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16 February 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports       Chemical Sciences               Correlation between topological band character and chemical bonding in a Bi14Rh3I9-based family of insulators ▶     Bertold Rasche, Anna Isaeva, Michael Ruck et al.     Recently the presence of topologically protected edge-states in Bi14Rh3I9 was confirmed by scanning tunnelling microscopy consolidating this compound as a weak 3D topological …             Involvement of an octose ketoreductase and two acyltransferases in the biosynthesis of paulomycins ▶     Jine Li, Min Wang, Yong Ding et al.     C-4 hydroxyethyl branched octoses have been observed in polysaccharides of several genera of gram negative bacteria and in various antibiotics produced by gram positive bacteria. …             A Variable Temperature Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Study of Colossal Magnetoresistant NdMnAsO0.95F0.05 ▶     E. J. Wildman, A. C. Mclaughlin     The recent discovery of high temperature superconductivity in Fe arsenides has invigorated research into transition metal pnictides. Colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) has recently …             Ribosomal small subunit domains radiate from a central core ▶     Burak Gulen, Anton S. Petrov, C. Denise Okafor et al.     The domain architecture of a large RNA can help explain and/or predict folding, function, biogenesis and evolution. We offer a formal and general definition of an RNA domain and …             Broadband coherent Raman spectroscopy running at 24,000 spectra per second ▶     Kazuki Hashimoto, Megumi Takahashi, Takuro Ideguchi et al.     We present a Fourier-transform coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (FT-CARS) spectroscopy technique that achieves broadband CARS measurements at an ultrahigh scan rate of more …             D-β-aspartyl residue exhibiting uncommon high resistance to spontaneous peptide bond cleavage ▶     Kenzo Aki, Emiko Okamura     Although L-amino acids were selected as main constituents of peptides and proteins during chemical evolution, D-aspartyl (Asp) residue is found in a variety of living tissues. In …             Assembly of coupled redox fuel cells using copper as electron acceptors to generate power and its in-situ retrieval ▶     Hui-Min Zhang, Wei Xu, Gang Li et al.     Energy extraction from waste has attracted much interest nowadays. Herein, a coupled redox fuel cell (CRFC) device using heavy metals, such as copper, as an electron acceptor is …             Magnetic field induced motion behavior of gas bubbles in liquid ▶     Keliang Wang, Pucheng Pei, Yu Pei et al.     The oxygen evolution reaction generally exists in electrochemical reactions. It is a ubiquitous problem about how to control the motion of oxygen bubbles released by the …             3D Polyaniline Architecture by Concurrent Inorganic and Organic Acid Doping for Superior and Robust High Rate Supercapacitor Performance ▶     Yogesh Gawli, Abhik Banerjee, Dipti Dhakras et al.     A good high rate supercapacitor performance requires a fine control of morphological (surface area and pore size distribution) and electrical properties of the electrode …             Spontaneous and strong multi-layer graphene n-doping on soda-lime glass and its application in graphene-semiconductor junctions ▶     D. M. N. M. Dissanayake, A. Ashraf, D. Dwyer et al.     Scalable and low-cost doping of graphene could improve technologies in a wide range of fields such as microelectronics, optoelectronics, and energy storage. While achieving …             Periodic Mesoporous Organosilica Nanocubes with Ultrahigh Surface Areas for Efficient CO2 Adsorption ▶     Yong Wei, Xiaomin Li, Renyuan Zhang et al.     Ultrahigh surface area single-crystals of periodic mesoporous organosilica (PMOs) with uniform cubic or truncated-cubic morphology and organic/inorganic components homogeneously …             Chemotyping the distribution of vitamin D metabolites in human serum ▶     Miriam J. Müller, Caroline S. Stokes, Frank Lammert et al.     Most studies examining the relationships between vitamin D and disease or health focus on the main 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25(OH)D3) metabolite, thus potentially overlooking …             Titanium Dioxide Photocatalytic Polymerization of Acrylamide for Gel Electrophoresis (TIPPAGE) of Proteins and Structural Identification by Mass Spectrometry ▶     Wenyang Zhang, Zhiwei Yuan, Lulu Huang et al.     Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) coupled with mass spectrometry has been well established for separating, identifying and quantifying protein mixtures from cell lines, …             Self-sacrifice Template Formation of Hollow Hetero-Ni7S6/Co3S4 Nanoboxes with Intriguing Pseudo-capacitance for High-performance Electrochemical Capacitors ▶     Hui Hua, Sijia Liu, Zhiyi Chen et al.     