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Patterned graphene-based carbon sheet is a tunable semiconductor and traps carbon monoxide

A new atomically precise carbon sheet combines nanoporous graphene and biphenylene stripes, offering controlled semiconducting behavior, tunable mechanics, and selective gas interaction for future electronic and sensing applications.

December 8, 2025 Read more

Scientists identify the recipe for stabilizing atomically thin metals

Researchers stabilize atomically thin metallenes, turning flimsy metals into robust platforms for nanoscale devices, energy technologies and biomedicine.

December 8, 2025 Read more

Stretchable polymer aerogel transistors enable recyclable biosensors and electronic skin

Nanoporous polymer aerogel channels boost soft transistor performance while remaining stretchable and recyclable, offering a single materials platform for high gain biosensors, neuromorphic elements and pressure sensitive electronic skin.

December 7, 2025 Read more

Nanoengineered hard-carbon anodes enable ultrafast sodium storage

Nanoengineered hard-carbon with nanoporous channels and an ultrathin SEI boosts fast, reversible all-slope sodium storage in hard-carbon anodes.

December 6, 2025 Read more

DNA nanostructures assembled in ionic liquids gain stability and targeting

DNA nanostructures assembled in ionic liquids instead of magnesium become stable in biological conditions and bind cancer-cell markers with higher precision.

December 6, 2025 Read more

New diagnostic tool: X-ray spikes reveal electron beam size

Researchers have directly observed, for the first time, transverse intensity fluctuations, called 'spikes', in synchrotron light.

December 6, 2025 Read more

Nanoscale kirigami silicon skin changes color when stretched

Nanoscale kirigami inspired silicon metamaterial uses a cut and fold mesh to tune structural colour, smoothly shifting reflected light from green to yellow to red.

December 5, 2025 Read more

First observation of ultra-thin two-dimensional materials in a state between solid and liquid

Researchers directly filmed an atomically thin crystal melting, revealing an exotic hexatic phase that defies standard melting rules and contradicts theory.

December 5, 2025 Read more

Silver atomic switches enable stable wiring for molecular-scale electronics

Researchers built a silver atomic switch that forms and breaks single-molecule junctions, enabling stable molecular wiring and advancing scalable, energy-efficient electronics.

December 4, 2025 Read more

Ultrafast spin switching reveals a path to next generation magnetic memory

Researchers visualized two spin-switching modes in an antiferromagnet, revealing a fast, low-heat mechanism that could enable ultrafast, non-volatile magnetic memory.

December 4, 2025 Read more

Fullerenes for finer detailed MRI scans

Researchers showed that fullerenes can polarize MRI target molecules without cryogenic conditions, boosting dynamic nuclear polarization sensitivity and enabling clearer medical imaging.

December 4, 2025 Read more

Researchers create hydrogel platform for high-throughput extracellular vesicle isolation

A meso-macroporous hydrogel enables rapid, scalable extracellular vesicle isolation from diverse biofluids without preprocessing steps.

December 4, 2025 Read more

The spider-web inspired fabric that moves sweat, harvests energy, and stops microbes

A spider-web Janus membrane combines directional moisture transport, heat modulation, triboelectric power generation and strong antibacterial activity in a flexible platform for next-generation wearable materials.

December 4, 2025 Read more

A metamaterial that bridges air and water

Made from common aluminum and steel, this metamaterial allows sound transference between air and water.

December 4, 2025 Read more

Quantum computers get a boost from a tiny material tweak

A small, counterintuitive tweak to advanced materials can improve how quantum computers hand off information inside their systems, making them more efficient, reliable and scalable.

December 4, 2025 Read more

Long-standing puzzle in electron scattering deepens with new measurement

Physicists probed why lead's nucleus reacts unlike others when hit by electrons and found that instead of clarity, the puzzle is more complex than expected.

December 4, 2025 Read more