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Editorial

New Moon or old? p1

doi:10.1038/nmat1556


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Commentary

Breaking the mould: Casting on the nanometre scale pp2 - 5

Jeremy J. Baumberg

doi:10.1038/nmat1562


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News and Views

Metallic glasses: Must shear bands be hot? pp7 - 8

Frans Spaepen

doi:10.1038/nmat1552


Micromanipulation: Stick and place pp9 - 10

Ned Bowden

doi:10.1038/nmat1555


Material witness: Everything must change p10

Philip Ball

doi:10.1038/nmat1565


Molecular electronics: Chemistry of molecules or physics of contacts? pp11 - 12

Victor V. Zhirnov & Ralph K. Cavin

doi:10.1038/nmat1554


Liquid metals: Supercool order pp13 - 14

A. Lindsay Greer

doi:10.1038/nmat1557


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Letters

Temperature rise at shear bands in metallic glasses pp15 - 18

J. J. Lewandowski & A. L. Greer

doi:10.1038/nmat1536

Subject Categories: Metals and alloys | Glasses | Mechanical properties


Resonant tunnelling and fast switching in amorphous-carbon quantum-well structures pp19 - 22

S. Bhattacharyya, S. J. Henley, E. Mendoza, L. Gomez-Rojas, J. Allam & S. R. P. Silva

doi:10.1038/nmat1551

Subject Categories: Electronic materials | Semiconductors


Study of colloidal quantum-dot surfaces using an innovative thin-film positron 2D-ACAR method pp23 - 26

Stephan W. H. Eijt, Anton (Tom) van Veen, Henk Schut, Peter E. Mijnarends, Art B. Denison, Bernardo Barbiellini & Arun Bansil

doi:10.1038/nmat1550

Subject Categories: Nanoscale materials | Surface and thin films | Characterisation and analytical techniques



Transfer printing by kinetic control of adhesion to an elastomeric stamp pp33 - 38

Matthew A. Meitl, Zheng-Tao Zhu, Vipan Kumar, Keon Jae Lee, Xue Feng, Yonggang Y. Huang, Ilesanmi Adesida, Ralph G. Nuzzo & John A. Rogers

doi:10.1038/nmat1532

Subject Categories: Polymers | Design synthesis and processing | Optical, photonic and optoelectronic materials


Atomistic simulations of spinodal phase separation preceding polymer crystallization pp39 - 43

Richard H. Gee, Naida Lacevic & Laurence E. Fried

doi:10.1038/nmat1543

Subject Categories: Polymers | Computation, modelling and theory



Surprising shrinkage of expanding gels under an external load pp48 - 51

Seon Jeong Kim, Geoffrey M. Spinks, Shona Prosser, Philip G. Whitten, Gordon G. Wallace & Sun I. Kim

doi:10.1038/nmat1553

Subject Categories: Mechanical properties | Polymers


From brittle to ductile fracture of bone pp52 - 55

Herwig Peterlik, Paul Roschger, Klaus Klaushofer & Peter Fratzl

doi:10.1038/nmat1545

Subject Categories: Biological materials | Composites | Mechanical properties


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Articles

Unravelling the interplay of local structure and physical properties in phase-change materials pp56 - 62

Wojciech Wel strokenic, Ariesto Pamungkas, Ralf Detemple, Christoph Steimer, Stefan Blügel & Matthias Wuttig

doi:10.1038/nmat1539

Subject Categories: Optical, photonic and optoelectronic materials | Semiconductors


Metal-free silicon–molecule–nanotube testbed and memory device pp63 - 68

Jianli He, Bo Chen, Austen K. Flatt, Jason J. Stephenson, Condell D. Doyle & James M. Tour

doi:10.1038/nmat1526

Subject Categories: Molecular electronics | Characterisation and analytical techniques | Nanoscale materials


Spatial control of the recombination zone in an ambipolar light-emitting organic transistor pp69 - 74

Jana Zaumseil, Richard H. Friend & Henning Sirringhaus

doi:10.1038/nmat1537

Subject Categories: Polymers | Optical, photonic and optoelectronic materials


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