Growing silicon nanocrystals in parallel

Copper electrodes power a capacitively coupled, nonthermal plasma confined within a glass tube (shown four times in the picture). Silicon nanocrystals grow in the plasma region of the gas-phase synthesis method.

Katelyn Schramke, University of Minnesota, USA.

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20,000 leagues under the sea

Colored scanning electron microscope image of DNA molecules binding onto the surface of a thermoplastic silica nanomaterial fabricated through heat-shrinking representing deep-sea scenery in the science fiction novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Jeff Wang, Johns Hopkins University, USA.

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December 2017 answer key

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Answers will be published in the April 2018 issue.