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12 July 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Physical Sciences               Electrical Detection of the Helical Spin Texture in a p-type Topological Insulator Sb2Te3 ▶     C. H. Li, O. M. J. van ‘t Erve, Y. Y. Li et al.     The surface states of 3D topological insulators (TIs) exhibit a helical spin texture with spin locked at right angles with momentum. The chirality of this spin texture is …             Corrigendum: Synthesis of Reduced Graphene Oxide-Modified LiMn0.75Fe0.25PO4 Microspheres by Salt-Assisted Spray Drying for High-Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries ▶     Myeong-Seong Kim, Hyun-Kyung Kim, Suk-Woo Lee et al.                 Unravelling the community structure of the climate system by using lags and symbolic time-series analysis ▶     Giulio Tirabassi, Cristina Masoller     Many natural systems can be represented by complex networks of dynamical units with modular structure in the form of communities of densely interconnected nodes. Unraveling this …             The In-Plane Anisotropy of WTe2 Investigated by Angle-Dependent and Polarized Raman Spectroscopy ▶     Qingjun Song, Xingchen Pan, Haifeng Wang et al.     Tungsten ditelluride (WTe2) is a semi-metallic layered transition metal dichalcogenide with a stable distorted 1T phase. The reduced symmetry of this system leads to in-plane …             A Comprehensive study of the Effects of Chain Morphology on the Transport Properties of Amorphous Polymer Films ▶     Dan Mendels, Nir Tessler     Organic semiconductors constitute one of the main components underlying present-day paradigm shifting optoelectronic applications. Among them, polymer based semiconductors are …             Electronic and magnetic properties of H-terminated graphene nanoribbons deposited on the topological insulator Sb2Te3 ▶     Wei Zhang, Farideh Hajiheidari, Yan Li et al.     Magnetism in zigzag graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) has received enormous attention recently, due to the one-dimensional nature of this phenomenon, as well as its potential …             An approach towards a perfect thermal diffuser ▶     Krishna P. Vemuri, Prabhakar R. Bandaru     A method for the most efficient removal of heat, through an anisotropic composite, is proposed. It is shown that a rational placement of constituent materials, in the radial and …             Facile synthesis of hybrid CNTs/NiCo2S4 composite for high performance supercapacitors ▶     Delong Li, Youning Gong, Chunxu Pan     In this work, a novel carbon nanotubes (CNTs)/NiCo2S4 composite for high performance supercapacitors was prepared via a simple chemical bath deposition combined with a post-anion …             Capturing relativistic wakefield structures in plasmas using ultrashort high-energy electrons as a probe ▶     C. J. Zhang, J. F. Hua, X. L. Xu et al.     A new method capable of capturing coherent electric field structures propagating at nearly the speed of light in plasma with a time resolution as small as a few femtoseconds is …             Single-Crystal X-ray Structures of conductive π-Stacking Dimers of Tetrakis(alkylthio)benzene Radical Cations ▶     Xiaoyu Chen, Feng Gao, Wuqin Yang     Salts containing radical cations of 1,2,4,5-tetrakis(isopropylthio)benzene (TPB) and 1,2,4,5-tetrakis(ethylthio) benzene (TEB) have been successfully synthesized with . These …             Enhanced magneto-optical effects in composite coaxial nanowires embedded with Ag nanoparticles ▶     Qianwen Liu, Xuanli Zheng, Jialun He et al.     Nanostructures decorated with noble metal nanoparticles (NPs) exhibit potential for use in highly sensitive optoelectronic devices through the localized surface plasmon resonance …             Enhanced Conversion Efficiencies in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Achieved through Self-Assembled Platinum(II) Metallacages ▶     Zuoli He, Zhiqiang Hou, Yonglei Xing et al.     Two-component self-assembly supramolecular coordination complexes with particular photo-physical property, wherein unique donors are combined with a single metal acceptor, can be …             Domain wall pinning in FeCoCu bamboo-like nanowires ▶     Eider Berganza, Cristina Bran, Miriam Jaafar et al.     The three dimensional nature of cylindrical magnetic nanowires has opened a new way to control the domain configuration as well as the magnetization reversal process. The pinning …             Emergence of superconductivity in (NH3)yMxMoSe2 (M: Li, Na and K) ▶     Xiao Miao, Saki Nishiyama, Lu Zheng et al.     We report syntheses of new superconducting metal-doped MoSe2 materials (MxMoSe2). The superconducting MxMoSe2 samples were prepared using a liquid NH3 technique, and can be …             Inverse focusing inside turbid media by creating an opposite virtual objective ▶     Yeh-Wei Yu, Szu-Yu Chen, Che-Chu Lin et al.     Limited by the penetration depth, imaging of thick bio-tissues can be achieved only by epi-detection geometry. Applications based on forward-emitted signals or bidirectional …             Experimental realization of an entanglement access network and secure multi-party computation ▶     X.-Y. Chang, D.-L. Deng, X.-X. Yuan et al.     