This Issue - pv

doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.163

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Risks and benefits - p151

doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.173

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Subject Categories: Environmental, health and safety issues | Ethical, legal and other societal issues

What drives public acceptance of nanotechnology? - pp153 - 155

Steven C. Currall, Eden B. King, Neal Lane, Juan Madera & Stacey Turner

doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.155

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Subject Category: Ethical, legal and other societal issues

How to commercialize nanotechnology - pp157 - 158

Michael N. Helmus

doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.156

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Subject Category: Industry and IPR

Ideological differences - p159

William Sims Bainbridge reviews Nanotechnology: New Promises, New Dangers by Toby Shelley

doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.147

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Subject Category: Ethical, legal and other societal issues

Computation with DNA, quantum dots boost flash memories, magnetic nanoparticles in sperm cells, and much more - pp160 - 161

doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.158

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Top down bottom up: Organics take control - p161

doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.149

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Subject Categories: Electronic properties and devices | Organic-inorganic nanostructures

Electronic materials: Buckling down for flexible electronics - pp163 - 164

Xianmao Lu & Younan Xia

doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.157

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Subject Categories: Electronic properties and devices | Photonic structures and devices | Structural properties

Nanomaterials: Live-action alloy nanowires - pp164 - 165

Jan van Ruitenbeek

doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.159

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Subject Categories: Carbon nanotubes and fullerenes | Nanomaterials | Structural properties

Nanomedicine: New material stops bleeding in a hurry - pp166 - 167

Jeffrey D. Hartgerink

doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.148

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Subject Category: Nanomedicine

Device physics: Super-semiconducting nanowires - pp167 - 168

Wolfgang Belzig

doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.161

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Subject Category: Electronic properties and devices

Molecular self-assembly: Another brick in the wall - pp169 - 170

Shuguang Zhang

doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.154

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Subject Categories: Molecular self-assembly | Nanomaterials | Surface patterning and imaging

Surface patterning: Fullerenes line up - p170

Ai Lin Chun

doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.160

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Subject Category: Surface patterning and imaging

Nanoelectronics: New life for the 'dead layer' - pp171 - 172

Karin M. Rabe

doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.162

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Subject Categories: Computational nanotechnology | Electronic properties and devices

Electron transport in molecular junctions - pp173 - 181

N. J. Tao

doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.130

Abstract - Electron transport in molecular junctions | Full Text - Electron transport in molecular junctions | PDF (840 KB) - Electron transport in molecular junctions

Subject Category: Electronic properties and devices

Experimental realization of suspended atomic chains composed of different atomic species - pp182 - 185

J. Bettini, F. Sato, P. Z. Coura, S. O. Dantas, D. S. Galvão & D. Ugarte

doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.132

Abstract - Experimental realization of suspended atomic chains composed of different atomic species | Full Text - Experimental realization of suspended atomic chains composed of different atomic species | PDF (389 KB) - Experimental realization of suspended atomic chains composed of different atomic species | Supplementary information

Subject Categories: Computational nanotechnology | Nanomaterials | Structural properties

See also: News and Views by van Ruitenbeek

Epitaxial growth of silicon nanowires using an aluminium catalyst - pp186 - 189

Yewu Wang, Volker Schmidt, Stephan Senz & Ulrich Gösele

doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.133

Abstract - Epitaxial growth of silicon nanowires using an aluminium catalyst | Full Text - Epitaxial growth of silicon nanowires using an aluminium catalyst | PDF (307 KB) - Epitaxial growth of silicon nanowires using an aluminium catalyst

Subject Categories: Nanomaterials | Synthesis and processing

Programmable self-assembly of metal ions inside artificial DNA duplexes - pp190 - 194

Kentaro Tanaka, Guido H. Clever, Yusuke Takezawa, Yasuyuki Yamada, Corinna Kaul, Mitsuhiko Shionoya & Thomas Carell

doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.141

Abstract - Programmable self-assembly of metal ions inside artificial DNA duplexes | Full Text - Programmable self-assembly of metal ions inside artificial DNA duplexes | PDF (1,213 KB) - Programmable self-assembly of metal ions inside artificial DNA duplexes | Supplementary information

Subject Categories: Molecular self-assembly | Nanomaterials | Organic-inorganic nanostructures

Controlled patterning of aligned self-assembled peptide nanotubes - pp195 - 200

Meital Reches & Ehud Gazit

doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.139

Abstract - Controlled patterning of aligned self-assembled peptide nanotubes | Full Text - Controlled patterning of aligned self-assembled peptide nanotubes | PDF (774 KB) - Controlled patterning of aligned self-assembled peptide nanotubes | Supplementary information

Subject Categories: Molecular self-assembly | Nanomaterials | Surface patterning and imaging

See also: News and Views by Zhang

Controlled buckling of semiconductor nanoribbons for stretchable electronics - pp201 - 207

Yugang Sun, Won Mook Choi, Hanqing Jiang, Yonggang Y. Huang & John A. Rogers

doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.131

Abstract - Controlled buckling of semiconductor nanoribbons for stretchable electronics | Full Text - Controlled buckling of semiconductor nanoribbons for stretchable electronics | PDF (888 KB) - Controlled buckling of semiconductor nanoribbons for stretchable electronics | Supplementary information

Subject Categories: Electronic properties and devices | Photonic structures and devices | Structural properties

See also: News and Views by Lu & Xia

Ge/Si nanowire mesoscopic Josephson junctions - pp208 - 213

Jie Xiang, A. Vidan, M. Tinkham, R. M. Westervelt & Charles M. Lieber

doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.140

Abstract - Ge/Si nanowire mesoscopic Josephson junctions | Full Text - Ge/Si nanowire mesoscopic Josephson junctions | PDF (522 KB) - Ge/Si nanowire mesoscopic Josephson junctions | Supplementary information

Subject Category: Electronic properties and devices

See also: News and Views by Belzig

Rapid and label-free nanomechanical detection of biomarker transcripts in human RNA - pp214 - 220

J. Zhang, H. P. Lang, F. Huber, A. Bietsch, W. Grange, U. Certa, R. Mckendry, H.-J. Güntherodt, M. Hegner & Ch. Gerber

doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.134

Abstract - Rapid and label-free nanomechanical detection of biomarker transcripts in human RNA | Full Text - Rapid and label-free nanomechanical detection of biomarker transcripts in human RNA | PDF (439 KB) - Rapid and label-free nanomechanical detection of biomarker transcripts in human RNA

Subject Categories: Nanobiotechnology | Nanosensors and other devices