Nanowire nanosensors

New recycling technique blasts nanowires from electronic devices

A novel technique that uses blasts of ultrasound to help recycle silver nanowires in electronic devices could work with many other nanomaterials.

Nanowires help push to cheaper and more efficient solar cells

Ultra-high material efficient solar cell using semiconductor nanowires

New technique captures first color images of carbon nanotubes

A novel imaging technology that compresses light into a tiny spot can reveal previously invisible details about nanomaterials, including colors.

New technique produces 3D atomic maps of advanced alloys

Using an advanced imaging technique, researchers have mapped, for the first time ever, the 3D atomic coordinates of medium- and high-entropy alloys.

The mystery of the 1/f noise

Silk fibers come on strong in composites

Silk fibers from spiders and silk worms could prove an effective and novel reinforcement in biocomposites

Communications and proceedings

New members of the family now in press

Carbon nanotube film stops dendrites in their tracks

Scientists have shown that films of carbon nanotubes can effectively stop dendrites from growing from the anodes in lithium-metal batteries.