Nanoscience and Nanotechnology News

A group of scientists has succeeded in creating the first transistor made from a single molecule.

Stanford scientists are harnessing nanotechnology to quickly produce ultra-lightweight, bendable batteries and supercapacitors in the form of everyday paper.

Researchers have succeeded in building a working transistor, whose active region composes only of a single phosphorus atom in silicon.

A coating on windows that repels grime and dirt? New research, just published in Nature Nanotechnology, details a breakthrough in assembling peptides at the nano-scale level that could make this futuristic vision come true in just a few years.

Single-walled nanotubes—cylinders of carbon about a nanometer in diameter to be used for the detection and destruction of an aggressive form of breast cancer.

First, it was the soccer-ball-shaped molecules dubbed buckyballs. Then it was the cylindrically shaped nanotubes. Now, the hottest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene.

Physicists have demonstrated the first "universal" programmable quantum information processor able to run any program allowed by quantum mechanics -- the rules governing the submicroscopic world -- using two quantum bits (qubits) of information.

Scientists at the University of Adelaide have made a breakthrough that could change the world's thinking on what light is capable of.

Hydrogen fuel, because its only byproduct is steam, should be the ultimate in green alternatives to fossil fuels, but it hasn’t delivered on its promise yet because of one enormous stumbling block, storage.

Study finds that tomato seeds exposed to CNTs germinated faster and grew into larger, heavier seedlings than other seeds. That growth-enhancing effect could be a boon for biomass production for plant-based biofuels and other agricultural products.