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19 April 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports       Physical Sciences               Microscopic observation of dye molecules for solar cells on a titania surface ▶     Shogo Koshiya, Shunsuke Yamashita, Koji Kimoto     The lateral distribution and coverage of Ru-based dye molecules, which are used for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs), were directly examined on a titania surface using …             Gamma radiation induces hydrogen absorption by copper in water ▶     Cláudio M. Lousada, Inna L. Soroka, Yuriy Yagodzinskyy et al.     One of the most intricate issues of nuclear power is the long-term safety of repositories for radioactive waste. These repositories can have an impact on future generations for a …             Electron pair escape from fullerene cage via collective modes ▶     Michael Schüler, Yaroslav Pavlyukh, Paolo Bolognesi et al.     Experiment and theory evidence a new pathway for correlated two-electron release from many-body compounds following collective excitation by a single photon. Using nonequilibrium …             Hydrothermal synthesis of NiWO4 crystals for high performance non-enzymatic glucose biosensors ▶     Sivakumar Mani, Veeramani Vediyappan, Shen-Ming Chen et al.     A facile hydrothermal route for the synthesis of ordered NiWO4 nanocrystals, which show promising applications as high performance non-enzymatic glucose sensor is reported. The …             Novel asymmetric representation method for solving the higher-order Ginzburg-Landau equation ▶     Pring Wong, Lihui Pang, Ye Wu et al.     In ultrafast optics, optical pulses are generated to be of shorter pulse duration, which has enormous significance to industrial applications and scientific research. The …             A simple and general strategy for generating frequency-anticorrelated photon pairs ▶     Xin Zhang, Chang Xu, Zhongzhou Ren     Currently, two-photon excitation microscopy is the method of choice for imaging living cells within thick specimen. A remaining problem for this technique is the damage caused by …             Plasmonic-multimode-interference-based logic circuit with simple phase adjustment ▶     Masashi Ota, Asahi Sumimura, Masashi Fukuhara et al.     All-optical logic circuits using surface plasmon polaritons have a potential for high-speed information processing with high-density integration beyond the diffraction limit of …             Nanoscale characterization of local structures and defects in photonic crystals using synchrotron-based transmission soft X-ray microscopy ▶     Hyun Woo Nho, Yogesh Kalegowda, Hyun-Joon Shin et al.     For the structural characterization of the polystyrene (PS)-based photonic crystals (PCs), fast and direct imaging capabilities of full field transmission X-ray microscopy (TXM) …             In situ synchrotron study of electromigration induced grain rotations in Sn solder joints ▶     Hao Shen, Wenxin Zhu, Yao Li et al.     Here we report an in situ study of the early stage of microstructure evolution induced by electromigration in a Pb-free β-Sn based solder joint by synchrotron polychromatic X-ray …             The effect of bean origin and temperature on grinding roasted coffee ▶     Erol Uman, Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood, Lesley Colonna-Dashwood et al.     Coffee is prepared by the extraction of a complex array of organic molecules from the roasted bean, which has been ground into fine particulates. The extraction depends on …             Pressure Induced Enhancement of Superconductivity in LaRu2P2 ▶     Baoxuan Li, Pengchao Lu, Jianzhong Liu et al.     To explore new superconductors beyond the copper-based and iron-based systems is very important. The Ru element locates just below the Fe in the periodic table and behaves like …             A miniature solar device for overall water splitting consisting of series-connected spherical silicon solar cells ▶     Yosuke Kageshima, Tatsuya Shinagawa, Takaaki Kuwata et al.     A novel “photovoltaics (PV) + electrolyzer” concept is presented using a simple, small, and completely stand-alone non-biased device for solar-driven overall water splitting. …             Bio-inspired cofacial Fe porphyrin dimers for efficient electrocatalytic CO2 to CO conversion: Overpotential tuning by substituents at the porphyrin rings ▶     Zaki N. Zahran, Eman A. Mohamed, Yoshinori Naruta     Efficient reduction of CO2 into useful carbon resources particularly CO is an essential reaction for developing alternate sources of fuels and for reducing the greenhouse effect …             Optical vortex knots – one photon at a time ▶     Sebastien J. Tempone-Wiltshire, Shaun P. Johnstone, Kristian Helmerson     Feynman described the double slit experiment as “a phenomenon which is impossible, absolutely impossible, to explain in any classical way and which has in it the heart of quantum …             Conformational Selection and Induced Fit Mechanisms in the Binding of an Anticancer Drug to the c-Src Kinase ▶     Maria Agnese Morando, Giorgio Saladino, Nicola D’Amelio et al.     