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STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES

Coherent elastic waves in a one-dimensional polymer hypersonic crystal
P. M. Walker, J. S. Sharp, A. V. Akimov, and A. J. Kent
Applied Physics Letters   97, 073106 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Tunable heat pump by modulating the coupling to the leads
Eduardo C. Cuansing and Jian-Sheng Wang
Physical Review E   82, 021116 (2010) (9 pages)   
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Submicron Plasticity: Yield Stress, Dislocation Avalanches, and Velocity Distribution
Péter Dusán Ispánovity, István Groma, Géza Györgyi, Ferenc F. Csikor, and Daniel Weygand
Physical Review Letters   105, 085503 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Microscopic Observation of Kinetic Molecular Sieving of Hydrogen Isotopes in a Nanoporous Material
T. X. Nguyen, H. Jobic, and S. K. Bhatia
Physical Review Letters   105, 085901 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Suppression of Octahedral Tilts and Associated Changes in Electronic Properties at Epitaxial Oxide Heterostructure Interfaces
A. Y. Borisevich, H. J. Chang, M. Huijben, M. P. Oxley, S. Okamoto, M. K. Niranjan, J. D. Burton, E. Y. Tsymbal, Y. H. Chu, P. Yu, R. Ramesh, S. V. Kalinin, and S. J. Pennycook
Physical Review Letters   105, 087204 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Electron microscopy of GaAs/MnAs core/shell nanowires
N. S. Dellas, J. Liang, B. J. Cooley, N. Samarth, and S. E. Mohney
Applied Physics Letters   97, 072505 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Pyroelectric scanning probe microscopy: A method for local measurement of the pyroelectric effect in ferroelectric thin films
J. Groten, M. Zirkl, G. Jakopic, A. Leitner, and B. Stadlober
Physical Review B   82, 054112 (2010) (11 pages)   
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Large thermoelectric figure of merit for three-dimensional topological Anderson insulators via line dislocation engineering
O. A. Tretiakov, Ar. Abanov, Shuichi Murakami, and Jairo Sinova
Applied Physics Letters   97, 073108 (2010) (3 pages)   
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ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND TRANSPORT

Low-noise submicron channel graphene nanoribbons
Guangyu Xu, Jingwei Bai, Carlos M. Torres, Jr., Emil B. Song, Jianshi Tang, Yi Zhou, Xiangfeng Duan, Yuegang Zhang, and Kang L. Wang
Applied Physics Letters   97, 073107 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Metallization of Nanofilms in Strong Adiabatic Electric Fields
Maxim Durach, Anastasia Rusina, Matthias F. Kling, and Mark I. Stockman
Physical Review Letters   105, 086803 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Electrically induced n-i-p junctions in multiple graphene layer structures
M. Ryzhii, V. Ryzhii, T. Otsuji, V. Mitin, and M. S. Shur
Physical Review B   82, 075419 (2010) (6 pages)   
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Interference, Coulomb blockade, and the identification of non-Abelian quantum Hall states
Ady Stern, Bernd Rosenow, Roni Ilan, and Bertrand I. Halperin
Physical Review B   82, 085321 (2010) (9 pages)   
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Tuning Fano resonances by magnetic forces for electron transport through a quantum wire side coupled to a quantum ring
B. Szafran and M. R. Poniedziaek
Physical Review B   82, 075320 (2010) (7 pages)   
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Thermal conductivity in metallic nanostructures at high temperature: Electrons, phonons, and the Wiedemann-Franz law
N. Stojanovic, D. H. S. Maithripala, J. M. Berg, and M. Holtz
Physical Review B   82, 075418 (2010) (9 pages)   
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Low-frequency noise in strained SiGe core-shell nanowire p-channel field effect transistors
Doyoung Jang, Jae Woo Lee, Kiichi Tachi, Laurent Montes, Thomas Ernst, Gyu Tae Kim, and Gerard Ghibaudo
Applied Physics Letters   97, 073505 (2010) (3 pages)   
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NANOMAGNETISM AND SPINTRONICS

