Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

About two articles per day in the last month on arXiv.org on the subject of Fe-pnictide Superconductors, some of them referred in the text of the commentary below.

Recommended with a Commentary by Zachary Fisk, University of California, Irvine. | View Commentary (pdf) |

Authors: M. Nakamura, A. Sawa, H. Sato, H. Akoh, M. Kawasaki, and Y. Tokura,
arXiv:cond-mat/0702351v1; Phys. Rev. B 75, 155103 (2007)

Recommended with a Commentary by Atsushi Fujimori, University of Tokyo | View Commentary (pdf) |

Optimization of the antimicrobial activity of magainin peptides by modification of charge
Authors: Margitta Dathe, Heike Nikolenko, Jana Meyer, Michael Beyermann, and Michael Bienert
FEBS Letters 501, 146-150 (2001)

and

Physical Basis of Membrane-Charge Selectivity of Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides
Authors: Sattar Taheri-Araghi and Bae-Yeun Ha
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 168101-1–16801-4 (2007)

Recommended with a commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT | View Commentary (pdf) |