including the reduction of electromagnetic interference (EMI), wireless power transfer …             Corrigendum: Direct Identification of On-Bead Peptides Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopic Barcoding System for High-Throughput Bioanalysis ▶     Homan Kang, Sinyoung Jeong, Yul Koh et al.                 Erratum: Effects of time delay and space on herbivore dynamics: linking inducible defenses of plants to herbivore outbreak ▶     Gui-Quan Sun, Su-Lan Wang, Qian Ren et al.                 Corrigendum: Simultaneous submicrometric 3D imaging of the micro-vascular network and the neuronal system in a mouse spinal cord ▶     Michela Fratini, Inna Bukreeva, Gaetano Campi et al.                 Coarse-grained molecular dynamics studies of the translocation mechanism of polyarginines across asymmetric membrane under tension ▶     XiaoCong He, Min Lin, BaoYong Sha et al.     Understanding interactions between cell-penetrating peptides and biomembrane under tension can help improve drug delivery and elucidate mechanisms underlying fundamental cellular …             Tailored delivery of analgesic ziconotide across a blood brain barrier model using viral nanocontainers ▶     Prachi Anand, Alison O’Neil, Emily Lin et al.     The blood brain barrier (BBB) is often an insurmountable obstacle for a large number of candidate drugs, including peptides, antibiotics, and chemotherapeutic agents. Devising an …             Formulation of Biologically-Inspired Silk-Based Drug Carriers for Pulmonary Delivery Targeted for Lung Cancer ▶     Sally Yunsun Kim, Deboki Naskar, Subhas C. Kundu et al.     The benefits of using silk fibroin, a major protein in silk, are widely established in many biomedical applications including tissue regeneration, bioactive coating and in vitro …             Corrigendum: Exciton and core-level electron confinement effects in transparent ZnO thin films ▶     Adolfo A. Mosquera, David Horwat, Alexandr Rashkovskiy et al.                 How Properties of Solid Surfaces Modulate the Nucleation of Gas Hydrate ▶     Dongsheng Bai, Guangjin Chen, Xianren Zhang et al.     Molecular dynamics simulations were performed for CO2 dissolved in water near silica surfaces to investigate how the hydrophilicity and crystallinity of solid surfaces modulate …             Rechargeable magnesium-ion battery based on a TiSe2-cathode with d-p orbital hybridized electronic structure ▶     Yunpeng Gu, Yukari Katsura, Takafumi Yoshino et al.     Rechargeable ion-batteries, in which ions such as Li+ carry charges between electrodes, have been contributing to the improvement of power-source performance in a wide variety of …             Corrigendum: An embryo of protocells: The capsule of graphene with selective ion channels ▶     Zhan Li, Chunmei Wang, Longlong Tian et al.                 Investigation of temperature-dependent photoluminescence in multi-quantum wells ▶     Yutao Fang, Lu Wang, Qingling Sun et al.     Photoluminescence (PL) is a nondestructive and powerful method to investigate carrier recombination and transport characteristics in semiconductor materials. In this study, the …             Nanoscale Nitrogen Doping in Silicon by Self-Assembled Monolayers ▶     Bin Guan, Hamidreza Siampour, Zhao Fan et al.     This Report presents a nitrogen-doping method by chemically forming self-assembled monolayers on silicon. Van der Pauw technique, secondary-ion mass spectroscopy and low …             Chemical and Physical Characteristics of Doxorubicin Hydrochloride Drug-Doped Salmon DNA Thin Films ▶     Bramaramba Gnapareddy, Sreekantha Reddy Dugasani, Taewoo Ha et al.     Double-stranded salmon DNA (SDNA) was doped with doxorubicin hydrochloride drug molecules (DOX) to determine the binding between DOX and SDNA, and DOX optimum doping …             Development of bright fluorescent quadracyclic adenine analogues: TDDFT-calculation supported rational design ▶     Anders Foller Larsen, Blaise Dumat, Moa S. Wranne et al.     