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TABLE OF CONTENTS January 2015 Volume 10, Issue 1 Editorial Commentaries Thesis Features Research Highlights News and Views Review Letters Articles Erratum In The Classroom Subscribe   Facebook   RSS   Recommend to library   Twitter   Editorial Top Focusing in on applications   p1 doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.332 What practical applications can the field of plasmonics and metamaterials deliver? Commentaries Top How to deal with the loss in plasmonics and metamaterials   pp2 - 6 Jacob B. Khurgin doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.310 Metal losses affect the performance of every plasmonic or metamaterial structure; dealing with them will determine the degree to which these structures will find practical applications. The case for plasmon-derived hot carrier devices   pp6 - 8 Martin Moskovits doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.280 Plasmons' progeny are invading the territory currently commanded by semiconductors. Thesis Top From science to policy   pp9 - 10 Chris Toumey doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.318 A recent conference on the environmental effects of nanoparticles leaves Chris Toumey reflecting on the difficulties of carrying out nanotoxicology research that can be used to develop informed environmental regulation. Features Top Nano-optics gets practical   pp11 - 15 doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.314 Early-career researchers share their thoughts on how to make use of the ability to manipulate light at the nanoscale. Colouring at the nanoscale   pp15 - 16 Nicky Dean doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.316 The increasing miniaturization and resolution of consumer electronics poses quandaries for generating colour in imaging devices, which plasmonic nanostructures may be able to overcome. Research Highlights Top Our choice from the recent literature   p17 doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.327 News and Views Top Nanomachines: A light-driven molecular pump   pp18 - 19 Edie Sevick doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.291 A macrocycle can transit unidirectionally along a molecular axle under light irradiation dissipating a constant amount of energy per cycle. See also: Article by Ragazzon et al. Photoelectrochemical water splitting: A new use for bandgap engineering   pp19 - 20 Jiming Bao doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.322 Strontium titanate can act as a transparent protection layer for silicon photocathodes, preventing corrosion without compromising photocatalytic redox activity. See also: Article by Ji et al. Spin transistors: Closer to an all-electric device   pp21 - 22 Marc Cahay doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.305 The use of asymmetrically biased quantum point contacts in semiconductor heterostructures paves the way for the realization of an all-electric spin field-effect transistor. See also: Letter by Chuang et al. Spin orbitronics: Charges ride the spin wave   pp22 - 24 Timo Kuschel and Gunter Reiss doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.279 An alternating charge current pumped by the precessing magnetization of a ferromagnet demonstrates the direct conversion of magnons into charge currents via relativistic spin–orbit coupling. See also: Letter by Ciccarelli et al. Nanotechnology JOBS of the week PhD Studentships in Physics / Engineering (EPSRC CDT in Metamaterials) University of Exeter Postdoctoral Fellow University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill PhD Positions ETH Zurich Professor of Optics The University of Nottingham More Science jobs from Nanotechnology EVENT NanoOstrava 2015 - Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Meeting 18.05.15 Ostrava, Czech Republic More science events from Review Top Plasmon-induced hot carrier science and technology   pp25 - 34 Mark L. Brongersma, Naomi J. Halas and Peter Nordlander doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.311 This Review discusses recent fundamental advances in hot electron and hot hole science and examines potential usefulness in chemistry and for practical optoelectronic devices. Letters Top All-electric all-semiconductor spin field-effect transistors   pp35 - 39 Pojen Chuang, Sheng-Chin Ho, L. W. Smith, F. Sfigakis, M. Pepper, Chin-Hung Chen, Ju-Chun Fan, J. P. Griffiths, I. Farrer, H. E. Beere, G. A. C. Jones, D. A. Ritchie and Tse-Ming Chen doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.296 Two quantum point contacts are used to respectively inject and detect spins by purely electrical means in an all-semiconductor spin transistor. See also: News and Views by Cahay Control of quantum magnets by atomic exchange bias   pp40 - 45 Shichao Yan, Deung-Jang Choi, Jacob A. J. Burgess, Steffen Rolf-Pissarczyk and Sebastian Loth doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.281 The spin dynamics of a nanomagnet assembled from three iron atoms can be tuned by atomic exchange coupling with the magnetic tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope. Partitioning of on-demand electron pairs   pp46 - 49 Niels Ubbelohde, Frank Hohls, Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs, Timo Wagner, Lukas Fricke, Bernd Kästner, Klaus Pierz, Hans W. Schumacher and Rolf J. Haug doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.275 