Illustration of plasmon waves created by an ultrafast laser coupled to an atomic force microscopy tip. The plasmon waves are shown as concentric red and…
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Protein nanowires (light green) harvested from Geobacter (background) are sandwiched between electrodes (gold) to form bioelectronic sensor for detection of biomolecules (red). Credit: UMass Amherst/Yao…
MIT chemical engineers have designed a sensor that can be embedded into plant leaves and measure hydrogen peroxide levels, which indicate that damage has occurred.…
Artistic illustration of a cloud of atoms with pairs of particles entangled between each other, represented by the yellow-blue lines. Credit: © ICFO Quantum entanglement…
Schematic illustrating the procedure of converting a 2D nanofiber mat into a cylinder-shaped nanofiber scaffold with (a) a hollow tube-shaped mold for a cylindrical shape…
An international team has proposed a novel method that allows to widely extend this range of working frequencies of phonon polaritons in van der Waals…
The smart protection mechanism of responsive nanotube membranes against environmental threats. The collapse of actuating polymer chains on the contaminated membrane surface prevents nerve agents…
A team at UPV’s Nanophotonics Technology Center has discovered a new fundamental symmetry in electromagnetism, acoustics and elasticity laws: a temporal supersymmetry. Credit: UPV A…
In this illustration, two sheets of graphene are stacked together at a slightly offset “magic” angle, which can become either an insulator or superconductor. “We…
Graphene Nanomesh. Credit: Hiroshi Mizuta, JAIST Researchers at Japan advanced institute of science and technology (JAIST) have successfully fabrication the suspended graphene nanomesh in a…
MIT engineers have developed magnetic nanoparticles (shown in white squares) that can stimulate the adrenal gland to produce stress hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol.…
Graphene light sail of 3mm in diameter with a mass of 0.25 mg ‘sets sail’ when pointed with a 1W laser. The prototype has a…
A schematic and electron microscope cross-section show the structure of an integrated, solar-powered catalyst to split water into hydrogen fuel and oxygen. The module developed…
An artistic impression of the metasurface laser to produce super-chiral twisted light with OAM up to 100. Credit: Wits University Laser opens up a new…
Silicon microspheres have extraordinary mechanical strength due to the addition of carbon nanotubes which make the spheres resemble balls of yarn. In this representation, the…
(Click image for full view.) Engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis have received federal funding for a rapid…
QR-Code on Perovskite. Credit: Small Scientists have developed a method for precise, fast, and high-quality laser processing of halide perovskites, promising light-emitting materials for solar…
A hydrogel can cool off electronics and generate electricity from their waste heat. Scale bar, 2 cm. Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00800…
This is an artist’s impression of a self-assembled layer of functionalized buckyballs. The fullerenes attach to the metal surface, and the glycol-ether tails induce self-assembly…
Corrugations in graphene slow down the pace of traveling electrons. By pulling on the graphene sheet on two opposite sides, it is flattened and smoothed,…