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01 March 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               Tunable Ultra-high Aspect Ratio Nanorod Architectures grown on Porous Substrate via Electromigration ▶     Ali Mansourian, Seyed Amir Paknejad, Qiannan Wen et al.     The interplay between porosity and electromigration can be used to manipulate atoms resulting in mass fabrication of nanoscale structures. Electromigration usually results in the …             Ionic Origin of Electro-osmotic Flow Hysteresis ▶     Chun Yee Lim, An Eng Lim, Yee Cheong Lam     Electro-osmotic flow, the driving of fluid at nano- or micro- scales with electric field, has found numerous applications, ranging from pumping to chemical and biomedical …             Manipulation of photoluminescence of two-dimensional MoSe2 by gold nanoantennas ▶     Haitao Chen, Jiong Yang, Evgenia Rusak et al.     Monolayer molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2), a member of the TMDCs family, is an appealing candidate for coupling to gold plasmonic nanostructures as it has smaller bandgap and …             Cadmium Sulfide and Nickel Synergetic Co-catalysts Supported on Graphitic Carbon Nitride for Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution ▶     Xinzheng Yue, Shasha Yi, Runwei Wang et al.     Design and preparation of noble-metal-free photocatalysts is of great importance for photocatalytic water splitting harvesting solar energy. Here, we report the high …             High-Field High-Repetition-Rate Sources for the Coherent THz Control of Matter ▶     B. Green, S. Kovalev, V. Asgekar et al.     Ultrashort flashes of THz light with low photon energies of a few meV, but strong electric or magnetic field transients have recently been employed to prepare various fascinating …             Epitaxial growth of iridate pyrochlore Nd2Ir2O7 films ▶     J. C. Gallagher, B. D. Esser, R. Morrow et al.     Epitaxial films of the pyrochlore Nd2Ir2O7 have been grown on (111)-oriented yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) substrates by off-axis sputtering followed by post-growth annealing. …             Dense blocks of energetic ions driven by multi-petawatt lasers ▶     S. M. Weng, M. Liu, Z. M. Sheng et al.     Laser-driven ion accelerators have the advantages of compact size, high density, and short bunch duration over conventional accelerators. Nevertheless, it is still challenging to …             Efficient Second Harmonic Generation in 3D Nonlinear Optical-Lattice-Like Cladding Waveguide Splitters by Femtosecond Laser Inscription ▶     Weijie Nie, Yuechen Jia, Javier R. Vázquez de Aldana et al.     Integrated photonic devices with beam splitting function are intriguing for a broad range of photonic applications. Through optical-lattice-like cladding waveguide structures …             Density and temperature characterization of long-scale length, near-critical density controlled plasma produced from ultra-low density plastic foam ▶     S. N. Chen, T. Iwawaki, K. Morita et al.     The ability to produce long-scale length (i.e. millimeter scale-length), homogeneous plasmas is of interest in studying a wide range of fundamental plasma processes. We present …             Atom Probe Tomographic Mapping Directly Reveals the Atomic Distribution of Phosphorus in Resin Embedded Ferritin ▶     Daniel E. Perea, Jia Liu, Jonah Bartrand et al.     Here we report the atomic-scale analysis of biological interfaces within the ferritin protein using atom probe tomography that is facilitated by an advanced specimen preparation …             Investigation of the Hydrolysis of Perovskite Organometallic Halide CH3NH3PbI3 in Humidity Environment ▶     Jiangtao Zhao, Bing Cai, Zhenlin Luo et al.     Instability of emerging perovskite organometallic halide in humidity environment is the biggest obstacle for its potential applications in solar energy harvest and …             Ultra sub-wavelength surface plasmon confinement using air-gap, sub-wavelength ring resonator arrays ▶     Jaehak Lee, Sangkeun Sung, Jun-Hyuk Choi et al.     Arrays of sub-wavelength, sub-10 nm air-gap plasmonic ring resonators are fabricated using nanoimprinting. In near infra-red (NIR) range, the resonator supports a single dipole …             Simultaneous quasi-one-dimensional propagation and tuning of upconversion luminescence through waveguide effect ▶     Dangli Gao, Dongping Tian, Xiangyu Zhang et al.     Luminescence-based waveguide is widely investigated as a promising alternative to conquer the difficulties of efficiently coupling light into a waveguide. But applications have …             Morphology-dependent Electrochemical Enhancements of Porous Carbon as Sensitive Determination Platform for Ascorbic Acid, Dopamine and Uric Acid ▶     Qin Cheng, Liudi Ji, Kangbing Wu et al.     Using starch as the carbon precursor and different-sized ZnO naoparticles as the hard template, a series of porous carbon materials for electrochemical sensing were prepared. …             Effect of one-step recrystallization on the grain boundary evolution of CoCrFeMnNi high entropy alloy and its subsystems ▶     Bo-Ru Chen, An-Chou Yeh, Jien-Wei Yeh     In this study, the grain boundary evolution of equiatomic CoCrFeMnNi, CoCrFeNi, and FeCoNi alloys after one-step recrystallization were investigated. The special boundary …             Discovery of Superconductivity in Hard Hexagonal ε-NbN ▶     Yongtao Zou, Xintong Qi, Cheng Zhang et al.     Since the discovery of superconductivity in boron-doped diamond with a critical temperature (TC) near 4 K, great interest has been attracted in hard superconductors such as …             Tuning near-gap electronic structure, interface charge transfer and visible light response of hybrid doped graphene and Ag3PO4 composite: Dopant effects ▶     Chao-Ni He, Wei-Qing Huang, Liang Xu et al.     The enhanced photocatalytic performance of doped graphene (GR)/semiconductor nanocomposites have recently been widely observed, but an understanding of the underlying mechanisms …             Laser Scanning Holographic Lithography for Flexible 3D Fabrication of Multi-Scale Integrated Nano-structures and Optical Biosensors ▶     Liang (Leon) Yuan, Peter R. Herman     Three-dimensional (3D) periodic nanostructures underpin a promising research direction on the frontiers of nanoscience and technology to generate advanced materials for …             Critical phenomenon of the near room temperature skyrmion material FeGe ▶     Lei Zhang, Hui Han, Min Ge et al.     The cubic B20 compound FeGe, which exhibits a near room temperature skyrmion phase, is of great importance not only for fundamental physics such as nonlinear magnetic ordering …             A new switching parameter varying optoelectronic delayed feedback model with computer simulation ▶     Lingfeng Liu, Suoxia Miao, Mengfan Cheng et al.     In this paper, a new switching parameter varying optoelectronic delayed feedback model is proposed and analyzed by computer simulation. This model is switching between two …             Ultrafast adiabatic quantum algorithm for the NP-complete exact cover problem ▶     Hefeng Wang, Lian-Ao Wu     An adiabatic quantum algorithm may lose quantumness such as quantum coherence entirely in its long runtime, and consequently the expected quantum speedup of the algorithm does …             Internal dynamics of intense twin beams and their coherence ▶     Jan Peřina Jr., Ondřej Haderka, Alessia Allevi et al.     The dynamics of intense twin beams in pump-depleted parametric down-conversion is studied. A generalized parametric approximation is suggested to solve the quantum model. Its …             Smart three-dimensional lightweight structure triggered from a thin composite sheet via 3D printing technique ▶     Quan Zhang, Kai Zhang, Gengkai Hu     Complex fabrication process and expensive materials have restricted the development of smart three-dimensional (3D) lightweight structures, which are expected to possess …             A Novel Approach Toward Fabrication of High Performance Thin Film Composite Polyamide Membranes ▶     Behnam Khorshidi, Thomas Thundat, Brian A. Fleck et al.     