Scientific Reports Physics Table of Contents e-alert: 17 February 2015

17 February 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               Omnidirectional color filters capitalizing on a nano-resonator of Ag-TiO2-Ag integrated with a phase compensating dielectric overlay ▶     Chul-Soon Park, Vivek Raj Shrestha, Sang-Shin Lee et al.     We present a highly efficient omnidirectional color filter that takes advantage of an Ag-TiO2-Ag nano-resonator integrated with a phase-compensating TiO2 overlay. The dielectric …             Organic Fluorescent Dyes Supported on Activated Boron Nitride: A Promising Blue Light Excited Phosphors for High-Performance White Light-Emitting Diodes ▶     Jie Li, Jing Lin, Yang Huang et al.     We report an effective and rare-earth free light conversion material synthesized via a facile fabrication route, in which organic fluorescent dyes, i.e. Rhodamine B (RhB) and …             ZnO Nanocomposites Modified by Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Silanes with Dramatically Enhanced Tunable Fluorescence and Aqueous Ultrastability toward Biological Imaging Applications ▶     Shuying Li, Zongzhao Sun, Rui Li et al.     Multicolor ZnO quantum dots (QDs) were synthesized and further modified with hydrophobic hexadecyltrimethoxysilane (HDS) and then hydrophilic aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APS) …             Visualization of Endogenous and Exogenous Hydrogen Peroxide Using A Lysosome-Targetable Fluorescent Probe ▶     Dabin Kim, Gyoungmi Kim, Sang-Jip Nam et al.     Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play crucial roles in diverse physiological processes; therefore, the efficient detection of ROS is very crucial. In this study, we report a …             Design, Implementation and Characterization of a Quantum-Dot-Based Volumetric Display ▶     Ryuji Hirayama, Makoto Naruse, Hirotaka Nakayama et al.     In this study, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a volumetric display system based on quantum dots (QDs) embedded in a polymer substrate. Unlike conventional volumetric …             Thickness Dependent Effective Viscosity of a Polymer Solution near an Interface Probed by a Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation Method ▶     Jiajie Fang, Tao Zhu, Jie Sheng et al.     The solution viscosity near an interface, which affects the solution behavior and the molecular dynamics in the solution, differs from the bulk. This paper measured the effective …             Aluminum nitride nanowire light emitting diodes: Breaking the fundamental bottleneck of deep ultraviolet light sources ▶     S. Zhao, A. T. Connie, M. H. T. Dastjerdi et al.     Despite broad interest in aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN) optoelectronic devices for deep ultraviolet (DUV) applications, the performance of conventional Al(Ga)N planar devices …             Phosphate ytterbium-doped single-mode all-solid photonic crystal fiber with output power of 13.8 W ▶     Longfei Wang, Dongbing He, Suya Feng et al.     Single-mode ytterbium-doped phosphate all-solid photonic crystal fiber (AS-PCF) with 13.8 W output power and 32% slope efficiency was reported. By altering the diameter of the …             Facile fabrication of various zinc-nickel citrate microspheres and their transformation to ZnO-NiO hybrid microspheres with excellent lithium storage properties ▶     Qingshui Xie, Yating Ma, Deqian Zeng et al.     Zinc-nickel citrate microspheres are prepared by a simple aging process of zinc citrate solid microspheres in nickel nitrate solution. As the concentration of nickel nitrate …             Controlled Synthesis of Pd/Pt Core Shell Nanoparticles Using Area-selective Atomic Layer Deposition ▶     Kun Cao, Qianqian Zhu, Bin Shan et al.     We report an atomic scale controllable synthesis of Pd/Pt core shell nanoparticles (NPs) via area-selective atomic layer deposition (ALD) on a modified surface. The method …             Impact of an elastic sphere with an elastic half space revisited: Numerical analysis based on the method of dimensionality reduction ▶     I. A. Lyashenko, V. L. Popov     An impact of an elastic sphere with an elastic half space under no-slip conditions (infinitely large coefficient of friction) is studied numerically using the method of …             Carnival or football, is there a real risk for acquiring dengue fever in Brazil during holidays seasons? ▶     Maíra Aguiar, Filipe Rocha, José Eduardo Marques Pessanha et al.     