Scientists design new responsive porous material inspired by proteins

Scientists have, for the first time, synthesized a new material that exhibits structural change and triggered chemical activity like a protein.

Self-sorting through molecular geometries

New findings show that self-sorting behavior can arise from the principle of geometrical complementarity by shape: in a mixture of specific pentagonal and hexagonal molecular building blocks, pentagons bind to pentagons and hexagons to hexagons, and no mixing occurs.

Nanocrystals get better when they double up with MOFs

Researchers develop design rules for self-assembling 2D nanocrystal/metal-organic framework-based materials for energy storage and catalysis applications.

Ultra-sensitive sensor with gold nanoparticle array

Physicists have developed a new type of sensor platform using a gold nanoparticle array, that's 100 times more sensitive than current similar sensors.

Artificial bug eyes

Researchers describe the preparation of bioinspired artificial compound eyes using a simple low-cost approach.