To construct a quantum network with many end users, it is critical to have a cost-efficient way to distribute entanglement over different network ends. We demonstrate an …             Optical vortex beam generator at nanoscale level ▶     Denis Garoli, Pierfrancesco Zilio, Yuri Gorodetski et al.     Optical beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) can find tremendous applications in several fields. In order to apply these particular beams in photonic integrated devices …             Enhanced optoelectronic performances of vertically aligned hexagonal boron nitride nanowalls-nanocrystalline diamond heterostructures ▶     Kamatchi Jothiramalingam Sankaran, Duc Quang Hoang, Srinivasu Kunuku et al.     Field electron emission (FEE) properties of vertically aligned hexagonal boron nitride nanowalls (hBNNWs) grown on Si have been markedly enhanced through the use of nitrogen …             Corrigendum: Determining Chemically and Spatially Resolved Atomic Profile of Low Contrast Interface Structure with High Resolution ▶     Maheswar Nayak, P. C. Pradhan, G. S. Lodha et al.                 How two-dimensional bending can extraordinarily stiffen thin sheets ▶     V. Pini, J. J. Ruz, P. M. Kosaka et al.     Curved thin sheets are ubiquitously found in nature and manmade structures from macro- to nanoscale. Within the framework of classical thin plate theory, the stiffness of thin …             Multi-functionality Redefined with Colloidal Carotene Carbon Nanoparticles for Synchronized Chemical Imaging, Enriched Cellular Uptake and Therapy ▶     Santosh K. Misra, Prabuddha Mukherjee, Huei-Huei Chang et al.     Typically, multiplexing high nanoparticle uptake, imaging, and therapy requires careful integration of three different functions of a multiscale molecular-particle assembly. …             Reconstructing a spatially heterogeneous epidemic: Characterising the geographic spread of 2009 A/H1N1pdm infection in England ▶     Paul J. Birrell, Xu-Sheng Zhang, Richard G. Pebody et al.     Understanding how the geographic distribution of and movements within a population influence the spatial spread of infections is crucial for the design of interventions to curb …             Nanoparticle-Mediated Delivery of Irbesartan Induces Cardioprotection from Myocardial Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury by Antagonizing Monocyte-Mediated Inflammation ▶     Yasuhiro Nakano, Tetsuya Matoba, Masaki Tokutome et al.     Myocardial ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury limits the therapeutic effect of early reperfusion therapy for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), in which the recruitment of …             Alexandrite-like effect in purple flowers analyzed with newly devised round RGB diagram ▶     Ichiro Kasajima     The gemstone alexandrite is known for its feature to change color depending on the spectral quality of the incident light. Thus, the stone looks green when illuminated by white …             Quantification of intracellular payload release from polymersome nanoparticles ▶     Edoardo Scarpa, Joanne L. Bailey, Agnieszka A. Janeczek et al.     Polymersome nanoparticles (PMs) are attractive candidates for spatio-temporal controlled delivery of therapeutic agents. Although many studies have addressed cellular uptake of …             Fully Mechanically Controlled Automated Electron Microscopic Tomography ▶     Jinxin Liu, Hongchang Li, Lei Zhang et al.     Knowledge of three-dimensional (3D) structures of each individual particles of asymmetric and flexible proteins is essential in understanding those proteins’ functions; but their …             Oxidative Stress Induced by Pt(IV) Pro-drugs Based on the Cisplatin Scaffold and Indole Carboxylic Acids in Axial Position ▶     Dina Tolan, Valentina Gandin, Liam Morrison et al.     The use of Pt(IV) complexes as pro-drugs that are activated by intracellular reduction is a widely investigated approach to overcome the limitations of Pt(II) anticancer agents. …             From Ewald sphere to Ewald shell in nonlinear optics ▶     Huang Huang, Cheng-Ping Huang, Chao Zhang et al.     Ewald sphere is a simple vector scheme to depict the X-ray Bragg diffraction in a crystal. A similar method, known as the nonlinear Ewald sphere, was employed to illustrate …             Fabricating of high-performance functional graphene fibers for micro-capacitive energy storage ▶     Tianju Fan, Chunyan Zhao, Zhuangqing Xiao et al.     Although graphene is a typical two dimensional materials, it has converted to multi-dimensional materials with many unique properties. As an example, the one dimensional graphene …             Dual focused coherent beams for three-dimensional optical trapping and continuous rotation of metallic nanostructures ▶     Xiaohao Xu, Chang Cheng, Yao Zhang et al.     Metallic nanoparticles and nanowires are extremely important for nanoscience and nanotechnology. Techniques to optically trap and rotate metallic nanostructures can enable their …             Compact characterization of liquid absorption and emission spectra using linear variable filters integrated with a CMOS imaging camera ▶     Yuhang Wan, John A. Carlson, Benjamin A. Kesler et al.     