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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               Launching in January 2017 - Nature Biomedical Engineering Discovery and technology for human health A new online journal for bench scientists, clinicians and medical engineers. Register for the journal's e-alert to receive content and news from the beginning.                 Physical Sciences               Erratum: Theory of Thomson scattering in inhomogeneous media ▶     P. M. Kozlowski, B. J. B. Crowley, D. O. Gericke et al.                 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 …             Corrigendum: Sustainable, Rapid Synthesis of Bright-Luminescent CuInS2-ZnS Alloyed Nanocrystals: Multistage Nano-xenotoxicity Assessment and Intravital Fluorescence Bioimaging in Zebrafish-Embryos ▶     S. Shashank Chetty, S. Praneetha, Sandeep Basu et al.                 Corrigendum: Chemical nature of alkaline polyphosphate boundary film at heated rubbing surfaces ▶     Shanhong Wan, A. Kiet Tieu, Qiang Zhu et al.                 Inverse spin Hall effect in a complex ferromagnetic oxide heterostructure ▶     Martin Wahler, Nico Homonnay, Tim Richter et al.     We present spin pumping and inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE) in an epitaxial complex oxide heterostructure. Ferromagnetic La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 (LSMO) is used as a source of spin pumping …             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 …             3D coaxial out-of-plane metallic antennas for filtering and multi-spectral imaging in the infrared range ▶     Andrea Jacassi, Angelo Bozzola, Pierfrancesco Zilio et al.     We fabricated and investigated a new configuration of 3D coaxial metallic antennas working in the infrared which combines the strong lateral light scattering of vertical …             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 …             On the energy scale involved in the metal to insulator transition of quadruple perovskite EuCu3Fe4O12: infrared spectroscopy and ab-initio calculations ▶     B. Brière, A. Kalinko, I. Yamada et al.     Optical measurements were carried out by infrared spectroscopy on AA′3B4O12 A-site ordered quadruple perovskite EuCu3Fe4O12 (microscopic sample) as function of temperature. At …             Few-layer Phosphorene: An Ideal 2D Material For Tunnel Transistors ▶     Tarek A. Ameen, Hesameddin Ilatikhameneh, Gerhard Klimeck et al.     2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have attracted a lot of attention recently for energy-efficient tunneling-field-effect transistor (TFET) applications due to their …             Corrigendum: Improved Drain Current Saturation and Voltage Gain in Graphene–on–Silicon Field Effect Transistors ▶     Seung Min Song, Jae Hoon Bong, Wan Sik Hwang et al.                 Erratum: Rate-dependent interface capture beyond the coffee-ring effect ▶     Yanan Li, Qiang Yang, Mingzhu Li et al.                 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. …             Transverse writing of three-dimensional tubular optical waveguides in glass with a slit-shaped femtosecond laser beam ▶     Yang Liao, Jia Qi, Peng Wang et al.     We report on fabrication of tubular optical waveguides buried in ZBLAN glass based on transverse femtosecond laser direct writing. Irradiation in ZBLAN with focused femtosecond …             A broadband terahertz ultrathin multi-focus lens ▶     Jingwen He, Jiasheng Ye, Xinke Wang et al.     Ultrathin transmission metasurface devices are designed on the basis of the Yang-Gu amplitude-phase retrieval algorithm for focusing the terahertz (THz) radiation into four or …             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 …             THz Acoustic Spectroscopy by using Double Quantum Wells and Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy ▶     Fan Jun Wei, Yu-Hsiang Yeh, Jinn-Kong Sheu et al.     GaN is a pivotal material for acoustic transducers and acoustic spectroscopy in the THz regime, but its THz phonon properties have not been experimentally and comprehensively …             Numerical Demultiplexing of Color Image Sensor Measurements via Non-linear Random Forest Modeling ▶     Jason Deglint, Farnoud Kazemzadeh, Daniel Cho et al.     The simultaneous capture of imaging data at multiple wavelengths across the electromagnetic spectrum is highly challenging, requiring complex and costly multispectral image …             Visualising the strain distribution in suspended two-dimensional materials under local deformation ▶     Kenan Elibol, Bernhard C. Bayer, Stefan Hummel et al.     We demonstrate the use of combined simultaneous atomic force microscopy (AFM) and laterally resolved Raman spectroscopy to study the strain distribution around highly localised …             Tribo-biological deposits on the articulating surfaces of metal-on-polyethylene total hip implants retrieved from patients ▶     Zhiwei Cui, Yi-Xing Tian, Wen Yue et al.     Artificial total hip arthroplasty (THA) is one of the most effective orthopaedic surgeries that has been used for decades. However, wear of the articulating surfaces is one of …             3D Stretchable Arch Ribbon Array Fabricated via Grayscale Lithography ▶     Yu Pang, Yi Shu, Mohammad Shavezipur et al.     