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This week’s HOT articles

25 Jun 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

Take a look at this week’s selection! These articles are available free for a limited time:

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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This week’s HOT articles

19 Jun 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

Take a look at this week’s selection! These articles are available free for a limited time:

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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Nanoscale Issue 13 of 2014 out now!

17 Jun 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

Nanoscale is delighted to present its current issue.

Self-template construction of hollow Co3O4 microspheres from porous ultrathin nanosheets and efficient noble metal-free water oxidation catalysts is the article highlighted on the outside front cover by Jun Zhao, Yongcun Zou, Xiaoxin Zou, Tianyu Bai, Yipu Liu, Ruiqin Gao, Dejun Wang and Guo-Dong Li.

The inside front cover features an article on Catalytic nanomotors for environmental monitoring and water remediation by Lluís Soler and Samuel Sánchez.

Issue 13 contains the following Review, Minireview and Feature articles:

Functionalization of protein-based nanocages for drug delivery applications
Lise Schoonen and Jan C. M. van Hest

Towards highly efficient photoanodes: boosting sunlight-driven semiconductor nanomaterials for water oxidation
Jiayong Gan, Xihong Lu and Yexiang Tong

Catalytic nanomotors for environmental monitoring and water remediation
Lluís Soler and Samuel Sánchez

Nanostructuring with chirality: binaphthyl-based synthons for the production of functional oriented nanomaterials
Marco Caricato, Arvind K. Sharma, Carmine Coluccini and Dario Pasini

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This week’s HOT articles

09 Jun 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

Take a look at this week’s selection! These articles are available free for a limited time:

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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Nanoscale Issue 12 of 2014 out now!

06 Jun 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

Nanoscale is delighted to present its current issue.

Towards waste free organic synthesis using nanostructured hybrid silicas is the article highlighted on the outside front cover by Rosaria Ciriminna, Laura M. Ilharco, Valerica Pandarus, Alexandra Fidalgo, François Béland and Mario Pagliaro.

The inside front cover features an article on Nanowire array chips for molecular typing of rare trafficking leukocytes with application to neurodegenerative pathology by Minsuk Kwak, Dong-Joo Kim, Mi-Ri Lee, Yu Wu, Lin Han, Sang-Kwon Lee and Rong Fan.

Issue 12 contains the following Review and Feature articles:

Increasing the activity and enantioselectivity of lipases by sol–gel immobilization: further advancements of practical interest
Patrick Tielmann, Hans Kierkels, Albin Zonta, Adriana Ilie and Manfred T. Reetz

Precursor directed synthesis – “molecular” mechanisms in the Soft Chemistry approaches and their use for template-free synthesis of metal, metal oxide and metal chalcogenide nanoparticles and nanostructures
Gulaim A. Seisenbaeva and Vadim G. Kessler

Integrated graphene/nanoparticle hybrids for biological and electronic applications
Kim Truc Nguyen and Yanli Zhao

Hybrid materials science: a promised land for the integrative design of multifunctional materials
Lionel Nicole, Christel Laberty-Robert, Laurence Rozes and Clément Sanchez

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This week’s HOT articles

12 May 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

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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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ICMAT2013 Article Collection

01 May 2014

By Katie Bayliss, Development Editor.

We are pleased to introduce the following collection of articles marking the 7th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT2013). Guest Edited by Professor Hua Zhang (Nanyang Technical University), this collection highlights some of the high quality research presented at the conference, which took place last year on 30th June-5th July in Singapore. The ICMAT meeting is a biennial event organised by the Materials Research Society of Singapore and attracts over 2000 delegates from all over the world.

The ICMAT2013 collection includes a Mini-review, a Communication article, and two full papers. We hope you enjoy reading them.

Tailoring the self-assembled structures and photonic properties of organic nanomaterials

Wei Yao and Yong Sheng Zhao

Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 3467-3473 DOI: 10.1039/C3NR04654K

MoS2 nanoflower-decorated reduced graphene oxide paper for high-performance hydrogen evolution reaction

Chong-Bo Ma, Xiaoying Qi, Bo Chen, Shuyu Bao, Zongyou Yin, Xue-Jun Wu, Zhimin Luo, Jun Wei, Hao-Li Zhang and Hua Zhang

Nanoscale, 2014, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C3NR04975B

Light extraction enhancement with radiation pattern shaping of LEDs by waveguiding nanorods with impedance-matching tips

Yu-Hsuan Hsiao, Cheng-Ying Chen, Li-Chuan Huang, Guan-Jhong Lin, Der-Hsien Lien, Jian-Jang Huang and Jr-Hau He

Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 2624-2628 DOI: 10.1039/C3NR05226E

General synthesis of noble metal (Au, Ag, Pd, Pt) nanocrystal modified MoS2 nanosheets and the enhanced catalytic activity of Pd–MoS2 for methanol oxidation
Lihui Yuwen, Fei Xu, Bing Xue, Zhimin Luo, Qi Zhang, Biqing Bao, Shao Su, Lixing Weng, Wei Huang and Lianhui Wang
Nanoscale, 2014, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06084E

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This week’s HOT articles

25 Apr 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

Take a look at this week’s selection! These articles are available free for a limited time:

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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This week’s HOT articles

17 Apr 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

Take a look at this week’s selection! These articles are available free for a limited time:

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