Featured
-
-
Research Highlights |
Another gate opens
-
Research Highlights |
Two-faced
-
Research Highlights |
Prodigious pores
-
Research Highlights |
Recipe for antibodies
-
Correspondence |
Nanomaterials and regulation of cosmetics
- Diana M Bowman
- , Geert van Calster
- & Steffi Friedrichs
-
News & Views |
Focusing on the objective
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 |
Images from below the surface
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 |
Nanofood for thought
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 |
Single dopants learn their place
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 |
Growth potential
Could carbon nanotubes of a single chirality be grown from the bottom up using a common organic reaction?
- Graham J. Bodwell
-
Research Highlights |
Our choice from the recent literature
-
Commentary |
Reported nanosafety practices in research laboratories worldwide
An online survey shows that most researchers do not use suitable personal and laboratory protection equipment when handling nanomaterials that could become airborne.
- Francisco Balas
- , Manuel Arruebo
- & Jesus Santamaria
-
Letter |
Ultralow nanoscale wear through atom-by-atom attrition in silicon-containing diamond-like carbon
Ultrasharp scanning probe microscope tips made of diamond-like carbon that contains silicon and oxygen demonstrate very high levels of wear resistance.
- Harish Bhaskaran
- , Bernd Gotsmann
- & Kumar Sridharan
-
Letter |
Towards a quantum resistance standard based on epitaxial graphene
The quantum Hall effect has been measured in epitaxial graphene to an accuracy of a few parts per billion, potentially establishing a new quantum resistance standard.
- Alexander Tzalenchuk
- , Samuel Lara-Avila
- & Sergey Kubatkin
-
Article |
Atomic structure of conducting nanofilaments in TiO2 resistive switching memory
Nanoscale filaments with a Magnéli structure are shown to be responsible for resistance switching in thin films of TiO2, and the properties of the filaments are directly observed during the switching process.
- Deok-Hwang Kwon
- , Kyung Min Kim
- & Cheol Seong Hwang
-
Letter |
Engineered biological nanofactories trigger quorum sensing response in targeted bacteria
Biological nanofactories selectively bind to bacteria and produce molecules that trigger a quorum sensing response and facilitate the communication with nearby bacteria, offering a way to generate new antimicrobial treatments.
- Rohan Fernandes
- , Varnika Roy
- & William E. Bentley
-
Article |
Above-bandgap voltages from ferroelectric photovoltaic devices
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 |
A 7-nm light pen makes its mark
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 |
A golden opportunity
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 |
Towards entangled electrons
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 |
Resistance is futile
Research into superconductivity is now firmly in the nanoscale regime.
-
Thesis |
Images and icons
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 |
Superconductivity on the other side
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 |
Barcodes check out prostate cancer
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
-
Research Highlights |
Our choice from the recent literature
High-speed atomic force microscopy shows dynamic molecular processes in photoactivated bacteriorhodopsin
Nanotechnology in fertilizers
Graphene helps fuel burn faster