Microstructures with flexible and stretchable properties display tremendous potential applications including integrated systems, wearable devices and bio-sensor electronics. …             Experimental Realization of a Reflections-Free Compact Delay Line Based on a Photonic Topological Insulator ▶     Kueifu Lai, Tsuhsuang Ma, Xiao Bo et al.     Electromagnetic (EM) waves propagating through an inhomogeneous medium are generally scattered whenever the medium’s electromagnetic properties change on the scale of a single …             A Non-Invasive Phase Sensor for Permittivity and Moisture Estimation Based on Anomalous Dispersion ▶     Omar Siddiqui, Rashad Ramzan, Muhammad Amin et al.     The traditional microwave resonance sensors are based on the measurement of the frequency shift and bandwidth of a resonator’s amplitude spectrum. Here we propose a novel sensing …             Monogamy relation of multi-qubit systems for squared Tsallis-q entanglement ▶     Guang-Ming Yuan, Wei Song, Ming Yang et al.     Tsallis-q entanglement is a bipartite entanglement measure which is the generalization of entanglement of formation for q tending to 1. We first expand the range of q for the …             Single photon triggered dianion formation in TCNQ and F4TCNQ crystals ▶     Lin Ma, Peng Hu, Hui Jiang et al.     Excited state dynamics in two strong organic electron acceptor systems, TCNQ and F4TCNQ single crystals, was studied. After absorption of a single photon, dianions are formed in …             Enhanced four-wave mixing with nonlinear plasmonic metasurfaces ▶     Boyuan Jin, Christos Argyropoulos     Plasmonic metasurfaces provide an effective way to increase the efficiency of several nonlinear processes while maintaining nanoscale dimensions. In this work, nonlinear …             Fabrication of Laser-reduced Graphene Oxide in Liquid Nitrogen Environment ▶     Y. C. Guan, Y. W. Fang, G. C. Lim et al.     Porous structure of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) plays an important role in developing flexible graphene-based devices. In this work, we report a novel methodology for reduction …             Twin-mediated crystal growth: an enigma resolved ▶     Ashwin J. Shahani, E. Begum Gulsoy, Stefan O. Poulsen et al.     During crystal growth, faceted interfaces may be perturbed by defects, leading to a rich variety of polycrystalline growth forms. One such defect is the coherent Σ3 {111} twin …             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 …             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 …             Stochastic Evolution Dynamic of the Rock–Scissors–Paper Game Based on a Quasi Birth and Death Process ▶     Qian Yu, Debin Fang, Xiaoling Zhang et al.     Stochasticity plays an important role in the evolutionary dynamic of cyclic dominance within a finite population. To investigate the stochastic evolution process of the behaviour …             Mobile phone imaging and cloud-based analysis for standardized malaria detection and reporting ▶     Thomas F. Scherr, Sparsh Gupta, David W. Wright et al.     Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) have been widely deployed in low-resource settings. These tests are typically read by visual inspection, and accurate record keeping and data …             Focused ultrasound-enhanced intranasal brain delivery of brain-derived neurotrophic factor ▶     Hong Chen, Georgiana Zong Xin Yang, Hoheteberhan Getachew et al.     The objective of this study was to unveil the potential mechanism of focused ultrasound (FUS)-enhanced intranasal (IN) brain drug delivery and assess its feasibility in the …             Far-Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy Investigation of Phonon Modes in Amorphous and Crystalline Epitaxial GeTe-Sb2Te3 Alloys ▶     V. Bragaglia, K. Holldack, J. E. Boschker et al.     A combination of far-infrared and Raman spectroscopy is employed to investigate vibrational modes and the carrier behavior in amorphous and crystalline ordered GeTe-Sb2Te3 alloys …             Dual-pump Kerr Micro-cavity Optical Frequency Comb with varying FSR spacing ▶     Weiqiang Wang, Sai T. Chu, Brent E. Little et al.     In this paper, we demonstrate a novel dual-pump approach to generate robust optical frequency comb with varying free spectral range (FSR) spacing in a CMOS-compatible high-Q …             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 …             Mesoporous Nano-Silica Serves as the Degradation Inhibitor in Polymer Dielectrics ▶     Yang Yang, Jun Hu, Jinliang He     A new generation of nano-additives for robust high performance nanodielectrics is proposed. It is demonstrated for the first time that mesoporous material could act as …             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 …             Efficiency Enhancement of InGaN-Based Solar Cells via Stacking Layers of Light-Harvesting Nanospheres ▶     Amal M. Al-Amri, Po-Han Fu, Kun-Yu Lai et al.     An effective light-harvesting scheme for InGaN-based multiple quantum well solar cells is demonstrated using stacking layers of polystyrene nanospheres. Light-harvesting …             Cross-stacked carbon nanotubes assisted self-separation of free-standing GaN substrates by hydride vapor phase epitaxy ▶     Tongbo Wei, Jiankun Yang, Yang Wei et al.     