A novel microscopy technique for determining the 3D position of individual atoms can identify point defects in a material.
28 September 2015
By studying metallic glasses, scientists have revealed that the atoms in glass form a fractal pattern at small scales.
28 September 2015
A novel transparent material improves the performance of solar cells by shunting away heat while still letting through visible light.
25 September 2015
A team of physicists has induced stable ferroelectricity in a sheet of strontium titanate only a few nanometers thick.
23 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 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
Scientists have discovered that plastics don't need to possess ordered polymer chains in order to conduct electricity.
15 September 2015
Canadian physicists have produced superconducting graphene for the first time, by coating it with lithium atoms.
14 September 2015
A new one-step process can make carbon-based nanomaterials that possess superior physical properties in three dimensions.
10 September 2015
Theoretical calculations suggest that the properties of atom-thick sheets of boron depend on where those atoms are deposited.
7 September 2015
4 September 2015Zara Preston
A novel molecular system can both absorb carbon dioxide and selectively reduce it to carbon monoxide.
3 September 2015