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Web Release Date: July 24, 2008

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Large Reversible Li Storage of Graphene Nanosheet Families for Use in Rechargeable Lithium Ion Batteries
EunJoo Yoo, Jedeok Kim, Eiji Hosono, Hao-shen Zhou, Tetsuichi Kudo, and Itaru Honma
Web Release Date: 24-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl800957b

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Micro- and Nanocubes of Carbon with C₈-like and Blue Luminescence
P. Liu, Y. L. Cao, C. X. Wang, X. Y. Chen, and G. W. Yang
Web Release Date: 24-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801392v

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Synthesis and Photovoltaic Application of Copper(I) Sulfide Nanocrystals
Yue Wu, Cyrus Wadia, Wanli Ma, Bryce Sadtler, and A. Paul Alivisatos
Web Release Date: 24-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801817d

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Web Release Date: July 23, 2008

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Glass Transition of Polymer−Nanocrystal Thin Film Mixtures: Role of Entropically Directed Forces on Nanocrystal Distribution
Abraham Arceo, Luciana Meli, and Peter F. Green
Web Release Date: 23-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl800932u

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σ- and π-Defects at Graphene Nanoribbon Edges: Building Spin Filters
Thiago B. Martins, Antonio J. R. da Silva, Roberto H. Miwa, and Adalberto Fazzio
Web Release Date: 23-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl800991j

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Photonic-Plasmonic Scattering Resonances in Deterministic Aperiodic Structures
Ashwin Gopinath, Svetlana V. Boriskina, Ning-Ning Feng, Björn M. Reinhard, and Luca Dal Negro
Web Release Date: 23-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl8013692

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Ab Initio Study of Phonon-Induced Dephasing of Electronic Excitations in Narrow Graphene Nanoribbons
Bradley F. Habenicht, Oleg N. Kalugin, and Oleg V. Prezhdo
Web Release Date: 23-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801556n

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Web Release Date: July 22, 2008

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Optical Anisotropy in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Thin Films: Implications for Transparent and Conducting Electrodes in Organic Photovoltaics
Giovanni Fanchini, Steve Miller, Bhavin B. Parekh, and Manish Chhowalla
Web Release Date: 22-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080563p

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Highly Aligned Ultrahigh Density Arrays of Conducting Polymer Nanorods using Block Copolymer Templates
Jeong In Lee, Shin Hyo Cho, Su-Moon Park, Jin Kon Kim, Jai Kyeong Kim, Jae-Woong Yu, Young Chul Kim, and Thomas P. Russell
Web Release Date: 22-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801105s

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Frequency-Controlled Localization of Optical Signals in Graded Plasmonic Chains
A. V. Malyshev, V. A. Malyshev, and J. Knoester
Web Release Date: 22-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl8011962

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Tunable Graphene Single Electron Transistor
C. Stampfer, E. Schurtenberger, F. Molitor, J. Güttinger, T. Ihn, and K. Ensslin
Web Release Date: 22-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801225h

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Large Blue Shift of the Biexciton State in Tellurium Doped CdSe Colloidal Quantum Dots
Assaf Avidan and Dan Oron
Web Release Date: 22-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801241m

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Nanoelectromechanical Switch Operating by Tunneling of an Entire C₆₀ Molecule
Andrey V. Danilov, Per Hedegård, Dmitrii S. Golubev, Thomas Bjørnholm, and Sergey E. Kubatkin
Web Release Date: 22-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801273a

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Three-Dimensional Nanoscale Organization of Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells
Svetlana S. van Bavel, Erwan Sourty, Gijsbertus de With, and Joachim Loos
Web Release Date: 22-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl8014022

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Multicolor Far-Field Fluorescence Nanoscopy through Isolated Detection of Distinct Molecular Species
Mariano Bossi, Jonas Fölling, Vladimir N. Belov, Vadim P. Boyarskiy, Rebecca Medda, Alexander Egner, Christian Eggeling, Andreas Schönle, and Stefan W. Hell
Web Release Date: 22-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801471d

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Ligand-Induced Structural Changes in Maltose Binding Proteins Measured by Atomic Force Microscopy
Cristian Staii, David W. Wood, and Giacinto Scoles
Web Release Date: 22-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801553h

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Iodide Ions Control Seed-Mediated Growth of Anisotropic Gold Nanoparticles
Jill E. Millstone, Wei Wei, Matthew R. Jones, Hyojong Yoo, and Chad A. Mirkin
Web Release Date: 22-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl8016253

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Networks of Quantum Nanorings: Programmable Spintronic Devices
Péter Földi, Orsolya Kálmán, Mihály G. Benedict, and F. M. Peeters
Web Release Date: 22-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801858a

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Web Release Date: July 18, 2008

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Theory and Application of Chain Formation in Break Junctions
A. Thiess, Y. Mokrousov, S. Blügel, and S. Heinze
Web Release Date: 18-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl0800671

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Comparing Guiding Track Requirements for Myosin- and Kinesin-Powered Molecular Shuttles
Takahiro Nitta, Akihito Tanahashi, Yu Obara, Motohisa Hirano, Maria Razumova, Michael Regnier, and Henry Hess
Web Release Date: 18-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl8010885