nanotechnology

Commentary As an investor, it’s very easy to look at the current environment and shake one’s head. There’s a tremendous amount of headwinds. Given the volumes of headlines involving inflation, ...

Commentary As a former English teacher, I think that definitions are important. For the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...

Unbeknownst to most Americans, thousands of the food items on our store shelves contain ingredients that are made ...

The Lycurgus Cup, as it is known due to its depiction of a scene involving King Lycurgus of ...

During the pandemic a widespread use of nanoparticles has been employed for diagnostics, personal protection equipment, prevention, and treatments of ...

Commentary Professor Charles Lieber’s arrest on Jan. 28 made headlines on all the major U.S. media. After all, ...

Gold nanoparticles have unusual optical, electronic, and chemical properties.

Researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology in Eindhoven, Netherlands have created the world’s smallest temperature sensor chip, ...

A solar cell is basically a semiconductor, which converts sunlight into electricity, sandwiched between metal contacts that carry ...

For the first time scientists have figured out how to use an infrared laser to cool water by ...

If you add quantum dots to a smartphone battery it will charge in 30 seconds, but the effect ...

Cells taken from the airways of Parisian children with asthma contained man-made carbon nanotubes—just like the kind found ...

A new device – a biological sensor inside a nanochip – that can detect bacterial infections in ten ...

Sponge-like nanoporous gold could be key to new devices for detecting disease-causing agents in humans and plants, say ...

Solar cells capture up to 40 percent more energy when they can track the sun across the sky, ...

Scientists have made synthetic structures out of DNA or protein before. Now, a team has created nanowires from ...

A new optical device made of silicon “nanopillars” could lead to advanced microscopes, displays, sensors, and cameras that ...

Scientists have created a new way of capturing the 3D structures of nanocrystals, which researchers believe could potentially ...

Nanowires made of zinc oxide are highly anelastic—meaning they return to shape slowly after being bent, rather that ...

Scientists have found a way to potentially prevent counterfeiting in currency, documents, credit cards, and even IDs. Many ...

Researchers have discovered a new way to make ultrasensitive conductivity measurements at optical frequencies on high-speed nanoscale electronic ...

Most lenses rely on a curved shape to bend and focus light. But these lenses take up too ...

Scientists are working to create nanoscale silver clusters with unique fluorescent properties, which are important for a variety ...

Many types of smart devices are readily available and convenient to use. The goal now is to make ...

Scientists have figured out the optimal gap needed between two gold nanoparticles to turn them into optical antennae.

The Lycurgus Cup, as it is known due to its depiction of a scene involving King Lycurgus of ...

Dr. James Tour understands microevolution, he has observed it often in the lab. But macroevolution—the evolution that, according ...