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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               Physical Sciences               The glassy random laser: replica symmetry breaking in the intensity fluctuations of emission spectra ▶     Fabrizio Antenucci, Andrea Crisanti, Luca Leuzzi     The behavior of a newly introduced overlap parameter, measuring the correlation between intensity fluctuations of waves in random media, is analyzed in different physical …             CMOS integration of inkjet-printed graphene for humidity sensing ▶     S. Santra, G. Hu, R. C. T. Howe et al.     We report on the integration of inkjet-printed graphene with a CMOS micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) microhotplate for humidity sensing. The graphene ink is produced via …             Second-Nearest-Neighbor Correlations from Connection of Atomic Packing Motifs in Metallic Glasses and Liquids ▶     Jun Ding, Evan Ma, Mark Asta et al.     Using molecular dynamics simulations, we have studied the atomic correlations characterizing the second peak in the radial distribution function (RDF) of metallic glasses and …             In situ fabrication of high-performance Ni-GDC-nanocube core-shell anode for low-temperature solid-oxide fuel cells ▶     Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Nan Qiu, Satoshi Ohara     A core–shell anode consisting of nickel–gadolinium-doped-ceria (Ni–GDC) nanocubes was directly fabricated by a chemical process in a solution containing a nickel source and GDC …             Resonances of nanoparticles with poor plasmonic metal tips ▶     Emilie Ringe, Christopher J. DeSantis, Sean M. Collins et al.     The catalytic and optical properties of metal nanoparticles can be combined to create platforms for light-driven chemical energy storage and enhanced in-situ reaction monitoring. …             A Novel Self-Assembling Al-based Composite Powder with High Hydrogen Generation Efficiency ▶     Cuiping Wang, Yuheng Liu, Hongxin Liu et al.     In this study, a novel self-assembling hydrogen generation powder comprised of 80Al-10Bi-10Sn wt.% was prepared using the gas atomization method and then collected in an air …             Femtosecond laser rapid fabrication of large-area rose-like micropatterns on freestanding flexible graphene films ▶     Xuesong Shi, Xin Li, Lan Jiang et al.     We developed a simple, scalable and high-throughput method for fabrication of large-area three-dimensional rose-like microflowers with controlled size, shape and density on …             Compact Shielding of Graphene Monolayer Leads to Extraordinary SERS-Active Substrate with Large-Area Uniformity and Long-Term Stability ▶     Xiangjiang Liu, Jiajun Wang, Yichen Wu et al.     Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) can significantly boost the inherently weak Raman scattering signal and provide detailed structural information and binding nature of the …             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 …             Electrospun interconnected Fe-N/C nanofiber networks as efficient electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction in acidic media ▶     Nan Wu, Yingde Wang, Yongpeng Lei et al.     One-dimensional electrospun nanofibers have emerged as a potential candidate for high-performance oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalysts. However, contact resistance among the …             Local structure of human hair spatially resolved by sub-micron X-ray beam ▶     Vesna Stanić, Jefferson Bettini, Fabiano Emmanuel Montoro et al.     Human hair has three main regions, the medulla, the cortex, and the cuticle. An existing model for the cortex suggests that the α-keratin- based intermediate filaments (IFs) …             Compact Optical Fiber 3D Shape Sensor Based on a Pair of Orthogonal Tilted Fiber Bragg Gratings ▶     Dingyi Feng, Wenjun Zhou, Xueguang Qiao et al.     In this work, a compact fiber-optic 3D shape sensor consisting of two serially connected 2° tilted fiber Bragg gratings (TFBGs) is proposed, where the orientations of the grating …             Dopant morphology as the factor limiting graphene conductivity ▶     Mario Hofmann, Ya-Ping Hsieh, Kai-Wen Chang et al.     Graphene’s low intrinsic carrier concentration necessitates extrinsic doping to enhance its conductivity and improve its performance for application as electrodes or transparent …             Ternary SnS2–xSex Alloys Nanosheets and Nanosheet Assemblies with Tunable Chemical Compositions and Band Gaps for Photodetector Applications ▶     Jing Yu, Cheng-Yan Xu, Yang Li et al.     