Organic–inorganic nanostructures articles within Nature Physics

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• News & Views | 04 January 2021

  The mother of all techniques

  Iridescent mother of pearl sports a complex structure that eludes standard imaging techniques. Now, a nanotomographic method provides high resolution 3D insight into the topological defects underpinning this composite material.

  • Rebecca A. Metzler

• News & Views | 03 June 2013

  Graphene gets molecules into order

  Small metal-free organic molecules on an epitaxial graphene monolayer are shown to receive a local magnetic moment from the substrate. This magnetic moment survives when many molecules combine to form a layer, with some indication of long-range ferromagnetic order.

  • Friedrich Reinert