The splitting of Cooper pairs, which is essential for electron-based quantum information processing, can now be obtained with Cooper pairs that have been generated on-demand. Magnonic charge pumping via spin–orbit coupling   pp50 - 54 Chiara Ciccarelli, Kjetil M. D. Hals, Andrew Irvine, Vit Novak, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Hidekazu Kurebayashi, Arne Brataas and Andrew Ferguson doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.252 Magnetic excitations in a ferromagnet known as magnons can be converted into charge currents through a relativistic interaction that couples the spin of an electron with its orbital angular momentum. See also: News and Views by Kuschel & Reiss Sympathetic cooling of a membrane oscillator in a hybrid mechanical–atomic system   pp55 - 59 Andreas Jöckel, Aline Faber, Tobias Kampschulte, Maria Korppi, Matthew T. Rakher and Philipp Treutlein doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.278 Ultracold atoms can be used to sympathetically cool a membrane with a mass ten billion times larger than that of the atoms. Nanoscale stiffness topography reveals structure and mechanics of the transport barrier in intact nuclear pore complexes   pp60 - 64 Aizhan Bestembayeva, Armin Kramer, Aksana A. Labokha, Dino Osmanovic, Ivan Liashkovich, Elena V. Orlova, Ian J. Ford, Guillaume Charras, Ariberto Fassati and Bart W. Hoogenboom doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.262 Stiffness topography with sharp atomic force microscopy tips can be used to generate nanoscale cross-sections of nuclear pore complexes, and suggests that the selective barrier in the complexes consists of a crosslinked network of nuclear pore proteins. A multichannel nanosensor for instantaneous readout of cancer drug mechanisms   pp65 - 69 Subinoy Rana, Ngoc D. B. Le, Rubul Mout, Krishnendu Saha, Gulen Yesilbag Tonga, Robert E. S. Bain, Oscar R. Miranda, Caren M. Rotello and Vincent M. Rotello doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.285 A high-throughput nanosensor based on a gold nanoparticle and fluorescent proteins allows mechanisms of chemotherapeutic drugs to be screened in minutes, offering a tool for expediting research in drug discovery and toxicology. Articles Top Light-powered autonomous and directional molecular motion of a dissipative self-assembling system   pp70 - 75 Giulio Ragazzon, Massimo Baroncini, Serena Silvi, Margherita Venturi and Alberto Credi doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.260 Under continuous illumination, a non-symmetric axle-type molecule transits through a macrocycle only in one direction via a ratchet mechanism that rectifies Brownian motion. See also: News and Views by Sevick Continuous observation of the stochastic motion of an individual small-molecule walker   pp76 - 83 Gökçe Su Pulcu, Ellina Mikhailova, Lai-Sheung Choi and Hagan Bayley doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.264 The stepwise stochastic motion of an individual organoarsenic(III) molecule along a linear track of thiols can be monitored in real time within a protein nanopore. A silicon-based photocathode for water reduction with an epitaxial SrTiO3 protection layer and a nanostructured catalyst   pp84 - 90 Li Ji, Martin D. McDaniel, Shijun Wang, Agham B. Posadas, Xiaohan Li, Haiyu Huang, Jack C. Lee, Alexander A. Demkov, Allen J. Bard, John G. Ekerdt and Edward T. Yu doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.277 A silicon-based photocathode with an epitaxial strontium titanate protection layer and a mesh-like nanostructured catalyst can provide an applied bias photon-to-current efficiency of 4.9% for water reduction. See also: News and Views by Bao Towards non-invasive diagnostic imaging of early-stage Alzheimer's disease   pp91 - 98 Kirsten L. Viola, James Sbarboro, Ruchi Sureka, Mrinmoy De, Maíra A. Bicca, Jane Wang, Shaleen Vasavada, Sreyesh Satpathy, Summer Wu, Hrushikesh Joshi, Pauline T. Velasco, Keith MacRenaris, E. Alex Waters, Chang Lu, Joseph Phan, Pascale Lacor, Pottumarthi Prasad, Vinayak P. Dravid and William L. Klein doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.254 A magnetic resonance imaging probe that binds specifically to neurotoxic amyloid-beta oligomers can potentially be used for early detection of Alzheimer's disease. Erratum Top Erratum: Squalenoyl adenosine nanoparticles provide neuroprotection after stroke and spinal cord injury   p99 Alice Gaudin, Müge Yemisci, Hakan Eroglu, Sinda Lepetre-Mouelhi, Omer Faruk Turkoglu, Buket Dönmez-Demir, Seçil Caban, Mustafa Fevzi Sargon, Sébastien Garcia-Argote, Grégory Pieters, Olivier Loreau, Bernard Rousseau, Oya Tagit, Niko Hildebrandt, Yannick Le Dantec, Julie Mougin, Sabrina Valetti, Hélène Chacun, Valérie Nicolas, Didier Desmaële, Karine Andrieux, Yilmaz Capan, Turgay Dalkara and Patrick Couvreur doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.312 In The Classroom Top A lesson in student chapters   p100 Yi-Hsin Lin doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.321 By participating in activities organized by professional societies, PhD students can enrich their skills and extend their professional network, beyond what they can achieve in the lab, Yi-Hsin Lin explains. Top Natureevents is a fully searchable, multi-disciplinary database designed to maximise exposure for events organisers. 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