Advanced Materials Top 40 for July 6, 2012

It’s a new top 40 and a new top 3 this week, with a distinctly nano theme: work on making and using gold nanorods comes in at number one.

Numbers 2 and 3 are both energy-related; an Indian research team discusses engineering their energy-storing hybrid nanostructures at number 2, while number 3 sees an MIT group construct polymer-free, carbon-based photovoltaics; these devices have no polymeric active or transport layer, instead relying on the electronic properties of a carbon nanotube – fullerene interface to produce voltage.

Also, this week’s number 15 – A Brief Guide to Designing Effective Figures for the Scientific Paper – forms the basis for the first MaterialsViews online event, taking place on July the 16th. Please visit this page if you would like to attend.

Rank	Article	Position last week	Change	Weeks in the Top 40
1	Functional Gold Nanorods: Synthesis, Self‐Assembly, and Sensing Applications	–		1	Tweet
2	Hybrid Nanostructures for Energy Storage Applications	–		1	Tweet
3	Polymer‐Free Near‐Infrared Photovoltaics with Single Chirality (6,5) Semiconducting Carbon Nanot	–		1	Tweet
4	Towards Textile Energy Storage from Cotton T‐Shirts	39	+35	2	Tweet
5	Generation of a Library of Non‐Toxic Quantum Dots for Cellular Imaging and siRNA Delivery	–		1	Tweet
6	Aerographite: Ultra Lightweight, Flexible Nanowall, Carbon Microtube Material with Outstanding Mecha	24	+18	3	Tweet
7	Toward Robust Nanogenerator Using Aluminum Substrate	–		1	Tweet
8	A Solid‐State Plasmonic Solar Cell via Metal Nanoparticle Self‐Assembly	–		1	Tweet
9	Highly Stretchable and Highly Conductive Metal Electrode by Very Long Metal Nanowire Percolation Net	25	+16	2	Tweet
10	Graphene Oxide as an Optical Biosensing Platform	27	+17	2	Tweet
11	Bio‐Inspired Nacre‐like Composite Films Based on Graphene with Superior Mechanical, Electrical,	–		1	Tweet
12	Transfer‐Printing of As‐Fabricated Carbon Nanotube Devices onto Various Substrates	–		1	Tweet
13	Engineering the Electronic Structure of Graphene	–		1	Tweet
14	Whitesides’ Group: Writing a Paper	13	–1	8	Tweet
15	A Brief Guide to Designing Effective Figures for the Scientific Paper	–		1	Tweet
16	Graphene and Graphene Oxide: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications	5	–11	8	Tweet
17	Improving the Ordering and Photovoltaic Properties by Extending π–Conjugated Area of Electron‐D	2	–15	2	Tweet
18	Novel Highly Conductive and Transparent Graphene‐Based Conductors	3		5	Tweet
19	Near‐Infrared Light‐Responsive Intracellular Drug and siRNA Release Using Au Nanoensembles with	18	–1	2	Tweet
20	Engineering Plasmonic Gold Nanostructures and Metamaterials for Biosensing and Nanomedicine	–		1	Tweet
21	Oxide Semiconductor Thin‐Film Transistors: A Review of Recent Advances	6	–15	8	Tweet
22	Self‐Healing of Covalently Cross‐Linked Polymers by Reshuffling Thiuram Disulfide Moieties in Ai	–		1	Tweet
23	Formation of ZnMn2O4 Ball‐in‐Ball Hollow Microspheres as a High‐Performance Anode for Lithium-ion batteries	–		1	Tweet
24	Highly Stable Air Working Bimorph Actuator Based on a Graphene Nanosheet/Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Elec	–		1	Tweet
25	Nanocomposite Microcontainers	–		1	Tweet
26	Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Biocompatibility and Drug Delivery	16	–10	8	Tweet
27	“Cut and Stick” Rubbery Ion Gels as High Capacitance Gate Dielectrics	–		1	Tweet
28	Post‐Deposition Treatment of an Arylated‐Carbazole Conjugated Polymer for Solar Cell Fabrication	–		1	Tweet
29	For the Bright Future—Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells with Power Conversion Efficiency of	26	–3	2	Tweet
30	ZnO Hollow Spheres with Double‐Yolk Egg Structure for High‐Performance Photocatalysts and Photod	–		1	Tweet
31	Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation Using Polymorphic Macroporous TaON	–		1	Tweet
32	Chemical Patterning and Physical Refinement of Reactive Superhydrophobic Surfaces	–		1	Tweet
33	Crafting Semiconductor Organic−Inorganic Nanocomposites via Placing Conjugated Polymers in Intimat	–		1	Tweet
34	Highly Stretchable Alkaline Batteries Based on an Embedded Conductive Fabric	–		1	Tweet
35	Highly π‐Extended Copolymers with Diketopyrrolopyrrole Moieties for High‐Performance Field‐Ef	14	–21	3	Tweet
36	A New Approach for Probing the Mobility and Lifetime of Photogenerated Charge Carriers in Organic So	–		1	Tweet
37	Magnetic Properties of Crystalline and Amorphous Phase‐Change Materials Doped with 3d Impurities	–		1	Tweet
38	Large Enhancement of Upconversion Luminescence of NaYF4:Yb3+/Er3+ Nanocrystal by 3D Plasmonic Nano-antennas	–		1	Tweet
39	Dual Plasmonic Nanostructures for High Performance Inverted Organic Solar Cells	12	–27	8	Tweet
40	On the Origin of Contact Resistances of Organic Thin Film Transistors	–		1	Tweet