A sticky situation for nanomaterials

Researchers 'get rough' with nanomaterials to eliminate problematic stickiness caused by smooth surfaces.

Adding stress boosts performance, stability for fuel cells

Scientists design outstanding catalysts by controlling the composition and shape of these tiny plate-like structures on the nanoscale.

Water in one dimension

Confined within tiny carbon nanotubes, extremely cold water molecules line up in a highly ordered chain.

New nanomaterial can extract hydrogen fuel from seawater

Hybrid material converts more sunlight and can weather seawater's harsh conditions.

Quantum dots can supercharge current antibiotics

Quantum dots can provide a crucial boost in effectiveness for antibiotic treatments used to combat drug-resistant superbugs such as E. coli and Salmonella.

Nanoparticle imaging agents developed to better monitor growth of tumours

New tools would help doctors make better and quicker treatment decisions for cancer patients.

Nanoscale islands dot light-driven catalyst

Scientists develop method to make multifunctional plasmonic nanostructures.

Memristors to make computers faster, smaller and more efficient

Enabling faster, smaller and ultra-low-power computers with memristors could have a big impact on embedded technologies, which enable Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, and portable healthcare sensing systems.

The road less traveled: How to switch assembly pathways

Big impacts on crystal formation result from small changes and reveal design principles for new materials for solar cells, more.

Tungsten offers nano-interconnects a path of least resistance

Researchers conducted electron transport measurements in epitaxial single-crystal layers of tungsten as a potential interconnect solution.

Terahertz nanoprobing for ultrafast surface dynamics measurements of bulk semiconductors

Researchers have demonstrated ultrafast surface dynamics measurements of bulk semiconductors (SI-InP and SI-GaAs) using a THz nanoprobing method.

Bringing superconducting single-photon detectors in from the cold

A new form of compact cooling technology developed for space astronomy could pave the way for use of advanced superconducting detectors for better cancer treatments, driverless cars and practical quantum communications.