materials@nature contents: 21 November 2013

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We'll be posting updates about the launch on Twitter and Facebook Advertisement Nature Materials Insight: Drug delivery The design and use of biocompatible materials to parcel up and deliver drugs to specific locations in the human body is at the forefront of biomedical research. The collection of articles in this Insight discusses the latest advances and current challenges in the design of materials for the delivery of therapeutics, siRNA and vaccines.  Access the Insight    News top Policy: Mexico bolsters science funding Nature doi: 10.1038/503319a Full Text Journals: PLOS profits prompt revamp Nature doi: 10.1038/503320a Full Text   News Features top The quest for super carbon M. Mitchell Waldrop Nature doi: 10.1038/503327a Full Text | PDF   Comment top The risks of the replication drive Nature doi: 10.1038/503333a Full Text Twenty tips for interpreting scientific claims Nature doi: 10.1038/503335a Full Text   Articles top Materials JOBS of the week Postdoctoral Appointee – Advanced Materials Sciences Sandia National Laboratories PhDs / Postdocs in low-D materials and high-res. microscopy University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics Imaging of control drug release materials using hyperpolarised 129Xe MRI The University of Nottingham PhD position in nanoplasmonic sensing for materials science Chalmers University of Technology Assistant Professor in Electronic / Photonic Materials UC Santa Barbara More Science jobs from Materials EVENT The 2014 Nanotechnology Materials and Devices (NMD) 24.02.14 Cincinnati, USA More science events from Local electrostatic imaging of striped domain order in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 M. Honig, J. A. Sulpizio et al. Nature Materials doi: 10.1038/nmat3810 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Enabling direct H2O2 production through rational electrocatalyst design Samira Siahrostami, Arnau Verdaguer-Casadevall et al. Nature Materials doi: 10.1038/nmat3795 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Efficient charge generation by relaxed charge-transfer states at organic interfaces Koen Vandewal, Steve Albrecht et al. Nature Materials doi: 10.1038/nmat3807 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Intermittency, quasiperiodicity and chaos in probe-induced ferroelectric domain switching A. V. Ievlev, S. Jesse et al. Nature Physics doi: 10.1038/nphys2796 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Self-healing chemistry enables the stable operation of silicon microparticle anodes for high-energy lithium-ion batteries Chao Wang, Hui Wu et al. Nature Chemistry doi: 10.1038/nchem.1802 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Bacteria clustering by polymers induces the expression of quorum-sensing-controlled phenotypes Leong T. Lui, Xuan Xue et al. Nature Chemistry doi: 10.1038/nchem.1793 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Measurement of the intrinsic strength of crystalline and polycrystalline graphene Haider I. Rasool, Colin Ophus et al. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms3811 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Surface tension and contact with soft elastic solids Robert W. Style, Callen Hyland et al. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms3728 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Oxygen-driven anisotropic transport in ultra-thin manganite films Baomin Wang, Lu You et al. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms3778 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF   Letters top Reducing the contact time of a bouncing drop James C. Bird, Rajeev Dhimanet al. Nature doi: 10.1038/nature12740 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Guided hierarchical co-assembly of soft patchy nanoparticles André H. Gröschel, Andreas Walther et al. Nature doi: 10.1038/nature12610 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Spin Hall effect clocking of nanomagnetic logic without a magnetic field Debanjan Bhowmik, Long You & Sayeef Salahuddin Nature Nanotechnology doi: 10.1038/nnano.2013.241 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Graphene mechanical oscillators with tunable frequency Changyao Chen, Sunwoo Lee et al. Nature Nanotechnology doi: 10.1038/nnano.2013.232 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF High-throughput optical imaging and spectroscopy of individual carbon nanotubes in devices Kaihui Liu, Xiaoping Hong et al. Nature Nanotechnology doi: 10.1038/nnano.2013.227 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Optically pumped room-temperature GaAs nanowire lasers Dhruv Saxena, Sudha Mokkapati et al. Nature Photonics doi: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.303 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF

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