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The birth of a subnanometer-sized soccer ball (w/video)

Scientists have successfully observed the bottom-up synthesis of fullerene C60, which is an allotrope of carbon that resembles a soccer ball, and produced a video image detailing the process using single-molecule atomic resolution real-time electron microscopy (SMART-EM).

May 24, 2021 Read more

Researchers develop novel raman method to capture target molecules in small gaps actively

Researchers have developed a general surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) method for actively capturing target molecules in small gaps based on nano-capillary pumping model.

May 24, 2021 Read more

Superconducting quantum material has an organic twist

Researchers designed quantum metamaterials that can achieve superconductivity at temperatures competitive with state-of-the-art solid-state materials synthesis.

May 21, 2021 Read more

Researchers see atoms at record resolution

The resolution of the detector is so fine-tuned, the only blurring that remains is the thermal jiggling of the atoms themselves.

May 21, 2021 Read more

Nanoparticles: The complex rhythm of chemistry (w/video)

Nanoparticles are often used as catalysts. The chemical reactions on their surface are more complex than previously thought, experiments show.

May 21, 2021 Read more

Researchers discover new method of seeing graphene growing using a standard electron microscope

Researchers have revealed a new method that enables common laboratory scanning electron microscopes to see graphene growing over a microchip surface in real time.

May 21, 2021 Read more

Green light on gold atoms

Scientists discover that laser-driven rearrangement of just a few gold atoms inside nanoscale antennas can be observed by the naked eye.

May 21, 2021 Read more

Thin is now in to turn terahertz polarization

Physicists make unique broadband polarization rotators with ultrathin carbon nanotube films. The rotators extend to the terahertz, which could simplify devices for use in telecommunications, security and manufacturing.

May 21, 2021 Read more

Chirality memory effect of ferromagnetic domain walls

Scientists have discovered that the chirality of the helimagnetic state is memorized as the domain wall helicity after the phase transition to an achiral ferromagnetic state at a high temperature in a helimagnet MnP.

May 21, 2021 Read more

Scientists discover new type of atomically thin carbon material

Researchers have discovered a new carbon network, which is atomically thin like graphene, but is made up of squares, hexagons, and octagons forming an ordered lattice.

May 20, 2021 Read more

Opening up possibilities with open-top optofluidic device

Co-planar optoelectrowetting device allows for droplet access from above that increases microfluidic input/output system integration configurations while achieving faster droplet speeds.

May 20, 2021 Read more

Out of thick air: Transforming CO2 into light-emitting carbon

Scientists have found a way to use visible light to transform carbon dioxide gas, or CO2, into solid carbon forms that emit light. This development creates a new, low-energy CO2 reduction pathway to solid carbon that will have implications across many fields.

May 20, 2021 Read more

New study presents evaporation-driven transport control of small molecules along nanoslits

Researchers demonstrate the evaporation-driven transport-control of small molecules in gas-permeable and low-aspect-ratio nanoslits, wherein both the diffusive and advective mass transports of solutes are affected by solvent evaporation through the nanoslit walls.

May 20, 2021 Read more