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26 July 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Physical Sciences               Polaritonic Rabi and Josephson Oscillations ▶     Amir Rahmani, Fabrice P. Laussy     The dynamics of coupled condensates is a wide-encompassing problem with relevance to superconductors, BECs in traps, superfluids, etc. Here, we provide a unified picture of this …             Enhancement of recombination process using silver and graphene quantum dot embedded intermediate layer for efficient organic tandem cells ▶     Nhu Thuy Ho, Huynh Ngoc Tien, Se-Joeng Jang et al.     High performance of organic tandem solar cell is largely dependent on transparent and conductive intermediate layer (IML). The current work reports the design and fabrication of …             Nonlinear force dependence on optically bound micro-particle arrays in the evanescent fields of fundamental and higher order microfibre modes ▶     Aili Maimaiti, Daniela Holzmann, Viet Giang Truong et al.     Particles trapped in the evanescent field of an ultrathin optical fibre interact over very long distances via multiple scattering of the fibre-guided fields. In ultrathin fibres …             Truly trapped rainbow by utilizing nonreciprocal waveguides ▶     Kexin Liu, Sailing He     The concept of a “trapped rainbow” has generated considerable interest for optical data storage and processing. It aims to trap different frequency components of the wave packet …             Nano-Wilhelmy investigation of dynamic wetting properties of AFM tips through tip-nanobubble interaction ▶     Yuliang Wang, Huimin Wang, Shusheng Bi et al.     The dynamic wetting properties of atomic force microscopy (AFM) tips are of much concern in many AFM-related measurement, fabrication, and manipulation applications. In this …             Controllable Phase Transformation and Mid-infrared Emission from Er3+-Doped Hexagonal-/Cubic-NaYF4 Nanocrystals ▶     Dandan Yang, Dongdan Chen, Huilin He et al.     The morphology of hexagonal phase NaYF4:Er3+ nanorods synthesized by hydrothermal method changed greatly after a continuing calcination, along with a phase transformation to …             The Effect of Water and Confinement on Self-Assembly of Imidazolium Based Ionic Liquids at Mica Interfaces ▶     H.-W. Cheng, J.-N. Dienemann, P. Stock et al.     Tuning chemical structure and molecular layering of ionic liquids (IL) at solid interfaces offers leverage to tailor performance of ILs in applications such as super-capacitors, …             Fuzzy nanostructure growth on Ta/Fe by He plasma irradiation ▶     Shin Kajita, Tomoya Ishida, Noriyasu Ohno et al.     In this study, we show from helium (He) plasma irradiation to tantalum and iron surfaces that morphology changes in nanoscale occur on the both metals. In particular, from …             Demonstration of quantum synchronization based on second-order quantum coherence of entangled photons ▶     Runai Quan, Yiwei Zhai, Mengmeng Wang et al.     Based on the second-order quantum interference between frequency entangled photons that are generated by parametric down conversion, a quantum strategic algorithm for …             N-dimensional measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution with N + 1 un-characterized sources: zero quantum-bit-error-rate case ▶     Won-Young Hwang, Hong-Yi Su, Joonwoo Bae     We study N-dimensional measurement-device-independent quantum-key-distribution protocol where one checking state is used. Only assuming that the checking state is a superposition …             One-Pot Synthesis of Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic N-Doped Graphene Quantum Dots via Exfoliating and Disintegrating Graphite Flakes ▶     Na-Jung Kuo, Yu-Syuan Chen, Chien-Wei Wu et al.     Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) have drawn tremendous attention on account of their numerous alluring properties and a wide range of application potentials. Here, we report that …             Parallel Quantum Circuit in a Tunnel Junction ▶     Omid Faizy Namarvar, Ghassen Dridi, Christian Joachim     Spectral analysis of 1 and 2-states per line quantum bus are normally sufficient to determine the effective Vab(N) electronic coupling between the emitter and receiver states …             Effect of Oxygen-deficiencies on Resistance Switching in Amorphous YFe0.5Cr0.5O3−d films ▶     Xianjie Wang, Chang Hu, Yongli Song et al.     Herein, we demonstrate the contribution of the oxygen-deficiencies on the bipolar resistance switching (RS) properties of amorphous-YFe0.5Cr0.5O3−d (a-YFCO) films. The a-YFCO …             Memory window engineering of Ta2O5−x oxide-based resistive switches via incorporation of various insulating frames ▶     Ah Rahm Lee, Gwang Ho Baek, Tae Yoon Kim et al.     Three-dimensional (3D) stackable memory frames, including nano-scaled crossbar arrays, are one of the most reliable building blocks to meet the demand of high-density …             The 7 × 1 Fermi Surface Reconstruction in a Two-dimensional f -electron Charge Density Wave System: PrTe3 ▶     Eunsook Lee, D. H. Kim, Hyun Woo Kim et al.     The electronic structure of a charge density wave (CDW) system PrTe3 and its modulated structure in the CDW phase have been investigated by employing ARPES, XAS, Pr 4 f RPES, and …             Rolling ball sifting algorithm for the augmented visual inspection of carotid bruit auscultation ▶     Adam Huang, Chung-Wei Lee, Hon-Man Liu     Carotid bruits are systolic sounds associated with turbulent blood flow through atherosclerotic stenosis in the neck. They are audible intermittent high-frequency (above 200 Hz) …             Prefrontal responses to Stroop tasks in subjects with post-traumatic stress disorder assessed by functional near infrared spectroscopy ▶     Amarnath Yennu, Fenghua Tian, Alexa Smith-Osborne et al.     