Nature Nanotechnology Contents December 2011 Volume 6 Number 12 pp 755-833

Advertisement "Learn More: The World's Fastest AFM" TABLE OF CONTENTS December 2011 Volume 6, Issue 12 Correspondence Research Highlights News and Views Reviews Letters Articles Recommend to your library Web feed Subscribe Advertisement Miami 2012 Winter Symposium: Nanotechnology in Biomedicine February 26-29, 2012 • Miami, FL, USA The 45th Miami Winter Symposium will bring together leaders in the field to discuss breakthroughs in new nanomaterials and the challenges in translating these materials into products for the clinic and laboratory. For more information and to register, visit: www.nature.com/natureconferences/miami/ Abstract Submission Deadline EXTENDED to November 30, 2011   Nature Nanotechnology Web Focus: Selected Highlights Since it was launched in October 2006, Nature Nanotechnology has published papers on a wide range of topics within nanoscience and technology. A web focus brings together all the papers we have published in four particularly active areas - DNA nanotechnology, graphene, nanopores and nanotoxicology - along with articles on the public perceptions of nanotechnology. View the selection online and enjoy free access to a number of articles until the end of 2011.   Correspondence Top Quantifying the biodistribution of nanoparticles p755 Xiao He, Zhiyong Zhang, Jinsen Liu, Yuhui Ma, Peng Zhang, Yuanyuan Li, Zhenqiang Wu, Yuliang Zhao and Zhifang Chai doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.219 Full Text | PDF Quantifying the biodistribution of nanoparticles p755 Yasuo Tsutsumi and Yasuo Yoshioka doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.220 Full Text | PDF Research Highlights Top Our choice from the recent literature p756 doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.229 Full Text | PDF News and Views Top Nanoelectronics: A closer look at charge drag pp757 - 758 Markus Büttiker and Rafael Sánchez doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.197 The observation that charges flowing through one quantum wire can drag charges in a second, unconnected wire either forwards or backwards requires a re-interpretation of Coulomb drag. Full Text | PDF See also: Letter by Laroche et al. Nanoparticles: Barrier thickness matters pp758 - 759 Berthold Huppertz doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.206 Signals that damage cells grown underneath a cellular barrier are transmitted only when the barrier is more than one layer thick. Full Text | PDF See also: Article by Sood et al. Nanopores: Water flow at the flip of a switch pp759 - 760 Ulrich Rant doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.215 Artificial nanopores with hydrophobic surface patches can be reversibly filled with water by applying electric fields. Full Text | PDF See also: Letter by Powell et al. Lipid structures: A brief history of multisomes pp761 - 762 David Needham doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.218 Lipid monolayers and bilayers can stabilize networks of water droplets inside larger drops of oil to create structures that could have a range of applications. Full Text | PDF See also: Letter by Villar et al. 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Abstract | Full Text | PDF Electrical contacts to one- and two-dimensional nanomaterials pp773 - 783 François Léonard and A. Alec Talin doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.196 A review of the unique issues involved in making electrical contacts to nanostructures. Abstract | Full Text | PDF Letters Top A decision-directed approach for prioritizing research into the impact of nanomaterials on the environment and human health pp784 - 787 Igor Linkov, Matthew E. Bates, Laure J. Canis, Thomas P. Seager and Jeffrey M. Keisler doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.163 Multi-criteria decision analysis and a value of information approach are used to develop a model for prioritizing research strategies into the environmental and human-health aspects of nanotechnology. Abstract | Full Text | PDF Skin-like pressure and strain sensors based on transparent elastic films of carbon nanotubes pp788 - 792 Darren J. Lipomi, Michael Vosgueritchian, Benjamin C-K. Tee, Sondra L. Hellstrom, Jennifer A. Lee, Courtney H. Fox and Zhenan Bao doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.184 Transparent films of carbon nanotubes can accommodate strains of up to 150% and demonstrate conductivities as high as 2,200 S cm-1 in the stretched state. Abstract | Full Text | PDF Positive and negative Coulomb drag in vertically integrated one-dimensional quantum wires pp793 - 797 D. Laroche, G. Gervais, M. P. Lilly and J. L. Reno doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.182 A quantum wire induces both positive and negative electron drag in another wire 15 nm away, changing the voltage across the second wire by up to 25%. Abstract | Full Text | PDF See also: News and Views by Büttiker & Sánchez Electric-field-induced wetting and dewetting in single hydrophobic nanopores pp798 - 802 Matthew R. Powell, Leah Cleary, Matthew Davenport, Kenneth J. Shea and Zuzanna S. Siwy doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.189 Single hydrophobic nanopores can undergo reversible wetting and dewetting by applying an electric potential across the nanopore membrane. Abstract | Full Text | PDF See also: News and Views by Rant Formation of droplet networks that function in aqueous environments pp803 - 808 Gabriel Villar, Andrew J. Heron and Hagan Bayley doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.183 Water droplets assembled into defined networks communicate with each other, and with the external aqueous environment, through protein nanopores. Abstract | Full Text | PDF See also: News and Views by Needham Mapping nanomechanical properties of live cells using multi-harmonic atomic force microscopy pp809 - 814 A. Raman, S. Trigueros, A. Cartagena, A. P. Z. Stevenson, M. Susilo, E. Nauman and S. Antoranz Contera doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.186 Multi-harmonic atomic force microscopy can be used to map the local mechanical properties of live cells with better temporal and spatial resolution than has been achieved before. Abstract | Full Text | PDF Articles Top Accumulation of sub-100 nm polymeric micelles in poorly permeable tumours depends on size pp815 - 823 H. Cabral, Y. Matsumoto, K. Mizuno, Q. Chen, M. Murakami, M. Kimura, Y. Terada, M. R. Kano, K. Miyazono, M. Uesaka, N. Nishiyama and K. Kataoka doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.166 Drug-loaded polymeric micelles with a diameter of 30 nm can penetrate poorly permeable tumours to achieve an antitumour effect. Abstract | Full Text | PDF Signalling of DNA damage and cytokines across cell barriers exposed to nanoparticles depends on barrier thickness pp824 - 833 A. Sood, S. Salih, D. Roh, L. Lacharme-Lora, M. Parry, B. Hardiman, R. Keehan, R. Grummer, E. Winterhager, P. J. Gokhale, P. W. Andrews, C. Abbott, K. Forbes, M. Westwood, J. D. Aplin, E. Ingham, I. Papageorgiou, M. Berry, J. Liu, A. D. Dick, R. J. Garland, N. Williams, R. Singh, A. K. Simon, M. Lewis, J. Ham, L. Roger, D. M. Baird, L. A. Crompton, M. A. Caldwell, H. Swalwell, M. Birch-Machin, G. Lopez-Castejon, A. Randall, H. Lin, M-S. Suleiman, W. H. Evans, R. Newson and C. P. Case doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.188 Indirect DNA damage to cells cultured below a cellular barrier caused by nanoparticles occurs across barriers containing two or more layers, but not monolayer barriers, suggesting that the thickness of the cell barrier is important in signalling. 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