A conductive polymer hydrogel could help repair damaged peripheral nerves. Courtesy: Adapted from ACS Nano 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c05197. Injuries to...

Since the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for research on graphene in 2010, 2-D materials—nanosheets with atomic thickness—have been...

The family of boron-based nanostructures has a new member: metallo-borospherenes, hollow cages made from 18 boron atoms and three atoms...

The technique for making them is simple, and counterintuitive—it involves smashing the pristine materials to build new ones. Called mechanochemistry,...

The importance of light-​based technologies for our society was demonstrated once more in recent weeks. Thanks to the internet, millions...

Microscope image, recorded using a scanning tunneling microscope, of the detector device (inside the dashed rectangle), connected to a wire...

University of Washington researchers used an infrared laser to cool a solid semiconductor material — labeled here as “cantilever” —...

Researchers at George Washington University have discovered a new way to engineer optoelectronic devices by stretching a two-dimensional material on...

ARTIDIS AG, a clinical stage health-tech company, announced today that its proprietary nanotechnology platform for cancer diagnosis has met the...

Therefore, PhD researcher Yuyang Wang uses a ‘plasmonic nanotorch’, a single metal nanoparticle that illuminates single fluorescent molecules, making it...