More stable light comes from intentionally 'squashed' quantum dots

Exploiting new ?strain engineering? approach produces highly stable, narrow linewidth light from individual quantum dots.

Cartilage could be key to safe 'structural batteries'

Your knees and your smartphone battery have some surprisingly similar needs and that new insight has led to a 'structural battery' prototype that incorporates a cartilage-like material to make the batteries highly durable and easy to shape.

Chemical synthesis of benzene nanotubes

For the first time, researchers used benzene - a common hydrocarbon - to create a novel kind of molecular nanotube, which could lead to new nanocarbon-based semiconductor applications.

Atomic-scale capillaries block smallest ions, thanks to graphene

Researchers have succeeded in making artificial channels just one atom in size for the first time. The new capillaries, which are very much like natural protein channels such as aquaporins, are small enough to block the flow of smallest ions.

Researchers demonstrate perovskite's potential in spintronic systems

Researchers present two devices built using perovskite to demonstrate the material?s potential in spintronic systems. Its properties bring the dream of a spintronic transistor one step closer to reality.

2D materials may enable electric vehicles to get 500 miles on a single charge

A number of their 2D materials, when incorporated into experimental lithium-air batteries as the catalyst, enabled the battery to hold up to 10 times more energy than lithium-air batteries containing traditional catalysts.

Chirality in 'real-time'

Scientists have for the first time developed a method that uses ultrashort deep-ultraviolet pulses to accurately probe such changes in real-time in (bio)molecular systems.

Reseaechers develop bioinspired, nontoxic nanoscale drug delivery method

Researchers have developed a novel way to deliver drugs and therapies into cells at the nanoscale without causing toxic effects that have stymied other such efforts.

Nanomaterials are changing the world - but we still don't have adequate safety tests for them

Although standard hazard assessments are available for a wide range of things - such as chemical compounds - nanomaterials have unique properties so cannot be evaluated in exactly the same way.

Saving energy by taking a close look inside transistors

New method finds defects in power transistors more accurately, quickly and simply.