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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

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One-step formation of responsive “dumbbell” nanoparticle dimers via quasi-two-dimensional polymer single crystals
Tian Zhou, Bin Dong, Hao Qi, Hang Kuen Lau and Christopher Y. Li
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00501E, Communication

Strain engineering of selective chemical adsorption on monolayer MoS2
Liangzhi Kou, Aijun Du, Changfeng Chen and Thomas Frauenheim
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06670C, Paper

Carbon dioxide conversion into hydrocarbon fuels on defective graphene-supported Cu nanoparticles from first principles
Dong-Hee Lim, Jun Ho Jo, Dong Yun Shin, Jennifer Wilcox, Hyung Chul Ham and Suk Woo Nam
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06539A, Communication

Chirality effects at each amino acid position on tripeptide self-assembly into hydrogel biomaterials
S. Marchesan, C. D. Easton, K. E. Styan, L. J. Waddington, F. Kushkaki, L. Goodall, K. M. McLean, J. S. Forsythe and P. G. Hartley
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06752A, Paper

Point-of-care detection and real-time monitoring of intravenously delivered drugs via tubing with an integrated SERS sensor
Hsin-Yu Wu and Brian T. Cunningham
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00027G, Paper

Highly efficient and recyclable triple-shelled Ag@Fe3O4@SiO2@TiO2 photocatalysts for degradation of organic pollutants and reduction of hexavalent chromium ions
Jianwei Su, Yunxia Zhang, Sichao Xu, Shuan Wang, Hualin Ding, Shusheng Pan, Guozhong Wang, Guanghai Li and Huijun Zhao
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00534A, Paper

Nanowire array chips for molecular typing of rare trafficking leukocytes with application to neurodegenerative pathology
Minsuk Kwak, Dong-Joo Kim, Mi-Ri Lee, Yu Wu, Lin Han, Sang-Kwon Lee and Rong Fan
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06465D, Paper

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Room-temperature self-powered ethanol sensing of a Pd/ZnO nanoarray nanogenerator driven by human finger movement
Yujie Lin, Ping Deng, Yuxin Nie, Yuefeng Hu, Lili Xing, Yan Zhang and Xinyu Xue
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06809A, Paper

A Mo nanoscrew formed by crystalline Mo grains with high conductivity and excellent field emission properties
Yan Shen, Ningsheng Xu, Shaozhi Deng, Yu Zhang, Fei Liu and Jun Chen
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06811K, Paper

DNA induced intense plasmonic circular dichroism of highly purified gold nanobipyramids
Wenjing Liu, Di Liu, Zhening Zhu, Bing Han, Yan Gao and Zhiyong Tang
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00166D, Communication

Nanostructures on graphene using supramolecule and supramolecular nanocomposites
Peter Bai, Joseph Kao, Jian-Hao Chen, William Mickelson, Alex Zettl and Ting Xu
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00420E, Communication

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Temperature-induced transitions of self-assembled phthalocyanine molecular nanoarrays at the solid–liquid interface: from randomness to order
Fangyun Hu, Yunnan Gong, Xuemei Zhang, Jindong Xue, Bo Liu, Tongbu Lu, Ke Deng, Wubiao Duan, Qingdao Zeng and Chen Wang
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06320H, Paper

Layering transition in confined silicon
Yezeng He, Xiongying Li, Hui Li, Yanyan Jiang and Xiufang Bian
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06174D, Paper

Self-constructed tree-shape high thermal conductivity nanosilver networks in epoxy
Kamyar Pashayi, Hafez Raeisi Fard, Fengyuan Lai, Sushumna Iruvanti, Joel Plawsky and Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06494H, Paper

What are grain boundary structures in graphene?
Zheng-Lu Li, Zhi-Ming Li, Hai-Yuan Cao, Ji-Hui Yang, Qiang Shu, Yue-Yu Zhang, H. J. Xiang and X. G. Gong
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06823D, Paper