ACS Nano Sample Issue

Please enjoy this free sample issue of ACS Nano.

From an insightful Editorial on self-plagiarism, to forward-looking Perspectives on nanooptics and electron transport from leaders in the field, to extraordinary Articles on 0D, 1D, 2D, and 3D materials, nanobiology and nanomedicine, nano-enabled energy conversion and storage, nanosafety, plasmonics, and new insights on imaging and nanofabrication, we hope you enjoy our sample issue from January 2012. We are delighted to bring you the defining work in nanoscience and nanotechnology from around the world.
- Editor-in-Chief: Paul S. Weiss

Surface Doping and Band Gap Tunability in Hydrogenated Graphene

Bernard R. Matis, James S. Burgess, Felipe A. Bulat, Adam L. Friedman, Brian H. Houston, and Jeffrey W. Baldwin

DOI: 10.1021/nn2034555

Multiple Hydrogen Bond Interactions in the Processing of Functionalized Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Mildred Quintana, Hassan Traboulsi, Anna Llanes-Pallas, Riccardo Marega, Davide Bonifazi, and Maurizio Prato

DOI: 10.1021/nn203471t

Size-Tunable, Hexagonal Plate-like Cu₃P and Janus-like Cu-Cu₃P Nanocrystals

Luca De Trizio, Albert Figuerola, Liberato Manna, Alessandro Genovese, Chandramohan George, Rosaria Brescia, Zineb Saghi, Roberto Simonutti, Marijn Van Huis, and Andrea Falqui

DOI: 10.1021/nn203702r

Tuning the Postfocused Size of Colloidal Nanocrystals by the Reaction Rate: From Theory to Application

Sofie Abe, Richard Karel Capek, Bram De Geyter, and Zeger Hens

DOI: 10.1021/nn204008q

Scalable Method for the Reductive Dissolution, Purification, and Separation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Siôn Fogden, Christopher A. Howard, Richard K. Heenan, Neal T. Skipper, and Milo S. P. Shaffer

DOI: 10.1021/nn2041494

Successful Stabilization of Graphene Oxide in Electrolyte Solutions: Enhancement of Biofunctionalization and Cellular Uptake

Bong Jin Hong, Owen C. Compton, Zhi An, Ibrahim Eryazici, and SonBinh T. Nguyen

DOI: 10.1021/nn202355p

Single-Layer MoS₂ Phototransistors

Zongyou Yin, Hai Li, Hong Li, Lin Jiang, Yumeng Shi, Yinghui Sun, Gang Lu, Qing Zhang, Xiaodong Chen, and Hua Zhang

DOI: 10.1021/nn2024557

Graphene Multilayers as Gates for Multi-Week Sequential Release of Proteins from Surfaces

Jinkee Hong, Nisarg J. Shah, Adam C. Drake, Peter C. DeMuth, Jong Bum Lee, Jianzhu Chen, and Paula T. Hammond

DOI: 10.1021/nn202607r

Enhanced Mobility-Lifetime Products in PbS Colloidal Quantum Dot Photovoltaics

Kwang S. Jeong, Jiang Tang, Huan Liu, Jihye Kim, Andrew W. Schaefer, Kyle Kemp, Larissa Levina, Xihua Wang, Sjoerd Hoogland, Ratan Debnath, Lukasz Brzozowski, Edward H. Sargent, and John B. Asbury

DOI: 10.1021/nn2039164

Coating Graphene Paper with 2D-Assembly of Electrocatalytic Nanoparticles: A Modular Approach toward High-Performance Flexible Electrodes

Fei Xiao, Jibin Song, Hongcai Gao, Xiaoli Zan, Rong Xu, and Hongwei Duan

DOI: 10.1021/nn202930m

One-Pot Synthesis of Polypeptide-Gold Nanoconjugates for in Vitro Gene Transfection

Xuehai Yan, Jenifer Blacklock, Junbai Li, and Helmuth Mühwald

DOI: 10.1021/nn202939s

Chemical Vapor Deposition of Aluminum Nanowires on Metal Substrates for Electrical Energy Storage Applications