Understanding the conformational changes associated with the binding of small ligands to their biological targets is a fascinating and meaningful question in chemistry, biology …             Fabrication of Superhydrophobic and Luminescent Rare Earth/Polymer complex Films ▶     Zefeng Wang, Weiwei Ye, Xinran Luo et al.     The motivation of this work is to create luminescent rare earth/polymer films with outstanding water-resistance and superhydrophobicity. Specifically, the emulsion polymerization …             Giant exchange interaction in mixed lanthanides ▶     Veacheslav Vieru, Naoya Iwahara, Liviu Ungur et al.     Combining strong magnetic anisotropy with strong exchange interaction is a long standing goal in the design of quantum magnets. The lanthanide complexes, while exhibiting a very …             Agricultural wastes as a resource of raw materials for developing low-dielectric glass-ceramics ▶     Satwinder Singh Danewalia, Gaurav Sharma, Samita Thakur et al.     Agricultural waste ashes are used as resource materials to synthesize new glass and glass-ceramics. The as-prepared materials are characterized using various techniques for their …             Three-Dimensional Carbon Allotropes Comprising Phenyl Rings and Acetylenic Chains in sp+sp2 Hybrid Networks ▶     Jian-Tao Wang, Changfeng Chen, Han-Dong Li et al.     We here identify by ab initio calculations a new type of three-dimensional (3D) carbon allotropes that consist of phenyl rings connected by linear acetylenic chains in sp+sp2 …             Uncovering Special Nuclear Materials by Low-energy Nuclear Reaction Imaging ▶     P. B. Rose, A. S. Erickson, M. Mayer et al.     Weapons-grade uranium and plutonium could be used as nuclear explosives with extreme destructive potential. The problem of their detection, especially in standard cargo …             Hemoglobin consumption by P. falciparum in individual erythrocytes imaged via quantitative phase spectroscopy ▶     Matthew T. Rinehart, Han Sang Park, Katelyn A. Walzer et al.     Plasmodium falciparum infection causes structural and biochemical changes in red blood cells (RBCs). To quantify these changes, we apply a novel optical technique, quantitative …             Oil-free hyaluronic acid matrix for serial femtosecond crystallography ▶     Michihiro Sugahara, Changyong Song, Mamoru Suzuki et al.     The grease matrix was originally introduced as a microcrystal-carrier for serial femtosecond crystallography and has been expanded to applications for various types of proteins, …             A new nano-engineered hierarchical membrane for concurrent removal of surfactant and oil from oil-in-water nanoemulsion ▶     Detao Qin, Zhaoyang Liu, Hongwei Bai et al.     Surfactant stabilized oil-in-water nanoemulsions pose a severe threat to both the environment and human health. Recent development of membrane filtration technology has enabled …             Intensity interrogation near cutoff resonance for label-free cellular profiling ▶     Yousef Nazirizadeh, Volker Behrends, Aurél Prósz et al.     We report a method enabling intensity-based readout for label-free cellular assays, and realize a reader device with the same footprint as a microtiter plate. For unambiguous …             Control of complex networks requires both structure and dynamics ▶     Alexander J. Gates, Luis M. Rocha     The study of network structure has uncovered signatures of the organization of complex systems. However, there is also a need to understand how to control them; for example, …             Controlled water vapor transmission rate promotes wound-healing via wound re-epithelialization and contraction enhancement ▶     Rui Xu, Hesheng Xia, Weifeng He et al.     A desirable microenvironment is essential for wound healing, in which an ideal moisture content is one of the most important factors. The fundamental function and requirement for …             Spontaneous bidirectional ordering of CH3NH3+ in lead iodide perovskites at room temperature: The origins of the tetragonal phase ▶     Ioannis Deretzis, Bruno N. Di Mauro, Alessandra Alberti et al.     CH3NH3PbI3 is a hybrid organic-inorganic material with a perovskite structure and a temperature-dependent polymorphism whose origins are still unclear. Here we perform ab initio …             Pulse-modulated multilevel data storage in an organic ferroelectric resistive memory diode ▶     Jiyoul Lee, Albert J. J. M. van Breemen, Vsevolod Khikhlovskyi et al.     We demonstrate multilevel data storage in organic ferroelectric resistive memory diodes consisting of a phase-separated blend of P(VDF-TrFE) and a semiconducting polymer. The …             Broadband absorption enhancement in plasmonic nanoshells-based ultrathin microcrystalline-Si solar cells ▶     Waseem Raja, Angelo Bozzola, Pierfrancesco Zilio et al.     