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Research on the Rich Behavior of 2D Materials

The rich behavior of two-dimensional (2D) materials, like electrons, molecules, or atoms that are limited to move on a flat surface, was celebrated by the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics.

18 Sep 2017

New Optomechanical Nanosensor Offers Fresh Possibilities for Signal Processing

The demand for nanosensors is large and growing, with minimal sign of slowing, even though the world of nanosensors may be physically small. With electronic devices becoming smaller, their potential to provide accurate, chip-based sensing of dynamic physical properties such as motion becomes difficult to develop.

18 Sep 2017

Graphene-Enveloped Nanocrystals for Storing Hydrogen in Hydrogen-Powered Vehicles

Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have synthesized a powdery mixture of metal nanocrystals enveloped in single-layer carbon atom sheets.

15 Sep 2017

DNA Nanorobot Designed to Collect, Sort Molecules into Predefined Regions

Visualize a robot designed to tidy your home: roving about, organizing dirty dishes into the dishwasher and stray socks into the laundry. Such a useful helper at the moment may be in the science fiction realm; however Caltech researchers have managed to develop an autonomous molecular machine that can perform similar operations—at the nanoscale.

15 Sep 2017

Test Strips with Platinum-Coated Gold Nanoparticles for Better Cancer Detection

A home pregnancy test is the most common test strip for diagnosis. Pregnant women have progressively increasing levels of the biomarker human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), which is easily traceable in urine. A thin, colorful strip of antibodies will appear when hCG is present.

15 Sep 2017

Graphene-Based Materials Boost the Properties of Silk Made by Spiders

Researchers from the Graphene Flagship have established the fact that graphene-based materials are capable of enhancing the properties of spider's silk.

15 Sep 2017

Graphene-Based Saturable Absorbers Enable Ultrafast Lasers in the Terahertz Range

CNR-Istituto Nanoscienze, Italy and the University of Cambridge, UK have carried out Graphene Flagship researches to create a terahertz saturable absorber using graphene generated by liquid phase exfoliation and deposited by ink jet printing and transfer coating.

13 Sep 2017

New Nanoswitch-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Detecting Biological Signatures

Engineered strands of DNA, nanoscale tools known as "nanoswitches", could be the key to cheaper, easier, faster and more sensitive tests capable of enabling high-fidelity detection of biomarkers that indicate the existence of different viral strains, diseases and also genetic variabilities as subtle as a single-gene mutation.

12 Sep 2017

New Tunable Nanoparticle Layer can Switch Between a Mirror and Window

Researchers have made a filter capable of changing between a window and a mirror by finely tuning the distance between nanoparticles in a single layer.

12 Sep 2017

High-Intensity Laser Source Used to Image Free Nanoparticles

In a collaborative research project, researchers from the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI), the Technische Universität Berlin (TU), and the University of Rostock have succeeded for the first time to image free nanoparticles in a laboratory experiment using a high-intensity laser source.

11 Sep 2017