Researchers introduce new route to thermal measurements with nanometer resolution

Scientists report on a versatile platform for nanoscale thermal measurements based on a combination of magnetic resonance, and optical and atomic force microscopy.

Interference at a double slit made of two atoms

Scientists observe unusual interference phenomena by scattering laser light from two atoms trapped inside an optical resonator.

Chemists combine biology, nanotechnology to create alternate energy source

Chemists have made a transformational advance in an alternate lighting source - one that doesn't require a battery or a plug.

New 2-D material could upstage graphene

The new material is made up of silicon, boron and nitrogen - all light, inexpensive and earth abundant elements - and is extremely stable, a property many other graphene alternatives lack.

Nanotechnology delivery system offers new approach to skin disease therapies

Scientists have developed a nanotechnology-based delivery system containing a protective cellular pathway inducer that activates the body's natural defense against free radicals efficiently, a development that could control a variety of skin pathologies and disorders.

Stretchable electronics that quadruple in length (w/video)

Researchers have developed conductive tracks that can be bent and stretched up to four times their original length. They could be used in artificial skin, connected clothing and on-body sensors.

New form of electron-beam imaging can see elements that are 'invisible' to common methods

Scientists have developed a new imaging technique, tested on samples of nanoscale gold and carbon, that greatly improves images of light elements using fewer electrons.

Nanoparticles on nanosteps

Researchers have developed a material that maintains the stability of a dispersed catalyst, thus maximising the efficiency of the process and decreasing costs and wastage.

Scrutinizing the tip of molecular probes

Nature of interaction of probe molecules on the surface of oxide particles elucidated.

Determining the structures of nanocrystalline pharmaceuticals by electron diffraction

Reliable information about the structure of pharmaceutical compounds is important for patient safety, for the development of related drugs and for patenting purposes. However, working out the structures of pharmaceuticals can be tough.

How metal clusters grow

First the nucleus, then the shell: Researchers have studied stepwise formation of metal clusters, smallest fractions of metals in molecular form.

Artificial control of exciplexes opens possibilities for new electronics

Demonstrating a strategy that could form the basis for a new class of electronic devices with uniquely tunable properties, researchers were able to widely vary the emission color and efficiency of organic light-emitting diodes based on exciplexes simply by changing the distance between key molecules in the devices by a few nanometers.

Electron microscopy captures snapshot of structure coronaviruses use to enter cells

Atomic model suggests vaccine strategies against deadly pandemic viruses such as SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV.

Preventing protein unfolding with polymers

Researchers have theoretically demonstrated that small proteins can be reinforced with covalently bonded polymers against mechanical unfolding.

SUN fosters international dialogue among top researchers, professionals and young scientists in the field of Nanotechnologies

The EU FP7 SUN Sustainable Nanotechnologies Project has successfully hosted a week of high ranking, international nanotechnology events in Venice in the period 22 ? 29 January 2016.

Graphene 'moth eyes' to power future smart technologies

Patterned graphene sheets will be essential in designing future technologies such as 'smart wallpaper' and Internet-of-things applications.

New cell-sorting technology could improve the development of cell therapies

Researchers create magnetic ratcheting system that could help prepare medical therapies more quickly and accurately.

World's first parallel computer based on biomolecular motors

A study reports the realization of a parallel computer based on designed nanofabricated channels explored in a massively parallel fashion by protein filaments propelled by molecular motors.

Solar cells as light as a soap bubble

Imagine solar cells so thin, flexible, and lightweight that they could be placed on almost any material or surface, including your hat, shirt, or smartphone, or even on a sheet of paper or a helium balloon.

Quantum physicists turn to the dark state

A team of quantum physicists managed to tame a so-called 'dark state', created in a superconducting qubit.

Microrobots learn from ciliates

A swimming microrobot formed from liquid-crystal elastomers is driven by a light-induced peristaltic motion.

New catalyst makes hydrogen peroxide accessible to developing world

Scientists have developed a method of producing hydrogen peroxide on demand through a simple, one-step process. The method enables dilute H2O2 to be made directly from hydrogen and oxygen in small quantities on-site.

Graphene slides smoothly across gold

Researchers have been studying the lubricity of graphene on the nanometer scale. Since it produces almost no friction at all, it could drastically reduce energy loss in machines when used as a coating.

New trigger for self-powered mechanical movement

A new way to use the chemical reactions of certain enzymes to trigger self-powered mechanical movement has been developed by a team of researchers.

Pulling water from thin air

Inspired by a desert beetle, cactus and pitcher plant, researchers design a new material to collect water droplets.

Immune cells don't always ward off carbon nano invaders

have found evidence that some carbon nanomaterials can enter into immune cell membranes, seemingly going undetected by the cell's built-in mechanisms for engulfing and disposing of foreign material, and then escape through some unidentified pathway.

Physicists promise a copper revolution in nanophotonics

Researchers have proved that copper nanophotonic components can operate successfully in photonic devices - it was previously believed that only gold and silver components have the required properties for this. It means that light-based computers are closer to reality than ever before - copper is cheaper than gold or silver.