More than 600,000 football fans, coming from all over the world, were expected to visit Brazil during the FIFA World Cup 2014. International travel can become a public health …             Surface structure determines dynamic wetting ▶     Jiayu Wang, Minh Do-Quang, James J. Cannon et al.     Liquid wetting of a surface is omnipresent in nature and the advance of micro-fabrication and assembly techniques in recent years offers increasing ability to control this …             Computational Electromagnetic Analysis of Deformed Nanowires Using the Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm ▶     Akif Yılmaz, Barışcan Karaosmanoğlu, Özgür Ergül     We consider computational analysis of deformed nanowires and their arrays using a full-wave simulation environment based on integral-equation formulations and the multilevel fast …             Observation of coherent oscillation in single-passage Landau-Zener transitions ▶     Guozhu Sun, Xueda Wen, Ming Gong et al.     Landau-Zener transition (LZT) has been explored in a variety of physical systems for coherent population transfer between different quantum states. In recent years, there have …             Integration of lead-free ferroelectric on HfO2/Si (100) for high performance non-volatile memory applications ▶     Souvik Kundu, Deepam Maurya, Michael Clavel et al.     We introduce a novel lead-free ferroelectric thin film (1-x)BaTiO3-xBa(Cu1/3Nb2/3)O3 (x=0.025) (BT-BCN) integrated on to HfO2 buffered Si for non-volatile memory (NVM) …             Tissue heterogeneity in structure and conductivity contribute to cell survival during irreversible electroporation ablation by “electric field sinks” ▶     Alexander Golberg, Bote G. Bruinsma, Basak E. Uygun et al.     Irreversible electroporation (IRE) is an emerging, minimally invasive technique for solid tumors ablation, under clinical investigation for cancer therapy. IRE affects only the …             Suppressing Klein tunneling in graphene using a one-dimensional array of localized scatterers ▶     Jamie D. Walls, Daniel Hadad     Graphene's unique physical and chemical properties make it an attractive platform for use in micro- and nanoelectronic devices. However, electrostatically controlling the flow of …             Measuring the Refractive Index of Highly Crystalline Monolayer MoS2 with High Confidence ▶     Hui Zhang, Yaoguang Ma, Yi Wan et al.     Monolayer molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) has attracted much attention, due to its attractive properties, such as two-dimensional properties, direct bandgap, valley-selective …             Superoscillations without Sidebands: Power-Efficient Sub-Diffraction Imaging with Propagating Waves ▶     Alex M. H. Wong, George V. Eleftheriades     A superoscillation wave is a special superposition of propagating electromagnetic (EM) waves which varies with sub-diffraction resolution inside a fixed region. This special …             An Effect of Molecular Motion on Carrier Formation in a Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Film ▶     Yudai Ogata, Daisuke Kawaguchi, Keiji Tanaka     Free carriers, polarons (P), in conjugated polymers play a key role in the performance of optoelectronic devices. Here, we present solid evidence that P can be predominantly …             Study of DNA adsorption on mica surfaces using a surface force apparatus ▶     Yajing Kan, Qiyan Tan, Gensheng Wu et al.     We report our studies on the adsorption properties of double-stranded DNA molecules on mica surfaces in a confined environment using a surface force apparatus. Specifically, we …             Complex dynamics of a dc glow discharge tube: Experimental modeling and stability diagrams ▶     Eugenio Pugliese, Riccardo Meucci, Stefano Euzzor et al.     We report a detailed experimental study of the complex behavior of a dc low-pressure plasma discharge tube of the type commonly used in commercial illuminated signs, in a …             Fermi Level shifting, Charge Transfer and Induced Magnetic Coupling at La0.7Ca0.3MnO3/LaNiO3Interface ▶     Xingkun Ning, Zhanjie Wang, Zhidong Zhang     A large magnetic coupling has been observed at the La0.7Ca0.3MnO3/LaNiO3 (LCMO/LNO) interface. The x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) study results show that Fermi level …             Effect of Annealing Treatment on Mechanical Properties of Nanocrystalline α-iron: an Atomistic Study ▶     Xuhang Tong, Hao Zhang, D. Y. Li     Claims are often found in the literature that metallic materials can be nanocrystallized by severe plastic deformation (SPD). However, SPD does not generate a well-defined …             Continuously tunable electronic structure of transition metal dichalcogenides superlattices ▶     Yong-Hong Zhao, Feng Yang, Jian Wang et al.     