Scientists design new heat-guiding device that is thinner than a hair

Researchers have designed for the first time a heat-guiding structure on the size of nanometers that can steer heat away from, or even towards critical regions of current silicon (or advanced chalcogenide) chips through computer simulations.

A flexible, stretchable, self-healing ionic conductor (w/video)

Scientists have developed a transparent, self-healing, highly stretchable conductive material that can be electrically activated to power artificial muscles and could be used to improve batteries, electronic devices, and robots.

Programmable silk-based materials with embedded, pre-designed functions

Process enables creation of mechanical components with functionality, such as surgical pins that change color with strain.

Nanodiscs deliver personalized cancer therapy to immune system

Researchers have had initial success in mice using nanodiscs to deliver a customized therapeutic vaccine for the treatment of colon and melanoma cancer tumors.

Researchers use world's smallest diamonds to make wires 3 atoms wide

LEGO-style building method has potential for making 1-dimensional materials with extraordinary properties.

Curved kick on the nanoscale: Investigations of the skyrmion Hall effect reveal surprising results

One step further towards the application of skyrmions in spintronic devices.