A new stretchable, transparent conductor can be stretched and released at least 10,000 times without showing signs of fatigue.
25 September 2015
A new synthetic material made from 1 billion tiny magnets undergoes phase transitions as the temperature changes.
25 September 2015
origami technique produces stiff but flexible engineering structures
24 September 2015Laurie Donaldson
A new ultra-thin invisibility ‘skin’ cloak can conform to the shape of an object and conceal it from detection with visible light.
24 September 2015
A team of physicists has induced stable ferroelectricity in a sheet of strontium titanate only a few nanometers thick.
23 September 2015
Scientists have developed coated silica nanoparticles for treating sensitive teeth.
23 September 2015
A new study of the catalytic behavior of platinum nanoparticles has revealed the importance of the iron oxide they sit on.
22 September 2015
For the first time, researchers have imaged how light moves inside an exotic class of matter known as hyperbolic materials.
22 September 2015
Simple, new technique creates tiny hollow cages of Pt with walls just a few atoms thick that could be used in catalysis.
21 September 2015Cordelia Sealy
Individual nanoparticles in solution can be resolved in 3D by combining developments in electron microscopy, biology, and computation.
21 September 2015Cordelia Sealy
Growing graphene on a liquid layers enables the production of high quality, large single crystals.
18 September 2015Cordelia Sealy
Japanese arts of origami (paper folding) and kirigami (paper cutting) inspire scientists and engineers to make graphene into three-dimensional structures.
18 September 2015Cordelia Sealy
Combining super-resolution microscopy and fluorescence spectroscopy produces a new technique for studying pores.
17 September 2015
Growing magnetic layers on a 2D crystal can provide highly local control over the preferred direction of the magnetism.
16 September 2015
A new 'electron camera' shows how individual atoms move to form wrinkles in a single layer of molecules.
16 September 2015
Elsevier celebrate Kris Matyjaszewski’s 65th Birthday with a Special Issue of polymer on Macromolecular Engineering dedicated to him.
14 September 2015Dr Rumen Duhlev
Canadian physicists have produced superconducting graphene for the first time, by coating it with lithium atoms.
14 September 2015
A novel material is able to split water by using gold nanoparticles to produce hot electrons.
14 September 2015
A new one-step process can make carbon-based nanomaterials that possess superior physical properties in three dimensions.
10 September 2015
A new way to study nanoparticles one at a time has revealed that seemingly identical particles can have very different properties.
10 September 2015
Scientists have created the first synthetic structure made of both protein and DNA.
9 September 2015
Theoretical calculations suggest that the properties of atom-thick sheets of boron depend on where those atoms are deposited.
7 September 2015
An innovative method for getting nanoparticles to self-assemble utilizes the medium in which the particles are suspended.
7 September 2015
The inner space of carbon nanotubes can act as a template for the synthesis of nanodiamond-like carbon chains.
7 September 2015
Scientists have successfully wrapped up droplets in thin polymer sheets.
4 September 2015
4 September 2015Zara Preston
Polymer scaffolding has allowed scientists to see how plant cells behave and interact with each other in a 3D environment.
2 September 2015