Researchers grow nanocircuitry with semiconducting graphene nanoribbons

In a development that could revolutionize electronic ciruitry, researchers have confirmed a new way to control the growth paths of graphene nanoribbons on the surface of a germainum crystal.

Toward clearer, cheaper imaging of ultrafast phenomena

A new, all-optical method for compressing narrow electron pulses to a billionth of a billionth of a second could improve real-time movies of chemical reactions and other ultrafast processes.

Quantum coherent-like state observed in a biological protein for the first time

So-called Froehlich condensation, a state in which protein molecules' vibrational modes coalesce at the lowest frequency, was first predicted almost five decades ago, but never experimentally demonstrated until now.

A resonator for electrons

Resonators are an important tool in physics. The curved mirrors inside the resonators usually focus light waves that act, for instance, on atoms. Physicists have now managed to build a resonator for electrons and to direct the standing waves thus created onto an artificial atom.

Building a better liposome

Computational models suggest new design for nanoparticles used in targeted drug delivery.

Researchers create light emitting diodes from food and beverage waste

In addition to utilizing food and beverage waste that would otherwise decompose and be of no use, this development can also reduce potentially harmful waste from LEDs generally made from toxic elements.

Breakthrough for iron based dyes can lead to cheaper and environmentally friendly solar energy applications

Researchers have found a new way to capture energy from sunlight by using molecules that contain iron. The hope is to develop efficient and environmentally friendly solar energy applications.

Wyss Institute launches new company to provide inexpensive access to super-resolution microscopy

The new startup seeks to bring unprecedented resolution and multiplexing power to standard microscopes at very low cost, aiming to transform biomedical discovery and digital pathology.

Grant for catalysis research on atomistic level

Researchers will produce a new research methodology that, on atomistic level, will enable customisation of the next generation of catalysts, which may become the cornerstones of future energy systems.

Nanoplasmonics makes the impossible possible

Researchers will take on a task that until now has been deemed impossible: creating strong interaction between light and magnetic fields and determining ways to control light with magnetism on the nanoscale.

Studies of individual nanoparticles can be the key to future catalysis

Studying catalytic processes on one single nanoparticle at a time, instead of on several billion simultaneously as has previously been the case, will create unique and more in-depth understanding of catalytic reactions on nanoparticles than previously possible - and it will at the same time lay the foundation for a new and sustainable energy technology and chemical synthesis.

Just a touch of skyrmions

Researchers have found a way to manipulate skyrmions - tiny nanometer-sized magnetic vortices found at the surface of magnetic materials - using mechanical energy.

Researchers extend the lifetime of atoms using a mirror

Researchers have succeeded in an experiment where they get an artificial atom to survive ten times longer than normal by positioning the atom in front of a mirror.

Graphene-coated 'e-textile' detects noxious gases

Scientists have developed wearable, graphene-coated fabrics that can detect dangerous gases present in the air, alerting the wearer by turning on an LED light.