A strong ferroelectric ferromagnet created by means of spinlattice coupling
June Hyuk Lee, Lei Fang, Eftihia Vlahos, Xianglin Ke, Young Woo Jung, Lena Fitting Kourkoutis, Jong-Woo Kim, Philip J. Ryan, Tassilo Heeg, Martin Roeckerath, Veronica Goian, Margitta Bernhagen, Reinhard Uecker, P. Chris Hammel, Karin M. Rabe, Stanislav Kamba, Jrgen Schubert, John W. Freeland, David A. Muller, Craig J. Fennie, Peter Schiffer, Venkatraman Gopalan, Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, and Darrell G. Schlom
Nature   466, 954-958 (2010)   
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Quantum oscillations in a molecular magnet
S. Bertaina, S. Gambarelli, T. Mitra, B. Tsukerblat, A. Mller, and B. Barbara
Nature   466, 1006 (2010)   
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Fast high fidelity hole spin initialization in a single InGaAs quantum dot
T. M. Godden, S. J. Boyle, A. J. Ramsay, A. M. Fox, and M. S. Skolnick
Applied Physics Letters   97, 061113 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Magneto-optical control of a Mn₁₂ nano-magnet
Eric Rivière, Bertrand Donnio, Emilie Voirin, Guillaume Rogez, Jean-Paul Kappler, and Jean-Louis Gallani
Journal of Materials Chemistry   20, 7165-7168 (2010)   
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Orbital selective and tunable Kondo effect of magnetic adatoms on graphene: Correlated electronic structure calculations
D. Jacob and G. Kotliar
Physical Review B   82, 085423 (2010) (11 pages)   
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Impact on Interface Spin Polarization of Molecular Bonding to Metallic Surfaces
S. Javaid, M. Bowen, S. Boukari, L. Joly, J.-B. Beaufrand, Xi Chen, Y. J. Dappe, F. Scheurer, J.-P. Kappler, J. Arabski, W. Wulfhekel, M. Alouani, and E. Beaurepaire
Physical Review Letters   105, 077201 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Effective Low-Energy Model for f-Electron Delocalization
K. A. Al-Hassanieh, Yi-feng Yang, Ivar Martin, and C. D. Batista
Physical Review Letters   105, 086402 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Publisher's Note: Vertex Dynamics in Finite Two-Dimensional Square Spin Ices [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 017201 (2010)]
Zoe Budrikis, Paolo Politi, and R. L. Stamps
Physical Review Letters   105, 089901 (2010) (1 page)   
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IMAGING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Near-field optical data storage using C-apertures
J. Brian Leen, Paul Hansen, Yao-Te Cheng, Aaron Gibby, and Lambertus Hesselink
Applied Physics Letters   97, 073111 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Dark-field light scattering imaging of living cancer cell component from birth through division using bioconjugated gold nanoprobes
Wei Qian, Xiaohua Huang, Bin Kang, and Mostafa A. El-Sayed
Journal of Biomedical Optics   15, 046025 (2010) (9 pages)   
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Second-harmonic generation in tapered optical fibers
Simon Richard
Journal of the Optical Society of America B   27, 1504-1512 (2010)   
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Note: Multiscale scanning probe microscopy
L. Chassagne, S. Blaize, P. Ruaux, S. Topçu, P. Royer, Y. Alayli, and G. Lérondel
Review of Scientific Instruments   81, 086101 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Topographic imaging of convoluted surface of live cells by scanning ion conductance microscopy in a standing approach mode
Yasufumi Takahashi, Yumi Murakami, Kuniaki Nagamine, Hitoshi Shiku, Shigeo Aoyagi, Tomoyuki Yasukawa, Makoto Kanzaki, and Tomokazu Matsue
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics   12, 10012-10017 (2010)   
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Second harmonic generating (SHG) nanoprobes for in vivo imaging
Periklis Pantazis, James Maloney, David Wu, and Scott E. Fraser
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America   107, 14535-14540 (2010)   
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In vivo imaging and treatment of solid tumor using integrated photoacoustic imaging and high intensity focused ultrasound system
Huizhong Cui and Xinmai Yang
Medical Physics   37, 4777-4781 (2010)   
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OPTICAL PROPERTIES AND QUANTUM OPTICS