Fluorescent base analogues (FBAs) comprise a family of increasingly important molecules for the investigation of nucleic acid structure and dynamics. We recently reported the …             Metamaterial Absorbers for Infrared Detection of Molecular Self-Assembled Monolayers ▶     Atsushi Ishikawa, Takuo Tanaka     The emerging field of plasmonic metamaterials has introduced new degree of freedom to manipulate optical field from nano to macroscopic scale, offering an attractive platform for …             A microelectromechanical system artificial basilar membrane based on a piezoelectric cantilever array and its characterization using an animal model ▶     Jongmoon Jang, JangWoo Lee, Seongyong Woo et al.     We proposed a piezoelectric artificial basilar membrane (ABM) composed of a microelectromechanical system cantilever array. The ABM mimics the tonotopy of the cochlea: frequency …             Influence of electric current pulses on the solidification of Cu-Bi-Sn immiscible alloys ▶     Jiang Hongxiang, He Jie, Zhao Jiuzhou     Continuous solidification experiments were carried out with Cu-Bi-Sn alloys under the effects of Electric Current Pulses (ECPs). A model describing the microstructure evolution …             Mechanical properties and microstructural change of W–Y2O3 alloy under helium irradiation ▶     Xiaoyue Tan, Laima Luo, Hongyu Chen et al.     A wet-chemical method combined with spark plasma sintering was used to prepare a W–Y2O3 alloy. High-temperature tensile tests and nano-indentation microhardness tests were used …             White butterflies as solar photovoltaic concentrators ▶     Katie Shanks, S. Senthilarasu, Richard H. ffrench-Constant et al.     Man’s harvesting of photovoltaic energy requires the deployment of extensive arrays of solar panels. To improve both the gathering of thermal and photovoltaic energy from the sun …             Stochasticity and Spatial Interaction Govern Stem Cell Differentiation Dynamics ▶     Quinton Smith, Evgeny Stukalin, Sravanti Kusuma et al.     Stem cell differentiation underlies many fundamental processes such as development, tissue growth and regeneration, as well as disease progression. Understanding how stem cell …             Discriminative Learning for Automatic Staging of Placental Maturity via Multi-layer Fisher Vector ▶     Baiying Lei, Yuan Yao, Siping Chen et al.     Currently, placental maturity is performed using subjective evaluation, which can be unreliable as it is highly dependent on the observations and experiences of clinicians. To …             Corrigendum: Electron-hole transport and photovoltaic effect in gated MoS2 Schottky junctions ▶     Marcio Fontana, Tristan Deppe, Anthony K. Boyd et al.                 A method to tune the shape of protein-encapsulated polymeric microspheres ▶     Renato de Alteriis, Raffaele Vecchione, Chiara Attanasio et al.     Protein encapsulation technologies of polymeric microspheres currently in use have been optimized to effectively protect their “protein cargo” from inactivation occurring in …             Disinhibition-induced transitions between absence and tonic-clonic epileptic seizures ▶     Denggui Fan, Qingyun Wang, Matjaž Perc     Electrophysiological experiments have long revealed the existence of two-way transitions between absence and tonic-clonic epileptic seizures in the cerebral cortex. Based on a …             Erratum: Digital Ecology: Coexistence and Domination among Interacting Networks ▶     Kaj-Kolja Kleineberg, Marián Boguñá                 Meshing complex macro-scale objects into self-assembling bricks ▶     Adar Hacohen, Iddo Hanniel, Yasha Nikulshin et al.     Self-assembly provides an information-economical route to the fabrication of objects at virtually all scales. However, there is no known algorithm to program self-assembly in …             Exploring bubble oscillation and mass transfer enhancement in acoustic-assisted liquid-liquid extraction with a microfluidic device ▶     Yuliang Xie, Chandraprakash Chindam, Nitesh Nama et al.     