Nature Nanotechnology Contents May 2017 Volume 12 Number 5 pp395-496

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Advertisement Collection: Entrepreneurship in Quantum Technology Nature want to help inspire and educate today's young scientists in quantum physics to become tomorrow's quantum-technology entrepreneurs. This Collection presents advice for young quantum technology entrepreneurs and features about commercialisation of the technologies.  Access the Collection online TABLE OF CONTENTS May 2017 Volume 12, Issue 5 Editorial Commentary Research Highlights News and Views Review Letters Articles In The Classroom Subscribe   Facebook   RSS   Recommend to library   Twitter   Advertisement npj Clean Water: open for submissions An open access, online-only journal, dedicated to publishing high-quality papers that describe the significant and cutting-edge research that continues to ensure the supply of clean water to populations. Explore the benefits of submitting your next manuscript.   Editorial Top Think bigger   p395 doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.96 With the publication of a method for fast oil spill clean-up we reflect on the importance of addressing scalability from an early stage when reporting techniques aimed at improving the environment. Commentary Top Emerging technologies and the role of NGOs   pp397 - 400 Evan S. Michelson doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.70 Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are involved in policy discussions surrounding the societal implications of emerging technologies. But what practices and strategies undertaken by these organizations are most influential in anticipating the longer-term societal implications of nanotechnology? Research Highlights Top Our choice from the recent literature   p401 doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.92 News and Views Top Quantum effects: Heat flow in atomic bottlenecks   pp402 - 403 Oleg Kolosov doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.306 The Wiedemann-Franz law linking electrical and thermal conductance has now been verified experimentally in atomic junctions. See also: Letter by Mosso et al. Supramolecular chemistry: Host in translation   pp403 - 404 Jonathan Clayden doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.19 Length- and chirality-matching between polycarbamate templates and polyamide hosts provide a means of translating structural information from one molecule to another. See also: Letter by Gan et al. Biophysics: A toehold in cell surface dynamics   pp404 - 406 Paul A. Beales doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.20 A combination of standard fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry offers a practical new approach to study encounter rates and preferences during various live cell membrane signalling events. See also: Article by You et al. Oil spill recovery: Graphene heaters absorb faster   pp406 - 407 Despina Fragouli and Athanassia Athanassiou doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.63 Wrapping polymeric sponges in graphene nanoribbons provides an efficient way to separate and absorb heavy crude oil spilled in water. See also: Letter by Ge et al. Obituary: Mildred S. Dresselhaus (1930-2017)   p408 Jing Kong, Tomas Palacios, Leora Dresselhaus-Cooper and Shoshi Cooper doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.90 Nature Nanotechnology JOBS of the week Postdoctoral and PhD positions in Bio- Nano Science University of South Australia (UniSA) Postdoctoral position on Integrated Fluorescence - Electron Microscopy KU Leuven PhD Position in advanced optical microspectroscopy KU Leuven, Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis More Science jobs from Nature Nanotechnology EVENT 5th International Conference on Nanotechnology and Material Science 18.10.17 Dubai, UAE More science events from Review Top Transmission of chirality through space and across length scales   pp410 - 419 Sarah M. Morrow, Andrew J. Bissette and Stephen P. Fletcher doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.62 This Review charts how chiral information can be relayed across length scales in nanomaterials and beyond. Letters Top Atomic-scale sensing of the magnetic dipolar field from single atoms   pp420 - 424 Taeyoung Choi, William Paul, Steffen Rolf-Pissarczyk, Andrew J. Macdonald, Fabian D. Natterer et al. doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.18 The dipole–dipole magnetic interaction between individual atoms on MgO surfaces is quantified by performing electron spin resonance by means of a scanning tunnelling microscope, opening new paths towards structural imaging with sub-nm resolution. 