Nature Nanotechnology Contents August 2013 Volume 8 Number 8 pp 539-609

TABLE OF CONTENTS August 2013 Volume 8, Issue 8 Editorial Research Highlights News and Views Progress Article Letters Articles Corrigendum Erratum Subscribe   Facebook   RSS   Recommend to library   Twitter   Advertisement The 14th edition of TNT2013 will take place at Hotel Silken Al-Andalus Palace, Seville (Spain) from the 9th until the 13th of September 2013. Currently, 38 keynote speakers from all over the world are confirmed covering different fields of Nanotechnology. A one-day symposium dedicated to Graphene will also be organised in collaboration with ICN2.   Editorial Top Scanning the past   p539 doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.167 Heinrich Rohrer and the scanning tunnelling microscope. Research Highlights Top Our choice from the recent literature   p540 doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.162 News and Views Top Topological insulators: Plasmons at the surface   pp541 - 542 Yoshinori Okada and Vidya Madhavan doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.157 Plasmons have been excited on the surface states of the topological insulator Bi2Se3. See also: Letter by Di Pietro et al. Electron microscopy: Watching the rise and fall of a dislocation   p542 Fabio Pulizzi doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.159 Nanofabrication: Pristine quantum devices on demand   pp543 - 544 Zhaohui Zhong doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.154 A technique combining direct nanotube transfer with scanning probe microscopy can be used to create ultraclean one-dimensional electron systems in suspended carbon nanotubes. See also: Letter by Waissman et al. Quantum computing: Atomic clocks in the solid state   pp544 - 545 Sven Rogge and Matthew J. Sellars doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.152 Experiments on Bi-doped silicon demonstrate the existence of atomic clock transitions that can be used to enhance the coherence of solid-state qubits. See also: Letter by Wolfowicz et al. Artificial cells: Crowded genes perform differently   pp545 - 546 Friedrich C. Simmel doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.156 Macromolecular crowding affects the performance and robustness of gene expression in synthetic cellular systems. See also: Article by Tan et al. Molecular computing: In situ computation of cell identity   pp546 - 548 Thomas E. Schaus and Peng Yin doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.155 Cascade reactions can be used to carry out logic operations on the surface of cells and identify the presence of particular collections of cell surface markers. See also: Letter by Rudchenko et al. Nanotechnology JOBS of the week Postdoc Fellow– siRNA / Drug Nanotechnology–Molecular Therapy–Oncology-Pulmonary University of Hawaii at Hilo, The Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy Post-doctoral position in biomedical science and engineering Case Western Reserve Univeristy PhD in the study of graphene bio-nanointeractions Prof. Kenneth Dawson More Science jobs from Nanotechnology EVENT 4th International Conference on Ultrafine Grained and Nanostructured Materials 05.11.13 Tehran, Iran More science events from Progress Article Top Low-frequency 1/f noise in graphene devices   pp549 - 555 Alexander A. Balandin doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.144 This Progress Article examines the characteristic features of low-frequency electronic noise in graphene, and discusses the implications and potential applications of such noise in graphene-based electronic devices. Letters Top Observation of Dirac plasmons in a topological insulator   pp556 - 560 P. Di Pietro, M. Ortolani, O. Limaj, A. Di Gaspare, V. Giliberti, F. Giorgianni, M. Brahlek, N. Bansal, N. Koirala, S. Oh, P. Calvani & S. Lupi doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.134 Plasmonic excitation of massless electrons is observed in Bi2Se3. See also: News and Views by Okada & Madhavan Atomic clock transitions in silicon-based spin qubits   pp561 - 564 Gary Wolfowicz, Alexei M. Tyryshkin, Richard E. George, Helge Riemann, Nikolai V. Abrosimov, Peter Becker, Hans-Joachim Pohl, Mike L. W. Thewalt, Stephen A. Lyon & John J. L. Morton doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.117 