Nanomaterials Research update Nanoparticles reinforce steel Japanese researchers have discovered a new way to make stronger steel
Nanomaterials Research update Nanotubes make miniature gas sensors US researchers have built a low-cost sensor with carbon nanotubes Read article: Nanotubes make miniature gas sensors
Semiconductors and electronics Research update New look for nanowire devices Researchers in Germany have made a mechanically robust nanowire transistor
Nanomaterials Research update Nanotubes go their separate ways German researchers have developed a way to separate metallic and semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes Read article: Nanotubes go their separate ways
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