Creating better devices: The etch stops here

A team of multi-disciplinary scientists and engineers have discovered a new, more precise, method to create nanoscale-size electromechanical devices.

Do kitchen items shed antimicrobial nanoparticles after use?

Study finds very low amounts released after cutting, washing or scratching.

Catalyzing CO2

New system opens the door to transforming CO2 into industrial fuels.

Unlocking the secrets of metal-insulator transitions

X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy used to understand electrical conductivity transitions in magnetite.

Powerful method probes small-molecule structures

For scientists to understand how therapeutic molecules work and how to design beneficial ones, they need to know the precise arrangement of atoms and chemical bonds. Now researchers have found a faster, simpler and potentially more reliable way to solve the structures of small molecules.

Pore size alone does not matter when biological nanopores act as sugar chain biosensors

The effectiveness of nanopore biosensors capable of identifying sugar chains from biological molecules involved in key biological processes also depends on the nanopore's electrical charge and inner pore design.

Healing kidneys with nanotechnology

Researchers describe a new method for treating and preventing acute kidney injury. Their technique involves the use of self-assembling nanostructures.

Skin-like sensor maps blood-oxygen levels anywhere in the body

New device could track oxygenation of healing wounds in real time.

Metallic nanocatalysts imitate the structure of enzymes

An international team of researchers has transferred certain structural characteristics of natural enzymes, which ensure particularly high catalytic activity, to metallic nanoparticles. The desired chemical reaction thus did not take place at the particle surface as usual, but in channels inside the metal particles - and with three times higher catalytic activity.

Revealing the inner working of magnetic materials

Researchers describe what happens inside magnetic materials at high temperatures.

Sunlight turns membrane into a self-cleaning, pollutant-eating powerhouse

Scientists have invented a membrane that, when exposed to sunlight, can clean itself and also actively degrade pollutants.

A burst of 'synchronous' light

Sandwich structure of nanocrystals as quantum light source.