New nanocomposite material for wearable devices able to restore conductivity

New material for wearable devices can self-heal and recover its original electrical conductivity even after being significantly stretched or completely cut.

Unconventional phenomena triggered by acoustic waves in 2D materials

Researchers report a novel phenomenon, called Valley Acoustoelectric Effect, which takes place in 2D materials, similar to graphene.

Self-organizing molecules: Nanorings with two sides

Scientists succeeded in producing Janus nanorings with two different sides for the first time.

New multi-material 3D nanoprinting strategy could revolutionize optics, photonics and biomedicine

The engineer's new technique - capable of printing tiny multi-material structures a fraction of the size of a human hair - offers researchers a faster, cheaper, and more accurate means to 3D print these highly complex structures because the process uses a very simple molding process that is widely used in most microfluidics labs.

Towards a light driven molecular assembler

Scientists built the first artificial assembler, which uses light as the energy source. These molecular machines are performing synthesis in a similar way as biological nanomachines.

Physicists have let light through the plane of the world's thinnest semiconductor crystal

The distribution of light polarisation in space turned out to be similar to the three-coloured rapana.