We investigated bubble oscillation and its induced enhancement of mass transfer in a liquid-liquid extraction process with an acoustically-driven, bubble-based microfluidic …             Graphene with outstanding anti-irradiation capacity as multialkylated cyclopentanes additive toward space application ▶     Xiaoqiang Fan, Liping Wang     Multialkylated cyclopentanes (MACs), a class of synthetic hydrocarbon fluid have attracted intensive interest as possible space lubricants due to a series of unique physical and …             Chaos in high-dimensional dissipative dynamical systems ▶     Iaroslav Ispolatov, Vaibhav Madhok, Sebastian Allende et al.     For dissipative dynamical systems described by a system of ordinary differential equations, we address the question of how the probability of chaotic dynamics increases with the …             A Sensor Array Using Multi-functional Field-effect Transistors with Ultrahigh Sensitivity and Precision for Bio-monitoring ▶     Do-Il Kim, Tran Quang Trung, Byeong-Ung Hwang et al.     Mechanically adaptive electronic skins (e-skins) emulate tactition and thermoception by cutaneous mechanoreceptors and thermoreceptors in human skin, respectively. When exposed …             Teleportation of a Toffoli gate among distant solid-state qubits with quantum dots embedded in optical microcavities ▶     Shi Hu, Wen-Xue Cui, Dong-Yang Wang et al.     Teleportation of unitary operations can be viewed as a quantum remote control. The remote realization of robust multiqubit logic gates among distant long-lived qubit registers is …             Evidence for Coexistence of Bulk Superconductivity and Itinerant Antiferromagnetism in the Heavy Fermion System CeCo(In1−xCdx)5 ▶     Ludovic Howald, Evelyn Stilp, Pierre Dalmas de Réotier et al.     In the generic phase diagram of heavy fermion systems, tuning an external parameter such as hydrostatic or chemical pressure modifies the superconducting transition temperature. …             Nuclear volume effects in equilibrium stable isotope fractionations of mercury, thallium and lead ▶     Sha Yang, Yun Liu     The nuclear volume effects (NVEs) of Hg, Tl and Pb isotope systems are investigated with careful evaluation on quantum relativistic effects via the Dirac’s formalism of …             Ant trophallactic networks: simultaneous measurement of interaction patterns and food dissemination ▶     Efrat Greenwald, Enrico Segre, Ofer Feinerman     Eusocial societies and ants, in particular, maintain tight nutritional regulation at both individual and collective levels. The mechanisms that underlie this control are far from …             Hydroxyproline Ring Pucker Causes Frustration of Helix Parameters in the Collagen Triple Helix ▶     W. Ying Chow, Dominique Bihan, Chris J. Forman et al.     Collagens, the most abundant proteins in mammals, are defined by their triple-helical structures and distinctive Gly-Xaa-Yaa repeating sequence, where Xaa is often proline and …             Phase change dispersion of plasmonic nano-objects ▶     Xie Zeng, Haifeng Hu, Yongkang Gao et al.     Phase is an inherent and important feature for coherent processes, which, unfortunately, has not been completely understood for surface plasmon polariton (SPP) and matter …             Facile and Scalable Preparation of Graphene Oxide-Based Magnetic Hybrids for Fast and Highly Efficient Removal of Organic Dyes ▶     Tifeng Jiao, Yazhou Liu, Yitian Wu et al.     This study reports the facile preparation and the dye removal efficiency of nanohybrids composed of graphene oxide (GO) and Fe3O4 nanoparticles with various geometrical …             Corrigendum: “Turn on” and label-free core−shell Ag@SiO2 nanoparticles-based metal-enhanced fluorescent (MEF) aptasensor for Hg2+ ▶     Yuanfeng Pang, Zhen Rong, Rui Xiao et al.                 Biomechanical tactics of chiral growth in emergent aquatic macrophytes ▶     Zi-Long Zhao, Hong-Ping Zhao, Bing-Wei Li et al.     Through natural selection, many plant organs have evolved optimal morphologies at different length scales. However, the biomechanical strategies for different plant species to …             Towards a tunable graphene-based Landau level laser in the terahertz regime ▶     Florian Wendler, Ermin Malic     Terahertz (THz) technology has attracted enormous interest with conceivable applications ranging from basic science to advanced technology. One of the main challenges remains the …             Efficient removal of crystal violet using Fe3O4-coated biochar: the role of the Fe3O4 nanoparticles and modeling study their adsorption behavior ▶     Pengfei Sun, Cai Hui, Rashid Azim Khan et al.     