Powerful new photodetector can enable optoelectronics advances

Researchers have fabricated a nanoscale photodetector that combines a unique fabrication method and light-trapping structures.

Researchers develop tumor-targeting MRI contrast based on human protein

Scientists have designed a human protein-based tumor-targeting MRI contrast that can be easily cleared by the body. The discovery has great promise for clinical applications.

'Shape memory' effect demonstrated in gold particles

Achieved through defects-mediated diffusion in the particle, the discovery could one day lead to development of micro- and nano-robots capable of self-repair; mechanically stable and damage-tolerant components and devices; and targeted drug delivery.

Nanoscale forces measured in aortic smooth muscle cells tell story of disease

Researchers use nanonet force microscopy to measure forces in aortic smooth muscle cells to track progression of disease.

Flexible and cost-effective fabrication of nature inspired structural colors

Scientists have successfully developed a new and cost-effective method for obtaining biomimetic structural colors with the ability to finely tune the completed structures.

Nanoscale motion sends light into overdrive

Researchers demonstrate record strong conversion of motion into light.

Majorana-highway on a chip

Researchers have combined novel nanowires with a high-quality interface to other required materials on a chip. This allows for bullet-like collisionless quantum transport of charges through the nanowires: a requirement for larger-scale Majorana-based experiment.

Testing graphene in zero-gravity conditions for space applications

Two experiments, testing graphene in zero-gravity conditions, are being prepared by researchers to be launched in November.

Meniscus-assisted technique produces high efficiency perovskite PV films

A new low-temperature solution printing technique allows fabrication of high-efficiency perovskite solar cells with large crystals intended to minimize current-robbing grain boundaries.

Detection for the masses

Researchers develop mass spectrometry for general use.

A duet of firsts: Imaging chemical building blocks

Scientists break the bottleneck of imaging complex building blocks for molecular sieves and catalysts.