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Vol. 8, No. 5: May 2008
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LETTERS
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Catalytic Motors for Transport of Colloidal Cargo
Shakuntala Sundararajan, Paul E. Lammert, Andrew W. Zudans, Vincent H. Crespi, and Ayusman Sen
pp 1271 - 1276; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl072275j
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Nanoparticles Secreted from Ivy Rootlets for Surface Climbing
Mingjun Zhang, Maozi Liu, Harry Prest, and Steve Fischer
pp 1277 - 1280; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl0725704
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Screening-Limited Response of NanoBiosensors
Pradeep R. Nair and Muhammad A. Alam
pp 1281 - 1285; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl072593i
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Kinetic versus Thermodynamic Control over Growth Process of Electrodeposited Bi/BiSb Superlattice Nanowires
Xincun Dou, Guanghai Li, and Hechang Lei
pp 1286 - 1290; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl073039b
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Conductance of Oriented C60 Molecules
Nicolas Néel, Jörg Kröger, Laurent Limot, and Richard Berndt
pp 1291 - 1295; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl073074i
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Acoustic Vibration Modes and Electron–Lattice Coupling in Self-Assembled Silver Nanocolumns
J. Burgin, P. Langot, A. Arbouet, J. Margueritat, J. Gonzalo, C. N. Afonso, F. Vallée, A. Mlayah, M. D. Rossell, and G. Van Tendeloo
pp 1296 - 1302; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl073123r
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Spatiotemporal Response of Living Cell Structures in Dictyostelium discoideum with Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Lam Helmick, Adriana Antúnez de Mayolo, Ying Zhang, Chao-Min Cheng, Simon C. Watkins, Chuanyue Wu, and Philip R. LeDuc
pp 1303 - 1308; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl073144l
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Three-Dimensional Nanoscopy of Colloidal Crystals
Benjamin Harke, Chaitanya K. Ullal, Jan Keller, and Stefan W. Hell
pp 1309 - 1313; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl073164n
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Probing Properties of Boron α-Tubes by Ab Initio Calculations
Abhishek K. Singh, Arta Sadrzadeh, and Boris I. Yakobson
pp 1314 - 1317; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl073295o
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UV-Light Induced Fabrication of CdCl2 Nanotubes through CdSe/Te Nanocrystals Based on Dimension and Configuration Control
Jie Zeng, Chi Liu, Jianliu Huang, Xiaoping Wang, Shuyuan Zhang, Gongpu Li, and Jianguo Hou
pp 1318 - 1322; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl0733334
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Hierarchical Agglomerates of Carbon Nanotubes as High-Pressure Cushions
Yi Liu, Weizhong Qian, Qiang Zhang, Anyuan Cao, Zhifei Li, Weiping Zhou, Yang Ma, and Fei Wei
pp 1323 - 1327; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl0733785
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A Generic Approach for Embedded Catalyst-Supported Vertically Aligned Nanowire Growth
Hee-Suk Chung, Yeonwoong Jung, Tyler Jacob Zimmerman, Se-Ho Lee, Ji Woo Kim, Sang Hoon Lee, Seul Cham Kim, Kyu Hwan Oh, and Ritesh Agarwal
pp 1328 - 1334; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl0734037
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Strain-Driven Electronic Band Structure Modulation of Si Nanowires
Ki-Ha Hong, Jongseob Kim, Sung-Hoon Lee, and Jai Kwang Shin
pp 1335 - 1340; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl0734140
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Optical Antenna Effect in Semiconducting Nanowires
G. Chen, Jian Wu, Qiujie Lu, H. R. Gutierrez, Qihua Xiong, M. E. Pellen, J. S. Petko, D. H. Werner, and P. C. Eklund
pp 1341 - 1346; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080007v
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Electroluminescence from Nanocrystals in an Electromigrated Gap Composed of Two Different Metals
August Dorn, Hao Huang, and Moungi G. Bawendi
pp 1347 - 1351; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080018o
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Photocurrent Polarization Anisotropy of Randomly Oriented Nanowire Networks
Yanghai Yu, Vladimir Protasenko, Debdeep Jena, Huili (Grace) Xing, and Masaru Kuno
pp 1352 - 1357; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080028p
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Nanowire Lithography on Silicon
Alan Colli, Andrea Fasoli, Simone Pisana, Yongqing Fu, Paul Beecher, William I. Milne, and Andrea C. Ferrari
pp 1358 - 1362; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080033t
