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March 2017 Volume 12, Issue 3

Editorial
Research Highlights
News and Views
Review
Letters
Articles
In The Classroom
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Focus on membrane materials for separations

Membrane materials offer many practical advantages for purification and separation applications. Nature Materials presents a Focus which highlights the most promising new membrane materials that offer competitive performance capabilities, and discusses how to transfer such materials and processes to industry.

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Of knowledge and beauty   p185
doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.41
In 1772, Robert Boyle wrote: "So much admirable workmanship, as God hath displayed in the Universe, was never meant for eyes that willfully close themselves." It is scientists' duty to make a convincing effort to ensure that this admirable workmanship is there for all to see.

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Our choice from the recent literature   p186
doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.36

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Quantum materials: The quest for ultrafast plasmonics   pp187 - 188
Dmitri N. Basov and Michael M. Fogler
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.283
Black phosphorous, a van der Waals layered semiconductor, is reported to reveal a plasmonic response that can be initiated by photoexcitation with femtosecond pulses.

See also: Letter by Huber et al.

Gold nanoparticles: A warm-up for muscle cells   p188
Chiara Pastore
doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.31

DNA origami tiles: Nanoscale mazes   pp189 - 190
Fei Zhang, Fan Hong and Hao Yan
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.263
The programmable disorder often seen in biological networks has now been demonstrated with DNA origami tiles using a stochastic algorithm.

See also: Article by Tikhomirov et al.

2D Materials: Airborne graphene   p190
Olga Bubnova
doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.35

Van der Waals heterostructures: The natural way   p191
Giacomo Prando
doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.32

Nanomedicine: Catching tumour cells in the zone   pp191 - 193
Susan E. Leggett and Ian Y. Wong
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.264
A microfluidic chip with progressively stronger magnetic field gradients along its length can sort and classify circulating tumour cells based on the expression of cell surface markers.

See also: Article by Poudineh et al.

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Review

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Reviving the lithium metal anode for high-energy batteries   pp194 - 206
Dingchang Lin, Yayuan Liu and Yi Cui
doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.16

Letters

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Femtosecond photo-switching of interface polaritons in black phosphorus heterostructures   pp207 - 211
Markus A. Huber, Fabian Mooshammer, Markus Plankl, Leonardo Viti, Fabian Sandner et al.
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.261
Surface phonons of SiO2 can couple with photogenerated plasmon polaritons in black phosphorous to make coherent transient hybrid modes with constant energy and momentum

See also: News and Views by Basov & Fogler

Normal, superconducting and topological regimes of hybrid double quantum dots   pp212 - 217
D. Sherman, J. S. Yodh, S. M. Albrecht, J. Nygård, P. Krogstrup et al.
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.227
By varying the coupling between quantum dots obtained by patterning an InAs nanowire it is possible to control the transition between superconducting and normal states.

Strong suppression of shot noise in a feedback-controlled single-electron transistor   pp218 - 222
Timo Wagner, Philipp Strasberg, Johannes C. Bayer, Eddy P. Rugeramigabo, Tobias Brandes et al.
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.225
Shot noise can be suppressed, which is essential for improving the performance of quantum transport devices, by using an electronic closed-loop feedback that monitors and adjusts the counting statistics.

High electron mobility, quantum Hall effect and anomalous optical response in atomically thin InSe   pp223 - 227
Denis A. Bandurin, Anastasia V. Tyurnina, Geliang L. Yu, Artem Mishchenko, Viktor Zólyomi et al.
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.242
Encapsulated few-layer InSe exhibits a remarkably high electronic quality, which is promising for the development of ultrathin-body high-mobility nanoelectronics.

High-strength magnetically switchable plasmonic nanorods assembled from a binary nanocrystal mixture   pp228 - 232
Mingliang Zhang, Daniel J. Magagnosc, Iñigo Liberal, Yao Yu, Hongseok Yun et al.
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.235
Two crystalline nanocrystals with superparamagnetic and plasmonic properties form mechanically strong hybrid nanorods with dual functionality.

Creating biomolecular motors based on dynein and actin-binding proteins   pp233 - 237
Akane Furuta, Misako Amino, Maki Yoshio, Kazuhiro Oiwa, Hiroaki Kojima et al.
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.238
Hybrid biomolecular motors, created by combining motor cores from the microtubule-based dynein motor with actin-binding proteins, can drive the sliding movement of an actin filament.

Single-nanotube tracking reveals the nanoscale organization of the extracellular space in the live brain   pp238 - 243
Antoine G. Godin, Juan A. Varela, Zhenghong Gao, Noémie Danné, Julien P. Dupuis et al.
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.248
A super-resolution imaging technique based on single-nanotube tracking is used to study the nanoscale organization and local viscosity of the brain extracellular space.

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Multiple nanostructures based on anodized aluminium oxide templates   pp244 - 250
Liaoyong Wen, Rui Xu, Yan Mi and Yong Lei
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.257
Templates with two distinct sets of pores allow the fabrication of nanostructured surfaces with different morphologies and materials.

Programmable disorder in random DNA tilings   pp251 - 259
Grigory Tikhomirov, Philip Petersen and Lulu Qian
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.256
Programming stochastic self-assembly of DNA origami tiles to create complex patterns with controlled properties.

See also: News and Views by Zhang et al.

Tuning membrane protein mobility by confinement into nanodomains   pp260 - 266
Andreas Karner, Benedikt Nimmervoll, Birgit Plochberger, Enrico Klotzsch, Andreas Horner et al.
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.236
Streptavidin crystals grown on mica-supported lipid bilayers can be used as a platform to tune the lateral mobility of transmembrane proteins, allowing the conformation or docking of spatially confined proteins to be imaged with high-speed atomic force microscopy.

Observation of extreme phase transition temperatures of water confined inside isolated carbon nanotubes   pp267 - 273
Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Steven Shimizu, Lee W. Drahushuk, Daniel Kilcoyne and Michael S. Strano
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.254
A vibrational spectroscopy technique is used to study vapour, liquid and solid water within isolated carbon nanotubes and reveals phase transitions that show an extreme sensitivity to nanotube diameter, with melting temperatures higher than 100 °C for 1.05 and 1.06 nm diameter nanotubes and below 0 °C for 1.24 and 1.44 nm diameter nanotubes.

Tracking the dynamics of circulating tumour cell phenotypes using nanoparticle-mediated magnetic ranking   pp274 - 281
Mahla Poudineh, Peter M. Aldridge, Sharif Ahmed, Brenda J. Green, Leyla Kermanshah et al.
doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.239
The phenotypes of circulating tumour cells are profiled in whole blood by exploiting a microfluidic chip based on magnetic nanoparticles, leading to single-cell resolution.

See also: News and Views by Leggett & Wong

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In The Classroom

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Programming random mazes   p284
Philip Petersen
doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.30
When an important concept puts a scientific paper under the spotlight, behind the scenes there is usually a long story of mystery solving, as Philip Petersen explains.

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