James Benson, Sofiane Boukhalfa, Alexandre Magasinski, Alexander Kvit, and Gleb Yushin

DOI: 10.1021/nn202979y

Anisotropic Hydrogen Etching of Chemical Vapor Deposited Graphene

Yi Zhang, Zhen Li, Pyojae Kim, Luyao Zhang, and Chongwu Zhou

DOI: 10.1021/nn202996r

Self-Assembly of Silk-Collagen-like Triblock Copolymers Resembles a Supramolecular Living Polymerization

Lennart H. Beun, Xavier J. Beaudoux, J. Mieke Kleijn, Frits A. de Wolf, and Martien A. Cohen Stuart

DOI: 10.1021/nn203092u

Effectively and Efficiently Dissecting the Infection of Influenza Virus by Quantum-Dot-Based Single-Particle Tracking

Shu-Lin Liu, Zhi-Ling Zhang, Zhi-Quan Tian, Hai-Su Zhao, Haibin Liu, En-Ze Sun, Geng Fu Xiao, Wanpo Zhang, Han-Zhong Wang, and Dai-Wen Pang

DOI: 10.1021/nn2031353

Size-Selected Epitaxial Nanoislands Underneath Graphene Moiré on Rh(111)

Muriel Sicot, Philipp Leicht, Andreas Zusan, Samuel Bouvron, Ole Zander, Martin Weser, Yuriy S. Dedkov, Karsten Horn, and Mikhail Fonin

DOI: 10.1021/nn203169j

Workfunction-Tunable, N-Doped Reduced Graphene Transparent Electrodes for High-Performance Polymer Light-Emitting Diodes

Jin Ok Hwang, Ji Sun Park, Dong Sung Choi, Ju Young Kim, Sun Hwa Lee, Kyung Eun Lee, Yong-Hyun Kim, Myoung Hoon Song, Seunghyup Yoo, and Sang Ouk Kim

DOI: 10.1021/nn203176u

Functionalized Multilayered Graphene Platform for Urea Sensor

Rajesh K. Srivastava, Saurabh Srivastava, Tharangattu N. Narayanan, Bansi D. Mahlotra, Robert Vajtai, Pulickel M. Ajayan, and Anchal Srivastava

DOI: 10.1021/nn203210s

Single-Particle Studies of Band Alignment Effects on Electron Transfer Dynamics from Semiconductor Hetero-nanostructures to Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Chi-Tsu Yuan, Yong-Gang Wang, Kuo-Yen Huang, Ting-Yu Chen, Pyng Yu, Jau Tang, Amit Sitt, Uri Banin, and Oded Millo

DOI: 10.1021/nn2036957

Porphyrin-Silicon Hybrid Field-Effect Transistor with Individually Addressable Top-gate Structure

Myeong-Lok Seol, Sung-Jin Choi, Chang-Hoon Kim, Dong-Il Moon, and Yang-Kyu Choi

DOI: 10.1021/nn204535p

Heteroepitaxial Streptavidin Nanocrystals Reveal Critical Role of Proton 'Fingers' and Subsurface Atoms in Determining Adsorbed Protein Orientation

Daniel M. Czajkowsky, Lin Li, Jielin Sun, Jun Hu, and Zhifeng Shao

DOI: 10.1021/nn203356p

Large Band Gap Opening between Graphene Dirac Cones Induced by Na Adsorption onto an Ir Superlattice

Marco Papagno, Stefano Rusponi, Polina Makarovna Sheverdyaeva, Sergio Vlaic, Markus Etzkorn, Daniela Pacilé, Paolo Moras, Carlo Carbone, and Harald Brune

DOI: 10.1021/nn203841q

Sulfur-Doped Graphene as an Efficient Metal-free Cathode Catalyst for Oxygen Reduction

Zhi Yang, Zhen Yao, Guifa Li, Guoyong Fang, Huagui Nie, Zheng Liu, Xuemei Zhou, Xi'an Chen, and Shaoming Huang

DOI: 10.1021/nn203393d

Controlled Release of Nanoparticles and Macromolecules from Responsive Microgel Capsules

