Promising new solar-powered path to hydrogen fuel production with graphene oxide

Engineers use a single enzyme biomineralization process to create a solar-driven water splitting catalyst that produces hydrogen with the potential to be manufactured sustainably, cheaply and abundantly.

How to use graphene to help future space exploration

Scientists have started testing novel graphene-based thermal management devices for space applications.

From Japanese basket weaving art to nanotechnology with ion beams

Physicists succeeded in producing the world's densest complex nano arrays for anchoring flux quanta, the fluxons.

Graphene discovery could help develop superconductors

Researchers paved the way to solving one of the most enduring mysteries in materials physics by discovering that in the presence of a moire pattern in graphene, electrons organize themselves into stripes, like soldiers in formation.

Nanoscopic slip layer dynamics reveal why some fluids flow faster than expected

New microscopy technique provides unprecedented insight into nanoscopic slip layers formed in flowing complex liquids.

DNA origami innovation increases accessibility, lowers cost

Researchers have developed a faster, cheaper and simpler alternative to typical DNA origami fabrication, increasing the technique's accessibility and potential impact in industry and clinical settings.

New research highlights similarities in the insulating states of twisted bilayer graphene and cuprates

Scientists explain how the electronic structure in twisted bilayer graphene influences the emergence of the insulating state in these systems, which is the precursor to superconductivity in high-Tc materials.

Low voltage LEDs with stacked atomically thin semiconductors

When atomically thin semiconductors are combined together in a Lego style, they emit light at a lower voltage potentially leading to low energy consumption devices.

Light in the nanoworld

Quantum light sources pave the way for optical circuits.