This month’s issue includes a collection of articles on the theme surface nanotechnology for biological applications
This themed issue is Guest Edited by Professor Marcus Textor, Professor Darrell Irvine and Professor Xingyu Jiang. It includes a Review by Antonio Nanci et al. on Nanoscale surface modifications of medically relevant metals: state-of-the art and perspectives and a Communication by Molly Stevens, Kinetic investigation of bioresponsive nanoparticle assembly as a function of ligand design, as well as much, much more!
Cover image
The cover image highlights the paper by Nicholas Melosh and colleagues and shows that the stability of nanoscale hydrophobic bands inside the hydrophobic core of lipid membranes depends on their relative size.
Nanoscale patterning controls inorganic–membrane interface structure
Benjamin D. Almquist, Piyush Verma, Wei Cai and Nicholas A. Melosh
Nanoscale, 2011, 3, 391-400
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