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27 September 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Physical Sciences               Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Block Copolypeptoids – Micelles, Worms and Polymersomes ▶     Corinna Fetsch, Jens Gaitzsch, Lea Messager et al.     Polypeptoids are an old but recently rediscovered polymer class with interesting synthetic, physico-chemical and biological characteristics. Here, we introduce new aromatic …             Highly conductive and pure gold nanostructures grown by electron beam induced deposition ▶     Mostafa M. Shawrav, Philipp Taus, Heinz D. Wanzenboeck et al.     This work introduces an additive direct-write nanofabrication technique for producing extremely conductive gold nanostructures from a commercial metalorganic precursor. Gold …             Theoretical Comparison of Optical Properties of Near-Infrared Colloidal Plasmonic Nanoparticles ▶     Kai Liu, Xiaozheng Xue, Edward P. Furlani     We study optical properties of near-infrared absorbing colloidal plasmonic nanostructures that are of interest for biomedical theranostic applications: SiO2@Au core-shell …             Magnetic moment collapse induced axial alternative compressibility of Cr2TiAlC2 at 420 GPa from first principle ▶     Yang Ze-Jin, Linghu Rong-Feng, Gao Qing-He et al.     The electronic structure and thermodynamical properties of Cr2TiAlC2 are studied by first principles under pressure. The obtained results observed that the ferromagnetic order is …             Ultra-stable clock laser system development towards space applications ▶     Dariusz Świerad, Sebastian Häfner, Stefan Vogt et al.     The increasing performance of optical lattice clocks has made them attractive for scientific applications in space and thus has pushed the development of their components …             Two-step phase-shifting SPIDER ▶     Shuiqin Zheng, Yi Cai, Xinjian Pan et al.     Comprehensive characterization of ultrafast optical field is critical for ultrashort pulse generation and its application. This paper combines two-step phase-shifting (TSPS) into …             Eco-friendly p-type Cu2SnS3 thermoelectric material: crystal structure and transport properties ▶     Yawei Shen, Chao Li, Rong Huang et al.     As a new eco-friendly thermoelectric material, copper tin sulfide (Cu2SnS3) ceramics were experimentally studied by Zn-doping. Excellent electrical transport properties were …             The interaction of excited atoms and few-cycle laser pulses ▶     J. E. Calvert, Han Xu, A. J. Palmer et al.     This work describes the first observations of the ionisation of neon in a metastable atomic state utilising a strong-field, few-cycle light pulse. We compare the observations to …             Acidity-Controlled Conducting Polymer Films for Organic Thermoelectric Devices with Horizontal and Vertical Architectures ▶     Woongki Lee, Myeonghun Song, Soohyung Park et al.     Organic thermoelectric devices (OTEDs) are recognized one of the next generation energy conversion platforms because of their huge potentials for securing electricity …             Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of Novel Isoxazolines/Oxime Sulfonates of 2′(2′,6′)-(Di)Chloropodophyllotoxins as Insecticidal Agents ▶     Mingqiao Yu, Guangci Liu, Yuanyuan Zhang et al.     A series of 2′(2′,6′)-(di)halogeno-isoxazolopodophyllic acids-based esters, and oxime sulfonates of 2′(2′,6′)-(di)halogenopodophyllones were prepared by structural modifications …             Sporicidal performance induced by photocatalytic production of organic peroxide under visible light irradiation ▶     Yuichi Yamaguchi, Takahito Shimodo, Noriyasu Chikamori et al.     Bacteria that cause serious food poisoning are known to sporulate under conditions of nutrient and water shortage. The resulting spores have much greater resistance to common …             RbTiOPO4 cascaded Raman operation with multiple Raman frequency shifts derived by Q-switched Nd:YAlO3 laser ▶     Yanmin Duan, Haiyong Zhu, Yaoju Zhang et al.     An intra-cavity RbTiOPO4 (RTP) cascade Raman laser was demonstrated for efficient multi-order Stokes emission. An acousto-optic Q-switched Nd:YAlO3 laser at 1.08 μm was used as …             Dissipation induced by phonon elastic scattering in crystals ▶     Guolong Li, Zhongzhou Ren, Xin Zhang     We demonstrate that the phonon elastic scattering leads to a dominant dissipation in crystals at low temperature. The two-level systems (TLSs) should be responsible for the …             An ab initio study of the polytypism in InP ▶     Luis C. O. Dacal, A. Cantarero     The existence of polytypism in semiconductor nanostructures gives rise to the appearance of stacking faults which many times can be treated as quantum wells. In some cases, …             Textile Organic Electrochemical Transistors as a Platform for Wearable Biosensors ▶     I. Gualandi, M. Marzocchi, A. Achilli et al.     The development of wearable chemical sensors is receiving a great deal of attention in view of non-invasive and continuous monitoring of physiological parameters in healthcare …             Mesoporous Silica Supported Pd-MnOx Catalysts with Excellent Catalytic Activity in Room-Temperature Formic Acid Decomposition ▶     Min-Ho Jin, Duckkyu Oh, Ju-Hyoung Park et al.     For the application of formic acid as a liquid organic hydrogen carrier, development of efficient catalysts for dehydrogenation of formic acid is a challenging topic, and most …             Large area Germanium Tin nanometer optical film coatings on highly flexible aluminum substrates ▶     Lichuan Jin, Dainan Zhang, Huaiwu Zhang et al.     