Ternary metal dichalcogenides alloys exhibit compositionally tunable optical properties and electronic structure, and therefore, band gap engineering by controllable doping would …             Mitigation of Corrosion on Magnesium Alloy by Predesigned Surface Corrosion ▶     Xuming Zhang, Guosong Wu, Xiang Peng et al.     Rapid corrosion of magnesium alloys is undesirable in structural and biomedical applications and a general way to control corrosion is to form a surface barrier layer isolating …             Controlling the Electronic Structures and Properties of in-Plane Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides Quantum Wells ▶     Wei Wei, Ying Dai, Chengwang Niu et al.     In-plane transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) quantum wells have been studied on the basis of first-principles density functional calculations to reveal how to control the …             Thickness-Induced Metal-Insulator Transition in Sb-doped SnO2 Ultrathin Films: The Role of Quantum Confinement ▶     Chang Ke, Weiguang Zhu, Zheng Zhang et al.     A thickness induced metal-insulator transition (MIT) was firstly observed in Sb-doped SnO2 (SnO2:Sb) epitaxial ultrathin films deposited on sapphire substrates by pulsed laser …             Electric-field-assisted formation of an interfacial double-donor molecule in silicon nano-transistors ▶     Arup Samanta, Daniel Moraru, Takeshi Mizuno et al.     Control of coupling of dopant atoms in silicon nanostructures is a fundamental challenge for dopant-based applications. However, it is difficult to find systems of only a few …             Environmentally friendly method to grow wide-bandgap semiconductor aluminum nitride crystals: Elementary source vapor phase epitaxy ▶     PeiTsen Wu, Mitsuru Funato, Yoichi Kawakami     Aluminum nitride (AlN) has attracted increasing interest as an optoelectronic material in the deep ultraviolet spectral range due to its wide bandgap of 6.0 eV (207 nm …             Design of exceptionally strong and conductive Cu alloys beyond the conventional speculation via the interfacial energy-controlled dispersion of γ-Al2O3 nanoparticles ▶     Seung Zeon Han, Kwang Ho Kim, Joonhee Kang et al.     The development of Cu-based alloys with high-mechanical properties (strength, ductility) and electrical conductivity plays a key role over a wide range of industrial …             Rational design of inorganic dielectric materials with expected permittivity ▶     Congwei Xie, Artem R. Oganov, Dong Dong et al.     Techniques for rapid design of dielectric materials with appropriate permittivity for many important technological applications are urgently needed. It is found that functional …             Isolation of exosomes by differential centrifugation: Theoretical analysis of a commonly used protocol ▶     Mikhail A. Livshts, Elena Khomyakova, Evgeniy G. Evtushenko et al.     Exosomes, small (40–100 nm) extracellular membranous vesicles, attract enormous research interest because they are carriers of disease markers and a prospective delivery system …             Isolation and Identification of Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing-Related Micro-RNAs by Functionalized Silicon Nanowire Field-effect Transistor ▶     Kuan-I Chen, Chien-Yuan Pan, Keng-Hui Li et al.     Many transcribed RNAs are non-coding RNAs, including microRNAs (miRNAs), which bind to complementary sequences on messenger RNAs to regulate the translation efficacy. Therefore, …             Zeolite Nanoparticles for Selective Sorption of Plasma Proteins ▶     M. Rahimi, E.-P. Ng, K. Bakhtiari et al.     The affinity of zeolite nanoparticles (diameter of 8–12 nm) possessing high surface area and high pore volume towards human plasma proteins has been investigated. The protein …             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 …             Mortality Benefits of Antibiotic Computerised Decision Support System: Modifying Effects of Age ▶     Angela L. P. Chow, David C. Lye, Onyebuchi A. Arah     Antibiotic computerised decision support systems (CDSSs) are shown to improve antibiotic prescribing, but evidence of beneficial patient outcomes is limited. We conducted a …             Probing Origin of Binding Difference of inhibitors to MDM2 and MDMX by Polarizable Molecular Dynamics Simulation and QM/MM-GBSA Calculation ▶     Jianzhong Chen, Jinan Wang, Qinggang Zhang et al.     