Nanoscale materials articles within Nature Chemistry

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• News & Views | 01 January 2010

  Radical attraction of like charges

  Although it may seem counter-intuitive, the attraction between positively charged radical ions offers a new approach to driving controlled motion in molecular machines.

  • Harry L. Anderson

• News & Views | 01 January 2010

  Producing 'perfect' particles

  Synthetic procedures for making nanoparticles often result in samples that contain a range of different particle sizes. By using hollow self-assembled metal–organic spheres as templates, however, it is possible to make silica nanoparticles with uniform shapes and sizes in a precisely controlled fashion.

  • Boris Breiner
  •  & Jonathan R. Nitschke