Germanium Tin (GeSn) films have drawn great interest for their visible and near-infrared optoelectronics properties. Here, we demonstrate large area Germanium Tin nanometer thin …             Measuring Method for Lightning Channel Temperature ▶     X. Li, J. Zhang, L. Chen et al.     In this paper, we demonstrate the temperature of lightning channel utilizing the theory of lightning spectra and the model of local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE). The impulse …             Controllable Edge Oxidation and Bubbling Exfoliation Enable the Fabrication of High Quality Water Dispersible Graphene ▶     Suyun Tian, Jing Sun, Siwei Yang et al.     Despite significant progresses made on mass production of chemically exfoliated graphene, the quality, cost and environmental friendliness remain major challenges for its market …             Coalescence of Immiscible Liquid Metal Drop on Graphene ▶     Tao Li, Jie Li, Long Wang et al.     Molecular dynamics simulations were performed to investigate the wetting and coalescence of liquid Al and Pb drops on four carbon-based substrates. We highlight the importance of …             Tunable potential well for plasmonic trapping of metallic particles by bowtie nano-apertures ▶     Yu Lu, Guangqing Du, Feng Chen et al.     In this paper, the tunable optical trapping dependence on wavelength of incident beam is theoretically investigated based on numerical simulations. The Monte Carlo method is …             Nb2O5-γ-Al2O3 nanofibers as heterogeneous catalysts for efficient conversion of glucose to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural ▶     Huanfeng Jiao, Xiaoliang Zhao, Chunxiao Lv et al.     One-dimensional γ-Al2O3 nanofibers were modified with Nb2O5 to be used as an efficient heterogeneous catalyst to catalyze biomass into 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF). At low Nb2O…             Highly-stretchable 3D-architected Mechanical Metamaterials ▶     Yanhui Jiang, Qiming Wang     Soft materials featuring both 3D free-form architectures and high stretchability are highly desirable for a number of engineering applications ranging from cushion modulators, …             True Randomness from Big Data ▶     Periklis A. Papakonstantinou, David P. Woodruff, Guang Yang     Generating random bits is a difficult task, which is important for physical systems simulation, cryptography, and many applications that rely on high-quality random bits. Our …             Grassy Silica Nanoribbons and Strong Blue Luminescence ▶     Shengping Wang, Shuang Xie, Guowei Huang et al.     Silicon dioxide (SiO2) is one of the key materials in many modern technological applications such as in metal oxide semiconductor transistors, photovoltaic solar cells, pollution …             Excellent magnetocaloric properties in RE2Cu2Cd (RE = Dy and Tm) compounds and its composite materials ▶     Yikun Zhang, Yang Yang, Xiao Xu et al.     The magnetic properties and magnetocaloric effect (MCE) of ternary intermetallic RE2Cu2Cd (RE = Dy and Tm) compounds and its composite materials have been investigated in detail. …             Fast generations of tree-type three-dimensional entanglement via Lewis-Riesenfeld invariants and transitionless quantum driving ▶     Jin-Lei Wu, Xin Ji, Shou Zhang     Recently, a novel three-dimensional entangled state called tree-type entanglement, which is likely to have applications for improving quantum communication security, was prepared …             Electronic properties of MoS2/MoOx interfaces: Implications in Tunnel Field Effect Transistors and Hole Contacts ▶     Santosh K. C., Roberto C. Longo, Rafik Addou et al.     In an electronic device based on two dimensional (2D) transitional metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), finding a low resistance metal contact is critical in order to achieve the …             Controllably releasing long-lived quantum memory for photonic polarization qubit into multiple spatially-separate photonic channels ▶     Lirong Chen, Zhongxiao Xu, Weiqing Zeng et al.     We report an experiment in which long-lived quantum memories for photonic polarization qubits (PPQs) are controllably released into any one of multiple spatially-separate …             Anomalous Enhancement of Mechanical Properties in the Ammonia Adsorbed Defective Graphene ▶     Fengxian Ma, Yalong Jiao, Yuantong Gu et al.     Pure graphene is known as the strongest material ever discovered. However, the unavoidable defect formation in the fabrication process renders the strength of defective graphene …             Berry phase and band structure analysis of the Weyl semimetal NbP ▶     Philip Sergelius, Johannes Gooth, Svenja Bäßler et al.     Weyl semimetals are often considered the 3D-analogon of graphene or topological insulators. The evaluation of quantum oscillations in these systems remains challenging because …             In vitro and in vivo study of additive manufactured porous Ti6Al4V scaffolds for repairing bone defects ▶     Guoyuan Li, Lei Wang, Wei Pan et al.     Metallic implants with a low effective modulus can provide early load-bearing and reduce stress shielding, which is favorable for increasing in vivo life-span. In this research, …             Tanshinones and diethyl blechnics with anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer activities from Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge (Danshen) ▶     Hongwei Gao, Wen Sun, Jianping Zhao et al.     