Incorporating polaritonic effects in semiconductor nanowire waveguide dispersion
Lambert K. van Vugt, Brian Piccione, and Ritesh Agarwal
Applied Physics Letters   97, 061115 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Composite metal/quantum-dot nanoparticle-array waveguides with compensated loss
Petter Holmström, Lars Thylén, and Alexander Bratkovsky
Applied Physics Letters   97, 073110 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Determination of diffusion lengths in nanowires using cathodoluminescence
Anders Gustafsson, Jessica Bolinsson, Niklas Sköld, and Lars Samuelson
Applied Physics Letters   97, 072114 (2010) (3 pages)   
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InGaN/GaN nanorod array white light-emitting diode
Hon-Way Lin (林弘偉), Yu-Jung Lu (呂宥蓉), Hung-Ying Chen (陳虹穎), Hong-Mao Lee (李弘貿), and Shangjr Gwo (果尚志)
Applied Physics Letters   97, 073101 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Design and characterization of a field-switchable nanomagnetic atom mirror
T. J. Hayward, A. D. West, K. J. Weatherill, P. J. Curran, P. W. Fry, P. M. Fundi, M. R. J. Gibbs, T. Schrefl, C. S. Adams, I. G. Hughes, S. J. Bending, and D. A. Allwood
Journal of Applied Physics   108, 043906 (2010) (9 pages)   
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Fabrication and photoluminescence of ZnS:Mn²⁺ nanowires/ZnO quantum dots/SiO₂ heterostructure
Jinghai Yang, Jian Cao, Lili Yang, Yongjun Zhang, Yaxin Wang, Xiaoyan Liu, Dandan Wang, Maobin Wei, Ming Gao, and Jihui Lang
Journal of Applied Physics   108, 044304 (2010) (7 pages)   
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Control of resonance fluorescence in coupled quantum dots
Gao-xiang Li, Shao-ping Wu, and Jia-pei Zhu
Journal of the Optical Society of America B   27, 1634-1644 (2010)   
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Ab initio optoelectronic properties of SiGe nanowires: Role of many-body effects
Maurizia Palummo, Michele Amato, and Stefano Ossicini
Physical Review B   82, 073305 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Excitonic Aharonov-Bohm effect in isotopically pure ⁷⁰Ge/Si self-assembled type-II quantum dots
Satoru Miyamoto, Oussama Moutanabbir, Toyofumi Ishikawa, Mikio Eto, Eugene E. Haller, Kentarou Sawano, Yasuhiro Shiraki, and Kohei M. Itoh
Physical Review B   82, 073306 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Theory of quantum dot spin lasers
Rafa Oszwadowski, Christian Gøthgen, and Igor Žutić
Physical Review B   82, 085316 (2010) (7 pages)   
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Unidirectional Emission of a Quantum Dot Coupled to a Nanoantenna
Alberto G. Curto, Giorgio Volpe, Tim H. Taminiau, Mark P. Kreuzer, Romain Quidant, and Niek F. van Hulst
Science   329, 930-933 (2010)   
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Surface plasmon-enhanced light emission using silver nanoparticles embedded in ZnO
X. H. Xiao, F. Ren, X. D. Zhou, T. C. Peng, W. Wu, X. N. Peng, X. F. Yu, and C. Z. Jiang
Applied Physics Letters   97, 071909 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Enhanced tunability of the multiphoton absorption cross-section in seeded CdSe/CdS nanorod heterostructures
Guichuan Xing, Sabyasachi Chakrabortty, Kok Loong Chou, Nimai Mishra, Cheng Hon Alfred Huan, Yinthai Chan, and Tze Chien Sum
Applied Physics Letters   97, 061112 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Effect of optical feedback to the ground and excited state emission of a passively mode locked quantum dot laser
Charis Mesaritakis, Christos Simos, Hercules Simos, Spiros Mikroulis, Igor Krestnikov, Eugenia Roditi, and Dimitris Syvridis
Applied Physics Letters   97, 061114 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Room temperature single nanowire ZnTe photoconductors grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition
Zhong Li, Joseph Salfi, Christina De Souza, Ping Sun, Selvakumar V. Nair, and Harry E. Ruda
Applied Physics Letters   97, 063510 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Demonstration of mode splitting in an optical microcavity in aqueous environment
Woosung Kim, Şahin Kaya Özdemir, Jiangang Zhu, Lina He, and Lan Yang
Applied Physics Letters   97, 071111 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Chiral luminescent CdS nano-tetrapods
Joseph E. Govan, Edward Jan, Ana Querejeta, Nicholas A. Kotov, and Yurii K. Gun'ko
Chemical Communications   46, 6072-6074 (2010)   
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MICRO AND NANO ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS (MEMS / NEMS)

