A comprehensive review identifies graphene dispersion, carbon-aluminum interface control, and manufacturing cost as major barriers to industrial-scale graphene/aluminum composites. The authors highlight controlled Al4C3 formation, graphene surface modification, and combinations of rapid solid-state processing with lower-cost casting as promising routes toward materials that retain mechanical, electrical, and thermal performance.
By Dr. Noopur Jain
20 Sep 2026
Researchers engineered DNA double-crossover tiles with precisely controlled hydrophobic segments, allowing the balance between DNA base pairing and hydrophobic association to determine the order of nanoscale assembly. Shorter hydrophobic chains favored star-like structures, while longer chains produced crosslinked spherical nucleic acids with enhanced biological stability and annealing-driven self-sorting.
By Muhammad Osama
20 Sep 2026
Researchers converted sawdust into cellulose particles and tested them across water retention, barley growth, synthetic dye removal, and wound healing in mice. The results showed application-specific effects: sawdust retained the most water; clay plus nanocellulose supported strong barley growth; both materials decolorized selected dyes; and nanocellulose-treated wounds showed promising closure patterns that warrant further preclinical study.
By Dr. Noopur Jain
20 Sep 2026
A single application of ‘smart’ self-repairing coating is being developed to dramatically extend rust protection for buildings, bridges, cars and other steel components.
Organic-based nanoplatforms are emerging as promising theranostic systems that combine diagnostic imaging with targeted treatment while addressing concerns about the persistence and toxicity of some inorganic nanomaterials. The review shows how molecular composition and nanoscale structure shape drug loading, targeting, imaging, therapeutic activity, biodegradation, and clinical potential across self-assembled, polymeric, lipid-based, carbon-based, and hybrid systems.
By Akshatha Chandrashekar
16 Sep 2026
PI (Physik Instrumente) is expanding the capabilities of its Bi-Phase Inertia Drive (BIX) technology with new motor architectures designed for compact, high-precision nanopositioning applications.
This article reviews the mutual empowerment between artificial intelligence and metasurfaces, characterizing that artificial intelligence enables intelligent nanophotonics, while metasurfaces facilitate optical intelligence.
A new silicon metasurface capable of rapidly controlling wide-bandwidth light pulses could help advance compact technologies for optical communications, computing, LiDAR and photonic information processing.
A pixel-controlled programmable metasurface capable of dynamically reshaping terahertz (THz) waves could open new possibilities for compact imaging, communications and optical systems.
A Nature Communications review maps how crystal symmetry, material synthesis, and structural control shape polaritons in two-dimensional metal oxides, a diverse family of materials with optical responses spanning the visible to terahertz range. The authors assess fabrication challenges and propose photonic-chip concepts involving reconfigurable waveguides, polariton logic, biosensing, photodetection, and thermal management.
By Samudrapom Dam
15 Sep 2026
All-atom molecular dynamics simulations examined how gold tracks embedded in cylindrical silver substrates could guide the diffusive motion of C60, flexible-chassis nanocars, and rigid-chassis nanotrucks across temperatures from 75 K to 600 K. The results show that chassis flexibility, track width, and temperature jointly determine how effectively these molecular machines maintain directed motion.
By Dr. Noopur Jain
13 Sep 2026
A review of cellulose nanomaterial-based electrospun membranes finds that nanocellulose can increase mechanical strength, hydrophilicity, permeability, fouling resistance, and contaminant-removal capabilities across several water-treatment designs. The authors also examine solvent choice, hydraulic stability, manufacturing scale-up, life-cycle impacts, and the practical requirements for moving these membranes beyond laboratory studies.
By Muhammad Osama
11 Sep 2026
Researchers at Argonne are shaping the nanoscience frontier, using atomic-scale control to accelerate advances in electronics, energy storage, catalysis, sensing and medicine.
Placing two lattices - like window screens - on top of each other and twisting one layer compared to the other creates intriguing patterns. In fact, there are toys based on the designs that emerge, called moiré patterns.
Researchers engineered HZO-SiO2 nanomechanical resonators that use nanoscale oxide layering and phase-dependent elasticity to suppress temperature-driven frequency drift while retaining electrical tunability. The CMOS-compatible platform combined passive thermal compensation with voltage-controlled stiffness tuning, highlighting how ferroelectric oxide nanostructures could support more stable integrated resonators.
By Dr. Noopur Jain
10 Sep 2026