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ACS has posted the special virtual issue: 2D Materials and beyond covering New Discoveries and Opportunities from Two-Dimensional Materials. The topics include:

• Synthesis and Doping of 2D Materials
• Scanned Probe Techniques on 2D Materials
• 2D Material Devices
• Optical Properties of 2D Materials

Source: ACS Imaging Cyclotron Orbits of Electrons in Graphene

NIST has a new database on the drug Amantadine hydrochloride that is used as an antiviral agent and is used to treat Parkinson's disease and the fatigue associated with multiple sclerosis. The database contains the thermodynamic properties of the drug such as how it responds to heat and changes from a solid into a gas.

The IOP Nano Futures June 2017 issue is out now with many open access articles on self-assembly, manufacturing, and nanobiotechnology.

Professor Kristin Persson from UC Berkeley give a very interesting talk on her groups efforts to build a materials properties database using the quantum mechanical codes on the high performance super computers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. There are about 70,000 inorganic compounds but there is only materials properties on only about 300-400 compounds. It took about a year to get the code to run on the super computer that would work well with the work flow of the user community. It the last 2 years, the project has generated 10 time the data that was previously available. The Materials Project database is open source and open access.

The MRS Communications journal published a special issue on functional oxides in September 2016. Many of the articles are open access right now.

The transistor turns 90 this year. An applications for the FET was file in October 1926 by Julius Edgar Lilienfeld. Lam Research has posted a tech brief on the transistor and how it has changed over time. The brief also describes the future of the transistor structure.

ACS Photonics has published a special focus issue on nonlinear and ultra-fast nanophotonics.


Image credit Magnetoplasmonics and Femtosecond Optomagnetism at the Nanoscale by D. Bossini et. al.

October 9 is National Nanotechnology day because 10/9 is loosely associated with the nanoscale length of 10^-9 meters. There are a large number of web resources and events commemorating the day. The ACS, for example, has a Nanotechnology webpage listing videos, podcasts, and references. A special webinar on 2D Materials and Beyond will be hosted on November 2 at 10 AM EDT.

Purdue University posted the video Mythbusting Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer through novel Cyberinfrastructure which describes the history and impact of the nanoHUB. The video is almost a year old but provides some really interesting statistics on education, STEM demographics, income, the impact of education on income, and the process of building a user community that uses programs that were written for research.

The paper Surface energies of elemental crystals describes the surface energy of about 70 elements. Each crystal face can have a unique energy levels. The energy levels were calculated using Density Function Theory (DTF). The data on each crystal is available from the Crystalium web app.