From dark to light in a flash: Smart film lets windows switch autonomously

Researchers have developed a new easy-to-use smart optical film technology that allows smart window devices to autonomously switch between transparent and opaque states in response to the surrounding light conditions.

Smart molecules could be key to computers with 100-times bigger memories

Researchers have discovered a single molecule switch that can act like a transistor and offers the potential to store binary information.

Molecular circuitry: International team breaks one-diode-one resistor electronics

By creating a new type of molecular circuit switch, the team may have just opened the door to ultra-high-density computing within our lifetime.

Exotic nanotubes move in less-mysterious ways

Scientists show boron nitride's promise for composites, biomedical applications.

Stretchable variable color nanosheet changes color with expansion and contraction

Variable color sheets with a film thickness of 400 nanometers are expected to be applied to adhesive-type display elements, as they can adhere to skin or be transferred to various electronic devices at room temperature utilizing the high adhesiveness of elastomers.

Joined nano-triangles pave the way to magnetic carbon materials

Graphene triangles with an edge length of only a few atoms behave like peculiar quantum magnets. When two of these nano-triangles are joined, a 'quantum entanglement' of their magnetic moments takes place: the structure becomes antiferromagnetic.