With the objective to conceive a plasmonic solar cell with enhanced photocurrent, we investigate the role of plasmonic nanoshells, embedded within a ultrathin microcrystalline …             Optically controlled spin-polarization memory effect on Mn delta-doped heterostructures ▶     M. A. G. Balanta, M. J. S. P. Brasil, F. Iikawa et al.     We investigated the dynamics of the interaction between spin-polarized photo-created carriers and Mn ions on InGaAs/GaAs: Mn structures. The carriers are confined in an InGaAs …             Cage-bell Pt-Pd nanostructures with enhanced catalytic properties and superior methanol tolerance for oxygen reduction reaction ▶     Dong Chen, Feng Ye, Hui Liu et al.     Precisely tailoring the structure and fully making use of the components of nanoparticles are effective to enhance their catalytic performance for a given reaction. We herein …             Low-Dimensional Network Formation in Molten Sodium Carbonate ▶     Martin C. Wilding, Mark Wilson, Oliver L. G. Alderman et al.     Molten carbonates are highly inviscid liquids characterized by low melting points and high solubility of rare earth elements and volatile molecules. An understanding of the …             Nanoparticle Self-Assembled Grain Like Curcumin Conjugated ZnO: Curcumin Conjugation Enhances Removal of Perylene, Fluoranthene, and Chrysene by ZnO ▶     Rasha N. Moussawi, Digambara Patra     Curcumin conjugated ZnO, referred as Zn(cur)O, nanostructures have been successfully synthesized, these sub-micro grain-like structures are actually self-assemblies of individual …             Simultaneous Determination of Size and Quantification of Gold Nanoparticles by Direct Coupling Thin layer Chromatography with Catalyzed Luminol Chemiluminescence ▶     Neng Yan, Zhenli Zhu, Dong He et al.     The increasing use of metal-based nanoparticle products has raised concerns in particular for the aquatic environment and thus the quantification of such nanomaterials released …             Crack nucleation criterion and its application to impact indentation in glasses ▶     Jian Luo, K. Deenamma Vargheese, Adama Tandia et al.     Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are used to directly observe nucleation of median cracks in oxide glasses under indentation. Indenters with sharp angles can nucleate median …             High-order spoof localized surface plasmons supported on a complementary metallic spiral structure ▶     Zhen Gao, Fei Gao, Baile Zhang     We experimentally demonstrate that multiple high-order spoof localized surface plasmons (spoof-LSPs) modes can be supported on a complementary metallic spiral structure, which …             The effect of temperature on the coupled slow and fast dynamics of an electrochemical oscillator ▶     Alana A. Zülke, Hamilton Varela     The coupling among disparate time-scales is ubiquitous in many chemical and biological systems. We have recently investigated the effect of fast and, long-term, slow dynamics in …             Facile fabrication of properties-controllable graphene sheet ▶     Jin Sik Choi, Hongkyw Choi, Ki-Chul Kim et al.     Graphene has been received a considerable amount of attention as a transparent conducting electrode (TCE) which may be able to replace indium tin oxide (ITO) to overcome the …             A multiple-shape memory polymer-metal composite actuator capable of programmable control, creating complex 3D motion of bending, twisting, and oscillation ▶     Qi Shen, Sarah Trabia, Tyler Stalbaum et al.     Development of biomimetic actuators has been an essential motivation in the study of smart materials. However, few materials are capable of controlling complex twisting and …             Growth, collapse, and self-organized criticality in complex networks ▶     Yafeng Wang, Huawei Fan, Weijie Lin et al.     Network growth is ubiquitous in nature (e.g., biological networks) and technological systems (e.g., modern infrastructures). To understand how certain dynamical behaviors can or …             Signatures of evanescent transport in ballistic suspended graphene-superconductor junctions ▶     Piranavan Kumaravadivel, Xu Du     In Dirac materials, the low energy excitations behave like ultra-relativistic massless particles with linear energy dispersion. A particularly intriguing phenomenon arises with …             Mathematical Modeling of Yarn Dynamics in a Generalized Twisting System ▶     R. Yin, X. M. Tao, B. G. Xu     Twisting is an important process to form a continuous yarn from short fibres and to determine the structure and properties of the resultant yarn. This paper proposes a new …             Catechol degradation on hematite/silica–gas interface as affected by gas composition and the formation of environmentally persistent free radicals ▶     Hao Li, Huiying Guo, Bo Pan et al.     