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Volume 2 Issue 11, November 2007

Improved stability for self-assembly.

Cover design by Karen Moore.

Letter by Grill et al.

News & Views by Champness

Volume 2 Issue 11

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Editorial

  • From the provision of clean drinking water to the early detection of disease, nanotechnology has the potential to make a real impact in the fight against global poverty.

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Commentary

  • Access to 'potable' water would transform the lives of many people in the developing world. Nanotechnology is already being used to remove contaminants from drinking water and increase the availability of fresh water, but there is still a long way to go.

    • Thembela Hillie
    • Mbhuti Hlophe
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Thesis

  • Many economies in the developing world rely heavily on the export of minerals. Richard Jones discusses what the development of new nanomaterials will mean for such countries.

    • Richard Jones
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News & Views

  • Linking individual molecular building blocks with covalent bonds leads to new surface-based nanostructures, which could open up new possibilities for molecular electronics.

    • Neil R. Champness
    News & Views

  • A computational study shows how a precise arrangement of charges on the surface of a nanotube can push water molecules in single file from one end to the other.

    • Bruce Hinds
    News & Views

  • Two groups have used scanning tunnelling microscopes to explore the behaviour of magnetic materials in exquisite detail with a view to developing new approaches to data storage.

    • Harald Brune
    News & Views

  • Theoretical physicists have predicted that ultrashort laser pulses can be used to drive electrical currents through single molecules, and also to stop currents in molecular junctions.

    • Sigmund Kohler
    • Peter Hänggi
    News & Views

  • It is possible to make a molecule act as a switch by using a scanning tunnelling microscope to change the position of just two hydrogen atoms.

    • N. J. Tao
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