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2009 Nanoscale materials


Surface-chemistry-driven actuation in nanoporous gold pp47 - 51

J. Biener, A. Wittstock, L. A. Zepeda-Ruiz, M. M. Biener, V. Zielasek, D. Kramer, R. N. Viswanath, J. Weissmüller, M. Bäumer & A. V. Hamza

doi:10.1038/nmat2335

Subject Categories: Sensors and biosensors | Nanoscale materials | Porous materials | Surface and thin films


Regular arrays of highly ordered ferroelectric polymer nanostructures for non-volatile low-voltage memories pp62 - 67

Zhijun Hu, Mingwen Tian, Bernard Nysten & Alain M. Jonas

doi:10.1038/nmat2339

Subject Categories: Polymers | Electronic materials | Nanoscale materials

See also: News and Views by Ducharme & Gruverman



Tuning selectivity in catalysis by controlling particle shape pp132 - 138

Ilkeun Lee, Françoise Delbecq, Ricardo Morales, Manuel A. Albiter & Francisco Zaera

doi:10.1038/nmat2371

Subject Categories: Catalytic materials | Nanoscale materials | Surface and thin films

See also: News and Views by Gellman & Shukla


Polymer chain dynamics and glass transition in athermal polymer/nanoparticle mixtures pp139 - 143

Hyunjoon Oh & Peter F. Green

doi:10.1038/nmat2354

Subject Categories: Composites | Nanoscale materials



Supramolecular control of the magnetic anisotropy in two-dimensional high-spin Fe arrays at a metal interface pp189 - 193

Pietro Gambardella, Sebastian Stepanow, Alexandre Dmitriev, Jan Honolka, Frank M. F. de Groot, Magalí Lingenfelder, Subhra Sen Gupta, D. D. Sarma, Peter Bencok, Stefan Stanescu, Sylvain Clair, Stéphane Pons, Nian Lin, Ari P. Seitsonen, Harald Brune, Johannes V. Barth & Klaus Kern

doi:10.1038/nmat2376

Subject Categories: Molecular electronics | Magnetic materials | Nanoscale materials

See also: News and Views by Wende


Magnetic memory of a single-molecule quantum magnet wired to a gold surface pp194 - 197

Matteo Mannini, Francesco Pineider, Philippe Sainctavit, Chiara Danieli, Edwige Otero, Corrado Sciancalepore, Anna Maria Talarico, Marie-Anne Arrio, Andrea Cornia, Dante Gatteschi & Roberta Sessoli

doi:10.1038/nmat2374

Subject Categories: Molecular electronics | Magnetic materials | Nanoscale materials

See also: News and Views by Wende


Towards wafer-size graphene layers by atmospheric pressure graphitization of silicon carbide pp203 - 207

Konstantin V. Emtsev, Aaron Bostwick, Karsten Horn, Johannes Jobst, Gary L. Kellogg, Lothar Ley, Jessica L. McChesney, Taisuke Ohta, Sergey A. Reshanov, Jonas Röhrl, Eli Rotenberg, Andreas K. Schmid, Daniel Waldmann, Heiko B. Weber & Thomas Seyller

doi:10.1038/nmat2382

Subject Categories: Electronic materials | Molecular electronics | Nanoscale materials

See also: News and Views by Sutter



Ternary Pt/Rh/SnO2 electrocatalysts for oxidizing ethanol to CO2 pp325 - 330

A. Kowal, M. Li, M. Shao, K. Sasaki, M. B. Vukmirovic, J. Zhang, N. S. Marinkovic, P. Liu, A. I. Frenkel & R. R. Adzic

doi:10.1038/nmat2359

Subject Categories: Catalytic materials | Materials for energy | Nanoscale materials | Surface and thin films



Anisotropic self-assembly of spherical polymer-grafted nanoparticles pp354 - 359

Pinar Akcora, Hongjun Liu, Sanat K. Kumar, Joseph Moll, Yu Li, Brian C. Benicewicz, Linda S. Schadler, Devrim Acehan, Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos, Victor Pryamitsyn, Venkat Ganesan, Jan Ilavsky, Pappanan Thiyagarajan, Ralph H. Colby & Jack F. Douglas

doi:10.1038/nmat2404

Subject Categories: Nanoscale materials | Computation, modelling and theory | Polymers

See also: News and Views by Li


Ultralong spin coherence time in isotopically engineered diamond pp383 - 387

Gopalakrishnan Balasubramanian, Philipp Neumann, Daniel Twitchen, Matthew Markham, Roman Kolesov, Norikazu Mizuochi, Junichi Isoya, Jocelyn Achard, Johannes Beck, Julia Tissler, Vincent Jacques, Philip R. Hemmer, Fedor Jelezko & Jörg Wrachtrup

doi:10.1038/nmat2420

Subject Categories: Electronic materials | Optical, photonic and optoelectronic materials | Nanoscale materials

See also: News and Views by Hanson




Size-controlled stabilization of the superionic phase to room temperature in polymer-coated AgI nanoparticles pp476 - 480

