Confined within tiny carbon nanotubes, extremely cold water molecules line up in a highly ordered chain.
Scientists design outstanding catalysts by controlling the composition and shape of these tiny plate-like structures on the nanoscale.
Scientists set record resolution for patterning materials at sizes as small as a single nanometer using microscope-based lithography.
Big impacts on crystal formation result from small changes and reveal design principles for new materials for solar cells, more.
Specific modifications to fungi DNA may hold the secret to turning common plant degradation agents into biofuel producers
Neutrons provide the solution to nanoscale examination of living cell membrane and confirm the existence of lipid rafts.
Common constituents prevent uranium from precipitating from liquids, letting it travel with groundwater.
The force that enables nanosize crystals to grow could be used to design new materials.
Scarce compound is key for cellular metabolism and may help shape microbial communities that affect environmental cycles and bioenergy production.
Microbes leave a large fraction of carbon in anoxic sediments untouched, a key finding for understanding how watersheds influence Earth’s ecosystem.
New strategy significantly increases the production and secretion of biofuel building block lipids in bacteria able to grow at industrial scales.
Scientists capture excess light energy to produce fuel, essentially storing sunlight’s energy for a rainy day.
