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Volume 2 Issue 6, June 2003

Controlled growth of tetrapod-branched inorganic nanocrystals.

Volume 2 Issue 6

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  • Surfaces were a topic of active debate among ancient philosophers, some of which continues to this day. Can modern surface science settle the question of whether surfaces exist or not?

    • Ernesto Paparazzo
    Commentary
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  • Inorganic colloids now come in many forms — spheres, discs and rods. With the addition of branched tetrapods to this list, the potential for creating materials with interesting mechanical, optical and electrical properties is even greater.

    • Deli Wang
    • Charles M. Lieber
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  • A new generation of biocompatible materials may be on the horizon. Building or coating medical devices with materials that release the versatile bioregulatory agent, nitric oxide, can greatly improve their performance when in contact with tissues and physiological fluids.

    • Larry K. Keefer
    News & Views

  • Future high-speed communications devices will require efficient long-wavelength emitters that are compatible with integrated circuits. The development of a 1.5 μm GaAs LED is an important step forward.

    • Sheila Prasad
    News & Views

  • Composite films of conducting polymers and fullerenes are attractive for making optoelectronic devices, such as solar cells. A new approach mixes the two components at the molecular level.

    • Antonio Cravino
    • Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci
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  • Efficiency of power conversion and thermal stability usually don't go together in dye-sensitized solar cells. Now a novel combination of an amphiphilic dye and a polymer gel electrolyte features both these important properties.

    • James R. Durrant
    • Saif A. Haque
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  • In March 2003, ionic liquids came of age with the announcement of BASIL, the first industrial process based on room-temperature ionic liquid technology.

    • Kenneth R. Seddon
    News & Views
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