0–π phase-controllable thermal Josephson junction   pp425 - 429 Antonio Fornieri, Giuliano Timossi, Pauli Virtanen, Paolo Solinas and Francesco Giazotto doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.25 Graphene nanoconstrictions achieved via mechanical exfoliation of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite evidence clear signatures of one-dimensional transport via zigzag edges. Heat transport through atomic contacts   pp430 - 433 Nico Mosso, Ute Drechsler, Fabian Menges, Peter Nirmalraj, Siegfried Karg et al. doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.302 Heat transport measurements in single-atom junctions verify the proportionality between thermal and electrical conductance. See also: News and Views by Kolosov Joule-heated graphene-wrapped sponge enables fast clean-up of viscous crude-oil spill   pp434 - 440 Jin Ge, Lu-An Shi, Yong-Chao Wang, Hao-Yu Zhao, Hong-Bin Yao et al. doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.33 High-speed absorption of vicious crude oil spill into oil sorbent was realized by introducing the Joule heating effect of graphene to the interface between the skeleton surfaces of sorbent and oil. See also: News and Views by Fragouli & Athanassiou An efficient and pH-universal ruthenium-based catalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction   pp441 - 446 Javeed Mahmood, Feng Li, Sun-Min Jung, Mahmut Sait Okyay, Ishfaq Ahmad et al. doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.304 Ruthenium nanoparticles homogeneously dispersed in a nitrogenated, two-dimensional carbon matrix show high turnover frequency and small overpotential for hydrogen evolution reaction both in acidic and alkaline media. Translation of rod-like template sequences into homochiral assemblies of stacked helical oligomers   pp447 - 452 Quan Gan, Xiang Wang, Brice Kauffmann, Frédéric Rosu, Yann Ferrand et al. doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.15 Multiple urethane groups in the same rod-like structure template the assembly of aromatic helices to form artificial folded architectures as large as 20 kDa with atomic precision. See also: News and Views by Clayden Advertisement npj 2D Materials and Applications is an online-only, open access journal that aims to become a top-tier interdisciplinary platform for scientists to share research on 2D materials and their applications. Part of the Nature Partner Journals series, npj 2D Materials and Applications is published in partnership with FCT NOVA, Lisbon, with the support of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS). The journal is now open for submissions.  Find out more >>    Articles Top DNA probes for monitoring dynamic and transient molecular encounters on live cell membranes   pp453 - 459 Mingxu You, Yifan Lyu, Da Han, Liping Qiu, Qiaoling Liu et al. doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.23 A DNA probe that translocates from one anchor site to another by toehold-mediated DNA strand displacement is used to monitor transient molecular encounter events on live cell membranes. See also: News and Views by Beales CMOS nanoelectrode array for all-electrical intracellular electrophysiological imaging   pp460 - 466 Jeffrey Abbott, Tianyang Ye, Ling Qin, Marsela Jorgolli, Rona S. Gertner et al. doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.3 Nanoscale intracellular electrodes and CMOS integrated circuit technology are combined to realize a new intracellular and network-level all-electrical electrophysiological imager. Real-time visualization of perforin nanopore assembly   pp467 - 473 Carl Leung, Adrian W. Hodel, Amelia J. Brennan, Natalya Lukoyanova, Sharon Tran et al. doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.303 Perforin monomers self-assemble into pre-pores that first insert into the membrane and then recruit additional subunits to grow in size. Directed assembly of bio-inspired hierarchical materials with controlled nanofibrillar architectures   pp474 - 480 Peter Tseng, Bradley Napier, Siwei Zhao, Alexander N. Mitropoulos, Matthew B. Applegate et al. doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.4 A combination of mechanical constraints and directed assembly of silk-fibroin leads to the generation of engineered hierarchical structures with control over multiple length scales from the macro, to the micro and nanoscales. Triboelectric nanogenerators for sensitive nano-coulomb molecular mass spectrometry   pp481 - 487 Anyin Li, Yunlong Zi, Hengyu Guo, Zhong Lin Wang and Facundo M. Fernández doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.17 The high output voltage of triboelectric nanogenerators enables well-controlled ion pulses for nanoelectrospray molecular mass spectrometry and surface modification. Single-molecule electrometry   pp488 - 495 Francesca Ruggeri, Franziska Zosel, Natalie Mutter, Miroslawa Rózycka, Magdalena Wojtas et al. doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.26 The electrical charge of biological macromolecules is measured with single-charge precision. In The Classroom Top Reimagining physics   p496 Julien Bobroff doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.84 Julien Bobroff describes new ways to popularize fundamental and applied condensed-matter physics. Top Natureevents is a fully searchable, multi-disciplinary database designed to maximise exposure for events organisers. The contents of the Natureevents Directory are now live. The digital version is available here. Find the latest scientific conferences, courses, meetings and symposia on natureevents.com. For event advertising opportunities across the Nature Publishing Group portfolio please contact natureevents@nature.com More Nature Events

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