Four novel compounds (1–4) as well as fourteen reported compounds (5–18) were isolated and purified from Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge (Danshen). The structures of novel compounds …             Emergence of global scaling behaviour in the coupled Earth-atmosphere interaction ▶     Bijan Fallah, Abbas Ali Saberi, Sahar Sodoudi     Scale invariance property in the global geometry of Earth may lead to a coupled interactive behaviour between various components of the climate system. One of the most …             Simultaneous steering and imaging of magnetic particles using MRI toward delivery of therapeutics ▶     Ouajdi Felfoul, Aaron T. Becker, Georgios Fagogenis et al.     Magnetic resonance navigation (MRN) offers the potential for real-time steering of drug particles and cells to targets throughout the body. In this technique, the magnetic …             Automated Internal Classification of Beadless Chinese ZhuJi Fleshwater Pearls based on Optical Coherence Tomography Images ▶     Yang Zhou, Tiebing Liu, Yang Shi et al.     Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been applied to inspect the internal defect of beadless Chinese ZhuJi fleshwater pearls. A novel fully automated algorithm is proposed to …             Facile transformation of FeO/Fe3O4 core-shell nanocubes to Fe3O4via magnetic stimulation ▶     Aidin Lak, Dina Niculaes, George C. Anyfantis et al.     Here, we propose the use of magnetic hyperthermia as a means to trigger the oxidation of Fe1−xO/Fe3−δO4 core-shell nanocubes to Fe3−δO4 phase. As a first relevant consequence, …             A 16-bit Coherent Ising Machine for One-Dimensional Ring and Cubic Graph Problems ▶     Kenta Takata, Alireza Marandi, Ryan Hamerly et al.     Many tasks in our modern life, such as planning an efficient travel, image processing and optimizing integrated circuit design, are modeled as complex combinatorial optimization …             Ultrahigh Responsivity-Bandwidth Product in a Compact InP Nanopillar Phototransistor Directly Grown on Silicon ▶     Wai Son Ko, Indrasen Bhattacharya, Thai-Truong D. Tran et al.     Highly sensitive and fast photodetectors can enable low power, high bandwidth on-chip optical interconnects for silicon integrated electronics. III-V compound semiconductor …             Direct synthesis of nanodiamonds by femtosecond laser irradiation of ethanol ▶     Chen-Hon Nee, Seong-Ling Yap, Teck-Yong Tou et al.     Carbon nanomaterials exhibit novel characteristics including enhanced thermal, electrical, mechanical, and biological properties. Nanodiamonds; first discovered in meteorites are …             Linking in domain-swapped protein dimers ▶     Marco Baiesi, Enzo Orlandini, Antonio Trovato et al.     The presence of knots has been observed in a small fraction of single-domain proteins and related to their thermodynamic and kinetic properties. The exchanging of identical …             Degradable Organically-Derivatized Polyoxometalate with Enhanced Activity against Glioblastoma Cell Line ▶     Shan She, Shengtai Bian, Ruichao Huo et al.     High efficacy and low toxicity are critical for cancer treatment. Polyoxometalates (POMs) have been reported as potential candidates for cancer therapy. On accounts of the slow …             The discovery of the hydrogen bond from p-Nitrothiophenol by Raman spectroscopy: Guideline for the thioalcohol molecule recognition tool ▶     Yun Ling, Wen Chang Xie, Guo Kun Liu et al.     Inter- and intra- molecular hydrogen bonding plays important role in determining molecular structure, physical and chemical properties, which may be easily ignored for molecules …             Ultrabroadband Design for Linear Polarization Conversion and Asymmetric Transmission Crossing X- and K- Band ▶     Linbo Zhang, Peiheng Zhou, Haiyan Chen et al.     In this work, a high-efficiency and broadband reflective converter using ultrathin planar metamaterial (MM) composed of single-layered SRR is firstly realized. Numerical and …             The effects of ordered carbon vacancies on stability and thermo-mechanical properties of V8C7 compared with VC ▶     XiaoYu Chong, YeHua Jiang, Rong Zhou et al.     The ordered non-stoichiometric V8C7 can form in the VCy carbides by the disorder–order phase transformation. The intrusion of ordered carbon vacancies can affect their stability, …             Full-Color Biomimetic Photonic Materials with Iridescent and Non-Iridescent Structural Colors ▶     Ayaka Kawamura, Michinari Kohri, Gen Morimoto et al.     The beautiful structural colors in bird feathers are some of the brightest colors in nature, and some of these colors are created by arrays of melanin granules that act as both …             Enhanced superconductivity in aluminum-based hyperbolic metamaterials ▶     Vera N. Smolyaninova, Christopher Jensen, William Zimmerman et al.     One of the most important goals of condensed matter physics is materials by design, i.e. the ability to reliably predict and design materials with a set of desired properties. A …             Elemental characterisation of melanin in feathers via synchrotron X-ray imaging and absorption spectroscopy ▶     Nicholas P. Edwards, Arjen van Veelen, Jennifer Anné et al.     Melanin is a critical component of biological systems, but the exact chemistry of melanin is still imprecisely known. This is partly due to melanin’s complex heterogeneous nature …             N-doped graphene layers encapsulated NiFe alloy nanoparticles derived from MOFs with superior electrochemical performance for oxygen evolution reaction ▶     Yi Feng, Xin-Yao Yu, Ungyu Paik     Water splitting, an efficient approach for hydrogen production, is often hindered by unfavorable kinetics of oxygen evolution reaction (OER). In order to reduce the …             Origin of multi-level switching and telegraphic noise in organic nanocomposite memory devices ▶     Younggul Song, Hyunhak Jeong, Seungjun Chung et al.     