Nanoscience and Nanotechnology News

The remarkable ability of an electron to exist in two places at once has been controlled in the most common electronic material -- silicon -- for the first time

Batteries might gain a boost in power capacity as a result of a new finding from researchers at MIT

Conventional solar cell efficiency could be increased from the current limit of 30 percent to more than 60 percent, suggests new research on semiconductor nanocrystals, or quantum dots

A team of chemists has perfected a simple way to make tiny copper nanowires in quantity. The cheap conductors are small enough to be transparent, making them ideal for thin-film solar cells, flat-screen TVs and computers, and flexible displays

Imagine creating novel devices with amazing and exotic optical properties not found in Nature—by simply evaporating a droplet of particles on a surface

Scientists have programmed an autonomous molecular "robot" made out of DNA to start, move, turn, and stop while following a DNA track.

IBM scientists have created a 3D map of the earth so small that 1,000 of them could fit on one grain of salt

Berkeley Lab scientists have made the largest two-dimensional polymer crystal self-assembled in water to date

Researchers from Imperial College London have created a structure that acts like a single pole of a magnet, a feat that has evaded scientists for decades

Graphene is a potential superstar for the electronics industry. With freakishly mobile electrons that can blaze through the material at nearly the speed of light -- 100 times faster than electrons can move through silicon