Hassan Masoud and Alexander Alexeev

DOI: 10.1021/nn2043143

Noniterative Exact Solution to the Phase Problem in Optical Imaging Implemented with Scanning Probe Microscopy

Danielle R. Honigstein, Jacques Weinroth, Michael Werman, and Aaron Lewis

DOI: 10.1021/nn203427z

Drug Release from Electric-Field-Responsive Nanoparticles

Jun Ge, Evgenios Neofytou, Thomas J. Cahill, III, Ramin E. Beygui, and Richard N. Zare

DOI: 10.1021/nn203430m

Plasmon-Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity of Iron Oxide on Gold Nanopillars

Hanwei Gao, Chong Liu, Hoon Eui Jeong, and Peidong Yang

DOI: 10.1021/nn203457a

Ferritin-Based New Magnetic Force Microscopic Probe Detecting 10 nm Sized Magnetic Nanoparticles

Duckhoe Kim, Nak-Kwan Chung, Stephanie Allen, Saul J. B. Tendler, and Joon Won Park

DOI: 10.1021/nn203464g

Ultrahigh-Density Array of Silver Nanoclusters for SERS Substrate with High Sensitivity and Excellent Reproducibility

Won Joon Cho, Youngsuk Kim, and Jin Kon Kim

DOI: 10.1021/nn2035236

Nanomechanical Silicon Resonators with Intrinsic Tunable Gain and Sub-nW Power Consumption

Sebastian T. Bartsch, Andrea Lovera, Daniel Grogg, and Adrian M. Ionescu

DOI: 10.1021/nn203517w

Three-Dimensional a-Si:H Solar Cells on Glass Nanocone Arrays Patterned by Self-Assembled Sn Nanospheres

Jeehwan Kim, Augustin J. Hong, Jae-Woong Nah, Byungha Shin, Frances M. Ross, and Devendra K. Sadana

DOI: 10.1021/nn203536x

Exploring the Magnetic Behavior of Nickel-Coordinated Pyrogallol[4]arene Nanocapsules

Harshita Kumari, Cindi L. Dennis, Andrew V. Mossine, Carol A. Deakyne, and Jerry L. Atwood

DOI: 10.1021/nn203540e

Tailoring of Biomimetic High-Density Lipoprotein Nanostructures Changes Cholesterol Binding and Efflux

Andrea J. Luthi, Heng Zhang, Dongwoo Kim, David A. Giljohann, Chad A. Mirkin, and C. Shad Thaxton

DOI: 10.1021/nn2035457

Fundamental Proximity Effects in Focused Electron Beam Induced Deposition

Harald Plank, Daryl A. Smith, Thomas Haber, Philip D. Rack, and Ferdinand Hofer

DOI: 10.1021/nn204237h

Revelation of Topological Surface States in Bi₂Se₃ Thin Films by In Situ Al Passivation

Murong Lang, Liang He, Faxian Xiu, Xinxin Yu, Jianshi Tang, Yong Wang, Xufeng Kou, Wanjun Jiang, Alexei V. Fedorov, and Kang L. Wang

DOI: 10.1021/nn204239d

Si/Ge Double-Layered Nanotube Array as a Lithium Ion Battery Anode

Taeseup Song, Huanyu Cheng, Heechae Choi, Jin-Hyon Lee, Hyungkyu Han, Dong Hyun Lee, Dong Su Yoo, Moon-Seok Kwon, Jae-Man Choi, Seok Gwang Doo, Hyuk Chang, Jianliang Xiao, Yonggang Huang, Won Il Park, Yong-Chae Chung, Hansu Kim, John A. Rogers, and Ungyu Paik

DOI: 10.1021/nn203572n

Chemically Directed Assembly of Photoactive Metal Oxide Nanoparticle Heterojunctions via the Copper-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition 'Click' Reaction

Allison C. Cardiel, Michelle C. Benson, Lee M. Bishop, Kacie M. Louis, Joseph C. Yeager, Yizheng Tan, and Robert J. Hamers