The origin of negative differential resistance (NDR) and its derivative intermediate resistive states (IRSs) of nanocomposite memory systems have not been clearly analyzed for …             Dual-Wavelength Terahertz Metasurfaces with Independent Phase and Amplitude Control at Each Wavelength ▶     Jun Ding, Ningning Xu, Han Ren et al.     We have designed, fabricated and characterized dual-wavelength metasurfaces that function at two assigned terahertz wavelengths with independent phase and amplitude control at …             Entanglement and nonclassicality in four-mode Gaussian states generated via parametric down-conversion and frequency up-conversion ▶     Ievgen I. Arkhipov, Jan Peřina Jr., Ondřej Haderka et al.     Multipartite entanglement and nonclassicality of four-mode Gaussian states generated in two simultaneous nonlinear processes involving parametric down-conversion and frequency …             A quantum approach to homomorphic encryption ▶     Si-Hui Tan, Joshua A. Kettlewell, Yingkai Ouyang et al.     Encryption schemes often derive their power from the properties of the underlying algebra on the symbols used. Inspired by group theoretic tools, we use the centralizer of a …             Single-pulse enhanced coherent diffraction imaging of bacteria with an X-ray free-electron laser ▶     Jiadong Fan, Zhibin Sun, Yaling Wang et al.     High-resolution imaging offers one of the most promising approaches for exploring and understanding the structure and function of biomaterials and biological systems. X-ray …             Multipath Effects in Millimetre-Wave Wireless Communication using Orbital Angular Momentum Multiplexing ▶     Yan Yan, Long Li, Guodong Xie et al.     Electromagnetic waves carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have been used for mode division multiplexing in free-space communication systems to increase both the capacity and …             Corrigendum: How Tissue Mechanical Properties Affect Enteric Neural Crest Cell Migration ▶     N. R. Chevalier, E. Gazquez, L. Bidault et al.                 Transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation of human primary visual cortex ▶     Wonhye Lee, Hyun-Chul Kim, Yujin Jung et al.     Transcranial focused ultrasound (FUS) is making progress as a new non-invasive mode of regional brain stimulation. Current evidence of FUS-mediated neurostimulation for humans …             Novel and Neuroprotective Tetranortriterpenoids from Chinese Mangrove Xylocarpus granatum Koenig ▶     Zhen-Fang Zhou, Tibor Kurtán, Attila Mándi et al.     Eight new tetranortriterpenoids (1–8) were isolated from the twigs and leaves of the Chinese mangrove plant Xylocarpus granatum, together with four related known ones (9–12). The …             Prediction of prostate cancer recurrence using quantitative phase imaging: Validation on a general population ▶     Shamira Sridharan, Virgilia Macias, Krishnarao Tangella et al.     Prediction of biochemical recurrence risk of prostate cancer following radical prostatectomy is critical for determining whether the patient would benefit from adjuvant …             A novel animal model for skin flap prelamination with biomaterials ▶     Xianyu Zhou, Xusong Luo, Fei Liu et al.     Several animal models of skin flap construction were reported using biomaterials in a way similar to prefabrication. However, there are few animal model using biomaterials …             Identification of a novel human deoxynivalenol metabolite enhancing proliferation of intestinal and urinary bladder cells ▶     Benedikt Warth, Giorgia Del Favero, Gerlinde Wiesenberger et al.     The mycotoxin deoxynivalenol (DON) is an abundant contaminant of cereal based food and a severe issue for global food safety. We report the discovery of DON-3-sulfate as a novel …             Using an Artificial Neural Bypass to Restore Cortical Control of Rhythmic Movements in a Human with Quadriplegia ▶     Gaurav Sharma, David A. Friedenberg, Nicholas Annetta et al.     Neuroprosthetic technology has been used to restore cortical control of discrete (non-rhythmic) hand movements in a paralyzed person. However, cortical control of rhythmic …             Integrated ZnO Nano-Electron-Emitter with Self-Modulated Parasitic Tunneling Field Effect Transistor at the Surface of the p-Si/ZnO Junction ▶     Tao Cao, Laitang Luo, Yifeng Huang et al.     The development of high performance nano-electron-emitter arrays with well reliability still proves challenging. Here, we report a featured integrated nano-electron-emitter. The …             Microstructure, local dynamics, and flow behavior of colloidal suspensions with weak attractive interactions ▶     Clara Weis, Claude Oelschlaeger, Dick Dijkstra et al.     We present a comprehensive micro- and macrorheological study of the effect of weak depletion attraction (Ψdep ≈ 1–10 kBT) on dense colloidal suspensions stabilized by short-range …             Violation of the transit-time limit toward generation of ultrashort electron bunches with controlled velocity chirp ▶     Seok-Gy Jeon, Dongwon Shin, Min Sup Hur     Various methods to generate ultrashort electron bunches for the ultrafast science evolved from the simple configuration of two-plate vacuum diodes to advanced technologies such …             Stable, Free-space Optical Trapping and Manipulation of Sub-micron Particles in an Integrated Microfluidic Chip ▶     Jisu Kim, Jung H. Shin     We demonstrate stable, free-space optical trapping and manipulation in an integrated microfluidic chip using counter-propagating beams. An inverted ridge-type waveguide made of S…             Corrigendum: Staircase Quantum Dots Configuration in Nanowires for Optimized Thermoelectric Power ▶     Lijie Li, Jian-Hua Jiang                 Erratum: High current density GaAs/Si rectifying heterojunction by defect free Epitaxial Lateral overgrowth on Tunnel Oxide from nano-seed ▶     Charles Renard, Timothée Molière, Nikolay Cherkashin et al.                 