A compact analysis platform for detecting liquid absorption and emission spectra using a set of optical linear variable filters atop a CMOS image sensor is presented. The working …             Corrigendum: Molecular orbital analysis of the hydrogen bonded water dimer ▶     Bo Wang, Wanrun Jiang, Xin Dai et al.                 Polarity control in WSe2 double-gate transistors ▶     Giovanni V. Resta, Surajit Sutar, Yashwanth Balaji et al.     As scaling of conventional silicon-based electronics is reaching its ultimate limit, considerable effort has been devoted to find new materials and new device concepts that could …             Oxidative Unzipping and Transformation of High Aspect Ratio Boron Nitride Nanotubes into “White Graphene Oxide” Platelets ▶     Pranjal Nautiyal, Archana Loganathan, Richa Agrawal et al.     Morphological and chemical transformations in boron nitride nanotubes under high temperature atmospheric conditions is probed in this study. We report atmospheric oxygen induced …             Detecting Topological Defect Dark Matter Using Coherent Laser Ranging System ▶     Wanpeng Yang, Jianxiao Leng, Shuangyou Zhang et al.     In the last few decades, optical frequency combs with high intensity, broad optical bandwidth, and directly traceable discrete wavelengths have triggered rapid developments in …             Analysis of temporal evolution of quantum dot surface chemistry by surface-enhanced Raman scattering ▶     İlker Doğan, Ryan Gresback, Tomohiro Nozaki et al.     Temporal evolution of surface chemistry during oxidation of silicon quantum dot (Si-QD) surfaces were probed using surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). A monolayer of …             Molecular Dynamics Simulations Reveal that Water Diffusion between Graphene Oxide Layers is Slow ▶     Ram Devanathan, Dylan Chase-Woods, Yongsoon Shin et al.     Membranes made of stacked layers of graphene oxide (GO) hold the tantalizing promise of revolutionizing desalination and water filtration if selective transport of molecules can …             Manipulating one-way space wave and its refraction by time-reversal and parity symmetry breaking ▶     Yin Poo, Cheng He, Chao Xiao et al.     One-way transmission and negative refraction are the exotic wave properties founded in photonic crystals which attract a great attention due to their promising applications in …             The role of graphene formed on silver nanowire transparent conductive electrode in ultra-violet light emitting diodes ▶     Tae Hoon Seo, Seula Lee, Kyung Hyun Min et al.     This paper reports a highly reliable transparent conductive electrode (TCE) that integrates silver nanowires (AgNWs) and high-quality graphene as a protecting layer. Graphene …             A nanometric Rh overlayer on a metal foil surface as a highly efficient three-way catalyst ▶     Satoshi Misumi, Hiroshi Yoshida, Satoshi Hinokuma et al.     Pulsed arc-plasma (AP) deposition of an Rh overlayer on an Fe–Cr–Al stainless steel foil produced a composite material that exhibited high activity for automotive three-way …             Valley-engineered ultra-thin silicon for high-performance junctionless transistors ▶     Seung-Yoon Kim, Sung-Yool Choi, Wan Sik Hwang et al.     Extremely thin silicon show good mechanical flexibility because of their 2-D like structure and enhanced performance by the quantum confinement effect. In this paper, we …             Mie Resonance-Modulated Spatial Distributions of Photogenerated Carriers in Poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl)/Silicon Nanopillars ▶     Eunah Kim, Yunae Cho, Ahrum Sohn et al.     Organic/silicon hybrid solar cells have great potential as low-cost, high-efficiency photovoltaic devices. The superior light trapping capability, mediated by the optical …             Aqueous Phase Synthesis and Enhanced Field Emission Properties of ZnO-Sulfide Heterojunction Nanowires ▶     Guojing Wang, Zhengcao Li, Mingyang Li et al.     ZnO-CdS, ZnO-ZnS, and ZnO-Ag2S core-shell heterojunction structures were fabricated using low-temperature, facile and simple aqueous solution approaches. The polycrystalline …             Controllable light capsules employing modified Bessel-Gauss beams ▶     Lei Gong, Weiwei Liu, Qian Zhao et al.     We report, in theory and experiment, on a novel class of controlled light capsules with nearly perfect darkness, directly employing intrinsic properties of modified Bessel-Gauss …             Positron spectroscopy of point defects in the skyrmion-lattice compound MnSi ▶     Markus Reiner, Andreas Bauer, Michael Leitner et al.     Outstanding crystalline perfection is a key requirement for the formation of new forms of electronic order in a vast number of widely different materials. Whereas excellent …             Effect of solution treatment on stress corrosion cracking behavior of an as-forged Mg-Zn-Y-Zr alloy ▶     S. D. Wang, D. K. Xu, B. J. Wang et al.     Effect of solid solution treatment (T4) on stress corrosion cracking (SCC) behavior of an as-forged Mg-6.7%Zn-1.3%Y-0.6%Zr (in wt.