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Experiments and theory show how superlubricity can emerge in large flakes sliding on a surface when the lattices of the flake and the surface are incommensurate.
Octahedral DNA origami frames that have encoded vertices capable of attaching nanoparticles can be used to form precise three-dimensional nanoparticle clusters and one- and two-dimensional nanoparticle arrays.
A power conversion efficiency of 22% is achieved in black silicon back-contacted solar cells through passivation of the nanostructured surface by a conformal alumina layer.
When supplied with redox energy, a dumbbell-shaped molecule can take small charged molecules from solution and thread them around an oligomethylene chain.
The sensitivity of a magnetometer based on a nitrogen–vacancy centre can be enhanced by three orders of magnitude by using a ferromagnetic nanoparticle.
High charge-carrier mobility that enables the observation of quantum oscillation is reported in mono- and few-layer MoS2 encapsulated and contacted by other two-dimensional materials.
Two- and three-dimensional mesoscale superlattice crystals with precisely engineered optical properties can be assembled from the bottom up by using DNA as a programmable ligand.
An optical tomography technique enables the optical properties of samples in three dimensions to be imaged with a resolution below the diffraction limit.
A mesoporous carbon foam co-doped with nitrogen and phosphorus atoms shows bifunctional activity for oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reactions and promising performance as an electrode in Zn–air batteries.
Linearly superposing multiple modes of a nanomechanical resonator enables molecular-scale imaging of the spatial mass distribution of individual analytes.
Using antibody-conjugated gold nanoparticles and a suite of techniques, the spatial location and type of protein binding sites across biomolecular coronas formed on the surface of nanoparticles are identified.
Peptide nucleic acids can self-assemble into ordered architectures that are coordinated by both stacking interactions and Watson–Crick base pairing, and exhibit a variety of optical properties.
TGF-β signalling, which is important in regulating various cellular processes during development, can be optically manipulated using near-infrared light with the aid of single-walled carbon nanotubes.
Calcium phosphate nanoparticles formed naturally in the intestine aid the transport of soluble molecules from the gut lumen to immune cells of the intestinal tissue, and contribute to the immune surveillance and homeostasis of the gut.
The underlying physics of the Plateau–Rayleigh instability can be exploited during core–shell nanowire synthesis to grow diameter-modulated homostructures and heterostructures with tunable morphologies.