A splash of detergent makes catalytic compounds more powerful

Instead of washing dishes, researchers put detergent to work molding nanoparticles into precise shapes to vastly improve their potency.

Building nanomaterials for next-generation computing

Scientists recently developed a blueprint to fabricate new nanoheterostructures using 2-D materials.

Insulator-metal transition at the nanoscale

By looking at the material with 50 nm resolution, the scientists were able to observe that defects in the material played an important role in initiating the phase transition from the insulator to the metal.