We report a novel method to fabricate high quality 2-inch freestanding GaN substrate grown on cross-stacked carbon nanotubes (CSCNTs) coated sapphire by hydride vapor phase …             Photochemical Isomerization and Topochemical Polymerization of the Programmed Asymmetric Amphiphiles ▶     Dae-Yoon Kim, Sang-A Lee, Daseal Jung et al.     For the advancement in multi-stimuli responsive optical devices, we report the elaborate molecular engineering of the dual photo-functionalized amphiphile (abbreviated as AZ1DA) …             Cloaking of solar cell contacts at the onset of Rayleigh scattering ▶     Etor San Román, Alan Vitrey, Jerónimo Buencuerpo et al.     Electrical contacts on the top surface of solar cells and light emitting diodes cause shadow losses. The phenomenon of extraordinary optical transmission through arrays of …             Enhanced optical gradient forces between coupled graphene sheets ▶     Xinbiao Xu, Lei Shi, Yang Liu et al.     Optical gradient forces between monolayer infinite-width graphene sheets as well as single-mode graphene nanoribbon pairs of graphene surface plasmons (GSPs) at mid-infrared …             Two conformational states in D-shaped DNA: Effects of local denaturation ▶     O.-chul Lee, Cheolhee Kim, Jae-Yeol Kim et al.     The bending of double-stranded(ds) DNA on the nano-meter scale plays a key role in many cellular processes such as nucleosome packing, transcription-control, and viral-genome …             Effective-mass model and magneto-optical properties in hybrid perovskites ▶     Z. G. Yu     Hybrid inorganic-organic perovskites have proven to be a revolutionary material for low-cost photovoltaic applications. They also exhibit many other interesting properties, …             In-situ Electric Field-Induced Modulation of Photoluminescence in Pr-doped Ba0.85Ca0.15Ti0.90Zr0.10O3 Lead-Free Ceramics ▶     Hai Ling Sun, Xiao Wu, Tat Hang Chung et al.     Luminescent materials with dynamic photoluminescence activity have aroused special interest because of their potential widespread applications. One proposed approach of directly …             Quantum spin Hall insulator in halogenated arsenene films with sizable energy gaps ▶     Dongchao Wang, Li Chen, Changmin Shi et al.     Based on first-principles calculations, the electronic and topological properties of halogenated (F-, Cl-, Br- and I-) arsenene are investigated in detail. It is found that the …             Self-Propelled Hovercraft Based on Cold Leidenfrost Phenomenon ▶     Meng Shi, Xing Ji, Shangsheng Feng et al.     The Leidenfrost phenomenon of liquid droplets levitating and dancing when placed upon a hot plate due to propulsion of evaporative vapor has been extended to many self-propelled …             Large Bandgap Shrinkage from Doping and Dielectric Interface in Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes ▶     Everett Comfort, Ji Ung Lee     The bandgap of a semiconductor is one of its most important electronic properties. It is often considered to be a fixed property of the semiconductor. As the dimensions of …             Constructing Bi24O31Cl10/BiOCl heterojunction via a simple thermal annealing route for achieving enhanced photocatalytic activity and selectivity ▶     Xiaoyan Liu, Yiguo Su, Qihang Zhao et al.     This work reports on the construction of a Bi24O31Cl10/BiOCl heterojunction via a simple thermal annealing method. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) results indicated that the phase …             Photochromic switching of the DNA helicity induced by azobenzene derivatives ▶     Marco Deiana, Ziemowit Pokladek, Joanna Olesiak-Banska et al.     The photochromic properties of azobenzene, involving conformational changes occurring upon interaction with light, provide an excellent tool to establish new ways of selective …             Kinetics and Mechanisms of γ′ Reprecipitation in a Ni-based Superalloy ▶     F. Masoumi, D. Shahriari, M. Jahazi et al.     The reprecipitation mechanisms and kinetics of γ′ particles during cooling from supersolvus and subsolvus temperatures were studied in AD730TM Ni-based superalloy using …             Unified selective sorting approach to analyse multi-electrode extracellular data ▶     R. Veerabhadrappa, C. P. Lim, T. T. Nguyen et al.     Extracellular data analysis has become a quintessential method for understanding the neurophysiological responses to stimuli. This demands stringent techniques owing to the …             Polyester type polyHIPE scaffolds with an interconnected porous structure for cartilage regeneration ▶     Jakob Naranda, Maja Sušec, Uroš Maver et al.     Development of artificial materials for the facilitation of cartilage regeneration remains an important challenge in orthopedic practice. Our study investigates the potential for …             Photo-derived transformation from modified chitosan@calcium carbonate nanohybrids to nanosponges ▶     Jeong Hoon Byeon     Zwitterionic chitosan (ZC)@calcium carbonate (CC) nanoparticles were conveniently obtained and transformed to biocompatible nanosponges by continuous gas-phase photo-derived …             Resonance Raman Probes for Organelle-Specific Labeling in Live Cells ▶     Andrey N. Kuzmin, Artem Pliss, Chang-Keun Lim et al.     