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Nature Nanotechnology Contents July 2015 Volume 10 Number 7 pp565-652

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July 2015 Volume 10, Issue 7

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Letters
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In The Classroom
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Editorial

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No walking away   p565
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.157
Leaving the European Union could be detrimental for science and innovation in the United Kingdom.

Thesis

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Quick lessons on environmental nanotech   pp566 - 567
Chris Toumey
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.144
The use of silver nanoparticles to clean clothes and the use of magnetite nanoparticles to clean water provide contrasting illustrations of the potential environmental consequences of nanotechnology, as Chris Toumey explains.

Research Highlights

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Our choice from the recent literature   p568
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.150

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DNA nanotechnology: Measuring chloride in live cells   pp569 - 570
Masayuki Endo & Hiroshi Sugiyama
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.142
A nucleic acid-based chloride sensor is used to image and quantify spatiotemporal chloride transport in the living cell.

See also: Article by Saha et al.

Bioelectronics: Injection and unfolding   pp570 - 571
Dae-Hyeong Kim & Youngsik Lee
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.129
The delivery of flexible electronic scaffolds to precise locations in biological tissues or cavities is achieved by injecting them via a syringe needle with a diameter much smaller than the size of the scaffold.

See also: Article by Liu et al.

Complex oxide ferroelectrics: Electrostatic doping by domain walls   pp571 - 573
Petro Maksymovych
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.133
Charged domain walls in ferroelectric thin films can be manipulated at the nanoscale and used to induce charges in the surrounding insulating material.

See also: Letter by Crassous et al.

Spintronics: Skyrmions under strain   pp573 - 574
Robert Ritz
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.146
The high sensitivity of magnetic skyrmions to mechanical deformation of the underlying crystal lattice provides a new tuning parameter for potential applications of these nanosized spin whirls.

See also: Letter by Shibata et al.

Perovskite photovoltaics: Signs of stability   pp574 - 575
Karl Leo
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.139
Studies on a perovskite photovoltaic device suggest that improved stability, one of the hurdles to large-scale applicability of perovskites in solar cells, can be achieved.

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Catalysis by clusters with precise numbers of atoms   pp577 - 588
Eric C. Tyo & Stefan Vajda
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.140
This article reviews recent progress in the synthesis and characterization of well-defined subnanometre clusters, and the understanding and exploitation of their catalytic properties, highlighting the potential of such clusters to provide insight into important catalytic processes and to form the basis of novel catalytic systems.

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Large anisotropic deformation of skyrmions in strained crystal   pp589 - 592
K. Shibata, J. Iwasaki, N. Kanazawa, S. Aizawa, T. Tanigaki, M. Shirai, T. Nakajima, M. Kubota, M. Kawasaki, H. S. Park, D. Shindo, N. Nagaosa & Y. Tokura
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.113
Uniaxial strain as small as 0.3% in FeGe thin films can induce large anisotropic deformation of magnetic skyrmions and their crystal lattice hosted in the material.

See also: News and Views by Ritz

Edge-mode superconductivity in a two-dimensional topological insulator   pp593 - 597
Vlad S. Pribiag, Arjan J. A. Beukman, Fanming Qu, Maja C. Cassidy, Christophe Charpentier, Werner Wegscheider & Leo P. Kouwenhoven
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.86
Topological superconductivity, a state that can support the formation of Majorana zero modes, can be induced in the edge state of a InAs/GaSb nanowire.

Nano Josephson superconducting tunnel junctions in YBa2Cu3O7–δ directly patterned with a focused helium ion beam   pp598 - 602
Shane A. Cybart, E. Y. Cho, T. J. Wong, Björn H. Wehlin, Meng K. Ma, Chuong Huynh & R. C. Dynes
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.76
High-quality superconducting tunnel junctions operating above liquid nitrogen temperatures can be fabricated with a focused beam of helium ions that directly writes tunnel barriers in a cuprate superconductor.

