Researchers made a sheet of boron only one atom thick with the potential to change solar panels, computers, and more.
Oleo Sponge could make oil spill cleanup more efficient.
Self-healing diamond-like carbon coating could revolutionize lubrication.
A material with unprecedented control of magnetic states may have implications for new technologies.
Scientists show how a buckyball buffer helps conduct electricity in only one direction, vital for molecule-sized circuits.
Researchers trapped and detected ensembles of electrons, an important step in isolating single electrons for use in a new generation of low-power supercomputing.
New method to fabricate graphene nanoribbon arrays on semiconductor wafers turns semimetal into semiconductor.
Hollow shape-selected platinum nanocages represent a new class of highly active catalysts.
Scientists synthesize what could be a low-cost, earth-abundant material that splits water to make hydrogen fuel.
Sub-nanometer molecular asymmetry between the two different faces of nanoparticle membranes formed at air-water interface is revealed.
Generating and moving small, stable magnetic islands at room temperature could be the ticket to more energy-efficient electronics.
Researchers have attained superlubricity, the near absence of friction, at a carbon-silica interface using nanodiamonds wrapped in graphene flakes.