Theory of tailorable optical response of two-dimensional arrays of plasmonic nanoparticles at dielectric interfaces ▶     Debabrata Sikdar, Alexei A. Kornyshev     Two-dimensional arrays of plasmonic nanoparticles at interfaces are promising candidates for novel optical metamaterials. Such systems materialise from ‘top–down’ patterning or …             Dynamics of single photon transport in a one-dimensional waveguide two-point coupled with a Jaynes-Cummings system ▶     Yuwen Wang, Yongyou Zhang, Qingyun Zhang et al.     We study the dynamics of an ultrafast single photon pulse in a one-dimensional waveguide two-point coupled with a Jaynes-Cummings system. We find that for any single photon input …             Graphene as a Reversible and Spectrally Selective Fluorescence Quencher ▶     Omer Salihoglu, Nurbek Kakenov, Osman Balci et al.     We report reversible and spectrally selective fluorescence quenching of quantum dots (QDs) placed in close proximity to graphene. Controlling interband electronic transitions of …             Fluorescence-based assay as a new screening tool for toxic chemicals ▶     Ewa Moczko, Evgeny M. Mirkes, César Cáceres et al.     Our study involves development of fluorescent cell-based diagnostic assay as a new approach in high-throughput screening method. This highly sensitive optical assay operates …             Highly reliable wind-rolling triboelectric nanogenerator operating in a wide wind speed range ▶     Hyungseok Yong, Jihoon Chung, Dukhyun Choi et al.     Triboelectric nanogenerators are aspiring energy harvesting methods that generate electricity from the triboelectric effect and electrostatic induction. This study demonstrates …             A shape tailored gold-conductive polymer nanocomposite as a transparent electrode with extraordinary insensitivity to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) ▶     Rania Khalil, Shahin Homaeigohar, Dietrich Häußler et al.     In this study, the transparent conducting polymer of poly (3,4-ethylenendioxythiophene): poly(styrene sulphonate) (PEDOT:PSS) was nanohybridized via inclusion of gold nanofillers …             Inversion of diffraction data for amorphous materials ▶     Anup Pandey, Parthapratim Biswas, D. A. Drabold     The general and practical inversion of diffraction data–producing a computer model correctly representing the material explored–is an important unsolved problem for disordered …             Effect of graphene oxide ratio on the cell adhesion and growth behavior on a graphene oxide-coated silicon substrate ▶     Jin-Tak Jeong, Mun-Ki Choi, Yumin Sim et al.     Control of living cells on biocompatible materials or on modified substrates is important for the development of bio-applications, including biosensors and implant biomaterials. …             Bound exciton and free exciton states in GaSe thin slab ▶     Chengrong Wei, Xi Chen, Dian Li et al.     The photoluminescence (PL) and absorption experiments have been performed in GaSe slab with incident light polarized perpendicular to c-axis of sample at 10 K. An obvious energy …             Bioelectronic interfaces by spontaneously organized peptides on 2D atomic single layer materials ▶     Yuhei Hayamizu, Christopher R. So, Sefa Dag et al.     Self-assembly of biological molecules on solid materials is central to the “bottom-up” approach to directly integrate biology with electronics. Inspired by biology, exquisite …             Stress and temperature dependence of the avalanche dynamics during creep deformation of metallic glasses ▶     Carlos Herrero-Gómez, Konrad Samwer     The understanding of the mesoscopic origin of plasticity in metallic glasses remains still an open issue. At the microscopic level, Shear Transformation Zones (STZ), composed by …             Radiation endurance in Al2O3 nanoceramics ▶     F. García Ferré, A. Mairov, L. Ceseracciu et al.     The lack of suitable materials solutions stands as a major challenge for the development of advanced nuclear systems. Most issues are related to the simultaneous action of high …             Current driven spin–orbit torque oscillator: ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic coupling ▶     Øyvind Johansen, Jacob Linder     We consider theoretically the impact of Rashba spin–orbit coupling on spin torque oscillators (STOs) in synthetic ferromagnets and antiferromagnets that have either a bulk …             Roll-to-Roll sputtered ITO/Cu/ITO multilayer electrode for flexible, transparent thin film heaters and electrochromic applications ▶     Sung-Hyun Park, Sang-Mok Lee, Eun-Hye Ko et al.     We fabricate high-performance, flexible, transparent electrochromic (EC) films and thin film heaters (TFHs) on an ITO/Cu/ITO (ICI) multilayer electrode prepared by continuous …             One material, multiple functions: graphene/Ni(OH)2 thin films applied in batteries, electrochromism and sensors ▶     Eduardo G. C. Neiva, Marcela M. Oliveira, Márcio F. Bergamini et al.     