Studies on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) showing attentional deficits have implicated abnormal activities in the frontal lobe. In this study, we utilized multichannel …             A high-content image-based method for quantitatively studying context-dependent cell population dynamics ▶     Colleen M. Garvey, Erin Spiller, Danika Lindsay et al.     Tumor progression results from a complex interplay between cellular heterogeneity, treatment response, microenvironment and heterocellular interactions. Existing approaches to …             Atomic Step Formation on Sapphire Surface in Ultra-precision Manufacturing ▶     Rongrong Wang, Dan Guo, Guoxin Xie et al.     Surfaces with controlled atomic step structures as substrates are highly relevant to desirable performances of materials grown on them, such as light emitting diode (LED) …             Efficient embedding of complex networks to hyperbolic space via their Laplacian ▶     Gregorio Alanis-Lobato, Pablo Mier, Miguel A. Andrade-Navarro     The different factors involved in the growth process of complex networks imprint valuable information in their observable topologies. How to exploit this information to …             Cooling the Motion of Diamond Nanocrystals in a Magneto-Gravitational Trap in High Vacuum ▶     Jen-Feng Hsu, Peng Ji, Charles W. Lewandowski et al.     Levitated diamond nanocrystals with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in high vacuum have been proposed as a unique system for experiments in fundamental quantum mechanics, including …             Twenty-Eight Orders of Parametric Resonance in a Microelectromechanical Device for Multi-band Vibration Energy Harvesting ▶     Yu Jia, Sijun Du, Ashwin A. Seshia     This paper contends to be the first to report the experimental observation of up to 28 orders of parametric resonance, which has thus far only been envisioned in the theoretical …             The influence of porosity and structural parameters on different kinds of gas hydrate dissociation ▶     S. Y. Misyura     Methane hydrate dissociation at negative temperatures was studied experimentally for different artificial and natural samples, differing by macro- and micro-structural …             Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Assisted by Radical Capturer for Tracking of Plasmon-Driven Redox Reaction ▶     Xuefeng Yan, Lingzhi Wang, Xianjun Tan et al.     The deep understanding about the photocatalytic reaction induced by the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) effect is desirable but remains a considerable challenge due to the …             Ca(OH)2-Catalyzed Condensation of Aldehydes with Methyl ketones in Dilute Aqueous Ethanol: A Comprehensive Access to α,β-Unsaturated Ketones ▶     Lei Yu, Mengting Han, Jie Luan et al.     Cheap, abundant but seldom-employed Ca(OH)2 was found to be an excellent low-loading (5–10 mol%) catalyst for Claisen-Schmidt condensation of aldehydes with methyl ketones under …             Hexagonal Boron Nitride assisted transfer and encapsulation of large area CVD graphene ▶     Viktoryia Shautsova, Adam M. Gilbertson, Nicola C. G. Black et al.     We report a CVD hexagonal boron nitride (hBN-) assisted transfer method that enables a polymer-impurity free transfer process and subsequent top encapsulation of large-area …             A tunable acoustic metamaterial with double-negativity driven by electromagnets ▶     Zhe Chen, Cheng Xue, Li Fan et al.     With the advance of the research on acoustic metamaterials, the limits of passive metamaterials have been observed, which prompts the studies concerning actively tunable …             Interaction of Sensitizing Dyes with Nanostructured TiO2 Film in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Using Terahertz Spectroscopy ▶     William Ghann, Aunik Rahman, Anis Rahman et al.     The objective of this investigation was to shed light on the nature of interaction of different organic dyes and an inorganic dye, Ruthenium (II) polypyridine complex, with TiO2 …             One-pot hydrothermal synthesis of CuBi co-doped mesoporous zeolite Beta for the removal of NOx by selective catalytic reduction with ammonia ▶     Zhiguo Xie, Xiaoxia Zhou, Huixia Wu et al.     A series of CuBi co-doped mesoporous zeolite Beta (CuxBiy-mBeta) were prepared by a facile one-pot hydrothermal treatment approach and were characterized by XRD, N2 …             Enhanced Lithium Storage in Reduced Graphene Oxide-supported M-phase Vanadium(IV) Dioxide Nanoparticles ▶     Hee Jo Song, Mingu Choi, Jae-Chan Kim et al.     Vanadium(IV) dioxide (VO2) has drawn attention as one of the most attractive electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), hence, much research has been conducted in …             Graphene-augmented nanofiber scaffolds demonstrate new features in cells behaviour ▶     Jekaterina Kazantseva, Roman Ivanov, Michael Gasik et al.     Three-dimensional (3D) customized scaffolds capable to mimic a native extracellular matrix open new frontiers in cells manipulation and advanced therapy. The major challenge is …             Demonstration of a robust magnonic spin wave interferometer ▶     Naoki Kanazawa, Taichi Goto, Koji Sekiguchi et al.     