A practical method is reported to enhance water permeability of thin film composite (TFC) polyamide (PA) membranes by decreasing the thickness of the selective PA layer. The …             Na-ion Storage Performances of FeSex and Fe2O3 Hollow Nanoparticles-Decorated Reduced Graphene Oxide Balls prepared by Nanoscale Kirkendall Diffusion Process ▶     Gi Dae Park, Jung Sang Cho, Jung-Kul Lee et al.     Uniquely structured FeSex-reduced graphene oxide (rGO) composite powders, in which hollow FeSex nanoparticles are uniformly distributed throughout the rGO matrix, were prepared …             Morphological evolution of self-deposition Bi2Se3 nanosheets by oxygen plasma treatment ▶     Guozhi Jia, Zengna Wu, Peng Wang et al.     Bi2Se3 nanosheets were successfully synthesized by a microwave-assisted approach in the presence of polyvinylpyrroli done at a temperature of 180 °C for 2 h. The thin film was …             The μSCAPE System: 3-Dimensional Profiling of Microfluidic Architectural Features Using a Flatbed Scanner ▶     Kerui Xu, Qian Liu, Kimberly R. Jackson et al.     We developed a microfluidic scanner-based profile exploration system, μSCAPE, capable of generating high resolution 3D profiles of microstructure architecture in a variety of …             Statistical prediction of protein structural, localization and functional properties by the analysis of its fragment mass distributions after proteolytic cleavage ▶     Mikhail I. Bogachev, Airat R. Kayumov, Oleg A. Markelov et al.     Structural, localization and functional properties of unknown proteins are often being predicted from their primary polypeptide chains using sequence alignment with already …             Co-electrodeposition of hard Ni-W/diamond nanocomposite coatings ▶     Xinyu Zhang, Jiaqian Qin, Malay Kumar Das et al.     Electroplated hard chrome coating is widely used as a wear resistant coating to prolong the life of mechanical components. However, the electroplating process generates …             A Fe-C-Ca big cycle in modern carbon-intensive industries: toward emission reduction and resource utilization ▶     Yongqi Sun, Seetharaman Sridhar, Seshadri Seetharaman et al.     Herein a big Fe-C-Ca cycle, clarifying the basic element flows and energy flows in modern carbon-intensive industries including the metallurgical industry and the cement …             Chitosan nanoparticles synthesis caught in action using microdroplet reactions ▶     Vivek Kamat, Dhananjay Bodas, Kishore Paknikar     The ionic gelation process for the synthesis of chitosan nanoparticles was carried out in microdroplet reactions. The synthesis could be stopped instantaneously at different time …             Unexpected Reaction Pathway for butyrylcholinesterase-catalyzed inactivation of “hunger hormone” ghrelin ▶     Jianzhuang Yao, Yaxia Yuan, Fang Zheng et al.     Extensive computational modeling and simulations have been carried out, in the present study, to uncover the fundamental reaction pathway for butyrylcholinesterase …             Proton-conducting Micro-solid Oxide Fuel Cells with Improved Cathode Reactions by a Nanoscale Thin Film Gadolinium-doped Ceria Interlayer ▶     Yong Li, Shijie Wang, Pei-Chen Su     An 8 nm-thick gadolinium-doped ceria (GDC) layer was inserted as a cathodic interlayer between the nanoscale proton-conducting yttrium-doped barium zirconate (BZY) electrolyte …             Autonomous Graphene Vessel for Suctioning and Storing Liquid Body of Spilled Oil ▶     Taewoo Kim, Jeong Seok Lee, Geonhui Lee et al.     Despite remarkable strides in science and technology, the strategy for spilled oil collection has remained almost the same since the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. The graphene …             Silane modified upconversion nanoparticles with multifunctions: imaging, therapy and hypoxia detection ▶     Shihan Xu, Xinran Zhang, Hongwei Xu et al.     Herein, we report a facile route to synthesize silane coated upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs@silane) with an ultrathin layer (the thickness: 1–2 nm), which not only provides …             Selection and Use of Manganese Dioxide by Neanderthals ▶     Peter J. Heyes, Konstantinos Anastasakis, Wiebren de Jong et al.     Several Mousterian sites in France have yielded large numbers of small black blocs. The usual interpretation is that these ‘manganese oxides’ were collected for their colouring …             Coherent Nonlinear Optical Response Spatial Self-Phase Modulation in MoSe2 Nano-Sheets ▶     Wenhui Wang, Yanling Wu, Qiong Wu et al.     Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are drawing increasing interest due to their relatively high carrier mobilities, valley pseudospins, and gapped …             Complex patterns arise through spontaneous symmetry breaking in dense homogeneous networks of neural oscillators ▶     Rajeev Singh, Shakti N. Menon, Sitabhra Sinha     There has been much interest in understanding collective dynamics in networks of brain regions due to their role in behavior and cognitive function. Here we show that a simple, …             Enantioselective Hydrolysis of Amino Acid Esters Promoted by Bis(β-cyclodextrin) Copper Complexes ▶     Shan-Shan Xue, Meng Zhao, Zhuo-Feng Ke et al.     It is challenging to create artificial catalysts that approach enzymes with regard to catalytic efficiency and selectivity. The enantioselective catalysis ranks the privileged …             A Concept of Cross-Ferroic Plasma Turbulence ▶     S. Inagaki, T. Kobayashi, Y. Kosuga et al.     The variety of scalar and vector fields in laboratory and nature plasmas is formed by plasma turbulence. Drift-wave fluctuations, driven by density gradients in magnetized …             Carbon Redox-Polymer-Gel Hybrid Supercapacitors ▶     A. Vlad, N. Singh, S. Melinte et al.     Energy storage devices that provide high specific power without compromising on specific energy are highly desirable for many electric-powered applications. Here, we demonstrate …             Vibrational Properties of Nanocrystals from the Debye Scattering Equation ▶     P. Scardi, L. Gelisio     One hundred years after the original formulation by Petrus J.W. Debije (aka Peter Debye), the Debye Scattering Equation (DSE) is still the most accurate expression to model the …             Creation of Electron-doping Liquid Water with Reduced Hydrogen Bonds ▶     Hsiao-Chien Chen, Fu-Der Mai, Bing-Joe Hwang et al.     The strength of hydrogen bond (HB) decides water’s property and activity. Here we propose the mechanisms on creation and persistence of innovatively prepared liquid water, which …             Room-temperature Domain-epitaxy of Copper Iodide Thin Films for Transparent CuI/ZnO Heterojunctions with High Rectification Ratios Larger than 109 ▶     Chang Yang, Max Kneiß, Friedrich-Leonhard Schein et al.     CuI is a p-type transparent conductive semiconductor with unique optoelectronic properties, including wide band gap (3.1 eV), high hole mobility (>40 cm2 V−1 s−1 in bulk), and …             Modulation of metal-insulator transitions by field-controlled strain in NdNiO3/SrTiO3/PMN-PT (001) heterostructures ▶     Seungyang Heo, Chadol Oh, Man Jin Eom et al.     The band width control through external stress has been demonstrated as a useful knob to modulate metal-insulator transition (MIT) in RNiO3 as a prototype correlated materials. …             Thermoplasmonic Study of a Triple Band Optical Nanoantenna Strongly Coupled to Mid IR Molecular Mode ▶     Dihan Hasan, Chong Pei Ho, Prakash Pitchappa et al.     