DOI: 10.1021/nn203585r

Light Splitting in Nanoporous Gold and Silver

Michel Bosman, Geoffrey R. Anstis, Vicki J. Keast, Jackson D. Clarke, and Michael B. Cortie

DOI: 10.1021/nn203600n

Hybrid Nanomembranes for High Power and High Energy Density Supercapacitors and Their Yarn Application

Jae Ah Lee, Min Kyoon Shin, Shi Hyeong Kim, Seon Jeong Kim, Geoffrey M. Spinks, Gordon G. Wallace, Raquel Ovalle-Robles, Márcio D. Lima, Mikhail E. Kozlov, and Ray H. Baughman

DOI: 10.1021/nn203640a

Molecular Gating of Silicon Nanowire Field-Effect Transistors with Nonpolar Analytes

Yair Paska, Thomas Stelzner, Ossama Assad, Ulrike Tisch, Silke Christiansen, and Hossam Haick

DOI: 10.1021/nn203653h

Dynamic Disorder in Single-Enzyme Experiments: Facts and Artifacts

Tatyana G. Terentyeva, Hans Engelkamp, Alan E. Rowan, Tamiki Komatsuzaki, Johan Hofkens, Chun-Biu Li, and Kerstin Blank

DOI: 10.1021/nn203669r

Orientation-Dependent Electron Transport in a Single Redox Protein

Eduardo Antonio Della Pia, Martin Elliott, D. Dafydd Jones, and J. Emyr Macdonald

DOI: 10.1021/nn2036818

Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Hybrid Microgels as Scaffold Materials for Cell Encapsulation

Su Ryon Shin, Hojae Bae, Jae Min Cha, Ji Young Mun, Ying-Chieh Chen, Halil Tekin, Hyeongho Shin, Saeed Farshchi, Mehmet R. Dokmeci, Shirley Tang, and Ali Khademhosseini

DOI: 10.1021/nn203711s

High-Throughput Graphene Imaging on Arbitrary Substrates with Widefield Raman Spectroscopy

Robin W. Havener, Sang-Yong Ju, Lola Brown, Zenghui Wang, Michal Wojcik, Carlos S. Ruiz-Vargas, and Jiwoong Park

DOI: 10.1021/nn2037169

Ultrasensitive Optofluidic Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Detection with Flow-through Multihole Capillaries

Yunbo Guo, Maung Kyaw Khaing Oo, Karthik Reddy, and Xudong Fan

DOI: 10.1021/nn203733t

Multidentate Catechol-Based Polyethylene Glycol Oligomers Provide Enhanced Stability and Biocompatibility to Iron Oxide Nanoparticles

Hyon Bin Na, Goutam Palui, Jens T. Rosenberg, Xin Ji, Samuel C. Grant, and Hedi Mattoussi

DOI: 10.1021/nn203735b

Easy Synthesis and Imaging Applications of Cross-Linked Green Fluorescent Hollow Carbon Nanoparticles

Youxing Fang, Shaojun Guo, Dan Li, Chengzhou Zhu, Wen Ren, Shaojun Dong, and Erkang Wang

DOI: 10.1021/nn2046373

Two-Order Targeted Brain Tumor Imaging by Using an Optical/Paramagnetic Nanoprobe across the Blood Brain Barrier

Huihui Yan, Lu Wang, Jiyao Wang, Xiaofu Weng, Hao Lei, Xuxia Wang, Lu Jiang, Jianhua Zhu, Weiyue Lu, Xunbin Wei, and Cong Li

DOI: 10.1021/nn203749v

Cationic Surface Reconstructions on Cerium Oxide Nanocrystals: An Aberration-Corrected HRTEM Study

Umananda M. Bhatta, Ian M. Ross, Thi X. T. Sayle, Dean C. Sayle, Stephen C. Parker, David Reid, Sudipta Seal, Amit Kumar, and Günter Mübus

DOI: 10.1021/nn2037576

Graphene Plasmon Waveguiding and Hybridization in Individual and Paired Nanoribbons