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Exciton Energy Transfer in Pairs of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Huihong Qian, Carsten Georgi, Neil Anderson, Alexander A. Green, Mark C. Hersam, Lukas Novotny, and Achim Hartschuh
pp 1363 - 1367; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080048r
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Cell-Specific Integration of Artificial Organelles Based on Functionalized Polymer Vesicles
Nadav Ben-Haim, Pavel Broz, Stephan Marsch, Wolfgang Meier, and Patrick Hunziker
pp 1368 - 1373; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080105g
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Ultrafast Exciton Fine Structure Relaxation Dynamics in Lead Chalcogenide Nanocrystals
Justin C. Johnson, Kathrine A. Gerth, Qing Song, James E. Murphy, Arthur J. Nozik, and Gregory D. Scholes
pp 1374 - 1381; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080126a
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Extracting Superconducting Single-Crystal Nb Mesowires Out of NbSe2 by a Crystal-Lattice Collapse Method
Jian-Min Li
pp 1382 - 1385; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl0801273
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Controlled Growth of Ternary Alloy Nanowires Using Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition
Sung K. Lim, Michael J. Tambe, Megan M. Brewster, and Silvija Gradečak
pp 1386 - 1392; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080129n
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A Unified Description of Current–Voltage Characteristics in Organic and Hybrid Photovoltaics under Low Light Intensity
R. A. Marsh, C. R. McNeill, A. Abrusci, A. R. Campbell, and R. H. Friend
pp 1393 - 1398; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080200p
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Imaging Mechanical Vibrations in Suspended Graphene Sheets
D. Garcia-Sanchez, A. M. van der Zande, A. San Paulo, B. Lassagne, P. L. McEuen, and A. Bachtold
pp 1399 - 1403; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080201h
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Three-Dimensional Composition Profiles of Single Quantum Dots Determined by Scanning-Probe-Microscopy-Based Nanotomography
Armando Rastelli, Mathieu Stoffel, Angelo Malachias, Tsvetelina Merdzhanova, Georgios Katsaros, Klaus Kern, Till H. Metzger, and Oliver G. Schmidt
pp 1404 - 1409; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080290y
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Increased Hot-Plate Ignition Probability for Nanoparticle-Laden Diesel Fuel
Himanshu Tyagi, Patrick E. Phelan, Ravi Prasher, Robert Peck, Taewoo Lee, Jose R. Pacheco, and Paul Arentzen
pp 1410 - 1416; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080277d
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Colored Semitransparent Conductive Coatings Consisting of Monodisperse Metallic Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Alexander A. Green and Mark C. Hersam
pp 1417 - 1422; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080302f
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Phonon Dispersion and Nanomechanical Properties of Periodic 1D Multilayer Polymer Films
W. Cheng, N. Gomopoulos, G. Fytas, T. Gorishnyy, J. Walish, E. L. Thomas, A. Hiltner, and E. Baer
pp 1423 - 1428; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080310w
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Biomimetic Interfaces for High-Performance Optics in the Deep-UV Light Range
Theobald Lohmüller, Michael Helgert, Michael Sundermann, Robert Brunner, and Joachim P. Spatz
pp 1429 - 1433; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080330y
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Three-Dimensional Architecture of Inorganic Nanoarrays Electrodeposited through a Surface-Layer Protein Mask
Daniel B. Allred, Anchi Cheng, Mehmet Sarikaya, François Baneyx, and Daniel T. Schwartz
pp 1434 - 1438; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl0803444
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Quantum Dot−Fluorescent Protein Pairs as Novel Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Probes
Allison M. Dennis and Gang Bao
pp 1439 - 1445; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080358+
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Engineering the Temporal Response of Photoconductive Photodetectors via Selective Introduction of Surface Trap States
Gerasimos Konstantatos, Larissa Levina, Armin Fischer, and Edward H. Sargent
pp 1446 - 1450; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080373e
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Electrically Biased Nanolithography with KOH-Coated AFM Tips
Jae-Won Jang, Raymond G. Sanedrin, Daniel Maspoch, Seongpil Hwang, Tsuyohiko Fujigaya, You-Moon Jeon, Rafael A. Vega, Xiaodong Chen, and Chad A. Mirkin