Different nanocomposites between reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and Ni(OH)2 nanoparticles were synthesized through modifications in the polyol method (starting from graphene oxide …             Curli mediate bacterial adhesion to fibronectin via tensile multiple bonds ▶     Yoo Jin Oh, Michael Hubauer-Brenner, Hermann J. Gruber et al.     Many enteric bacteria including pathogenic Escherichia coli and Salmonella strains produce curli fibers that bind to host surfaces, leading to bacterial internalization into host …             Hyaluronic acid-modified manganese-chelated dendrimer-entrapped gold nanoparticles for the targeted CT/MR dual-mode imaging of hepatocellular carcinoma ▶     Ruizhi Wang, Yu Luo, Shuohui Yang et al.     Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common malignant tumor of the liver. The early and effective diagnosis has always been desired. Herein, we present the preparation and …             The origin of neutron biological effectiveness as a function of energy ▶     G. Baiocco, S. Barbieri, G. Babini et al.     The understanding of the impact of radiation quality in early and late responses of biological targets to ionizing radiation exposure necessarily grounds on the results of …             Erratum: Phosphorus Doping in Si Nanocrystals/SiO2 Multilayers and Light Emission with Wavelength Compatible for Optical Telecommunication ▶     Peng Lu, Weiwei Mu, Jun Xu et al.                 Carboxylic Acid-Functionalized Conducting-Polymer Nanotubes as Highly Sensitive Nerve-Agent Chemiresistors ▶     Oh Seok Kwon, Chul Soon Park, Seon Joo Park et al.     Organophosphates are powerful inhibitors of acetylcholinesterase, which is critical to nerve function. Despite continuous research for detecting the highly toxic …             Spectral Interferometry with Electron Microscopes ▶     Nahid Talebi     Interference patterns are not only a defining characteristic of waves, but also have several applications; characterization of coherent processes and holography. Spatial …             Spatially resolved spectroscopic differentiation of hydrophilic and hydrophobic domains on individual insulin amyloid fibrils ▶     Tanja Deckert-Gaudig, Dmitry Kurouski, Martin A. B. Hedegaard et al.     The formation of insoluble β-sheet-rich protein structures known as amyloid fibrils is associated with numerous neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s …             Ultra-low thermal conductivities in large-area Si-Ge nanomeshes for thermoelectric applications ▶     Jaime Andres Perez-Taborda, Miguel Muñoz Rojo, Jon Maiz et al.     In this work, we measure the thermal and thermoelectric properties of large-area Si0.8Ge0.2 nano-meshed films fabricated by DC sputtering of Si0.8Ge0.2 on highly ordered porous …             A novel method based on selective laser sintering for preparing high-performance carbon fibres/polyamide12/epoxy ternary composites ▶     Wei Zhu, Chunze Yan, Yunsong Shi et al.     A novel method based on selective laser sintering (SLS) process is proposed for the first time to prepare complex and high-performance carbon fibres/polyamide12/epoxy …             Facile preparation of nickel/carbonized wood nanocomposite for environmentally friendly supercapacitor electrodes ▶     Haritha Sree Yaddanapudi, Kun Tian, Shiang Teng et al.     We are reporting a facile way to prepare nickel/carbon nanocomposites from wood as a novel electrode material for supercapacitors. The surface morphology and the structure of the …             Corrigendum: Purification of High Salinity Brine by Multi-Stage Ion Concentration Polarization Desalination ▶     Bumjoo Kim, Rhokyun Kwak, Hyukjin J. Kwon et al.                 Evaluation of World Population-Weighted Effective Dose due to Cosmic Ray Exposure ▶     Tatsuhiko Sato     After the release of the Report of the United Nations Scientific Committee of the Effects of Atomic Radiation in 2000 (UNSCEAR2000), it became commonly accepted that the world …             Design and construction of a spin-wave lens ▶     Jan-Niklas Toedt, Mark Mundkowski, Detlef Heitmann et al.     In this work, we present the focusing of a Damon-Eshbach wave in a Ni80Fe20 film by a shaped, discrete transition of the film thickness. We devised an algorithm to determine the …             Efficient Dual-Site Carbon Monoxide Electro-Catalysts via Interfacial Nano-Engineering ▶     Zhen Liu, Zhongyuan Huang, Feifei Cheng et al.     Durable, highly efficient, and economic sound electrocatalysts for CO electrooxidation (COE) are the emerging key for wide variety of energy solutions, especially fuel cells and …             Transport Phenomena of Water in Molecular Fluidic Channels ▶     Truong Quoc Vo, BoHung Kim     In molecular-level fluidic transport, where the discrete characteristics of a molecular system are not negligible (in contrast to a continuum description), the response of the …             A Facile Electrochemical Preparation of Reduced Graphene Oxide@Polydopamine Composite: A Novel Electrochemical Sensing Platform for Amperometric Detection of Chlorpromazine ▶     Selvakumar Palanisamy, Balamurugan Thirumalraj, Shen-Ming Chen et al.     We report a novel and sensitive amperometric sensor for chlorpromazine (CPZ) based on reduced graphene oxide (RGO) and polydopamine (PDA) composite modified glassy carbon …             Realizing Tao-Thouless-like state in fractional quantum spin Hall effect ▶     Chen-Rong Liu, Yao-Wu Guo, Zhuo-Jun Li et al.     