Raman microspectroscopy provides for high-resolution non-invasive molecular analysis of biological samples and has a breakthrough potential for dissection of cellular molecular …             Ultrafast control of third-order optical nonlinearities in fishnet metamaterials ▶     Alexander S. Shorokhov, Kirill I. Okhlopkov, Jörg Reinhold et al.     Nonlinear photonic nanostructures that allow efficient all-optical switching are considered to be a prospective platform for novel building blocks in photonics. We performed …             Spin polarization of excitons in organic multiferroic composites ▶     Shixuan Han, Liu Yang, Kun Gao et al.     Recently, the discovery of room temperature magnetoelectricity in organic charge transfer complexes has reignited interest in the multiferroic field. The solution processed, …             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 …             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 …             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 …             Ultrafast diffusion of Ionic Liquids Confined in Carbon Nanotubes ▶     Aziz Ghoufi, Anthony Szymczyk, Patrice Malfreyt     Over the past decade many works have focused on various aspects of the dynamics of liquids confined at the nanoscale such as e.g. water flow enhancement through carbon nanotubes …             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 …             On the importance of full-dimensionality in low-energy molecular scattering calculations ▶     Alexandre Faure, Piotr Jankowski, Thierry Stoecklin et al.     Scattering of H2 on CO is of great importance in astrophysics and also is a benchmark system for comparing theory to experiment. We present here a new 6-dimensional potential …             When do perturbative approaches accurately capture the dynamics of complex quantum systems? ▶     Amir Fruchtman, Neill Lambert, Erik M. Gauger     Understanding the dynamics of higher-dimensional quantum systems embedded in a complex environment remains a significant theoretical challenge. While several approaches yielding …             Corrigendum: Universality in boundary domain growth by sudden bridging ▶     A. A. Saberi, S. H. Ebrahimnazhad Rahbari, H. Dashti-Naserabadi et al.                 Geometrically pinned magnetic domain wall for multi-bit per cell storage memory ▶     M. Al Bahri, R. Sbiaa     Spintronic devices currently rely on magnetic switching or controlled motion of domain walls (DWs) by an external magnetic field or a spin-polarized current. Controlling the …             Light-trapping and recycling for extraordinary power conversion in ultra-thin gallium-arsenide solar cells ▶     Sergey Eyderman, Sajeev John     We demonstrate nearly 30% power conversion efficiency in ultra-thin (~200 nm) gallium arsenide photonic crystal solar cells by numerical solution of the coupled electromagnetic …             A solvent-free microbial-activated air cathode battery paper platform made with pencil-traced graphite electrodes ▶     Seung Ho Lee, Ju Yeon Ban, Chung-Hun Oh et al.     We present the fabrication of an ultra-low cost, disposable, solvent-free air cathode all-paper microbial fuel cell (MFC) that does not utilize any chemical treatments. The anode …             Highly Efficient Thermoresponsive Nanocomposite for Controlled Release Applications ▶     Omar Yassine, Amir Zaher, Er Qiang Li et al.     Highly efficient magnetic release from nanocomposite microparticles is shown, which are made of Poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) hydrogel with embedded iron nanowires. A simple …             Spatially resolved photoresponse on individual ZnO nanorods: correlating morphology, defects and conductivity ▶     K. Bandopadhyay, J. Mitra     Electrically active native point defects have a significant impact on the optical and electrical properties of ZnO nanostructures. Control of defect distribution and a detailed …             Sub-10 nm Ta Channel Responsible for Superior Performance of a HfO2 Memristor ▶     Hao Jiang, Lili Han, Peng Lin et al.     Memristive devices are promising candidates for the next generation non-volatile memory and neuromorphic computing. It has been widely accepted that the motion of oxygen anions …             Zinc Oxide Nanorods Shielded with an Ultrathin Nickel Layer: Tailoring of Physical Properties ▶     Devika Mudusu, Koteeswara Reddy Nandanapalli, Sreekantha Reddy Dugasani et al.     We report on the development of Ni-shielded ZnO nanorod (NR) structures and the impact of the Ni layer on the ZnO NR properties. We developed nickel-capped zinc oxide nanorod …             Depth-specific optogenetic control in vivo with a scalable, high-density μLED neural probe ▶     Robert Scharf, Tomomi Tsunematsu, Niall McAlinden et al.     Controlling neural circuits is a powerful approach to uncover a causal link between neural activity and behaviour. Optogenetics has been widely adopted by the neuroscience …             Widespread ground motion distribution caused by rupture directivity during the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal earthquake ▶     Kazuki Koketsu, Hiroe Miyake, Yujia Guo et al.     