Johan Christensen, Alejandro Manjavacas, Sukosin Thongrattanasiri, Frank H. L. Koppens, and F. Javier García de Abajo

DOI: 10.1021/nn2037626

Stacked Graphene-Al₂O₃ Nanopore Sensors for Sensitive Detection of DNA and DNA-Protein Complexes

Bala Murali Venkatesan, David Estrada, Shouvik Banerjee, Xiaozhong Jin, Vincent E. Dorgan, Myung-Ho Bae, Narayana R. Aluru, Eric Pop, and Rashid Bashir

DOI: 10.1021/nn203769e

Wafer-Scale Fabrication and Characterization of Thin-Film Transistors with Polythiophene-Sorted Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube Networks

Luckshitha Suriyasena Liyanage, Hangwoo Lee, Nishant Patil, Steve Park, Subhasish Mitra, Zhenan Bao, and Hon-Sum Philip Wong

DOI: 10.1021/nn203771u

Systematic Study on the Effect of Solvent Removal Rate on the Morphology of Solvent Vapor Annealed ABA Triblock Copolymer Thin Films

Julie N. L. Albert, Wen-Shiue Young, Ronald L. Lewis, III, Timothy D. Bogart, Jasmine R. Smith, and Thomas H. Epps, III

DOI: 10.1021/nn203776c

Twenty-Fold Enhancement of Molecular Fluorescence by Coupling to a J-Aggregate Critically Coupled Resonator

Gleb M. Akselrod, Brian J. Walker, William A. Tisdale, Moungi G. Bawendi, and Vladimir Bulovic

DOI: 10.1021/nn203789t

Propagation Lengths and Group Velocities of Plasmons in Chemically Synthesized Gold and Silver Nanowires

Barbara Wild, Lina Cao, Yugang Sun, Bishnu P. Khanal, Eugene R. Zubarev, Stephen K. Gray, Norbert F. Scherer, and Matthew Pelton

DOI: 10.1021/nn203802e

Smart Hybrid Materials Equipped by Nanoreservoirs of Therapeutics

Carlos Mendoza-Palomares, Alice Ferrand, Sybille Facca, Florence Fioretti, Guy Ladam, Sabine Kuchler-Bopp, Thomas Regnier, Didier Mainard, and Nadia Benkirane-Jessel

DOI: 10.1021/nn203817t

First-Order Reversal Curve Probing of Spatially Resolved Polarization Switching Dynamics in Ferroelectric Nanocapacitors

Yunseok Kim, Amit Kumar, Oleg Ovchinnikov, Stephen Jesse, Hee Han, Daniel Pantel, Ionela Vrejoiu, Woo Lee, Dietrich Hesse, Marin Alexe, and Sergei V. Kalinin

DOI: 10.1021/nn203831h

Catalytic Conversion of Graphene into Carbon Nanotubes via Gold Nanoclusters at Low Temperatures

Enkeleda Dervishi, Shawn Bourdo, Joshua A. Driver, Fumiya Watanabe, Alexandru R. Biris, Anindya Ghosh, Brian Berry, Viney Saini, and Alexandru S. Biris

DOI: 10.1021/nn203836q

Quantifying the Coverage Density of Poly(ethylene glycol) Chains on the Surface of Gold Nanostructures

Xiaohu Xia, Miaoxin Yang, Yucai Wang, Yiqun Zheng, Qingge Li, Jingyi Chen, and Younan Xia

DOI: 10.1021/nn2038516

Unmasking Bulk Exciton Traps and Interchain Electronic Interactions with Single Conjugated Polymer Aggregates

Matthew C. Traub, Jan Vogelsang, Kyle N. Plunkett, Colin Nuckolls, Paul F. Barbara, and David A. Vanden Bout

DOI: 10.1021/nn203860u

Nanostructured Bilayered Vanadium Oxide Electrodes for Rechargeable Sodium-Ion Batteries

Sanja Tepavcevic, Hui Xiong, Vojislav R. Stamenkovic, Xiaobing Zuo, Mahalingam Balasubramanian, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Christopher S. Johnson, and Tijana Rajh

