A fast and inexpensive nanotube device to capture and identify viruses

Researchers synthesized a gradient of aligned carbon nanotube forest arrays to capture different viruses according to their size and detect them in-situ using Raman spectroscopy. They designed and assembled a portable platform that enriches virus particles from several milliliters of clinical samples in a couple of minutes.

Nanowire device splits and recombines superconducting electron pairs

A nanowire device could help explore a form of superconductivity that features exotic particles with potential uses in quantum computing.

Brain-like functions emerging in a metallic nanowire network

Emerging fluctuation-based functionalities are expected to open a way to novel memory device technology.

Surface acoustic waves in graphene: straintronics with nanoquakes

Researchers have shown that the properties of graphene can be locally and dynamically modulated by means of a surface acoustic wave, a kind of earthquake on a chip, generated with an integrated transducer on a piezoelectric substrate holding the graphene sheet.