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NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
A Collection of Reviews from Nature Journals


CONTENTS

FRONT MATTER
Peter Rodgers
i
NANOMATERIALS AND NANOSTRUCTURES
Progress towards monodisperse single-walled carbon nanotubes
MARK C. HERSAM
3
The rise of graphene
A. K. GEIM and K. S. NOVOSELOV
11
Multiferroics: progress and prospects in thin films
R. RAMESH and NICOLA A. SPALDIN
20
Inorganic nanotubes and fullerene-like nanoparticles
R. TENNE
29
The role of interparticle and external forces in nanoparticle assembly
YOUNJIN MIN, MUSTAFA AKBULUT, KAI KRISTIANSEN, YUVAL GOLAN and JACOB ISRAELACHVILI
38
Complex thermoelectric materials
G. JEFFREY SNYDER and ERIC S. TOBERER
50
Solid-state nanopores
CEES DEKKER
60
Engineering atomic and molecular nanostructures at surfaces
Johannes V. Barth, Giovanni Costantini and Klaus Kern
67
MOLECULAR MACHINES AND DEVICES
Making molecular machines work
WESLEY R. BROWNE and BEN L. FERINGA
79
Molecular logic and computing
A. PRASANNA DE SILVA and SEIICHI UCHIYAMA
90
Harnessing biological motors to engineer systems for nanoscale transport and assembly
ANITA GOEL and VIOLA VOGEL
102
Designed DNA molecules: principles and applications of molecular nanotechnology
Anne Condon
113
DNA nanomachines
JONATHAN BATH and ANDREW J. TURBERFIELD
124
NANOELECTRONICS
Nanoelectronics from the bottom up
WEI LU and CHARLES M. LIEBER
137
The emergence of spin electronics in data storage
CLAUDE CHAPPERT, ALBERT FERT and FRÉDÉRIC NGUYEN VAN DAU
147
Nanoionics-based resistive switching memories
RAINER WASER and MASAKAZU AONO
158
Technology and metrology of new electronic materials and devices
ERIC M. VOGEL
166
Carbon-based electronics
PHAEDON AVOURIS, ZHIHONG CHEN and VASILI PEREBEINOS
174
Electron transport in molecular junctions
N. J. TAO
185
Molecular spintronics using single-molecule magnets
LAPO BOGANI and WOLFGANG WERNSDORFER
194
NANOPHOTONICS
Light in tiny holes
C. Genet and T. W. Ebbesen
205
Nano-optics from sensing to waveguiding
SURBHI LAL, STEPHAN LINK and NAOMI J. HALAS
213
Semiconductor quantum light sources
ANDREW J. SHIELDS
221
Biomimetics of photonic nanostructures
ANDREW R. PARKER and HELEN E. TOWNLEY
230
NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY AND NANOMEDICINE
Nanoparticle therapeutics: an emerging treatment modality for cancer
Mark E. Davis, Zhuo (Georgia) Chen and Dong M. Shin
239
Neuroscience nanotechnology: progress, opportunities and challenges
Gabriel A. Silva
251
The potential and challenges of nanopore sequencing
Daniel Branton, David W Deamer, Andre Marziali, Hagan Bayley, Steven A Benner, Thomas Butler, Massimiliano Di Ventra, Slaven Garaj, Andrew Hibbs, Xiaohua Huang, Stevan B Jovanovich, Predrag S Krstic, Stuart Lindsay, Xinsheng Sean Ling, Carlos H Mastrangelo, Amit Meller, John S Oliver, Yuriy V Pershin, J Michael Ramsey, Robert Riehn, Gautam V Soni, Vincent Tabard- Cossa, Meni Wanunu, Matthew Wiggin and Jeffery A Schloss
261
Atomic force microscopy as a multifunctional molecular toolbox in nanobiotechnology
DANIEL J. MÜLLER and YVES F. DUFRÊNE
269
Immunological properties of engineered nanomaterials
MARINA A. DOBROVOLSKAIA and SCOTT E. McNEIL
278
Injectable nanocarriers for biodetoxifixcation
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE LEROUX
288
SELECTED APPLICATIONS
Applications of dip-pen nanolithography
KHALID SALAITA, YUHUANG WANG and CHAD A. MIRKIN
297
Biosensing with plasmonic nanosensors
JEFFREY N. ANKER, W. PAIGE HALL, OLGA LYANDRES, NILAM C. SHAH, JING ZHAO and RICHARD P. VAN DUYNE
308
Materials for electrochemical capacitors
PATRICE SIMON and YURY GOGOTSI
320
Future lab-on-a-chip technologies for interrogating individual molecules
Harold Craighead
330
Science and technology for water purification in the coming decades
Mark A. Shannon, Paul W. Bohn, Menachem Elimelech, John G. Georgiadis, Benito J. Mariñas and Anne M. Mayes
337
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