The ground motion and damage caused by the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal earthquake can be characterized by their widespread distributions to the east. Evidence from strong ground motions, …             Extracellular control of intracellular drug release for enhanced safety of anti-cancer chemotherapy ▶     Qian Zhu, Haixia Qi, Ziyan Long et al.     The difficulty of controlling drug release at an intracellular level remains a key challenge for maximising drug safety and efficacy. We demonstrate herein a new, efficient and …             Aerosol assisted chemical vapour deposition of gas sensitive SnO2 and Au-functionalised SnO2 nanorods via a non-catalysed vapour solid (VS) mechanism ▶     Stella Vallejos, Soultana Selina, Fatima Ezahra Annanouch et al.     Tin oxide nanorods (NRs) are vapour synthesised at relatively lower temperatures than previously reported and without the need for substrate pre-treatment, via a vapour-solid …             Transient cerebral hypoperfusion and hypertensive events during atrial fibrillation: a plausible mechanism for cognitive impairment ▶     Matteo Anselmino, Stefania Scarsoglio, Andrea Saglietto et al.     Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with an increased risk of dementia and cognitive decline, independent of strokes. Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain this …             Random-phase metasurfaces at optical wavelengths ▶     Anders Pors, Fei Ding, Yiting Chen et al.     Random-phase metasurfaces, in which the constituents scatter light with random phases, have the property that an incident plane wave will diffusely scatter, hereby leading to a …             Numerical investigation of band gaps in 3D printed cantilever-in-mass metamaterials ▶     Awais Qureshi, Bing Li, K. T. Tan     In this research, the negative effective mass behavior of elastic/mechanical metamaterials is exhibited by a cantilever-in-mass structure as a proposed design for creating …             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 …             Multiscale conformal pattern transfer ▶     Kristof Lodewijks, Vladimir Miljkovic, Inès Massiot et al.     We demonstrate a method for seamless transfer from a parent flat substrate of basically any lithographic top-down or bottom-up pattern onto essentially any kind of surface. The …             Robustness of the far-field response of nonlocal plasmonic ensembles ▶     Christos Tserkezis, Johan R. Maack, Zhaowei Liu et al.     Contrary to classical predictions, the optical response of few-nm plasmonic particles depends on particle size due to effects such as nonlocality and electron spill-out. …             Relativistic-microwave theory of ball lightning ▶     H.-C. Wu     Ball lightning, a fireball sometimes observed during lightnings, has remained unexplained. Here we present a comprehensive theory for the phenomenon: At the tip of a lightning …             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. …             Transition-state theory predicts clogging at the microscale ▶     T. van de Laar, S. ten Klooster, K. Schroën et al.     Clogging is one of the main failure mechanisms encountered in industrial processes such as membrane filtration. Our understanding of the factors that govern the build-up of …             Long spin lifetime and large barrier polarisation in single electron transport through a CoFe nanoparticle ▶     R. C. Temple, M. McLaren, R. M. D. Brydson et al.     We have investigated single electron spin transport in individual single crystal bcc Co30Fe70 nanoparticles using scanning tunnelling microscopy with a standard tungsten tip. …             Unraveling nonadiabatic ionization and Coulomb potential effect in strong-field photoelectron holography ▶     Xiaohong Song, Cheng Lin, Zhihao Sheng et al.     Strong field photoelectron holography has been proposed as a means for interrogating the spatial and temporal information of electrons and ions in a dynamic system. After …             Design of High Temperature Ti-Pd-Cr Shape Memory Alloys with Small Thermal Hysteresis ▶     Deqing Xue, Ruihao Yuan, Yumei Zhou et al.     The large thermal hysteresis (ΔT) during the temperature induced martensitic transformation is a major obstacle to the functional stability of shape memory alloys (SMAs), …             Piezo Voltage Controlled Planar Hall Effect Devices ▶     Bao Zhang, Kang-Kang Meng, Mei-Yin Yang et al.     The electrical control of the magnetization switching in ferromagnets is highly desired for future spintronic applications. Here we report on hybrid piezoelectric …             Dimensionality tuning of the electronic structure in Fe3Ga4 magnetic materials ▶     K. O. Moura, L. A. S. de Oliveira, P. F. S. Rosa et al.     This work reports on the dimensionality effects on the magnetic behavior of Fe3Ga4 compounds by means of magnetic susceptibility, electrical resistivity, and specific heat …             Crystal Structure Manipulation of the Exchange Bias in an Antiferromagnetic Film ▶     Wei Yuan, Tang Su, Qi Song et al.     Exchange bias is one of the most extensively studied phenomena in magnetism, since it exerts a unidirectional anisotropy to a ferromagnet (FM) when coupled to an antiferromagnet …             Ultra-broadband achromatic imaging with diffractive photon sieves ▶     Xiaonan Zhao, Jingpei Hu, Yu Lin et al.     