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The zeptolitre sensing volume of bilayer-coated solid-state nanopores can be used to determine the approximate shape, volume, charge, rotational diffusion coefficient, and dipole moment of individual proteins.
Dendritic spine voltages are recorded directly using quantum-dot-coated nanopipette electrodes under two-photon visualization, demonstrating that spines receive large synaptic potentials.
A vibrational spectroscopy technique is used to study vapour, liquid and solid water within isolated carbon nanotubes and reveals phase transitions that show an extreme sensitivity to nanotube diameter, with melting temperatures higher than 100 °C for 1.05 and 1.06 nm diameter nanotubes and below 0 °C for 1.24 and 1.44 nm diameter nanotubes.
The phenotypes of circulating tumour cells are profiled in whole blood by exploiting a microfluidic chip based on magnetic nanoparticles, leading to single-cell resolution.
Streptavidin crystals grown on mica-supported lipid bilayers can be used as a platform to tune the lateral mobility of transmembrane proteins, allowing the conformation or docking of spatially confined proteins to be imaged with high-speed atomic force microscopy.
The fabrication of high-quality WSe2 monolayers makes it possible to access the fully valley- and spin-polarized structure of Landau levels theoretically predicted for transition metal dichalcogenides.
An atomic force microscope and confocal microscope set-up that allows nanomechanical mapping of virus binding under cell culture conditions shows that the first binding steps of a virus to a cell surface receptor are specific and weak, but affinity increases as more bonds are formed between the virus and cell surface receptors.
A numerical technique that can self-adapt to experimental limitations can guide the design of photonic nanostructures by optimizing multiple parameters.
A Janus photocatalytic structure can orient and move either towards or away from an external light source, mimicking the behaviour of phototactic microorganisms.
The vectorial force fields of singly clamped nanowires are imaged by measuring the pertubation of the spectral and geometrical properties of the thermal noise of the nanowires.
A single electron spin in silicon is dressed by a microwave field to create a new qubit with tangible advantages for quantum computation and nanoscale research.
The ferromagnetic transition in magnetic nanoparticles embedded in magnetic nanocomposite thermoelectric materials is attributed to the trapping and release of electrons, which increases the performance of the thermoelectric materials.
Searchable dynamic peptide libraries, which are based on the sequence exchange of unprotected peptides under user-defined conditions, can be used to discover self-assembled peptide nanostructures.