Scientific Reports Physics Table of Contents e-alert: 24 February 2015

24 February 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               Nanomechanical behavior of MoS2 and WS2 multi-walled nanotubes and Carbon nanohorns ▶     Dave Maharaj, Bharat Bhushan     Nano-objects have been investigated for drug delivery, oil detection, contaminant removal, and tribology applications. In some applications, they are subjected to friction and …             High pressure Raman spectroscopy of H2O-CH3OH mixtures ▶     Wen-Pin Hsieh, Yu-Hsiang Chien     Complex intra-molecular interactions and the hydrogen-bonding network in H2O-volatile mixtures play critical roles in many dynamics processes in physical chemistry, biology, and …             Probing the electronic and spintronic properties of buried interfaces by extremely low energy photoemission spectroscopy ▶     Roman Fetzer, Benjamin Stadtmüller, Yusuke Ohdaira et al.     Ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy (UPS) is a powerful tool to study the electronic spin and symmetry features at both surfaces and interfaces to ultrathin top layers. …             Room temperature synthesis of cobalt-manganese-nickel oxalates micropolyhedrons for high-performance flexible electrochemical energy storage device ▶     Yi-Zhou Zhang, Junhong Zhao, Jing Xia et al.     Cobalt-manganese-nickel oxalates micropolyhedrons were successfully fabricated by a room temperature chemical co-precipitation method. Interestingly, the Co0.5Mn0.4Ni0.1C2O4*nH2O …             Enhanced Surface-and-Interface Coupling in Pd-Nanoparticle-coated LaAlO3/SrTiO3Heterostructures: Strong Gas- and Photo-Induced Conductance Modulation ▶     Haeri Kim, Ngai Yui Chan, Ji-yan Dai et al.     Pd nanoparticle (NP) coated LaAlO3/SrTiO3 (LAO/STO) heterointerface exhibits more notable conductance (G) change while varying the ambient gas (N2, H2/N2, and O2) and …             Fermi Arcs vs. Fermi Pockets in Electron-doped Perovskite Iridates ▶     Junfeng He, H. Hafiz, Thomas R. Mion et al.     We report on an angle resolved photoemission (ARPES) study of bulk electron-doped perovskite iridate, (Sr1−xLax)3Ir2O7. Fermi surface pockets are observed with a total electron …             On the Origin of Protein Superfamilies and Superfolds ▶     Abram Magner, Wojciech Szpankowski, Daisuke Kihara     Distributions of protein families and folds in genomes are highly skewed, having a small number of prevalent superfamiles/superfolds and a large number of families/folds of a …             Bridging topological and functional information in protein interaction networks by short loops profiling ▶     Sun Sook Chung, Alessandro Pandini, Alessia Annibale et al.     Protein-protein interaction networks (PPINs) have been employed to identify potential novel interconnections between proteins as well as crucial cellular functions. In this study …             Structural basis for PPARγ transactivation by endocrine-disrupting organotin compounds ▶     Shusaku Harada, Youhei Hiromori, Shota Nakamura et al.     Organotin compounds such as triphenyltin (TPT) and tributyltin (TBT) act as endocrine disruptors through the peroxisome proliferator–activated receptor γ (PPARγ) signaling …             Revealing backward rescattering photoelectron interference of molecules in strong infrared laser fields ▶     Min Li, Xufei Sun, Xiguo Xie et al.     Photoelectrons ionized from atoms and molecules in a strong laser field are either emitted directly or rescattered by the nucleus, both of which can serve as efficiently useful …             Ultra-fast and energy-efficient sintering of ceramics by electric current concentration ▶     E. Zapata-Solvas, D. Gómez-García, A. Domínguez-Rodríguez et al.     Electric current activated/assisted sintering (ECAS) techniques, such as electrical discharge sintering (EDS) or resistive sintering (RS), have been intensively investigated for …             Mid-infrared laser filaments in the atmosphere ▶     A. V. Mitrofanov, A. A. Voronin, D. A. Sidorov-Biryukov et al.     Filamentation of ultrashort laser pulses in the atmosphere offers unique opportunities for long-range transmission of high-power laser radiation and standoff detection. With the …             A General Design Rule to Manipulate Photocarrier Transport Path in Solar Cells and Its Realization by the Plasmonic-Electrical Effect ▶     Wei E. I. Sha, Hugh L. Zhu, Luzhou Chen et al.     