Biochar shows great promise for use in adsorbing pollutants. However, a process for enhancing its adsorption capacity and re-collection efficiency is yet to be further developed. …             Ubiquitous Graphene Electronics on Scotch Tape ▶     Yoonyoung Chung, Hyun Ho Kim, Sangryun Lee et al.     We report a novel concept of graphene transistors on Scotch tape for use in ubiquitous electronic systems. Unlike common plastic substrates such as polyimide and polyethylene …             Modeling of switching mechanism in GeSbTe chalcogenide superlattices ▶     Xiaoming Yu, John Robertson     We study the switching process in chalcogenide superlattice (CSL) phase-change memory materials by describing the motion of an atomic layer between the low and high resistance …             Evaluation of microbubble contrast agents for dynamic imaging with x-ray phase contrast ▶     T. P. Millard, M. Endrizzi, N. Everdell et al.     X-rays are commonly used as a means to image the inside of objects opaque to visible light, as their short wavelength allows penetration through matter and the formation of high …             Study of the Binding Energies between Unnatural Amino Acids and Engineered Orthogonal Tyrosyl-tRNA Synthetases ▶     Wei Ren, Tan M. Truong, Hui-wang Ai     We utilized several computational approaches to evaluate the binding energies of tyrosine (Tyr) and several unnatural Tyr analogs, to several orthogonal aaRSes derived from …             High Pressure Phase-Transformation Induced Texture Evolution and Strengthening in Zirconium Metal: Experiment and Modeling ▶     Xiaohui Yu, Ruifeng Zhang, David Weldon et al.     We studied the phase-transition induced texture changes and strengthening mechanism for zirconium metal under quasi-hydrostatic compression and uni-axial deformation under …             Bi-photon spectral correlation measurements from a silicon nanowire in the quantum and classical regimes ▶     Iman Jizan, L. G. Helt, Chunle Xiong et al.     The growing requirement for photon pairs with specific spectral correlations in quantum optics experiments has created a demand for fast, high resolution and accurate source …             High-resolution high-speed dynamic mechanical spectroscopy of cells and other soft materials with the help of atomic force microscopy ▶     M. Dokukin, I. Sokolov     Dynamic mechanical spectroscopy (DMS), which allows measuring frequency-dependent viscoelastic properties, is important to study soft materials, tissues, biomaterials, polymers. …             Exfoliated MoS2 Sheets and Reduced Graphene Oxide-An Excellent and Fast Anode for Sodium-ion Battery ▶     Tuhin Subhra Sahu, Sagar Mitra     Three dimensional (3D) MoS2 nanoflowers are successfully synthesized by hydrothermal method. Further, a composite of as prepared MoS2 nanoflowers and rGO is constructed by simple …             Large-scale controlled fabrication of highly roughened flower-like silver nanostructures in liquid crystalline phase ▶     Chengliang Yang, Xiangjun Xiang, Ying Zhang et al.     Large-scale controllable fabrication of highly roughened flower-like silver nanostructures is demonstrated experimentally via electrodeposition in the liquid crystalline phase. …             Optical nanoscopy of transient states in condensed matter ▶     F. Kuschewski, S.C. Kehr, B. Green et al.     Recently, the fundamental and nanoscale understanding of complex phenomena in materials research and the life sciences, witnessed considerable progress. However, elucidating the …             Control of Photoluminescence of Carbon Nanodots via Surface Functionalization using Para-substituted Anilines ▶     Woosung Kwon, Sungan Do, Ji-Hee Kim et al.     