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Calculations suggest that bilayer graphene nanoribbons are very sensitive to low-energy photons.

Highly efficient solar cells can be produced by using zinc oxide nanowires infiltrated with lead selenide quantum dots.

A nanostructure consisting of a periodic array of the letter G produces a luminescent pattern whose handedness depends on the chirality of the illuminating light.

Metal clusters of different sizes may have particular electronic structures that affect their performance as catalysts.

Magnetic tunnel junctions that show large magnetoresistance changes and excellent temperature stability can be produced using a simple sputtering method.

Incident photons may induce a huge voltage in metal nanowires, bringing the possibility of nanoscale optical detection.

Interface superconductivity in bilayer cuprate devices is sensitive to changes in just one layer of copper and oxygen atoms.

The fractional quantum Hall effect has been observed in ultraclean suspended graphene.

The cooling rates of fullerene ions have been measured at a storage ring in Japan.

New research confirms that the proportion of the public that knows about nanotechnology has reached a plateau, which means that it is now necessary to develop new approaches to explore public perceptions in greater detail than before.

Combining magnetic nanoparticles, microfluidics and nuclear magnetic resonance could transform the way tuberculosis and other diseases are diagnosed.

Surveys have found that almost half of all scientists in the US are religious. Chris Toumey explores what this might mean for nanotechnology.

Oil-in-water microemulsions embedded in a polymer network can remove aged protective coatings on works of art.

Superconducting single-molecule transistors have been realized using single C₆₀ molecules.

A catalytic reaction can be followed in real time using plasmonic probes.

Crystals that can confine both light and mechanical vibrations.

Physical changes in a nanoscale system can be accurately measured by restricting the reaction in a carbon 'nano test tube'.

Single carbon nanotubes can be used as probes for electrically active cells.

The vibrations of nanoscale beams have been measured to record precision using light.