Binding abilities of current inhibitors to MDMX are weaker than to MDM2. Polarizable molecular dynamics simulations (MD) followed by Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics …             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 …             Size dependent nanomechanics of coil spring shaped polymer nanowires ▶     Shota Ushiba, Kyoko Masui, Natsuo Taguchi et al.     Direct laser writing (DLW) via two-photon polymerization (TPP) has been established as a powerful technique for fabrication and integration of nanoscale components, as it enables …             Control and Manipulation of Nano Cracks Mimicking Optical Wave ▶     Young D. Suh, Junyeob Yeo, Habeom Lee et al.     Generally, a fracture is considered as an uncontrollable thus useless phenomenon due to its highly random nature. The aim of this study is to investigate highly ordered cracks …             Measuring Phonon Mean Free Path Distributions by Probing Quasiballistic Phonon Transport in Grating Nanostructures ▶     Lingping Zeng, Kimberlee C. Collins, Yongjie Hu et al.     Heat conduction in semiconductors and dielectrics depends upon their phonon mean free paths that describe the average travelling distance between two consecutive phonon …             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, …             Orbital-dependent Electron-Hole Interaction in Graphene and Associated Multi-Layer Structures ▶     Tianqi Deng, Haibin Su     We develop an orbital-dependent potential to describe electron-hole interaction in materials with structural 2D character, i.e. quasi-2D materials. The modulated …             Strong Geometrical Effects in Submillimeter Selective Area Growth and Light Extraction of GaN Light Emitting Diodes on Sapphire ▶     Atsunori Tanaka, Renjie Chen, Katherine L. Jungjohann et al.     Advanced semiconductor devices often utilize structural and geometrical effects to tailor their characteristics and improve their performance. We report here detailed …             Switching operation and degradation of resistive random access memory composed of tungsten oxide and copper investigated using in-situ TEM ▶     Masashi Arita, Akihito Takahashi, Yuuki Ohno et al.     In-situ transmission electron microscopy (in-situ TEM) was performed to investigate the switching operation of a resistive random access memory (ReRAM) made of copper, tungsten …             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 …             Lactic Acid Bacteria Protects Caenorhabditis elegans from Toxicity of Graphene Oxide by Maintaining Normal Intestinal Permeability under different Genetic Backgrounds ▶     Yunli Zhao, Xiaoming Yu, Ruhan Jia et al.     Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) is safe and useful for food and feed fermentation. We employed Caenorhabditis elegans to investigate the possible beneficial effect of LAB (…             Polychromatic polarization microscope: bringing colors to a colorless world ▶     Michael Shribak     Interference of two combined white light beams produces Newton colors if one of the beams is retarded relative to the other by from 400 nm to 2000 nm. In this case the …             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 …             Additive Manufacturing of a Microbial Fuel Cell—A detailed study ▶     Flaviana Calignano, Tonia Tommasi, Diego Manfredi et al.     In contemporary society we observe an everlasting permeation of electron devices, smartphones, portable computing tools. The tiniest living organisms on Earth could become the …             Semi-reciprocal polarization maintaining fibre coupler with distinctive transmission characteristics ▶     Xinyue Wang, Freya Thomas, Ziyu Wang     Optical couplers are very important devices in optical communication systems and optical sensor systems. Several types of optical couplers with different materials or different …             Electrocaloric effect in ferroelectric nanowires from atomistic simulations ▶     R. Herchig, C.-M. Chang, B. K. Mani et al.     Electrocaloric effect is presently under active investigation owing to both the recent discoveries of giant electrocaloric effects and its potential for solid state cooling …             Extreme events in multilayer, interdependent complex networks and control ▶     Yu-Zhong Chen, Zi-Gang Huang, Hai-Feng Zhang et al.     We investigate the emergence of extreme events in interdependent networks. We introduce an inter-layer traffic resource competing mechanism to account for the limited capacity …             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 …             Structural modifications due to interface chemistry at metal-nitride interfaces ▶     S. K. Yadav, S. Shao, J. Wang et al.     