%) alloy has been investigated using slow strain …             Ab initio engineering of materials with stacked hexagonal tin frameworks ▶     Junping Shao, Clément Beaufils, Aleksey N. Kolmogorov     The group-IV tin has been hypothesized to possess intriguing electronic properties in an atom-thick hexagonal form. An attractive pathway of producing sizable 2D crystallites of …             Effects of Water on Structure and Dynamics of Trehalose Glasses at Low Water Contents and its Relationship to Preservation Outcomes ▶     Lindong Weng, Shima Ziaei, Gloria D. Elliott     Dry preservation of biologics in sugar glasses is regarded as a promising alternative to conventional cryopreservation. Evidence from various studies has suggested that there is …             A Memory of Majorana Modes through Quantum Quench ▶     Ming-Chiang Chung, Yi-Hao Jhu, Pochung Chen et al.     We study the sudden quench of a one-dimensional p-wave superconductor through its topological signature in the entanglement spectrum. We show that the long-time evolution of the …             Spatial k-dispersion engineering of spoof surface plasmon polaritons for customized absorption ▶     Yongqiang Pang, Jiafu Wang, Hua Ma et al.     Absorption of electromagnetic waves in a medium is generally manipulated by controlling the frequency dispersion of constitutive parameters. However, it is still challenging to …             High-Resolution Group Quantization Phase Processing Method in Radio Frequency Measurement Range ▶     Baoqing Du, Dazheng Feng, Yaohua Tang et al.     Aiming at the more complex frequency translation, the longer response time and the limited measurement precision in the traditional phase processing, a high-resolution phase …             A proposed experimental diagnosing of specular Andreev reflection using the spin orbit interaction ▶     Yanling Yang, Bing Zhao, Ziyu Zhang et al.     Based on the Dirac-Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation, we theoretically investigate the chirality-resolved transport properties through a superconducting heterojunction in the …             Evaluation of treadmill exercise effect on muscular lipid profiles of diabetic fatty rats by nanoflow liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry ▶     Jong Cheol Lee, Il Yong Kim, Yeri Son et al.     We compare comprehensive quantitative profiling of lipids at the molecular level from skeletal muscle tissues (gastrocnemius and soleus) of Zucker diabetic fatty rats and Zucker …             A novel Si/Sn composite with entangled ribbon structure as anode materials for lithium ion battery ▶     Jinbo Wu, Zhengwang Zhu, Hongwei Zhang et al.     A novel Si/Sn composite anode material with unique ribbon structure was synthesized by Mechanical Milling (MM) and the structural transformation was studied in the present work. …             Methotrexate Nanoparticles Prepared with Codendrimer from Polyamidoamine (PAMAM) and Oligoethylene Glycols (OEG) Dendrons: Antitumor Efficacy in Vitro and in Vivo ▶     Yanna Zhao, Yifei Guo, Ran Li et al.     The novel methotrexate-loaded nanoparticles (MTX/PGD NPs) prepared with amphiphilic codendrimer PGD from polyamidoamine and oligothylene glycol dendrons were obtained via …             In Vivo Investigation of the Effectiveness of a Hyper-viscoelastic Model in Simulating Brain Retraction ▶     Ping Li, Weiwei Wang, Chenxi Zhang et al.     Intraoperative brain retraction leads to a misalignment between the intraoperative positions of the brain structures and their previous positions, as determined from preoperative …             Paramagnetic Structures within a Microfluidic Channel for Enhanced Immunomagnetic Isolation and Surface Patterning of Cells ▶     Chen Sun, Hamid Hassanisaber, Richard Yu et al.     In this report, we demonstrate a unique method for embedding magnetic structures inside a microfluidic channel for cell isolation. We used a molding process to fabricate these …             Investigating the dynamics of surface-immobilized DNA nanomachines ▶     Katherine E. Dunn, Martin A. Trefzer, Steven Johnson et al.     Surface-immobilization of molecules can have a profound influence on their structure, function and dynamics. Toehold-mediated strand displacement is often used in solution to …             Erratum: Tailoring superradiance to design artificial quantum systems ▶     Paolo Longo, Christoph H. Keitel, Jörg Evers                 Ionoacoustic tomography of the proton Bragg peak in combination with ultrasound and optoacoustic imaging ▶     Stephan Kellnberger, Walter Assmann, Sebastian Lehrack et al.     Ions provide a more advantageous dose distribution than photons for external beam radiotherapy, due to their so-called inverse depth dose deposition and, in particular a …             Noise filtering of composite pulses for singlet-triplet qubits ▶     Xu-Chen Yang, Xin Wang     Semiconductor quantum dot spin qubits are promising candidates for quantum computing. In these systems, the dynamically corrected gates offer considerable reduction of gate …             Corrigendum: A Versatile Multiple Target Detection System Based on DNA Nano-assembled Linear FRET Arrays ▶     Yansheng Li, Hongwu Du, Wenqian Wang et al.                 