Magnonics is an emerging field dealing with ultralow power consumption logic circuits, in which the flow of spin waves, rather than electric charges, transmits and processes …             Mechanism of the entire overdischarge process and overdischarge-induced internal short circuit in lithium-ion batteries ▶     Rui Guo, Languang Lu, Minggao Ouyang et al.     Lithium-ion batteries connected in series are prone to be overdischarged. Overdischarge results in various side effects, such as capacity degradation and internal short circuit …             Magnetic coupling at rare earth ferromagnet/transition metal ferromagnet interfaces: A comprehensive study of Gd/Ni ▶     T. D. C. Higgs, S. Bonetti, H. Ohldag et al.     Thin film magnetic heterostructures with competing interfacial coupling and Zeeman energy provide a fertile ground to study phase transition between different equilibrium states …             Dynamic defect correlations dominate activated electronic transport in SrTiO3 ▶     Paul C. Snijders, Cengiz Şen, Michael P. McConnell et al.     Strontium titanate (SrTiO3, STO) is a critically important material for the study of emergent electronic phases in complex oxides, as well as for the development of applications …             Hollow ZnxCd1−xS nanospheres with enhanced photocatalytic activity under visible light ▶     Ying Jin, Haoyun Zhang, Chuang Song et al.     Formation of solid solutions is a good strategy to acquire materials with special properties and bring forth new type of applications or enhance the performance of currently …             Reconstructing direct and indirect interactions in networked public goods game ▶     Xiao Han, Zhesi Shen, Wen-Xu Wang et al.     Network reconstruction is a fundamental problem for understanding many complex systems with unknown interaction structures. In many complex systems, there are indirect …             Reduction of the spatially mutual coupling between dual-polarized patch antennas using coupled metamaterial slabs ▶     Bai Cao Pan, Wen Xuan Tang, Mei Qing Qi et al.     Mutual coupling inside antenna array is usually caused by two routes: signal leakage via conducting currents on the metallic background or surface wave along substrates; radio …             The intrinsic defect structure of exfoliated MoS2 single layers revealed by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy ▶     Péter Vancsó, Gábor Zsolt Magda, János Pető et al.     MoS2 single layers have recently emerged as strong competitors of graphene in electronic and optoelectronic device applications due to their intrinsic direct bandgap. However, …             A Reactive 1O2 - Responsive Combined Treatment System of Photodynamic and Chemotherapy for Cancer ▶     Xiaojun Wang, Guoqing Meng, Song Zhang et al.     The development of reactive oxygen species (ROS)-responsive drug delivery and drug release has gradually attracted much attention in recent years as a promising therapeutic …             Chemo-Mechanical Characteristics of Mud Formed from Environmental Dust Particles in Humid Ambient Air ▶     Ghassan Hassan, B. S. Yilbas, Syed A. M. Said et al.     Mud formed from environmental dust particles in humid ambient air significantly influences the performance of solar harvesting devices. This study examines the characterization …             Order parameter analysis for low-dimensional behaviors of coupled phase-oscillators ▶     Jian Gao, Can Xu, Yuting Sun et al.     Coupled phase-oscillators are important models related to synchronization. Recently, Ott-Antonsen(OA) ansatz is developed and used to get low-dimensional collective behaviors in …             Advantage of straight walk instability in turning maneuver of multilegged locomotion: a robotics approach ▶     Shinya Aoi, Takahiro Tanaka, Soichiro Fujiki et al.     Multilegged locomotion improves the mobility of terrestrial animals and artifacts. Using many legs has advantages, such as the ability to avoid falling and to tolerate leg …             Security of six-state quantum key distribution protocol with threshold detectors ▶     Go Kato, Kiyoshi Tamaki     The security of quantum key distribution (QKD) is established by a security proof, and the security proof puts some assumptions on the devices consisting of a QKD system. Among …             A fast electrochromic polymer based on TEMPO substituted polytriphenylamine ▶     Lvlv Ji, Yuyu Dai, Shuanma Yan et al.     A novel strategy to obtain rapid electrochromic switching response by introducing 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperidinyloxy (TEMPO) moiety into polytriphenylamine backbone has been …             Thermal explosion in oscillating ambient conditions ▶     Vasily Novozhilov     Thermal explosion problem for a medium with oscillating ambient temperature at its boundaries is considered. This is a new problem in thermal explosion theory, not previously …             Reverse engineering of a Hamiltonian by designing the evolution operators ▶     Yi-Hao Kang, Ye-Hong Chen, Qi-Cheng Wu et al.     We propose an effective and flexible scheme for reverse engineering of a Hamiltonian by designing the evolution operators to eliminate the terms of Hamiltonian which are hard to …             Halides with Fifteen Aliphatic C–H···Anion Interaction Sites ▶     Genggongwo Shi, Zahra Aliakbar Tehrani, Dongwook Kim et al.     