Diffractive optical elements suffer from large chromatic aberration due to the strong wavelength-dependent nature in diffraction phenomena, and therefore, diffractive elements …             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 …             Invisibility Cloak Printed on a Photonic Chip ▶     Zhen Feng, Bing-Hong Wu, Yu-Xi Zhao et al.     Invisibility cloak capable of hiding an object can be achieved by properly manipulating electromagnetic field. Such a remarkable ability has been shown in transformation and ray …             Multifarious topological quantum phase transitions in two-dimensional topological superconductors ▶     Xiao-Ping Liu, Yuan Zhou, Yi-Fei Wang et al.     We study the two-dimensional topological superconductors of spinless fermions in a checkerboard-lattice Chern-insulator model. With the short-range p-wave superconducting …             Optical simulation of a Popescu-Rohrlich Box ▶     Wen-Jing Chu, Xiao-Lan Zong, Ming Yang et al.     It is well known that the fair-sampling loophole in Bell test opened by the selection of the state to be measured can lead to post-quantum correlations. In this paper, we make …             Microfluidic neurite guidance to study structure-function relationships in topologically-complex population-based neural networks ▶     Thibault Honegger, Moritz I. Thielen, Soheil Feizi et al.     The central nervous system is a dense, layered, 3D interconnected network of populations of neurons, and thus recapitulating that complexity for in vitro CNS models requires …             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 …             Rapid, High-Resolution Forest Structure and Terrain Mapping over Large Areas using Single Photon Lidar ▶     Anu Swatantran, Hao Tang, Terence Barrett et al.     Single photon lidar (SPL) is an innovative technology for rapid forest structure and terrain characterization over large areas. Here, we evaluate data from an SPL instrument - …             Serum Uric Acid Levels were Dynamically Coupled with Hemoglobin A1c in the Development of Type 2 Diabetes ▶     Fengjiang Wei, Baocheng Chang, Xilin Yang et al.     The aim of the study was to decipher the relationship between serum uric acid (SUA) and glycated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) or fasting plasma glucose (FPG) in both type 2 diabetes …             Hall-plot of the phase diagram for Ba(Fe1−xCox)2As2 ▶     Kazumasa Iida, Vadim Grinenko, Fritz Kurth et al.     The Hall effect is a powerful tool for investigating carrier type and density. For single-band materials, the Hall coefficient is traditionally expressed simply by , where e is …             Impact of Information based Classification on Network Epidemics ▶     Bimal Kumar Mishra, Kaushik Haldar, Durgesh Nandini Sinha     Formulating mathematical models for accurate approximation of malicious propagation in a network is a difficult process because of our inherent lack of understanding of several …             Ultrahigh Frequency (100 MHz–300 MHz) Ultrasonic Transducers for Optical Resolution Medical Imagining ▶     Chunlong Fei, Chi Tat Chiu, Xiaoyang Chen et al.     High resolution ultrasonic imaging requires high frequency wide band ultrasonic transducers, which produce short pulses and highly focused beam. However, currently the frequency …             Mesostructure of Ordered Corneal Nano-nipple Arrays: The Role of 5–7 Coordination Defects ▶     Ken C. Lee, Qi Yu, Uwe Erb     Corneal nano-nipple structures consisting of hexagonally arranged protrusions with diameters around 200 nm have long been known for their antireflection capability and have …             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. The lateral dimensions of the …             Electrically switchable organo–inorganic hybrid for a white-light laser source ▶     Jui-Chieh Huang, Yu-Cheng Hsiao, Yu-Ting Lin et al.     We demonstrate a spectrally discrete white-light laser device based on a photonic bandgap hybrid, which is composed of a soft photonic crystal; i.e., a layer of dye-doped …             An interpolatory ansatz captures the physics of one-dimensional confined Fermi systems ▶     M. E. S. Andersen, A. S. Dehkharghani, A. G. Volosniev et al.     Interacting one-dimensional quantum systems play a pivotal role in physics. Exact solutions can be obtained for the homogeneous case using the Bethe ansatz and bosonisation …             Pure electronic metal-insulator transition at the interface of complex oxides ▶     D. Meyers, Jian Liu, J. W. Freeland et al.     In complex materials observed electronic phases and transitions between them often involve coupling between many degrees of freedom whose entanglement convolutes understanding of …             Effect of experimental laser imperfections on laser wakefield acceleration and betatron source ▶     J. Ferri, X. Davoine, S. Fourmaux et al.     Laser pulses in current ultra-short TW systems are far from being ideal Gaussian beams. The influence of the presence of non-Gaussian features of the laser pulse is investigated …             Combining operando synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy and scanning X-ray diffraction to study lithium ion batteries ▶     Patrick Pietsch, Michael Hess, Wolfgang Ludwig et al.     