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    Bond-cleavage and bond-forming reactions can be performed at local positions on a DNA origami scaffold and imaged at the single-molecule level with atomic force microscopy.

    • Niels V. Voigt
    • , Thomas Tørring
    •  & Kurt Vesterager Gothelf

  • Letter |

    A spintronic device in which the input, output and internal states are all represented by spin, and that shows the five essential characteristics necessary for logic applications, is proposed.

    • Behtash Behin-Aein
    • , Deepanjan Datta
    •  & Supriyo Datta

  • Letter |

    Diffraction gratings composed of lipid multilayers can be fabricated by dip-pen nanolithography and used for label-free biosensing.

    • Steven Lenhert
    • , Falko Brinkmann
    •  & Harald Fuchs

  • Article |

    A nanowire transistor with full CMOS functionality has been fabricated without the use of junctions or doping concentration gradients.

    • Jean-Pierre Colinge
    • , Chi-Woo Lee
    •  & Richard Murphy

  • Letter |

    Diamond nanowires can produce single photons ten times more efficiently than bulk diamond, while consuming ten times less power.

    • Thomas M. Babinec
    • , Birgit J. M. Hausmann
    •  & Marko Lončar

  • Letter |

    A continuous semiconducting thin film can be created from a large sheet of graphene, which does not have a bandgap at room temperature, using block copolymer lithography.

    • Jingwei Bai
    • , Xing Zhong
    •  & Xiangfeng Duan

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  • News & Views |

    Placing colloidal spheres in the immediate proximity of fluorescent molecules makes it possible to achieve single-molecule imaging at high temperatures with a low-cost system.

    • Yuval Ebenstein
    •  & Laurent A. Bentolila

  • News & Views |

    An atomic force microscope can reveal a range of subsurface information about a sample through mechanical excitation of both the sample and the tip.

    • Ricardo Garcia

  • Editorial |

    The food industry will only reap the benefits of nanotechnology if issues related to safety are addressed and companies are more open about what they are doing.

  • News & Views |

    The presence of just one dopant atom can dramatically alter the performance of a short-channel transistor, depending on where it is located.

    • Sven Rogge

  • News & Views |

    Could carbon nanotubes of a single chirality be grown from the bottom up using a common organic reaction?

    • Graham J. Bodwell

  • Article |

    Steps in the electrostatic potential at domain walls in a ferroelectric material give rise to a new kind of photovoltaic effect that produces voltages significantly higher than the bandgap of the material.

    • S. Y. Yang
    • , J. Seidel
    •  & R. Ramesh

  • News & Views |

    An optical probe has been developed for the chemical mapping of materials at the nanoscale by combining plasmonics, Raman spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy.

    • Nikolay I. Zheludev

  • Feature |

    Gold has risen from relative obscurity to command a place at the forefront of catalysis research, but when will nanoscale gold catalysts be ready for industrial applications?

    • Owain Vaughan

  • News & Views |

    A new method has been developed for extracting Cooper pairs from a superconductor and splitting them. The next challenge is to show that these unpaired electrons are entangled.

    • Christoph Strunk

  • Editorial |

    Research into superconductivity is now firmly in the nanoscale regime.

  • Thesis |

    Nanoscale objects cannot be seen in the traditional sense, but that should not stop us from thinking about how we visualize the nanoworld, as Chris Toumey reports.

    • Chris Toumey

  • News & Views |

    Using oxide interface engineering, researchers have shown that a single layer of copper and oxygen atoms can support superconductivity in a bilayer structure made from a metal and an insulator.

    • Stefano Gariglio
    • , Marc Gabay
    •  & Jean-Marc Triscone

  • News & Views |

    An assay based on gold nanoparticles could detect recurrences of prostate cancer sooner than is possible with existing techniques.

    • Stephen Hearty
    • , Paul Leonard
    •  & Richard O'Kennedy

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