Since the aliphatic C–H···anion interaction is relatively weak, anion binding using hydrophobic aliphatic C–H (Cali–H) groups has generally been considered not possible without …             Nonlinear dynamics and instability of aqueous dissolution of silicate glasses and minerals ▶     Yifeng Wang, Carlos F. Jove-Colon, Kristopher L. Kuhlman     Aqueous dissolution of silicate glasses and minerals plays a critical role in global biogeochemical cycles and climate evolution. The reactivity of these materials is also …             Noninvasive, label-free, three-dimensional imaging of melanoma with confocal photothermal microscopy: Differentiate malignant melanoma from benign tumor tissue ▶     Jinping He, Nan Wang, Hiromichi Tsurui et al.     Skin cancer is one of the most common cancers. Melanoma accounts for less than 2% of skin cancer cases but causes a large majority of skin cancer deaths. Early detection of …             Role of Zn doping in oxidative stress mediated cytotoxicity of TiO2 nanoparticles in human breast cancer MCF-7 cells ▶     Maqusood Ahamed, M. A. Majeed Khan, Mohd Javed Akhtar et al.     We investigated the effect of Zn-doping on structural and optical properties as well as cellular response of TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) in human breast cancer MCF-7 cells. A …             Low temperature and high field regimes of connected kagome artificial spin ice: the role of domain wall topology ▶     Katharina Zeissler, Megha Chadha, Edmund Lovell et al.     Artificial spin ices are frustrated magnetic nanostructures where single domain nanobars act as macrosized spins. In connected kagome artificial spin ice arrays, reversal occurs …             Osmolyte cooperation affects turgor dynamics in plants ▶     Alfredo Argiolas, Gian Luigi Puleo, Edoardo Sinibaldi et al.     Scientists have identified turgor-based actuation as a fundamental mechanism in plant movements. Plant cell turgor is generated by water influx due to the osmolyte concentration …             Correlative multiple porosimetries for reservoir sandstones with adoption of a new reference-sample-guided computed-tomographic method ▶     Jae Hwa Jin, Junho Kim, Jeong-Yil Lee et al.     One of the main interests in petroleum geology and reservoir engineering is to quantify the porosity of reservoir beds as accurately as possible. A variety of direct …             FeOx-TiO2 Film with Different Microstructures Leading to Femtosecond Transients with Different Properties: Biological Implications under Visible Light ▶     Sami Rtimi, Cesar Pulgarin, Victor A. Nadtochenko et al.     This study presents the first report addressing the effect of FeOx-TiO2 films microstructure on the transients detected by fast spectroscopy related to the long-range bacterial …             γ irradiation induced effects on bismuth active centres and related photoluminescence properties of Bi/Er co-doped optical fibres ▶     D. Sporea, L. Mihai, D. Neguţ et al.     We investigate the effects of γ irradiation on bismuth active centres (BACs) and related photoluminescence properties of bismuth/erbium co-doped silica fibre (BEDF), [Si] ~28, …             Epidemic spreading on complex networks with community structures ▶     Clara Stegehuis, Remco van der Hofstad, Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden     Many real-world networks display a community structure. We study two random graph models that create a network with similar community structure as a given network. One model …             Scattering engineering in continuously shaped metasurface: An approach for electromagnetic illusion ▶     Yinghui Guo, Lianshan Yan, Wei Pan et al.     The control of electromagnetic waves scattering is critical in wireless communications and stealth technology. Discrete metasurfaces not only increase the design and fabrication …             The effects of three-dimensional defects on one-way surface plasmon propagation for photonic topological insulators comprised of continuum media ▶     S. Ali Hassani Gangaraj, Andrei Nemilentsau, George W. Hanson     We have investigated one-way surface plasmon-polaritons (SPPs) at the interface of a continuum magnetoplasma material and metal, in the presence of three-dimensional surface …             A new way towards high-efficiency thermally activated delayed fluorescence devices via external heavy-atom effect ▶     Wenzhi Zhang, Jiangjiang Jin, Zhi Huang et al.     Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) mechanism is a significant method that enables the harvesting of both triplet and singlet excitons for emission. However, up to …             All-optical modulation in Mid-Wavelength Infrared using porous Si membranes ▶     Sung Jin Park, Ammar Zakar, Vera L. Zerova et al.     We demonstrate for the first time the possibility of all-optical modulation of self-standing porous Silicon (pSi) membrane in the Mid-Wavelength Infrared (MWIR) range using …             General existence of locally distinguishable maximally entangled states only with two-way classical communication ▶     Guojing Tian, Xia Wu, Ya Cao et al.     It is known that there exist two locally operational settings, local operations with one-way and two-way classical communication. And recently, some sets of maximally entangled …             Synergistic Effect of Surface Plasmonic particles and Surface Passivation layer on ZnO Nanorods Array for Improved Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting ▶     Yichong Liu, Xiaoqin Yan, Zhuo Kang et al.     One-dimensional zinc oxide nanorods array exhibit excellent electron mobility and thus hold great potential as photoanode for photoelelctrochemical water splitting. However, the …             Generation and propagation of a sine-azimuthal wavefront modulated Gaussian beam ▶     Guanming Lao, Zhaohui Zhang, Meilan Luo et al.     