Based on accurate first principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations, an unusual phenomenon of interfacial structural modifications, due to the interface chemistry …             High field superconducting properties of Ba(Fe1−xCox)2As2 thin films ▶     Jens Hänisch, Kazumasa Iida, Fritz Kurth et al.     In general, the critical current density, Jc, of type II superconductors and its anisotropy with respect to magnetic field orientation is determined by intrinsic and extrinsic …             Topological phase transition in quasi-one dimensional organic conductors ▶     Xiao-Shan Ye, Yong-Jun Liu, Xiang-Hua Zeng et al.     We explore topological phase transition, which involves the energy spectra of field-induced spin-density-wave (FISDW) states in quasi-one dimensional (Q1D) organic conductors, …             Coexistence of Scattering Enhancement and Suppression by Plasmonic Cavity Modes in Loaded Dimer Gap-Antennas ▶     Qiang Zhang, Jun-Jun Xiao, Meili Li et al.     Plasmonic nanoantenna is of promising applications in optical sensing and detection, enhancement of optical nonlinear effect, surface optical spectroscopy, photoemission, etc. …             A Label-Free Photoluminescence Genosensor Using Nanostructured Magnesium Oxide for Cholera Detection ▶     Manoj Kumar Patel, Md. Azahar Ali, Sadagopan Krishnan et al.     Nanomaterial-based photoluminescence (PL) diagnostic devices offer fast and highly sensitive detection of pesticides, DNA, and toxic agents. Here we report a label-free PL …             Sequential Single Shot X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy at the SACLA Free Electron Laser ▶     Felix Lehmkühler, Paweł Kwaśniewski, Wojciech Roseker et al.     Hard X-ray free electron lasers allow for the first time to access dynamics of condensed matter samples ranging from femtoseconds to several hundred seconds. In particular, the …             Noise-assisted energy transport in electrical oscillator networks with off-diagonal dynamical disorder ▶     Roberto de J. León-Montiel, Mario A. Quiroz-Juárez, Rafael Quintero-Torres et al.     Noise is generally thought as detrimental for energy transport in coupled oscillator networks. However, it has been shown that for certain coherently evolving systems, the …             High Efficiency Organic/Silicon-Nanowire Hybrid Solar Cells: Significance of Strong Inversion Layer ▶     Xuegong Yu, Xinlei Shen, Xinhui Mu et al.     Organic/silicon nanowires (SiNWs) hybrid solar cells have recently been recognized as one of potentially low-cost candidates for photovoltaic application. Here, we have …             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 …             In Vivo Voltage-Sensitive Dye Imaging of Subcortical Brain Function ▶     Qinggong Tang, Vassiliy Tsytsarev, Chia-Pin Liang et al.     The whisker system of rodents is an excellent model to study peripherally evoked neural activity in the brain. Discrete neural modules represent each whisker in the somatosensory …             Multimodal targeted high relaxivity thermosensitive liposome for in vivo imaging ▶     Maayke M. P. Kuijten, M. Hannah Degeling, John W. Chen et al.     Liposomes are spherical, self-closed structures formed by lipid bilayers that can encapsulate drugs and/or imaging agents in their hydrophilic core or within their membrane …             Embedding Ba Monolayers and Bilayers in Boron Carbide Nanowires ▶     Zhiyang Yu, Jian Luo, Baiou Shi et al.     Aberration corrected high angle annular dark field scanning transmission electron microscopy (HAADF-STEM) was employed to study the distribution of barium atoms on the surfaces …             Efficient Synchronization of Dipolarly Coupled Vortex-Based Spin Transfer Nano-Oscillators ▶     Nicolas Locatelli, Abbass Hamadeh, Flavio Abreu Araujo et al.     Due to their nonlinear properties, spin transfer nano-oscillators can easily adapt their frequency to external stimuli. This makes them interesting model systems to study the …             Observation of strongly enhanced photoluminescence from inverted cone-shaped silicon nanostuctures ▶     Sebastian W. Schmitt, George Sarau, Silke Christiansen     Silicon nanowires (SiNWs) attached to a wafer substrate are converted to inversely tapered silicon nanocones (SiNCs). After excitation with visible light, individual SiNCs show a …             Toroidal qubits: naturally-decoupled quiet artificial atoms ▶     Alexandre M. Zagoskin, Arkadi Chipouline, Evgeni Il’ichev et al.     