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Volume 6 Issue 8, August 2007

Numerical computations solve the classic problem of predicting the shape of a Moebius strip

Cover design by David Shand

Letter by Starostin and van der Heijden

Volume 6 Issue 8

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Editorial

  • As rapidly developing Asian countries become major players in materials research, they have the perfect opportunity to use new technologies to build a greener energy infrastructure.

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Commentary

  • Conducting scientific research in Korea has not always been easy. The country has made rapid progress in encouraging research, but how did it come to be able to hold its own on the world stage, and what could the future hold?

    • Taeghwan Hyeon
    Commentary
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Interview

  • Research in India has changed dramatically over the past half century, and C. N. R. Rao has been an observer and participant for all this time. With his unique perspective as an advisor to the Indian prime minister, Nature Materials talked to him about directions in Indian chemistry.

    • Maria Bellantone
    • Victoria Cleave
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Research Highlights

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News & Views

  • A newly derived set of differential equations provides a numerical solution to the classic question of predicting the shape of a Möbius strip.

    • John H. Maddocks
    News & Views

  • The mammalian sense of taste has an exquisite ability to differentiate subtle variations in flavour. An artificial tongue has now been developed with the ability to amplify and sense analytes that before may have gone unnoticed.

    • John J. Lavigne
    News & Views

  • Nanoscale phase separation into a perfect two-dimensional chessboard structure is observed in a class of perovskite-based lithium-ion conductors. The periodicity can be controlled by varying the composition, which is an intriguing advance in materials design.

    • Patrick M. Woodward
    News & Views

  • Interfaces between gold nanoparticle films and semiconductor substrates are found to behave like nearly ideal Schottky diodes. Moreover, the detailed electronic structure of the interfaces can be tuned by electrochemical charge-transfer.

    • Brian A. Korgel
    News & Views

  • Controlled assembly of nanoparticles can increase their utility for a large range of applications. Selectively functionalizing the ends of hydrophilic nanorods with hydrophobic polymers is an elegant way to do this, as solvent composition provides structure control.

    • Robert B. Grubbs
    News & Views

  • Pioneer of the kinetics of phase transformations in condensed matter.

    • Frans Spaepen
    • Michael J. Aziz
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Letter

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Focus

  • The massive growth and investment in materials chemistry research in Asia has produced some exciting results. What's next for research in the region?

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