We introduce a method for modulating the Gaussian beam by means of sine-azimuthal wavefront and carry out the experimental generation. The analytical propagation formula of such …             Probing the structural evolution of ruthenium doped germanium clusters: Photoelectron spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations ▶     Yuanyuan Jin, Shengjie Lu, Andreas Hermann et al.     We present a combined experimental and theoretical study of ruthenium doped germanium clusters, RuGen− (n = 3–12), and their corresponding neutral species. Photoelectron spectra …             Capillary-induced Homogenization of Matrix in Paper: A Powerful Approach for the Quantification of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Using Mass Spectrometry Imaging ▶     Maico de Menezes, Diogo Noin de Oliveira, Rodrigo Ramos Catharino     Herein we present a novel approach for the quantification of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) using mass spectrometry imaging. This strategy uses a filter paper …             Nanohelices from planar polymer self-assembled in carbon nanotubes ▶     Hongjin Fu, Shuqiong Xu, Yunfang Li     The polymer possessing with planar structure can be activated and guided to encapsulate the inner space of SWNT and form a helix through van der Waals interaction and the π-π …             Magnetic field effects in dye-sensitized solar cells controlled by different cell architecture ▶     M. Klein, R. Pankiewicz, M. Zalas et al.     The charge recombination and exciton dissociation are generally recognized as the basic electronic processes limiting the efficiency of photovoltaic devices. In this work, we …             Tunable angle-independent refractive index sensor based on Fano resonance in integrated metal and graphene nanoribbons ▶     Meiyan Pan, Zhaoxing Liang, Yu Wang et al.     We propose a novel mechanism to construct a tunable and ultracompact refractive index sensor by using the Fano resonance in metal-graphene hybrid nanostructure. Plasmon modes in …             Symmetric and antisymmetric forms of the Pauli master equation ▶     A. Y. Klimenko     When applied to matter and antimatter states, the Pauli master equation (PME) may have two forms: time-symmetric, which is conventional, and time-antisymmetric, which is …             Quantum coherent tractor beam effect for atoms trapped near a nanowaveguide ▶     Mark Sadgrove, Sandro Wimberger, Síle Nic Chormaic     We propose several schemes to realize a tractor beam effect for ultracold atoms in the vicinity of a few-mode nanowaveguide. Atoms trapped near the waveguide are transported in a …             A new kind of 2D topological insulators BiCN with a giant gap and its substrate effects ▶     Botao Fu, Yanfeng Ge, Wenyong Su et al.     Based on DFT calculation, we predict that BiCN, i.e., bilayer Bi films passivated with -CN group, is a novel 2D Bi-based material with highly thermodynamic stability, and …             Magnetic Tunnel Junction Mimics Stochastic Cortical Spiking Neurons ▶     Abhronil Sengupta, Priyadarshini Panda, Parami Wijesinghe et al.     Brain-inspired computing architectures attempt to mimic the computations performed in the neurons and the synapses in the human brain in order to achieve its efficiency in …             A building block for hardware belief networks ▶     Behtash Behin-Aein, Vinh Diep, Supriyo Datta     Belief networks represent a powerful approach to problems involving probabilistic inference, but much of the work in this area is software based utilizing standard deterministic …             Green superlubricity of Nitinol 60 alloy against steel in presence of castor oil ▶     Qunfeng Zeng, Guangneng Dong, Jean Michel Martin     In the present work, first, we show that sliding Nitinol 60 alloy against steel under castor oil lubrication exhibits a new case of superlubricity (coefficient of friction CoF ≪ …             Experimental multistable states for small network of coupled pendula ▶     Dawid Dudkowski, Juliusz Grabski, Jerzy Wojewoda et al.     Chimera states are dynamical patterns emerging in populations of coupled identical oscillators where different groups of oscillators exhibit coexisting synchronous and incoherent …             Playing the role of weak clique property in link prediction: A friend recommendation model ▶     Chuang Ma, Tao Zhou, Hai-Feng Zhang     An important fact in studying link prediction is that the structural properties of networks have significant impacts on the performance of algorithms. Therefore, how to improve …             Experimental controlled-NOT gate simulation with thermal light ▶     Tao Peng, Vincenzo Tamma, Yanhua Shih     We report a recent experimental simulation of a controlled-NOT gate operation based on polarization correlation measurements of thermal fields in photon-number fluctuations. The …             Quantitative Comparison of Photothermal Heat Generation between Gold Nanospheres and Nanorods ▶     Zhenpeng Qin, Yiru Wang, Jaona Randrianalisoa et al.     Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) are widely used for biomedical applications due to unique optical properties, established synthesis methods, and biological compatibility. Despite …             The Large Scale Synthesis of Aligned Plate Nanostructures ▶     Yang Zhou, Philip Nash, Tian Liu et al.     We propose a novel technique for the large-scale synthesis of aligned-plate nanostructures that are self-assembled and self-supporting. The synthesis technique involves …             Universal diffusion-limited injection and the hook effect in organic thin-film transistors ▶     Chuan Liu, Gunel Huseynova, Yong Xu et al.     