Reviews & Analysis

Voltage-controlled traps can halt the motion of fast magnetic domain walls in nanowires.

This Review describes emerging techniques for characterizing the fundamental properties of molecular junctions besides electronic transport.

Unimolecular block copolymer micelles can be used as a template to synthesize nanoparticles with a diverse range of sizes, compositions and architectures.

The circulation direction of magnetization in magnetic vortices created in skewed nanodisks can be reversed using nanosecond field pulses.

A nanoscale combing technique can be used to straighten and align nanowires with exceptional precision.

Nucleic acid probes and magnetic nanoparticles can be used in combination with a miniaturized nuclear magnetic resonance device to quickly identify a bacterial species in clinical samples.

The design of specific nanostructured optical gratings allows the realization of efficient traps for a large number of cold atoms.

Hyperpolarized silicon particles show high potential for in vivo magnetic resonance imaging.

A sacrificial polymer layer can be used to transfer molecularly clean graphene onto arbitrary substrates, including thin layers of soft polymers.

While the size of silicon transistors in conventional computers shrinks towards the atomic scale, the quantum states of atoms and quantum dots in silicon are being investigated for quantum information processing.

Ultrafast spin currents in iron-based heterostructures generate terahertz radiation bursts whose frequency can be tailored through structural engineering.

The excitation of plasmons in nanostructured metallic electrodes generates short-lived highly energetic carriers that can be injected into the conduction band of a semiconductor and used to drive artificial photosynthesis.

Advances in the understanding of Raman processes in graphene have made it an essential tool for studying the properties of this one-atom-thick carbon material.

By varying the distance between two electrodes bridged by a single molecule, the interaction between charges passing through the molecular junction and their mirror images in the metal contacts can be observed.

Chemists, biologists, surface scientists and engineers discuss the many facets of nanotechnology and what 'control' means to them.

With the help of the Langmuir–Schaefer method, semiconducting carbon nanotubes can be forced into extremely dense arrays with an almost perfect parallel alignment that can be used to create high-performance transistors.

Magnetic nanoparticles coated with proteins can be used to control the assembly of complex cytoskeletal structures.

The spin of a single-molecule magnet is coupled to the vibrational motion of a single carbon nanotube.

Numerical simulations suggest that disorder and damping have little effect on the current-induced motion of nanoscale magnetic whirls known as skyrmions.

The formation of a protein corona around the surface of a nanoparticle can alter its targeting capabilities.