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01 December 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Chemical Sciences               Porous VOxNy nanoribbons supported on CNTs as efficient and stable non-noble electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction ▶     K. Huang, K. Bi, Y. K. Lu et al.     Novel nanocomposites of carbon nanotubes supported porous VOxNy nonoribbons (VOxNy-CNTs) have been synthesized by the annealing of the sol-gel mixture of CNTs and V2O5 under NH3 …             Inhibition of insulin fibrillation by osmolytes: Mechanistic Insights ▶     Sinjan Choudhary, Nand Kishore, Ramakrishna V. Hosur     We have studied here using a number of biophysical tools the effects of osmolytes, betaine, citrulline, proline and sorbitol which differ significantly in terms of their physical …             Hybrid QM/MM study of FMO complex with polarized protein-specific charge ▶     Xiangyu Jia, Ye Mei, John Z.H. Zhang et al.     The Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) light-harvesting complex is now one of the primary model systems for the study of excitation energy transfer (EET). However, the mechanism of the …             Photogenerated Intrinsic Free Carriers in Small-molecule Organic Semiconductors Visualized by Ultrafast Spectroscopy ▶     Xiaochuan He, Gangbei Zhu, Jianbing Yang et al.     Confirmation of direct photogeneration of intrinsic delocalized free carriers in small-molecule organic semiconductors has been a long-sought but unsolved issue, which is of …             Enhanced Charge Separation and FRET at Heterojunctions between Semiconductor Nanoparticles and Conducting Polymer Nanofibers for Efficient Solar Light Harvesting ▶     Samim Sardar, Prasenjit Kar, Hynd Remita et al.     Energy harvesting from solar light employing nanostructured materials offer an economic way to resolve energy and environmental issues. We have developed an efficient light …             Single MoO3 nanoribbon waveguides: good building blocks as elements and interconnects for nanophotonic applications ▶     Li Zhang, Guoqing Wu, Fuxing Gu et al.     Exploring new nanowaveguide materials and structures is of great scientific interest and technological significance for optical and photonic applications. In this work, …             Real-Time Mass Spectrometry Monitoring of Oak Wood Toasting: Elucidating Aroma Development Relevant to Oak-aged Wine Quality ▶     Ross R. Farrell, Marco Wellinger, Alexia N. Gloess et al.     We introduce a real-time method to monitor the evolution of oak aromas during the oak toasting process. French and American oak wood boards were toasted in an oven at three …             Alcohol-soluble Star-shaped Oligofluorenes as Interlayer for High Performance Polymer Solar Cells ▶     Yang Zou, Zhicai He, Baofeng Zhao et al.     Two star-shaped oligofluorenes with hexakis(fluoren-2-yl)benzene as core are designed and sythesized for interfacial materials in polymer solar cell. Diethanolamino groups are …             Triple-doped KMnF3:Yb3+/Er3+/Tm3+ nanocubes: four-color upconversion emissions with strong red and near-infrared bands ▶     Hao Wang, Xiaodong Hong, Renlu Han et al.     Triple-doped (Yb3+/Er3+/Tm3+) KMnF3 nanocubes with uniform sizes of 250 nm were synthesized by a facile hydrothermal route using the oleic acid as the capping agent. It was found …             Fluidic Grooves on Doped-Ice Surface as Size-Tunable Channels ▶     Arinori Inagawa, Makoto Harada, Tetsuo Okada     We propose a new principle for fabrication of size-tunable fluidic nano- and microchannels with a ubiquitous green material, water. Grooves filled with a solution are …             Optically Transparent Microwave Polarizer Based On Quasi-Metallic Graphene ▶     Marco Grande, Giuseppe Valerio Bianco, Maria Antonietta Vincenti et al.     In this paper, we report on the engineering and the realization of optically transparent graphene-based microwave devices using Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD) graphene whose …             Development of a panel of DNA Aptamers with High Affinity for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma ▶     Carole Champanhac, I-Ting Teng, Sena Cansiz et al.     Pancreatic cancer costs nearly 40,000 lives in the U.S. each year and has one of the lowest survival rates among cancers. Effective treatment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma …             High Performance Heteroatoms Quaternary-doped Carbon Catalysts Derived from Shewanella Bacteria for Oxygen Reduction ▶     Zhaoyan Guo, Guangyuan Ren, Congcong Jiang et al.     A novel heteroatoms (N, P, S and Fe) quaternary-doped carbon (HQDC-X, X refers to the pyrolysis temperature) can be fabricated by directly pyrolyzing a gram-negative bacteria, S. …             Shearing of the CENP-A dimerization interface mediates plasticity in the octameric centromeric nucleosome ▶     David Winogradoff, Haiqing Zhao, Yamini Dalal et al.     The centromeric nucleosome is a key epigenetic determinant of centromere identity and function. 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