We report the first thermal study of a triple band plasmonic nanoantenna strongly coupled to a molecular mode at mid IR wavelength (MW IR). The hybrid plasmonic structure …             Evaluation of the antinociceptive activities of enaminone compounds on the formalin and hot plate tests in mice ▶     Willias Masocha, Samuel B. Kombian, Ivan O. Edafiogho     Recently, we found that methyl 4-(4′-bromophenyl)aminocyclohex-3-en-6-methyl-2-oxo-1-oate (E139), an anticonvulsant enaminone, has antinociceptive activity in the hot plate test. …             Surface functionality and electrochemical investigations of a graphitic electrode as a candidate for alkaline energy conversion and storage devices ▶     Ahmed B. Soliman, Hesham S. Abdel-Samad, Sayed S. Abdel Rehim et al.     Graphite is a typical electrocatalyst support in alkaline energy conversion and storage devices such as fuel cells, supercapacitores and lithium ion batteries. The …             Label-free imaging to study phenotypic behavioural traits of cells in complex co-cultures ▶     Rakesh Suman, Gabrielle Smith, Kathryn E. A. Hazel et al.     Time-lapse imaging is a fundamental tool for studying cellular behaviours, however studies of primary cells in complex co-culture environments often requires fluorescent …             Correlations of Fecal Metabonomic and Microbiomic Changes Induced by High-fat Diet in the Pre-Obesity State ▶     Hong Lin, Yanpeng An, Fuhua Hao et al.     Obesity resulting from interactions of genetic and environmental factors becomes a serious public health problem worldwide with alterations of the metabolic phenotypes in …             Experimental Demonstration of Spectral Intensity Optical Coherence Tomography ▶     Piotr Ryczkowski, Jari Turunen, Ari T. Friberg et al.     We demonstrate experimentally spectral-domain intensity optical coherence tomography using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with balanced detection. We show that the technique …             Development of ytterbium-doped oxyfluoride glasses for laser cooling applications ▶     Kummara Venkata Krishnaiah, Elton Soares de Lima Filho, Yannick Ledemi et al.     Oxyfluoride glasses doped with 2, 5, 8, 12, 16 and 20 mol% of ytterbium (Yb3+) ions have been prepared by the conventional melt-quenching technique. Their optical, thermal and …             Strong vacuum squeezing from bichromatically driven Kerrlike cavities: from optomechanics to superconducting circuits ▶     Rafael Garcés, Germán J. de Valcárcel     Squeezed light, displaying less fluctuation than vacuum in some observable, is key in the flourishing field of quantum technologies. Optical or microwave cavities containing a …             Singular observation of the polarization-conversion effect for a gammadion-shaped metasurface ▶     Chu-En Lin, Ta-Jen Yen, Chih-Jen Yu et al.     In this article, the polarization-conversion effects of a gammadion-shaped metasurface in transmission and reflection modes are discussed. In our experiment, the …             Visualization of Surface Acoustic Waves in Thin Liquid Films ▶     R. W. Rambach, J. Taiber, C. M. L. Scheck et al.     We demonstrate that the propagation path of a surface acoustic wave (SAW), excited with an interdigitated transducer (IDT), can be visualized using a thin liquid film dispensed …             Mesoscopic structural phase progression in photo-excited VO2 revealed by time-resolved x-ray diffraction microscopy ▶     Yi Zhu, Zhonghou Cai, Pice Chen et al.     Dynamical phase separation during a solid-solid phase transition poses a challenge for understanding the fundamental processes in correlated materials. Critical information …             Adaptive Optical Scanning Holography ▶     P. W. M. Tsang, Ting-Chung Poon, J.-P. Liu     Optical Scanning Holography (OSH) is a powerful technique that employs a single-pixel sensor and a row-by-row scanning mechanism to capture the hologram of a wide-view, …             Supramolecular Controlled Cargo Release via Near Infrared Tunable Cucurbit[7]uril-Gold Nanostars ▶     Yanwei Han, Xiran Yang, Yingzhu Liu et al.     The near infrared (NIR) absorption and average particle size of gold nanostars (GNSs) can be precisely controlled by varying the molar ratios of cucurbit[7]urils (CB[7]) and GNSs …             A novel self-enhanced electrochemiluminescence immunosensor based on hollow Ru-SiO2@PEI nanoparticles for NSE analysis ▶     Limin Zhou, Jianshe Huang, Bin Yu et al.     Poly(ethylenimine) (PEI) and Ru(bpy)32+-doped silica (Ru-SiO2) nanoparticles were simply mixed together to prepare a novel self-enhanced electrochemiluminescence (ECL) composite …             Inverted electro-mechanical behaviour induced by the irreversible domain configuration transformation in (K,Na)NbO3-based ceramics ▶     Yu Huan, Xiaohui Wang, Jurij Koruza et al.     Miniaturization of domains to the nanometer scale has been previously reported in many piezoelectrics with two-phase coexistence. Despite the observation of nanoscale domain …             Unravelling Site-Specific Photo-Reactions of Ethanol on Rutile TiO2(110) ▶     Jonas Ø. Hansen, Regine Bebensee, Umberto Martinez et al.     Finding the active sites of catalysts and photo-catalysts is crucial for an improved fundamental understanding and the development of efficient catalytic systems. Here we have …             An evolutionary game approach for determination of the structural conflicts in signed networks ▶     Shaolin Tan, Jinhu Lü     Social or biochemical networks can often divide into two opposite alliances in response to structural conflicts between positive (friendly, activating) and negative (hostile, …             Coherence and measurement in quantum thermodynamics ▶     P. Kammerlander, J. Anders     Thermodynamics is a highly successful macroscopic theory widely used across the natural sciences and for the construction of everyday devices, from car engines to solar cells. …             Experimental violation of Bell inequalities for multi-dimensional systems ▶     Hsin-Pin Lo, Che-Ming Li, Atsushi Yabushita et al.     Quantum correlations between spatially separated parts of a d-dimensional bipartite system (d ≥ 2) have no classical analog. Such correlations, also called entanglements, are not …             Macroscopic evidence for Abrikosov-type magnetic vortexes in MnSi A-phase ▶     I. I. Lobanova, V. V. Glushkov, N. E. Sluchanko et al.     Intrinsic phase coherence between individual topologically stable knots in spin arrangement – skyrmions – is known to induce the crystalline-like structure in the A-phase of …             A flexible and biocompatible triboelectric nanogenerator with tunable internal resistance for powering wearable devices ▶     Yanbo Zhu, Bin Yang, Jingquan Liu et al.     Recently, triboelectric energy nanogenerators (TENGs) have been paid the most attention by many researchers to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy. TENGs usually …             Accelerating coordination in temporal networks by engineering the link order ▶     Naoki Masuda     Social dynamics on a network may be accelerated or decelerated depending on which pairs of individuals in the network communicate early and which pairs do later. The order with …             Incorporating TiO2 nanotubes with a peptide of D-amino K122-4 (D) for enhanced mechanical and photocatalytic properties ▶     L. Q. Guo, Y. W. Hu, B. Yu et al.     Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanotubes are promising for a wide variety of potential applications in energy, biomedical and environmental sectors. However, their low mechanical …             Bias-polarity-dependent resistance switching in W/SiO2/Pt and W/SiO2/Si/Pt structures ▶     Hao Jiang, Xiang Yuan Li, Ran Chen et al.     SiO2 is the most significantly used insulator layer in semiconductor devices. Its functionality was recently extended to resistance switching random access memory, where the …             Singularity of the time-energy uncertainty in adiabatic perturbation and cycloids on a Bloch sphere ▶     Sangchul Oh, Xuedong Hu, Franco Nori et al.     