Environmentally persistent free radicals (EPFRs) formed on a solid particle surface have received increasing attention because of their toxic effects. However, organic chemical …             Frequent mechanical stress suppresses proliferation of mesenchymal stem cells from human bone marrow without loss of multipotency ▶     Viktoria Frank, Stefan Kaufmann, Rebecca Wright et al.     Mounting evidence indicated that human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) are responsive not only to biochemical but also to physical cues, such as substrate topography and …             Strong Antibacterial Polydopamine Coatings Prepared by a Shaking-assisted Method ▶     Lei Su, Yang Yu, Yanshuang Zhao et al.     Strong antibacterial polydopamine (PDA) coatings prepared by a facile shaking-assisted method is reported for the first time. It was found that a minor modification made to the …             Epidemic risk from friendship network data: an equivalence with a non-uniform sampling of contact networks ▶     Julie Fournet, Alain Barrat     Contacts between individuals play an important role in determining how infectious diseases spread. Various methods to gather data on such contacts co-exist, from surveys to …             Computer-Aided Diagnosis with Deep Learning Architecture: Applications to Breast Lesions in US Images and Pulmonary Nodules in CT Scans ▶     Jie-Zhi Cheng, Dong Ni, Yi-Hong Chou et al.     This paper performs a comprehensive study on the deep-learning-based computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) for the differential diagnosis of benign and malignant nodules/lesions by …             Effects of Frequency Drift on the Quantification of Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid Using MEGA-PRESS ▶     Shang-Yueh Tsai, Chun-Hao Fang, Thai-Yu Wu et al.     The MEGA-PRESS method is the most common method used to measure γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in the brain at 3T. It has been shown that the underestimation of the GABA signal due …             Avian influenza viruses that cause highly virulent infections in humans exhibit distinct replicative properties in contrast to human H1N1 viruses ▶     Philippe F. Simon, Marc-Antoine de La Vega, Éric Paradis et al.     Avian influenza viruses present an emerging epidemiological concern as some strains of H5N1 avian influenza can cause severe infections in humans with lethality rates of up to …             First-Principle Electronic Properties of Dilute-P GaN1−xPx Alloy for Visible Light Emitters ▶     Chee-Keong Tan, Damir Borovac, Wei Sun et al.     A study on the electronic properties of the dilute-P GaN1−xPx alloy using First-Principle Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations is presented. Our results indicate a band …             Gradient Index Devices for the Full Control of Elastic Waves in Plates ▶     Yabin Jin, Daniel Torrent, Yan Pennec et al.     In this work, we present a method for the design of gradient index devices for elastic waves in plates. The method allows the design of devices to control the three fundamental …             Ultrafast Investigation of Intramolecular Charge Transfer and Solvation Dynamics of Tetrahydro[5]-helicene-Based Imide Derivatives ▶     Huaning Zhu, Meng Li, Jiangpu Hu et al.     We report the excited-state intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) characteristics of four tetrahydro[5] helicene-based imide (THHBI) derivatives with various electron-donating …             Wheatstone bridge configuration for evaluation of plasmonic energy transfer ▶     J. Gosciniak, M. Mooney, M. Gubbins et al.     We propose an internal (on-chip) Wheatstone bridge configuration to evaluate the efficiency of near-field transducers (NFT) as used in heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR). …             The robustness of multiplex networks under layer node-based attack ▶     Da-wei Zhao, Lian-hai Wang, Yong-feng Zhi et al.     From transportation networks to complex infrastructures, and to social and economic networks, a large variety of systems can be described in terms of multiplex networks formed by …             Structural, electron transportation and magnetic behavior transition of metastable FeAlO granular films ▶     Guohua Bai, Chen Wu, Jiaying Jin et al.     Metal-insulator granular film is technologically important for microwave applications. It has been challenging to obtain simultaneous high electrical resistivity and large …             Broadband photon pair generation in green fluorescent proteins through spontaneous four-wave mixing ▶     Siyuan Shi, Abu Thomas, Neil V. Corzo et al.     Recent studies in quantum biology suggest that quantum mechanics help us to explore quantum processes in biological system. Here, we demonstrate generation of photon pairs …             Parity-Time Symmetry Breaking in Coupled Nanobeam Cavities ▶     Senlin Zhang, Zhengdong Yong, Yuguang Zhang et al.     