Nature Nanotechnology - Current issue : November 2009 - Vol 4 No 11
- Single-crystal nanobeams take the strain
- Nanofluidics: Off the wall FREE
- Imaging agents: Going beneath the skin
- Phase change memory: Under pressure
Latest highlights
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Graphene
Letter by Tang et al.A new hybrid phonon-exciton excited state in bilayer graphene can be tuned electrically, with possible application to phonon lasers.
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Cancer detection
Letter by Galanzha et al.Circulating tumour cells can be captured in the bloodstream of mice using magnetic nanoparticles and detected using in vivo multicolour photoacoustic cytometry.
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Nanotube photonics
Letter by Mueller et al.Electrically induced light emission from an individual carbon nanotube p-n diode allows emission from free and localized excitons to be identified.
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Nanotoxicology
Article by Bhabra et al.Nanoparticles can damage cellular DNA from a distance without entering the cells, which suggests that indirect effects should be considered when evaluating nanoparticle safety.
Research Highlights
Art conservation with nanotechnology, plasmonic probes for catalytic reactions, and superconducting single-molecule transistors.
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DNA nanotechnology
Article by Maune et al.Single-walled carbon nanotubes can be self-assembled into cross junctions using DNA origami, establishing these structures as programmable nanobreadboards.