Inverse scattering transform analysis of rogue waves using local periodization procedure ▶     Stéphane Randoux, Pierre Suret, Gennady El     The nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) stands out as the dispersive nonlinear partial differential equation that plays a prominent role in the modeling and understanding of …             Optic-null space medium for cover-up cloaking without any negative refraction index materials ▶     Fei Sun, Sailing He     With the help of optic-null medium, we propose a new way to achieve invisibility by covering up the scattering without using any negative refraction index materials. Compared …             Airflow-aligned helical nanofilament (B4) phase in topographic confinement ▶     Min-Jun Gim, Hanim Kim, Dong Chen et al.     We investigated a controlled helical nanofilament (HNF: B4) phase under topographic confinement with airflow that can induce a shear force and temperature gradient on the sample. …             Dielectrophoretic behaviours of microdroplet sandwiched between LN substrates ▶     Lipin Chen, Shaobei Li, Bolin Fan et al.     We demonstrate a sandwich configuration for microfluidic manipulation in LiNbO3 platform based on photovoltaic effect, and the behaviours of dielectric microdroplet under this …             Local coexistence of VO2 phases revealed by deep data analysis ▶     Evgheni Strelcov, Anton Ievlev, Alex Belianinov et al.     We report a synergistic approach of micro-Raman spectroscopic mapping and deep data analysis to study the distribution of crystallographic phases and ferroelastic domains in a …             Tunable C2N Membrane for High Efficient Water Desalination ▶     Yanmei Yang, Weifeng Li, Hongcai Zhou et al.     Water scarcity represents one of the most serious global problems of our time and challenges the advancements in desalination techniques. Although water-filtering architectures …             Corrigendum: Artificial Gauge Field and Topological Phase in a Conventional Two-dimensional Electron Gas with Antidot Lattices ▶     Likun Shi, Wenkai Lou, F. Cheng et al.                 Structural Signature of Plasticity Unveiled by Nano-Scale Viscoelastic Contact in a Metallic Glass ▶     Y. M. Lu, J. F. Zeng, S. Wang et al.     Room-temperature plasticity in metallic glasses (MGs) is commonly associated with local structural heterogeneity; however, direct observation of the subtle structural change …             Static and Dynamical Properties of heavy actinide Monopnictides of Lutetium ▶     Showkat H. Mir, Prakash C. Jha, M. S. Islam et al.     In this work, density functional theory within the framework of generalized gradient approximation has been used to investigate the structural, elastic, mechanical, and phonon …             Security of quantum key distribution with multiphoton components ▶     Hua-Lei Yin, Yao Fu, Yingqiu Mao et al.     Most qubit-based quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols extract the secure key merely from single-photon component of the attenuated lasers. However, with the …             Point contact resistive switching memory based on self-formed interface of Al/ITO ▶     Qiuhong Li, Linjun Qiu, Xianhua Wei et al.     Point contact resistive switching random access memory (RRAM) has been achieved by directly sputtering Al electrodes on indium tin oxide (ITO) conductive glasses. The …             Evolution equation for quantum coherence ▶     Ming-Liang Hu, Heng Fan     The estimation of the decoherence process of an open quantum system is of both theoretical significance and experimental appealing. Practically, the decoherence can be easily …             Fabrication of InGaN thin-film transistors using pulsed sputtering deposition ▶     Takeki Itoh, Atsushi Kobayashi, Kohei Ueno et al.     We report the first demonstration of operational InGaN-based thin-film transistors (TFTs) on glass substrates. The key to our success was coating the glass substrate with a thin …             Investigation of absorptance and emissivity of thermal control coatings on Mg–Li alloys and OES analysis during PEO process ▶     Zhongping Yao, Qixing Xia, Pengfei Ju et al.     Thermal control ceramic coatings on Mg–Li alloys have been successfully prepared in silicate electrolyte system by plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) method. The PEO coatings …             Neural networks within multi-core optic fibers ▶     Eyal Cohen, Dror Malka, Amir Shemer et al.     Hardware implementation of artificial neural networks facilitates real-time parallel processing of massive data sets. Optical neural networks offer low-volume 3D connectivity …             Effect of the environment on the secondary metabolic profile of Tithonia diversifolia: a model for environmental metabolomics of plants ▶     Bruno Leite Sampaio, RuAngelie Edrada-Ebel, Fernando Batista Da Costa     Tithonia diversifolia is an invasive weed commonly found in tropical ecosystems. In this work, we investigate the influence of different abiotic environmental factors on the …             Utilizing the micron sized non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma inside the animal body for the tumor treatment application ▶     Shahriar Mirpour, Somayeh Piroozmand, Neda Soleimani et al.     This study aimed to evaluate the effects of micron sized non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma inside the animal body on breast cancer tumor. The μ-plasma jet consists of …             An investigation of the antibacterial ability and cytotoxicity of a novel cu-bearing 317L stainless steel ▶     Da Sun, Dake Xu, Chunguang Yang et al.     