Works intended for this column should be sent direct to the Book-Review Editor, whose address appears in this issue. All reviews are also available from Crystallography Journals Online, supplemented where possible with direct links to the publisher's information. The potential impact of nanotechnology on the life sciences is one of the main motivations for the worldwide increase of government a...

Here, a new strategy, self-peel-off transfer, for the preparation of ultrathin flexible nanodevices made from polyvinylidene-fluoride (PVDF) is reported. In this process, a functional pattern of nanoparticles is transferred via peeling from a temporary substrate to the final PVDF film. This peeling process takes advantage of the differences in the work of adhesion between the various layers (th...

This paper provides detailed simulation results and analysis of the prospective performance of hybrid CMOS/nanoelectronic processor systems based upon the field-programmable nanowire interconnect (FPNI) architecture. To evaluate this architecture, a complete design was developed for an FPNI implementation using 90 nm CMOS with 15 nm wide nanowire interconnects. Detailed simulations of this desi...