Yeast makes green nanofibers from paper paste
25 March 2019David Bradley
By exciting ‘frustrated’ crystalline materials with laser light, a team of researchers has managed to transform them into a stable ‘supercrystal’.
24 March 2019
A new microfluidic system for synthesizing perovskite quantum dots reduces manufacturing costs and can be tuned on demand to any color.
23 March 2019
A metal-organic framework proved better at soaking up the pollutant PFOS from contaminated water when it contained additional nanometer-sized holes.
20 March 2019
A polymer composite containing graphene and nanoparticles can produce a more stable solid-electrolyte interphase in lithium metal batteries.
18 March 2019
Sandwiching a layer of graphene between two layers of 2D boron nitride can produce superlattices that confer novel electrical properties.
18 March 2019
Scientists have used a new technique called ultrafast surface X-ray scattering to visualize the motion of atoms in a 2D material.
16 March 2019
15 March 2019Christopher A. Schuh
By combining graphene with nano-ribbons of gold, researchers have developed an ultrasensitive biosensor for detecting disease-causing proteins.
12 March 2019
The twist angle between layers of 2D semiconductors provides a ‘tuning knob’ to turn them into an exotic quantum material.
11 March 2019
Physicists have discovered that placing 2D semiconductors on top of each other and twisting them causes the emergence of novel hybrid properties.
11 March 2019
8 March 2019Muhammed Maktari
Novel simulations show that atom-sized steps on a substrate have the remarkable ability to keep monolayer crystal islands in alignment as they grow.
6 March 2019
The energy storage capacity of electrodes made from the 2D material MXene can be doubled by adding an appropriate solvent to the electrolyte.
6 March 2019
Scientists have used directed evolution to enhance the optical properties of complexes of DNA wrapped around carbon nanotubes.
5 March 2019
Researchers have shown that excitons can be trapped in the moiré pattern created by twisting a pair of 2D semiconductors.
4 March 2019
Researchers have developed a blueprint for understanding and predicting the properties and behavior of nanoparticles containing multiple elements.
4 March 2019