Volume 12 Issue 1, January 2017

Electron motion in a type-II InSe/GaAs semiconductor heterostructure has been recorded in a movie immediately after photoexcitation with high spatial and temporal resolution

Broadband nitrogen–vacancy centre magnetometry demonstrates how commercial hard-disk write heads may become useful experimental tools for nanoscale applications involving magnetism and magnetic resonance.

This Review discusses the technical challenges and performance metrics to integrate micro-supercapacitors into miniaturized electronic devices.

Nuclear spins in gallium arsenide produce noise at discrete frequencies, which can be notch-filtered efficiently to extend coherence times of electron spin qubits to nearly 1 ms.

Investigation of the electronic structure in few-layer phosphorene reveals optical transitions relevant for technologically important electronic and optoelectronic applications.

Two electron spins occupying the outer dots in a linear array of three quantum dots experience a coherent superexchange interaction through the empty middle dot that acts as a quantum mediator.

Near-field photocurrent nanoscopy is used for imaging strongly confined terahertz graphene plasmons with linear dispersion.

The flow of photoexcited electrons in a type-II heterostructure can be imaged with energy, spatial and temporal resolution.

DNA-grafted gold nanoparticles can self-assemble into shape-changing films that are powered by DNA strand exchange reactions and have two different domains that can be independently addressed using distinct chemical signals.

6’-Sialyllactose conjugated to polyamidoamine dendrimers at a well-defined valency and spacing can circumvent drug resistance and inhibit influenza A viruses.

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.

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 precise characterization of magnetic fields with a bandwidth of up to 3 GHz and localized on a nanometric scale is achieved by means of the coherent control of single electron and nuclear spins.

Gold nanorods can be placed with nanometric control of position, orientation and interparticle distance over centimetre-scale areas.

Pair correlation microscopy is used to show that the shape of a nanoparticle can affect the way it crosses various barriers inside a cell, and this ultimately determines the site at which the nanoparticle releases its drug payload.

Ilse Marschalek and Margit Hofer reflect on the outcome of their international NanOpinion project, focusing on raising public awareness about nanotechnology.