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Visit Nature Materials at the Nature Publishing Group booth #120 Stop by our booth to: • Pick up free sample copies, including Nature Materials containing November’s focus on the mechanical properties of materials • Take part in our booth competition for your chance to win a prize*! *While stocks last   Comment top Obit: Herbert Hauptman (1917-2011) Nature doi: 10.1038/479300a Full Text   News and Views top Quantum Physics: Shaking photons out of the vacuum Carmelo Giacovazzo Nature doi: 10.1038/479303a Full Text | PDF Gold's enigmatic surface Robert J. Madix & Cynthia M. Friend Nature doi: 10.1038/479482a Full Text | PDF   Letters top materials@nature JOBS of the week Materials Engineer DisaSolar Tactile sensing systems based on functional materials Università degli Studi di Genova Research Scientist - Electrochemistry / Materials Chemistry Sandia National Laboratories Faculty Position in Materials Science & Engineering at Cornell University Cornell University Crystal structure e thermal bevahior analysis of mineral and materials for energy, enviroment and applications in ceramics. Università Ferrara More Science jobs from materials@nature EVENT META'12, the 3rd International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics 19.-22.04.12 Paris, France More science events from Observation of the dynamical Casimir effect in a superconducting circuite C. M.Wilson et al. Nature doi: 10.1038/nature10561 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Atom-resolved imaging of ordered defect superstructures at individual grain boundaries Zhongchang Wang et al. Nature doi: 10.1038/nature10593 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Conductive dense hydrogen M. I. Eremets & I. A. Troyan Nature Materials doi: 10.1038/nmat3175 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Magnetoelastic metamaterials Mikhail Lapine, Ilya V. Shadrivov, David A. Powell & Yuri S. Kivshar Nature Materials doi: 10.1038/nmat3168 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Induction of coherent magnetization switching in a few atomic layers of FeCo using voltage pulses Yoichi Shiota et al. Nature Materials doi: 10.1038/nmat3172 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Mapping nanomechanical properties of live cells using multi-harmonic atomic force microscopy A. Raman et al. Nature Nanotechnology doi: 10.1038/nnano.2011.186 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Structural transformation in supercooled water controls the crystallization rate of ice Emily B. Moore & Valeria Molinero Nature doi: 10.1038/nature10586 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Self-assembly of uniform polyhedral silver nanocrystals into densest packings and exotic superlattices Joel Henzie, Michael Grünwald, Asaph Widmer-Cooper, Phillip L. Geissler & Peidong Yang Nature Materials doi: 10.1038/nmat3178 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Atomic-scale transport in epitaxial graphene Shuai-Hua Ji et al. Nature Materials doi: 10.1038/nmat3170 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Synthesis of monolithic graphene-graphite integrated electronics Jang-Ung Park, SungWoo Nam, Mi-Sun Lee & Charles M. Lieber Nature Materials doi: 10.1038/nmat3169 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Direct visualization of large-area graphene domains and boundaries by optical birefringency Dae Woo Kim, Yun Ho Kim, Hyeon Su Jeong & Hee-Tae Jung Nature Nanotechnology doi: 10.1038/nnano.2011.198 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Topological semimetal in a fermionic optical lattice Kai Sun, W. 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Buck, James F. Bondi & Raymond E. Schaak Nature Chemistry doi: 10.1038/nchem.1195 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Synthesis and structure of solution-stable one-dimensional palladium wires JMichael G. Campbell et al. Nature Chemistry doi: 10.1038/nchem.1197 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Selective dispersion of high purity semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes with regioregular poly(3-alkylthiophene)s Hang Woo Lee et al. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms1545 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Self-assembly of DNA nanotubes with controllable diameters Ofer I. Wilner et al. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/comms1535 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Ultrafast direct modulation of a single-mode photonic crystal nanocavity light-emitting diode Gary Shambat et al. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms1543 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Pore surface engineering in covalent organic frameworks Atsushi Nagai et al. 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Colinge & Jean-Pierre Colinge Nature doi: 10.1038/nature10676 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Embracing the quantum limit in silicon computing John J. L. Morton, Dane R. McCamey, Mark A. Eriksson & Stephen A. Lyon Nature doi: 10.1038/nature10681 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Perspective: Environmental effects of information and communications technologies Eric Williams Nature doi: 10.1038/nature10682 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Advertisement Subscribe to Nature Materials, all that matters in material science and technology, here

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