Magnetoluminescence and valley polarized state of a two-dimensional electron gas in WS2 monolayers   pp603 - 607
T. Scrace, Y. Tsai, B. Barman, L. Schweidenback, A. Petrou, G. Kioseoglou, I. Ozfidan, M. Korkusinski & P. Hawrylak
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.78
Circularly polarized emission with no applied magnetic field can be obeserved in a two-dimensional semiconductor due to the interaction of excitons with a two-dimensional electron gas.

Quantum oscillations in a two-dimensional electron gas in black phosphorus thin films   pp608 - 613
Likai Li, Guo Jun Ye, Vy Tran, Ruixiang Fei, Guorui Chen, Huichao Wang, Jian Wang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Li Yang, Xian Hui Chen & Yuanbo Zhang
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.91
The high material quality achieved in black phosphorus thin films combined with the choice of an appropriate substrate enables the electrostatic formation of a high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas that exhibits quantum oscillations in its magnetoresistance.

Polarization charge as a reconfigurable quasi-dopant in ferroelectric thin films   pp614 - 618
Arnaud Crassous, Tomas Sluka, Alexander K. Tagantsev and Nava Setter
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.114
Charged domain walls can be created and manipulated at the nanoscale so that their polarization charge can be used to dope ferroelectric thin films at selected locations in a reversible way.

See also: News and Views by Maksymovych

In vivo integrity of polymer-coated gold nanoparticles   pp619 - 623
Wolfgang G. Kreyling, Abuelmagd M. Abdelmonem, Zulqurnain Ali, Frauke Alves, Marianne Geiser, Nadine Haberl, Raimo Hartmann, Stephanie Hirn, Dorleta Jimenez de Aberasturi, Karsten Kantner, Gülnaz Khadem-Saba, Jose-Maria Montenegro, Joanna Rejman, Teofilo Rojo, Idoia Ruiz de Larramendi, Roser Ufartes, Alexander Wenk & Wolfgang J. Parak
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.111
The polymeric shell surrounding gold nanoparticles may degrade when injected into rats, suggesting that even highly stable colloidal nanoparticles are susceptible to physicochemical changes in vivo.

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Black silicon solar cells with interdigitated back-contacts achieve 22.1% efficiency   pp624 - 628
Hele Savin, Päivikki Repo, Guillaume von Gastrow, Pablo Ortega, Eric Calle, Moises Garín & Ramon Alcubilla
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.89
A power conversion efficiency of 22% is achieved in black silicon back-contacted solar cells through passivation of the nanostructured surface by a conformal alumina layer.

Syringe-injectable electronics   pp629 - 636
Jia Liu, Tian-Ming Fu, Zengguang Cheng, Guosong Hong, Tao Zhou, Lihua Jin, Madhavi Duvvuri, Zhe Jiang, Peter Kruskal, Chong Xie, Zhigang Suo, Ying Fang & Charles M. Lieber
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.115
Rolled-up ultraflexible mesh electronics can be injected through a syringe needle of diameter as small as 100  µm into man-made and biological cavities, gels and tissues, where they can unfold and perform sensing operations.

See also: News and Views by Kim & Lee

Prescribed nanoparticle cluster architectures and low-dimensional arrays built using octahedral DNA origami frames   pp637 - 644
Ye Tian, Tong Wang, Wenyan Liu, Huolin L. Xin, Huilin Li, Yonggang Ke, William M. Shih & Oleg Gang
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.105
Octahedral DNA origami frames that have encoded vertices capable of attaching nanoparticles can be used to form precise three-dimensional nanoparticle clusters and one- and two-dimensional nanoparticle arrays.

A pH-independent DNA nanodevice for quantifying chloride transport in organelles of living cells   pp645 - 651
Sonali Saha, Ved Prakash, Saheli Halder, Kasturi Chakraborty and Yamuna Krishnan
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.130
Chloride concentrations inside subcellular organelles of living cells can now be measured in a pH-independent manner using a DNA nanodevice, offering a tool for studying chloride homeostasis and its associated diseases.

See also: News and Views by Endo & Sugiyama

In The Classroom

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Inspiration is all around you   p652
Giampaolo Pitruzzello
doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.145
Your teachers and your colleagues have an essential role in helping you to determine your scientific interests and your way of doing research, says Giampaolo Pitruzzello.

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