Material enables more reliable and meaningful self-screening

Paper-based diagnostics enable rapid medical test results at minimal cost - and now they're about to get even better. A new synthetic paper could enable simultaneous screenings for multiple conditions, with more reliable results.

Quantum dot solids: This generation's silicon wafer?

Just as the single-crystal silicon wafer forever changed the nature of electronics 60 years ago, a group of researchers is hoping its work with quantum dot solids - crystals made out of crystals - can help usher in a new era in electronics.

The key to mass-producing nanomaterials (w/video)

Researchers have created a new way to manufacture nanoparticles that will transform the process from a painstaking, batch-by-batch drudgery into a large-scale, automated assembly line.

Counting molecules with an ordinary cell phone

To address the need for a robust readout system for quantitative diagnostics, researchers have invented a new visual readout method that uses analytical chemistries and image processing to provide unambiguous quantification of single nucleic-acid molecules that can be performed by any cell-phone camera.

Breakthrough for lab-on-a-chip material

Researchers have developed a new polymer suited for photostructuring - a technique for creating micro-scale shapes. The discovery opens new possibilities for medical diagnostics, biophotonics and 3D printing.

New research introduces 'pause button' for boiling

Using a focused laser beam to essentially hit the pause button on boiling, scientists have created a single vapor bubble in a pool of liquid that can remain stable on a heated surface for hours, instead of milliseconds. This method gives researchers time to study vapor bubbles and determine ways to optimize the boiling process.

Unmasking the properties of 2D materials

Innovative method creates larger sheets of two-dimensional materials.

Fine-grained memory loss

Nanocrystalline shape memory alloys lose their memory as the crystalline grains get smaller.

The inner light: Nanotechnology reveals density of tumors

Tumor permeability can be a critical factor in how well a cancer therapy works. MSK researchers developed a method to measure this by creating living tumor spheroids and infiltrating them with carbon nanotubes that give off infrared light.

DNA 'Trojan horse' smuggles drugs into resistant cancer cells

Cells mistake DNA casing for food, consume drugs and die.

Nano-hinge lubricated by light

A nanoplasmonic system of DNA bundles can be opened and closed by optical means.

Controlling ultrafast electrons in motion

This experiment opens the way to the study of more complex processes which occur in nature on the scale of attoseconds (billionths of a billionth of a second), such as photosynthesis, combustion, catalysis and atmospheric chemistry.

Researchers develop new DNA nanopore analysis technique using infrared laser heat

Researchers have developed a new technique for analyzing DNA molecules that suggests the possibility for improving forensic DNA workflows for more rapid and accurate identification.

New microchip shrinks radar cameras to fit into a palm

Researchers have developed a chip that allows new radar cameras to be made a hundred times smaller than current ones.

How to make electrons behave like a liquid

Analysis predicts exotic behaviors such as negative resistance, based on fluid-like effects.

Using plasmonics to transmit more data

New scheme opens a door for transmitting information much faster.

Researcher's chiral graphene stacks break new ground

Until very recently, 'handedness' in large area films with atomic scale precision hadn?t been investigated. A research team now has broken new ground in this area, developing a chiral atomically thin film only 2-atoms-thick, through circular stacking of graphene.

Quantum processes control accurately to several attoseconds

For the first time, scientists managed to control movements of electrons with the precision to one billionth of a billionth of a second.

Research team finds no safety threat from short-term exposure to industrial nanoparticles

Short-term exposure to engineered nanoparticles used in semiconductor manufacturing poses little risk to people or the environment, according to a widely read research paper.

New light wave compression for really seeing at the molecular level

New silicon platform compresses light waves past their diffraction limit to vastly improve resolution for bio-imaging and nano lithography applications.

Chemically storing solar power

Researchers have developed a photo-electrochemical cell that can chemically store the energy of ultraviolet light even at high temperatures.

Researchers use 3D printing to make ultrafast graphene supercapacitor

Printable, ultralight graphene aerogel opens the door to novel designs of highly efficient energy storage systems for smartphones and other devices.

Successful real-time observation of atomic motion with sub-nanometer resolution

Researchers have succeeded in using the immensely powerful x-ray pulses from the free electron laser (XFEL) facility SACLA to investigate excited-state induced transient lattice dynamics on sub-picosecond time scales in phase-change materials via x-ray diffraction.

A portable device for rapid and highly sensitive diagnostics

When remote regions with limited health facilities experience an epidemic, they need portable diagnostic equipment that functions outside the hospital. As demand for such equipment grows, researchers have developed a low-cost and portable microfluidic diagnostic device. It has been tested on Ebola and can be used to detect many other diseases.

Gold sensor is latest in a series of metal-detecting biosensors

Instead of a pan and a pick ax, prospectors of the future might seek gold with a hand-held biosensor that uses a component of DNA to detect traces of the element in water.

Breakthrough in dynamically variable negative stiffness structures

Researchers have developed an active variable stiffness vibration isolator capable of 100x stiffness changes and millisecond actuation times.

Moving electrons around loops with light: A quantum device based on geometry

Scientists demonstrate versatile, noise-tolerant quantum operations on a single electron.