Two dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides have very exciting properties for optoelectronic applications. In this work we theoretically investigate and predict that …             Graphene-based active slow surface plasmon polaritons ▶     Hua Lu, Chao Zeng, Qiming Zhang et al.     Finding new ways to control and slow down the group velocity of light in media remains a major challenge in the field of optics. For the design of plasmonic slow light …             Role of surface plasmon polaritons and other waves in the radiation of resonant optical dipole antennas ▶     Hongwei Jia, Haitao Liu, Ying Zhong     The radiation of an electric dipole emitter can be drastically enhanced if the emitter is placed in the nano-gap of a metallic dipole antenna. By assuming that only surface …             Dispersion management of anisotropic metamirror for super-octave bandwidth polarization conversion ▶     Yinghui Guo, Yanqin Wang, Mingbo Pu et al.     Dispersion engineering of metamaterials is critical yet not fully released in applications where broadband and multispectral responses are desirable. Here we propose a strategy …             Facile synthesis of novel graphene sponge for high performance capacitive deionization ▶     Xingtao Xu, Likun Pan, Yong Liu et al.     Capacitive deionization (CDI) is an effective desalination technique offering an appropriate route to obtain clean water. In order to obtain excellent CDI performance, a …             Terahertz in-line digital holography of human hepatocellular carcinoma tissue ▶     Lu Rong, Tatiana Latychevskaia, Chunhai Chen et al.     Terahertz waves provide a better contrast in imaging soft biomedical tissues than X-rays, and unlike X-rays, they cause no ionisation damage, making them a good option for …             Topological Metal of NaBi with Ultralow Lattice Thermal Conductivity and Electron-phonon Superconductivity ▶     Ronghan Li, Xiyue Cheng, Qing Xie et al.     By means of first-principles and ab initio tight-binding calculations, we found that the compound of NaBi is a three-dimensional non-trivial topological metal. Its topological …             Robust magnetic moments on the basal plane of the graphene sheet effectively induced by OH groups ▶     Tao Tang, Nujiang Tang, Yongping Zheng et al.     Inducing robust magnetic moments on the basal plane of the graphene sheet is very difficult, and is one of the greatest challenges in the study of physical chemistry of graphene …             Evidence of the hydrogen release mechanism in bulk MgH2 ▶     Kazuhiro Nogita, Xuan Q. Tran, Tomokazu Yamamoto et al.     Hydrogen has the potential to power much of the modern world with only water as a by-product, but storing hydrogen safely and efficiently in solid form such as magnesium hydride …             Driving a GaAs film to a large-gap topological insulator by tensile strain ▶     Mingwen Zhao, Xin Chen, Linyang Li et al.     Search for materials with a large nontrivial band gap is quite crucial for the realization of the devices using quantum spin Hall (QSH) effects. From first-principles …             Topological incommensurate magnetization plateaus in quasi-periodic quantum spin chains ▶     Hai-Ping Hu, Chen Cheng, Hong-Gang Luo et al.     Uncovering topologically nontrivial states in nature is an intriguing and important issue in recent years. While most studies are based on the topological band insulators, the …             Enhancing robustness of coupled networks under targeted recoveries ▶     Maoguo Gong, Lijia Ma, Qing Cai et al.     Coupled networks are extremely fragile because a node failure of a network would trigger a cascade of failures on the entire system. Existing studies mainly focused on the …             Quantum speed limits in open systems: Non-Markovian dynamics without rotating-wave approximation ▶     Zhe Sun, Jing Liu, Jian Ma et al.     We derive an easily computable quantum speed limit (QSL) time bound for open systems whose initial states can be chosen as either pure or mixed states. Moreover, this QSL time is …             Gate Tunable Relativistic Mass and Berry's phase in Topological Insulator Nanoribbon Field Effect Devices ▶     Luis A. Jauregui, Michael T. Pettes, Leonid P. Rokhinson et al.     