The quest for exotic quantum states of matter has become one of the most challenging tasks in modern condensed matter communications. Interplay between topology and strong …             Quasi-static stop band with flexural metamaterial having zero rotational stiffness ▶     Joo Hwan Oh, Badreddine Assouar     Metamaterials realizing stop bands have attracted much attentions recently since they can break-through the well-known mass law. However, achieving the stop band at extremely low …             Double Negativity in 3D Space Coiling Metamaterials ▶     Santosh K. Maurya, Abhishek Pandey, Shobha Shukla et al.     Metamaterials displaying negative refractive index has remarkable potential to facilitate the manipulation of incident waves for wide variety of applications such as cloaking, …             Switching Correlation and Noise Level in Pr3+:YSO Crystal via Dressing Nonlinear Phase ▶     Irfan Ahmed, Zhaoyang Zhang, Feng Wen et al.     We propose and experimentally demonstrate that the intensity noise correlation and the noise level of intensity-difference and intensity-sum in Stokes and anti-Stokes channel can …             Critical behavior of the quasi-two-dimensional semiconducting ferromagnet CrSiTe3 ▶     Bingjie Liu, Youming Zou, Lei Zhang et al.     The semiconducting ferromagnet CrSiTe3 is a promising candidate for two-dimensional magnet simply by exfoliating down to single layers. To understand the magnetic behavior in …             Mechanochemical route to the synthesis of nanostructured Aluminium nitride ▶     S. A. Rounaghi, H. Eshghi, S. Scudino et al.     Hexagonal Aluminium nitride (h-AlN) is an important wide-bandgap semiconductor material which is conventionally fabricated by high temperature carbothermal reduction of alumina …             Carbon wrapped hierarchical Li3V2(PO4)3 microspheres for high performance lithium ion batteries ▶     Shuquan Liang, Qinguang Tan, Wei Xiong et al.     Nanomaterials are extensively studied in electrochemical energy storage and conversion systems because of their structural advantages. However, their volumetric energy density …             Rigidity of silicone substrates controls cell spreading and stem cell differentiation ▶     Grigory Vertelov, Edgar Gutierrez, Sin-Ae Lee et al.     The dependences of spreading and differentiation of stem cells plated on hydrogel and silicone gel substrates on the rigidity and porosity of the substrates have recently been a …             Cholesterol Alters the Dynamics of Release in Protein Independent Cell Models for Exocytosis ▶     Neda Najafinobar, Lisa J. Mellander, Michael E. Kurczy et al.     Neurons communicate via an essential process called exocytosis. Cholesterol, an abundant lipid in both secretory vesicles and cell plasma membrane can affect this process. In …             All-inkjet-printed thin-film transistors: manufacturing process reliability by root cause analysis ▶     Enrico Sowade, Eloi Ramon, Kalyan Yoti Mitra et al.     We report on the detailed electrical investigation of all-inkjet-printed thin-film transistor (TFT) arrays focusing on TFT failures and their origins. The TFT arrays were …             Self-Replication of Localized Vegetation Patches in Scarce Environments ▶     Ignacio Bordeu, Marcel G. Clerc, Piere Couteron et al.     Desertification due to climate change and increasing drought periods is a worldwide problem for both ecology and economy. Our ability to understand how vegetation manages to …             Resilience of bacterial quorum sensing against fluid flow ▶     Philippe Emge, Jens Moeller, Hongchul Jang et al.     Quorum sensing (QS) is a population-density dependent chemical process that enables bacteria to communicate based on the production, secretion and sensing of small inducer …             Single-shot laser pulse reconstruction based on self-phase modulated spectra measurements ▶     Elena A. Anashkina, Vladislav N. Ginzburg, Anton A. Kochetkov et al.     We report a method for ultrashort pulse reconstruction based only on the pulse spectrum and two self-phase modulated (SPM) spectra measured after pulse propagation through thin …             Biological application of Compressed Sensing Tomography in the Scanning Electron Microscope ▶     Matteo Ferroni, Alberto Signoroni, Andrea Sanzogni et al.     The three-dimensional tomographic reconstruction of a biological sample, namely collagen fibrils in human dermal tissue, was obtained from a set of projection-images acquired in …             Light-driven transport of plasmonic nanoparticles on demand ▶     José A. Rodrigo, Tatiana Alieva     Laser traps provide contactless manipulation of plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) boosting the development of numerous applications in science and technology. The known trapping …             One-Step Formation of Silicon-Graphene Composites from Silicon Sludge Waste and Graphene Oxide via Aerosol Process for Lithium Ion Batteries ▶     Sun Kyung Kim, Hyekyoung Kim, Hankwon Chang et al.     Over 40% of high-purity silicon (Si) is consumed as sludge waste consisting of Si, silicon carbide (SiC) particles and metal impurities from the fragments of cutting wire mixed …             Synthesis of Highly Polymerized Water-soluble Cellulose Acetate by the Side Reaction in Carboxylate Ionic Liquid 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium Acetate ▶     Jinhui Pang, Xin Liu, Jun Yang et al.     In the present study, we describe a novel one-step method to prepare water-soluble cellulose acetate (WSCA) with higher degree of polymerization values (DP = 650–680) by in situ …             High content reduced graphene oxide reinforced copper with a bioinspired nano-laminated structure and large recoverable deformation ability ▶     Ding-Bang Xiong, Mu Cao, Qiang Guo et al.     