Nature Nanotechnology Contents May 2014 Volume 9 Number 5 pp325-404

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Advertisement Select Si, Ge, Au and more for Advanced FIB Nanofabrication!  Visit Raith and learn more about FIB Nanofabrication and ionLiNE's new Multi-Species Ion Beam Technology.  TABLE OF CONTENTS May 2014 Volume 9, Issue 5 Editorial Thesis Research Highlights News and Views Letters Articles Subscribe   Facebook   RSS   Recommend to library   Twitter   Editorial Top Nanocrystals in their prime   p325 doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.101 Three decades after the first fundamental studies on semiconductor nanocrystals, the materials can be found in a range of commercial devices. Thesis Top Driving change in the battery industry   pp327 - 328 Christian Martin doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.92 High-capacity silicon anodes could improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, but their cyclability has been limited. Christian Martin analyses recent progress in nanoscale engineering that addresses this shortcoming. Research Highlights Top Our choice from the recent literature   p329 doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.95 News and Views Top Two-dimensional crystals: Phosphorus joins the family   pp330 - 331 Hugh O. H. Churchill & Pablo Jarillo-Herrero doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.85 Transistor devices can be fabricated from exfoliated layers of black phosphorus. See also: Article by Li et al. Chiral mechanical bonds: A move in the right direction   pp331 - 332 Emilie Moulin & Nicolas Giuseppone doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.91 A synthetic strategy that allows the separation of enantiomerically pure planar chiral rotaxanes is now reported. Electron microscopy: A phase transition glides into view   pp333 - 334 Wu Zhou doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.87 The electron beam of a scanning transmission electron microscope can be used to trigger phase transitions in a monolayer of MoS2 and record the dynamics of the process with single-atom resolution. See also: Article by Lin et al. Levitating nanoparticles: On the way to equilibrium   pp334 - 335 Sergio Ciliberto doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.89 The statistical properties of the fluctuations of the entropy production rate are measured for a nanomechanical oscillator relaxing from an out-of-equilibrium steady state towards thermodynamic equilibrium. See also: Article by Gieseler et al. Optical devices: Localizing light with electrons   pp335 - 336 Sergey E. Skipetrov doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.86 Electronic control of optical Anderson localization can be achieved in optical waveguides with embedded diodes. See also: Article by Mookherjea et al. Nanotechnology JOBS of the week Postdoc position in modelling of electronic transport in organic devices The nanotechnology center NanoSYD at the University of Southern Denmark More Science jobs from Nanotechnology EVENT Functional DNA Nanotechnology 19.06.14 Rome, Italy More science events from Letters Top Observation of the magnetic flux and three-dimensional structure of skyrmion lattices by electron holography   pp337 - 342 Hyun Soon Park, Xiuzhen Yu, Shinji Aizawa, Toshiaki Tanigaki, Tetsuya Akashi, Yoshio Takahashi, Tsuyoshi Matsuda, Naoya Kanazawa, Yoshinori Onose, Daisuke Shindo, Akira Tonomura & Yoshinori Tokura doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.52 Electron holography is used to visualize the three-dimensional structure of a skyrmion lattice and the magnetic flux inside and outside a skyrmion. The effect of spin transport on spin lifetime in nanoscale systems   pp343 - 347 Jeremy Cardellino, Nicolas Scozzaro, Michael Herman, Andrew J. Berger, Chi Zhang, Kin Chung Fong, Ciriyam Jayaprakash, Denis V. Pelekhov & P. Chris Hammel doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.39 Pure spin transport determines the spin lifetime in nanoscale ensembles of spin centres in diamond. Photoinduced doping in heterostructures of graphene and boron nitride   pp348 - 352 L. Ju, J. Velasco, Jr, E. Huang, S. Kahn, C. Nosiglia, Hsin-Zon Tsai, W. Yang, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, Y. Zhang, G. Zhang, M. Crommie, A. Zettl & F. Wang doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.60 Visible light can induce writing and erasing of charge doping in graphene/boron nitride heterostructures while maintaining high carrier mobility. Universal computing by DNA origami robots in a living animal   pp353 - 357 Yaniv Amir, Eldad Ben-Ishay, Daniel Levner, Shmulik Ittah, Almogit Abu-Horowitz & Ido Bachelet doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.58 Nanoscale robots made from DNA origami can dynamically interact with each other and perform logic computations in a living animal. Articles Top Dynamic relaxation of a levitated nanoparticle from a non-equilibrium steady state   pp358 - 364 Jan Gieseler, Romain Quidant, Christoph Dellago & Lukas Novotny doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.40 A vacuum-trapped nanoparticle can be used to study experimentally the fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities in non-equilibrium nanoscale systems. See also: News and Views by Ciliberto Electronic control of optical Anderson localization modes   pp365 - 371 Shayan Mookherjea, Jun Rong Ong, Xianshu Luo & Lo Guo-Qiang doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.53 Injecting charge carriers into p–n diodes embedded in an optical waveguide can switch Anderson localization modes on and off. See also: News and Views by Skipetrov Black phosphorus field-effect transistors   pp372 - 377 Likai Li, Yijun Yu, Guo Jun Ye, Qingqin Ge, Xuedong Ou, Hua Wu, Donglai Feng, Xian Hui Chen & Yuanbo Zhang doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.35 Field-effect transistors with good electrical performance at room temperature are fabricated from few-layer black phosphorus. See also: News and Views by Churchill & Jarillo-Herrero Generating electricity by moving a droplet of ionic liquid along graphene   pp378 - 383 Jun Yin, Xuemei Li, Jin Yu, Zhuhua Zhang, Jianxin Zhou & Wanlin Guo doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.56 A voltage of a few millivolts can be generated by moving a droplet of ionic solution along a strip of monolayer graphene. High thermal conductivity of chain-oriented amorphous polythiophene   pp384 - 390 Virendra Singh, Thomas L. Bougher, Annie Weathers, Ye Cai, Kedong Bi, Michael T. Pettes, Sally A. McMenamin, Wei Lv, Daniel P. Resler, Todd R. Gattuso, David H. Altman, Kenneth H. Sandhage, Li Shi, Asegun Henry & Baratunde A. Cola doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.44 Amorphous polythiophene can be made into nanofibres with high thermal conductivity suitable for use in electronics as thermal interface materials. Atomic mechanism of the semiconducting-to-metallic phase transition in single-layered MoS2   pp391 - 396 Yung-Chang Lin, Dumitru O. Dumcenco, Ying-Sheng Huang & Kazu Suenaga doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.64 An in situ scanning transmission electron microscope can be used to follow and control the structural transformation between semiconducting and metallic phases in single-layered MoS2. See also: News and Views by Zhou Multifunctional wearable devices for diagnosis and therapy of movement disorders   pp397 - 404 Donghee Son, Jongha Lee, Shutao Qiao, Roozbeh Ghaffari, Jaemin Kim, Ji Eun Lee, Changyeong Song, Seok Joo Kim, Dong Jun Lee, Samuel Woojoo Jun, Shixuan Yang, Minjoon Park, Jiho Shin, Kyungsik Do, Mincheol Lee, Kwanghun Kang, Cheol Seong Hwang, Nanshu Lu, Taeghwan Hyeon & Dae-Hyeong Kim doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.38 Integration of diverse nanostructures allows the fabrication of a wearable system capable of storing data, performing diagnostics and delivering drugs. Top Advertisement Nature Publishing Index 2013 Asia-Pacific The Nature Publishing Index 2013 Asia-Pacific supplement provides institutional league tables and regional commentary based on articles published by Asia-Pacific researchers between 1 January 2013 and 31 December 2013. 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