New technique reduces unwanted artifacts and increases sensitivity so excessively stiff cantilevers are no longer needed
Read article: Higher-order eigenmodes improve piezoresponse force microscopy
Quasiparticles should congregate at graphene defects
Read article: Anyons could be spotted using scanning tunnelling microscopy
Intellectual property specialists and production companies welcome the standards set by the International Organization for Standardization defining when a material is and isn’t graphene
Read article: Graphene meets the standard for industry
New experiments could shed more light on how the chemical precursors of life might have been created in the Universe, and in particular in our galaxy
Read article: How did complex carbon-based nanostructures form in space?
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