Adiabatic perturbation is shown to be singular from the exact solution of a spin-1/2 particle in a uniformly rotating magnetic field. Due to a non-adiabatic effect, its quantum …             Influence of alkali metals (Na, Li, Rb) on the performance of electrostatic spray-assisted vapor deposited Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 solar cells ▶     Giovanni Altamura, Mingqing Wang, Kwang-Leong Choy     Electrostatic Spray-Assisted Vapor Deposition (ESAVD) is a non-vacuum and cost-effective method to deposit metal oxide, various sulphide and chalcogenide at large scale. In this …             Disordered RuO2 exhibits two dimensional, low-mobility transport and a metal–insulator transition ▶     M. S. Osofsky, C. M. Krowne, K. M. Charipar et al.     The discovery of low-dimensional metallic systems such as high-mobility metal oxide field-effect transistors, the cuprate superconductors, and conducting oxide interfaces (e.g., …             Carbon nanotube intramolecular p-i-n junction diodes with symmetric and asymmetric contacts ▶     Changxin Chen, Chenghao Liao, Liangming Wei et al.     A p-i-n junction diode based on the selectively doped single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) had been investigated, in which two opposite ends of individual SWCNT channel were …             Intrusion of Fukushima-derived radiocaesium into subsurface water due to formation of mode waters in the North Pacific ▶     Hideki Kaeriyama, Yugo Shimizu, Takashi Setou et al.     The Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in March 2011 released radiocaesium (137Cs and 134Cs) into the North Pacific Ocean. Meridional transects of the vertical …             Inferring sparse networks for noisy transient processes ▶     Hoang M. Tran, Satish T.S. Bukkapatnam     Inferring causal structures of real world complex networks from measured time series signals remains an open issue. The current approaches are inadequate to discern between …             Effects of local structural transformation of lipid-like compounds on delivery of messenger RNA ▶     Bin Li, Xiao Luo, Binbin Deng et al.     Lipid-like nanoparticles (LLNs) have shown great potential for RNA delivery. Lipid-like compounds are key components in LLNs. In this study, we investigated the effects of local …             Vortex ring behavior provides the epigenetic blueprint for the human heart ▶     Per M. Arvidsson, Sándor J. Kovács, Johannes Töger et al.     The laws of fluid dynamics govern vortex ring formation and precede cardiac development by billions of years, suggesting that diastolic vortex ring formation is instrumental in …             A Micro-Thermal Sensor for Focal Therapy Applications ▶     Harishankar Natesan, Wyatt Hodges, Jeunghwan Choi et al.     There is an urgent need for sensors deployed during focal therapies to inform treatment planning and in vivo monitoring in thin tissues. Specifically, the measurement of thermal …             Multifrequency Force Microscopy of Helical Protein Assembly on a Virus ▶     Annalisa Calò, Aitziber Eleta-Lopez, Pablo Stoliar et al.     High-resolution microscopy techniques have been extensively used to investigate the structure of soft, biological matter at the nanoscale, from very thin membranes to small …             Role of Excessive Autophagy Induced by Mechanical Overload in Vein Graft Neointima Formation: Prediction and Prevention ▶     Ya-Ju Chang, Hui-Chun Huang, Yuan-Yu Hsueh et al.     Little is known regarding the interplays between the mechanical and molecular bases for vein graft restenosis. We elucidated the stenosis initiation using a high-frequency …             Asialoglycoprotein receptor-magnetic dual targeting nanoparticles for delivery of RASSF1A to hepatocellular carcinoma ▶     Wan-Jiang Xue, Ying Feng, Fei Wang et al.     We developed a nanovector with double targeting properties for efficiently delivering the tumor suppressor gene RASSF1A specifically into hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells by …             Influence of Particle Size Distribution on the Performance of Ionic Liquid-based Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors ▶     Anthony J. R. Rennie, Vitor L. Martins, Rachel M. Smith et al.     Electrochemical double layer capacitors (EDLCs) employing ionic liquid electrolytes are the subject of much research as they promise increased operating potentials, and hence …             Imaging trace element distributions in single organelles and subcellular features ▶     Yoav Kashiv, Jotham R. Austin II, Barry Lai et al.     The distributions of chemical elements within cells are of prime importance in a wide range of basic and applied biochemical research. An example is the role of the subcellular …             Cyclodextrin-Based Metal-Organic Nanotube as Fluorescent Probe for Selective Turn-On Detection of Hydrogen Sulfide in Living Cells Based on H2S-Involved Coordination Mechanism ▶     Xuelian Xin, Jingxin Wang, Chuanfang Gong et al.     Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) has been considered as the third biologically gaseous messenger (gasotransmitter) after nitric oxide (NO) and carbon monoxide (CO). Fluorescent detection …             Tailoring the Oxygen Content of Graphite and Reduced Graphene Oxide for Specific Applications ▶     Naoki Morimoto, Takuya Kubo, Yuta Nishina     Graphene oxide (GO) is widely recognized as a promising material in a variety of fields, but its structure and composition has yet to be fully controlled. We have developed …             A method to study electronic transport properties of molecular junction: one-dimension transmission combined with three-dimension correction approximation (OTCTCA) ▶     Ran Liu, Chuan-Kui Wang, Zong-Liang Li     Based on the ab initio calculation, a method of one-dimension transmission combined with three-dimension correction approximation (OTCTCA) is developed to investigate …             Corrigendum: Controlled growth of CH3NH3PbI3 nanowires in arrays of open nanofluidic channels ▶     Massimo Spina, Eric Bonvin, Andrzej Sienkiewicz et al.                 Robustly Engineering Thermal Conductivity of Bilayer Graphene by Interlayer Bonding ▶     Xiaoliang Zhang, Yufei Gao, Yuli Chen et al.     Graphene and its bilayer structure are the two-dimensional crystalline form of carbon, whose extraordinary electron mobility and other unique features hold great promise for …             Topological Properties of Atomic Lead Film with Honeycomb Structure ▶     Y. H. Lu, D. Zhou, T. Wang et al.     Large bandgap is desired for the fundamental research as well as applications of topological insulators. Based on first-principles calculations, here we predict a new family of …             Temperature-dependence of the influence of the position-2-methyl group on the structure-directing effect of piperazine in the synthesis of open-framework aluminophosphates ▶     Pai Huang, Jun Xu, Guodong Qi et al.     The temperature-dependence of the influence of the position-2-methyl group on the structure-directing effect of piperazine in the synthesis of open-framework aluminophosphates …             Corrigendum: Full 180° Magnetization Reversal with Electric Fields ▶     J. J. Wang, J. M. Hu, J. Ma et al.                 Multipolar Effects in the Optical Active Second Harmonic Generation from Sawtooth Chiral Metamaterials ▶     Huimin Su, Yuxiang Guo, Wensheng Gao et al.     Based on the facts that chiral molecules response differently to left- and right-handed circular polarized light, chiroptical effects are widely employed for determining …             Steering Bell-diagonal states ▶     Quan Quan, Huangjun Zhu, Si-Yuan Liu et al.     