The most downloaded papers from the pss family of journals in January.

Interfacing Living Cells with Nanomaterials
Interfacing biological systems with nanomaterials may have a significant impact in research fields such as biosensors and tissue engineering.
Researchers demonstrate self-assembling quantum dots
Unexpected breakthrough could bolster quantum photonics and solar cell efficiency.

Topological Insulators – From Materials Design to Reality
Claudia Felser, Shoucheng Zhang, and Binghai Yan catch a snapshot of the materials and applications aspect in the field of topological insulators.

Nanomaterials kaleidoscope: building a nanochemistry periodic table
In a new piece, Prof. Geoffrey Ozin makes his case for a new kind of combinatorial strategy for nanomaterials based on the idea of nanochemistry DNA.
Cambridge scientists create 3D microchip
New kind of chip not only moves information from left to right and back to front, but up and down as well.

Cooling semiconductors using only light
Nanyang researchers take group II-VI semiconductor cadmium sulfide from 20 to -20 degrees C in major breakthrough.
Most accessed papers in physica status solidi for December 2012
We present the most downloaded papers from the pss family of journals in December.

Advanced Optical Materials publishes first issue
The first independent issue of Advanced Optical Materials is now online, including a review on magnetoplasmonics as well as ten excellent, original research articles.

Organic ferroelectric material for future electronics applications
Researchers have discovered a molecule that shows promise as an organic alternative to today’s silicon-based semiconductors.