Spin-gapless semiconductors review

Spin-gapless semiconductors with their fascinating spin and charge states hold great potential for future spintronic technology.

Scientists unveil mechanism to obtain metal 'nanoscrews'

Researchers deposit gold atoms onto gold nanorods in a practically helicoidal structure.

Chemists achieve breakthrough in the synthesis of graphene nanoribbons

Researchers have succeeded in producing graphene nanoribbons for the first time directly on the surface of semiconductors. Until now, this was only possible on metal surfaces.

Researchers discover new boron-lanthanide nanostructure

A newly discovered nanocluster has a geometry that has not been observed in chemistry heretofore.

New 'hybrid engine' for biodegradable nanomotors that transport drugs to diseased tissue

Inorganic nanoparticles stored in the nanomotors create oxygen nanobubbles for propulsion.

Simple process for 'two-faced' nanomaterials may aid energy, information tech

Researchers used a simple process to implant atoms precisely into the top layers of ultra-thin crystals, yielding two-sided structures with different chemical compositions. The resulting materials, known as Janus structures after the two-faced Roman god, may prove useful in developing energy and information technologies.

Intense light pulses bounce on a crystalline bed without rumpling the atomic blanket

Scientists developed a new technique that uses intense X-ray pulses to measure how atoms move in a sheet of material just one molecule thick.