Nature Nanotechnology Contents March 2018 Volume 13 Number 3 pp177 - 268

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Advertisement Highlighting the latest breakthroughs at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore's premier research organization  Recent Highlights Nanoparticles: Let liquid fingers point the way  Photonic devices: Faster data transfer through plasmons  Optics: Flat-packed optical components   Download the A*STAR Research app now!  TABLE OF CONTENTS March 2018 Volume 13, Issue 3 Editorial Research Highlights News & Views Perspectives Letters Articles Amendments & Corrections In the Classroom   Advertisement What does it mean when humans shift from being caretakers of the Earth to being shapers of it? A world designed by engineers and technicians means the birth of the planet's first Synthetic Age. "The Synthetic Age is a powerful exposé of our ability to play nature and outperform evolution. This well-written and accessible book reminds us that humanity must accompany its ever-expanding technical prowess with a greater sense of responsibility of planetary proportions." - Calestous Juma, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School Read The Synthetic Age   Advertisement KAUST Discovery: Research into clean fuels  Fuel Combustion Chemist Mani Sarathy conducts research on alternative fuels, Sarathy works closely with atmospheric scientists to better grasp the fate of exhaust emissions. The research even looks at utilising artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve combustion processes.  Read more online >>    Advertisement Nature Catalysis is an online-only journal that publishes research, review and comment across all areas of catalysis.  EXPLORE THE LATEST ISSUE >>    Advertisement ForScience.com: Sustainability  Stay informed on the latest developments in the effort to improve earth's sustainability and much more. Make For Science your free resource for online news articles, research, video and podcast exclusively for the Arabic-speaking audience.  Visit ForScience.com    Editorial   A different view of the environment    p177 doi:10.1038/s41565-018-0106-2 Research Highlights   Crystal casting    p178 Olga Bubnova doi:10.1038/s41565-018-0098-y Twofold topology    p178 Benjamin Heinrich doi:10.1038/s41565-018-0099-x A frustrated solution    p178 Alberto Moscatelli doi:10.1038/s41565-018-0100-8 A reversible morphology    p178 Alberto Moscatelli doi:10.1038/s41565-018-0101-7 News & Views   Imaging the rainbow    pp179 - 180 Thomas Zentgraf doi:10.1038/s41565-018-0062-x Searching for materials with reduced dimension    pp180 - 181 Olle Eriksson doi:10.1038/s41565-017-0060-4 Light touch    pp181 - 182 Guglielmo Lanzani doi:10.1038/s41565-018-0081-7 Nature Nanotechnology JOBS of the week Therapeutic gene editing - grant writer / senior scientist Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University PhD Program Ecole Polytechnique More Science jobs from Nature Nanotechnology EVENT Nanotechnology Conferences 07.05.18 Rome, Italy More science events from Perspectives   Quantum engineering of transistors based on 2D materials heterostructures    pp183 - 191 Giuseppe Iannaccone, Francesco Bonaccorso, Luigi Colombo & Gianluca Fiori doi:10.1038/s41565-018-0082-6 This Perspective assesses the commercial feasibility of digital integrated circuit technology based on heterostructures of two-dimensional materials.   Letters   Ballistic Majorana nanowire devices    pp192 - 197 Önder Gül, Hao Zhang, Jouri D. S. Bommer, Michiel W. A. de Moor, Diana Car et al. doi:10.1038/s41565-017-0032-8 Nanowire devices exhibiting ballistic transport show characteristics of Majorana modes, ruling out alternative explanations other than topological superconductivity.   Direct imaging of the electron liquid at oxide interfaces    pp198 - 203 Kyung Song, Sangwoo Ryu, Hyungwoo Lee, Tula R. Paudel, Christoph T. Koch et al. doi:10.1038/s41565-017-0040-8 Electron holography allows the selective orbital occupation and spatial quantum confinement of electrons at the interface between two oxide insulators to be resolved.   Manipulation of domain-wall solitons in bi- and trilayer graphene    pp204 - 208 Lili Jiang, Sheng Wang, Zhiwen Shi, Chenhao Jin, M. Iqbal Bakti Utama et al. doi:10.1038/s41565-017-0042-6 Layer-stacking domain walls in bi- and trilayer graphene are engineered individually and moved, erased and mechanically split by means of an atomic force microscope tip.   Synthetic oligorotaxanes exert high forces when folding under mechanical load    pp209 - 213 Damien Sluysmans, Sandrine Hubert, Carson J. Bruns, Zhixue Zhu, J. Fraser Stoddart et al. doi:10.1038/s41565-017-0033-7 Single-molecule force spectroscopy shows that donor–acceptor synthetic oligorotaxanes possess a more robust and dynamic response to external loads than natural proteins.   