TABLE OF CONTENTS
| June 2012 Volume 7, Issue 6 |  | | |  |  Research Highlights
News and Views
Letters
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| | | | | | | Advertisement |  | | | | | Research Highlights |  Top | |  | | Our choice from the recent literature p341
doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.100
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| News and Views | Top | | | | | | Letters | Top | | | | Virus-based piezoelectric energy generation pp351 - 356
Byung Yang Lee, Jinxing Zhang, Chris Zueger, Woo-Jae Chung, So Young Yoo, Eddie Wang, Joel Meyer, Ramamoorthy Ramesh and Seung-Wuk Lee
doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.69
A thin film of M13 bacteriophage generates piezoelectric energy that is used to power a liquid-crystal display.
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| | | | Hydrogen stabilization of metallic vanadium dioxide in single-crystal nanobeams pp357 - 362
Jiang Wei, Heng Ji, Wenhua Guo, Andriy H. Nevidomskyy and Douglas Natelson
doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.70
The metal–insulator transition in vanadium dioxide can be reversibly suppressed to cryogenic temperatures by doping with atomic hydrogen.
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| | | | Hybrid graphene-quantum dot phototransistors with ultrahigh gain pp363 - 368
Gerasimos Konstantatos, Michela Badioli, Louis Gaudreau, Johann Osmond, Maria Bernechea, F. Pelayo Garcia de Arquer, Fabio Gatti and Frank H. L. Koppens
doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.60
A phototransistor in which electric charges are absorbed by colloidal quantum dots and circulated in graphene exhibits high values for gain, responsivity and specific detectivity.
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| | | | Bright infrared quantum-dot light-emitting diodes through inter-dot spacing control pp369 - 373
Liangfeng Sun, Joshua J. Choi, David Stachnik, Adam C. Bartnik, Byung-Ryool Hyun, George G. Malliaras, Tobias Hanrath and Frank W. Wise
doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.63
Quantum-dot-based infrared light-emitting diodes can achieve levels of brightness and efficiency that are competitive with state-of-the-art epitaxial devices by using linker molecules to control the distance between adjacent quantum dots.
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| | | | Cell-free protein synthesis and assembly on a biochip pp374 - 378
Yael Heyman, Amnon Buxboim, Sharon G. Wolf, Shirley S. Daube and Roy H. Bar-Ziv
doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.65
A biochip fabricated on a silicon dioxide support grid allows genes to express proteins in the absence of cells, and the assembly of these proteins to be imaged in situ using transmission electron microscopy.
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| | | | Optical detection of single non-absorbing molecules using the surface plasmon resonance of a gold nanorod pp379 - 382
Peter Zijlstra, Pedro M. R. Paulo and Michel Orrit
doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.51
Gold nanorods coated with biotin can be used to detect single proteins in real time by monitoring the surface plasmon resonance of the nanorod with a photothermal assay.
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See also: News and Views by Käll
| | | | Normalization of tumour blood vessels improves the delivery of nanomedicines in a size-dependent manner pp383 - 388
Vikash P. Chauhan, Triantafyllos Stylianopoulos, John D. Martin, Zoran Popović, Ou Chen, Walid S. Kamoun, Moungi G. Bawendi, Dai Fukumura and Rakesh K. Jain
doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.45
Repairing the blood vessels in cancerous tumours can improve the delivery of small nanoparticles.
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See also: News and Views by Cheng & Saltzman
| | | | Molecularly self-assembled nucleic acid nanoparticles for targeted in vivo siRNA delivery pp389 - 393
Hyukjin Lee, Abigail K. R. Lytton-Jean, Yi Chen, Kevin T. Love, Angela I. Park, Emmanouil D. Karagiannis, Alfica Sehgal, William Querbes, Christopher S. Zurenko, Muthusamy Jayaraman, Chang G. Peng, Klaus Charisse, Anna Borodovsky, Muthiah Manoharan, Jessica S. Donahoe, Jessica Truelove, Matthias Nahrendorf, Robert Langer and Daniel G. Anderson
doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.73
DNA strands can self-assemble into tetrahedral nanoparticles that can deliver small interfering RNA molecules to cells and suppress genes in tumours.
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See also: News and Views by Bhatia et al.
| | Articles | Top | | | | An oxygen reduction electrocatalyst based on carbon nanotube-graphene complexes pp394 - 400
Yanguang Li, Wu Zhou, Hailiang Wang, Liming Xie, Yongye Liang, Fei Wei, Juan-Carlos Idrobo, Stephen J. Pennycook and Hongjie Dai
doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.72
An atomic-scale study reveals the role of Fe and N impurities in a novel carbon-based electrocatalyst.
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| | | | Quantification of the affinities and kinetics of protein interactions using silicon nanowire biosensors pp401 - 407
Xuexin Duan, Yue Li, Nitin K. Rajan, David A. Routenberg, Yorgo Modis and Mark A. Reed
doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.82
Silicon nanowires configured as field-effect transistors can be used to quantify the binding affinities and kinetics of protein interactions, offering a sensitive tool for disease diagnosis and drug discovery.
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