Two-dimensional moveable optical pinhole with applications in single-detector imaging systems
L. Li
Electronics Letters   46, 1215-1217 (2010)   
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Heat transfer and fluid flow in microchannels and nanochannels at high Knudsen number using thermal lattice-Boltzmann method
J. Ghazanfarian and A. Abbassi
Physical Review E   82, 026307 (2010) (8 pages)   
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Microfluidic sorting and multimodal typing of cancer cells in self-assembled magnetic arrays
Antoine-Emmanuel Saliba, Laure Saias, Eleni Psychari, Nicolas Minc, Damien Simon, François-Clément Bidard, Claire Mathiot, Jean-Yves Pierga, Vincent Fraisier, Jean Salamero, Véronique Saada, Françoise Farace, Philippe Vielh, Laurent Malaquin, and Jean-Louis Viovy
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America   107, 14524-14529 (2010)   
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High Q optomechanical resonators in silicon nitride nanophotonic circuits
K. Y. Fong, W. H. P. Pernice, Mo Li, and H. X. Tang
Applied Physics Letters   97, 073112 (2010) (3 pages)   
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CARBON NANOTUBES, C60, AND RELATED STUDIES

High temperature Luttinger liquid conductivity in carbon nanotube bundles
B. A. Danilchenko, L. I. Shpinar, N. A. Tripachko, E. A. Voitsihovska, S. E. Zelensky, and B. Sundqvist
Applied Physics Letters   97, 072106 (2010) (3 pages)   
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A study on the modulation of the electrical transport by mechanical straining of individual titanium dioxide nanotube
A. Asthana, T. Shokuhfar, Q. Gao, P. Heiden, C. Friedrich, and R. S. Yassar
Applied Physics Letters   97, 072107 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Terahertz sensing with carbon nanotube layers coated on silica fibers: Carrier transport versus nanoantenna effects
Dalius Seliuta, Irmantas Kašalynas, Jan Macutkevic, Gintaras Valušis, Mikhail V. Shuba, Polina P. Kuzhir, Gregory Ya. Slepyan, Sergey A. Maksimenko, Vitaly K. Ksenevich, Vladimir Samuilov, and Qi Lu
Applied Physics Letters   97, 073116 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Growth of carbon nanotubes through selective deposition of nanoparticles
Xavier Joyeux, Souad Ammar, Jean Dijon, and Jean Pinson
Journal of Materials Chemistry   20, 7197-7200 (2010)   
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Nonlinear broadband photoluminescence of graphene induced by femtosecond laser irradiation
Wei-Tao Liu, S. W. Wu, P. J. Schuck, M. Salmeron, Y. R. Shen, and F. Wang
Physical Review B   82, 081408 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Band gap control of small bundles of carbon nanotubes using applied electric fields: A density functional theory study
Gunn Kim, J. Bernholc, and Young-Kyun Kwon
Applied Physics Letters   97, 063113 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Structure of single-wall peptide nanotubes: in situ flow aligning X-ray diffraction
Valeria Castelletto, David R. Nutt, Ian W. Hamley, Seyda Bucak, Çelen Cenker, and Ulf Olsson
Chemical Communications   46, 6270-6272 (2010)   
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High current density, low threshold field emission from functionalized carbon nanotube bucky paper
Bhalchandra A. Kakade, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Dattatray J. Late, Padmakar G. Chavan, Farid J. Sheini, Mahendra A. More, and Dilip S. Joag
Applied Physics Letters   97, 073102 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Local strain in tunneling transistors based on graphene nanoribbons
Yang Lu and Jing Guo
Applied Physics Letters   97, 073105 (2010) (3 pages)   
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QUANTUM COHERENCE, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION STORAGE