The requirements of quantum computations impose high demands on the level of qubit protection from perturbations; in particular, from those produced by the environment. Here we …             Defining an additivity framework for mixture research in inducible whole-cell biosensors ▶     K. Martin-Betancor, C. Ritz, F. Fernández-Piñas et al.     A novel additivity framework for mixture effect modelling in the context of whole cell inducible biosensors has been mathematically developed and implemented in R. The proposed …             Transparent Conductive Nanofiber Paper for Foldable Solar Cells ▶     Masaya Nogi, Makoto Karakawa, Natsuki Komoda et al.     Optically transparent nanofiber paper containing silver nanowires showed high electrical conductivity and maintained the high transparency, and low weight of the original …             Formation of Nanotwin Networks during High-Temperature Crystallization of Amorphous Germanium ▶     Luis Sandoval, Celia Reina, Jaime Marian     Germanium is an extremely important material used for numerous functional applications in many fields of nanotechnology. In this paper, we study the crystallization of amorphous …             Copper nanocoils synthesized through solvothermal method ▶     Yanjuan Liu, Xiaowei Liu, Yongjie Zhan et al.     Recently helical nanostructures such as nanosprings and nanocoils have drawn great interests in nanotechnology, due to their unique morphologies and physical properties, and they …             Novel, low-cost solid-liquid-solid process for the synthesis of α-Si3N4 nanowires at lower temperatures and their luminescence properties ▶     Haitao Liu, Zhaohui Huang, Juntong Huang et al.     Ultra-long, single crystal, α-Si3N4 nanowires sheathed with amorphous silicon oxide were synthesised by an improved, simplified solid-liquid-solid (SLS) method at 1150 °C without …             Ultra High-Speed Radio Frequency Switch Based on Photonics ▶     Jia Ge, Mable P. Fok     Microwave switches, or Radio Frequency (RF) switches have been intensively used in microwave systems for signal routing. Compared with the fast development of microwave and …             Enhancing Localized Evaporation through Separated Light Absorbing Centers and Scattering Centers ▶     Dengwu Zhao, Haoze Duan, Shengtao Yu et al.     This report investigates the enhancement of localized evaporation via separated light absorbing particles (plasmonic absorbers) and scattering particles (polystyrene …             A unified analytic solution approach to static bending and free vibration problems of rectangular thin plates ▶     Rui Li, Pengcheng Wang, Yu Tian et al.     A unified analytic solution approach to both static bending and free vibration problems of rectangular thin plates is demonstrated in this paper, with focus on the application to …             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 …             High-Performance Wrap-Gated InGaAs Nanowire Field-Effect Transistors with Sputtered Dielectrics ▶     Li-Fan Shen, SenPo Yip, Zai-xing Yang et al.     Although wrap-gated nanowire field-effect-transistors (NWFETs) have been explored as an ideal electronic device geometry for low-power and high-frequency applications, further …             Role of different scattering mechanisms on the temperature dependence of transport in graphene ▶     Suman Sarkar, Kazi Rafsanjani Amin, Ranjan Modak et al.     Detailed experimental and theoretical studies of the temperature dependence of the effect of different scattering mechanisms on electrical transport properties of graphene …             Silicon nanocrystal growth under irradiation of electron beam ▶     Wei-Qi Huang, Shi-Rong Liu, Zhong-Mei Huang et al.     In our experiment, it was observed that silicon nanocrystal rapidly grows with irradiation of electron beam on amorphous silicon film prepared by pulsed laser deposition, and …             Magnetite-Amyloid-β deteriorates activity and functional organization in an in vitro model for Alzheimer’s disease ▶     Sara Teller, Islam Bogachan Tahirbegi, Mònica Mir et al.     The understanding of the key mechanisms behind human brain deterioration in Alzheimer’ disease (AD) is a highly active field of research. The most widespread hypothesis considers …             Structural bases for neurophysiological investigations of amygdaloid complex of the brain ▶     Liliya B. Kalimullina, Kh. A. Kalkamanov, Azat V. Akhmadeev et al.     