It is well known that transport paths of photocarriers (electrons and holes) before collected by electrodes strongly affect bulk recombination and thus electrical properties of …             On-chip Fabrication of High Performance Nanostructured ZnO UV Detectors ▶     Mohammad R. Alenezi, Simon J. Henley, S. R. P. Silva     Developing rationally controlled bottom-up device fabrication processes is essential for the achievement of high performance optimal devices. We report a controlled, seedless and …             Controlling the Spins Angular Momentum in Ferromagnets with Sequences of Picosecond Acoustic Pulses ▶     Ji-Wan Kim, Mircea Vomir, Jean-Yves Bigot     Controlling the angular momentum of spins with very short external perturbations is a key issue in modern magnetism. For example it allows manipulating the magnetization for …             Reversible monolayer-to-crystalline phase transition in amphiphilic silsesquioxane at the air-water interface ▶     R. Banerjee, M. K. Sanyal, M. K. Bera et al.     We report on the counter intuitive reversible crystallisation of two-dimensional monolayer of Trisilanolisobutyl Polyhedral Oligomeric SilSesquioxane (TBPOSS) on water surface …             Large-Scale Synthesis of Palladium Concave Nanocubes with High-Index Facets for Sustainable Enhanced Catalytic Performance ▶     Xiaobin Xie, Guanhui Gao, Zhengyin Pan et al.     The catalytic activity of palladium (Pd) nanostructures highly relies on their size and morphology, especially enclosed with high-index facets, which provide more active sites so …             Rutile TiO2 Mesocrystals/Reduced Graphene Oxide with High-Rate and Long-Term Performance for Lithium-Ion Batteries ▶     Tongbin Lan, Heyuan Qiu, Fengyan Xie et al.     An in situ hydrothermal route is developed for fabricating rutile TiO2 mesocrystals/reduced graphene oxide nanosheets (TGR) hybrids in the presence of dodecylbenzenesulphonic …             Shape-modification of patterned nanoparticles by an ion beam treatment ▶     Kyong Chan Heo, Jin Seog Gwag     This paper evaluated a practical approach to the fabrication of arrays of non-spherical nanoparticles by colloidal etching without a mask involving exposure to a low energy ion …             Unveiling the Dependence of Glass Transitions on Mixing Thermodynamics in Miscible Systems▶     Wenkang Tu, Yunxi Wang, Xin Li et al.     The dependence of the glass transition in mixtures on mixing thermodynamics is examined by focusing on enthalpy of mixing, ΔHmix with the change in sign (positive vs. negative) …             Two-component energy spectrum of cuprates in the pseudogap phase and its evolution with temperature and at charge ordering ▶     Lev P. Gor'kov, Gregory B. Teitel'baum     In the search for mechanisms of high-temperature superconductivity it is critical to know the electronic spectrum in the pseudogap phase from which superconductivity evolves. The …             Strongly anisotropic in-plane thermal transport in single-layer black phosphorene ▶     Ankit Jain, Alan J. H. McGaughey     Using first principles calculations, we predict the thermal conductivity of the two-dimensional materials black phosphorene and blue phosphorene. Black phosphorene has an …             Design and fabrication of far ultraviolet filters based on π-multilayer technology in high-kmaterials ▶     Xiao-Dong Wang, Bo Chen, Hai-Feng Wang et al.     Application of π-multilayer technology is extended to high extinction coefficient materials, which is introduced into metal-dielectric filter design. Metal materials often have …             Delay-induced patterns in a two-dimensional lattice of coupled oscillators ▶     Markus Kantner, Eckehard Schöll, Serhiy Yanchuk     We show how a variety of stable spatio-temporal periodic patterns can be created in 2D-lattices of coupled oscillators with non-homogeneous coupling delays. The results are …             MDR1 siRNA loaded hyaluronic acid-based CD44 targeted nanoparticle systems circumvent paclitaxel resistance in ovarian cancer ▶     Xiaoqian Yang, Arun K. lyer, Amit Singh et al.     Development of multidrug resistance (MDR) is an almost universal phenomenon in patients with ovarian cancer, and this severely limits the ultimate success of chemotherapy in the …             Insights into the Role of Substrates on the Interaction between Cytochrome b5 and Cytochrome P450 2B4 by NMR ▶     Meng Zhang, Stéphanie V. Le Clair, Rui Huang et al.     Mammalian cytochrome b5 (cyt b5) is a membrane-bound protein capable of donating an electron to cytochrome P450 (P450) in the P450 catalytic cycle. The interaction between cyt b5 …             Simultaneous submicrometric 3D imaging of the micro-vascular network and the neuronal system in a mouse spinal cord ▶     Michela Fratini, Inna Bukreeva, Gaetano Campi et al.     Faults in vascular (VN) and neuronal networks of spinal cord are responsible for serious neurodegenerative pathologies. Because of inadequate investigation tools, the lacking …             Static stretch affects neural stem cell differentiation in an extracellular matrix-dependent manner▶     Janahan Arulmoli, Medha M. Pathak, Lisa P. McDonnell et al.     Neural stem and progenitor cell (NSPC) fate is strongly influenced by mechanotransduction as modulation of substrate stiffness affects lineage choice. 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