Supercomputing the 'how' of chemical reactions

Scientists use supercomputer systems to uncover the mechanisms behind chemical reactions.

Magnetic nanoparticles deliver chemotherapy to difficult-to-reach spinal tumors

Researchers have demonstrated that magnetic nanoparticles can be used to ferry chemotherapy drugs into the spinal cord to treat hard-to-reach spinal tumors in an animal model.

Trapping light that doesn't bounce off track for faster electronics

Replacing traditional computer chip components with light-based counterparts will eventually make electronic devices faster due to the wide bandwidth of light. A new protective metamaterial 'cladding' prevents light from leaking out of the very curvy pathways it would travel in a computer chip.

Nano-sized traps show promise in diagnosing pathogenic bacterial infections

New type of lab-on-chip device could quickly detect disease-causing bacteria, save lives.

Memory-processing unit could bring memristors to the masses

A new way of arranging advanced computer components called memristors on a chip could enable them to be used for general computing, which could cut energy consumption by a factor of 100.

Extreme conditions in semiconductors

Physicists have succeeded in experimentally demonstrating Wannier-Stark localization.

Great Pyramid of Giza inspires nanoparticle design

Study reveals the Great Pyramid of Giza can focus electromagnetic energy.

Looking inside the lithium battery's black box

Material scientists use stimulated Raman scattering microscopy to observe -- for the first time -- ions moving in liquid electrolyte; findings could lead to improving battery safety while also increasing next-generation energy storage.

Lasers write better graphene anodes

Laser-scribed disordered graphene significantly improves sodium-ion battery capacity.

Researchers construct all-optical nanowire pocket calculator

New findings have the potential to change how electronics process logic functions, the elementary building blocks of computing.

Researchers propose a facile, general, and effective strategy to prepare carbon nanomaterials

A research team proposes a simple, effective, and versatile method to prepare a series of functional carbin nanomaterials from small organic molecules by a transition metal assisted carbonization process.

Individual silver nanoparticles observed in real time

Chemists have developed a new method of observing the chemical reactions of individual silver nanoparticles in real time.

An expressway for electrons in oxide heterostructures

Physicists have developed a new methodology for determining the impact of screening effects on charge carrier mobility at the interface of complex material structures.