DOI: 10.1021/nn203869a

Enhanced Ambipolar Charge Injection with Semiconducting Polymer/Carbon Nanotube Thin Films for Light-Emitting Transistors

Michael C. Gwinner, Florian Jakubka, Florentina Gannott, Henning Sirringhaus, and Jana Zaumseil

DOI: 10.1021/nn203874a

Hierarchically Organized Bimolecular Ladder Network Exhibiting Guided One-Dimensional Diffusion

Younes Makoudi, Emmanuel Arras, Nenad Kepcija, Wolfgang Krenner, Svetlana Klyatskaya, Florian Klappenberger, Mario Ruben, Ari Paavo Seitsonen, and Johannes V. Barth

DOI: 10.1021/nn203963a

Model for Adsorption of Ligands to Colloidal Quantum Dots with Concentration-Dependent Surface Structure

Adam J. Morris-Cohen, Vladislav Vasilenko, Victor A. Amin, Matthew G. Reuter, and Emily A. Weiss

DOI: 10.1021/nn203950s

Supramolecular Self-Assembly of ¹-Conjugated Hydrocarbons via 2D Cooperative CH/¹ Interaction

Qing Li, Chengbo Han, Scott R. Horton, Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera, Bobby G. Sumpter, Wenchang Lu, Jerry Bernholc, Petro Maksymovych, and Minghu Pan

DOI: 10.1021/nn203952e

Charge Retention by Gold Clusters on Surfaces Prepared Using Soft Landing of Mass Selected Ions

Grant E. Johnson, Thomas Priest, and Julia Laskin

DOI: 10.1021/nn2039565

Doping Location-Dependent Energy Transfer Dynamics in Mn-Doped CdS/ZnS Nanocrystals

Hsiang-Yun Chen, Sourav Maiti, and Dong Hee Son

DOI: 10.1021/nn204452e

Toward a Light-Driven Motorized Nanocar: Synthesis and Initial Imaging of Single Molecules

Pinn-Tsong Chiang, Johannes Mielke, Jazmin Godoy, Jason M. Guerrero, Lawrence B. Alemany, Carlos J. Villagómez, Alex Saywell, Leonhard Grill, and James M. Tour

DOI: 10.1021/nn203969b

A New Route toward Ultrasensitive, Flexible Chemical Sensors: Metal Nanotubes by Wet-Chemical Synthesis along Sacrificial Nanowire Templates

Mi Ae Lim, Dong Hwan Kim, Chong-Ook Park, Young Wook Lee, Sang Woo Han, Zhiyong Li, R. Stan Williams, and Inkyu Park

DOI: 10.1021/nn204009m

Crystalline Assemblies and Densest Packings of a Family of Truncated Tetrahedra and the Role of Directional Entropic Forces

Pablo F. Damasceno, Michael Engel, and Sharon C. Glotzer

DOI: 10.1021/nn204012y

Hybrid Nanosheets of an Inorganic-Organic Framework Material: Facile Synthesis, Structure, and Elastic Properties

Jin-Chong Tan, Paul J. Saines, Erica G. Bithell, and Anthony K. Cheetham

DOI: 10.1021/nn204054k

Light-Emitting Coaxial Nanofibers

Haifeng Yang, Carin R. Lightner, and Liang Dong

DOI: 10.1021/nn204055t

Nucleation and Island Growth of Alkanethiolate Ligand Domains on Gold Nanoparticles

Yifeng Wang, Offer Zeiri, Alevtina Neyman, Francesco Stellacci, and Ira A. Weinstock

DOI: 10.1021/nn204078w

Silver Nanoplate Contrast Agents for in Vivo Molecular Photoacoustic Imaging

Kimberly A. Homan, Michael Souza, Ryan Truby, Geoffrey P. Luke, Christopher Green, Erika Vreeland, and Stanislav Emelianov

DOI: 10.1021/nn204100n

Coulomb Blockade in a Coupled Nanomechanical Electron Shuttle

Chulki Kim, Marta Prada, and Robert H. Blick

DOI: 10.1021/nn204103m

Flexible Solid-State Supercapacitors Based on Carbon Nanoparticles/MnO₂ Nanorods Hybrid Structure