The concept of parity-time symmetry (PT symmetry) originates from the canonical quantum mechanics and has become a hot topic recently. As a versatile platform to investigate the …             Electrocatalytic performances of g-C3N4-LaNiO3 composite as bi-functional catalysts for lithium-oxygen batteries ▶     Yixin Wu, Taohuan Wang, Yidie Zhang et al.     A low cost and non-precious metal composite material g-C3N4-LaNiO3 (CNL) was synthesized as a bifunctional electrocatalyst for the air electrode of lithium-oxygen (Li-O2) …             Tunable high quality factor in two multimode plasmonic stubs waveguide ▶     Zhiquan Chen, Hongjian Li, Shiping Zhan et al.     We numerically investigate the optical characteristics of a metal-dielectric-metal (MDM) waveguide side-coupled with two identical multimode stub resonators. Double …             Longitudinal Hierarchy Co3O4 Mesocrystals with High-dense Exposure Facets and Anisotropic Interfaces for Direct-Ethanol Fuel Cells ▶     Diab Hassen, Sherif A. El-Safty, Koichi Tsuchiya et al.     Novel electrodes are needed for direct ethanol fuel cells with improved quality. Hierarchical engineering can produce catalysts composed of mesocrystals with many exposed active …             Hollow Li20B60 Cage: Stability and Hydrogen Storage ▶     Jing Wang, Zhi-Jing Wei, Hui-Yan Zhao et al.     A stable hollow Li20B60 cage with D2 symmetry has been identified using first-principles density functional theory studies. The results of vibrational frequency analysis and …             Direct Copolymerization of CO2 and Diols ▶     Masazumi Tamura, Kazuki Ito, Masayoshi Honda et al.     Direct polymerization of CO2 and diols is promising as a simple and environmental-benign method in place of conventional processes using high-cost and/or hazardous reagents such …             Precise phase retrieval under harsh conditions by constructing new connected interferograms ▶     Jian Deng, Dan Wu, Kai Wang et al.     To date, no phase-shifting method can accurately retrieve the phase map from a small set of noisy interferograms with low phase-shifts. In this Letter, we develop a novel …             Hyper-stable organo-EuIII luminophore under high temperature for photo-industrial application ▶     Ayako Nakajima, Takayuki Nakanishi, Yuichi Kitagawa et al.     Novel organo-EuIII luminophores, Eu(hfa)x(CPO)y and Eu(hfa)x(TCPO)y (hfa: hexafluoroacetylacetonate, CPO: 4-carboxyphenyl diphenyl phosphine oxide, TCPO: 4,4′,4″-tricarboxyphenyl …             Facile Synthesis of Cadmium-Free Zn-In-S:Ag/ZnS Nanocrystals for Bio-Imaging ▶     Tong-Tong Xuan, Jia-Qing Liu, Cai-Yan Yu et al.     High quality cadmium-free Zn-In-S:Ag doped-nanocrystals (d-NCs) were synthesized via a simple one-step noninjection route using silver nitrate, indium acetate, zinc acetate, …             Mechanical properties and failure behavior of unidirectional porous ceramics ▶     Jordi Seuba, Sylvain Deville, Christian Guizard et al.     We show that the honeycomb out-of-plane model derived by Gibson and Ashby can be applied to describe the compressive behavior of unidirectional porous materials. Ice-templating …             Automated Chemotactic Sorting and Single-cell Cultivation of Microbes using Droplet Microfluidics ▶     Libing Dong, Dong-Wei Chen, Shuang-Jiang Liu et al.     We report a microfluidic device for automated sorting and cultivation of chemotactic microbes from pure cultures or mixtures. The device consists of two parts: in the first part, …             A novel ZnO@Ag@Polypyrrole hybrid composite evaluated as anode material for zinc-based secondary cell ▶     Jianhang Huang, Zhanhong Yang, Zhaobin Feng et al.     A novel ZnO@Ag@Polypyrrole nano-hybrid composite has been synthesized with a one-step approach, in which silver-ammonia complex ion serves as oxidant to polymerize the pyrrole …             Topological Properties of Electrons in Honeycomb Lattice with Detuned Hopping Energy ▶     Long-Hua Wu, Xiao Hu     Honeycomb lattice can support electronic states exhibiting Dirac energy dispersion, with graphene as the icon. We propose to derive nontrivial topology by grouping six …             On migration of primary/peritectic interface during interrupted directional solidification of Sn-Ni peritectic alloy ▶     Peng Peng, Xinzhong Li, Jiangong Li et al.     The migration of the primary/peritectic interface in local isothermal condition is observed in dendritic structure of Sn–Ni peritectic alloy after experiencing interrupted …             Coexistence of perfect spin filtering for entangled electron pairs and high magnetic storage efficiency in one setup ▶     T. T. Ji, N. Bu, F. J. Chen et al.     For Entangled electron pairs superconducting spintronics, there exist two drawbacks in existing proposals of generating entangled electron pairs. One is that the two kinds of …             Electron work function–a promising guiding parameter for material design ▶     Hao Lu, Ziran Liu, Xianguo Yan et al.     