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Web Release Date: September 20, 2008

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Reversible pH Lability of Cross-linked Vault Nanocapsules
Marcella Yu, Benny C. Ng, Leonard H. Rome, Sarah H. Tolbert, and Harold G. Monbouquette
Web Release Date: 20-Sep-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080536z

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Encapsulation of Semiconducting Polymers in Vault Protein Cages
Benny C. Ng, Marcella Yu, Ajaykumar Gopal, Leonard H. Rome, Harold G. Monbouquette, and Sarah H. Tolbert
Web Release Date: 20-Sep-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl080537r

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Quantum-Interference-Controlled Molecular Electronics
San-Huang Ke, Weitao Yang, and Harold U. Baranger
Web Release Date: 20-Sep-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl8016175

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Web Release Date: September 19, 2008

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Pillared Graphene: A New 3-D Network Nanostructure for Enhanced Hydrogen Storage
Georgios K. Dimitrakakis, Emmanuel Tylianakis, and George E. Froudakis
Web Release Date: 19-Sep-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801417w

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Intrinsically Fluorescent Carbon Nanospheres as a Nuclear Targeting Vector: Delivery of Membrane-Impermeable Molecule to Modulate Gene Expression In Vivo
B. Ruthrotha Selvi, Dinesh Jagadeesan, B. S. Suma, G. Nagashankar, M. Arif, K. Balasubramanyam, M. Eswaramoorthy, and Tapas K. Kundu
Web Release Date: 19-Sep-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801503m

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Electronic Structure of Surface-supported Bis(phthalocyaninato) terbium(III) Single Molecular Magnets
Lucia Vitali, Stefano Fabris, Adriano Mosca Conte, Susan Brink, Mario Ruben, Stefano Baroni, and Klaus Kern
Web Release Date: 19-Sep-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801869b

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Web Release Date: September 18, 2008

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Electric Property Evolution of Structurally Defected Multilayer Graphene
Kanghyun Kim, Hyung Ju Park, Byung-Chill Woo, Kook Jin Kim, Gyu Tae Kim, and Wan Soo Yun
Web Release Date: 18-Sep-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl8010337

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Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Images of Alkane Derivatives on Graphite: Role of Electronic Effects
Boaz Ilan, Gina M. Florio, Mark S. Hybertsen, B. J. Berne, and George W. Flynn
Web Release Date: 18-Sep-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl8014186

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Plasmon Resonance in Silver Nanoparticles Arrays Grown by Atomic Terrace Low-Angle Shadowing
Floriano Cuccureddu, Shane Murphy, Igor V. Shvets, Mauro Porcu, and H. W. Zandbergen
Web Release Date: 18-Sep-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801600w

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Competition between the Spring Force Constant and the Phonon Energy Renormalization in Electrochemically Doped Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
M. Kalbac, H. Farhat, L. Kavan, J. Kong, and M. S. Dresselhaus
Web Release Date: 18-Sep-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801637h

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Web Release Date: September 13, 2008

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Coherent Phonon Anisotropy in Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Keiko Kato, Kunie Ishioka, Masahiro Kitajima, Jie Tang, Riichiro Saito, and Hrvoje Petek
Web Release Date: 13-Sep-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801200p

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Direct Near-Field Optical Imaging of Higher Order Plasmonic Resonances
R. Esteban, R. Vogelgesang, J. Dorfmüller, A. Dmitriev, C. Rockstuhl, C. Etrich, and K. Kern
Web Release Date: 13-Sep-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801396r

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Numerical Characterization and Optimization of the Microfluidics for Nanowire Biosensors
Dong Rip Kim and Xiaolin Zheng
Web Release Date: 13-Sep-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801559m

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Natural Dyes Adsorbed on TiO₂ Nanowire for Photovoltaic Applications: Enhanced Light Absorption and Ultrafast Electron Injection
Sheng Meng, Jun Ren, and Efthimios Kaxiras
Web Release Date: 13-Sep-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801644d

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Double-Walled Boron Nitride Nanotubes Grown by Floating Catalyst Chemical Vapor Deposition
Myung Jong Kim, Shahana Chatterjee, Seung Min Kim, Eric A. Stach, Mark G. Bradley, Mark J. Pender, Larry G. Sneddon, and Benji Maruyama
Web Release Date: 13-Sep-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl8016835

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Bioeliminable Nanohydrogels for Drug Delivery
De Gao, Hao Xu, Martin A. Philbert, and Raoul Kopelman
Web Release Date: 13-Sep-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl8017274

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Optical Near-Field Mapping of Plasmonic Nanoprisms
Matthias Rang, Andrew C. Jones, Fei Zhou, Zhi-Yuan Li, Benjamin J. Wiley, Younan Xia, and Markus B. Raschke
Web Release Date: 13-Sep-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801808b

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Nanochemical Equilibrium Involving a Small Number of Molecules: A Prediction of a Distinct Confinement Effect
Micha Polak and Leonid Rubinovich
Web Release Date: 13-Sep-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801825q

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Protein−Protein Interactions in Reversibly Assembled Nanopatterns
Tomas Rakickas, Martynas Gavutis, Annett Reichel, Jacob Piehler, Bo Liedberg, and Ramu̅nas Valiokas
Web Release Date: 13-Sep-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801892m

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Reappraisal of Variable-Range Hopping in Quantum-Dot Solids
Arjan J. Houtepen, Daan Kockmann, and Daniël Vanmaekelbergh
Web Release Date: 13-Sep-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl8020347