Quantum physics provides startling insights into biological processes

Researchers in the European project PAPETS are getting a more fundamental understanding of how photosynthesis works and this could result in the design of much more efficient solar cells.

Graphene-based film can be used for efficient cooling of electronics

The film has a thermal conductivity capacity that is four times that of copper; moreover, the graphene film is attachable to electronic components made of silicon.

Watching protein crystal growth in living cells in real time

In vivo protein crystallization offers exciting new possibilities for proteins that do not form crystals in vitro.

Researchers develop basic computing elements for bacteria

Sensors, memory switches, and circuits can be encoded in a common gut bacterium.

A graphene-based high-sensitivity tunable plasmonic biosensor

Researchers have harnessed graphene's unique optical and electronic properties to develop a reconfigurable highly sensitive molecule sensor.

Tunneling out of the surface

Scientists have discovered a new chemical reaction pathway on titanium dioxide (TiO2), an important photocatalytic material.

Layered semiconducting black arsenic phosphorus as an alternative to silicon

Chemists have developed a semiconducting material in which individual phosphorus atoms are replaced by arsenic and engineers have built the first field-effect transistors from the new material.