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The response of aluminium to intense high pressures is stiffer than expected
Source: Nature Materials Update - February 22, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

Nanozone: News: Nanotubes at full stretchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As perfectly crystalline structures go, carbon nanotubes can be remarkably stretchy. A combination of two mechanisms makes their elongation a self-healing process.
Source: Nature Materials Update - February 22, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News and Views: Physical chemistry: Oil on troubled watersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The nature of the boundary between water and oil is crucial to many nanometre-scale assembly processes, including protein folding. But until now, what the interface really looks like remained in dispute.
Source: Nature Materials Update - February 22, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

Nanozone: News: Molecular machinery gets organizedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Molecular motors are of limited use unless they are fixed in place on an immobile substrate. That has now been achieved for the first fully synthetic, fully rotating single-molecule rotors.
Source: Nature Materials Update - February 15, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News: Bone cells tackle nacreEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Nacre is hard to digest for some bone cells
Source: Nature Materials Update - February 15, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

Nanozone: News and Views: Nanofluidics: Silicon for the perfect membraneEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Newly developed ultrathin silicon membranes can filter and separate molecules much more effectively than conventional polymer membranes. Many applications, of economic and medical significance, stand to benefit.
Source: Nature Materials Update - February 15, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

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Spectroscopy puts painting in the Renaissance.
Source: Nature Materials Update - February 15, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

Nanozone: Features: Science in cultureEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Lucia Covi uses modern microscopy to highlight the world at the nanoscale.
Source: Nature Materials Update - February 15, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News: UK's Diamond synchrotron turns on the lightsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Nature Materials Update - February 15, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

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Light-absorbing nanoparticles act as tiny heaters for performing nanoscale cautery of biological structures.
Source: Nature Materials Update - February 8, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

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Self-assembly of dendrimers with tunable cavities
Source: Nature Materials Update - February 8, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News: A demon of a deviceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Light makes molecular machines perform trick.
Source: Nature Materials Update - February 8, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: Features: Energy efficiency: Super savers: Experimenting with efficiencyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Nature Materials Update - February 8, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News: Re-wiring brings back touch for amputated limbEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Surgery opens door to prosthetics that can 'feel'.
Source: Nature Materials Update - February 8, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

Nanozone: News: Nanocomposites get hairyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Composite nanostructured materials are common in nature, but are tricky to mimic. A new approach provides switchable properties that can be controlled at the microscopic scale.
Source: Nature Materials Update - February 5, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News: Touchy feely sensorsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Wearable haptic sensors for reproduction of global and local motor functions.
Source: Nature Materials Update - February 5, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News: Thick to thin at the flick of a switchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Light causes a drop in surfactant-solution viscosity
Source: Nature Materials Update - February 5, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News and Views: Materials science: Synergy in a superlatticeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Put two types of crystal together in one lattice, and the resulting material can have properties greater than the sum of those of its individual components. Until now, that's been a difficult trick to pull off on a large scale.
Source: Nature Materials Update - February 5, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: Features: Business: Display of flexibilityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Physicists at the University of Cambridge are leading a revolution in how data can best be displayed. Katharine Sanderson reports.
Source: Nature Materials Update - February 5, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News and Views: Organic chemistry: Catalytic gold rushEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Despite gold's reputation as an inert element, chemists have mined a rich seam of catalytic reactions that use this metal. The latest example stakes out gold's claim as a versatile catalyst.
Source: Nature Materials Update - February 5, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News: Stable electrocatalystsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Stabilizing platinum electrocatalysts with gold clusters
Source: Nature Materials Update - February 5, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

Nanozone: News: The nanoparticle necklaceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Assembling nanoparticles in a controlled manner could lead to new nanodevices and materials. But how do you control where the linkages go?
Source: Nature Materials Update - February 5, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News: Surface chemistry: Repellent legsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Nature Materials Update - February 5, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: Features: High-density memory: A switch in timeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
By 2020 the semiconductor industry wants a memory device that can store a trillion bits of information in an area the size of a postage stamp. As companies race towards this goal, chemists are coming up with an unusual approach. Philip Ball reports.
Source: Nature Materials Update - February 5, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

Nanozone: News: Nanoparticles shaken apartEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An ability to separate small particles is needed in many new technologies. They can be sifted simply by scattering them on a surface and shaking it.
Source: Nature Materials Update - January 18, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

