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.

A torque on conventional magnetic wisdom

Physicists have observed a magnetic phenomenon called the 'anomalous spin-orbit torque' (ASOT) for the first time.

Search for new semiconductors heats up with gallium oxide

Electrical engineers have cleared another hurdle in high-power semiconductor fabrication by adding the field's hottest material - beta-gallium oxide - to their arsenal.

Standard light microscopes get an upgrade to see inside cells

Infrared laser attachment causes specific molecules to vibrate.

Dermal tattoo sensors for the detection of blood pH change and metabolite levels

The art of tattooing may have found a diagnostic twist. A team of scientists has developed permanent dermal sensors that can be applied as artistic tattoos.