A nanoscale glimpse at corrosion in real-time

Using a device called the Surface Forces Apparatus (SFA), scientists investigated the process of crevice and pitting corrosion and were able to get a real-time look at the process of corrosion on confined surfaces.

One vaccine injection could carry many doses

Microparticles created by new 3-D fabrication method could release drugs or vaccines long after injection.

Ultrafast snapshots of relaxing electrons in solids

The electron motion lasted only 750 billionths of the billionth of a second before it fainted, setting a new record of human capability to capture ultrafast processes inside solids.

Sorting molecules with DNA robots

A DNA nanorobot is programmed to pick up and sort molecules into predefined regions.

Researchers revolutionize the atomic force microscope

Nanoscale probe combined with optical 'whispering gallery' makes the difference.

Filtering molecules from the water or air with nanomembranes (w/video)

Physicists are producing and carrying out research on extra-thin foils.

In step toward controlling chemistry, physicists create a new molecule, atom by atom

Study paves the way for creating on and off buttons for chemical reactions.

Nanotechnology experts create first terahertz-speed polarization optical switch

Researchers have for the first time used optics rather than electronics to switch a nanometer-thick thin film device from completely dark to completely transparent, or light, at a speed of trillionths of a second.

Graphene-wrapped nanocrystals make inroads toward next-gen fuel cells

Simulations and analysis provide new atomic-scale clues to material's enhanced hydrogen storage properties.

Physicists predict nonmetallic half-metallicity

Scientists have demonstrated a theoretical mechanism for achieving half-metallicity that requires no transition metal atoms. This possibility would have a number of useful applications, including in implantable devices.

The self-healing powers of pure gold

Materials with a shape memory so far have had to be composed of various components in a painstaking process but scientists now discovered self-healing powers of pure gold.

New grant to advance possible nanotechnology metastatic breast cancer treatment in record time

A team of researchers and clinicians received two grants totaling over $15.7 million to accelerate a possible nanomedicine treatment for metastatic breast cancer.