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Volume 2 Issue 9, September 2003

Molecular biomimetics: nanotechnology through biology.

Cover design by Nicky Perry.

Volume 2 Issue 9

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Commentary

  • The European Materials Society — now 20 years old — offers a focus on functional materials and a willingness to engage in policy issues. The success of present and future activities depends on its ability to remain flexible.

    • Ian W. Boyd
    • Peter Glasow
    • Paul Siffert
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  • Biomolecules are notorious for their unpredictable flexibility. Some of the smallest nanopores ever created are being used to manipulate individual DNA molecules, with far-from simple results.

    • Robert Austin
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  • The separation of semiconducting and metallic nanotubes from bulk mixed samples is an essential requirement for researchers attempting to fabricate nanotube-based electronic devices. Four reports demonstrate the variety of approaches being used to tackle this problem.

    • R. Bruce Weisman
    News & Views

  • Some crystalline solids, such as zeolites, can be converted into amorphous structures by heat or pressure without ever forming a liquid. Experiments and models show that the distinction between order and disorder is getting increasingly blurred.

    • Alexandra Navrotsky
    News & Views

  • Proteins are used by living organisms to perform important movement, transport and sensing functions. The extraction of a contractile protein from pulses (broad beans) takes us closer to making fully functional biomimetic synthetic machines.

    • Constantinos Mavroidis
    • Atul Dubey
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  • The potential uses of inorganic quantum dots in biolabelling and sensing could be expanded through their ability to function as resonant energy-transfer donors. Novel quantum dot–protein sensors may be the way ahead.

    • Dale M. Willard
    • Alan Van Orden
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