Engineers develop wires that penetrate neurons and measure their activity.
Tiny cages can trap and release inert argon gas atoms, allowing their further study and providing a new way to capture rare gases.
Engineered stacked perovskite layers harvest light or create light via layer edges.
Crumpling reduces rigidity in an otherwise stiff material, making it less prone to catastrophic failure.
Observed atomic dynamics helps explain bizarre flow without friction that has been puzzling scientists for decades.
Scientists unlock the key to efficiently make a new class of engineering polymers.
An entirely human-made architecture produces hydrogen fuel using light, shows promise for transmitting energy in numerous applications.
Novel defect control in graphene enables direct imaging of trapped electrons that follow Einstein’s rules.
Novel spin-polarized surface states may guide the search for materials that host Majorana fermions, unusual particles that act as their own antimatter, and could revolutionize quantum computers.
The Molecular Foundry and aBeam Technologies bring mass fabrication to nano-optical devices.
Built from the bottom up, nanoribbons can be semiconducting, enabling broad electronic applications.
Direct writing of pure-metal structures may advance novel light sources, sensors and information storage technologies.
