Polymer mold makes perfect silicon nanostructures

In a breakthrough for nanoscience, polymer engineers have made such a mold for nanostructures that can shape liquid silicon out of an organic polymer material. This paves the way for perfect, 3-D, single crystal nanostructures.

Freezing single atoms to absolute zero with microwaves brings quantum technology closer

Physicists have found a way of using everyday technology found in kitchen microwaves and mobile telephones to bring quantum physics closer to helping solve enormous scientific problems that the most powerful of today's supercomputers cannot even begin to embark upon.

Room temperature fabrication of silver nanoparticles may hold key to electronics advances

Engineers have invented a way to fabricate silver, a highly conductive metal, for printed electronics that are produced at room temperature.

Elastic gel to heal wounds

Bioengineers develop highly elastic biomaterial for better wound healing.

Engineering the world's smallest nanocrystal with just 19 atoms

Scientists have used an artificially designed protein to create a cadmium chloride nanocrystal - the smallest crystal reported so far, made up of just 19 atoms - sandwiched between two copies of the protein.

Evidence for stable room-temperature skyrmions

Scientists have identified a class of materials that displays clear evidence for stable skyrmions at room temperature and above, paving the way for the development of useful spintronics devices.

The quantum middle man

Researchers have identified a system that could store quantum information for longer times, which is critical for the future of quantum computing.

Trapping vortices key to high-current superconductors

The emerging technology of the scanning tunneling microscope has finally provided a picture at the atomic level that may lead to a theory to guide future engineers. Researchers have found that irradiation of the material creates nanometer-sized defects that trap swirling eddies in the flow of electrons, keeping them out of the way so more current can flow.

Researchers find the macroscopic Brownian motion phenomena of self-powered liquid metal motors

Researchers discovered that the self-powered liquid metal motors in millimeter scale demonstrated similar Brownian like motion behaviors in alkaline solution. And the force comes from the hydrogen gas stream generated at the interface between liquid metal motor and its contacting substrate bottom.

Nanospiked bacteria are the brightest hard X-ray emitters

In a step that overturns traditional assumptions and practice, researchers have fashioned bacteria to emit intense, hard x-ray radiation.

Chemists design a quantum-dot spectrometer small enough for a smartphone

Scientists have shown they can create spectrometers small enough to fit inside a smartphone camera, using tiny semiconductor nanoparticles called quantum dots. Such devices could be used to diagnose diseases, especially skin conditions, or to detect environmental pollutants and food conditions.