Amygdala (Am) as a part of limbic system of the brain defines such important functions as adaptive behavior of animals, formation of emotions and memory, regulation of endocrine …             Time-lapse electrical impedance spectroscopy for monitoring the cell cycle of single immobilized S. pombe cells ▶     Zhen Zhu, Olivier Frey, Niels Haandbaek et al.     As a complement and alternative to optical methods, wide-band electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) enables multi-parameter, label-free and real-time detection of cellular and …             Size confinement of Si nanocrystals in multinanolayer structures ▶     Rens Limpens, Arnon Lesage, Minoru Fujii et al.     Si nanocrystals (NCs) are often prepared by thermal annealing of multiple stacks of alternating sub-stoichiometric SiOx and SiO2 nanolayers. It is frequently claimed that in …             Water and Ethanol Droplet Wetting Transition during Evaporation on Omniphobic Surfaces ▶     Xuemei Chen, Justin A. Weibel, Suresh V. Garimella     Omniphobic surfaces with reentrant microstructures have been investigated for a range of applications, but the evaporation of high- and low-surface-tension liquid droplets placed …             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 …             Optical detection of individual ultra-short carbon nanotubes enables their length characterization down to 10 nm ▶     Zhenghong Gao, Laura Oudjedi, Romain Faes et al.     Ultrashort single-walled carbon nanotubes, i.e. with length below ~30 nm, display length-dependent physical, chemical and biological properties that are attractive for the …             Design of Warped Stretch Transform ▶     Ata Mahjoubfar, Claire Lifan Chen, Bahram Jalali     Time stretch dispersive Fourier transform enables real-time spectroscopy at the repetition rate of million scans per second. High-speed real-time instruments ranging from …             Manipulating Water Wave Propagation via Gradient Index Media ▶     Zhenyu Wang, Pei Zhang, Xiaofei Nie et al.     It is challenging to realise the perfect manipulation of water waves within a broad range of frequencies. By extending conformal transformation principles to water waves, their …             Ground state search, hysteretic behaviour, and reversal mechanism of skyrmionic textures in confined helimagnetic nanostructures ▶     Marijan Beg, Rebecca Carey, Weiwei Wang et al.     Magnetic skyrmions have the potential to provide solutions for low-power, high-density data storage and processing. One of the major challenges in developing skyrmion-based …             Vertically Conductive Single-Crystal SiC-Based Bragg Reflector Grown on Si Wafer ▶     David Massoubre, Li Wang, Leonie Hold et al.     Single-crystal silicon carbide (SiC) thin-films on silicon (Si) were used for the fabrication and characterization of electrically conductive distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) …             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 …             Bottom pressure scaling of vibro-fluidized granular matter ▶     Hiroaki Katsuragi     Vibrated granular beds show various interesting phenomena such as convection, segregation, and so on. However, its fundamental physical properties (e.g., internal pressure …             Three-dimensional direct cell patterning in collagen hydrogels with near-infrared femtosecond laser ▶     Kolin C. Hribar, Kyle Meggs, Justin Liu et al.     We report a methodology for three-dimensional (3D) cell patterning in a hydrogel in situ. Gold nanorods within a cell-encapsulating collagen hydrogel absorb a focused …             Achieving high strength and high ductility in magnesium alloy using hard-plate rolling (HPR) process ▶     Hui–Yuan Wang, Zhao–Peng Yu, Lei Zhang et al.     Magnesium alloys are highly desirable for a wide range of lightweight structural components. However, rolling Mg alloys can be difficult due to their poor plasticity, and the …             Excitation energy dependent Raman spectrum of MoSe2 ▶     Dahyun Nam, Jae-Ung Lee, Hyeonsik Cheong     Raman investigation of MoSe2 was carried out with eight different excitation energies. Seven peaks, including E1g, A1g, E2g1, and A2u2 peaks are observed in the range of …             Lévy Walk Navigation in Complex Networks: A Distinct Relation between Optimal Transport Exponent and Network Dimension ▶     Tongfeng Weng, Michael Small, Jie Zhang et al.     