Volume 5

  • No. 12 December 2006

    Polythiophene (centre) is melted into a polyethylene film, increasing the spherulite size on recrystallisation.

    Cover design by David Shand

    Letter by Shalom Goffri et al.

  • No. 11 November 2006

    The silk feedstocks produced by silkworms and spiders have remarkably similar rheology.

    Cover design by David Shand

    Letter by C. Holland et al.

  • No. 10 October 2006

    Large-scale simulations successfully model the different stages of shocked metals

    Cover design by Karen Moore

    Article by E. M. Bringa et al.

  • No. 9 September 2006

    Zeolite particles with porous hierarchical structure are synthesized via hydrothermal crystallization

    Cover design by Karen Moore

    Letter by Minkee Choi et al.

  • No. 8 August 2006

    Theory and experiment elucidate the complexity of dendritic crystal growth

    Cover design by Karen Moore

    Article by Haxhimali et al.

  • No. 7 July 2006

    Measurements of large-scale optical fields

    Cover design by Karen Moore

    Letter by Abouraddy et al.

  • No. 6 June 2006

    A 16 cm2 polmyer-ZrO2 film of nanoscale thickness passing through a hole 320 µm wide

    Cover design by Karen Moore

    Article by Vendamme et al.

  • No. 5 May 2006

    Nanowire junctions as avalanche photodiodes

    Cover design by Karen Moore

    Letter by Hayden et al.

  • No. 4 April 2006

    A polarized optical micrograph of a hexagonal zine chloride crystal

    Cover design by Karen Moore

    Letter by Martin et al.

  • No. 3 March 2006

    Elastic photonic crystals

    Cover design by Karen Moore

    Letter by Arsenault et al.

  • No. 2 February 2006

    Supercollimation in photonic crystals is achieved on a centimetre scale

    Cover design by Karen Moore

    Letter by Rakich et al.

  • No. 1 January 2006

    A highly conformable elastomer holds an array of ultrathin silicon beams

    Cover design by Karen Moore

    Letter by Meitl et al.