We present an operando study of a lithium ion battery combining scanning X-ray diffraction (SXRD) and synchrotron radiation X-ray tomographic microscopy (SRXTM) simultaneously …             Multifunctional Fe3O4 @ Au core/shell nanostars: a unique platform for multimode imaging and photothermal therapy of tumors ▶     Yong Hu, Ruizhi Wang, Shige Wang et al.     We herein report the development of multifunctional folic acid (FA)-targeted Fe3O4 @ Au nanostars (NSs) for targeted multi-mode magnetic resonance (MR)/computed tomography …             Quantum chemistry and charge transport in biomolecules with superconducting circuits ▶     L. García-Álvarez, U. Las Heras, A. Mezzacapo et al.     We propose an efficient protocol for digital quantum simulation of quantum chemistry problems and enhanced digital-analog quantum simulation of transport phenomena in …             Tunable electronic properties of graphene through controlling bonding configurations of doped nitrogen atoms ▶     Jia Zhang, Chao Zhao, Na Liu et al.     Single–layer and mono–component doped graphene is a crucial platform for a better understanding of the relationship between its intrinsic electronic properties and atomic bonding …             Effect of ionic radii on the Curie temperature in Ba1-x-ySrxCayTiO3 compounds ▶     A. Berenov, F. Le Goupil, N. Alford     A series of Ba1-x-ySrxCayTiO3 compounds were prepared with varying average ionic radii and cation disorder on A-site. All samples showed typical ferroelectric behavior. A simple …             Homotopy-Theoretic Study & Atomic-Scale Observation of Vortex Domains in Hexagonal Manganites ▶     Jun Li, Fu-Kuo Chiang, Zhen Chen et al.     Essential structural properties of the non-trivial “string-wall-bounded” topological defects in hexagonal manganites are studied through homotopy group theory and spherical …             A novel visualization technique for measuring liquid diffusion coefficient based on asymmetric liquid-core cylindrical lens ▶     Licun Sun, Xiaoyun Pu     A visualization and quantification optical method for measuring binary liquid diffusion coefficient (D) based on an asymmetric liquid-core cylindrical lens (ALCL) is introduced …             Shear-banding Induced Indentation Size Effect in Metallic Glasses ▶     Y. M. Lu, B. A. Sun, L. Z. Zhao et al.     Shear-banding is commonly regarded as the “plasticity carrier” of metallic glasses (MGs), which usually causes severe strain localization and catastrophic failure if unhindered. …             Metal-free carbon nanotubes: synthesis, and enhanced intrinsic microwave absorption properties ▶     Xiaosi Qi, Jianle Xu, Qi Hu et al.     In order to clearly understand the intrinsic microwave absorption properties of carbon nanomaterials, we proposed an efficient strategy to synthesize high purity metal-free …             Horizontally assembled green InGaN nanorod LEDs: scalable polarized surface emitting LEDs using electric-field assisted assembly ▶     Hoo Keun Park, Seong Woong Yoon, Yun Jae Eo et al.     In this study, we report the concerted fabrication process, which is easy to transform the size of active emitting area and produce polarized surface light, using the …             Phase Modulation of Photonic Band Gap Signal ▶     Zhiguo Wang, Mengqin Gao, Abdul Rasheed Mahesar et al.     We first investigate the probe transmission signal (PTS) and the four wave mixing band gap signal (FWM BGS) modulated simultaneously by the relative phase and the nonlinear phase …             Rapid and High-Efficiency Laser-Alloying Formation of ZnMgO Nanocrystals ▶     Peisheng Liu, Hao Wang, Jun Chen et al.     Applications of ZnMgO nanocrystals (NCs), especially in photoelectric detectors, have significant limitations because of the unresolved phase separation in the synthesis process. …             Josephson effects in the junction formed by DIII-class topological and s-wave superconductors with an embedded quantum dot ▶     Zhen Gao, Xiao-Qi Wang, Wan-Fei Shan et al.     We investigate the Josephson effects in the junction formed by the indirect coupling between DIII-class topological and s-wave superconductors via an embedded quantum dot. Due to …             Study of antibacterial mechanism of graphene oxide using Raman spectroscopy ▶     Sitansu Sekhar Nanda, Dong Kee Yi, Kwangmeyung Kim     Graphene oxide (GO) is extensively proposed as an effective antibacterial agent in commercial product packaging and for various biomedical applications. However, the …             Thermodynamic power of non-Markovianity ▶     Bogna Bylicka, Mikko Tukiainen, Dariusz Chruściński et al.     The natural framework to discuss thermodynamics at the quantum level is the theory of open quantum systems. Memory effects arising from strong system-environment correlations may …             Approaching Defect-free Amorphous Silicon Nitride by Plasma-assisted Atomic Beam Deposition for High Performance Gate Dielectric ▶     Shu-Ju Tsai, Chiang-Lun Wang, Hung-Chun Lee et al.     In the past few decades, gate insulators with a high dielectric constant (high-k dielectric) enabling a physically thick but dielectrically thin insulating layer, have been used …             A series of compact rejection filters based on the interaction between spoof SPPs and CSRRs ▶     Qian Zhang, Hao Chi Zhang, Jia Yuan Yin et al.     