Replication of flexible polymer membranes with geometry-controllable nano-apertures via a hierarchical mould-based dewetting.

abstract：:Spatial correlations in environmental stochasticity can synchronize populations over wide areas, a phenomenon known as the Moran effect. The Moran effect has been confirmed in field, laboratory and theoretical investigations. Little is known, however, about the Moran effect in a common ecological case, when environmen...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Massie TM,Weithoff G,Kuckländer N,Gaedke U,Blasius B

更新日期：2015-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a fatal disease in which the intricate alveolar network of the lung is progressively replaced by fibrotic scars. Myofibroblasts are the effector cells that excessively deposit extracellular matrix proteins thus compromising lung structure and function. Emerging literature suggest...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kheirollahi V,Wasnick RM,Biasin V,Vazquez-Armendariz AI,Chu X,Moiseenko A,Weiss A,Wilhelm J,Zhang JS,Kwapiszewska G,Herold S,Schermuly RT,Mari B,Li X,Seeger W,Günther A,Bellusci S,El Agha E

更新日期：2019-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the microscopic elementary process of chemical reactions, especially in condensed phase, is highly desirable for improvement of efficiencies in industrial chemical processes. Here we show an approach to gaining new insights into elementary reactions in condensed phase by combining quantum chemical calcul...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang Y,Song P,Fu Q,Ruan M,Xu W

更新日期：2014-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanopatterning by molecular self-assembly has been a topic of intense research in pursuit of 'bottom-up' methods of generating structures for use in nanotechnology. The systems most widely studied have been two- and three-dimensional morphologies of block copolymers. However, T- and X-shaped polyphilic liquid crystals...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu F,Kieffer R,Zeng X,Pelz K,Prehm M,Ungar G,Tschierske C

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research results on the effects of land cover change on water resources vary greatly and the topic remains controversial. Here we use published data worldwide to examine the validity of Fuh's equation, which relates annual water yield (R) to a wetness index (precipitation/potential evapotranspiration; P/PET) and water...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhou G,Wei X,Chen X,Zhou P,Liu X,Xiao Y,Sun G,Scott DF,Zhou S,Han L,Su Y

更新日期：2015-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Full-carbon electronics at the scale of several angstroms is an expeimental challenge, which could be overcome by exploiting the versatility of carbon allotropes. Here, we investigate charge transport through graphene/single-fullerene/graphene hybrid junctions using a single-molecule manipulation technique. Such sub-n...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Tan Z,Zhang D,Tian HR,Wu Q,Hou S,Pi J,Sadeghi H,Tang Z,Yang Y,Liu J,Tan YZ,Chen ZB,Shi J,Xiao Z,Lambert C,Xie SY,Hong W

更新日期：2019-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mei (Prunus mume) is an ornamental woody plant that has been domesticated in East Asia for thousands of years. High diversity in floral traits, along with its recent genome sequence, makes mei an ideal model system for studying the evolution of woody plants. Here, we investigate the genetic architecture of floral trai...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang Q,Zhang H,Sun L,Fan G,Ye M,Jiang L,Liu X,Ma K,Shi C,Bao F,Guan R,Han Y,Fu Y,Pan H,Chen Z,Li L,Wang J,Lv M,Zheng T,Yuan C,Zhou Y,Lee SM,Yan X,Xu X,Wu R,Chen W,Cheng T

更新日期：2018-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy cargo recognition and clearance are essential for intracellular protein quality control. SQSTM1/p62 sequesters intracellular aberrant proteins and mediates cargo delivery for their selective autophagic degradation. The formation of p62 non-membrane-bound liquid compartments is critical for its function as a ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yang Y,Willis TL,Button RW,Strang CJ,Fu Y,Wen X,Grayson PRC,Evans T,Sipthorpe RJ,Roberts SL,Hu B,Zhang J,Lu B,Luo S

更新日期：2019-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiciliated cells (MCCs) harbor dozens to hundreds of motile cilia, which generate hydrodynamic forces important in animal physiology. In vertebrates, MCC differentiation involves massive centriole production by poorly characterized structures called deuterosomes. Here, single-cell RNA sequencing reveals that human ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Revinski DR,Zaragosi LE,Boutin C,Ruiz-Garcia S,Deprez M,Thomé V,Rosnet O,Gay AS,Mercey O,Paquet A,Pons N,Ponzio G,Marcet B,Kodjabachian L,Barbry P