We investigate the steerability of two-qubit Bell-diagonal states under projective measurements by the steering party. In the simplest nontrivial scenario of two projective …             Low-temperature electrodeposition approach leading to robust mesoscopic anatase TiO2 films ▶     Snehangshu Patra, Christian Andriamiadamanana, Michal Tulodziecki et al.     Anatase TiO2, a wide bandgap semiconductor, likely the most worldwide studied inorganic material for many practical applications, offers unequal characteristics for applications …             Quantitative imaging of gold nanoparticle distribution in a tumor-bearing mouse using benchtop x-ray fluorescence computed tomography ▶     Nivedh Manohar, Francisco J. Reynoso, Parmeswaran Diagaradjane et al.     X-ray fluorescence computed tomography (XFCT) is a technique that can identify, quantify, and locate elements within objects by detecting x-ray fluorescence (characteristic …             Dynamic coupling of plasmonic resonators ▶     Suyeon Lee, Q-Han Park     We clarify the nature of dynamic coupling in plasmonic resonators and determine the dynamic coupling coefficient using a simple analytic model. We show that plasmonic resonators, …             Iridium nanoparticles supported on hierarchical porous N-doped carbon: an efficient water-tolerant catalyst for bio-alcohol condensation in water ▶     Di Liu, Xiufang Chen, Guoqiang Xu et al.     Nitrogen-doped hierarchical porous carbons were synthesized successfully by a controllable one-pot method using glucose and dicyandiamide as carbon source and nitrogen source via …             High-quality photonic crystals with a nearly complete band gap obtained by direct inversion of woodpile templates with titanium dioxide ▶     Catherine Marichy, Nicolas Muller, Luis S. Froufe-Pérez et al.     Photonic crystal materials are based on a periodic modulation of the dielectric constant on length scales comparable to the wavelength of light. These materials can exhibit …             Compressive Spectral Method for the Simulation of the Nonlinear Gravity Waves ▶     Cihan Bayındır     In this paper an approach for decreasing the computational effort required for the spectral simulations of the fully nonlinear ocean waves is introduced. The proposed approach …             Visualization and quantification of deformation behavior of clopidogrel bisulfate polymorphs during tableting ▶     Xian-Zhen Yin, Li Wu, Ying Li et al.     The deformation behavior of particles under pressure dominates the mechanical properties of solid dosage forms. In this study, the in situ 3D deformation of two polymorphs (I and …             Conducting polymers as electron glasses: surface charge domains and slow relaxation ▶     Miguel Ortuño, Elisa Escasain, Elena Lopez-Elvira et al.     The surface potential of conducting polymers has been studied with scanning Kelvin probe microscopy. The results show that this technique can become an excellent tool to really …             State of Charge Dependent Mechanical Integrity Behavior of 18650 Lithium-ion Batteries ▶     Jun Xu, Binghe Liu, Dayong Hu     Understanding the mechanism of mechanical deformation/stress-induced electrical failure of lithium–ion batteries (LIBs) is important in crash-safety design of power LIBs. The …             Influence of lattice defects on the ferromagnetic resonance behaviour of 2D magnonic crystals ▶     Alessandra Manzin, Gabriele Barrera, Federica Celegato et al.     This paper studies, from a modelling point of view, the influence of randomly distributed lattice defects (non-patterned areas and variable hole size) on the ferromagnetic …             Far-field measurements of vortex beams interacting with nanoholes ▶     Xavier Zambrana-Puyalto, Xavier Vidal, Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton et al.     We measure the far-field intensity of vortex beams going through nanoholes. The process is analyzed in terms of helicity and total angular momentum. It is seen that the total …             Fluorescent and Magnetic Mesoporous Hybrid Material: A Chemical and Biological Nanosensor for Hg2+ Ions ▶     Moorthy Suresh, Chokkalingam Anand, Jessica E. Frith et al.     We introduce “sense, track and separate” approach for the removal of Hg2+ ion from aqueous media using highly ordered and magnetic mesoporous ferrosilicate nanocages …             Diffusion and self-assembly of C60 molecules on monolayer graphyne sheets ▶     Masoumeh Ozmaian, Arman Fathizadeh, Morteza Jalalvand et al.     The motion of a fullerene (C60) on 5 different types of graphyne is studied by all-atom molecular dynamics simulations and compared with former studies on the motion of C60 on …             Loading-rate-independent delay of catastrophic avalanches in a bulk metallic glass ▶     S. H. Chen, K. C. Chan, G. Wang et al.     The plastic flow of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) is characterized by intermittent bursts of avalanches, and this trend results in disastrous failures of BMGs. In the present …             Generation of “perfect” vortex of variable size and its effect in angular spectrum of the down-converted photons ▶     M. V. Jabir, N. Apurv Chaitanya, A. Aadhi et al.     The “perfect” vortex is a new class of optical vortex beam having ring radius independent of its topological charge (order). One of the simplest techniques to generate such beams …             Kondo-like zero-bias conductance anomaly in a three-dimensional topological insulator nanowire ▶     Sungjae Cho, Ruidan Zhong, John A. Schneeloch et al.     Zero-bias anomalies in topological nanowires have recently captured significant attention, as they are possible signatures of Majorana modes. Yet there are many other possible …             Simultaneous retrieval of temperature-dependent absorption coefficient and conductivity of participating media ▶     Yatao Ren, Hong Qi, Fangzhou Zhao et al.     A secondary optimization technique was proposed to estimate the temperature-dependent thermal conductivity and absorption coefficient. In the proposed method, the stochastic …             Efficient design, accurate fabrication and effective characterization of plasmonic quasicrystalline arrays of nano-spherical particles ▶     Farhad A. Namin, Yu A. Yuwen, Liu Liu et al.     In this paper, the scattering properties of two-dimensional quasicrystalline plasmonic lattices are investigated. We combine a newly developed synthesis technique, which allows …             Complete nondestructive analysis of two-photon six-qubit hyperentangled Bell states assisted by cross-Kerr nonlinearity ▶     Qian Liu, Guan-Yu Wang, Qing Ai et al.     Hyperentanglement, the entanglement in several degrees of freedom (DOFs) of a quantum system, has attracted much attention as it can be used to increase both the channel capacity …             III–V compound semiconductors for mass-produced nano-electronics: theoretical studies on mobility degradation by dislocation ▶     Ji-Hyun Hur, Sanghun Jeon     As silicon-based electronics approach the limit of scaling for increasing the performance and chip density, III–V compound semiconductors have started to attract significant …             Electro-optic analyzer of angular momentum hyperentanglement ▶     Ziwen Wu, Lixiang Chen     Characterizing a high-dimensional entanglement is fundamental in quantum information applications. Here, we propose a theoretical scheme to analyze and characterize the angular …             Mass Separation by Metamaterials ▶     Juan Manuel Restrepo-Flórez, Martin Maldovan     Being able to manipulate mass flow is critically important in a variety of physical processes in chemical and biomolecular science. For example, separation and catalytic systems, …             Quantum gates by periodic driving ▶     Z. C. Shi, W. Wang, X. X. Yi     Topological quantum computation has been extensively studied in the past decades due to its robustness against decoherence. One way to realize the topological quantum computation …             Molecular Form Differences Between Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) Standards Create Quantitative Discordances in PSA ELISA Measurements ▶     Erica L. McJimpsey     The prostate-specific antigen (PSA) assays currently employed for the detection of prostate cancer (PCa) lack the specificity needed to differentiate PCa from benign prostatic …             Two-walker discrete-time quantum walks on the line with percolation ▶     L. Rigovacca, C. Di Franco     One goal in the quantum-walk research is the exploitation of the intrinsic quantum nature of multiple walkers, in order to achieve the full computational power of the model. Here …             Nucleus factory on cavitation bubble for amyloid β fibril ▶     Kichitaro Nakajima, Hirotsugu Ogi, Kanta Adachi et al.     