We investigate, for the first time, navigation on networks with a Lévy walk strategy such that the step probability scales as pij ~ dij–α, where dij is the Manhattan distance …             Laser jetting of femto-liter metal droplets for high resolution 3D printed structures ▶     M. Zenou, A. Sa’ar, Z. Kotler     Laser induced forward transfer (LIFT) is employed in a special, high accuracy jetting regime, by adequately matching the sub-nanosecond pulse duration to the metal donor layer …             Eigencentrality based on dissimilarity measures reveals central nodes in complex networks ▶     A. J. Alvarez-Socorro, G. C. Herrera-Almarza, L. A. González-Díaz     One of the most important problems in complex network’s theory is the location of the entities that are essential or have a main role within the network. For this purpose, the …             Electromagnetic field redistribution induced selective plasmon driven surface catalysis in metal nanowire-film systems ▶     Liang Pan, Yingzhou Huang, Yanna Yang et al.     For the novel interpretation of Raman spectrum from molecule at metal surface, the plasmon driven surface catalysis (PDSC) reactions have become an interesting topic in the …             Antiferromagnetic structure in tetragonal CuMnAs thin films ▶     P. Wadley, V. Hills, M. R. Shahedkhah et al.     Tetragonal CuMnAs is an antiferromagnetic material with favourable properties for applications in spintronics. Using a combination of neutron diffraction and x-ray magnetic …             Nanomechanical characterization of nanostructured bainitic steel: Peak Force Microscopy and Nanoindentation with AFM ▶     Lucia Morales-Rivas, Alejandro González-Orive, Carlos Garcia-Mateo et al.     The full understanding of the deformation mechanisms in nanostructured bainite requires the local characterization of its mechanical properties, which are expected to change from …             Exploring the Effects on Lipid Bilayer Induced by Noble Gases via Molecular Dynamics Simulations ▶     Junlang Chen, Liang Chen, Yu Wang et al.     Noble gases seem to have no significant effect on the anesthetic targets due to their simple, spherical shape. However, xenon has strong narcotic efficacy and can be used …             Mesoporous magnetic secondary nanostructures as versatile adsorbent for efficient scavenging of heavy metals ▶     Kakoli Bhattacharya, Devaborniny Parasar, Bholanath Mondal et al.     Porous magnetic secondary nanostructures exhibit high surface area because of the presence of plentiful interparticle spaces or pores. Mesoporous Fe3O4 secondary nanostructures …             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. …             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 …             Efficient Test and Visualization of Multi-Set Intersections ▶     Minghui Wang, Yongzhong Zhao, Bin Zhang     Identification of sets of objects with shared features is a common operation in all disciplines. Analysis of intersections among multiple sets is fundamental for in-depth …             Effect of low-level mechanical vibration on osteogenesis and osseointegration of porous titanium implants in the repair of long bone defects ▶     Da Jing, Shichao Tong, Mingming Zhai et al.     Emerging evidence substantiates the potential of porous titanium alloy (pTi) as an ideal bone-graft substitute because of its excellent biocompatibility and structural …             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. Consequently, deciphering how CENP-A containing nucleosomes contribute …             Mesoporous-silica nanofluidic channels for quick enrichment/extraction of trace pesticide molecules ▶     Pengcheng Xu, Chuanzhao Chen, Xinxin Li     As nanofluidic channels, uniaxially oriented mesoporous-silica is, for the first time, in-situ self-assembled in a microfluidic chip for quick enrichment/extraction of ng L−1…             Coherent interaction with two-level fluctuators using near field scanning microwave microscopy ▶     S. E. de Graaf, A. V. Danilov, S. E. Kubatkin     Near field Scanning Microwave Microscopy (NSMM) is a scanning probe technique that non-invasively can obtain material properties on the nano-scale at microwave frequencies. While …             Berry phase mechanism of the anomalous Hall effect in a disordered two-dimensional magnetic semiconductor structure ▶     L. N. Oveshnikov, V. A. Kulbachinskii, A. B. Davydov et al.     The anomalous Hall effect (AHE) arises from the interplay of spin-orbit interactions and ferromagnetic order and is a potentially useful probe of electron spin polarization, …             Competing Anisotropy-Tunneling Correlation of the CoFeB/MgO Perpendicular Magnetic Tunnel Junction: An Electronic Approach ▶     Chao-Yao Yang, Shu-Jui Chang, Min-Han Lee et al.     