A modular platform for targeted RNAi therapeutics    pp214 - 219 Ranit Kedmi, Nuphar Veiga, Srinivas Ramishetti, Meir Goldsmith, Daniel Rosenblum et al. doi:10.1038/s41565-017-0043-5 A self-assembled modular siRNA delivery platform enables the construction of a theoretically unlimited repertoire of carriers to target distinct cell surface receptors in the service of personalized medicine.   Advertisement Do you have a career question?  The Naturejobs podcast features one-on-one Q&As, panel discussions and other exclusive content to help scientists with their careers. Hosted on the Naturejobs blog, the podcast is also available on iTunes and Soundcloud. Listen today!   Articles   A broadband achromatic metalens for focusing and imaging in the visible    pp220 - 226 Wei Ting Chen, Alexander Y. Zhu, Vyshakh Sanjeev, Mohammadreza Khorasaninejad, Zhujun Shi et al. doi:10.1038/s41565-017-0034-6 Controlling the geometry of each dielectric element of a nanostructured surface enables frequency-dependent group delay and group delay dispersion engineering, and the fabrication of an achromatic metalens for imaging in the visible in transmission.   A broadband achromatic metalens in the visible    pp227 - 232 Shuming Wang, Pin Chieh Wu, Vin-Cent Su, Yi-Chieh Lai, Mu-Ku Chen et al. doi:10.1038/s41565-017-0052-4 Integrating the Pancharatnam–Berry phase with integrated resonant nanoantennas in a metalens design produces an achromatic device capable of full-colour imaging in the visible range in transmission mode.   Electrical detection of single magnetic skyrmions in metallic multilayers at room temperature    pp233 - 237 Davide Maccariello, William Legrand, Nicolas Reyren, Karin Garcia, Karim Bouzehouane et al. doi:10.1038/s41565-017-0044-4 Single magnetic skyrmions are electrically detected in magnetic multilayers at room temperature, and their main contribution to the signal, which is enhanced for tracks approaching the size of the skyrmions, comes from the anomalous—rather than topological—Hall effect.   Fast water transport in graphene nanofluidic channels    pp238 - 245 Quan Xie, Mohammad Amin Alibakhshi, Shuping Jiao, Zhiping Xu, Marek Hempel et al. doi:10.1038/s41565-017-0031-9 Capillary-filling measurements in a hybrid silica–graphene nanochannel reveal the fast water transport mechanism in a single graphene nanochannel.   Two-dimensional materials from high-throughput computational exfoliation of experimentally known compounds    pp246 - 252 Nicolas Mounet, Marco Gibertini, Philippe Schwaller, Davide Campi, Andrius Merkys et al. doi:10.1038/s41565-017-0035-5 The largest available database of potentially exfoliable 2D materials has been obtained via high-throughput calculations using van der Waals density functional theory.   Metagenomic analysis of microbial communities yields insight into impacts of nanoparticle design    pp253 - 259 doi:10.1038/s41565-017-0029-3 Metagenomic analysis of activated sludge dosed with gold nanoparticles reveals that nanoparticle morphology imposes a greater force in shaping microbial community structure than surface coating.   Photoelectrochemical modulation of neuronal activity with free-standing coaxial silicon nanowires    pp260 - 266 Ramya Parameswaran, João L. Carvalho-de-Souza, Yuanwen Jiang, Michael J. Burke, John F. Zimmerman et al. doi:10.1038/s41565-017-0041-7 The wireless and photoelectrochemical stimulation of primary rat dorsal root ganglion neurons is demonstrated by shining laser light onto coaxially doped silicon nanowires deposited on the neuronal membrane.   Advertisement Searching for a new career? At Nature Research we frequently recruit talented individuals to join our editorial and publishing teams. If you have a PhD and a passion for science this may be the perfect career for you.  Visit our research editorial and publishing careers website to discover more about what we do    Amendments & Corrections   Publisher Correction: An adaptive supramolecular hydrogel comprising self-sorting double nanofibre networks    p267 Hajime Shigemitsu, Takahiro Fujisaku, Wataru Tanaka, Ryou Kubota, Saori Minami et al. doi:10.1038/s41565-018-0065-7 In the Classroom   Doing your own thing    p268 Fraser Stoddart doi:10.1038/s41565-018-0090-6 Advertisement Nature Machine Intelligence launching Launching in January 2019, Nature Machine Intelligence will publish research from a wide range of topics underpinning machine learning, robotics and AI. The journal will also explore and discuss emerging cross-disciplinary themes, such as human-robot interaction, and provide a platform to discuss the significant impact that AI has on other fields in science, society and industry. 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