The general form of interfacial contact resistance was derived for organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) covering various injection mechanisms. Devices with a broad range of …             Bio-Inspired Miniature Direction Finding Acoustic Sensor ▶     Daniel Wilmott, Fabio Alves, Gamani Karunasiri     A narrowband MEMS direction finding sensor has been developed based on the mechanically coupled ears of the Ormia Ochracea fly. The sensor consists of two wings coupled at the …             The Abiotic Chemistry of Thiolated Acetate Derivatives and the Origin of Life ▶     Kuhan Chandru, Alexis Gilbert, Christopher Butch et al.     Thioesters and thioacetic acid (TAA) have been invoked as key reagents for the origin of life as activated forms of acetate analogous to acetyl-CoA. These species could have …             On-chip sub-terahertz surface plasmon polariton transmission lines with mode converter in CMOS ▶     Yuan Liang, Hao Yu, Jincai Wen et al.     An on-chip low-loss and high conversion efficiency plasmonic waveguide converter is demonstrated at sub-THz in CMOS. By introducing a subwavelength periodic corrugated structure …             Non-invasive evaluation of neuroprotective drug candidates for cerebral infarction by PET imaging of mitochondrial complex-I activity ▶     Tatsuya Fukuta, Tomohiro Asai, Takayuki Ishii et al.     The development of a diagnostic technology that can accurately determine the pathological progression of ischemic stroke and evaluate the therapeutic effects of cerebroprotective …             Assessment of Ovarian Cancer Tumors Treated with Intraperitoneal Cisplatin Therapy by Nanoscopic X-ray Fluorescence Imaging ▶     Brecht Laforce, Charlotte Carlier, Bart Vekemans et al.     Ovarian cancer is amongst the most common types of cancer in women, with a relatively low overall cure rate of approximately 30%. This is therefore an important incentive to urge …             An extreme internal solitary wave event observed in the northern South China Sea ▶     Xiaodong Huang, Zhaohui Chen, Wei Zhao et al.     With characteristics of large amplitude and strong current, internal solitary wave (ISW) is a major hazard to marine engineering and submarine navigation; it also has significant …             A Redox-Nucleophilic Dual-Reactable Probe for Highly Selective and Sensitive Detection of H2S: Synthesis, Spectra and Bioimaging ▶     Changyu Zhang, Runyu Wang, Longhuai Cheng et al.     Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is an important signalling molecule with multiple biological functions. The reported H2S fluorescent probes are majorly based on redox or nucleophilic …             Epigenetic silencing of miR-19a-3p by cold atmospheric plasma contributes to proliferation inhibition of the MCF-7 breast cancer cell ▶     Seungyeon Lee, Hyunkyung Lee, Hansol Bae et al.     Cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) has been proposed as a useful cancer treatment option after showing higher induction of cell death in cancer cells than in normal cells. Although a …             Dynamics of membrane nanotubes coated with I-BAR ▶     Younes F. Barooji, Andreas Rørvig-Lund, Szabolcs Semsey et al.     Membrane deformation is a necessary step in a number of cellular processes such as filopodia and invadopodia formation and has been shown to involve membrane shaping proteins …             Corrigendum: Highly Efficient and Scalable Separation of Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes via Weak Field Centrifugation ▶     Wieland G. Reis, R. Thomas Weitz, Michel Kettner et al.                 Corrigendum: Fast generation of three-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state based on the Lewis-Riesenfeld invariants in coupled cavities ▶     Xiao-Bin Huang, Ye-Hong Chen, Zhe Wang                 Bio-compatible organic humidity sensor transferred to arbitrary surfaces fabricated using single-cell-thick onion membrane as both the substrate and sensing layer ▶     Memoon Sajid, Shahid Aziz, Go Bum Kim et al.     A bio-compatible disposable organic humidity sensor has been fabricated that can be transferred to any arbitrary target surface. Single cell thick onion membrane has been used as …             Switching of magnetic easy-axis using crystal orientation for large perpendicular coercivity in CoFe2O4 thin film ▶     Sagar E. Shirsath, Xiaoxi Liu, Yukiko Yasukawa et al.     Perpendicular magnetization and precise control over the magnetic easy axis in magnetic thin film is necessary for a variety of applications, particularly in magnetic recording …             Secure information transport by transverse localization of light ▶     Marco Leonetti, Salman Karbasi, Arash Mafi et al.     A single-photon beating with itself can produce even the most elaborate optical fringe pattern. However, the large amount of information enclosed in such a pattern is typically …             Highly luminescent InP/GaP/ZnS QDs emitting in the entire color range via a heating up process ▶     Joong Pill Park, Jae-Joon Lee, Sang-Wook Kim     InP-based quantum dots (QDs) have attracted much attention for use in optical applications, and several types of QDs such as InP/ZnS, InP/ZnSeS, and InP/GaP/ZnS have been …             A Superamphiphobic Sponge with Mechanical Durability and a Self-Cleaning Effect ▶     Daewon Kim, Hwon Im, Moo Jin Kwak et al.     A robust superamphiphobic sponge (SA-sponge) is proposed by using a single initiated chemical vapor deposition (i-CVD) process. …             Poly(amino carbonate urethane)-based biodegradable, temperature and pH-sensitive injectable hydrogels for sustained human growth hormone delivery ▶     V. H. Giang Phan, Thavasyappan Thambi, Huu Thuy Trang Duong et al.     