New experimental platform could be used to investigate strongly correlated physics – in particular in unconventional superconductivity and quantum spin liquids
Read article: ‘Magic-angle graphene’ behaves like a high-temperature superconductor
Simple folding strategy could easily work for other battery electrode materials too
Read article: Folded graphene boosts energy storage in lithium-ion batteries
New structures could be integrated into smart buildings, cars, large-screen displays and potentially many other technologies
Read article: Perovskites help windows become solar cells
New DNA-based device can be driven by electrical fields alone and can move 100,000 times faster in solution than other such machines
Read article: How to better control a nanorobotic arm
It can also detect an object’s position in space
Read article: Magnetosensitive e-skin senses objects without touching
Nanoimprinted germanium thin films boast broadband light absorption
Read article: Nanostructured semiconductors become superabsorbers
Vacuum-ultraviolet photovoltaic device might be used to study interstellar objects
Read article: Graphene makes good VUV photodetector
On-chip devices made from intercalated graphene exploit the mechanism of kinetic inductance
Read article: Engineers reinvent the inductor after two centuries
New device might be used to record action potentials from multiple neurons as well as electrical signals on the nanoscale – for example, across just one synapse
Read article: Semiconductor nanosensor measures membrane potential
Researchers have made the first “passive” optical devices from Ti3C2Tx and C60 that allow for one-way transmission of light
Read article: 2D MXenes make photonic diodes