Longyan Yuan, Xi-Hong Lu, Xu Xiao, Teng Zhai, Junjie Dai, Fengchao Zhang, Bin Hu, Xue Wang, Li Gong, Jian Chen, Chenguo Hu, Yexiang Tong, Jun Zhou, and Zhong Lin Wang

DOI: 10.1021/nn2041279

Design of a Polymer-Carbon Nanohybrid Junction by Interface Modeling for Efficient Printed Transistors

Do Hwan Kim, Hyeon-Jin Shin, Hyo Sug Lee, Jiyoul Lee, Bang-Lin Lee, Wi Hyoung Lee, Jong-Hwa Lee, Kilwon Cho, Woo-Jae Kim, Sang Yoon Lee, Jae-Young Choi, and Jong Min Kim

DOI: 10.1021/nn2041472

Stability of Graphene Edges under Electron Beam: Equilibrium Energetics versus Dynamic Effects

Jani Kotakoski, David Santos-Cottin, and Arkady V. Krasheninnikov

DOI: 10.1021/nn204148h

Correlating the Efficiency and Nanomorphology of Polymer Blend Solar Cells Utilizing Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering

Hongping Yan, Brian A. Collins, Eliot Gann, Cheng Wang, Harald Ade, and Christopher R. McNeill

DOI: 10.1021/nn204150f

DNA-Templated Semiconductor Nanocrystal Growth for Controlled DNA Packing and Gene Delivery

Li Gao and Nan Ma

DOI: 10.1021/nn204162y

Engineering of Targeted Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapy Using Internalizing Aptamers Isolated by Cell-Uptake Selection

Zeyu Xiao, Etgar Levy-Nissenbaum, Frank Alexis, Andrej Lupták, Benjamin A. Teply, Juliana M. Chan, Jinjun Shi, Elise Digga, Judy Cheng, Robert Langer, and Omid C. Farokhzad

DOI: 10.1021/nn204165v

Electron Emission from Individual Graphene Nanoribbons Driven by Internal Electric Field

Xianlong Wei, Yoshio Bando, and Dmitri Golberg

DOI: 10.1021/nn204172w

Nitrogen-Doped Graphene/ZnSe Nanocomposites: Hydrothermal Synthesis and Their Enhanced Electrochemical and Photocatalytic Activities

Ping Chen, Tian-Yuan Xiao, Hui-Hui Li, Jing-Jing Yang, Zheng Wang, Hong-Bin Yao, and Shu-Hong Yu

DOI: 10.1021/nn204191x

Dynamic Evolution of Supported Metal Nanocatalyst/Carbon Structure during Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Growth

Diego A. Gómez-Gualdrón, Gilbert D. McKenzie, Juan F. J. Alvarado, and Perla B. Balbuena

DOI: 10.1021/nn204215c

Graphene-Based Nanoplatelets: A New Risk to the Respiratory System as a Consequence of Their Unusual Aerodynamic Properties

Anja Schinwald, Fiona A. Murphy, Alan Jones, William MacNee, and Ken Donaldson

DOI: 10.1021/nn204229f

Magnetic Silica Nanoparticle Cellular Uptake and Cytotoxicity Regulated by Electrostatic Polyelectrolytes-DNA Loading at Their Surface

Ana B. Davila-Ibanez, Veronica Salgueirino, Vicenta Martinez-Zorzano, Rosalia Mari–o-Fern‡ndez, Andres Garc’a-Lorenzo, Melodie Maceira-Campos, Monica Mu–oz-Ubeda, Elena Junquera, Emilio Aicart, Jose Rivas, F. Javier Rodriguez-Berrocal, and Jose L. Legido

DOI: 10.1021/nn204231g

Electronic Detection of Lectins Using Carbohydrate-Functionalized Nanostructures: Graphene versus Carbon Nanotubes

Yanan Chen, Harindra Vedala, Gregg P. Kotchey, Aymeric Audfray, Samy Cecioni, Anne Imberty, Sébastien Vidal, and Alexander Star