Using nickel added X70 steel as a sample material, we demonstrate that electron work function (EWF), which largely reflects the electron behavior of materials, could be used as a …             Swift thermal steering of domain walls in ferromagnetic MnBi stripes ▶     Alexander Sukhov, Levan Chotorlishvili, Arthur Ernst et al.     We predict a fast domain wall (DW) motion induced by a thermal gradient across a nanoscopic ferromagnetic stripe of MnBi. The driving mechanism is an exchange torque fueled by …             Carrier-induced transient defect mechanism for non-radiative recombination in InGaN light-emitting devices ▶     Junhyeok Bang, Y. Y. Sun, Jung-Hoon Song et al.     Non-radiative recombination (NRR) of excited carriers poses a serious challenge to optoelectronic device efficiency. Understanding the mechanism is thus crucial to defect physics …             Recovery of infrastructure networks after localised attacks ▶     Fuyu Hu, Chi Ho Yeung, Saini Yang et al.     The stability of infrastructure network is always a critical issue studied by researchers in different fields. A lot of works have been devoted to reveal the robustness of the …             Green self-assembly of zein-conjugated ZnO/Cd(OH)Cl hierarchical nanocomposites with high cytotoxicity and immune organs targeting ▶     Hua-Jie Wang, Ying Cao, Cai-Feng Wang et al.     Inorganic nanomedicines in the fight against cancer have progressed rapidly during recent years, with the synergistic advantages of multifunctional nanosystems compared to single …             Characterization of Environmental Dust in the Dammam Area and Mud After-Effects on Bisphenol-A Polycarbonate Sheets ▶     Bekir Sami. Yilbas, Haider Ali, Naseer Al-Aqeeli et al.     Owing to recent climate changes, dust storms are increasingly common, particularly in the Middle East region. Dust accumulation and subsequent mud formation on solid surfaces in …             Characterization and parameterization of aerosol cloud condensation nuclei activation under different pollution conditions ▶     H. C. Che, X. Y. Zhang, Y. Q. Wang et al.     To better understand the cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activation capacity of aerosol particles in different pollution conditions, a long-term field experiment was carried out …             MgO:Li,Ce,Sm as a high-sensitivity material for Optically Stimulated Luminescence dosimetry ▶     Luiz C. Oliveira, Eduardo G. Yukihara, Oswaldo Baffa     The goal of this work was to investigate the relevant dosimetric and luminescent properties of MgO:Li3%,Ce0.03%,Sm0.03%, a newly-developed, high sensitivity Optically Stimulated …             Circulating Tumor Cell Count Correlates with Colorectal Neoplasm Progression and Is a Prognostic Marker for Distant Metastasis in Non-Metastatic Patients ▶     Wen-Sy Tsai, Jinn-Shiun Chen, Hung-Jen Shao et al.     Enumeration of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) has been proven as a prognostic marker for metastatic colorectal cancer (m-CRC) patients. However, the currently available …             Observed 3D Structure, Generation, and Dissipation of Oceanic Mesoscale Eddies in the South China Sea ▶     Zhiwei Zhang, Jiwei Tian, Bo Qiu et al.     Oceanic mesoscale eddies with horizontal scales of 50–300 km are the most energetic form of flows in the ocean. They are the oceanic analogues of atmospheric storms and are …             The identification of goat peroxiredoxin-5 and the evaluation and enhancement of its stability by nanoparticle formation ▶     Xiaozhou Feng, Juanjuan Liu, Shuai Fan et al.     An anticancer bioactive peptide (ACBP), goat peroxiredoxin-5 (gPRDX5), was identified from goat-spleen extract after immunizing the goat with gastric cancer-cell lysate. Its …             Facilitated receptor-recognition and enhanced bioactivity of bone morphogenetic protein-2 on magnesium-substituted hydroxyapatite surface ▶     Baolin Huang, Yuan Yuan, Tong Li et al.     Biomaterial surface functionalized with bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2) is a promising approach to fabricating successful orthopedic implants/scaffolds. However, the …             Nanoscale on-chip all-optical logic parity checker in integrated plasmonic circuits in optical communication range ▶     Feifan Wang, Zibo Gong, Xiaoyong Hu et al.     The nanoscale chip-integrated all-optical logic parity checker is an essential core component for optical computing systems and ultrahigh-speed ultrawide-band information …             Erratum: Observation of giant Goos-Hänchen and angular shifts at designed metasurfaces ▶     Venkata Jayasurya Yallapragada, Ajith P. Ravishankar, Gajendra L. Mulay et al.                 Wettability of partially suspended graphene ▶     Thierry Ondarçuhu, Vincent Thomas, Marc Nuñez et al.     