Herein, we report a simple yet efficient self-sacrifice template protocol to smartly fabricate hollow hetero-Ni7S6/Co3S4 nanoboxes (Ni-Co-S NBs). Uniform nickel cobalt carbonate …             Mitochondrial Dynamics Tracking with Two-Photon Phosphorescent Terpyridyl Iridium(III) Complexes ▶     Huaiyi Huang, Pingyu Zhang, Kangqiang Qiu et al.     Mitochondrial dynamics, including fission and fusion, control the morphology and function of mitochondria, and disruption of mitochondrial dynamics leads to Parkinson’s disease, …             Highly bendable bilayer-type photo-actuators comprising of reduced graphene oxide dispersed in hydrogels ▶     Dowan Kim, Heon Sang Lee, Jinhwan Yoon     To avoid the problem of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) restacking in aqueous solution, the preparation of light-responsive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) incorporating rGO …             A novel solid state photocatalyst for living radical polymerization under UV irradiation ▶     Qiang Fu, Thomas G. McKenzie, Jing M. Ren et al.     This study presents the development of a novel solid state photocatalyst for the photoinduced controlled radical polymerization of methacrylates under mild UV irradiation (λmax…             Self-induced synthesis of phase-junction TiO2 with a tailored rutile to anatase ratio below phase transition temperature ▶     Wei-Kang Wang, Jie-Jie Chen, Xing Zhang et al.     The surface phase junction of nanocrystalline TiO2 plays an essential role in governing its photocatalytic activity. Thus, facile and simple methods for preparing phase-junction …             Calcium and Magnesium Ions Are Membrane-Active against Stationary-Phase Staphylococcus aureus with High Specificity ▶     Yuntao Xie, Lihua Yang     Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is notorious for its ability to acquire antibiotic-resistance, and antibiotic-resistant S. aureus has become a wide-spread cause of high …             Integration of lipidomics and transcriptomics unravels aberrant lipid metabolism and defines cholesteryl oleate as potential biomarker of prostate cancer ▶     Jia Li, Shancheng Ren, Hai-long Piao et al.     In-depth delineation of lipid metabolism in prostate cancer (PCa) is significant to open new insights into prostate tumorigenesis and progression, and provide potential …             φXANES: In vivo imaging of metal-protein coordination environments ▶     Simon A. James, Dominic J. Hare, Nicole L. Jenkins et al.     We have developed an X-ray absorption near edge structure spectroscopy method using fluorescence detection for visualizing in vivo coordination environments of metals in …             Symmetry constraints during the development of anisotropic spinodal patterns ▶     Luis Sánchez-Muñoz, Adolfo del Campo, José F. Fernández     Spinodal decomposition is a phase-separation phenomenon occurring at non-equilibrium conditions. In isotropic materials, it is expected to improve the physical properties, in …             Anomalously strong two-electron one-photon X-ray decay transitions in CO caused by avoided crossing ▶     Rafael C. Couto, Marco Guarise, Alessandro Nicolaou et al.     The unique opportunity to study and control electron-nuclear quantum dynamics in coupled potentials offered by the resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) technique is …             Silicene nanomeshes: bandgap opening by bond symmetry breaking and uniaxial strain ▶     Tian-Tian Jia, Xin-Yu Fan, Meng-Meng Zheng et al.     Based on the first-principles calculations, we have investigated in detail the bandgap opening of silicene nanomeshes. Different to the mechanism of bandgap opening induced by …             Doped and undoped graphene platforms: the influence of structural properties on the detection of polyphenols ▶     Chu’Er Chng, Zdenek Sofer, Martin Pumera et al.     There is a huge interest in doped graphene and how doping can tune the material properties for the specific application. It was recently demonstrated that the effect of doping …             Reprogramming of Seed Metabolism Facilitates Pre-harvest Sprouting Resistance of Wheat ▶     Caixiang Liu, Feng Ding, Fuhua Hao et al.     Pre-harvest sprouting (PHS) is a worldwide problem for wheat production and transgene antisense-thioredoxin-s (anti-trx-s) facilitates outstanding resistance. To understand the …             Silver Ink Formulations for Sinter-free Printing of Conductive Films ▶     Kate Black, Jetinder Singh, Danielle Mehta et al.     