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Web Release Date: July 4, 2008

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Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Thin Film Emitter−Detector Integrated Optoelectronic Device
Mikhail E. Itkis, Aiping Yu, and Robert C. Haddon
Web Release Date: 04-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080814u

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Electroluminescence from Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Network Transistors
E. Adam, C. M. Aguirre, L. Marty, B. C. St-Antoine, F. Meunier, P. Desjardins, D. Ménard, and R. Martel
Web Release Date: 04-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl8011825

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Web Release Date: July 3, 2008

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Capillary Absorption of Metal Nanodroplets by Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
D. Schebarchov and S. C. Hendy
Web Release Date: 03-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080875s

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Enhanced Thermopower in PbSe Nanocrystal Quantum Dot Superlattices
Robert Y. Wang, Joseph P. Feser, Jong-Soo Lee, Dmitri V. Talapin, Rachel Segalman, and Arun Majumdar
Web Release Date: 03-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl8009704

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Web Release Date: July 2, 2008

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Energy Gaps and Stark Effect in Boron Nitride Nanoribbons
Cheol-Hwan Park and Steven G. Louie
Web Release Date: 02-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080695i

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Raman Spectra of Double-Wall Carbon Nanotubes under Extreme Uniaxial Stress
Elena del Corro, Jesús González, Mercedes Taravillo, Emmanuel Flahaut, and Valentín G. Baonza
Web Release Date: 02-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080760o

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Horizontally Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube on Quartz from a Large Variety of Metal Catalysts
Dongning Yuan, Lei Ding, Haibin Chu, Yiyu Feng, Thomas P. McNicholas, and Jie Liu
Web Release Date: 02-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801007r

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Rotating Fullerene Chains in Carbon Nanopeapods
Jamie H. Warner, Yasuhiro Ito, Mujtaba Zaka, Ling Ge, Takao Akachi, Haruya Okimoto, Kyriakos Porfyrakis, Andrew A. R. Watt, Hisanori Shinohara, and G. Andrew D. Briggs
Web Release Date: 02-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801149z

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Macroscopic Graphene Membranes and Their Extraordinary Stiffness
Tim J. Booth, Peter Blake, Rahul R. Nair, Da Jiang, Ernie W. Hill, Ursel Bangert, Andrew Bleloch, Mhairi Gass, Kostya S. Novoselov, M. I. Katsnelson, and A. K. Geim
Web Release Date: 02-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801412y

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Web Release Date: July 1, 2008

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Distance-Dependent Plasmon Resonant Coupling between a Gold Nanoparticle and Gold Film
Jack J. Mock, Ryan T. Hill, Aloyse Degiron, Stefan Zauscher, Ashutosh Chilkoti, and David R. Smith
Web Release Date: 01-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080872f

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Mapping the Polarization Pattern of Plasmon Modes Reveals Nanoparticle Symmetry
Olaf Schubert, Jan Becker, Luigi Carbone, Yuriy Khalavka, Tetyana Provalska, Inga Zins, and Carsten Sönnichsen
Web Release Date: 01-Jul-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801179a

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Web Release Date: June 27, 2008

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Electronic Transport through Ruthenium-Based Redox-Active Molecules in Metal−Molecule−Metal Nanogap Junctions
Ajit K. Mahapatro, Jiewen Ying, Tong Ren, and David B. Janes
Web Release Date: 27-Jun-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl072982c

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Tip-Modulation Scanned Gate Microscopy
Neil R Wilson and David H Cobden
Web Release Date: 27-Jun-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080488i

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Web Release Date: June 26, 2008

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Symmetry Breaking in a Plasmonic Metamaterial at Optical Wavelength
André Christ, Olivier J. F. Martin, Yasin Ekinci, Nikolai A. Gippius, and Sergei G. Tikhodeev
Web Release Date: 26-Jun-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl0805559

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Photoluminescence Quenching of Single CdSe Nanocrystals by Ligand Adsorption
Andrea M. Munro and David S. Ginger
Web Release Date: 26-Jun-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801132t

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Using Localized Surface Plasmon Resonances to Probe the Nanoscopic Origins of Adsorbate-Driven Ordering Transitions of Liquid Crystals in Contact with Chemically Functionalized Gold Nanodots
Gary M. Koenig Jr., Brian T. Gettelfinger, Juan J. de Pablo, and Nicholas L. Abbott
Web Release Date: 26-Jun-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801180c

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Single-Electron Force Readout of Nanoparticle Electrometers Attached to Carbon Nanotubes
Jun Zhu, Markus Brink, and Paul. L. McEuen
Web Release Date: 26-Jun-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801295y

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Plasmon Field Effects on the Nonradiative Relaxation of Hot Electrons in an Electronically Quantized System: CdTe−Au Core−Shell Nanowires
Svetlana Neretina, Wei Qian, Erik Dreaden, Mostafa A. El-Sayed, Robert A. Hughes, John S. Preston, and Peter Mascher
Web Release Date: 26-Jun-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801303g

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Assembly of Polypeptide-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles through a Heteroassociation- and Folding-Dependent Bridging
Daniel Aili, Karin Enander, Lars Baltzer, and Bo Liedberg
Web Release Date: 26-Jun-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl8014796

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Web Release Date: June 25, 2008

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Ion Beam Doping of Silicon Nanowires
Alan Colli, Andrea Fasoli, Carsten Ronning, Simone Pisana, Stefano Piscanec, and Andrea C. Ferrari
Web Release Date: 25-Jun-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080610d