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Metalization of Li2S particle surfaces in Li–S batteries
Yan-Xin Chen and Payam Kaghazchi
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR03428G, Communication

Metallic nanowire networks: effects of thermal annealing on electrical resistance
D. P. Langley, M. Lagrange, G. Giusti, C. Jiménez, Y. Bréchet, N. D. Nguyen and D. Bellet
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR04151H, Paper

Thermal conductivity of twisted bilayer graphene
Hongyang Li, Hao Ying, Xiangping Chen, Denis L. Nika, Alexandr I. Cocemasov, Weiwei Cai, Alexander A. Balandin and Shanshan Chen
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR04455J, Communication

NiP2 nanosheet arrays supported on carbon cloth: an efficient 3D hydrogen evolution cathode in both acidic and alkaline solutions
Ping Jiang, Qian Liu and Xuping Sun
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR04866K, Communication

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Where is the required lattice match in horizontal growth of nanowires?
Babak Nikoobakht and Andrew Herzing
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR04537H, Paper

Scalable high-mobility MoS2 thin films fabricated by an atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition process at ambient temperature
Chung-Che Huang, Feras Al-Saab, Yudong Wang, Jun-Yu Ou, John C. Walker, Shuncai Wang, Behrad Gholipour, Robert E.
Simpson and Daniel W. Hewak
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR04228J, Paper

300 mm Wafer-level, ultra-dense arrays of Au-capped nanopillars with sub-10 nm gaps as reliable SERS substrates
Jiaqi Li, Chang Chen, Hilde Jans, Xiumei Xu, Niels Verellen, Ingrid Vos, Yasuaki Okumura, Victor V. Moshchalkov, Liesbet Lagae and Pol Van Dorpe
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR04315D, Communication

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A stretchable strain sensor based on a metal nanoparticle thin film for human motion detection
Jaehwan Lee, Sanghyeok Kim, Jinjae Lee, Daejong Yang, Byong Chon Park, Seunghwa Ryu and Inkyu Park
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR03295K, Paper

The search for the most stable structures of silicon–carbon monolayer compounds
Pengfei Li, Rulong Zhou and Xiao Cheng Zeng
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR03247K, Communication

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Thiolate-protected Ni39 and Ni41 nanoclusters: synthesis, self-assembly and magnetic properties
Jianwei Ji, Guan Wang, Tianwei Wang, Xiaozeng You and Xiangxing Xu
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01063A, Paper

Microscopic mechanisms of vertical graphene and carbon nanotube cap nucleation from hydrocarbon growth precursors
Umedjon Khalilov, Annemie Bogaerts and Erik C. Neyts
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00669K, Paper

Length scale of Leidenfrost ratchet switches droplet directionality
Rebecca L. Agapov, Jonathan B. Boreyko, Dayrl P. Briggs, Bernadeta R. Srijanto, Scott T. Retterer, C. Patrick Collier and Nickolay V. Lavrik
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR02362E, Paper

B38: an all-boron fullerene analogue
Jian Lv, Yanchao Wang, Li Zhu and Yanming Ma
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01846J, Communication

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Fabrication of sub-20 nm nanopore arrays in membranes with embedded metal electrodes at wafer scales
Jingwei Bai, Deqiang Wang, Sung-wook Nam, Hongbo Peng, Robert Bruce, Lynn Gignac, Markus Brink, Ernst Kratschmer, Stephen Rossnagel, Phil Waggoner, Kathleen Reuter, Chao Wang, Yann Astier, Venkat Balagurusamy, Binquan Luan, Young Kwark, Eric Joseph, Mike Guillorn, Stanislav Polonsky, Ajay Royyuru, S. Papa Rao and Gustavo Stolovitzky
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06723H, Paper

Polarized photocurrent response in black phosphorus field-effect transistors
Tu Hong, Bhim Chamlagain, Wenzhi Lin, Hsun-Jen Chuang, Minghu Pan, Zhixian Zhou and Ya-Qiong Xu
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR02164A, Paper

Highly efficient and low voltage silver nanowire-based OLEDs employing a n-type hole injection layer
Hyungjin Lee, Donghwa Lee, Yumi Ahn, Eun-Woo Lee, Lee Soon Park and Youngu Lee
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01768D, Communication

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Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles electrostatically coupled with photosensitizers for near-infrared-triggered photodynamic therapy
Meng Wang, Zhuo Chen, Wei Zheng, Haomiao Zhu, Shan Lu, En Ma, Datao Tu, Shanyong Zhou, Mingdong Huang and Xueyuan Chen
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01826E, Paper

Current transport in graphene/AlGaN/GaN vertical heterostructures probed at nanoscale
Gabriele Fisichella, Giuseppe Greco, Fabrizio Roccaforte and Filippo Giannazzo
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01150C, Paper