Transport due to spin-helical massless Dirac fermion surface state is of paramount importance to realize various new physical phenomena in topological insulators, ranging from …             Muonium in Stishovite: Implications for the Possible Existence of Neutral Atomic Hydrogen in the Earth's Deep Mantle ▶     Nobumasa Funamori, Kenji M. Kojima, Daisuke Wakabayashi et al.     Hydrogen in the Earth's deep interior has been thought to exist as a hydroxyl group in high-pressure minerals. We present Muon Spin Rotation experiments on SiO2 stishovite, which …             A neuro-inspired model-based closed-loop neuroprosthesis for the substitution of a cerebellar learning function in anesthetized rats ▶     Roni Hogri, Simeon A. Bamford, Aryeh H. Taub et al.     Neuroprostheses could potentially recover functions lost due to neural damage. Typical neuroprostheses connect an intact brain with the external environment, thus replacing …             Clocking the anisotropic lattice dynamics of multi-walled carbon nanotubes by four-dimensional ultrafast transmission electron microscopy ▶     Gaolong Cao, Shuaishuai Sun, Zhongwen Li et al.     Recent advances in the four-dimensional ultrafast transmission electron microscope (4D-UTEM) with combined spatial and temporal resolutions have made it possible to directly …             Tape Transfer Atomization Patterning of Liquid Alloys for Microfluidic Stretchable Wireless Power Transfer ▶     Seung Hee Jeong, Klas Hjort, Zhigang Wu     Stretchable electronics offers unsurpassed mechanical compliance on complex or soft surfaces like the human skin and organs. To fully exploit this great advantage, an autonomous …             Dual enhancement of electroluminescence efficiency and operational stability by rapid upconversion of triplet excitons in OLEDs ▶     Taro Furukawa, Hajime Nakanotani, Munetomo Inoue et al.     Recently, triplet harvesting via a thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) process has been established as a realistic route for obtaining ultimate internal …             Resilience of hybrid optical angular momentum qubits to turbulence ▶     Osvaldo Jiménez Farías, Vincenzo D'Ambrosio, Caterina Taballione et al.     Recent schemes to encode quantum information into the total angular momentum of light, defining rotation-invariant hybrid qubits composed of the polarization and orbital angular …             Role of Co-Vapors in Vapor Deposition Polymerization ▶     Ji Eun Lee, Younghee Lee, Ki-Jin Ahn et al.     Polypyrrole (PPy)/cellulose (PPCL) composite papers were fabricated by vapor phase polymerization. Importantly, the vapor-phase deposition of PPy onto cellulose was assisted by …             Energetics and Structural Characterization of the large-scale Functional Motion of Adenylate Kinase ▶     Elena Formoso, Vittorio Limongelli, Michele Parrinello     Adenylate Kinase (AK) is a signal transducing protein that regulates cellular energy homeostasis balancing between different conformations. An alteration of its activity can lead …             Dependence of structure and temperature for lithium-rich layered-spinel microspheres cathode material of lithium ion batteries ▶     Di Wang, Ruizhi Yu, Xianyou Wang et al.     Homogeneous lithium-rich layered-spinel 0.5Li2MnO3·0.5LiMn1/3Ni1/3Co1/3O2 microspheres (~1 μm) are successfully prepared by a solvothermal method and subsequent high-temperature …             Inexpensive Antimony Nanocrystals and Their Composites with Red Phosphorus as High-Performance Anode Materials for Na-ion Batteries ▶     Marc Walter, Rolf Erni, Maksym V. Kovalenko     Sodium-ion batteries increasingly become of immense research interest as a potential inexpensive alternative to Lithium-ion batteries. Development of high-energy-density negative …             Quantum anomalous Hall and quantum spin-Hall phases in flattened Bi and Sb bilayers ▶     Kyung-Hwan Jin, Seung-Hoon Jhi     Discovery of two-dimensional topological insulator such as Bi bilayer initiates challenges in exploring exotic quantum states in low dimensions. We demonstrate a promising way to …             Chains of Carbon Nanotetrahedra/Nanoribbons ▶     Hideo Kohno, Takayuki Hasegawa     Flattening of a carbon nanotube results in the formation of a carbon nanoribbon with well-defined edges. In addition, a switching of the flattening direction by about a right …             Excitation of Multipole Plasmons by Optical Vortex Beams ▶     Kyosuke Sakai, Kensuke Nomura, Takeaki Yamamoto et al.     Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) has been shown to exhibit a strong potential for nanoscale electromagnetic field manipulation beyond the diffraction limit. …             Counterfactual quantum-information transfer without transmitting any physical particles ▶     Qi Guo, Liu-Yong Cheng, Li Chen et al.     We demonstrate quantum information can be transferred between two distant participants without any physical particles traveling between them. The key procedure of the …             Intrinsic dynamics induce global symmetry in network controllability ▶     Chen Zhao, Wen-Xu Wang, Yang-Yu Liu et al.     Controlling complex networked systems to desired states is a key research goal in contemporary science. Despite recent advances in studying the impact of network topology on …             Hierarchical multicolor nano-pixel matrices formed by coordinating luminescent metal ions to a conjugated poly(4′-octyl-2′,6′-bispyrazoyl pyridine) film via contact printing ▶     Supratim Basak, Md Ahamad Mohiddon, Martin Baumgarten et al.     We introduce a cost-effective, yet feasible reactive printing approach namely, “coordination chemistry at the conjugated ligand polymer surface”. By using a contact printing …             Worldwide variations in artificial skyglow ▶     Christopher C. M. Kyba, Kai Pong Tong, Jonathan Bennie et al.     Despite constituting a widespread and significant environmental change, understanding of artificial nighttime skyglow is extremely limited. Until now, published monitoring …             The Epileptic Thalamocortical Network is a Macroscopic Self-Sustained Oscillator: Evidence from Frequency-Locking Experiments in Rat Brains ▶     J. L. Perez Velazquez, R. Guevara Erra, M. Rosenblum     The rhythmic activity observed in nervous systems, in particular in epilepsies and Parkinson's disease, has often been hypothesized to originate from a macroscopic self-sustained …             Anchoring Dipalmitoyl Phosphoethanolamine to Nanoparticles Boosts Cellular Uptake and Fluorine-19 Magnetic Resonance Signal ▶     Sonia Waiczies, Stefano Lepore, Karl Sydow et al.     Magnetic resonance (MR) methods to detect and quantify fluorine (19F) nuclei provide the opportunity to study the fate of cellular transplants in vivo. Cells are typically …             Dimensional crossover and cold-atom realization of topological Mott insulators ▶     Mathias S. Scheurer, Stephan Rachel, Peter P. Orth     Interacting cold-atomic gases in optical lattices offer an experimental approach to outstanding problems of many body physics. One important example is the interplay of …             Emergence of topological and topological crystalline phases in TlBiS2 and TlSbS2 ▶     Qingyun Zhang, Yingchun Cheng, Udo Schwingenschlögl     Using first-principles calculations, we investigate the band structure evolution and topological phase transitions in TlBiS2 and TlSbS2 under hydrostatic pressure as well as …             Multi-barrier field-emission behavior in PBTTT thin films at low temperatures ▶     Evan S. H. Kang, Eunseong Kim     We investigated the low-temperature transport mechanism for poly[2,5-bis(3-alkylthiophen-2-yl)thieno(3,2-b)thiophene] (PBTTT). The temperature-dependent transport behavior was …             Hybrid luminescence materials assembled by [Ln(DPA)3]3− and mesoporous host through ion-pairing interactions with high quantum efficiencies and long lifetimes ▶     Qing-Feng Li, Dan Yue, Wei Lu et al.     A kind of mesoporous hybrid luminescence material was assembled through the ion exchange method between [Ln(DPA)3]3− and ionic liquid functionalized SBA-15. [Ln(DPA)3]3− was …             Hiding scattering layers for noninvasive imaging of hidden objects ▶     Kedi Wu, Qiluan Cheng, Yile Shi et al.     The ability to noninvasive image through turbid media has long been a major scientific and technological goal in many disciplines. A breakthrough has been made to observe objects …             Tuning Interior Nanogaps of Double-shelled Au/Ag Nanoboxes for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering ▶     Weiqing Zhang, Mohsen Rahmani, Wenxin Niu et al.     Double-shelled Au/Ag hollow nanoboxes with precisely controlled interior nanogaps (1 to 16 nm) were synthesized for gap-tunable surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). The …             Photoresponse dynamics in amorphous-LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces ▶     Emiliano Di Gennaro, Ubaldo Coscia, Giuseppina Ambrosone et al.     