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Scientists Discover Easy Way to Make Atomically-Thin Metal Layers for New Technology

The secret to a perfect croissant is the layers—as many as possible, each one interspersed with butter. Similarly, a new material with promise for new applications is made of many extremely thin layers of metal, between which scientists can slip different ions for various purposes.

28 Mar 2023

Study Reveals Origin of Superconductivity in Nickelates

Nickelates are a material class that has excited scientists because of its recently discovered superconducting ability, and now a new study led by Cornell has changed where scientists thought this ability might originate, providing a blueprint for how more functional versions might be engineered in the future.

28 Mar 2023

Storing Information with Spins: Creating New Structured Spin States with Spatially Structured Polarized Light

Spin, a quantum property of particles, can be controlled using light waves to store information. This is conventionally achieved using a uniformly polarized light beam. Recently, researchers from Japan successfully gener...

28 Mar 2023

Abberior Installs State-of-the-art STED Microscope at MBC BioLabs Supporting Biotech Entrepreneurs

Abberior, a leading provider of cutting-edge imaging technologies, announced today that they have placed a super-resolution STED microscope at MBC BioLabs, the leading San Francisco Bay Area biotech incubator network.

27 Mar 2023

Tracking Lithiation with Transmission Electron Microscopy

This study is led by Prof. Dong Su (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences). Li ion imaging by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is the “holy grail” in the study of Li ion battery (LIB) materials.

16 Mar 2023

Casting Light on Counterfeit Products Through Nano-optical Technology

Each year, an estimated two trillion dollars is lost globally due to counterfeit products ranging from jewelry to medicine. As current security labels and product authentication methods are rapidly becoming obsolete or easy to hack, there is a rising urgency for more secure anti- counterfeiting labels.

16 Mar 2023

Light and Milling Balls for Greener Chemical Processes

Light-driven chemical reactions have usually been conducted with large amounts of solvents that are often toxic.

16 Mar 2023

Observation of Molecular Self-Assembly of Peptides and Understanding the Mechanism of Seamlessly Bridging Biology with a Technological Solid

What is a peptide, and how is it different than a protein? Just like a protein, a peptide also has a chain of natural amino acids, but it is much shorter, say 10-30 units, compared to those in proteins, which could be hundreds and thousands of units long.

16 Mar 2023

Detect, Bind and Cut: Biomolecular Action at the Nanoscale

The DNA of prokaryotes — single-cell organisms, for example bacteria — is known to contain sequences that are derived from DNA fragments of viruses that infected the prokaryote earlier. These sequences,...

16 Mar 2023

NIA Comments on the EU Safe- and Sustainable-by-Design (SSbD) Framework for Chemicals

The Nanotechnology Industries Association (NIA) has actively engaged in the development process of the European Commission and Joint Research Centre’s Framework for safe- and-sustainable-by-design (SSbD) chemicals and materials.

15 Mar 2023