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TABLE OF CONTENTS

October 2016 Volume 11, Issue 10

Editorial
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Features
Research Highlights
News and Views
Letters
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Focus on Ten years of Nature Nanotechnology
We are celebrating the tenth anniversary of Nature Nanotechnology by publishing a number of dedicated articles.
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Ten and counting   p825
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.223
On the tenth anniversary of the launch of Nature Nanotechnology we look back at what we have achieved so far and consider future directions.

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Anniversary thoughts   pp826 - 827
Chris Toumey
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.198
Chris Toumey reflects on his contribution to Nature Nanotechnology since its launch.

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Nano on reflection   pp828 - 834
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.232
A number of experts from different areas of nanotechnology describe how the field has evolved in the last ten years.

Ten years in images   pp836 - 840
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.190
We have collected some of our favourite figures from the Letters and Articles that we have published since the launch of Nature Nanotechnology.

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Our choice from the recent literature   p841
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.220

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Nanomechanics: Small-scale transformations   p842
William W. Gerberich
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.195
Under shear stress, silicon nanocrystals become amorphous through an intermediate hexagonal crystalline phase.

See also: Letter by He et al.

Supramolecular electronics: Meshing organic nanowires   pp843 - 844
Ankit Jain & Subi J. George
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.136
Photogenerated charge carriers from hundreds of self-assembled nanowires are harnessed to make a functional photovoltaic device.

See also: Article by Zhang et al.

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A charge-density-wave oscillator based on an integrated tantalum disulfide–boron nitride–graphene device operating at room temperature   pp845 - 850
Guanxiong Liu, Bishwajit Debnath, Timothy R. Pope, Tina T. Salguero, Roger K. Lake & Alexander A. Balandin
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.108
A graphene transistor integrated on-chip on a hexagonal boron nitride-capped TaS2 layer provides a voltage-tunable, low-resistance load for controlling a TaS2 metal–insulator transition, enabling a compact voltage-controlled oscillator operating at room temperature.

Instantaneous ballistic velocity of suspended Brownian nanocrystals measured by upconversion nanothermometry   pp851 - 856
Carlos D. S. Brites, Xiaoji Xie, Mengistie L. Debasu, Xian Qin, Runfeng Chen, Wei Huang, João Rocha, Xiaogang Liu & Luís D. Carlos
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.111
Luminescence spectroscopy can be employed to investigate the Brownian motion of upconversion nanocrystals with high spatial resolution and thermal sensitivity.

A semiconductor photon-sorter   pp857 - 860
A. J. Bennett, J. P. Lee, D. J. P. Ellis, I. Farrer, D. A. Ritchie & A. J. Shields
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.113
The nonlinear optical response of a single quantum dot can be used to separate the one- and two-photon components of a weak laser beam.

Quantum interference in an interfacial superconductor   pp861 - 865
Srijit Goswami, Emre Mulazimoglu, Ana M. R. V. L. Monteiro, Roman Wölbing, Dieter Koelle, Reinhold Kleiner, Ya. M. Blanter, Lieven M. K. Vandersypen & Andrea D. Caviglia
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.112
Gate-tunable superconducting quantum interference devices can be created in the two-dimensional superconductor formed at oxide interfaces.

In situ observation of shear-driven amorphization in silicon crystals   pp866 - 871
Yang He, Li Zhong, Feifei Fan, Chongmin Wang, Ting Zhu & Scott X. Mao
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.166
Silicon nanocrystals under shear stress go through an intermediate, diamond-hexagonal phase before becoming amorphous.

See also: News and Views by Gerberich

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Perovskite energy funnels for efficient light-emitting diodes   pp872 - 877
Mingjian Yuan, Li Na Quan, Riccardo Comin, Grant Walters, Randy Sabatini, Oleksandr Voznyy, Sjoerd Hoogland, Yongbiao Zhao, Eric M. Beauregard, Pongsakorn Kanjanaboos, Zhenghong Lu, Dong Ha Kim & Edward H. Sargent
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.110
Light-emitting diodes based on mixed-dimensionality perovskite solids show outstanding radiative properties in the near-infrared region.

Field-free switching of perpendicular magnetization through spin–orbit torque in antiferromagnet/ferromagnet/oxide structures   pp878 - 884
Young-Wan Oh, Seung-heon Chris Baek, Y. M. Kim, Hae Yeon Lee, Kyeong-Dong Lee, Chang-Geun Yang, Eun-Sang Park, Ki-Seung Lee, Kyoung-Whan Kim, Gyungchoon Go, Jong-Ryul Jeong, Byoung-Chul Min, Hyun-Woo Lee, Kyung-Jin Lee & Byong-Guk Park
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.109
Antiferromagnetic materials allow deterministic spin–orbit torque switching of perpendicular magnetization in ferromagnetic layers without external magnetic fields.

Role of the electron spin in determining the coherence of the nuclear spins in a quantum dot   pp885 - 889
Gunter Wüst, Mathieu Munsch, Franziska Maier, Andreas V. Kuhlmann, Arne Ludwig, Andreas D. Wieck, Daniel Loss, Martino Poggio & Richard J. Warburton
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.114
Nano-NMR techniques are used on a semiconductor quantum dot to reveal an electron-mediated coupling between nuclear spins.

Improving the efficacy and safety of biologic drugs with tolerogenic nanoparticles   pp890 - 899
Takashi K. Kishimoto, Joseph D. Ferrari, Robert A. LaMothe, Pallavi N. Kolte, Aaron P. Griset, Conlin O'Neil, Victor Chan, Erica Browning, Aditi Chalishazar, William Kuhlman, Fen-ni Fu, Nelly Viseux, David H. Altreuter, Lloyd Johnston & Roberto Maldonado
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.135
Synthetic nanoparticles containing rapamycin — a common immunosuppressant drug — when co-administered with any free antigen can induce immune tolerance, offering a way to rescue novel drugs that have failed in the clinic due to antidrug antibodies.

A nanomesh scaffold for supramolecular nanowire optoelectronic devices   pp900 - 906
Lei Zhang, Xiaolan Zhong, Egon Pavlica, Songlin Li, Alexander Klekachev, Gvido Bratina, Thomas W. Ebbesen, Emanuele Orgiu & Paolo Samorì
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.125
Hundreds of semiconducting supramolecular nanowires are integrated in a photovoltaic device.

See also: News and Views by Jain & George

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A success story   p908
Christel Möller & Christian Schönenberger
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.197
Christel Möller and Christian Schönenberger highlight the benefits of studying a bachelor's degree in nanoscience at the University of Basel.

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