The time-resolved photoconductance of amorphous and crystalline LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces, both hosting an interfacial 2-dimensional electron gas, is investigated under …             Efficient Organic Photovoltaics Utilizing Nanoscale Heterojunctions in Sequentially Deposited Polymer/fullerene Bilayer ▶     Jeesoo Seok, Tae Joo Shin, Sungmin Park et al.     A highly efficient sequentially deposited bilayer (SD-bilayer) of polymer/fullerene organic photovoltaic (OPV) device is developed via the solution process. Herein, we resolve …             Agent-based model with multi-level herding for complex financial systems ▶     Jun-Jie Chen, Lei Tan, Bo Zheng     In complex financial systems, the sector structure and volatility clustering are respectively important features of the spatial and temporal correlations. However, the …             Hierarchical Auxetic Mechanical Metamaterials ▶     Ruben Gatt, Luke Mizzi, Joseph I. Azzopardi et al.     Auxetic mechanical metamaterials are engineered systems that exhibit the unusual macroscopic property of a negative Poisson's ratio due to sub-unit structure rather than chemical …             Microscopic Receding Contact Line Dynamics on Pillar and Irregular Superhydrophobic Surfaces▶     Yong Han Yeong, Athanasios Milionis, Eric Loth et al.     Receding angles have been shown to have great significance when designing a superhydrophobic surface for applications involving self-cleaning. Although apparent receding angles …             Minimising hydrogen sulphide generation during steam assisted production of heavy oil ▶     Wren Montgomery, Mark A. Sephton, Jonathan S. Watson et al.     The majority of global petroleum is in the form of highly viscous heavy oil. Traditionally heavy oil in sands at shallow depths is accessed by large scale mining activities. …             A high-resolution 2D J-resolved NMR detection technique for metabolite analyses of biological samples ▶     Yuqing Huang, Zhiyong Zhang, Hao Chen et al.     NMR spectroscopy is a commonly used technique for metabolite analyses. Due to the observed macroscopic magnetic susceptibility in biological tissues, current NMR acquisitions in …             Realizing and characterizing chiral photon flow in a circuit quantum electrodynamics necklace ▶     Yan-Pu Wang, Wei Wang, Zheng-Yuan Xue et al.     Gauge theory plays the central role in modern physics. Here we propose a scheme of implementing artificial Abelian gauge fields via the parametric conversion method in a necklace …             A simple method for tuning the glass transition process in inorganic phosphate glasses ▶     René Fulchiron, Imane Belyamani, Joshua U. Otaigbe et al.     The physical modification of glass transition temperature (Tg) and properties of materials via blending is a common practice in industry and academia and has a large economic …             A biopolymer-like metal enabled hybrid material with exceptional mechanical prowess ▶     Junsong Zhang, Lishan Cui, Daqiang Jiang et al.     The design principles for naturally occurring biological materials have inspired us to develop next-generation engineering materials with remarkable performance. Nacre, commonly …             Octahedral faceted Si nanoparticles as optical traps with enormous yield amplification ▶     Giovanni Mannino, Alessandra Alberti, Rosa Ruggeri et al.     We describe a method for the creation of an efficient optical scatter trap by using fully crystalline octahedral Silicon nanoparticles (Si-NPs) of approximately 100 nanometres in …             n and p type character of single molecule diodes ▶     Vinícius Claudio Zoldan, Ricardo Faccio, André Avelino Pasa     Looking for single molecule electronic devices, we have investigated the charge transport properties of individual tetra-phenylporphyrin molecules on different substrates by …             Comparison of growth texture in round Bi2212 and flat Bi2223 wires and its relation to high critical current density development ▶     F. Kametani, J. Jiang, M. Matras et al.     Why Bi2Sr2CaCu2Ox (Bi2212) allows high critical current density Jc in round wires rather than only in the anisotropic tape form demanded by all other high temperature …             Prion Amplification and Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling Refine Detection of Prion Infection ▶     A. 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