Structural evolution from monomer to fibril of amyloid β peptide is related to pathogenic mechanism of Alzheimer disease, and its acceleration is a long-running problem in drug …             Size-selective separation of DNA fragments by using lysine-functionalized silica particles ▶     Lingling Liu, Zilong Guo, Zhenzhen Huang et al.     In this work, a facile and efficient approach has been demonstrated for size-selective separation of DNA fragments by using lysine-functionalized silica particles. At a given pH, …             A route to self-assemble suspended DNA nano-complexes ▶     Yves Lansac, Jeril Degrouard, Madalena Renouard et al.     Highly charged polyelectrolytes can self-assemble in presence of condensing agents such as multivalent cations, amphiphilic molecules or proteins of opposite charge. Aside …             Assessing the Causality between Blood Pressure and Retinal Vascular Caliber through Mendelian Randomisation ▶     Ling-Jun Li, Jiemin Liao, Carol Yim-Lui Cheung et al.     We aimed to determine the association between blood pressure (BP) and retinal vascular caliber changes that were free from confounders and reverse causation by using Mendelian …             A novel three-dimensional smile analysis based on dynamic evaluation of facial curve contour ▶     Yi Lin, Han Lin, Qiuping Lin et al.     The influence of three-dimensional facial contour and dynamic evaluation decoding on factors of smile esthetics is essential for facial beauty improvement. However, the kinematic …             Small-World Propensity and Weighted Brain Networks ▶     Sarah Feldt Muldoon, Eric W. Bridgeford, Danielle S. Bassett     Quantitative descriptions of network structure can provide fundamental insights into the function of interconnected complex systems. Small-world structure, diagnosed by high …             Wide-field optical coherence tomography based microangiography for retinal imaging ▶     Qinqin Zhang, Cecilia S. Lee, Jennifer Chao et al.     Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) allows for the evaluation of functional retinal vascular networks without a need for contrast dyes. For sophisticated monitoring …             In a demanding task, three-handed manipulation is preferred to two-handed manipulation ▶     Elahe Abdi, Etienne Burdet, Mohamed Bouri et al.     Equipped with a third hand under their direct control, surgeons may be able to perform certain surgical interventions alone; this would reduce the need for a human assistant and …             Optically-Induced Cell Fusion on Cell Pairing Microstructures ▶     Po-Fu Yang, Chih-Hung Wang, Gwo-Bin Lee     Cell fusion is a critical operation for numerous biomedical applications including cell reprogramming, hybridoma formation, cancer immunotherapy, and tissue regeneration. …             Dilute-As AlNAs Alloy for Deep-Ultraviolet Emitter ▶     Chee-Keong Tan, Damir Borovac, Wei Sun et al.     The band structures of dilute-As AlNAs alloys with As composition ranging from 0% up to 12.5% are studied by using First-Principle Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculation. …             Direct observation of isolated Damon-Eshbach and backward volume spin-wave packets in ferromagnetic microstripes ▶     Philipp Wessels, Andreas Vogel, Jan-Niklas Tödt et al.     The analysis of isolated spin-wave packets is crucial for the understanding of magnetic transport phenomena and is particularly interesting for applications in spintronic and …             The role of photo-electric properties of silk cocoon membrane in pupal metamorphosis: A natural solar cell ▶     Brindan Tulachan, Shivansh Srivastava, Tejas Sanjeev Kusurkar et al.     Silkworm metamorphosis is governed by the intrinsic and extrinsic factors. One key intrinsic factor is the temporal electrical firing of the neuro-secretory cells of the dormant …             Spin-communication channels between Ln(III) bis-phthalocyanines molecular nanomagnets and a magnetic substrate ▶     A. Candini, D. Klar, S. Marocchi et al.     Learning the art of exploiting the interplay between different units at the atomic scale is a fundamental step in the realization of functional nano-architectures and interfaces. …             Semipermeable Capsules Wrapping a Multifunctional and Self-regulated Co-culture Microenvironment for Osteogenic Differentiation ▶     Clara R. Correia, Rogério P. Pirraco, Mariana T. Cerqueira et al.     A new concept of semipermeable reservoirs containing co-cultures of cells and supporting microparticles is presented, inspired by the multi-phenotypic cellular environment of …             Large Scale Triboelectric Nanogenerator and Self-Powered Pressure Sensor Array Using Low Cost Roll-to-Roll UV Embossing ▶     Lokesh Dhakar, Sudeep Gudla, Xuechuan Shan et al.     Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) have emerged as a potential solution for mechanical energy harvesting over conventional mechanisms such as piezoelectric and electromagnetic, …             Locating influential nodes via dynamics-sensitive centrality ▶     Jian-Guo Liu, Jian-Hong Lin, Qiang Guo et al.     With great theoretical and practical significance, locating influential nodes of complex networks is a promising issue. In this paper, we present a dynamics-sensitive (DS) …             Basin stability in delayed dynamics ▶     Siyang Leng, Wei Lin, Jürgen Kurths     Basin stability (BS) is a universal concept for complex systems studies, which focuses on the volume of the basin of attraction instead of the traditional linearization-based …             Local Maps of the Polarization and Depolarization in Organic Ferroelectric Field-Effect Transistors ▶     Ronggang Cai, Alain M. Jonas     We study the local ferroelectric polarization and depolarization of poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-trifluoroethylene) (P(VDF-TrFE)) in p-type ferroelectric field-effect transistors …             Improved p-type conductivity in Al-rich AlGaN using multidimensional Mg-doped superlattices ▶     T. C. Zheng, W. Lin, R. Liu et al.     A novel multidimensional Mg-doped superlattice (SL) is proposed to enhance vertical hole conductivity in conventional Mg-doped AlGaN SL which generally suffers from large …             Camphor-mediated synthesis of carbon nanoparticles, graphitic shell encapsulated carbon nanocubes and carbon dots for bioimaging ▶     Goldie Oza, M. Ravichandran, Victor-Ishrayelu Merupo et al.     A green method for an efficient synthesis of water-soluble carbon nanoparticles (CNPs), graphitic shell encapsulated carbon nanocubes (CNCs), Carbon dots (CDs) using Camphor (…             Highly Stable Nanocontainer of APTES-Anchored Layered Titanate Nanosheet for Reliable Protection/Recovery of Nucleic Acid ▶     Tae Woo Kim, In Young Kim, Dae-Hwan Park et al.     A universal technology for the encapsulative protection of unstable anionic species by highly stable layered metal oxide has been developed via the surface modification of a …             Magnetic properties of N-doped graphene with high Curie temperature ▶     Qinghua Miao, Lidong Wang, Zhaoyuan Liu et al.     