Physicists create first metamaterial with rewritable magnetic ordering

Physicists have produced the first rewriteable artificial magnetic charge ice. The research shows strong potential for technological applications from information encoding, reprogrammable magnonics, and also to spintronics.

Nanocarriers may pack powerful treatment for brain tumors

Researchers have found that a lipid nanocarrier engineered to be small enough to get past the blood-brain barrier could be targeted to deliver a chemotherapeutic drug more efficiently to tumor cells in the brain.

Nanotubes are beacons in cancer-imaging technique

Bathing a patient in LED light may someday offer a new way to locate tumors, according to researchers.

Scientists explain how the giant magnetoelectric effect occurs in bismuth ferrite

Scientists have created a theoretical model which explains a previously little-studied phenomenon - a giant electromagnetic effect in bismuth ferrite.

Terahertz Spectroscopy

Spectroscopic system with chip-scale lasers cuts detection time from minutes to microseconds.

Two-stage nanoparticle delivery of piperlongumine and TRAIL anti-cancer therapy

A team of researchers has demonstrated a drug delivery mechanism that utilizes two independent vehicles, allowing for delivery of chemically and physically dis-tinct agents.

More light on cancer with nanoparticles

Scientists have succeeded to synthesize nanoparticles of ultrapure silicon, which exhibited the property of efficient photoluminescence, i.e., secondary light emission after photoexcitation.

Right size + right chemistry = right stuff for plastics manufacturing

New research has revealed a way to reduce the energy demand in one key step of plastic manufacturing by using a class of materials that can filter impurities more efficiently than the conventional manufacturing process.

The smallest car race in the world (w/video)

The first-ever international race of molecule-cars will take place at the CEMES laboratory in Toulouse this fall.

New nanoparticle catalysts could reduce need for precious metals

Researchers have found a way to get the same amount of catalytic activity with as little as one-tenth the amount of precious metal.

Graphene makes rubber more rubbery

Researchers have shown that adding a very small amount of graphene, the world?s thinnest and strongest material, to rubber films can increase both their strength and the elasticity by up to 50%.

Scientists unravel the quantum properties of graphene

An international team of researchers has now explained the peculiar behaviour of electrons moving through narrow constrictions in a graphene layer.

Travelling wave drives magnetic particles

New method for selectively controlling the motion of multiple sized microspheres suspended in water.