DOI: 10.1021/nn2042384

Sheddable Ternary Nanoparticles for Tumor Acidity-Targeted siRNA Delivery

Xian-Zhu Yang, Jin-Zhi Du, Shuang Dou, Cheng-Qiong Mao, Hong-Yan Long, and Jun Wang

DOI: 10.1021/nn204240b

Equilibrium Orientation of Nonspherical Janus Particles at Fluid-Fluid Interfaces

Bum Jun Park and Daeyeon Lee

DOI: 10.1021/nn204261w

Modeling and Development of a Biosensor Based on Optical Relaxation Measurements of Hybrid Nanoparticles

Stefan Schrittwieser, Frank Ludwig, Jan Dieckhoff, Katerina Soulantica, Guillaume Viau, Lise-Marie Lacroix, Sergio Mozo Lentijo, Rym Boubekri, Jérome Maynadié, Andreas Huetten, Hubert Brueckl, and Joerg Schotter

DOI: 10.1021/nn2042785

DNA-Directed Assembly of Asymmetric Nanoclusters Using Janus Nanoparticles

Hang Xing, Zidong Wang, Zhida Xu, Ngo Yin Wong, Yu Xiang, Gang Logan Liu, and Yi Lu

DOI: 10.1021/nn2042797

The Application of Highly Doped Single-Layer Graphene as the Top Electrodes of Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells

Zhike Liu, Jinhua Li, Zhen-Hua Sun, Guoan Tai, Shu-Ping Lau, and Feng Yan

DOI: 10.1021/nn204675r

Boronic Acid Library for Selective, Reversible Near-Infrared Fluorescence Quenching of Surfactant Suspended Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Response to Glucose

Kyungsuk Yum, Jin-Ho Ahn, Thomas P. McNicholas, Paul W. Barone, Bin Mu, Jong-Ho Kim, Rishabh M. Jain, and Michael S. Strano

DOI: 10.1021/nn204323f

Nanochannel-Directed Growth of Multi-Segment Nanowire Heterojunctions of Metallic Au_1-xGe_x and Semiconducting Ge

Xiangdong Li, Guowen Meng, Shengyong Qin, Qiaoling Xu, Zhaoqin Chu, Xiaoguang Zhu, Mingguang Kong, and An-Ping Li

DOI: 10.1021/nn2043466

Optically Induced Interaction of Magnetic Moments in Hybrid Metamaterials

Andrey E. Miroshnichenko, Boris Luk'yanchuk, Stefan A. Maier, and Yuri S. Kivshar

DOI: 10.1021/nn204348j

Length- and Defect-Dependent Fluorescence Efficiencies of Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Tonya K. Cherukuri, Dmitri A. Tsyboulski, and R. Bruce Weisman

DOI: 10.1021/nn2043516

Multiplex Sensing of Protease and Kinase Enzyme Activity via Orthogonal Coupling of Quantum Dot-Peptide Conjugates

Stuart B. Lowe, John A. G. Dick, Bruce E. Cohen, and Molly M. Stevens

DOI: 10.1021/nn204361s

Mapping DNA Quantity into Electrophoretic Mobility through Quantum Dot Nanotethers for High-Resolution Genetic and Epigenetic Analysis

Yi Zhang, Kelvin J. Liu, Tian-Li Wang, Ie-Ming Shih, and Tza-Huei Wang

DOI: 10.1021/nn204377k

Sun-Believable Solar Paint. A Transformative One-Step Approach for Designing Nanocrystalline Solar Cells

Matthew P. Genovese, Ian V. Lightcap, and Prashant V. Kamat

DOI: 10.1021/nn204381g

From Flat to Nanostructured Photovoltaics: Balance between Thickness of the Absorber and Charge Screening in Sensitized Solar Cells

Pablo P. Boix, Yong Hui Lee, Francisco Fabregat-Santiago, Sang Hyuk Im, Ivan Mora-Sero, Juan Bisquert, and Sang Il Seok

DOI: 10.1021/nn204382k

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