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Paul Attfield Nature doi: 10.1038/480465a Full Text | PDF   Letters top Materials JOBS of the week Specially Appointed Professor Research Institute for Humanity and Nature Postdoc within Synthetic Biology Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, University of Copenhagen Senior Researcher in Metabolomics Technical University of Denmark, the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability Customer Care Field Engineer - Newark, New Jersey 1975 Millipore Corp. Junior Research Fellow Centre for Stem Cell Research, Christian Medical College. More Science jobs from Materials EVENT META’12, the 3rd International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics 19.-22.04.12 Paris, France More science events from Jamming by shear Dapeng Bi, Jie Zhang, Bulbul Chakraborty & R. P. Behringer Nature doi: 10.1038/nature10667 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Tuning charge transport in solution-sheared organic semiconductors using lattice strain Gaurav Giri et al. Nature doi: 10.1038/nature10683 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Observation of kinks and antikinks in colloidal monolayers driven across ordered surfaces Thomas Bohlein, Jules Mikhael & Clemens Bechinger Nature Materials doi: 10.1038/nmat3204 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Magnon-drag thermopile Marius V. Costache et al. Nature Materials doi: 10.1038/nmat3201 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF A surface-anchored molecular four-level conductance switch based on single proton transfer Willi Auwärter Nature Nanotechnology doi: 10.1038/nnano.2011.211 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Synthetically programmable nanoparticle superlattices using a hollow three-dimensional spacer approach Evelyn Auyeung et al. Nature Nanotechnology doi: 10.1038/nnano.2011.222 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Local electrical potential detection of DNA by nanowire-nanopore sensors Ping Xie, Qihua Xiong, Ying Fang, Quan Qing & Charles M. Lieber Nature Nanotechnology doi: 10.1038/nnano.2011.217 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Enhanced and switchable nanoscale thermal conduction due to van der Waals interfaces Juekuan Yang et al. Nature Nanotechnology doi: 10.1038/nnano.2011.216 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Intracellular recordings of action potentials by an extracellular nanoscale field-effect transistor Xiaojie Duan Nature Nanotechnology doi: 10.1038/nnano.2011.223 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Hole spin relaxation in Ge-Si core-shell nanowire qubits Yongjie Hu, Ferdinand Kuemmeth, Charles M. Lieber & Charles M. Marcus Nature Nanotechnology doi: 10.1038/nnano.2011.234 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF High-dynamic-range magnetometry with a single electronic spin in diamond N. M. Nusran, M. Ummal Momeen & M. V. Gurudev Dutt Nature Nanotechnology doi: 10.1038/nnano.2011.225 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF High-dynamic-range magnetometry with a single nuclear spin in diamond G. Waldherr et al. Nature Nanotechnology doi: 10.1038/nnano.2011.224 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Realization of a micrometer-sized stochastic heat engine Valentin Blickle & Clemens Bechinger Nature Physics doi: 10.1038/nphys2163 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Macroscopic non-classical states and terahertz quantum processing in room-temperature diamond K. C. Lee et al. Nature Photonics doi: 10.1038/nphoton.2011.296 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Self-terminating diffraction gates femtosecond X-ray nanocrystallography measurements Anton Barty et al. Nature Photonics doi: 10.1038/nphoton.2011.297 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF   Articles top High-efficiency inverted dithienogermole-thienopyrrolodione-based polymer solar cells Cephas E. Small et al. Nature Photonics doi: 10.1038/nphoton.2011.317 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF The promoting effect of adsorbed carbon monoxide on the oxidation of alcohols on a gold catalyst Paramaconi Rodriguez, Youngkook Kwon & Marc T. M. Koper Nature Chemistry doi: 10.1038/nchem.1221 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Spin waves and magnetic exchange interactions in insulating Rb0.89Fe1.58Se2 Miaoyin Wang et al. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms1573 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Plasmon resonance enhanced multicolour photodetection by graphene Yuan Liu et al. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms1589 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Gate-tuned normal and superconducting transport at the surface of a topological insulator Benjamin Sacépé et al. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms1586 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Band structure engineering in (Bi1-xSbx)2Te3 ternary topological insulators Jinsong Zhang et al. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms1588 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Graphene chiral liquid crystals and macroscopic assembled fibres Zhen Xu, Chao Gao Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms1583 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Tandem synthesis of alternating polyesters from renewable resources Carine Robert, Frédéric de Montigny, Christophe M. Thomas Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms1596 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Rebalancing of internally generated carriers for mid-infrared interband cascade lasers with very low power consumption I. Vurgaftman, W.W. Bewley, C.L. Canedy, C.S. Kim, M. Kim, C.D. Merritt, J. Abell, J.R. Lindle, J.R. Meyer Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms1595 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Low-power nano-optical vortex trapping via plasmonic diabolo nanoantennas Ju-Hyung Kang et al. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms1592 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF   Reviews top The properties and applications of nanodiamonds Vadym N. Mochalin, Olga Shenderova, Dean Ho & Yury Gogotsi Nature Nanotechnology doi: 10.1038/nnano.2011.209 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Advertisement Subscribe to Nature Materials, all that matters in material science and technology, here

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