Japanese paper art inspires new 3-D nanofabrication method

Researchers have created complex 3-D micro- and nanostructures out of silicon and other materials found in advanced technologies using a new assembly method that uses cuts to advantage.

By combining semiconducting nanowires and bacteria to produce liquid fuel

Three pioneers in the field of synthetic photosynthesis discuss the potential of this technology and the challenges that must be overcome to make it commonplace.

Silicon nanoparticle is a new candidate for an ultrafast all-optical transistor

Physicists have experimentally demonstrated the feasibility of designing an optical analog of a transistor based on a single silicon nanoparticle.

Half diamond, half cubic boron, all cutting business

Researchers combine diamond and cubic boron nitride with a novel alloying process for a superhard material.

Nano-dunes with the ion beam

Researchers have demonstrated a method for self-organization of nanostructured arrays via broad ion beam irradiation.

Researchers create super-stretchable metallic conductors for flexible electronics

The discovery could lead to dramatic improvements and addresses one of the biggest challenges in flexible electronics, an industry still in its infancy with applications such as bendable batteries, robotic skins, wearable monitoring devices and sensors, and connected fabrics.

Novel efficient and low-cost semitransparent perovskite solar cells with graphene electrodes

The new technology has power conversion efficiencies of around 12% when they are illuminated from fluorine-doped tin oxide bottom electrodes or the graphene top electrodes, compared with 7% of conventional semitransparent solar cells.

First superconducting graphene created

Physicists have been able to create the first ever superconducting graphene sample by coating it with lithium atoms.