Clock transitions, typically observed in arrays of trapped atoms, can now be observed for electron spins in silicon doped with bismuth. See also: News and Views by Rogge & Sellars A valley–spin qubit in a carbon nanotube   pp565 - 568 E. A. Laird, F. Pei and L. P. Kouwenhoven doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.140 A qubit based on a valley–spin state can be realized in a carbon nanotube quantum dot. Realization of pristine and locally tunable one-dimensional electron systems in carbon nanotubes   pp569 - 574 J. Waissman, M. Honig, S. Pecker, A. Benyamini, A. Hamo & S. Ilani doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.143 A precision nanoassembly technique is used to deterministically create locally tunable, ultralow-disorder electron systems in suspended carbon nanotubes. See also: News and Views by Zhong Switching of a coupled spin pair in a single-molecule junction   pp575 - 579 Stefan Wagner, Ferdinand Kisslinger, Stefan Ballmann, Frank Schramm, Rajadurai Chandrasekar, Tilmann Bodenstein, Olaf Fuhr, Daniel Secker, Karin Fink, Mario Ruben & Heiko B. Weber doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.133 A bias voltage can be used to reversibly switch between the two states of a coupled spin pair in a single magnetic molecule. Autonomous molecular cascades for evaluation of cell surfaces   pp580 - 586 Maria Rudchenko, Steven Taylor, Payal Pallavi, Alesia Dechkovskaia, Safana Khan, Vincent P. Butler Jr, Sergei Rudchenko & Milan N. Stojanovic doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.142 A molecular automaton comprising antibodies and oligonucleotides evaluates cells in a Boolean manner by executing a chemical cascade on cell surfaces. See also: News and Views by Schaus & Yin Articles Top Symmetry and magnitude of spin–orbit torques in ferromagnetic heterostructures   pp587 - 593 Kevin Garello, Ioan Mihai Miron, Can Onur Avci, Frank Freimuth, Yuriy Mokrousov, Stefan Blügel, Stéphane Auffret, Olivier Boulle, Gilles Gaudin & Pietro Gambardella doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.145 Spin–orbit torques in heavy metal/ferromagnetic layers have a complex dependence on the magnetization direction. This dependence can be exploited to increase the efficiency of spin–orbit torques. Destructive extraction of phospholipids from Escherichia coli membranes by graphene nanosheets   pp594 - 601 Yusong Tu, Min Lv, Peng Xiu, Tien Huynh, Meng Zhang, Matteo Castelli, Zengrong Liu, Qing Huang, Chunhai Fan, Haiping Fang & Ruhong Zhou doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.125 Computer simulations reveal that graphene nanosheets damage bacteria by penetrating into or extracting phospholipids from the cell membranes, offering new insights into the molecular basis of graphene cytotoxicity. Molecular crowding shapes gene expression in synthetic cellular nanosystems   pp602 - 608 Cheemeng Tan, Saumya Saurabh, Marcel P. Bruchez, Russell Schwartz and Philip LeDuc doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.132 Macromolecular crowding can increase the robustness of gene expression in artificial cellular systems. See also: News and Views by Simmel Corrigendum Top Direct seawater desalination by ion concentration polarization   p609 Sung Jae Kim, Sung Hee Ko, Kwan Hyoung Kang and Jongyoon Han doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.148 Erratum Top DNA sequencing using electrical conductance measurements of a DNA polymerase   p609 Yu-Shiun Chen, Chia-Hui Lee, Meng-Yen Hung, Hsu-An Pan, Jin-Chern Chiou & G. Steven Huang doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.153 Top Advertisement New Impact Factor The new impact factor for Nature Nanotechnology is 31.170*. This places the journal first among all primary research journals in the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology category.  *2012 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2013)   Natureevents is a fully searchable, multi-disciplinary database designed to maximise exposure for events organisers. The contents of the Natureevents Directory are now live. The digital version is available here. Find the latest scientific conferences, courses, meetings and symposia on natureevents.com. 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