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Freeze-casting cellulose nanofibres, graphene oxide and clay results in insulating and fire-resistant foams that could improve the energy efficiency of buildings.
Careful, low-noise measurement techniques allow record quality factors to be determined in ultraclean, suspended carbon nanotube resonators, which are comparable to those of much larger resonators.
G-quadruplex DNA molecules adsorbed on a mica substrate can transport currents of more than 100 pA over distances of more than 100 nm by means of a hopping mechanism.
Electrostatic force microscopy can directly observe charge flow along native protein nanofilaments that are used in bacterial respiration and cell-to-cell electron exchange.
Carbon nanosystems on an iron monolayer create organic–metal hybrids with tunable magnetic properties that can be magnetically coupled to each other over nanometre distances.
A quantum bit that can be addressed with a gate voltage and has a very high control-fidelity can be realized in an electrically defined silicon quantum dot.
The coherent operation of individual 31P electron and nuclear spin qubits in a 28Si substrate shows new benchmark decoherence times and provides essential information on the dechorence mechanism.
The size of non-fluorescent nanodiamonds can be tracked in cells through coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering, which could be used for following cellular pathways quantitatively.
The relationship between the electronic structure and the thermoelectric properties of molecular junctions is experimentally probed using a three-terminal device.
A concentration cell that produces voltages of ~0.5 V for 100 hours can be created by tethering redox-active molecules to magnetic nanoparticles and then using them to maintain a sharp concentration gradient with the help of an external magnetic field.
Fe3O4 nanoparticles deposited on top of GaN nanorods produce a spin-up and spin-down imbalance that makes the semiconductor emit coherent spin-polarized light.
A study of the coupling between a nanowire and a focused light beam allows determination of the vectorial structure of the optomechanical interaction, and demonstrates that bidimensional dynamical backaction governs the nanowire dynamics.
Electron tunnelling currents between nanogap electrodes can be used to partially sequence peptides, and discriminate a peptide from its phosphorylated variant.
Survey results suggest that nanoscientists are relatively frequent public communicators who commonly associate their communication efforts with positive impacts on their professional success.