In this study, a new pH-/temperature-sensitive, biocompatible, biodegradable, and injectable hydrogel based on poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(amino carbonate urethane) (PEG-PACU) …             Label-Free Detection of Single Living Bacteria via Electrochemical Collision Event ▶     Ji Young Lee, Byung-Kwon Kim, Mijeong Kang et al.     We detected single living bacterial cells on ultramicroelectrode (UME) using a single-particle collision method and optical microscopic methods. The number of collision events …             Optimizing laser-driven proton acceleration from overdense targets ▶     A. Stockem Novo, M. C. Kaluza, R. A. Fonseca et al.     We demonstrate how to tune the main ion acceleration mechanism in laser-plasma interactions to collisionless shock acceleration, thus achieving control over the final ion beam …             Environmental Effects on Hysteresis of Transfer Characteristics in Molybdenum Disulfide Field-Effect Transistors ▶     Yoshihiro Shimazu, Mitsuki Tashiro, Satoshi Sonobe et al.     Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has recently received much attention for nanoscale electronic and photonic applications. To explore the intrinsic properties and enhance the …             Deformation twinning induced decomposition of lamellar LPSO structure and its re-precipitation in an Mg-Zn-Y alloy ▶     X. H. Shao, S. J. Zheng, D. Chen et al.     The high hardness or yield strength of an alloy is known to benefit from the presence of small-scale precipitation, whose hardening effect is extensively applied in various …             Modulation Instability and Phase-Shifted Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Recurrence ▶     O. Kimmoun, H. C. Hsu, H. Branger et al.     Instabilities are common phenomena frequently observed in nature, sometimes leading to unexpected catastrophes and disasters in seemingly normal conditions. One prominent form of …             Highly efficient single-junction GaAs thin-film solar cell on flexible substrate ▶     Sunghyun Moon, Kangho Kim, Youngjo Kim et al.     There has been much interest in developing a thin-film solar cell because it is lightweight and flexible. The GaAs thin-film solar cell is a top contender in the thin-film solar …             3D Imaging of Nanoparticle Distribution in Biological Tissue by Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy ▶     Y. Gimenez, B. Busser, F. Trichard et al.     Nanomaterials represent a rapidly expanding area of research with huge potential for future medical applications. Nanotechnology indeed promises to revolutionize diagnostics, …             Temperature Assisted in-Situ Small Angle X-ray Scattering Analysis of Ph-POSS/PC Polymer Nanocomposite ▶     Ramdayal Yadav, Minoo Naebe, Xungai Wang et al.     Inorganic/organic nanofillers have been extensively exploited to impart thermal stability to polymer nanocomposite via various strategies that can endure structural changes when …             Efficient second-harmonic imaging of collagen in histological slides using Bessel beam excitation ▶     Nelly Vuillemin, Pierre Mahou, Delphine Débarre et al.     Second-harmonic generation (SHG) is the most specific label-free indicator of collagen accumulation in widespread pathologies such as fibrosis, and SHG-based measurements hold …             Self-Similar Random Process and Chaotic Behavior In Serrated Flow of High Entropy Alloys ▶     Shuying Chen, Liping Yu, Jingli Ren et al.     The statistical and dynamic analyses of the serrated-flow behavior in the nanoindentation of a high-entropy alloy, Al0.5CoCrCuFeNi, at various holding times and temperatures, are …             Subject-Specific Effect of Metallic Body Accessories on Path Loss of Dynamic on-Body Propagation Channels ▶     H. A. Rahim, M. Abdulmalek, P. J. Soh et al.     This paper presents the investigation of path loss variation for subject-specific on-body radio propagation channels, considering the effect of metallic spectacles and loop like …             Corrigendum: The impact of working memory and the “process of process modelling” on model quality: Investigating experienced versus inexperienced modellers ▶     Markus Martini, Jakob Pinggera, Manuel Neurauter et al.                 Griffiths phase and long-range correlations in a biologically motivated visual cortex model ▶     M. Girardi-Schappo, G. S. Bortolotto, J. J. Gonsalves et al.     Activity in the brain propagates as waves of firing neurons, namely avalanches. These waves’ size and duration distributions have been experimentally shown to display a stable …             Prevention of PVDF ultrafiltration membrane fouling by coating MnO2 nanoparticles with ozonation ▶     Wenzheng Yu, Matthew Brown, Nigel. J. D. Graham     Pre-treatment is normally required to reduce or control the fouling of ultrafiltration (UF) membranes in drinking water treatment process. Current pre-treatment methods, such as …             Narrowband random lasing in a Bismuth-doped active fiber ▶     Ivan A. Lobach, Sergey I. Kablukov, Mikhail I. Skvortsov et al.     Random fiber lasers operating via the Rayleigh scattering (RS) feedback attract now a great deal of attention as they generate a high-quality unidirectional laser beam with the …             Measuring the Electronic Properties of DNA-Specific Schottky Diodes Towards Detecting and Identifying Basidiomycetes DNA ▶     Vengadesh Periasamy, Nastaran Rizan, Hassan Maktuff Jaber Al-Ta’ii et al.     