Volume 15 Issue 1, January 2020

We reflect on the major role played by Nano Letters in nanoscience and nanotechnology and celebrate the appointment of its new editor-in-chief.

Chris Toumey explores the way in which reactions to nanotechnology from different religious denominations can be translated to other emerging technologies.

Nanostructures of electrically conducting polymers show plasmonic behaviour that indicates their promise as switchable optical materials.

The elusive Clar goblet, a magnetic, bowtie shaped nanographene is now synthesized and its peculiar magnetic ground state is characterized.

Desalination membranes based on the water transport through transient channels shows a new way to achieve high permeability and selectivity

Tellurium thin films evaporated at cryogenic temperatures facilitate the realization of high performance wafer-scale flexible p-type field-effect transistors and various types of logic gates.

Nuclear spins are excellent qubits, but long-range interactions are difficult to establish. Here, the authors couple a ²⁹Si nuclear spin to electrons in a lithographically defined quantum dot and show initialization, readout and entanglement with the electron spin. The ²⁹Si retains its coherence under electron transfer between quantum dots.

Spin-crossover complexes often lose their functionality upon adsorption on metal surfaces. Here, a metal–organic complex adsorbed on a silver surface undergoes reversible interlocked spin and coordination switching, which is enabled by an intramolecular feedback mechanism controlling the position of an axial ligand strapped to the complex.

Topological frustration in the π-electron network of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon C₃₈H₁₈ yields unpaired electrons and a magnetically non-trivial ground state. Here, the authors synthesize this molecule, known as Clar’s goblet, on Au(111) and characterize the antiferromagnetic ground state with scanning tunnelling microscopy.

Synthesis of MoS₂ on a silicon surface pre-treated with phosphine enables the growth of one-dimensional MoS₂ nanocrystals with tunable dimensions and optical properties.

PEDOT nanodisks show near-infrared plasmonic resonances that can be reversibly switched by chemical redox reactions.

Adoptive transfer of macrophages, transfected with vitamin C lipid nanoparticles that deliver an antimicrobial peptide and cathepsin B mRNA, can be applied for the treatment of multidrug-resistant bacteria-induced sepsis in mice.

Synchronization of oscillators can be used to carry out cognitive tasks. Large two-dimensional arrays of synchronized spin Hall nano-oscillators have now been demonstrated, and may in future enable neuromorphic computing on the nanoscale.

Tellurium thin films thermally evaporated at cryogenic temperatures enable the fabrication of high-performance wafer-scale p-type field-effect transistors and three-dimensional circuits.

The fluorination of graphene sheets in bilayer graphene grown by chemical vapour deposition on a single-crystal CuNi(111) surface results in a fluorinated diamond monolayer.

The interface between photonic crystals with distinct in-band topologies confines electromagnetic modes and gives rise to lasing emission in the bulk.

Cooperative water wires formed by clustering of artificial water channels enhance membrane permselectivity.