We propose a method to synthesize several band-rejection filters by etching split-ring resonators (SRRs) on the transmission line for spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), …             Suppression of compensating native defect formation during semiconductor processing via excess carriers ▶     K. Alberi, M. A. Scarpulla     In many semiconductors, compensating defects set doping limits, decrease carrier mobility, and reduce minority carrier lifetime thus limiting their utility in devices. Native …             Control efficacy of complex networks ▶     Xin-Dong Gao, Wen-Xu Wang, Ying-Cheng Lai     Controlling complex networks has become a forefront research area in network science and engineering. Recent efforts have led to theoretical frameworks of controllability to …             Long-range wetting transparency on top of layered metal-dielectric substrates ▶     M. A. Noginov, Yuri A. Barnakov, Vladimir Liberman et al.     It has been recently shown that scores of physical and chemical phenomena (including spontaneous emission, scattering and Förster energy transfer) can be controlled by nonlocal …             Raman scattering and anomalous Stokes–anti-Stokes ratio in MoTe2 atomic layers ▶     Thomas Goldstein, Shao-Yu Chen, Jiayue Tong et al.     Stokes and anti-Stokes Raman scattering are performed on atomic layers of hexagonal molybdenum ditelluride (MoTe2), a prototypical transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) …             Pro-haloacetate Nanoparticles for Efficient Cancer Therapy via Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Kinase Modulation ▶     Santosh K. Misra, Mao Ye, Fatemeh Ostadhossein et al.     Anticancer agents based on haloacetic acids are developed for inhibition of pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase (PDK), an enzyme responsible for reversing the suppression of …             Dual Drug Loaded Biodegradable Nanofibrous Microsphere for Improving Anti-Colon Cancer Activity ▶     Rangrang Fan, Xiaoling Li, Jiaojiao Deng et al.     One of the approaches being explored to increase antitumor activity of chemotherapeutics is to inject drug-loaded microspheres locally to specific anatomic sites, providing for a …             Mechanochemical conversion of brominated POPs into useful oxybromides: a greener approach ▶     Giovanni Cagnetta, Han Liu, Kunlun Zhang et al.     Brominated organic pollutants are considered of great concern for their adverse effect on human health and the environment, so an increasing number of such compounds are being …             Time-varying land subsidence detected by radar altimetry: California, Taiwan and north China ▶     Cheinway Hwang, Yuande Yang, Ricky Kao et al.     Contemporary applications of radar altimetry include sea-level rise, ocean circulation, marine gravity, and icesheet elevation change. Unlike InSAR and GNSS, which are widely …             Optimizing the robustness of electrical power systems against cascading failures ▶     Yingrui Zhang, Osman Yağan     Electrical power systems are one of the most important infrastructures that support our society. However, their vulnerabilities have raised great concern recently due to several …             Human Protein Subcellular Localization with Integrated Source and Multi-label Ensemble Classifier ▶     Xiaotong Guo, Fulin Liu, Ying Ju et al.     Predicting protein subcellular location is necessary for understanding cell function. Several machine learning methods have been developed for computational prediction of primary …             Real world ocean rogue waves explained without the modulational instability ▶     Francesco Fedele, Joseph Brennan, Sonia Ponce de León et al.     Since the 1990s, the modulational instability has commonly been used to explain the occurrence of rogue waves that appear from nowhere in the open ocean. However, the importance …             Heart rhythm complexity impairment in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis ▶     Yen-Hung Lin, Chen Lin, Yi-Heng Ho et al.     Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death in patients with advanced renal disease. The objective of this study was to investigate impairments in heart rhythm …             Quantifying and predicting Drosophila larvae crawling phenotypes ▶     Maximilian N. Günther, Guilherme Nettesheim, George T. Shubeita     The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is a widely used model for cell biology, development, disease, and neuroscience. The fly’s power as a genetic model for disease and …             Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Multispecies Oral Biofilm Resistance to Chlorhexidine Treatment ▶     Ya Shen, Jia Zhao, César de la Fuente-Núñez et al.     We investigate recovery of multispecies oral biofilms following chlorhexidine gluconate (CHX) and CHX with surface modifiers (CHX-Plus) treatment. Specifically, we examine the …             A Local Learning Rule for Independent Component Analysis ▶     Takuya Isomura, Taro Toyoizumi     Humans can separately recognize independent sources when they sense their superposition. 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