We intensively investigate the physical principles regulating the tunneling magneto-resistance (TMR) and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) of the CoFeB/MgO magnetic tunnel …             Spin splitting in 2D monochalcogenide semiconductors ▶     Dat T. Do, Subhendra D. Mahanti, Chih Wei Lai     We report ab initio calculations of the spin splitting of the uppermost valence band (UVB) and the lowermost conduction band (LCB) in bulk and atomically thin GaS, GaSe, GaTe, …             Intrinsic magnetic properties of single-phase Mn1+xGa (0 < x < 1) alloys ▶     Q. M. Lu, M. Yue, H. G. Zhang et al.     Magnetization measurements have been carried out on a series of carefully prepared single-phase Mn1 + xGa (0 < x < 1) alloys. The saturation magnetization Ms, measured at 5 K, …             Selective distillation phenomenon in two-species Bose-Einstein condensates in open boundary optical lattices ▶     Xiao-Dong Bai, Mei Zhang, Jun Xiong et al.     We investigate the formation of discrete breathers (DBs) and the dynamics of the mixture of two-species Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in open boundary optical lattices using …             Engineering the interlayer exchange coupling in magnetic trilayers ▶     Ching-Hao Chang, Kun-Peng Dou, Ying-Chin Chen et al.     When the thickness of metal film approaches the nanoscale, itinerant carriers resonate between its boundaries and form quantum well states (QWSs), which are crucial to account …             “Thermal Stabilization Effect” of Al2O3 nano-dopants improves the high-temperature dielectric performance of polyimide ▶     Yang Yang, Jinliang He, Guangning Wu et al.     Insulation performance of the dielectrics under extreme conditions always attracts widespread attention in electrical and electronic field. How to improve the high-temperature …             Operational derivation of Boltzmann distribution with Maxwell’s demon model ▶     Akio Hosoya, Koji Maruyama, Yutaka Shikano     The resolution of the Maxwell’s demon paradox linked thermodynamics with information theory through information erasure principle. By considering a demon endowed with a …             Buckling of Microtubules on a 2D Elastic Medium ▶     Arif Md. Rashedul Kabir, Daisuke Inoue, Tanjina Afrin et al.     We have demonstrated compression stress induced mechanical deformation of microtubules (MTs) on a two-dimensional elastic medium and investigated the role of compression strain, …             Experimental Study of the Triplet Synchronization of Coupled Nonidentical Mechanical Metronomes ▶     Ji Jia, Zhiwen Song, Weiqing Liu et al.     Triplet synchrony is an interesting state when the phases and the frequencies of three coupled oscillators fulfill the conditions of a triplet locking, whereas every pair of …             Evolution of public cooperation in a monitored society with implicated punishment and within-group enforcement ▶     Xiaojie Chen, Tatsuya Sasaki, Matjaž Perc     Monitoring with implicated punishment is common in human societies to avert freeriding on common goods. But is it effective in promoting public cooperation? We show that the …             Fingerprint resampling: A generic method for efficient resampling ▶     Merijn Mestdagh, Stijn Verdonck, Kevin Duisters et al.     In resampling methods, such as bootstrapping or cross validation, a very similar computational problem (usually an optimization procedure) is solved over and over again for a set …             Exciton-dominated Dielectric Function of Atomically Thin MoS2 Films ▶     Yiling Yu, Yifei Yu, Yongqing Cai et al.     We systematically measure the dielectric function of atomically thin MoS2 films with different layer numbers and demonstrate that excitonic effects play a dominant role in the …             Wearable Fall Detector using Integrated Sensors and Energy Devices ▶     Sungmook Jung, Seungki Hong, Jaemin Kim et al.     Wearable devices have attracted great attentions as next-generation electronic devices. For the comfortable, portable, and easy-to-use system platform in wearable electronics, a …             Universal behavior of hydrogels confined to narrow capillaries ▶     Yang Li, Ozan S. Sarıyer, Arun Ramachandran et al.     Flow of soft matter objects through one-dimensional environments is important in industrial, biological and biomedical systems. Establishing the underlying principles of the …             Targeted cellular ablation based on the morphology of malignant cells ▶     Jill W. Ivey, Eduardo L. Latouche, Michael B. 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