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The electric field generated by the tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope can be exploited to locally and reversibly switch between a ferromagnetic state and a skyrmion.
Applying magnetic and electric fields to twisted bilayer graphene creates an electron–hole bilayer that features helical 1D edge modes and fractional quantum Hall states.
The fabrication of high-quality WSe2 monolayers makes it possible to access the fully valley- and spin-polarized structure of Landau levels theoretically predicted for transition metal dichalcogenides.
An atomic force microscope and confocal microscope set-up that allows nanomechanical mapping of virus binding under cell culture conditions shows that the first binding steps of a virus to a cell surface receptor are specific and weak, but affinity increases as more bonds are formed between the virus and cell surface receptors.
DNA-grafted gold nanoparticles can self-assemble into shape-changing films that are powered by DNA strand exchange reactions and have two different domains that can be independently addressed using distinct chemical signals.
A numerical technique that can self-adapt to experimental limitations can guide the design of photonic nanostructures by optimizing multiple parameters.
6’-Sialyllactose conjugated to polyamidoamine dendrimers at a well-defined valency and spacing can circumvent drug resistance and inhibit influenza A viruses.
A Janus photocatalytic structure can orient and move either towards or away from an external light source, mimicking the behaviour of phototactic microorganisms.
The vectorial force fields of singly clamped nanowires are imaged by measuring the pertubation of the spectral and geometrical properties of the thermal noise of the nanowires.
A single electron spin in silicon is dressed by a microwave field to create a new qubit with tangible advantages for quantum computation and nanoscale research.
The ferromagnetic transition in magnetic nanoparticles embedded in magnetic nanocomposite thermoelectric materials is attributed to the trapping and release of electrons, which increases the performance of the thermoelectric materials.
Two electron spins occupying the outer dots in a linear array of three quantum dots experience a coherent superexchange interaction through the empty middle dot that acts as a quantum mediator.
Nuclear spins in gallium arsenide produce noise at discrete frequencies, which can be notch-filtered efficiently to extend coherence times of electron spin qubits to nearly 1 ms.
Searchable dynamic peptide libraries, which are based on the sequence exchange of unprotected peptides under user-defined conditions, can be used to discover self-assembled peptide nanostructures.