N-doped graphene with Curie temperature higher than room temperature is a good candidate for nanomagnetic applications. Here we report a kind of N-doped graphene that exhibits …             High Throughput Profiling of Molecular Shapes in Crystals ▶     Peter R. Spackman, Sajesh P. Thomas, Dylan Jayatilaka     Molecular shape is important in both crystallisation and supramolecular assembly, yet its role is not completely understood. We present a computationally efficient scheme to …             In-situ measurement of the heat transport in defect- engineered free-standing single-layer graphene ▶     Haidong Wang, Kosaku Kurata, Takanobu Fukunaga et al.     Utilizing nanomachining technologies, it is possible to manipulate the heat transport in graphene by introducing different defects. However, due to the difficulty in suspending …             Molecular orbital analysis of the hydrogen bonded water dimer ▶     Bo Wang, Wanrun Jiang, Xin Dai et al.     As an essential interaction in nature, hydrogen bonding plays a crucial role in many material formations and biological processes, requiring deeper understanding. Here, using …             Topological Crystalline Insulator in a New Bi Semiconducting Phase ▶     F. Munoz, M. G. Vergniory, T. Rauch et al.     Topological crystalline insulators are a type of topological insulators whose topological surface states are protected by a crystal symmetry, thus the surface gap can be tuned by …             Exceptional performance of photoelectrochemical water oxidation of single-crystal rutile TiO2 nanorods dependent on the hole trapping of modified chloride ▶     Xuliang Zhang, Haiqin Cui, Muhammad Humayun et al.     It is highly desired to effectively trap photogenerated holes for efficient photoelectrochemical (PEC) water oxidation to evolve O2 on oxide semiconductors. Herein, it is found …             Scalable Multifunctional Ultra-thin Graphite Sponge: Free-standing, Superporous, Superhydrophobic, Oleophilic Architecture with Ferromagnetic Properties for Environmental Cleaning ▶     Hamed Hosseini Bay, Daisy Patino, Zafer Mutlu et al.     Water decontamination and oil/water separation are principal motives in the surge to develop novel means for sustainability. In this prospect, supplying clean water for the …             Rapid Mapping of Lithiation Dynamics in Transition Metal Oxide Particles with Operando X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy ▶     Lea Nowack, Daniel Grolimund, Vallerie Samson et al.     Since the commercialization of lithium ion batteries (LIBs), layered transition metal oxides (LiMO2, where M = Co, Mn, Ni, or mixtures thereof) have been materials of choice for …             Picosecond optical vortex pulse illumination forms a monocrystalline silicon needle ▶     Fuyuto Takahashi, Katsuhiko Miyamoto, Hirofumi Hidai et al.     The formation of a monocrystalline silicon needle by picosecond optical vortex pulse illumination was demonstrated for the first time in this study. The dynamics of this silicon …             Optical bistability in a nonlinear-shell-coated metallic nanoparticle ▶     Hongli Chen, Youming Zhang, Baile Zhang et al.     We provide a self-consistent mean field approximation in the framework of Mie scattering theory to study the optical bistability of a metallic nanoparticle coated with a …             Unique antitumor property of the Mg-Ca-Sr alloys with addition of Zn ▶     Yuanhao Wu, Guanping He, Yu Zhang et al.     In clinical practice, tumor recurrence and metastasis after orthopedic prosthesis implantation is an intensely troublesome matter. Therefore, to develop implant materials with …             Polarization Drift Channel Model for Coherent Fibre-Optic Systems ▶     Cristian B. Czegledi, Magnus Karlsson, Erik Agrell et al.     A theoretical framework is introduced to model the dynamical changes of the state of polarization during transmission in coherent fibre-optic systems. The model generalizes the …             Quantum state transfer and controlled-phase gate on one-dimensional superconducting resonators assisted by a quantum bus ▶     Ming Hua, Ming-Jie Tao, Fu-Guo Deng     We propose a quantum processor for the scalable quantum computation on microwave photons in distant one-dimensional superconducting resonators. It is composed of a common …             Strength gradient enhances fatigue resistance of steels ▶     Zhiwei Ma, Jiabin Liu, Gang Wang et al.     Steels are heavily used in infrastructure and the transportation industry, and enhancing their fatigue resistance is a major challenge in materials engineering. In this study, by …             Dispersion-type Hall resistance in InSb|Pt hybrid systems ▶     Y. Shiomi, E. Saitoh     In nonmagnetic semiconductors and metals, most of Hall resistance exhibits a linear dependence with applied magnetic fields. In this work, by combining conduction in a metal and …             Elastic, magnetic and electronic properties of iridium phosphide Ir2P ▶     Pei Wang, Yonggang Wang, Liping Wang et al.     Cubic (space group: Fmm) iridium phosphide, Ir2P, has been synthesized at high pressure and high temperature. Angle-dispersive synchrotron X-ray diffraction measurements on Ir2P …             Density of States for Warped Energy Bands ▶     Nicholas A. Mecholsky, Lorenzo Resca, Ian L. Pegg et al.     Warping of energy bands can affect the density of states (DOS) in ways that can be large or subtle. Despite their potential for significant practical impacts on materials …             Cyclometalated Iridium(III) Complexes as AIE Phosphorescent Probes for Real-Time Monitoring of Mitophagy in Living Cells ▶     Chengzhi Jin, Jiangping Liu, Yu Chen et al.     Mitophagy, which is a special autophagy that removes damaging mitochondria to maintain sufficient healthy mitochondria, provides an alternative path for addressing dysfunctional …             A Novel Method to Simulate the Progression of Collagen Degeneration of Cartilage in the Knee: Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative ▶     Mika E. Mononen, Petri Tanska, Hanna Isaksson et al.     We present a novel algorithm combined with computational modeling to simulate the development of knee osteoarthritis. The degeneration algorithm was based on excessive and …             A label-free and portable graphene FET aptasensor for children blood lead detection ▶     Chenyu Wang, Xinyi Cui, Ying Li et al.     Lead is a cumulative toxicant, which can induce severe health issues, especially in children’s case due to their immature nervous system. While realizing large-scale monitoring …             A Label-Free Electrochemical Impedance Cytosensor Based on Specific Peptide-Fused Phage Selected from Landscape Phage Library ▶     Lei Han, Pei Liu, Valery A. Petrenko et al.     One of the major challenges in the design of biosensors for cancer diagnosis is to introduce a low-cost and selective probe that can recognize cancer cells. In this paper, we …             Stiffening hydrogels for investigating the dynamics of hepatic stellate cell mechanotransduction during myofibroblast activation ▶     Steven R. Caliari, Maryna Perepelyuk, Brian D. Cosgrove et al.     Tissue fibrosis contributes to nearly half of all deaths in the developed world and is characterized by progressive matrix stiffening. Despite this, nearly all in vitro disease …             A Primary Screening and Applying of Plant Volatiles as Repellents to Control Whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) on Tomato ▶     Wenxiao Du, Xiaoqing Han, Yubo Wang et al.     With the goal of finding a new way to reduce population densities of Bemisia tabaci biotype Q in greenhouses, seven repellent volatile chemicals and their combinations were …             Removal of pinned scroll waves in cardiac tissues by electric fields in a generic model of three-dimensional excitable media ▶     De-Bei Pan, Xiang Gao, Xia Feng et al.     