更新日期：2018-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Venomous animals are thought to inject the same combination of toxins for both predation and defence, presumably exploiting conserved target pharmacology across prey and predators. Remarkably, cone snails can rapidly switch between distinct venoms in response to predatory or defensive stimuli. Here, we show that the d...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Dutertre S,Jin AH,Vetter I,Hamilton B,Sunagar K,Lavergne V,Dutertre V,Fry BG,Antunes A,Venter DJ,Alewood PF,Lewis RJ

更新日期：2014-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies show that the D'' layer, just above the Earth's core-mantle boundary, is composed of MgSiO3 post-perovskite and has significant lateral inhomogeneity. Here we consider the D'' diversity as related to the single-crystal elasticity of the post-perovskite phase. We measure the single-crystal elasticity of ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yoneda A,Fukui H,Xu F,Nakatsuka A,Yoshiasa A,Seto Y,Ono K,Tsutsui S,Uchiyama H,Baron AQ

更新日期：2014-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Prognostication in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is challenging due to heterogeneity in clinical course. We hypothesize that constitutional genetic variation affects disease progression and could aid prognostication. Pooling data from seven studies incorporating 842 cases identifies two genomic loca...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lin WY,Fordham SE,Sunter N,Elstob C,Rahman T,Willmore E,Shepherd C,Strathdee G,Mainou-Fowler T,Piddock R,Mearns H,Barrow T,Houlston RS,Marr H,Wallis J,Summerfield G,Marshall S,Pettitt A,Pepper C,Fegan C,Forconi F

更新日期：2021-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain-inspired parallel computing, which is typically performed using a hardware neural-network platform consisting of numerous artificial synapses, is a promising technology for effectively handling large amounts of informational data. However, the reported nonlinear and asymmetric conductance-update characteristics ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Seo S,Kang BS,Lee JJ,Ryu HJ,Kim S,Kim H,Oh S,Shim J,Heo K,Oh S,Park JH

更新日期：2020-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the formation chemistry of metal halide perovskites is key to optimizing processing conditions and realizing enhanced optoelectronic properties. Here, we reveal the structure of the crystalline precursor in the formation of methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI3) from the single-step deposition of lead chlor...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Stone KH,Gold-Parker A,Pool VL,Unger EL,Bowring AR,McGehee MD,Toney MF,Tassone CJ

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zheng J,Fan R,Wu H,Yao H,Yan Y,Liu J,Ran L,Sun Z,Yi L,Dang L,Gan P,Zheng P,Yang T,Zhang Y,Tang T,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of temporal cavity solitons in microresonators results in coherent low-noise optical frequency combs that are critical for applications in spectroscopy, astronomy, navigation or telecommunications. Breather solitons also form an important part of many different classes of nonlinear wave systems, manifes...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yu M,Jang JK,Okawachi Y,Griffith AG,Luke K,Miller SA,Ji X,Lipson M,Gaeta AL

更新日期：2017-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The exploration of chemical space for new reactivity, reactions and molecules is limited by the need for separate work-up-separation steps searching for molecules rather than reactivity. Herein we present a system that can autonomously evaluate chemical reactivity within a network of 64 possible reaction combinations ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Dragone V,Sans V,Henson AB,Granda JM,Cronin L

更新日期：2017-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical south-western Pacific temperatures are of vital importance to the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), but the role of sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the growth of the GBR since the Last Glacial Maximum remains largely unknown. Here we present records of Sr/Ca and δ(18)O for Last Glacial Maximum and deglacial corals...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Felis T,McGregor HV,Linsley BK,Tudhope AW,Gagan MK,Suzuki A,Inoue M,Thomas AL,Esat TM,Thompson WG,Tiwari M,Potts DC,Mudelsee M,Yokoyama Y,Webster JM

更新日期：2014-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant diseases caused by fungi and oomycetes pose an increasing threat to food security and ecosystem health worldwide. These filamentous pathogens, while taxonomically distinct, modulate host defense responses by secreting effectors, which are typically identified based on the presence of signal peptides. Here we sho...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu T,Song T,Zhang X,Yuan H,Su L,Li W,Xu J,Liu S,Chen L,Chen T,Zhang M,Gu L,Zhang B,Dou D

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The excellent mechanical properties of carbon nanofibers bring promise for energy-related applications. Through in silico studies and continuum elasticity theory, here we show that the ultra-thin carbon nanothreads-based bundles exhibit a high mechanical energy storage density. Specifically, the gravimetric energy den...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhan H,Zhang G,Bell JM,Tan VBC,Gu Y

