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28 June 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Chemical Sciences               Highly efficient modulation of FRET in an orthogonally arranged BODIPY–DTE dyad ▶     Felix Schweighöfer, Lars Dworak, Christopher A. Hammer et al.     The photoswitchable boron-dipyrromethene–dithienylethene molecular dyad is introduced as a prototype for the efficient fluorescence intensity modulation on the molecular level. …             Erratum: Rate-dependent interface capture beyond the coffee-ring effect ▶     Yanan Li, Qiang Yang, Mingzhu Li et al.                 Structural and functional characterization of the CAP domain of pathogen-related yeast 1 (Pry1) protein ▶     Rabih Darwiche, Alan Kelleher, Elissa M. Hudspeth et al.     The production, crystal structure, and functional characterization of the C-terminal cysteine-rich secretory protein/antigen 5/pathogenesis related-1 (CAP) domain of …             Real-time spectroscopic monitoring of photocatalytic activity promoted by graphene in a microfluidic reactor ▶     Yifan Li, Beichen Lin, Likai Ge et al.     Photocatalytic microreactors have been utilized as rapid, versatile platforms for the characterization of photocatalysts. In this work, a photocatalytic microreactor integrated …             Emergence of new red-shifted carbon nanotube photoluminescence based on proximal doped-site design ▶     Tomohiro Shiraki, Tomonari Shiraishi, Gergely Juhász et al.     Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) show unique photoluminescence (PL) in the near-infrared (NIR) region. Here we propose a concept based on the proximal modification in local …             Quantitative analysis of co-oligomer formation by amyloid-beta peptide isoforms ▶     Marija Iljina, Gonzalo A. Garcia, Alexander J. Dear et al.     Multiple isoforms of aggregation-prone proteins are present under physiological conditions and have the propensity to assemble into co-oligomers with different properties from …             Bactericidal Effects against S. aureus and Physicochemical Properties of Plasma Activated Water stored at different temperatures ▶     Jin Shen, Ying Tian, Yinglong Li et al.     Water activated by non-thermal plasma creates an acidified solution containing reactive oxygen and nitrogen species, known as plasma-activated water (PAW). The objective of this …             Dipolar colloids in apolar media: direct microscopy of two-dimensional suspensions ▶     Erez Janai, Avner P. Cohen, Alexander V. Butenko et al.     Spherical colloids, in an absence of external fields, are commonly assumed to interact solely through rotationally-invariant potentials, u(r). While the presence of permanent …             Probing the Origin of Challenge of Realizing Metallaphosphabenzenes: Unfavorable 1,2-Migration in Metallapyridines Becomes Feasible in Metallaphosphabenzenes ▶     Jingjing Wu, Yulei Hao, Jun Zhu     Metallabenzenes have attracted considerable interest of both theoretical and experimental chemists. However, metallaphosphabenzene has never been synthesized. Thus, understanding …             A Synthetic Pseudo-Rh: NOx Reduction Activity and Electronic Structure of Pd–Ru Solid-solution Alloy Nanoparticles ▶     Katsutoshi Sato, Hiroyuki Tomonaga, Tomokazu Yamamoto et al.     Rh is one of the most important noble metals for industrial applications. A major fraction of Rh is used as a catalyst for emission control in automotive catalytic converters …             Hydration Repulsion between Carbohydrate Surfaces Mediated by Temperature and Specific Ions ▶     Hsieh Chen, Jason R. Cox, Hooisweng Ow et al.     Stabilizing colloids or nanoparticles in solution involves a fine balance between surface charges, steric repulsion of coating molecules, and hydration forces against van der …             Molecular descriptor data explain market prices of a large commercial chemical compound library ▶     Jaroslaw Polanski, Urszula Kucia, Roksana Duszkiewicz et al.     The relationship between the structure and a property of a chemical compound is an essential concept in chemistry guiding, for example, drug design. Actually, however, we need …             White carbon: Fluorescent carbon nanoparticles with tunable quantum yield in a reproducible green synthesis ▶     Till T. Meiling, Piotr J. Cywiński, Ilko Bald     In this study, a new reliable, economic, and environmentally-friendly one-step synthesis is established to obtain carbon nanodots (CNDs) with well-defined and reproducible …             Protolytic decomposition of n-octane on graphite at near room temperature ▶     Yasushi Kawashima, Mitsumasa Iwamoto     Graphite basal surface is inert, and decomposition of n-alkanes on the graphite surface has not been discovered. We here report the evidence of decomposition of n-octanes on …             From non-covalent binding to irreversible DNA lesions: nile blue and nile red as photosensitizing agents ▶     Hugo Gattuso, Vanessa Besancenot, Stéphanie Grandemange et al.     We report a molecular modeling study, coupled with spectroscopy experiments, on the behavior of two well known organic dyes, nile blue and nile red, when interacting with B-DNA. …             Triggering comprehensive enhancement in oxygen evolution reaction by using newly created solvent ▶     Hsiao-Chien Chen, Fu-Der Mai, Kuang-Hsuan Yang et al.     Theoretical calculations indicate that the properties of confined liquid water, or liquid water at surfaces, are dramatically different from those of liquid bulk water. Here we …             A lithium ion battery using an aqueous electrolyte solution ▶     Zheng Chang, Chunyang Li, Yanfang Wang et al.     Energy and environmental pollution have become the two major problems in today’s society. The development of green energy storage devices with good safety, high reliability, high …             Highly selective hydrogenation of furfural to furfuryl alcohol over Pt nanoparticles supported on g-C3N4 nanosheets catalysts in water ▶     Xiufang Chen, Ligang Zhang, Bo Zhang et al.     Graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets were investigated for developing effective Pt catalyst supports for selective hydrogenation of furfural to furfuryl alcohol in water. The …             Effect of Transition Metal Ions on the B Ring Oxidation of Sterols and their Kinetics in Oil-in-Water Emulsions ▶     Baiyi Lu, Yinzhou Hu, Weisu Huang et al.     This study investigated the effect of metal ions on the oxidation of sterols and their kinetics in oil-in-water emulsions. Sterol substrates were added with different metal ions …             A Self-Limiting Electro-Ablation Technique for the Top-Down Synthesis of Large-Area Monolayer Flakes of 2D Materials ▶     Saptarshi Das, Mrinal K. Bera, Sheng Tong et al.     We report the discovery of an electrochemical process that converts two dimensional layered materials of arbitrary thicknesses into monolayers. 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