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Volume 2 Issue 3, March 2003

The cubic bicontinuous meso-structure of TiPO obtained through 'acid-base pairs' synthesis

Cover design by Nicky Perry.

Volume 2 Issue 3

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  • The push for smaller microelectronics poses many challenges, such as locating dopant atoms in semiconductors with ever-increasing precision. The ideal technique must be able to detect single dopants with atomic resolution, and identify their electronic state. Neither is an easy task.

    • Martin R. Castell
    • David A. Muller
    • Paul M. Voyles
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  • Simple questions in materials science often turn out to have very complex answers. Unravelling the mysteries of how our bones break, on the microscopic scale, is a major task.

    • David Taylor
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  • Proposals for carrying out computing at the molecular level generally involve current-carrying circuitry, as in conventional computers. A possible alternative, using an electrostatically operating 'cellular automata', reduces, among other things, the problem of excess heat production.

    • Noel Hush
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  • In nanoporous solids, optimizing both the size of the pores and the strength of long-range physical properties such as magnetism is not easy. A new approach using radical ions creates a hybrid framework with large pores, in which the reversible and selective loss of a solvent affects the magnetic properties.

    • Gérard Férey
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  • It is well known that quantum effects become increasingly important as the size of structures is reduced. But the influence of shape on quantum confinement is less appreciated. New data show that shape matters as much as size.

    • William E. Buhro
    • Vicki L. Colvin
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  • Controlling light confinement inside microcavities is crucial to the development of optoelectronic devices such as miniaturized semiconductor lasers. A welcome step in this direction is the successful design of a toroid-shaped microresonator able to trap photons with unprecedented efficiency.

    • J.M. Gérard
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  • A new strategy for mapping the mechanical and magnetic properties of thin films has been used to discover ferromagnetic shape-memory alloys with previously unknown compositions. The results provide new insight into an underlying composition–structure–property relationship of the Ni–Mn–Ga system.

    • Robert W. Cahn
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