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Diamond Light Source – where materials surrender their secrets

Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT.nano, location: Boston MA, architect: Wilson Architects

Designing space for scientific innovation

Architectural lab design can play a key role in pushing the frontiers of scientific knowledge

Nanoparticle vaccine protects against flu

Administered using dissolvable microneedle patches, it might be adapted to treat other pathogens too

Research headlines

Making artificial wood on the large scale

New polymeric material looks and feels like the real thing, and it is fire resistant too

Organic solar cells break new efficiency record

Solution-processed tandem devices boast PCEs of over 17%

The twisted secret to snapping spaghetti strands into two

Mathematicians work out how to break noodles in two at long last

Nanoreactor drives biocatalytic cascades

MOF structures could find use in a variety of biotechnological applications, such as new and efficient solar energy conversion systems

Modular system builds effective vaccines

A novel virus-like particle provides a promising new tool for developing vaccines

Could sunscreens harm fish embryos?

New analyses reveal that early life-stage zebrafish dislike multiple UV filter chemicals in high concentrations

2D Materials

Publishing fundamental and applied research of the highest quality and impact covering all aspects of graphene and related two-dimensional materials

Focus on sustainable futures

Professor Eugenia Kumacheva and colleagues

Nanocolloidal hydrogel scavenges heavy metals

Gels join forces with graphene quantum dots to decontaminate water

Alternatives to plastic packaging by Sulapac.

100% biodegradable packaging company expands

Aiming to reduce plastic waste in food packaging, Sulapac joins forces with Fazer

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Pulling water out of thin air

New technologies make harvesting humidity from the air a more viable source of water

Sustainable futures

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Materials on film

Characterization service promises graphene industry a leg up

Integrated electronics at 50 – projecting the future of the field

Professor Wu and e-skin

Nanotechnology in focus

Nanowire thickness alters GaAs band structure

Band structure of GaAs nanowires grown for potential photovoltaic applications depends on their thickness

High-quality bilayer graphene goes large

Epitaxial graphene growth and dry transfer may be the key to obtaining large, high-quality graphene samples

Optical micrograph of a chip containing nanoribbon devices

Silicon nanowires sense single ion channel currents

Nanoelectronic devices that detect the tiny ion currents behind individual action potentials can be CMOS compatible

Nano Futures

Publishing ground-breaking work at the forefront of nanoscience and technological innovation

Latest articles in materials science

Aerial view of Diamond Light Source. Courtesy of Diamond Light Source

Diamond Light Source – when a tool becomes a gem

With an X-ray source 10 billion times brighter than the Sun, Diamond Light Source sheds light on materials conundrums from art conservation and ice-cream to data storage

Creating chemical images, solving industrial problems

How time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry is helping scientists understand commercial challenges in materials science

Weaving socks that monitor your heart rate and shirts that talk to each other

LEDs and photodetectors integrated within woven fabrics

Connections; 3D render of glass balls connected Credit: istock Cosmin

Machines learn how to predict bioconcentrations

Neural networks bridge the gap between input data to determine the complex physical-chemical properties of organic molecules

Quantum dot floating gates improve light-erasable memories

Photoresponsive flash devices made from organic field-effect transistors show promise for information delivery

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Strange metals become even stranger

Unusual magnetoresistance observed in high-T_c cuprates could yield fundamental insights into the nature of superconductivity

Genetically trained molecular enzymes harness natural powerhouse

By tuning the functionality of biological catalysts using genetic encoding, researchers have extended their applications to non-biological environments while enabling a greater und...

$Negative refraction of topological surface acoustic waves$

Weyl phononic crystal negatively refracts sound waves

New “zero reflection” topological quantum material could have many practical applications

Steamy study shows how graphene layer affects droplets

Understanding the effects of graphene on surface wetting could be useful for applications that need to control evaporation

Nanoparticles set spinning record

Two independent research teams have made nanoparticles rotate at more than a billion times a second

Niobium tungsten oxides help make faster-charging batteries

Micron-sized particles intercalate large quantities of lithium at high rates

Black hole hologram appears in a graphene flake

Electrons in carbon sheet behave according to the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model

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