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Scanning tunnelling microscopy and X-ray photoemission spectroscopy measurements reveal that yttria, a high-κ dielectric, can form a complete monolayer on platinum-supported graphene.
A molecular motor adsorbed on a gold surface can be made to rotate in a clockwise or anticlockwise direction by selective inelastic electron tunnelling through different subunits of the motor.
The metal detoxification pathway in the earthworm can be exploited for the synthesis of luminescent semiconductor quantum dots that could be used in live cell imaging.
Protein cages can be used to guide the assembly of binary nanoparticle superlattices through tunable electrostatic interactions with charged gold nanoparticles.
Camouflaging nanoporous silicon particles by functionalizing them with membranes isolated from white blood cells can delay their removal from the body and improve their accumulation in tumours.
Experiments on an YBa2Cu3O7−δ nano-island reveal fundamental information about the order parameter in this type of high-temperature superconducting material.
Mechanical metamaterials that have liquid-like properties when taken out of water and solid-like properties when in water can be prepared from DNA hydrogels.
Magnetic circular dichroism reveals an enhancement of paramagnetism in copper-doped ZnSe–CdSe nanoscrystals and that the enhancement persists for hours in the dark.
Both a pipe-clip-device structure and an effective air-gap fabrication technique allow for a nanomechanical switch to be synthesized that can be operated with less than 1 V.
A solution-processed ultraviolet photodetector with a nanocomposite active layer composed of ZnO nanoparticles blended with semiconducting polymers can significantly outperform inorganic photodetectors.
A supramolecular polymer with embedded nanostructured Ni particles shows mechanical and electrical self-healing capabilities as well as piezoresistive properties, making it a good candidate for electronic skin applications.
A new signal generation mechanism based on the growth of gold nanoparticles offers a way to detect ultralow concentrations of analytes with the naked eye.
Hall effect measurement set-up on a single core–shell semiconductor nanowire enables spatially resolved determination of carrier concentration and mobility in the nanowire shell.
Photocurrent microscopy on suspended vanadium dioxide nanobeams reveals the thermal origin of the photoresponse in materials with strong electron–electron and electron–phonon correlations.
Nanomechanical signatures of human breast biopsies obtained using an atomic force microscope show close correlation between softening of cancer cells and progression of cancer.