Adding some salt to the recipe for energy storage materials

Researchers use common table salt as growth template.

Manipulating light inside opaque layers

Light propagating in a layer of scattering nanoparticles, shows the principle of diffusion. The deeper light is penetrating into the layer, the lower the energy density. Scientists managed to turn this falling diffusion curve into a rising one, by manipulating the incident light.

The atom without properties

The microscopic world is governed by the rules of quantum mechanics, where the properties of a particle can be completely undetermined and yet strongly correlated with those of other particles. Physicists have observed these so-called Bell correlations for the first time between hundreds of atoms.

Cleaning up hybrid battery electrodes improves capacity and lifespan

New way of building supercapacitor-battery electrodes eliminates interference from inactive components.

Nanopore array advances single molecule electronic DNA sequencing

Researchers achieve real-time single molecule electronic DNA sequencing at single-base resolution using a protein nanopore array - a future platform for precision medicine.

Scientists blend coinage metals to obtain alloys better than gold

Scientists have developed a novel method for altering the light reflected or absorbed by a material by match-making combinations of gold, silver, and copper into various mixtures of metals, or alloys.

Meet the nanomachines that could drive a medical revolution

Here are four more tiny machines that could have a big impact.