Top 10 most-read Nanoscale articles in April

This month sees the following articles in Nanoscale that are in the top ten most accessed for April:

Recent advances in solar cells based on one-dimensional nanostructure arrays 
Miao Yu, Yun-Ze Long, Bin Sun and Zhiyong Fan  
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 2783-2796 
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30437F  

3D branched nanowire heterojunction photoelectrodes for high-efficiency solar water splitting and H2 generation 
Ke Sun, Yi Jing, Chun Li, Xiaofeng Zhang, Ryan Aguinaldo, Alireza Kargar, Kristian Madsen, Khaleda Banu, Yuchun Zhou, Yoshio Bando, Zhaowei Liu and Deli Wang  
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 1515-1521 
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR11952H  

Nanostructured metal oxide-based materials as advanced anodes for lithium-ion batteries 
Hao Bin Wu, Jun Song Chen, Huey Hoon Hng and Xiong Wen (David) Lou  
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 2526-2542 
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR11966H  

Unique photocatalytic oxidation reactivity and selectivity of TiO2–graphene nanocomposites 
Shengwei Liu, Chan Liu, Wenguang Wang, Bei Cheng and Jiaguo Yu  
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 3193-3200 
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30427A  

Recent progress on metal core@semiconductor shell nanocomposites as a promising type of photocatalyst 
Nan Zhang, Siqi Liu and Yi-Jun Xu  
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 2227-2238 
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR00009A  

Graphene edges: a review of their fabrication and characterization 
Xiaoting Jia, Jessica Campos-Delgado, Mauricio Terrones, Vincent Meunier and Mildred S. Dresselhaus 
Nanoscale, 2011, 3, 86-95 
DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00600A  

Impacts of core–shell structures on properties of lanthanide-based nanocrystals: crystal phase, lattice strain, downconversion, upconversion and energy transfer 
Arik Kar and Amitava Patra  
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 3608-3619 
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30389B  

Large-scale parallel arrays of silicon nanowires via block copolymer directed self-assembly 
Richard A. Farrell, Niall T. Kinahan, Stefan Hansel, Karl O. Stuen, Nikolay Petkov, Matthew T. Shaw, Laetitia E. West, Vladimir Djara, Robert J. Dunne, Olga G. Varona, Peter G. Gleeson, Soon-Jung Jung, Hye-Young Kim, Maria M. Koleśnik, Tarek Lutz, Christopher P. Murray, Justin D. Holmes, Paul F. Nealey, Georg S. Duesberg, Vojislav Krstić and Michael A. Morris 
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 3228-3236 
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR00018K  

Gold nanoparticles: preparation, properties, and applications in bionanotechnology 
Yi-Cheun Yeh,  Brian Creran and Vincent M. Rotello  
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 1871-1880 
DOI: 10.1039/C1NR11188D  

A simple method for the preparation of hollow ZnO nanospheres for use as a high performance photocatalyst 
Chengquan Zhu, Bingan Lu, Qing Su, Erqing Xie and Wei Lan  
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 3060-3064 
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR12010K

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