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Volume 2 Issue 8, August 2003

The remarkable difference between surface and step atoms in the magnetic anisotropy of two-dimensional nanostructures.

Cover design by Nicky Perry.

Volume 2 Issue 8

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  • When tackling the most fundamental of questions in materials science — what holds matter together — is the concept of an intermolecular potential still useful? Will it survive the emergence of more accurate and increasingly affordable ab initio calculations?

    • Gianpietro Malescio
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  • Controlling the magnetization reversal behaviour of nanostructures is vital if they are to be used as tiny information units in future storage devices. Now it seems that the magnetic edge atoms make all the difference.

    • Wolfgang Kuch
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  • After many years of speculation, effective microdevices that can separate particles by converting random motion into directed motion have finally arrived. A new study demonstrates ratcheted transport of microspheres across a microfabricated membrane.

    • Andrew Evan Kamholz
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  • Attendees at a symposium on the examination and care of ancient objects find that the materials can be as complex as the modern techniques used to examine them.

    • David Erhardt
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