Hybrid optics bring color imaging using ultrathin metalenses into focus

Scientists announced that they have successfully combined two different imaging methods - a type of lens designed for nanoscale interaction with lightwaves, along with robust computational processing - to create full-color images.

Today's highest quality composite-piezoelectric

An international team of scientists has managed to develop a composite material that has the best piezoelectric properties today.

Tiny drug-delivering capsules could sustain transplanted insulin-producing cells

A drug-carrying microsphere within a cell-bearing microcapsule could be the key to transplanting insulin-secreting pig pancreas cells into human patients whose own cells have been destroyed by type I diabetes.

Using injectable self-assembled nanomaterials for sustained delivery of drugs

New injectable delivery system can slowly release drug carriers for months.

Cancer-fighting nanorobots programmed to seek and destroy tumors

Study shows first applications of DNA origami for nanomedicine.

Scalable two-dimensional materials advance future-gen electronics

Researchers have developed a multistep process to make single crystal atomically-thin films of tungsten diselenide across large-area sapphire substrates.

Preventing the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope from crashing into the surface of a material

Scientists believe they have addressed a long-standing problem troubling scientists and engineers for more than 35 years: How to prevent the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope from crashing into the surface of a material during imaging or lithography.