The dependence of the wettability of graphene on the nature of the underlying substrate remains only partially understood. Here, we systematically investigate the role of …             Highly Stretchable Non-volatile Nylon Thread Memory ▶     Ting-Kuo Kang     Integration of electronic elements into textiles, to afford e-textiles, can provide an ideal platform for the development of lightweight, thin, flexible, and stretchable …             Erratum: Local electron-electron interaction strength in ferromagnetic nickel determined by spin-polarized positron annihilation ▶     Hubert Ceeh, Josef Andreas Weber, Peter Böni et al.                 Unprecedented Fine Structure of a Solar Flare Revealed by the 1.6 m New Solar Telescope ▶     Ju Jing, Yan Xu, Wenda Cao et al.     Solar flares signify the sudden release of magnetic energy and are sources of so called space weather. The fine structures (below 500 km) of flares are rarely observed and are …             Charge Transfer Dynamics at Dye-Sensitized ZnO and TiO2 Interfaces Studied by Ultrafast XUV Photoelectron Spectroscopy ▶     Mario Borgwardt, Martin Wilke, Thorsten Kampen et al.     Interfacial charge transfer from photoexcited ruthenium-based N3 dye molecules into ZnO thin films received controversial interpretations. To identify the physical origin for the …             Single-Chain Magnets Based on Octacyanotungstate with the Highest Energy Barriers for Cyanide Compounds ▶     Rong-Min Wei, Fan Cao, Jing Li et al.     By introducing large counter cations as the spacer, two isolated 3, 3-ladder compounds, (Ph4P)[CoII(3-Mepy)2.7(H2O)0.3WV(CN)8]·0.6H2O (1) and (Ph4As)[CoII(3-Mepy)3WV(CN)8] (2, …             Topographically Engineered Large Scale Nanostructures for Plasmonic Biosensing ▶     Bo Xiao, Sangram K. Pradhan, Kevin C. Santiago et al.     We demonstrate that a nanostructured metal thin film can achieve enhanced transmission efficiency and sharp resonances and use a large-scale and high-throughput nanofabrication …             Tunable magnetic nanowires for biomedical and harsh environment applications ▶     Yurii P. Ivanov, Ahmed Alfadhel, Mohammed Alnassar et al.     We have synthesized nanowires with an iron core and an iron oxide (magnetite) shell by a facile low-cost fabrication process. The magnetic properties of the nanowires can be …             Inelastic response of silicon to shock compression ▶     A. Higginbotham, P. G. Stubley, A. J. Comley et al.     The elastic and inelastic response of [001] oriented silicon to laser compression has been a topic of considerable discussion for well over a decade, yet there has been little …             Large-deformation and high-strength amorphous porous carbon nanospheres ▶     Weizhu Yang, Shimin Mao, Jia Yang et al.     Carbon is one of the most important materials extensively used in industry and our daily life. Crystalline carbon materials such as carbon nanotubes and graphene possess …             The rate of quasiparticle recombination probes the onset of coherence in cuprate superconductors ▶     J. P. Hinton, E. Thewalt, Z. 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Subczynski et al.     Electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy was used to investigate the switchable, light-dependent effects of gold nanorods (GNRs) on paramagnetic properties of nitroxide spin …             A novel and highly sensitive nanocatalytic surface plasmon resonance-scattering analytical platform for detection of trace Pb ions ▶     Lingling Ye, Guiqing Wen, Huixiang Ouyang et al.     Gold nanoparticles (AuNP) have catalysis on the reaction of HAuCl4-H2O2. The produced AuNP have strong resonance Rayleigh scattering (RRS) effect and surface-enhanced resonance …             Multi-shape active composites by 3D printing of digital shape memory polymers ▶     Jiangtao Wu, Chao Yuan, Zhen Ding et al.     Recent research using 3D printing to create active structures has added an exciting new dimension to 3D printing technology. After being printed, these active, often composite, …             A novel open-porous magnesium scaffold with controllable microstructures and properties for bone regeneration ▶     Meng-qi Cheng, Tuerhongjiang Wahafu, Guo-feng Jiang et al.     The traditional production methods of porous magnesium scaffolds are difficult to accurately control the pore morphologies and simultaneously obtain appropriate mechanical …             Indian monsoon variability on millennial-orbital timescales ▶     Gayatri Kathayat, Hai Cheng, Ashish Sinha et al.     The Indian summer monsoon (ISM) monsoon is critical to billions of people living in the region. Yet, significant debates remain on primary ISM drivers on millennial-orbital …             Robust Type-specific Hemisynapses Induced by Artificial Dendrites ▶     Eun Joong Kim, Chang Su Jeon, Soo Youn Lee et al.     Type-specificity of synapses, excitatory and inhibitory, regulates information process in neural networks via chemical neurotransmitters. To lay a foundation of synapse-based …             In vitro antibacterial activity of ZnO and Nd doped ZnO nanoparticles against ESBL producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae ▶     Abdulrahman Syedahamed Haja Hameed, Chandrasekaran Karthikeyan, Abdulazees Parveez Ahamed et al.     