The discovery of semiconducting behavior of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) has resulted in a large number of literatures in the study of DNA electronics. Sequence-specific …             Research on the printability of hydrogels in 3D bioprinting ▶     Yong He, FeiFei Yang, HaiMing Zhao et al.     As the biocompatible materials, hydrogels have been widely used in three- dimensional (3D) bioprinting/organ printing to load cell for tissue engineering. It is important to …             Phonon dispersions and Fermi surfaces nesting explaining the variety of charge ordering in titanium-oxypnictides superconductors ▶     Kousuke Nakano, Kenta Hongo, Ryo Maezono     There has been a puzzle between experiments and theoretical predictions on the charge ordering of layered titanium-oxypnictides superconductors. Unconventional mechanisms to …             An exacting transition probability measurement - a direct test of atomic many-body theories ▶     Tarun Dutta, Debashis De Munshi, Dahyun Yum et al.     A new protocol for measuring the branching fraction of hydrogenic atoms with only statistically limited uncertainty is proposed and demonstrated for the decay of the P3/2 level …             Novel technique to suppress hydrocarbon contamination for high accuracy determination of carbon content in steel by FE-EPMA ▶     Takako Yamashita, Yuji Tanaka, Masayasu Yagoshi et al.     In multiphase steels, control of the carbon contents in the respective phases is the most important factor in alloy design for achieving high strength and high ductility. …             Hybrid integration of III-V semiconductor lasers on silicon waveguides using optofluidic microbubble manipulation ▶     Youngho Jung, Jaeho Shim, Kyungmook Kwon et al.     Optofluidic manipulation mechanisms have been successfully applied to micro/nano-scale assembly and handling applications in biophysics, electronics, and photonics. Here, we …             Three-Dimensional Structure of a Simple Liquid at a Face-Centered-Cubic (001) Solid Surface Interface ▶     Luyao Bao, Haibao Hu, Jun Wen et al.     A liquid in the vicinity of a solid-liquid interface (SLI) may exhibit complex structures. In this study, we used molecular dynamics simulations demonstrating for the first time …             Giant Phonon Anharmonicity and Anomalous Pressure Dependence of Lattice Thermal Conductivity in Y2Si2O7 silicate ▶     Yixiu Luo, Jiemin Wang, Yiran Li et al.     Modification of lattice thermal conductivity (κL) of a solid by means of hydrostatic pressure (P) has been a crucially interesting approach that targets a broad range of advanced …             Er3+-doped transparent glass ceramics containing micron-sized SrF2 crystals for 2.7 μm emissions ▶     Yiguang Jiang, Jintai Fan, Benxue Jiang et al.     Er3+-doped transparent glass ceramics containing micron-sized SrF2 crystals were obtained by direct liquid-phase sintering of a mixture of SrF2 powders and precursor glass …             Engineering MoSx/Ti/InP Hybrid Photocathode for Improved Solar Hydrogen Production ▶     Qiang Li, Maojun Zheng, Miao Zhong et al.     Due to its direct band gap of ~1.35 eV, appropriate energy band-edge positions, and low surface-recombination velocity, p-type InP has attracted considerable attention as a …             Chirality-dependent flutter of Typha blades in wind ▶     Zi-Long Zhao, Zong-Yuan Liu, Xi-Qiao Feng     Cattail or Typha, an emergent aquatic macrophyte widely distributed in lakes and other shallow water areas, has slender blades with a chiral morphology. The wind-resilient Typha …             Lanthanide Metal-Organic Frameworks with Six-Coordinated Ln(III) Ions and Free Functional Organic Sites for Adsorptions and Extensive Catalytic Activities ▶     Yu Zhu, Min Zhu, Li Xia et al.     Three chelating-amino-functionalized lanthanide metal-organic frameworks, Y-DDQ, Dy-DDQ and Eu-DDQ, were synthesized with a flexible dicarboxylate ligand based on quinoxaline (H2…             Dislocations and deformation microstructure in a B2-ordered Al28Co20Cr11Fe15Ni26 high-entropy alloy ▶     Michael Feuerbacher     High-entropy alloys are multicomponent metallic materials currently attracting high research interest. They display a unique combination of chemical disorder and crystalline …             Thermodynamics and historical relevance of a jetting thermometer made of Chinese zisha ceramic ▶     Vincent Lee, Daniel Attinger     Following a recent trend of scientific studies on artwork, we study here the thermodynamics of a thermometer made of zisha ceramic, related to the Chinese tea culture. The …             Spin-Dependent Transport in Fe/GaAs(100)/Fe Vertical Spin-Valves ▶     P. K. Johnny Wong, Wen Zhang, Jing Wu et al.     The integration of magnetic materials with semiconductors will lead to the development of the next spintronics devices such as spin field effect transistor (SFET), which is …             Dot-ring nanostructure: Rigorous analysis of many-electron effects ▶     Andrzej Biborski, Andrzej P. Kądzielawa, Anna Gorczyca-Goraj et al.     We discuss the quantum dot-ring nanostructure (DRN) as canonical example of a nanosystem, for which the interelectronic interactions can be evaluated exactly. The system has been …             Floating photocatalyst of B–N–TiO2/expanded perlite: a sol–gel synthesis with optimized mesoporous and high photocatalytic activity ▶     Hongbo Xue, Ya Jiang, Kechun Yuan et al.     Optimized mesoporous photocatalyst endowed with high specific surface area and large pore size was synthesized by sol–gel method. 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