In order to solve the challenging problem of microbial infections caused by microorganisms on medical implants, it is imperative to develop novel antimicrobial biomaterials. This …             Phenotypic flexibility of gape anatomy fine-tunes the aquatic prey-capture system of newts ▶     Sam Van Wassenbergh, Egon Heiss     A unique example of phenotypic flexibility of the oral apparatus is present in newts (Salamandridae) that seasonally change between an aquatic and a terrestrial habitat. Newts …             Engineering de novo disulfide bond in bacterial α-type carbonic anhydrase for thermostable carbon sequestration ▶     Byung Hoon Jo, Tae Yoon Park, Hyun June Park et al.     Exploiting carbonic anhydrase (CA), an enzyme that rapidly catalyzes carbon dioxide hydration, is an attractive biomimetic route for carbon sequestration due to its environmental …             Estimation of brain network ictogenicity predicts outcome from epilepsy surgery ▶     M. Goodfellow, C. Rummel, E. Abela et al.     Surgery is a valuable option for pharmacologically intractable epilepsy. However, significant post-operative improvements are not always attained. This is due in part to our …             Enhancement of Low-field Magnetoresistance in Self-Assembled Epitaxial La0.67Ca0.33MnO3:NiO and La0.67Ca0.33MnO3:Co3O4 Composite Films via Polymer-Assisted Deposition ▶     Meng Zhou, Yuling Li, Il Jeon et al.     Polymer-assisted deposition method has been used to fabricate self-assembled epitaxial La0.67Ca0.33MnO3:NiO and La0.67Ca0.33MnO3:Co3O4 films on LaAlO3 substrates. Compared to …             High Thermal Gradient in Thermo-electrochemical Cells by Insertion of a Poly(Vinylidene Fluoride) Membrane ▶     Syed Waqar Hasan, Suhana Mohd Said, Mohd Faizul Mohd Sabri et al.     Thermo-Electrochemical cells (Thermocells/TECs) transform thermal energy into electricity by means of electrochemical potential disequilibrium between electrodes induced by a …             Investigation of Localized States in GaAsSb Epilayers Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy ▶     Xian Gao, Zhipeng Wei, Fenghuan Zhao et al.     We report the carrier dynamics in GaAsSb ternary alloy grown by molecular beam epitaxy through comprehensive spectroscopic characterization over a wide temperature range. A …             Integrated hollow microneedle-optofluidic biosensor for therapeutic drug monitoring in sub-nanoliter volumes ▶     Sahan A. Ranamukhaarachchi, Celestino Padeste, Matthias Dübner et al.     Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) typically requires painful blood drawn from patients. We propose a painless and minimally-invasive alternative for TDM using hollow microneedles …             Effect of water presence on choline chloride-2urea ionic liquid and coating platings from the hydrated ionic liquid ▶     Cuiling Du, Binyuan Zhao, Xiao-Bo Chen et al.     In the present study, hygroscopicity of the choline chloride-urea (ChCl-2Urea) ionic liquid (IL) was confirmed through Karl-Fisher titration examination, indicating that the …             Recipe for High Moment Materials with Rare-earth and 3d Transition Metal Composites ▶     Carmine Autieri, P. Anil Kumar, Dirk Walecki et al.     Materials with high volume magnetization are perpetually needed for the generation of sufficiently large magnetic fields by writer pole of magnetic hard disks, especially for …             Rescue of endemic states in interconnected networks with adaptive coupling ▶     F. Vazquez, M. Ángeles Serrano, M. San Miguel     We study the Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible model of epidemic spreading on two layers of networks interconnected by adaptive links, which are rewired at random to avoid …             Quantum-enhanced multiparameter estimation in multiarm interferometers ▶     Mario A. Ciampini, Nicolò Spagnolo, Chiara Vitelli et al.     Quantum metrology is the state-of-the-art measurement technology. It uses quantum resources to enhance the sensitivity of phase estimation over that achievable by classical …             Nonlinear wave interactions between short pulses of different spatio-temporal extents ▶     Y. Sivan, S. Rozenberg, A. Halstuch et al.     We study the nonlinear wave interactions between short pulses of different spatio-temporal extents. Unlike the well-understood mixing of quasi-monochromatic waves, this …             The stability of aluminium oxide monolayer and its interface with two-dimensional materials ▶     Ting Ting Song, Ming Yang, Jian Wei Chai et al.     The miniaturization of future electronic devices requires the knowledge of interfacial properties between two-dimensional channel materials and high-κ dielectrics in the limit of …             Polarization domain wall pulses in a microfiber-based topological insulator fiber laser ▶     Jingmin Liu, Xingliang Li, Shumin Zhang et al.     Topological insulators (TIs), are novel two-dimension materials, which can act as effective saturable absorbers (SAs) in a fiber laser. Moreover, based on the evanescent wave …             The Effect of Crystal Face of Fe2O3 on the Electrochemical Performance for Lithium-ion Batteries ▶     Minmin Chen, Enyue Zhao, Qingbo Yan et al.     