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Corrosion inhibition on demand
Source: Nature Materials Update - January 18, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News and Views: Semiconductor electronics: Trapped fast at the gateEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The speed record for programming organic transistor memory has been shattered. Work is needed on the stability of the memory storage, but it's a promising step towards some novel technological applications.
Source: Nature Materials Update - January 18, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News: Canned nuclear waste cooks its containerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Estimates of radiation damage to materials have been too low.
Source: Nature Materials Update - January 18, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News and Views: Polymer chemistry: Sacrificial synthesisEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The size and uniformity of polymer molecules makes it difficult to modify them at just one selected site. But a single chemical group can be attached at the end of a polymer if part of the starting material is forfeited.
Source: Nature Materials Update - January 18, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

Nanozone: News: Virus detection encounters some useful interferenceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There are many ways of detecting viruses, even at very low concentrations mdash but none yet combines convenience, sensitivity and speed. A new prototype shows how it might be done.
Source: Nature Materials Update - January 11, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

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A refreshing take on microfluidics
Source: Nature Materials Update - January 11, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News: Flip-flops in the dotsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Nature Materials Update - January 11, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News: Materials Science: Displaced by radiationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The mineral zircon suffers more structural damage from the alpha-decay of plutonium present in its crystal than was thought. That could have a knock-on effect on strategies for managing nuclear waste.
Source: Nature Materials Update - January 11, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

Nanozone: News: Nanoparticles packed and addressed by proteinsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Nature helps therapeutic particles reach their target
Source: Nature Materials Update - January 6, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

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Self-assembly of nanocheckerboards based on the JahnndashTeller effect
Source: Nature Materials Update - January 6, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News: Our own surfactantsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Oxygen transport probed at the low surface tensions typical of the lung
Source: Nature Materials Update - January 6, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

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News@nature.com's hit lists of hot news.
Source: Nature Materials Update - January 6, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News: Materials science: Alloys go with the grainEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
How do metallic alloys solidify from their original liquid state? A study of the deformation of cooling alloys confirms what had been suspected for some time: solidifying alloys bear exciting similarities to granular materials.
Source: Nature Materials Update - January 6, 2007 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

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There are several ways to join up carbon nanotubes into complex structures and lsquocircuit patternsrsquo for nanoelectronics and nanomechanical systems. But a new metal spot-welding method has several advantages.
Source: Nature Materials Update - December 23, 2006 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News and Views: Optics: A light touchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Nature Materials Update - December 23, 2006 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News: Edison's bulbs fail to light up auctionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
First all-science collection sells modestly at Christie's.
Source: Nature Materials Update - December 23, 2006 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

Nanozone: News: Plug and play with DNAEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
DNA machines with moving parts can now be plugged into a substrate at predefined locations, enabling such devices to be positioned in arbitrary patterns.
Source: Nature Materials Update - December 19, 2006 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News: Out of the darkEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Highly sensitive chemosensors for cyanogen halides
Source: Nature Materials Update - December 19, 2006 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

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Microfluidic tuning of quantum cascade lasers
Source: Nature Materials Update - December 19, 2006 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News: Accommodating anionic guestsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Lamellar host materials show anion-exchange capacity
Source: Nature Materials Update - December 19, 2006 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News and Views: Semiconductor electronics: Organic crystals at largeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Fabricating large-scale semiconducting surfaces for the flexible screens of the future is a bothersome business. A simple technique for growing single-crystal organic semiconductors brings new vision to the field.
Source: Nature Materials Update - December 19, 2006 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News: Octopus skin yields bright discoveryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Natural proteins act as super reflectors.
Source: Nature Materials Update - December 19, 2006 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

Nanozone: News: Filling the gapsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A honeycomb array of micropores acts as a light insulator mdash but fill some with water, and you open up channels for light to pass.
Source: Nature Materials Update - December 8, 2006 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: News: Roll up and relaxEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Epitaxially grown semiconductor films roll up in tubes when they are detached from the substrate
Source: Nature Materials Update - December 8, 2006 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals

News: Features: Business feature: Introduction: Biofuelling the futureEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Nature Materials Update - December 8, 2006 Category: Materials Science Source Type: journals