CNAM members Johnpierre Paglione and Nicholas Butch contributed to a new text recently published by Wiley VCH (link). This text provides the first full overview and in-depth knowledge about the hot topic of topological insulators, covering techniques such as angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, scanning-tunneling microscopy and current theoretical understanding of spin-locked electronic states, Dirac quasiparticles, quantum Hall effects and Majorana fermions. Together with a team of experts, Paglione and Butch provide a materials synthesis perspective chapter entitled "Growth and Characterization of Topological Insulators".