Fe2O3 nanorods exposing (001) and (010) plane as well as Fe2O3 nanosheets exposing (001) plane have been successfully synthesized. Fe2O3 nanosheets exhibit better cycle …             High-Quality Crystal Growth and Characteristics of AlGaN-Based Solar-Blind Distributed Bragg Reflectors with a Tri-layer Period Structure ▶     Jianjun Chang, Dunjun Chen, Lianhong Yang et al.     To realize AlGaN-based solar-blind ultraviolet distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs), a novel tri-layer AlGaN/AlInN/AlInGaN periodical structure that differs from the traditional …             Fully integrated multi-optoelectronic synthesizer for THz pumping source in wireless communications with rich backup redundancy and wide tuning range ▶     Junjie Xu, Lianping Hou, Qiufang Deng et al.     We report a monolithic photonic integrated circuit (PIC) for THz communication applications. The PIC generates up to 4 optical frequency lines which can be mixed in a separate …             Penternary chalcogenides nanocrystals as catalytic materials for efficient counter electrodes in dye-synthesized solar cells ▶     Faruk Özel, Adem Sarılmaz, Bilal İstanbullu et al.     The penternary chalcogenides Cu2CoSn(SeS)4 and Cu2ZnSn(SeS)4 were successfully synthesized by hot-injection method, and employed as a catalytic materials for efficient counter …             Perfluorodecyltrichlorosilane-based seed-layer for improved chemical vapour deposition of ultrathin hafnium dioxide films on graphene ▶     Julia Kitzmann, Alexander Göritz, Mirko Fraschke et al.     We investigate the use of perfluorodecyltrichlorosilane-based self-assembled monolayer as seeding layer for chemical vapour deposition of HfO2 on large area CVD graphene. The …             Suppressing disease spreading by using information diffusion on multiplex networks ▶     Wei Wang, Quan-Hui Liu, Shi-Min Cai et al.     Although there is always an interplay between the dynamics of information diffusion and disease spreading, the empirical research on the systemic coevolution mechanisms …             Quantum memristors ▶     P. Pfeiffer, I. L. Egusquiza, M. Di Ventra et al.     Technology based on memristors, resistors with memory whose resistance depends on the history of the crossing charges, has lately enhanced the classical paradigm of computation …             Analysis of Triplet Exciton Loss Pathways in PTB7:PC71BM Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells ▶     Hannes Kraus, Michael C. Heiber, Stefan Väth et al.     A strategy for increasing the conversion efficiency of organic photovoltaics has been to increase the VOC by tuning the energy levels of donor and acceptor components. However, …             Phase diagram of quantum critical system via local convertibility of ground state ▶     Si-Yuan Liu, Quan Quan, Jin-Jun Chen et al.     We investigate the relationship between two kinds of ground-state local convertibility and quantum phase transitions in XY model. The local operations and classical …             Improved antifouling properties and selective biofunctionalization of stainless steel by employing heterobifunctional silane-polyethylene glycol overlayers and avidin-biotin technology ▶     Ville Hynninen, Leena Vuori, Markku Hannula et al.     A straightforward solution-based method to modify the biofunctionality of stainless steel (SS) using heterobifunctional silane-polyethylene glycol (silane-PEG) overlayers is …             Dual-channel microcantilever heaters for volatile organic compound detection and mixture analysis ▶     Ifat Jahangir, Goutam Koley     We report on novel microcantilever heater sensors with separate AlGaN/GaN heterostructure based heater and sensor channels to perform advanced volatile organic compound (VOC) …             Noble metal-free bifunctional oxygen evolution and oxygen reduction acidic media electro-catalysts ▶     Prasad Prakash Patel, Moni Kanchan Datta, Oleg I. Velikokhatnyi et al.     Identification of low cost, highly active, durable completely noble metal-free electro-catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells, …             “Calibration-on-the-spot”: How to calibrate an EMCCD camera from its images ▶     Kim I. Mortensen, Henrik Flyvbjerg     In order to count photons with a camera, the camera must be calibrated. Photon counting is necessary, e.g., to determine the precision of localization-based super-resolution …             Comparison of large networks with sub-sampling strategies ▶     Waqar Ali, Anatol E. Wegner, Robert E. Gaunt et al.     Networks are routinely used to represent large data sets, making the comparison of networks a tantalizing research question in many areas. Techniques for such analysis vary from …             Conformational Heterogeneity of Bax Helix 9 Dimer for Apoptotic Pore Formation ▶     Chenyi Liao, Zhi Zhang, Justin Kale et al.     Helix α9 of Bax protein can dimerize in the mitochondrial outer membrane (MOM) and lead to apoptotic pores. However, it remains unclear how different conformations of the dimer …             3D patterned stem cell differentiation using thermo-responsive methylcellulose hydrogel molds ▶     Wonjae Lee, Jon Park     Tissue-specific patterned stem cell differentiation serves as the basis for the development, remodeling, and regeneration of the multicellular structure of the native tissues. We …             Rapid and label-free microfluidic neutrophil purification and phenotyping in diabetes mellitus ▶     Han Wei Hou, Chayakorn Petchakup, Hui Min Tay et al.     