By using CuO/graphene-oxide/CuO sandwich-like nanosheets as the building blocks, bulk nacre-inspired copper matrix nano-laminated composite reinforced by molecular-level …             Interference-based molecular transistors ▶     Ying Li, Jan A. Mol, Simon C. Benjamin et al.     Molecular transistors have the potential for switching with lower gate voltages than conventional field-effect transistors. We have calculated the performance of a …             Ultrafast in cellulo photoinduced dynamics processes of the paradigm molecular light switch [Ru(bpy)2dppz]2+ ▶     Alejandro De la Cadena, Dar’ya Davydova, Tatiana Tolstik et al.     An in cellulo study of the ultrafast excited state processes in the paradigm molecular light switch [Ru(bpy)2dppz]2+ by localized pump-probe spectroscopy is reported for the …             Ce3+/Yb3+/Er3+ triply doped bismuth borosilicate glass: a potential fiber material for broadband near-infrared fiber amplifiers ▶     Yushi Chu, Jing Ren, Jianzhong Zhang et al.     Erbium doped bismuth borosilicate (BBS) glasses, possessing the broadest 1.55 μm near infrared (NIR) emission band among oxide glasses, stand out as excellent fiber material for …             Weyl semimetals in optical lattices: moving and merging of Weyl points, and hidden symmetry at Weyl points ▶     Jing-Min Hou, Wei Chen     We propose to realize Weyl semimetals in a cubic optical lattice. We find that there exist three distinct Weyl semimetal phases in the cubic optical lattice for different …             Superhydrophobic porous networks for enhanced droplet shedding ▶     Yahua Liu, Zuankai Wang     Recent research has shown that the use of submillimeter-scale tapered post arrays could generate the so-called pancake bouncing, which is characterized by the fast shedding of …             Electrically controllable sudden reversals in spin and valley polarization in silicene ▶     Qingtian Zhang, K. S. Chan, Jingbo Li     We study the spin and valley dependent transport in a silicene superlattice under the influence of a magnetic exchange field, a perpendicular electric field and a voltage …             Synaptic organic transistors with a vacuum-deposited charge-trapping nanosheet ▶     Chang-Hyun Kim, Sujin Sung, Myung-Han Yoon     Organic neuromorphic devices hold great promise for unconventional signal processing and efficient human-machine interfaces. Herein, we propose novel synaptic organic transistors …             Experimental investigation of a four-qubit linear-optical quantum logic circuit ▶     R. Stárek, M. Mičuda, M. Miková et al.     We experimentally demonstrate and characterize a four-qubit linear-optical quantum logic circuit. Our robust and versatile scheme exploits encoding of two qubits into …             Room-Temperature All-solid-state Rechargeable Sodium-ion Batteries with a Cl-doped Na3PS4 Superionic Conductor ▶     Iek-Heng Chu, Christopher S. Kompella, Han Nguyen et al.     All-solid-state sodium-ion batteries are promising candidates for large-scale energy storage applications. The key enabler for an all-solid-state architecture is a sodium solid …             An Energy Harvesting Underwater Acoustic Transmitter for Aquatic Animals ▶     Huidong Li, Chuan Tian, Jun Lu et al.     Acoustic telemetry is the primary method to actively track aquatic animals for behavioral studies. However, the small storage capacities of the batteries used in the transmitters …             Multi-Phenotypic subtyping of circulating tumor cells using sequential fluorescent quenching and restaining ▶     Daniel L Adams, R. Katherine Alpaugh, Susan Tsai et al.     In tissue biopsies formalin fixed paraffin embedded cancer blocks are micro-sectioned producing multiple semi-identical specimens which are analyzed and subtyped proteomically, …             Self-assembly formation of Bi-functional Co3O4/MnO2-CNTs hybrid catalysts for achieving both high energy/power density and cyclic ability of rechargeable zinc-air battery ▶     Nengneng Xu, Yuyu Liu, Xia Zhang et al.     α-MnO2 nanotubes-supported Co3O4 (Co3O4/MnO2) and its carbon nanotubes (CNTs)-hybrids (Co3O4/MnO2-CNTs) have been successfully developed through a facile two-pot precipitation …             pH/NIR Light-Controlled Multidrug Release via a Mussel-Inspired Nanocomposite Hydrogel for Chemo-Photothermal Cancer Therapy ▶     Amin GhavamiNejad, Melisa SamariKhalaj, Ludwig Erik Aguilar et al.     This study reports on an intelligent composite hydrogel with both pH-dependent drug release in a cancer environment and heat generation based on NIR laser exposure, for the …                 • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Postdoctoral Research Fellow (m / f)     Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing            Image Analyst     Francis Crick Institute            Postdoctoral Associate     Arizona State University (ASU)            8 Postdoctoral Fellows     Philip Morris International (PMI)            Postdoctoral Research Scientist     Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center            Postdoctoral Scholar     University of California - Irvine            Research Associate     University of Cambridge            Bioinformatics Analyst     University of Virginia            Research Group Leader Position     Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet            Junior Research Chairs at Postdoctoral Level     Ecole Normale Superieure          No matter what your career stage, student, postdoc or senior scientist, you will find articles on naturejobs.com to help guide you in your science career. 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