materials@nature contents: 19 December 2013

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Sugimoto Nature doi: 10.1038/504211a Full Text | PDF   News and Views top Ferromagnetic ferrofluids Nature doi: 10.1038/504229a Full Text | PDF   Articles top Materials JOBS of the week Professor of Materials Characterisation The University of Manchester Distinguished Professor in Materials UNC Chapel Hill a PhD position in photoferroelectric materials (m / f) Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann PhDs / Postdocs in low-D materials and high-res. microscopy University of Vienna (Universitaet Wien) Ph.D. Position in Physics or Materials Science at ETH Zurich: Design of New Metallic Materials ETH Zurich More Science jobs from Materials EVENT The 2014 Nanotechnology Materials and Devices (NMD) 24.02.14 Cincinnati, USA More science events from Ferromagnetism in suspensions of magnetic platelets in liquid crystal Alenka Mertelj, Darja Lisjak, et al. Nature doi: 10.1038/nature12863 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Semi-metallic polymers Olga Bubnova, Zia Ullah Khan, et al. 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