Transport properties Research update Nanocrystals double up Researchers have made a new type of ‘metamaterial’ from magnetic and semiconducting building blocks Read article: Nanocrystals double up
Vacuum and cryogenics Research update Scientists spy on growing nanoparticles French scientists have developed a new method that monitors the growth of nanoparticles in real time
Optical physics Research update Carbon nanotubes light up IBM researchers have created an ultrasmall solid-state light source Read article: Carbon nanotubes light up
Optical physics Research update Silver nanoclusters make logic gates Researchers have demonstrated a new type of nanoscale computing Read article: Silver nanoclusters make logic gates
Transport properties Research update Single molecule switches for less Physicists make the lowest energy molecular switch to date Read article: Single molecule switches for less
Optical physics Research update Nanowires approach the quantum realm Researchers have made the smallest silicon nanowires ever
Soft matter and liquids Research update DNA acts like a “piston” Biophysicists have built the first expanding-contracting DNA device
Nanomaterials Research update Nanowire lasers go electric Scientists have made the first electrically driven nanowire laser Read article: Nanowire lasers go electric
Soft matter and liquids Research update Light powers artificial membrane Researchers build an artificial photosynthetic membrane using light induced electron transfer
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