One of the winning images of the 2014 Nano Today Cover Competition. Look out for more cover competition winners, here on Materials Today.

The new issue of Nano Today (Volume 9, Issue 2) is out now. Click here to read the articles.

TiO2 nanocrystals on carbon nanosheets. Babak Anasori, Drexel University.
TiO2 nanocrystals on carbon nanosheets. Babak Anasori, Drexel University.

Congratulations to Dr. Babak Anasori from Drexel University for winning one of the coveted cover positions on Nano Today. You can read more about Dr Anasori's work in the latest issue of Materials Today, where the researcher's from Drexel discuss Graphene – transition metal oxide hybrid materials.

Among the articles over in the new issue of Nano Today: Jackie Y. Ying et al. discuss nanoprobe-based genetic testing; Nicolas H. Voelcker and colleagues review nanowire arrays for applications in the life sciences; Jinhua Chen and co-workers cover signal amplification elements in DNA-based electrochemical sensing; and much more besides. Visit ScienceDirect to explore the full issue.

And remember, it's not too late to enter the 2014 Materials Today cover competition: winners will be published on the cover of one of ten 2015 issues of the Materials Today journal and asked to write for the journal, as part of our Uncovered feature. Enter by the 31st July 2014 to take part.