Nanoscale materials articles within Nature

Featured

• News | 14 March 2010

  Nano-antennas could help keep quantum secrets

  Nanorod arrays can guide light along the path toward quantum communication.

  • Zeeya Merali

• Research Highlights | 10 March 2010

  Nanotechnology: Harvesting heat

• Letter | 25 February 2010

  Simultaneous phase and size control of upconversion nanocrystals through lanthanide doping

  Many technological materials are intentionally 'doped' with foreign elements to impart new and desirable properties, a classic example being the doping of semiconductors to tune their electronic behaviour. Here lanthanide doping is used to control the growth of nanocrystals, allowing for simultaneous tuning of the size, crystallographic phase and optical properties of the hybrid material.

  • Feng Wang
  • , Yu Han
  •  & Xiaogang Liu

• News | 24 February 2010

  Bacteria buzzing in the seabed

  Nanowires growing from bacteria might link up distant chemical reactions in sediments.

  • Katharine Sanderson

• Research Highlights | 10 February 2010

  Applied physics: Speedier than silicon

• News & Views | 20 January 2010

  Membrane magic

  The use of magnetic fields to assemble particles into membranes provides a powerful tool for exploring the physics of self-assembly and a practical method for synthesizing functional materials.

  • Jack F. Douglas

• Research Highlights | 13 January 2010

  Materials science: Sequencing with carbon