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Template Electrosynthesis of Tailored-Made Helical Nanoswimmers
Jinxing Li, Sirilak Sattayasamitsathit, Renfeng Dong, Wei Gao, Ryan Tam, Xiaomiao Feng, Stephen Ai and Joseph Wang
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR04760A, Communication

Instantly switchable adhesion of bridged fibrillar adhesive via gecko-inspired detachment mechanism and its application to a transportation system
Won-Gyu Bae, Doogon Kim and Kahp-Yang Suh
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR02008H, Paper

Parallel array of nanochannels grafted with polymer brushes stabilized Au nanoparticles for flow–through catalysis
Jianxi Liu, Shuanhong Ma, Qiangbing Wei, Lei Jia, Bo Yu, Daoai Wang and Feng Zhou
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03901C, Paper

Strain Sensors Based on Chromium Nanoparticle Arrays
Mengyang Zheng, Wenyang Li, Mengjiao Xu, Ning Xu, Peng Chen, Min Han and Bo Xie
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR04135B, Paper

The fast filling of nano-SnO2 in CNTs by vacuum absorption: a new approach to realize cyclic durable anodes for lithium ion batteries
Renzong Hu, Wei Sun, Hui Liu, Meiqin Zeng and Min Zhu
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03756H, Paper

Enhanced Photoresponse in Curled Graphene Ribbons
Zeynab Jarrahi, Yunhao Cao, Tu Hong, Yevgeniy S. Puzyrev, Bin Wang, Junhao Lin, Alex H. Huffstutter, Sokrates T. Pantelides and Ya-Qiong Xu
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03988A, Paper

Nearly Monodisperse Graphene Quantum Dots Fabricated by amine-assisted Cutting and Ultrafiltration
Qi Xue, He Huang, Liang Wang, Zhiwen Chen, Minghong Wu, Zhen Li and Dengyu Pan
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03623E, Communication

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A ZnO nanowire-based photo-inverter with pulse-induced fast recovery
Syed Raza Ali Raza, Young Tack Lee, Seyed Hossein Hosseini Shokouh, Ryong Ha, Heon-Jin Choi and Seongil Im

Photocatalysts with internal electric fields
Li Li, Paul A. Salvador and Gregory S. Rohrer

Intravenous hemostats: challenges in translation to patients
Margaret Lashof-Sullivan, Andrew Shoffstall and Erin Lavik

Exploiting shape effects of La2O3 nanocatalysts for oxidative coupling of methane reaction
Ping Huang, Yonghui Zhao, Jun Zhang, Yan Zhu and Yuhan Sun

Nanoparticle accumulation and transcytosis in brain endothelial cell layers
Dong Ye, Michelle Nic Raghnaill, Mattia Bramini, Eugene Mahon, Christoffer Åberg, Anna Salvati and Kenneth A. Dawson

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Fabrication and characterization of Ag film with sub-nanometer surface roughness as a flexible cathode for inverted top-emitting organic light-emitting devices
Yue-Feng Liu, Jing Feng, Hai-Feng Cui, Yi-Fan Zhang, Da Yin, Yan-Gang Bi, Jun-Feng Song, Qi-Dai Chen and Hong-Bo Sun  

Synthesis of graphene-supported noble metal hybrid nanostructures and their applications as advanced electrocatalysts for fuel cells
Chengzhou Zhu and Shaojun Dong  

Nanogap based graphene coated AFM tips with high spatial resolution, conductivity and durability
Mario Lanza, Teng Gao, Zixuan Yin, Yanfeng Zhang, Zhongfan Liu, Yuzhen Tong, Ziyong Shen and Huiling Duan  

Self-organizing properties of triethylsilylethynyl-anthradithiophene on monolayer graphene electrodes in solution-processed transistors
Jaeyoung Jang, Jaesung Park, Sooji Nam, John E. Anthony, Youngsoo Kim, Keun Soo Kim, Kwang S. Kim, Byung Hee Hong and Chan Eon Park  

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Lattice dynamics in mono- and few-layer sheets of WS2 and WSe2
Weijie Zhao, Zohreh Ghorannevis, Kiran Kumar Amara, Jing Ren Pang, Minglin Toh, Xin Zhang, Christian Kloc, Ping Heng Tan and Goki Eda  
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03052K, Paper

One-pot synthesis of hematite@graphene core@shell nanostructures for superior lithium storage
Dezhi Chen, Hongying Quan, Junfei Liang and Lin Guo  
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03484D, Paper

Carbon doping of InSb nanowires for high-performance p-channel field-effect-transistors
Zai-xing Yang, Ning Han, Fengyun Wang, Ho-Yuen Cheung, Xiaoling Shi, SenPo Yip, TakFu Hung, Min Hyung Lee, Chun-Yuen Wong and Johnny C. Ho  
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03080F, Paper

Assessing the relevance of building block crystallinity for tuning the stiffness of gold nanocrystal superlattices
Cong Yan, Hervé Portalès, Nicolas Goubet, Imad Arfaoui, Sergey Sirotkin, Alain Mermet and Marie-Paule Pileni  
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03335J, Communication

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A persistent metal–insulator transition at the surface of an oxygen-deficient, epitaxial manganite film
Paul C. Snijders, Min Gao, Hangwen Guo, Guixin Cao, Wolter Siemons, Hongjun Gao, Thomas Z. Ward, Jian Shen and Zheng Gai  
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR02343E, Paper

Hollow flower micelles from a diblock copolymer
Mohammad Changez, Nam-Goo Kang, Dong Woo Kim and Jae-Suk Lee  
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03063F, Communication

High-performance top-gated monolayer SnS2 field-effect transistors and their integrated logic circuits
H. S. Song, S. L. Li, L. Gao, Y. Xu, K. Ueno, J. Tang, Y. B. Cheng and K. Tsukagoshi   
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR01899G, Paper

Nanophasic biodegradation enhances the durability and biocompatibility of magnesium alloys for the next-generation vascular stents
Lin Mao, Li Shen, Jialin Niu, Jian Zhang, Wenjiang Ding, Yu Wu, Rong Fan and Guangyin Yuan  
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR02912C, Communication

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Efficient bubble propulsion of polymer-based microengines in real-life environments
Wei Gao, Sirilak Sattayasamitsathit, Jahir Orozco and Joseph Wang 
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03254J

The influence of applied magnetic fields on the optical properties of zero- and one-dimensional CdSe nanocrystals
Daniel E. Blumling, Stephen McGill and Kenneth L. Knappenberger  
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03252C

Intrinsic electronic and transport properties of graphyne sheets and nanoribbons
Wenzhi Wu, Wanlin Guo and Xiao Cheng Zeng  
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03167E