Nanoscience and Nanotechnology News

Physicists have demonstrated in simulations that under the influence of sufficiently high electric fields, liquid droplets of certain materials will undergo solidification, forming crystallites at temperature and pressure conditions that correspond to liq

Few people have ever claimed to see three rainbows arcing through the sky at once. In fact, scientific reports of these phenomena, called tertiary rainbows, were so rare -- only five in 250 years

Engineers at Harvard have created a device that may make it easier to isolate and study tiny particles such as viruses

The smallest electrical motor on the planet, at least according to Guinness World Records, is 200 nanometers. Granted, that's a pretty small motor -- after all, a single strand of human hair is 60,000 nanometers wide -- but that tiny mark is about to be s

X-ray glases. Now, a new microscope has been developed by scientists which they say can penetrate deep within materials and see details as small as a billionth of a meter without even using a lens

Long before they knew they were doing it -- as long ago as the Wright Brother's first airplane engine -- metallurgists were incorporating nanoparticles in aluminum to make a strong, hard, heat-resistant alloy

The world at large runs on lithium ion batteries. New research at Rice University shows that tiny worlds may soon do the same

For the first time, scientists have devised an invisibility cloak material that hides objects from detection using light that is visible to humans

Taking their cue from biological circulatory systems, University of Illinois researchers have developed vascularized structural composites, creating materials that are lightweight and strong with potential for self-healing, self-cooling

The Nobel Prize winning scientists Professor Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov have taken a major step forward towards creating electronics using the wonder material graphene