Different entanglement dynamical behaviors due to initial system-environment correlations
Ying-Jie Zhang, Xu-Bo Zou, Yun-Jie Xia, and Guang-Can Guo
Physical Review A   82, 022108 (2010) (5 pages)   
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Communication at the quantum speed limit along a spin chain
Michael Murphy, Simone Montangero, Vittorio Giovannetti, and Tommaso Calarco
Physical Review A   82, 022318 (2010) (9 pages)   
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Quantum-information approach to the quantum phase transition in the Kitaev honeycomb model
Jian Cui, Jun-Peng Cao, and Heng Fan
Physical Review A   82, 022319 (2010) (7 pages)   
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Implications of simultaneous requirements for low-noise exchange gates in double quantum dots
Erik Nielsen, Ralph W. Young, Richard P. Muller, and M. S. Carroll
Physical Review B   82, 075319 (2010) (15 pages)   
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Spin Filtering and Entanglement Swapping through Coherent Evolution of a Single Quantum Dot
Jose Garcia Coello, Abolfazl Bayat, Sougato Bose, John H. Jefferson, and Charles E. Creffield
Physical Review Letters   105, 080502 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Entanglement Entropy and Entanglement Spectrum of the Kitaev Model
Hong Yao and Xiao-Liang Qi
Physical Review Letters   105, 080501 (2010) (4 pages)   
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Majorana Fermions and a Topological Phase Transition in Semiconductor-Superconductor Heterostructures
Roman M. Lutchyn, Jay D. Sau, and S. Das Sarma
Physical Review Letters   105, 077001 (2010) (4 pages)   
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SUPRAMOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL ASSEMBLY

Transforming spherical block polyelectrolyte micelles into free-suspending films via DNA complexation-induced structural anisotropy
Cong Liu, Kaka Zhang, Daoyong Chen, Ming Jiang, and Shiyong Liu
Chemical Communications   46, 6135-6137 (2010)   
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Self-assembly in binary mixtures of dipolar colloids: Molecular dynamics simulations
Amit Goyal, Carol K. Hall, and Orlin D. Velev
The Journal of Chemical Physics   133, 064511 (2010) (10 pages)   
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Design and construction of an organic crystal with a novel interpenetrated n-Borromean linked topology
Yong-Biao Men, Junliang Sun, Zhi-Tang Huang, and Qi-Yu Zheng
Chemical Communications   46, 6299-6301 (2010)   
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Supramolecular assembly and small molecule recognition by genetically engineered protein block polymers composed of two SADs
Jennifer S. Haghpanah, Carlo Yuvienco, Eric W. Roth, Alice Liang, Raymond S. Tu, and Jin Kim Montclare
Molecular BioSystems   6, 1662-1667 (2010)   
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Effect of peptide orientation on electron transfer
Bushra R. Chaudhry, James D. E. T. Wilton-Ely, Alethea B. Tabor, and Daren J. Caruana
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics   12, 9996-9998 (2010)   
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Control of Pathways and Yields of Protein Crystallization through the Interplay of Nonspecific and Specific Attractions
Stephen Whitelam
Physical Review Letters   105, 088102 (2010) (4 pages)   
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ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID NANOSTRUCTURES