Spirals or scroll waves pinned to heterogeneities in cardiac tissues may cause lethal arrhythmias. To unpin these life-threatening spiral waves, methods of wave emission from …             Receptor-targeted liposome-peptide-siRNA nanoparticles represent an efficient delivery system for MRTF silencing in conjunctival fibrosis ▶     Cynthia Yu-Wai-Man, Aristides D. Tagalakis, Maria D. Manunta et al.     There is increasing evidence that the Myocardin-related transcription factor/Serum response factor (MRTF/SRF) pathway plays a key role in fibroblast activation and that knocking …             Carbonate-based Janus micromotors moving in ultra-light acidic environment generated by HeLa cells in situ ▶     Maria Guix, Anne K. Meyer, Britta Koch et al.     Novel approaches to develop naturally-induced drug delivery in tumor environments in a deterministic and controlled manner have become of growing interest in recent years. …             Synthetic Capillaries to Control Microscopic Blood Flow ▶     K. Sarveswaran, V. Kurz, Z. Dong et al.     Capillaries pervade human physiology. The mean intercapillary distance is only about 100 μm in human tissue, which indicates the extent of nutrient diffusion. In engineered …             Study on Light Extraction from GaN-based Green Light-Emitting Diodes Using Anodic Aluminum Oxide Pattern and Nanoimprint Lithography ▶     Shengxiang Jiang, Yulong Feng, Zhizhong Chen et al.     An anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) patterned sapphire substrate, with the lattice constant of 520 ± 40 nm, pore dimension of 375 ± 50 nm, and height of 450 ± 25 nm was firstly used …             Reversed ageing of Fe3O4 nanoparticles by hydrogen plasma ▶     Carolin Schmitz-Antoniak, Detlef Schmitz, Anne Warland et al.     Magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles suffer from severe ageing effects when exposed to air even when they are dispersed in a solvent limiting their applications. In this work, we show …             Hypersensitive Transport in Photonic Crystals with Accidental Spatial Degeneracies ▶     Eleana Makri, Kyle Smith, Andrey Chabanov et al.     A localized mode in a photonic layered structure can develop nodal points (nodal planes), where the oscillating electric field is negligible. Placing a thin metallic layer at …             Noninvasive Assessment of Early Dental Lesion Using a Dual-Contrast Photoacoustic Tomography ▶     Renxiang Cheng, Jiaojiao Shao, Xiaoxiang Gao et al.     Dental hard tissue lesions, including caries, cracked-tooth, etc., are the most prevalent diseases of people worldwide. Dental lesions and correlative diseases greatly decrease …             Facile One-pot Transformation of Iron Oxides from Fe2O3 Nanoparticles to Nanostructured Fe3O4@C Core-Shell Composites via Combustion Waves ▶     Jungho Shin, Kang Yeol Lee, Taehan Yeo et al.     The development of a low-cost, fast, and large-scale process for the synthesis and manipulation of nanostructured metal oxides is essential for incorporating materials with …             Macroscopic tensile plasticity by scalarizating stress distribution in bulk metallic glass ▶     Meng Gao, Jie Dong, Yong Huan et al.     The macroscopic tensile plasticity of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) is highly desirable for various engineering applications. However, upon yielding, plastic deformation of BMGs …             Low-temperature growth of layered molybdenum disulphide with controlled clusters ▶     Jihun Mun, Yeongseok Kim, Il-Suk Kang et al.     Layered molybdenum disulphide was grown at a low-temperature of 350 °C using chemical vapour deposition by elaborately controlling the cluster size. The molybdenum disulphide …             Exploring long-wave infrared transmitting materials with AxBy form: First-principles gene-like studies ▶     Jia-Ren Du, Nian-Ke Chen, Xian-Bin Li et al.     Long-wave infrared (8–12 μm) transmitting materials play critical roles in space science and electronic science. However, the paradox between their mechanical strength and …             Synchronization of phase oscillators with frequency-weighted coupling ▶     Can Xu, Yuting Sun, Jian Gao et al.     Recently, the first-order synchronization transition has been studied in systems of coupled phase oscillators. In this paper, we propose a framework to investigate the …             High-energy X-ray focusing and applications to pair distribution function investigation of Pt and Au nanoparticles at high pressures ▶     Xinguo Hong, Lars Ehm, Zhong Zhong et al.     We report development of micro-focusing optics for high-energy x-rays by combining a sagittally bent Laue crystal monchromator with Kirkpatrick-Baez (K–B) X-ray focusing mirrors. …             Corrigendum: Magnetization Reversal by Out-of-plane Voltage in BiFeO3-based Multiferroic Heterostructures ▶     J. J. Wang, J. M. Hu, Ren-Ci Peng et al.                 High-throughput screening of metal-porphyrin-like graphenes for selective capture of carbon dioxide ▶     Hyeonhu Bae, Minwoo Park, Byungryul Jang et al.     Nanostructured materials, such as zeolites and metal-organic frameworks, have been considered to capture CO2. However, their application has been limited largely because they …             Direct observation of negative-index microwave surface waves ▶     J. A. Dockrey, S. A. R. Horsley, I. R. Hooper et al.     Waves propagating in a negative-index material have wave-front propagation (wavevector, k) opposite in direction to that of energy flow (Poynting vector, S). Here we present an …             Generation of Customizable Micro-wavy Pattern through Grayscale Direct Image Lithography ▶     Ran He, Shunqiang Wang, Geoffrey Andrews et al.     With the increasing amount of research work in surface studies, a more effective method of producing patterned microstructures is highly desired due to the geometric limitations …             Mussel-inspired Functionalization of Cotton for Nano-catalyst Support and Its Application in a Fixed-bed System with High Performance ▶     Jiangbo Xi, Junwu Xiao, Fei Xiao et al.     Inspired by the composition of adhesive and reductive proteins secreted by marine mussels, polydopamine (PDA) was used to coat cotton microfiber (CMF), and then acted as reducing …             Inverted Ultrathin Organic Solar Cells with a Quasi-Grating Structure for Efficient Carrier Collection and Dip-less Visible Optical Absorption ▶     Sungjun In, Namkyoo Park     We propose a metallic-particle-based two-dimensional quasi-grating structure for application to an organic solar cell. With the use of oblate spheroidal nanoparticles in contact …             Excitation of dark multipolar plasmonic resonances at terahertz frequencies ▶     Lin Chen, YuMing Wei, XiaoFei Zang et al.     We experimentally observe the excitation of dark multipolar spoof localized surface plasmon resonances in a hybrid structure consisting of a corrugated metallic disk coupled with …             Floating mechanism of a small liquid marble ▶     Chin Hong Ooi, Chris Plackowski, Anh V. Nguyen et al.     Flotation of small solid objects and liquid droplets on water is critical to natural and industrial activities. This paper reports the floating mechanism of liquid marbles, or …             Superior electric storage on an amorphous perfluorinated polymer surface ▶     Mikio Fukuhara, Tomoyuki Kuroda, Fumihiko Hasegawa et al.     Amorphous perfluoroalkenyl vinyl ether polymer devices can store a remarkably powerful electric charge because their surface contains nanometre-sized cavities that are sensitive …             Facile Growth of Cu2ZnSnS4 Thin-Film by One-Step Pulsed Hybrid Electrophoretic and Electroplating Deposition ▶     Hung-Wei Tsai, Chia-Wei Chen, Stuart R. 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