Rie Makiura, Takayuki Yonemura, Teppei Yamada, Miho Yamauchi, Ryuichi Ikeda, Hiroshi Kitagawa, Kenichi Kato & Masaki Takata

doi:10.1038/nmat2449

Subject Categories: Materials for energy | Nanoscale materials

See also: News and Views by Green



Free-standing nanoparticle superlattice sheets controlled by DNA pp519 - 525

Wenlong Cheng, Michael J. Campolongo, Judy J. Cha, Shawn J. Tan, Christopher C. Umbach, David A. Muller & Dan Luo

doi:10.1038/nmat2440

Subject Categories: Molecular electronics | Nanoscale materials



Kondo conductance in an atomic nanocontact from first principles pp563 - 567

Procolo Lucignano, Riccardo Mazzarello, Alexander Smogunov, Michele Fabrizio & Erio Tosatti

doi:10.1038/nmat2476

Subject Categories: Electronic materials | Magnetic materials | Nanoscale materials

See also: News and Views by Ortiz


Switchable self-protected attractions in DNA-functionalized colloids pp590 - 595

Mirjam E. Leunissen, Rémi Dreyfus, Fook Chiong Cheong, David G. Grier, Roujie Sha, Nadrian C. Seeman & Paul M. Chaikin

doi:10.1038/nmat2471

Subject Categories: Colloids | Biological materials | Nanoscale materials


Engineering light absorption in semiconductor nanowire devices pp643 - 647

Linyou Cao, Justin S. White, Joon-Shik Park, Jon A. Schuller, Bruce M. Clemens & Mark L. Brongersma

doi:10.1038/nmat2477

Subject Categories: Optical, photonic and optoelectronic materials | Nanoscale materials






Long lifetimes of quantum-dot intersublevel transitions in the terahertz range pp803 - 807

E. A. Zibik, T. Grange, B. A. Carpenter, N. E. Porter, R. Ferreira, G. Bastard, D. Stehr, S. Winnerl, M. Helm, H. Y. Liu, M. S. Skolnick & L. R. Wilson

doi:10.1038/nmat2511

Subject Categories: Semiconductors | Optical, photonic and optoelectronic materials | Nanoscale materials

See also: News and Views by Tredicucci



Electrostatic spin crossover effect in polar magnetic molecules pp813 - 817

Nadjib Baadji, Manuel Piacenza, Tugba Tugsuz, Fabio Della Sala, Giuseppe Maruccio & Stefano Sanvito

doi:10.1038/nmat2525

Subject Categories: Molecular electronics | Magnetic materials | Nanoscale materials


The effect of three-dimensional morphology on the efficiency of hybrid polymer solar cells pp818 - 824

Stefan D. Oosterhout, Martijn M. Wienk, Svetlana S. van Bavel, Ralf Thiedmann, L. Jan Anton Koster, Jan Gilot, Joachim Loos, Volker Schmidt & René A. J. Janssen

doi:10.1038/nmat2533

Subject Categories: Polymers | Optical, photonic and optoelectronic materials | Materials for energy | Nanoscale materials


Nitrogen interaction with hydrogen-terminated silicon surfaces at the atomic scale pp825 - 830

Min Dai, Yu Wang, Jinhee Kwon, Mathew D. Halls & Yves J. Chabal

doi:10.1038/nmat2514

Subject Categories: Nanoscale materials | Surface and thin films


The effect of nanometre-scale structure on interfacial energy pp837 - 842

Jeffrey J. Kuna, Kislon Voïtchovsky, Chetana Singh, Hao Jiang, Steve Mwenifumbo, Pradip K. Ghorai, Molly M. Stevens, Sharon C. Glotzer & Francesco Stellacci

doi:10.1038/nmat2534

Subject Categories: Nanoscale materials | Surface and thin films | Computation, modelling and theory


Hindered rolling and friction anisotropy in supported carbon nanotubes pp876 - 881

Marcel Lucas, Xiaohua Zhang, Ismael Palaci, Christian Klinke, Erio Tosatti & Elisa Riedo

doi:10.1038/nmat2529

Subject Categories: Mechanical properties | Nanoscale materials

See also: News and Views by Perez



Gold nanocages covered by smart polymers for controlled release with near-infrared light pp935 - 939

Mustafa S. Yavuz, Yiyun Cheng, Jingyi Chen, Claire M. Cobley, Qiang Zhang, Matthew Rycenga, Jingwei Xie, Chulhong Kim, Kwang H. Song, Andrea G. Schwartz, Lihong V. Wang & Younan Xia

doi:10.1038/nmat2564

Subject Categories: Biological materials | Nanoscale materials


Size and shape effects on the order–disorder phase transition in CoPt nanoparticles pp940 - 946

D. Alloyeau, C. Ricolleau, C. Mottet, T. Oikawa, C. Langlois, Y. Le Bouar, N. Braidy & A. Loiseau

doi:10.1038/nmat2574

Subject Categories: Magnetic materials | Nanoscale materials

See also: News and Views by Sato


Metastable and unstable cellular solidification of colloidal suspensions pp966 - 972

Sylvain Deville, Eric Maire, Guillaume Bernard-Granger, Audrey Lasalle, Agnès Bogner, Catherine Gauthier, Jérôme Leloup & Christian Guizard

doi:10.1038/nmat2571

Subject Categories: Colloids | Nanoscale materials


Small-molecule-directed nanoparticle assembly towards stimuli-responsive nanocomposites pp979 - 985

Yue Zhao, Kari Thorkelsson, Alexander J. Mastroianni, Thomas Schilling, Joseph M. Luther, Benjamin J. Rancatore, Kazuyuki Matsunaga, Hiroshi Jinnai, Yue Wu, Daniel Poulsen, Jean M. J. Fréchet, A. Paul Alivisatos & Ting Xu

doi:10.1038/nmat2565

Subject Categories: Composites | Polymers | Nanoscale materials

See also: News and Views by Mezzenga & Ruokolainen



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