New nanotechnology reporting rule from EPA

EPA issues guidance for new nanotechnology reporting and recordkeeping rule.

A multistable, shape-reconfigurable design for aluminum-air batteries

Researchers propose a new, multistable, shape-reconfigurable design combined with a battery packing concept that leads to 2D and 3D polymorphed states, while preserving the electrochemical functionality.

Researchers create first 3D movie of a virus in action

Scientists have for the first time created a three-dimensional movie showing a virus preparing to infect a healthy cell.

Exotic quantum states made from light

Physicists create optical 'wells' for a super-photon for the first time.

2-faced 2D material is a first

Materials scientists create flat sandwich of sulfur, molybdenum and selenium.

Researchers obtain decacene, the largest acene synthesised ever

Chemists have been able to generate elusive decacene, a molecule formed by the linear fusion of ten benzene rings, the longest acene prepared ever.

Single molecules can work as reproducible transistors - at room temperature

Engineers reproducibly achieve the current blockade effect using atomically precise molecules at room temperature, a result that could lead to shrinking electrical components and boosting data storage and computing power.

Researchers achieve major improvement for lensless computational microscopy

By employing special algorithms, researchers increased the resolution of obtained images without any changes in the technical characteristics of microscopes.

New SQUID-based detector opens up new fields of study with new level of sensitivity

Scientists have developed a new sensor array-based instrument that offers ultra-low noise detection of small amounts of energy for a number of applications.