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Hollow carbon nanospheres form a stable solid electrolyte interphase on lithium metal anodes that suppresses dendrite growth and improves cycling Coulombic efficiency.
Trapping of single HIV virions by optical tweezers reveals substantial heterogeneity in the numbers of envelope glycoproteins, which could have important consequences for infection and transmission.
Nanoparticles with high near-infrared absorption that transit the gut without being absorbed can be used for gastrointestinal imaging using photoacoustic and positron emission tomography.
Spin–orbit torques in a geometrically asymmetric device made from a perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnet can switch its magnetization without the assistance of an applied magnetic field.
Hierarchical hybrid carbon fibres consisting of a network of nitrogen-doped reduced graphene oxide and single-walled carbon nanotubes are synthesized and subsequently used to make a supercapacitor with high volumetric energy density.
An in situ scanning transmission electron microscope can be used to follow and control the structural transformation between semiconducting and metallic phases in single-layered MoS2.
The bonding and activation of a molecule to a supported metal cluster catalyst can be controlled by using calixarene ligands to create a selective nanoscale environment at the metal surface.
Single amino acids and peptides can be identified by trapping the molecules between two electrodes that are coated with a layer of recognition molecules and measuring the electron tunnelling current across the junction.