New NMR tool helps scientists study elusive battery reaction

Researchers produced a high-storage-capacity, lithium-germanide battery and demonstrated how their unique NMR 'camera' can be used to examine it and gather data about reactions that can be observed only as they are happening inside a battery.

Nanoscale asymmetry leads to Janus-like nanoparticle membranes

Using grazing incidence small angle x-ray scattering (GISAXS) and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), very small differences in the distribution of coated-nanoparticle membranes were detected and found to be responsible for their folding into tubular structures. Molecular dynamics simulations show this is related to surface molecular packing density and mobility.

U.S. government calls for nanotechnology-inspired Grand Challenges

Today, the Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking suggestions for Nanotechnology-Inspired Grand Challenges for the Next Decade. A Grand Challenge is an ambitious but achievable goal that requires advances in science and technology to achieve, and that has the potential to capture the public?s imagination.

A new way to image surfaces on the nanoscale

A multi-institutional team of scientists has taken an important step in understanding where atoms are located on the surfaces of rough materials, information that could be very useful in diverse commercial applications, such as developing green energy and understanding how materials rust.

Toward nanorobots that swim through blood to deliver drugs (w/video)

Scientists are reporting the development of new nanoswimmers that can move easily through body fluids to their targets.

A new look at surface chemistry

Technique for studying the atomic structure of material surfaces holds promise for catalysis, corrosion and other critical reactions.

Researchers predict existence of new quantum matter theoretically

The results are important in the search for new quantum states and possible use in future electronics applications.

Hot nanostructures cool faster when they are physically close together

A complete description of nanoscale thermal transport is a fundamental problem that has defied understanding for decades. Here, researchers uncover a new regime of thermal transport near nanoscale structures, where counterintuitively, nanoscale hot spots cool more quickly when placed close together than when they are widely separated.

Inkjet inks made of silk could yield smart bandages, bacteria-sensing gloves and more

Multi-functional printable silk inks tap common print technology to address therapeutics, regenerative medicine, bio-sensing needs.

Hooked on phonons: Researchers measure graphene vibrations

An international research group has developed a method for measuring crystal vibrations in graphene. Understanding these vibrations is a critical step toward controlling future technologies based on graphene.

3D bioprinter uses carbon nanotube enhanced cellulose

Researchers have managed to print and dry three-dimensional objects made entirely by cellulose for the first time with the help of a 3D-bioprinter. They also added carbon nanotubes to create electrically conductive material.

Emergence of 'Devil's staircase'

Anomalous spin ordering revealed by brilliant synchrotron soft X-rays.

To give cancer a deadly fever, researchers explore better nanoparticle design

Heat may be the key to killing certain types of cancer, and new research has yielded unexpected results that should help optimize the design of magnetic nanoparticles that can be used to deliver heat directly to cancerous tumors.

Successors to FinFET for 7nm and beyond to be presented

At this week's VLSI 2015 Symposium in Kyoto, imec reported new results on nanowire FETs and quantum-well FinFETs towards post-FinFET multi-gate device solutions.