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Lipid monolayers and bilayers can stabilize networks of water droplets inside larger drops of oil to create structures that could have a range of applications.
A tunnel junction that consists of a ferroelectric barrier layer sandwiched between two electrodes can operate as a fast, low-power and non-volatile nanoscale solid-state memory.
A new contrast technique allows semiconducting and metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes to be imaged separately, offering a way to study their interactions in biological environments.
The conductance of a single molecule of 1,4'-benzenedithiol bridged between two gold electrodes increases as it is stretched because the energy of the highest occupied molecular orbital is shifted towards the Fermi energy of the electrodes, leading to a resonant enhancement of the conductance.
A topological insulator illuminated with circularly or linearly polarized light produces a photocurrent that depends on the helicity or polarization of the light, respectively.
Multi-harmonic atomic force microscopy can be used to map the local mechanical properties of live cells with better temporal and spatial resolution than has been achieved before.
Optical microcavities have been fabricated in single-crystal diamond and tuned into resonance with the zero phonon line of an ensemble of silicon-vacancy colour centres, which results in an enhancement of spontaneous emission.
The cycle of cell birth, growth and division can affect the uptake and dilution of nanoparticles in cells, suggesting that the evolution of nanoparticle dose within a cell population is linked to the life cycle of cells.