Organic heterojunction photodiodes exhibiting low voltage, imaging-speed photocurrent gain
William T. Hammond and Jiangeng Xue
Applied Physics Letters   97, 073302 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Polymer templated nanocrystalline titania network for solid state dye sensitized solar cells
Johannes C. Brendel, Yan Lu, and Mukundan Thelakkat
Journal of Materials Chemistry   20, 7255-7265 (2010)   
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A charge pumping technique to identify biomolecular charge polarity using a nanogap embedded biotransistor
Sungho Kim, Jee-Yeon Kim, Jae-Hyuk Ahn, Tae Jung Park, Sang Yup Lee, and Yang-Kyu Choi
Applied Physics Letters   97, 073702 (2010) (3 pages)   
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SURFACE AND INTERFACE PROPERTIES

Surface electronic structure of ZrB₂ buffer layers for GaN growth on Si wafers
Yukiko Yamada-Takamura, Fabio Bussolotti, Antoine Fleurence, Sambhunath Bera, and Rainer Friedlein
Applied Physics Letters   97, 073109 (2010) (3 pages)   
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Tunable edge magnetism at graphene/graphane interfaces
Manuel J. Schmidt and Daniel Loss
Physical Review B   82, 085422 (2010) (13 pages)   
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Electronic and magnetic properties of zigzag graphene nanoribbons with periodic protruded edges
Wenzhi Wu, Zhuhua Zhang, Peng Lu, and Wanlin Guo
Physical Review B   82, 085425 (2010) (7 pages)   
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A discrete interaction model/quantum mechanical method for describing response properties of molecules adsorbed on metal nanoparticles
Seth Michael Morton and Lasse Jensen
The Journal of Chemical Physics   133, 074103 (2010) (9 pages)   
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Cutting Ice: Nanowire Regelation
Teemu Hynninen, Vili Heinonen, Cristiano L. Dias, Mikko Karttunen, Adam S. Foster, and Tapio Ala-Nissila
Physical Review Letters   105, 086102 (2010) (4 pages)   
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CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS METHODS

III-nitride nanopyramid light emitting diodes grown by organometallic vapor phase epitaxy
Isaac H. Wildeson, Robert Colby, David A. Ewoldt, Zhiwen Liang, Dmitri N. Zakharov, Nestor J. Zaluzec, R. Edwin García, Eric A. Stach, and Timothy D. Sands
Journal of Applied Physics   108, 044303 (2010) (8 pages)   
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Synthesis, properties and uses of bacterial storage lipid granules as naturally occurring nanoparticles
Nicholas Thomson, David Summers, and Easan Sivaniah
Soft Matter   6, 4045-4057 (2010)   
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MISCELLANEOUS

Above-room-temperature ferroelectricity in a single-component molecular crystal
Sachio Horiuchi, Yusuke Tokunaga, Gianluca Giovannetti, Silvia Picozzi, Hirotake Itoh, Ryo Shimano, Reiji Kumai, and Yoshinori Tokura
Nature   466, 1006 (2010)   
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Functional surface modification of natural cellulose substances for colorimetric detection and adsorption of Hg²⁺ in aqueous media
Xuehai Zhang and Jianguo Huang
Chemical Communications   46, 6042-6044 (2010)   
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Mesoporous PdCo sponge-like nanostructure synthesized by electrodeposition and dealloying for oxygen reduction reaction
Satoshi Tominaka, Tomoya Hayashi, Yusuke Nakamura, and Tetsuya Osaka
Journal of Materials Chemistry   20, 7175-7182 (2010)   
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A subtilisin-like protein from soybean contains an embedded, cryptic signal that activates defense-related genes
Gregory Pearce, Yube Yamaguchi, Guido Barona, and Clarence A. Ryan
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America   107, 14921-14925 (2010)   
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