Subject: Materials Update Contents: 28 April 2005

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Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:52:51 -0400 (EDT)

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This week in Materials Update:

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research news
Magnetic assembly
28 April 2005
Using magnetism to direct parallel fabrication of molecular junctions

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research news
Materials science: Carbon through the phases
28 April 2005

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research news
Good vibrations
21 April 2005
Tuning the properties of photonic structures with sound

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research news
Polymer sniffs out explosives
11 April 2005
Device makes light work of detecting bombs.

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news and views
Techniques: NMR on a chip
21 April 2005
If a nanoscale gallium arsenide structure is excited with an oscillating magnetic field, superpositions of nuclear spin states can be created and detected electrically. Quantum computing could be the beneficiary.

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more News & features

| Nanozone |

research news
Molecules queue up to be detected
28 April 2005
Very small amounts of molecules such as DNA can be detected using single-molecule fluorescence. Thanks to microfluidic manipulations, the method can now be made quantitative and efficient.

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research news
No more rough diamonds
21 April 2005
Microelectromechanical devices need moving parts that can slide smoothly against one another when dry. A form of diamond made from a mosaic of nanocrystals might have what it takes.

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more Nanozone

| Research & reviews |

High-speed integrated nanowire circuits

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Controlled multiple quantum coherences of nuclear spins in a nanometre-scale device

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| | Scientist | | | | Forschungszentrum Rossendorf | | Dresden, Germany 01314 |
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| Postdoctoral Scientist | | | | National Institute for Materials Science | | Ibaraki, Japan
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| Professur | | | | Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg | | Halle, Germany 06099
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| Faculty Fellow | | Biological Sciences|Biochemistry|Cell Biology|Chemistry|Computational Biology|Engineering|Evolution|Genetics|Genomics|Materials Science|Molecular Biology|Neurology|Physics|Physiology|Statistics| | | Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research | | Bangalore, India
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| Senior Lectureship in Organic Chemistry | | Chemistry|Organic Chemistry|Education| | | University of York | | York, United Kingdom
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| Assistant Professor | | | | Oberlin College | | Oberlin, OH United States
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