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3-Dimensional atomic scale structure of the ionic liquid–graphite interface elucidated by AM-AFM and quantum chemical simulations
Alister J. Page, Aaron Elbourne, Ryan Stefanovic, Matthew A. Addicoat, Gregory G. Warr, Kislon Voïtchovsky and Rob Atkin
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01219D, Paper

An electrospun nanowire-based triboelectric nanogenerator and its application in a fully self-powered UV detector
Youbin Zheng, Li Cheng, Miaomiao Yuan, Zhe Wang, Lu Zhang, Yong Qin and Tao Jing
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01934B, Communication

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Facile synthesis of intense green light emitting LiGdF4:Yb,Er-based upconversion bipyramidal nanocrystals and their polymer composites
Hyejin Na, Jong Seok Jeong, Hye Jung Chang, Hyun You Kim, Kyoungja Woo, Kipil Lim, K. Andre Mkhoyan and Ho Seong Jang
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00857J, Paper

Can small hydrophobic gold nanoparticles inhibit β2-microglobulin fibrillation?
Giorgia Brancolini, Dimitrios Toroz and Stefano Corni
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01514B, Paper

Directional and enhanced spontaneous emission with a corrugated metal probe
Hongming Shen, Guowei Lu, Yingbo He, Yuqing Cheng, Haitao Liu and Qihuang Gong
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01037J, Paper

A mechanical and electrical transistor structure (METS) with a sub-2 nm nanogap for effective voltage scaling
Byung-Hyun Lee, Dong-Il Moon, HyunJae Jang, Chang-Hoon Kim, Myeong-Lok Seol, Ji-Min Choi, Dong-Il Lee, Min-Wu Kim, Jun-Bo Yoon and Yang-Kyu Choi
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06251A, Communication

Asymmetrically-gated graphene self-switching diodes as negative differential resistance devices
Feras Al-Dirini, Faruque M. Hossain, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas and Efstratios Skafidas
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00112E, Paper

Phase transition of a perovskite strongly coupled to the vacuum field
Shaojun Wang, Arkadiusz Mika, James A. Hutchison, Cyriaque Genet, Abdelaziz Jouaiti, Mir Wais Hosseini and Thomas W. Ebbesen
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01971G, Communication

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Emerging double helical nanostructures
Meng-Qiang Zhao, Qiang Zhang, Gui-Li Tian and Fei Wei
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00271G, Review Article

Fragmentation and exfoliation of 2-dimensional materials: a statistical approach
Konstantinos Kouroupis-Agalou, Andrea Liscio, Emanuele Treossi, Luca Ortolani, Vittorio Morandi, Nicola Maria Pugno and Vincenzo Palermo
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06919B, Paper

Multi-level control of conductive nano-filament evolution in HfO2 ReRAM by pulse-train operations
L. Zhao, H.-Y. Chen, S.-C. Wu, Z. Jiang, S. Yu, T.-H. Hou, H.-S. Philip Wong and Y. Nishi
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00500G, Communication

Solution-processed copper–nickel nanowire anodes for organic solar cells
Ian E. Stewart, Aaron R. Rathmell, Liang Yan, Shengrong Ye, Patrick F. Flowers, Wei You and Benjamin J. Wiley
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01024H, Paper

Twin-driven thermoelectric figure-of-merit enhancement of Bi2Te3 nanowires
Ho Sun Shin, Seong Gi Jeon, Jin Yu, Yong-Sung Kim, Hyun Min Park and Jae Yong Song
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00191E, Paper

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Incorporation of a self-aligned selective emitter to realize highly efficient (12.8%) Si nanowire solar cells
Han-Don Um, Kwang-Tae Park, Jin-Young Jung, Xiaopeng Li, Keya Zhou, Sang-Won Jee and Jung-Ho Lee
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00455H, Paper

Plasmonic Fano resonances in metallic nanorod complexes
Zhong-Jian Yang, Zhong-Hua Hao, Hai-Qing Lin and Qu-Quan Wang
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06502B, Feature Article

Porous CuCo2O4 nanocubes wrapped by reduced graphene oxide as high-performance lithium-ion battery anodes
Wenpei Kang, Yongbing Tang, Wenyue Li, Zhangpeng Li, Xia Yang, Jun Xu and Chun-Sing Lee
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00446A, Paper

Engineering electronic properties of layered transition-metal dichalcogenide compounds through alloying
Alex Kutana, Evgeni S. Penev and Boris I. Yakobson
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00177J, Paper

One-pot synthesis of ultralong coaxial Au@Pt nanocables with numerous highly catalytically active perpendicular twinning boundaries and Au@Pt core–shell bead structures
Jisun Yoon, Hionsuck Baik, Sangmin Lee, Seong Jung Kwon and Kwangyeol Lee
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00551A, Communication

High-speed scanning thermal lithography for nanostructuring of electronic devices
Joseph E. Shaw, Paul N. Stavrinou and Thomas D. Anthopoulos
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00209A, Paper