pp 1451 - 1455; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080418b
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Three-Dimensionally-Patterned Submicrometer-Scale Hydrogel/Air Networks That Offer a New Platform for Biomedical Applications
Ji-Hyun Jang, Shalin J. Jhaveri, Boris Rasin, ChoengYang Koh, Christopher K. Ober, and Edwin L. Thomas
pp 1456 - 1460; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080444+
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Localized Surface Plasmon Resonances in Aluminum Nanodisks
Christoph Langhammer, Markus Schwind, Bengt Kasemo, and Igor Zorić
pp 1461 - 1471; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080453i
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Nanogap Detector Inside Nanofluidic Channel for Fast Real-Time Label-Free DNA Analysis
Xiaogan Liang and Stephen Y. Chou
pp 1472 - 1476; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080473k
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Integration of ZnO Microcrystals with Tailored Dimensions Forming Light Emitting Diodes and UV Photovoltaic Cells
Jesse J. Cole, Xinyu Wang, Robert J. Knuesel, and Heiko O. Jacobs
pp 1477 - 1481; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl0804809
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Charge Separation in Type II Tunneling Structures of Close-packed CdTe and CdSe Nanocrystals
Dieter Gross, Andrei S. Susha, Thomas A. Klar, Enrico Da Como, Andrey L. Rogach, and Jochen Feldmann
pp 1482 - 1485; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080489a
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Efficient Optical Trapping and Visualization of Silver Nanoparticles
Lana Bosanac, Thomas Aabo, Poul M. Bendix, and Lene B. Oddershede
pp 1486 - 1491; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080490+
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Modulation of in Vivo Tumor Radiation Response via Gold Nanoshell-Mediated Vascular-Focused Hyperthermia: Characterizing an Integrated Antihypoxic and Localized Vascular Disrupting Targeting Strategy
Parmeswaran Diagaradjane, Anil Shetty, James C. Wang, Andrew M. Elliott, Jon Schwartz, Shujun Shentu, Hee C. Park, Amit Deorukhkar, R. Jason Stafford, Sang H. Cho, James W. Tunnell, John D. Hazle, and Sunil Krishnan
pp 1492 - 1500; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080496z
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ZnO Nanostructures as Efficient Antireflection Layers in Solar Cells
Yun-Ju Lee, Douglas S. Ruby, David W. Peters, Bonnie B. McKenzie, and Julia W. P. Hsu
pp 1501 - 1505; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080659j
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A Nonvolatile Plasmonic Switch Employing Photochromic Molecules
Ragip A. Pala, Ken T. Shimizu, Nicholas A. Melosh, and Mark L. Brongersma
pp 1506 - 1510; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl0808839
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Large Anisotropy of Electrical Properties in Layer-Structured In2Se3 Nanowires
Hailin Peng, Chong Xie, David T. Schoen, and Yi Cui
pp 1511 - 1516; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080524d
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Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles Inhibit Cellular Respiration
Zhimin Tao, Matthew P. Morrow, Tewodros Asefa, Krishna K. Sharma, Cole Duncan, Abhishek Anan, Harvey S. Penefsky, Jerry Goodisman, and Abdul-Kader Souid
pp 1517 - 1526; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080250u
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Electric Field Quenching of Carbon Nanotube Photoluminescence
Anton V. Naumov, Sergei M. Bachilo, Dmitri A. Tsyboulski, and R. Bruce Weisman
pp 1527 - 1531; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl0800974
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Analysis of the Vapor–Liquid–Solid Mechanism for Nanowire Growth and a Model for this Mechanism
S. Noor Mohammad
pp 1532 - 1538; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl072974w
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Antibacterial Activity of Fullerene Water Suspensions (nC60) Is Not Due to ROS-Mediated Damage
Delina Y. Lyon, Lena Brunet, George W. Hinkal, Mark R. Wiesner, and Pedro J. J. Alvarez
pp 1539 - 1543; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl0726398
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Control of Gold Surface Diffusion on Si Nanowires
Martien I. den Hertog, Jean-Luc Rouviere, Florian Dhalluin, Pierre J. Desré, Pascal Gentile, Pierre Ferret, Fabrice Oehler, and Thiery Baron
pp 1544 - 1550; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl073356i
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A Lossless Negative Dielectric Constant from Quantum Dot Exciton Polaritons
Y. Fu, L. Thylén, and H. Ågren
pp 1551 - 1555; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080282h
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