Nanotechnology-based solution to boost oil recovery

Nanofluid performance is comparable to more expensive methods.

New, better way to build circuits for world's first useful quantum computers

Researchers have devised and demonstrated a new way to pack a lot more quantum computing power into a much smaller space and with much greater control than ever before.

Scientists explain unusual and effective features in perovskite

An international team of scientists have described how charge-carrying particles move in perovskite.

Scientists develop nanomachines to diagnose illness

Researchers designed a nanomachine capable of detecting a mockup of the Ebola virus.

Building a smart cardiac patch with nanoelectronic scaffolds and living cells

'Bionic' cardiac patch could one day monitor and respond to cardiac problems.

Nanoscopic watermark sorts fakes from genuines (w/video)

Products with this watermark, which is invisible to the naked eye and only shows up under ultraviolet light, are impossible to counterfeit.

Tough new hydrogel hybrid doesn't dry out (w/video)

Water-based material could be used to make artificial skin, longer-lasting contact lenses.

Low-current, highly integrable spintronics device developed

The new device was fabricated by combining a solid electrolyte with a magnetic material, and enabling insertion/removal of ions into/from the magnetic material through application of voltage.

Discovery of large thermoelectric effect in organic compound at near-zero temperature

Researchers experimentally discovered that an organic compound can exhibit the large thermoelectric effect when it becomes semiconducting materials at extremely low temperature.

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New electron-beam writing technique controls electronic properties for future on-demand re-configurable electronics.

A shampoo bottle that empties completely - every last drop (w/video)

Nanocoating to make soap pour cleanly out of plastic bottles, reduce waste and frustration.