更新日期：2020-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the clonal evolution model, tumour growth is driven by competing subclones in somatically evolving cancer cell populations, which gives rise to genetically heterogeneous tumours. Here we present a comparative targeted deep-sequencing approach combined with a customised statistical algorithm, called deepSN...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Gerstung M,Beisel C,Rechsteiner M,Wild P,Schraml P,Moch H,Beerenwinkel N

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid sphingomyelinase (ASMase, ASM, SMPD1) converts sphingomyelin into ceramide, modulating membrane properties and signal transduction. Inactivating mutations in ASMase cause Niemann-Pick disease, and its inhibition is also beneficial in models of depression and cancer. To gain a better understanding of this critical...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Gorelik A,Illes K,Heinz LX,Superti-Furga G,Nagar B

更新日期：2016-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent discovery of the half quantized thermal Hall conductivity in [Formula: see text]-RuCl[Formula: see text], a candidate material for the Kitaev spin liquid, suggests the presence of a highly entangled quantum state in external magnetic fields. This field induced phase appears between the low field zig-zag magneti...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lee HY,Kaneko R,Chern LE,Okubo T,Yamaji Y,Kawashima N,Kim YB

更新日期：2020-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae is a model for studying fungal-plant interactions. Although it produces two types of spores (microconidia and macroconidia), previous infection studies have exclusively dealt with macroconidia. Germination of microconidia has not been reported, and their role in plant infection...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang H,Wu Z,Wang C,Li Y,Xu JR

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) and Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) are clinically distinctive diseases that feature a common neuropathological hallmark of aggregated α-synuclein. Little is known about how differences in α-synuclein aggregate structure affect disease phenotype. Here, we amplified α-synuclein aggregates from PD...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Strohäker T,Jung BC,Liou SH,Fernandez CO,Riedel D,Becker S,Halliday GM,Bennati M,Kim WS,Lee SJ,Zweckstetter M

更新日期：2019-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:WNTs are lipid-modified proteins that control multiple functions in development and disease via short- and long-range signaling. However, it is unclear how these hydrophobic molecules spread over long distances in the mammalian brain. Here we show that WNT5A is produced by the choroid plexus (ChP) of the developing hi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kaiser K,Gyllborg D,Procházka J,Salašová A,Kompaníková P,Molina FL,Laguna-Goya R,Radaszkiewicz T,Harnoš J,Procházková M,Potěšil D,Barker RA,Casado ÁG,Zdráhal Z,Sedláček R,Arenas E,Villaescusa JC,Bryja V

更新日期：2019-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The superconducting state is formed by the condensation of Cooper pairs and protected by the superconducting gap. The pairing interaction between the two electrons of a Cooper pair determines the gap function. Thus, it is pivotal to detect the gap structure for understanding the mechanism of superconductivity. In cupr...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Gu Q,Wan S,Tang Q,Du Z,Yang H,Wang QH,Zhong R,Wen J,Gu GD,Wen HH

更新日期：2019-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Covalent functionalization tailors carbon nanotubes for a wide range of applications in varying environments. Its strength and stability of attachment come at the price of degrading the carbon nanotubes sp2 network and destroying the tubes electronic and optoelectronic features. Here we present a non-destructive, cova...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Setaro A,Adeli M,Glaeske M,Przyrembel D,Bisswanger T,Gordeev G,Maschietto F,Faghani A,Paulus B,Weinelt M,Arenal R,Haag R,Reich S

更新日期：2017-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A disturbance of reactive oxygen species (ROS) homeostasis may cause the pathogenesis of many diseases. Inspired by natural photosynthesis, this work proposes a photo-driven H2-evolving liposomal nanoplatform (Lip NP) that comprises an upconversion nanoparticle (UCNP) that is conjugated with gold nanoparticles (AuNPs)...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wan WL,Tian B,Lin YJ,Korupalli C,Lu MY,Cui Q,Wan D,Chang Y,Sung HW

更新日期：2020-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Both basal ganglia (BG) and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) have been widely implicated in social and non-social decision-making. However, unlike OFC damage, BG pathology is not typically associated with disturbances in social functioning. Here we studied the behavior of patients with focal lesions to either BG or OFC in a...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhu L,Jiang Y,Scabini D,Knight RT,Hsu M

更新日期：2019-02-18 00:00:00