Inkjet printing offers an attractive method for the deposition of metal interconnects in electronic systems and enables a low-cost, environmentally friendly route to manufacture. …             Hydrolysis of Cellulose by a Mesoporous Carbon-Fe2(SO4)3/γ-Fe2O3 Nanoparticle-Based Solid Acid Catalyst ▶     Daizo Yamaguchi, Koki Watanabe, Shinya Fukumi     Carbon-based solid acid catalysts have shown significant potential in a wide range of applications, and they have been successfully synthesized using simple processes. …             Functionalization-induced changes in the structural and physical properties of amorphous polyaniline: a first-principles and molecular dynamics study ▶     X. P. Chen, Q. H. Liang, J. K. Jiang et al.     In this paper, we present a first-principles and molecular dynamics study to delineate the functionalization-induced changes in the local structure and the physical properties of …             Pentiptycene-Based Luminescent Cu (II) MOF Exhibiting Selective Gas Adsorption and Unprecedentedly High-Sensitivity Detection of Nitroaromatic Compounds (NACs) ▶     Minghui Zhang, Liangliang Zhang, Zhenyu Xiao et al.     The assembly of a fluorescent pentiptycene-based ligand with copper ion resulted in the formation of a 3D porous metal-organic framework (UPC-21) based on well-known paddlewheel …             Spatial Electron-hole Separation in a One Dimensional Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Lead Iodide ▶     Christopher N. Savory, Robert G. Palgrave, Hugo Bronstein et al.     The increasing efficiency of the inorganic-organic hybrid halides has revolutionised photovoltaic research. Despite this rapid progress, the significant issues of poor stability …             Structural modification of P-glycoprotein induced by OH radicals: Insights from atomistic simulations ▶     N. Khosravian, B. Kamaraj, E. C. Neyts et al.     This study reports on the possible effects of OH radical impact on the transmembrane domain 6 of P-glycoprotein, TM6, which plays a crucial role in drug binding in human cells. …             D-sorbitol-induced phase control of TiO2 nanoparticles and its application for dye-sensitized solar cells ▶     Shoyebmohamad F. Shaikh, Rajaram S. Mane, Byoung Koun Min et al.     Using a simple hydrothermal synthesis, the crystal structure of TiO2 nanoparticles was controlled from rutile to anatase using a sugar alcohol, D-sorbitol. Adding small amounts …             The Biosynthesis of Infrared-Emitting Quantum Dots in Allium Fistulosum ▶     M. Green, S. J. Haigh, E. A. Lewis et al.     The development of simple routes to emissive solid-state materials is of paramount interest, and in this report we describe the biosynthesis of infrared emitting quantum dots in …             The remarkable activity and stability of a highly dispersive beta-brass Cu-Zn catalyst for the production of ethylene glycol ▶     Molly Meng-Jung Li, Jianwei Zheng, Jin Qu et al.     Incorporation of Zn atoms into a nanosize Cu lattice is known to alter the electronic properties of Cu, improving catalytic performance in a number of industrially important …             Selective plasmon-driven catalysis for para-nitroaniline in aqueous environments ▶     Lin Cui, Peijie Wang, Yuanzuo Li et al.     The plasmon-driven oxidation of amine (−NH2) groups and the reduction of nitro (−NO2) groups on a nanostructured metal surface in an aqueous environment have been reported …             Lanthanum and Neodymium Doped Barium Ferrite-TiO2/MCNTs/poly(3-methyl thiophene) Composites with Nest Structures: Preparation, Characterization and Electromagnetic Microwave Absorption Properties ▶     Jie Zhao, Jian Yu, Yu Xie et al.     We report herein the synthesis of a novel nest structured electromagnetic composite through in-situ chemical polymerization of 3-methyl thiophene (3MT) in the presence of the BaFe…               • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Postdoctoral Fellowships in Health Sciences - 45 positions     University of Oslo            Senior Staff Research Associate     University of California - San Francisco            Research Assistant     University of Bristol            Research Associate     The University of Manchester            Research Fellow     TU Dresden            Research Scientist     Coriell Institute for Medical Research            Postdoctoral Research Assistant - Bioinformatics     University of Dundee            MRC Postdoctoral Scientist     Medical Research Council            1-year bridging Post Doc fellowship     Danish Diabetes Academy            INDP2016 - 8 Fully Funded PhD Fellowships     Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme          No matter what your career stage, student, postdoc or senior scientist, you will find articles on naturejobs.com to help guide you in your science career. 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