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May 2015 Volume 10, Issue 5

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Research Highlights
News and Views
Review
Letters
Articles
In The Classroom

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Graphene opens up to new applications   p381
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.110
Effective separation membranes could be created by etching nanometre-sized pores in two-dimensional materials.

Research Highlights

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Our choice from the recent literature   p383
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.99

News and Views

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Nanoporous graphene: Membranes at the limit   pp385 - 386
Dong-Yeun Koh and Ryan P. Lively
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.77
Water desalination membranes can be created by etching nanometre-sized pores in a single layer of graphene.

See also: Article by Surwade et al.

Nanoscale imaging: Tomography for plasmonics   pp386 - 387
Marek Malac
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.52
Two-dimensional cathodoluminescence projections are used to reconstruct the plasmonic excitation of nanoscale crescents by tomography.

See also: Article by Atre et al.

Nonlinear optics: Tuning harmonics with excitons   pp387 - 388
Sean P. Rodrigues and Wenshan Cai
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.92
Nonlinear generation of light from an atomically thin semiconductor can be controlled by electrical fields.

See also: Letter by Seyler et al.

2D materials: Memristor goes two-dimensional   pp389 - 390
Jiangtan Yuan and Jun Lou
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.94
A single layer of MoS2 can be used to fabricate a memristor by exploiting structural defects in the crystal.

See also: Letter by Sangwan et al.

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Metal-halide perovskites for photovoltaic and light-emitting devices   pp391 - 402
Samuel D. Stranks and Henry J. Snaith
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.90
This Review discusses recent developments in photovoltaic and light-emitting optoelectronic devices made from metal-halide perovskite materials.

Letters

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Gate-tunable memristive phenomena mediated by grain boundaries in single-layer MoS2   pp403 - 406
Vinod K. Sangwan, Deep Jariwala, In Soo Kim, Kan-Sheng Chen, Tobin J. Marks, Lincoln J. Lauhon and Mark C. Hersam
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.56
Memristors with gate-tunable charge transport characteristics are fabricated from monolayer MoS2 by exploiting specific grain boundary configurations with respect to the electrodes.

See also: News and Views by Yuan & Lou

Electrical control of second-harmonic generation in a WSe2 monolayer transistor   pp407 - 411
Kyle L. Seyler, John R. Schaibley, Pu Gong, Pasqual Rivera, Aaron M. Jones, Sanfeng Wu, Jiaqiang Yan, David G. Mandrus, Wang Yao and Xiaodong Xu
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.73
Second-order optical nonlinearities can be controlled, up to room temperature, by electrostatic gating in a field-effect transistor made from atomically thin crystals of WSe2.

See also: News and Views by Rodrigues & Cai

Mode matching in multiresonant plasmonic nanoantennas for enhanced second harmonic generation   pp412 - 417
Michele Celebrano, Xiaofei Wu, Milena Baselli, Swen Großmann, Paolo Biagioni, Andrea Locatelli, Costantino De Angelis, Giulio Cerullo, Roberto Osellame, Bert Hecht, Lamberto Duò, Franco Ciccacci and Marco Finazzi
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.69
An asymmetric plasmonic nanoantenna featuring a double resonant mode that overlaps with both the excitation fundamental wavelength and the second harmonic emission displays a remarkably large nonlinear coefficient for second harmonic generation.

Reversible oxygen scavenging at room temperature using electrochemically reduced titanium oxide nanotubes   pp418 - 422
Thomas Close, Gaurav Tulsyan, Carlos A. Diaz, Steven J. Weinstein and Christiaan Richter
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.51
Reduced titanium oxide nanotubes rapidly absorb and release molecular oxygen at room temperature.

Graphene-templated directional growth of an inorganic nanowire   pp423 - 428
Won Chul Lee, Kwanpyo Kim, Jungwon Park, Jahyun Koo, Hu Young Jeong, Hoonkyung Lee, David A. Weitz, Alex Zettl and Shoji Takeuchi
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.36
Inorganic nanowires composed of gold(I) cyanide can be grown directly on pristine graphene, aligning themselves with the zigzag lattice directions of the graphene, and then used as templates to create graphene nanoribbons with zigzag-edged directions.

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Nanoscale optical tomography with cathodoluminescence spectroscopy   pp429 - 436
Ashwin C. Atre, Benjamin J. M. Brenny, Toon Coenen, Aitzol García-Etxarri, Albert Polman and Jennifer A. Dionne
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.39
An optical tomography technique enables the optical properties of samples in three dimensions to be imaged with a resolution below the diffraction limit.

See also: News and Views by Malac

Generation of photovoltage in graphene on a femtosecond timescale through efficient carrier heating   pp437 - 443
K. J. Tielrooij, L. Piatkowski, M. Massicotte, A. Woessner, Q. Ma, Y. Lee, K. S. Myhro, C. N. Lau, P. Jarillo-Herrero, N. F. van Hulst and F. H. L. Koppens
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.54
Optical excitation of graphene can generate a photovoltage in less than 50 femtoseconds, and can result in efficient electron heating.

A metal-free bifunctional electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reactions   pp444 - 452
Jintao Zhang, Zhenghang Zhao, Zhenhai Xia and Liming Dai
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.48
A mesoporous carbon foam co-doped with nitrogen and phosphorus atoms shows bifunctional activity for oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reactions and promising performance as an electrode in Zn–air batteries.

Nanoscale form dictates mesoscale function in plasmonic DNA–nanoparticle superlattices   pp453 - 458
Michael B. Ross, Jessie C. Ku, Victoria M. Vaccarezza, George C. Schatz and Chad A. Mirkin
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.68
Two- and three-dimensional mesoscale superlattice crystals with precisely engineered optical properties can be assembled from the bottom up by using DNA as a programmable ligand.

Water desalination using nanoporous single-layer graphene   pp459 - 464
Sumedh P. Surwade, Sergei N. Smirnov, Ivan V. Vlassiouk, Raymond R. Unocic, Gabriel M. Veith, Sheng Dai and Shannon M. Mahurin
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.37
An oxygen plasma etching process can be used to create a nanoporous graphene layer that can efficiently desalinate water.

See also: News and Views by Koh & Lively

Carbon nanotube-assisted optical activation of TGF-β signalling by near-infrared light   pp465 - 471
Liang Lin, Ling Liu, Bing Zhao, Ran Xie, Wei Lin, He Li, Yaya Li, Minlong Shi, Ye-Guang Chen, Timothy A. Springer and Xing Chen
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.28
TGF-β signalling, which is important in regulating various cellular processes during development, can be optically manipulated using near-infrared light with the aid of single-walled carbon nanotubes.

Mapping protein binding sites on the biomolecular corona of nanoparticles   pp472 - 479
Philip M. Kelly, Christoffer Åberg, Ester Polo, Ann O'Connell, Jennifer Cookman, Jonathan Fallon, Ċ½eljka Krpetic and Kenneth A. Dawson
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.47
Using antibody-conjugated gold nanoparticles and a suite of techniques, the spatial location and type of protein binding sites across biomolecular coronas formed on the surface of nanoparticles are identified.

In The Classroom

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Creativity unleashed   p480
Francois Grey
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.95
Hands-on challenges such as building a low-cost atomic force microscope for schools can teach more than standard lessons, says François Grey.

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