Carbon nanodots (C-dots) are a kind of fluorescent carbon nanomaterials, composed of polyaromatic carbon domains surrounded by amorphous carbon frames, and have attracted a great …             Effect of proton-conduction in electrolyte on electric efficiency of multi-stage solid oxide fuel cells ▶     Yoshio Matsuzaki, Yuya Tachikawa, Takaaki Somekawa et al.     Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are promising electrochemical devices that enable the highest fuel-to-electricity conversion efficiencies under high operating temperatures. The …             Functional ferroelectric tunnel junctions on silicon ▶     Rui Guo, Zhe Wang, Shengwei Zeng et al.     The quest for solid state non-volatility memory devices on silicon with high storage density, high speed, low power consumption has attracted intense research on new materials …             Quantitative reflection phase mesoscopy by remote coherence tuning of phase-shift interference patterns ▶     Elad Arbel, Alberto Bilenca     Conventional low-magnification phase-contrast microscopy is an invaluable, yet a qualitative, imaging tool for the interrogation of transparent objects over a mesoscopic …             The Hide-and-Seek of Grain Boundaries from Moiré Pattern Fringe of Two-Dimensional Graphene ▶     Jung Hwa Kim, Kwanpyo Kim, Zonghoon Lee     Grain boundaries (GBs) commonly exist in crystalline materials and affect various properties of materials. The facile identification of GBs is one of the significant requirements …             Tunable Dipole Surface Plasmon Resonances of Silver Nanoparticles by Cladding Dielectric Layers ▶     Xiaotong Liu, Dabing Li, Xiaojuan Sun et al.     The tunability of surface plasmon resonance can enable the highest degree of localised surface plasmon enhancement to be achieved, based on the emitting or absorbing wavelength. …             Mammalian cochlea as a physics guided evolution-optimized hearing sensor ▶     Tom Lorimer, Florian Gomez, Ruedi Stoop     Nonlinear physics plays an essential role in hearing. We demonstrate on a mesoscopic description level that during the evolutionary perfection of the hearing sensor, nonlinear …             Myocardial Iron Loading Assessment by Automatic Left Ventricle Segmentation with Morphological Operations and Geodesic Active Contour on T2* images ▶     Yun-gang Luo, Jacky KL Ko, Lin Shi et al.     Myocardial iron loading thalassemia patients could be identified using T2* magnetic resonance images (MRI). To quantitatively assess cardiac iron loading, we proposed an …             Robust interface between flying and topological qubits ▶     Zheng-Yuan Xue, Ming Gong, Jia Liu et al.     Hybrid architectures, consisting of conventional and topological qubits, have recently attracted much attention due to their capability in consolidating robustness of topological …             Potentiometric detection of chemical vapors using molecularly imprinted polymers as receptors ▶     Rongning Liang, Lusi Chen, Wei Qin     Ion-selective electrode (ISE) based potentiometric gas sensors have shown to be promising analytical tools for detection of chemical vapors. However, such sensors are only …             Environmentally Driven Migration in a Social Network Game ▶     Masanori Takano, Kazuya Wada, Ichiro Fukuda     Cooperative behaviors are common in humans, and they are the fundamental basis of our society. Theoretical and experimental studies have modeled environments where the behaviors …             BaFe12O19-chitosan Schiff-base Ag (I) complexes embedded in carbon nanotube networks for high-performance electromagnetic materials ▶     Jie Zhao, Yu Xie, Dongsheng Guan et al.     The multiwalled carbon nanotubes/BaFe12O19-chitosan (MCNTs/BF-CS) Schiff base Ag (I) complex composites were synthesized successfully by a chemical bonding method. The morphology …                 Open for Submissions A new open access, online-only, multidisciplinary research journal dedicated to publishing the most important scientific advances in the life sciences, physical sciences, and engineering fields that are facilitated by spaceflight and analogue platforms. 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