Introducing the Physics World Focus on Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials
Read article: Nanotechnology is neither saviour nor destroyer of the world, it’s just very useful
Despite decades of research, definitive conclusions on the environmental impact of nanoparticles remain elusive, as Anna Demming reports
Read article: Nanotechnology goes green(er)
Prototype detector has already put meaningful bounds on dark matter
Read article: Superconducting nanowires could shed light on dark matter
The technique could help advance night vision technologies
Read article: Upconverting nanoparticles allow mice to see in infrared
Naomi Halas gives a whistle stop tour of plasmonics “From Faraday to tomorrow”
Read article: Plasmonics technologies take on global challenges
A new fabric made from IR sensitive yarn with a carbon nanotube coating self-regulates its thermal properties depending on how hot or cold the wearer is
Read article: Textile gates infrared radiation to keep cool
Nanoplates conjugated with RVG peptides that target neuroblastoma in vivo help guide surgical excision
Read article: Nanoplates tag neuroblastoma to guide tumour surgery
From the gargantuan Nanotech 2019 exhibition and conferences at Tokyo Big Sight to research labs around Tokyo, we look at the ever-enduring attraction of carbon at the nanoscale
Read article: Carbon fascination endures in nanoscience
Highly porous and flexible inorganic nanomaterial could find use in applications such as sensors, microfluidic devices and microrobotics
Read article: Hydrophobic or hydrophilic? Aero-gallium nitride is both
A single-step moulding technique makes it much easier to fabricate long and thin nanowires from crystalline metals
Read article: Atom-by-atom diffusion offers simple route to longer and thinner nanowires
