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Hollow carbon nanospheres form a stable solid electrolyte interphase on lithium metal anodes that suppresses dendrite growth and improves cycling Coulombic efficiency.
Trapping of single HIV virions by optical tweezers reveals substantial heterogeneity in the numbers of envelope glycoproteins, which could have important consequences for infection and transmission.
Nanoparticles with high near-infrared absorption that transit the gut without being absorbed can be used for gastrointestinal imaging using photoacoustic and positron emission tomography.
Spin dynamics in semiconductor heterostructures can be probed by a modified scanning tunnelling microscopy technique with a temporal resolution of a few picoseconds.
The coupling between quantum dot states in indium atomic chains can be controlled by precise positioning of the atoms on indium vacancies on an InAs surface.
The ensemble of massless electrons in graphene shows a collective non-zero inertia that can be measured by measuring the kinetic inductance of an encapsulated graphene device.
Artificial spin ice structures can be designed that allow for the induction of thermal fluctuations, with dynamics that depend on the material and the lattice geometry.
Dyakonov surface waves allow light to be guided in fully transparent dielectric nanosheets deposited on top of anisotropic optical materials with no losses and high directionality.
A DNA nanostructure can be used to create a multi-enzyme complex in which an artificial swinging arm facilitates hydride transfer between two coupled dehydrogenases.
Spin–orbit torques in a geometrically asymmetric device made from a perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnet can switch its magnetization without the assistance of an applied magnetic field.
Hierarchical hybrid carbon fibres consisting of a network of nitrogen-doped reduced graphene oxide and single-walled carbon nanotubes are synthesized and subsequently used to make a supercapacitor with high volumetric energy density.