Korean researchers make a tiny switch from carbon nanotubes.
Carol Stanier
Three-Color Display by Surface Patterning
Two dyes give three colors on a hierarchically patterned surface, in work by German and Chinese scientists.
Microelectronics from MOFs: Single Crystal Microstructuring
Conductive metallic 3D nanostructures can be made inside a single crystal of a photocatalytically active metal-organic framework, say Belgian scientists.
Graphene Tracks for Aluminum Trains: Nanomaterials Engineering
Aluminum clusters move along graphene tracks, controlled by applied electric currents, in work by Spanish and Dutch researchers.
Gold Nanoparticle Network Growth
Assembly of metallic nanoparticles into chains or plasmonic networks is affected by temperature and kinetics.
How to Spot Monolayers
UK scientists develop method to produce and identify boron nitride monolayers like graphene using simple laboratory techniques.
Bionanoelectronics – No Frankenstein
Science-fiction becomes science fact: How bionanoelectronics will revolutionize the world through medical and computational advances.
Nano is Super: How to Make Supercapacitors from Nanomaterials
A supercapacitor with high power and energy density is made using nanocomposites containing carbon nanotubes.
DNA Fragments Throw Light on Nuclease Activity
Nuclease activity can be detected by a simple, sensitive, and selective test based on light scattering of carbon nanotubes, with no need for a label.
Nontoxic Nanoparticles
US scientists show the mechanism of toxicity of gold nanoparticles in living cells, and demonstrate that the nanoparticles are not toxic under diagnostic conditions.