Advanced management of dysmetabolic syndromes such as diabetes will benefit from a timely mechanistic insight enabling personalized medicine approaches. Herein, we present a …             Bipolar switching in chalcogenide phase change memory ▶     N. Ciocchini, M. Laudato, M. Boniardi et al.     Phase change materials based on chalcogenides are key enabling technologies for optical storage, such as rewritable CD and DVD, and recently also electrical nonvolatile memory, …             Continuous hydrogenation of ethyl levulinate to γ-valerolactone and 2-methyl tetrahydrofuran over alumina doped Cu/SiO2 catalyst: the potential of commercialization ▶     Junlin Zheng, Junhua Zhu, Xuan Xu et al.     Hydrogenation of levulinic acid (LA) and its esters to produce γ-valerolactone (GVL) and 2-methyl tetrahydrofuran (2-MTHF) is a key step for the utilization of cellulose derived …             A compact tunable polarized X-ray source based on laser-plasma helical undulators ▶     J. Luo, M. Chen, M. Zeng et al.     Laser wakefield accelerators have great potential as the basis for next generation compact radiation sources because of their extremely high accelerating gradients. However, …             Self-assembled targeted nanoparticles based on transferrin-modified eight-arm-polyethylene glycol–dihydroartemisinin conjugate ▶     Kefeng Liu, Lin Dai, Chunxiao Li et al.     Poor delivery of insoluble anticancer drugs has so far precluded their clinical application. In this study, an efficient tumor targeted-nanoparticle delivery system, …             Exotic skyrmion crystals in chiral magnets with compass anisotropy ▶     J. P. Chen, Dan-Wei Zhang, J. -M. Liu     The compass-type anisotropy appears naturally in diverse physical contexts with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) such as transition metal oxides and cold atomic gases etc, and it …             Flexible All-organic, All-solution Processed Thin Film Transistor Array with Ultrashort Channel ▶     Wei Xu, Zhanhao Hu, Huimin Liu et al.     Shrinking the device dimension has long been the pursuit of the semiconductor industry to increase the device density and operation speed. In the application of thin film …             LOCC indistinguishable orthogonal product quantum states ▶     Xiaoqian Zhang, Xiaoqing Tan, Jian Weng et al.     We construct two families of orthogonal product quantum states that cannot be exactly distinguished by local operation and classical communication (LOCC) in the quantum system of …             Optimal processes for probabilistic work extraction beyond the second law ▶     Vasco Cavina, Andrea Mari, Vittorio Giovannetti     According to the second law of thermodynamics, for every transformation performed on a system which is in contact with an environment of fixed temperature, the average extracted …             Pioneering In Situ Recrystallization during Bead Milling: A Top-down Approach to Prepare Zeolite A Nanocrystals ▶     Chokkalingam Anand, Yudai Yamaguchi, Zhendong Liu et al.     Top-down approach has been viewed as an efficient and straightforward method to prepare nanosized zeolites. Yet, the mechanical breaking of zeolite causes amorphization, which …             Origin of Nanobubbles Electrochemically Formed in a Magnetic Field: Ionic Vacancy Production in Electrode Reaction ▶     Ryoichi Aogaki, Atsushi Sugiyama, Makoto Miura et al.     As a process complementing conventional electrode reactions, ionic vacancy production in electrode reaction was theoretically examined; whether reaction is anodic or cathodic, …             Purification of Logic-Qubit Entanglement ▶     Lan Zhou, Yu-Bo Sheng     Recently, the logic-qubit entanglement shows its potential application in future quantum communication and quantum network. However, the entanglement will suffer from the noise …             Gate dependence of upper critical field in superconducting (110) LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface ▶     S. C. Shen, B. B. Chen, H. X. Xue et al.     The fundamental parameters of the superconducting state such as coherence length and pairing strength are essential for understanding the nature of superconductivity. These …             Monolayer MoS2 Bandgap Modulation by Dielectric Environments and Tunable Bandgap Transistors ▶     Junga Ryou, Yong-Sung Kim, Santosh KC et al.     Semiconductors with a moderate bandgap have enabled modern electronic device technology, and the current scaling trends down to nanometer scale have introduced two-dimensional …             In vivo label-free measurement of lymph flow velocity and volumetric flow rates using Doppler optical coherence tomography ▶     Cedric Blatter, Eelco F. J. Meijer, Ahhyun S. Nam et al.     Direct in vivo imaging of lymph flow is key to understanding lymphatic system function in normal and disease states. Optical microscopy techniques provide the resolution required …             Surface effects of vapour-liquid-solid driven Bi surface droplets formed during molecular-beam-epitaxy of GaAsBi ▶     J. A. Steele, R. A. Lewis, J. 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