Whispering gallery mode optical resonators for sensors.
29 November 2017David Bradley
Learning from sea creature spicules how to make cool glassy structures.
29 November 2017David Bradley
Self-healing composite has good mechanical properties and can be produced by conventional processing tools.
28 November 2017Cordelia Sealy
Overcoming the technical challenges of achieving extreme fast charging for electric vehicles.
28 November 2017Laurie Donaldson
Composite materials built from monolayers of graphene and a transition metal dichalcogenide can achieve fine electrical control over the spin of electrons.
27 November 2017
Scientists have discovered that the shape and repetitive organization of the building blocks in a metamaterial determine how it interacts with light.
27 November 2017
Oxygen-containing chemical species with biocidal properties are an alternative to conventional antibiotics, which are susceptible to resistance.
27 November 2017Cordelia Sealy
Synthetic microspheres with nanoscale holes that can absorb light at many frequencies have helped to reveal how leaf hoppers hide from predators.
24 November 2017
By taking advantage of electrostatic charge, scientists have induced synthetic polymers to self-assemble in a defined sequence, just like proteins.
24 November 2017
Submit your original research on recent advances in Atomic Layer Deposition to Materials Today Chemistry.
23 November 2017
3D piezoelectric fibrous scaffold stimulate stem cell differentiation and tissue formation.
23 November 2017Cordelia Sealy
New elastomers at a stretch thanks to inspiration from nature.
23 November 2017David Bradley
Surface reflections from glass surfaces can be reduced to nearly zero by etching tiny nanoscale features into them.
22 November 2017
Scientists report major progress in developing a new type of lithium-ion battery that utilizes cathodes made with so-called ‘disordered’ materials.
22 November 2017
Nanoscale patterns in metals known as nanotwins can stabilize defects associated with repetitive strain and limit the build-up of fatigue-related damage.
21 November 2017
Researchers have developed a new technique for creating novel nanoporous materials with unique optical, magnetic, electronic and catalytic properties.
21 November 2017
A simple method for manufacturing extremely low-density palladium nanofoams could help advance hydrogen storage technologies.
20 November 2017
Manipulating the joints between the nanotubes and graphene sheets in pillared graphene has a significant impact on the material's ability to direct heat.
20 November 2017
Cathodes for lithium-ion batteries that contain point defects allow more efficient exchange of lithium ions between the cathode and electrolyte.
17 November 2017
Inspired by the polymeric threads used by marine mussels, scientists have developed an elastomeric polymer that is both flexible and strong.
17 November 2017
Scientists have used cryo-electron microscopy to capture the first atomic-level images of the crystalline dendrites that can grow in batteries.
16 November 2017
Scientists have discovered that, contrary to expectations, a material's crystal grains can sometimes slide along a coherent twin boundary.
16 November 2017
Researchers have created a honeycomb material capable of frustrating the magnetic properties within it to produce a ‘quantum spin liquid’.
15 November 2017
Fibers made of carbon nanotubes configured as wireless antennas work as well as copper antennas but are 20 times lighter.
14 November 2017
Luminescent nanoprobe enables noninvasive, real-time imaging of inflammation-associated diseases.
14 November 2017Cordelia Sealy
Nano Today's annual cover competition is open for submissions.
14 November 2017
Treating a perovoskite catalyst with heat or chemicals causes different atoms to segregate on the surface and catalyse different reactions.
13 November 2017
For the first time, researchers have developed a way to create atomically thin metal oxide layers that don't exist naturally.
13 November 2017
Microchip improves our understanding of the process of extracting hydrogen from water.
10 November 2017Laurie Donaldson
Raise Your Visibility in the Research Community.
10 November 2017
Scientists have determined what kind of carbon nanotubes produce the best fibers and developed a novel method for purifying them.
10 November 2017
Lateral heterojunctions between 2D semiconducting monolayers produce more efficient solar cells than vertical stacks.
9 November 2017
Harvesting energy from body heat to drive wearable thermoelectric generators.
9 November 2017Laurie Donaldson
A new microscopy method can measure the behavior and properties of electrons flowing across the surface of topological insulators.
8 November 2017
A metal-organic framework that can conduct electricity could offer an efficient means of storing renewable energy.
8 November 2017
Novel nanocomposite harnesses water flow and sunlight to break up organic pollutants.
8 November 2017Cordelia Sealy
Doping 2D materials with other elements can not only alter their mechanical and electrical properties, but can also make them magnetic.
7 November 2017
Researchers have found a way to reversibly change the atomic structure of a two-dimensional material by injecting electrons.
7 November 2017
Elastic surgical adhesive developed.
6 November 2017David Bradley
6 November 2017G. Mazzitelli, G. Maddaluno, M.L. Apicella, P. Buratti, F. Crisanti, O. Tudisco, B. Viola, E. Visca
Liquid ice, ordered glasses and other amorphous paradoxes.
6 November 2017David Bradley
Prototype photodetector with double the efficiency of standard models.
3 November 2017Laurie Donaldson
How cephalopods control their texture influences new stretchable material.
3 November 2017Laurie Donaldson
A self-formed, flexible, hybrid solid-electrolyte interphase layer solves many of the problems that currently bedevil lithium-sulfur batteries.
2 November 2017
Inspired by the octopus, engineers have developed polymer-based stretchable surfaces with programmable 3D texture morphing.
2 November 2017
Extracting hydrogen from seawater without corrosion.
2 November 2017David Bradley
3D nanoelectronic system made up of stacked layers of carbon nanotube transistors and random-access memory cells could improve computational devices.
1 November 2017Cordelia Sealy
Fluorine transforms the two-dimensional, ceramic insulator hexagonal boron nitride into a wide-bandgap semiconductor with magnetic properties.
1 November 2017Cordelia Sealy