Pure ZnO and Neodymium (Nd) doped ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) were synthesized by the co-precipitation method. The synthesized nanoparticles retained the wurtzite hexagonal …             Visualization of neonatal lung injury associated with mechanical ventilation using x-ray dark-field radiography ▶     Andre Yaroshenko, Tina Pritzke, Markus Koschlig et al.     Mechanical ventilation (MV) and supplementation of oxygen-enriched gas, often needed in postnatal resuscitation procedures, are known to be main risk factors for impaired …             Theory of Thomson scattering in inhomogeneous media ▶     P. M. Kozlowski, B. J. B. Crowley, D. O. Gericke et al.     Thomson scattering of laser light is one of the most fundamental diagnostics of plasma density, temperature and magnetic fields. It relies on the assumption that the properties …             Water orientation and hydrogen-bond structure at the fluorite/water interface ▶     Rémi Khatib, Ellen H. G. Backus, Mischa Bonn et al.     Water in contact with mineral interfaces is important for a variety of different processes. Here, we present a combined theoretical/experimental study which provides a …             Visualizing Current-Dependent Morphology and Distribution of Discharge Products in Sodium-Oxygen Battery Cathodes ▶     Daniel Schröder, Conrad L. Bender, Markus Osenberg et al.     Synchrotron X-ray tomography and scanning electron microscopy were applied to elucidate the spatial distribution of discharge product (NaO2) in the carbon cathode of …             Limitations and tradeoffs in synchronization of large-scale networks with uncertain links ▶     Amit Diwadkar, Umesh Vaidya     The synchronization of nonlinear systems connected over large-scale networks has gained popularity in a variety of applications, such as power grids, sensor networks, and …             Bioinspired design of a polymer gel sensor for the realization of extracellular Ca2+ imaging ▶     Fumitaka Ishiwari, Hanako Hasebe, Satoko Matsumura et al.     Although the role of extracellular Ca2+ draws increasing attention as a messenger in intercellular communications, there is currently no tool available for imaging Ca2+ dynamics …             Microstructure and mechanical behavior of metallic glass fiber-reinforced Al alloy matrix composites ▶     Z. Wang, K. 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Traditional methods based on Granger …             Overlapping Community Detection based on Network Decomposition ▶     Zhuanlian Ding, Xingyi Zhang, Dengdi Sun et al.     Community detection in complex network has become a vital step to understand the structure and dynamics of networks in various fields. However, traditional node clustering and …             Inhibition of unintentional extra carriers by Mn valence change for high insulating devices ▶     Daoyou Guo, Peigang Li, Zhenping Wu et al.     For intrinsic oxide semiconductors, oxygen vacancies served as the electron donors have long been, and inevitably still are, attributed as the primary cause of conductivity, …             Optimizing Dynamical Network Structure for Pinning Control ▶     Yasin Orouskhani, Mahdi Jalili, Xinghuo Yu     Controlling dynamics of a network from any initial state to a final desired state has many applications in different disciplines from engineering to biology and social sciences. …             Universal quantum gates for photon-atom hybrid systems assisted by bad cavities ▶     Guan-Yu Wang, Qian Liu, Hai-Rui Wei et al.     We present two deterministic schemes for constructing a CNOT gate and a Toffoli gate on photon-atom and photon-atom-atom hybrid quantum systems assisted by bad cavities, …             Cymatics for the cloaking of flexural vibrations in a structured plate ▶     D. 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Junker et al.     Recent developments in biological X-ray microscopy have allowed structural information and elemental distribution to be simultaneously obtained by combining X-ray ptychography …             Single Cell Transfection through Precise Microinjection with Quantitatively Controlled Injection Volumes ▶     Yu Ting Chow, Shuxun Chen, Ran Wang et al.     Cell transfection is a technique wherein foreign genetic molecules are delivered into cells. To elucidate distinct responses during cell genetic modification, methods to achieve …             Adsorbing/dissolving Lyoprotectant Matrix Technology for Non-cryogenic Storage of Archival Human Sera ▶     Morwena J. Solivio, Rebekah Less, Mathew L. Rynes et al.     Despite abundant research conducted on cancer biomarker discovery and validation, to date, less than two-dozen biomarkers have been approved by the FDA for clinical use. 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