Pushing research to the bottom line - p335

doi:10.1038/nmat1643

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The industrial research lab: a relic of the past? - pp337 - 338

A. Michael Noll

doi:10.1038/nmat1639

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Full-speed ahead at Bell Laboratories? - pp339 - 340

doi:10.1038/nmat1640

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Failing concrete and dirty diamonds - p341

doi:10.1038/nmat1647

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Superconducting materials: Superconductivity on the verge of catastrophe - pp343 - 344

Steven A. Kivelson

doi:10.1038/nmat1638

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Surface science: Excitement of molecules on surfaces - pp345 - 346

David Clary

doi:10.1038/nmat1641

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Material witness: Higher T_c? - p346

Philip Ball

doi:10.1038/nmat1637

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Bio-functionalized quantum dots: Tinkering with cell machinery - pp347 - 348

Tijana Rajh

doi:10.1038/nmat1642

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Tensile stress and creep in thermally grown oxide - pp349 - 351

Boyd W. Veal, Arvydas P. Paulikas and Peggy Y. Hou

doi:10.1038/nmat1626

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Subject Categories: Metals and alloys | Structural materials | Mechanical properties

Nanoscale avalanche photodiodes for highly sensitive and spatially resolved photon detection - pp352 - 356

Oliver Hayden, Ritesh Agarwal and Charles M. Lieber

doi:10.1038/nmat1635

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Subject Categories: Semiconductors | Optical, photonic and optoelectronic materials | Nanoscale materials

Room-temperature miscibility gap in Li_xFePO₄ - pp357 - 360

Atsuo Yamada, Hiroshi Koizumi, Shin-ichi Nishimura, Noriyuki Sonoyama, Ryoji Kanno, Masao Yonemura, Tatsuya Nakamura and Yo Kobayashi

doi:10.1038/nmat1634

First paragraph - Room-temperature miscibility gap in LixFePO4 | Full Text - Room-temperature miscibility gap in LixFePO4 | PDF (283 KB) - Room-temperature miscibility gap in LixFePO4 | Supplementary information

Subject Categories: Materials for energy | Ceramics

Going beyond the reflectance limit of cholesteric liquid crystals - pp361 - 364

Michel Mitov and Nathalie Dessaud

doi:10.1038/nmat1619

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Subject Categories: Liquid crystals | Optical, photonic and optoelectronic materials

Continuous-flow lithography for high-throughput microparticle synthesis - pp365 - 369

Dhananjay Dendukuri, Daniel C. Pregibon, Jesse Collins, T. Alan Hatton and Patrick S. Doyle

doi:10.1038/nmat1617

First paragraph - Continuous-flow lithography for high-throughput microparticle synthesis | Full Text - Continuous-flow lithography for high-throughput microparticle synthesis | PDF (360 KB) - Continuous-flow lithography for high-throughput microparticle synthesis | Supplementary information

Subject Categories: Polymers | Complex fluids | Design synthesis and processing

Plasticity, healing and shakedown in sharp-asperity nanoindentation - pp370 - 376

Graham L. W. Cross, André Schirmeisen, Peter Grütter and Urs T. Dürig

doi:10.1038/nmat1632

Abstract - Plasticity, healing and shakedown in sharp-asperity nanoindentation | Full Text - Plasticity, healing and shakedown in sharp-asperity nanoindentation | PDF (762 KB) - Plasticity, healing and shakedown in sharp-asperity nanoindentation | Supplementary information

Subject Categories: Structural materials | Mechanical properties | Surface and thin films

Phase separation in superoxygenated La_2-xSr_xCuO_4+y - pp377 - 382

Hashini E. Mohottala, Barrett O. Wells, Joseph I. Budnick, William A. Hines, Christof Niedermayer, Linda Udby, Christian Bernhard, Arnold R. Moodenbaugh and Fang-Cheng Chou

doi:10.1038/nmat1633

Abstract - Phase separation in superoxygenated La2-xSrxCuO4+y | Full Text - Phase separation in superoxygenated La2-xSrxCuO4+y | PDF (323 KB) - Phase separation in superoxygenated La2-xSrxCuO4+y | Supplementary information

Subject Categories: Ceramics | Superconductors

Ultra-high-density phase-change storage and memory - pp383 - 387

Hendrik F. Hamann, Martin O'Boyle, Yves C. Martin, Michael Rooks and H. Kumar Wickramasinghe

doi:10.1038/nmat1627

Abstract - Ultra-high-density phase-change storage and memory | Full Text - Ultra-high-density phase-change storage and memory | PDF (364 KB) - Ultra-high-density phase-change storage and memory | Supplementary information

Subject Categories: Semiconductors | Optical, photonic and optoelectronic materials | Surface and thin films

Elastically relaxed free-standing strained-silicon nanomembranes - pp388 - 393

Michelle M. Roberts, Levente J. Klein, Donald E. Savage, Keith A. Slinker, Mark Friesen, George Celler, Mark A. Eriksson and Max G. Lagally

doi:10.1038/nmat1606

Abstract - Elastically relaxed free-standing strained-silicon nanomembranes | Full Text - Elastically relaxed free-standing strained-silicon nanomembranes | PDF (524 KB) - Elastically relaxed free-standing strained-silicon nanomembranes

Subject Categories: Semiconductors | Mechanical properties | Surface and thin films

Local density of states effects at the metal-molecule interfaces in a molecular device - pp394 - 399

Hans-Gerd Boyen, Paul Ziemann, Ulf Wiedwald, Valentina Ivanova, Dieter M. Kolb, Sung Sakong, Axel Gross, Andriy Romanyuk, Michael Büttner and Peter Oelhafen

doi:10.1038/nmat1607

Abstract - Local density of states effects at the metal-molecule interfaces in a molecular device | Full Text - Local density of states effects at the metal-molecule interfaces in a molecular device | PDF (611 KB) - Local density of states effects at the metal-molecule interfaces in a molecular device

Subject Categories: Molecular electronics | Characterisation and analytical techniques | Computation, modelling and theory

Mechanistic principles of nanoparticle evolution to zeolite crystals - pp400 - 408

Tracy M. Davis, Timothy O. Drews, Harikrishnan Ramanan, Chuan He, Jingshan Dong, Heimo Schnablegger, Markos A. Katsoulakis, Efrosini Kokkoli, Alon V. McCormick, R. Lee Penn and Michael Tsapatsis

doi:10.1038/nmat1636

Abstract - Mechanistic principles of nanoparticle evolution to zeolite crystals | Full Text - Mechanistic principles of nanoparticle evolution to zeolite crystals | PDF (626 KB) - Mechanistic principles of nanoparticle evolution to zeolite crystals | Supplementary information

Subject Categories: Separation materials | Nanoscale materials | Porous materials

Photophysics of dopamine-modified quantum dots and effects on biological systems - pp409 - 417

Samuel J. Clarke, C. Annette Hollmann, Zhijun Zhang, Diana Suffern, Stephen E. Bradforth, Nada M. Dimitrijevic, William G. Minarik and Jay L. Nadeau

doi:10.1038/nmat1631

Abstract - Photophysics of dopamine-modified quantum dots and effects on biological systems | Full Text - Photophysics of dopamine-modified quantum dots and effects on biological systems | PDF (896 KB) - Photophysics of dopamine-modified quantum dots and effects on biological systems | Supplementary information

Subject Categories: Biomedical materials | Optical, photonic and optoelectronic materials | Sensors and biosensors