Greetings folks!

In about 1 month, Nature Nanotechnology would be 1 year old! We would like to know which article you enjoyed reading the most. Please post your comments on this forum!

And to recap, here is a list of papers/highlights from the Asia-Pacific region published in the last
year:

OCTOBER 2006

1) Article: Linker-free directed assembly of high-performance integrated devices based on nanotubes and nanowires
Corresponding author: Seunghun Hong [shong@phya.snu.ac.kr]
Institutions: Seoul National Univ; U Massachusetts

2) Research Highlight: About two papers from China (“Food for thought” and “Say it with flowers”)

NOVEMBER 2006

1) Letter: Parallel patterning of nanoparticles via electrodynamic focusing of charged aerosols
Corresponding author: Mansoo Choi (mchoi@snu.ac.kr)
Institutions: SNU; KAIST; Samsung; Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, Daejon; LG-Philips LCD; Hyundai Calibration & Certification Technologies

2) Article: Size-selective growth of double-walled carbon nanotube forests from engineered iron catalysts
Corresponding author: Kenji Hata (kenji-hata@aist.go.jp)
Institutions: AIST, Japan Science and Technology Agency & NEC (all in Tsukuba)
[There was a N&V by Ray Baughman linked to this paper]

DECEMBER 2006

1) Letter: Programmable self-assembly of metal ions inside artificial DNA duplexes
Corresponding author: Mitsuhiko Shionoya (shionoya@chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
Institutions: U Tokyo; JST, Saitama; LMU Munich
Note: This paper was covered in Nihon Keizai Shimbun, and in a News & Views article in Nature

2) Unlinked News & Views: Written by Jeff Hartgerink of Rice University (New material stops bleeding in a hurry) about a paper by MIT-University of Hong Kong team

JANUARY 2007

1) Linked News & Views: “Nanotechnology tackles tumours” by Yuanfang Liu and Haifang Wang of Peking University & Shanghai University

2) Feature: “The birth of nanoChina” by Adarsh Sandhu, Tokyo Institute of Technology

3) News & Views: “The heat is on — and off” by Giulio Casati of Università dell’Insubria, Italy and the National University of Singapore

4) Research Highhlight: About a paper from China (“Nature’s way”)

FEBRUARY 2007

1)Unlinked N&V by Smith (Self-assembly is ready to roll) about a paper by the University of Tokyo team

2) Top down bottom up (TDBU): Was about a collaboration between researchers at Zhejiang University in China and ETH Zurich

MARCH 2007

1) Letter: Carbon nanotube guided of silicon oxide nanotrenches
Corresponding author: Hee Cheul Choi [choihc@postech.edu]
Institutions: POSTECH, Korea
Note: This paper was covered in the Korea Times

2) Letter: A novel hybrid carbon material
Institutions: Eight including SNU and AIST (corresponding author is based in Finland)

3) Research Highlights: About two papers from Singapore (“Good scavengers”) and Korea (“A hollow victory”)

APRIL 2007

1) Feature: Nanotech2007 Conference at Tokyo Big Sight by Adarsh Sandhu

2) Linked News & Views: Written by Nobuhiro Nishiyama of University of Tokyo (Shape affects nanocarrier longevity) about paper by Discher et al in Nature Nano

3) Linked News & Views: Written by Seunghun Hong (SNU) about paper by Rogers et al in Nature Nano

4) Unlinked News & Views: Written by Zimmerman about paper in Angewandte Chemie by POSTECH team

MAY 2007

1) Letter: Real-Time Single Molecule Imaging of Oxidation Catalysis at a Liquid-Solid Interface
Corresponding author: Elemans (Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
Institutions: University of Nijmegen; School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney
[There is a News & Views about this paper by Higgins and Nichols]

JUNE 2007

1) Letter: Optically active single-walled carbon nanotubes
Corresponding author: Naoki Komatsu [nkomatsu@belle.shiga-med.ac.jp]
Institutions: Shiga University of Medical Science; Kyoto University; Osaka Electro-Communication University

2) Letter: Imaging active topological defects in carbon nanotubes
Corresponding author: Kazu Suenaga [suenaga-kazu@aist.go.jp]
Institutions: AIST, Tsukuba; ERATO-JST, c/o AIST, Tsukuba

3) Letter: Tunable nonequilibrium gating of flexible DNA nanochannels in response to transport flux
Corresponding author: Qi Ouyang [qi@pku.edu.cn]; Lei Jiang [jianglei@iccas.ac.cn]
Institutions: Peking University; National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing; Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

4) Top down bottom up: About a collaboration between researchers at AIST, Tsukuba

JULY 2007

1) Letter: Individual molecular imaging of the dynamic behaviors of cis/trans retinal chromophores in confined nano-space
Corresponding author: Kazutomo Suenaga [suenaga-kazu@aist.go.jp]
Institutions: AIST & NEC
There is a News & Views on this paper by Prof Young Kuk of Seoul National Univ
[NOTE: This was highlighted in the Asahi Shimbun]

2) Article: A dielectric modulated field effect transistor (DMFET) with vertical nanogap for biosensor application
Corresponding author: Professor Yang-Kyu Choi: [ykchoi@ee.kaist.ac.kr]
Institutions: Korean Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST)

3) Letter: Fatigue Resistance of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays Under Cyclic Compression
This paper has one author from China (below), although the rest of the authors are from the US

Co-author: Dr Xianfeng Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University [zhangxianfeng@sjtu.edu.cn]. Dr Zhang is currently working in the US for a year at the following email address: xfzhang@physics.sui.edu

4) Editorial: “Future challenges for Asia” (based on the NPG Nature Asia-Pacific Networks event on June 6th 2007)

5) Research Highlights: About two papers from Xiamen University, China (“Round and round” & “Catalysts take shape”)

AUGUST 2007

1) Feature: “South Korea plays to its strengths” by Adarsh Sandhu

SEPTEMBER 2007

1) Letter: Intrinsic peroxidase-like activity of ferromagnetic nanoparticles
Corresponding authors:
Xiyun Yan [1,2], MD. Email: yanxy@sun5.ibp.ac.cn Tel: +86 10 6488 8583; Fax +86 10 6488 8584.
Sarah Perrett [1], PhD. Email: sarah.perrett@iname.com Tel: +86 10 6485 6727; Fax: +86 10 6487 2026.
Institutions:
1 National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 15 Datun Road, Beijing 100101, China.
2CAS – U Tokyo Joint Laboratory of Structural Virology and Immunology, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101
3Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10080, China.
4State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China. 5Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.

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