MIT researchers find that the secret lies in off-kilter ratios of the two basic components that make up the dots.
Tiny Tubes: Hydrogen Storage Inside Single-Walled Nanotubes
Researchers develop high-pressure hydrogen storage using nanocontainers made of single-walled carbon nanotubes with ice valves sealing the ends.
Spotlight on Polymer Chemistry, Issue 13
The Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry highlights some important research in the latest issue.
Fluorinated graphene oxide and its properties
The synthesis of fluorinated graphene oxide for sprayable hydrophobic and lipophobic coatings is described.
Nanosystem will improve sensing in the infrared
A team of University of Pennsylvania engineers has used a pattern of nanoantennas to develop a new way of turning infrared light into mechanical action.
Improved thin films inspired by moth eyes
Researchers at North Carolina State University develop nanostructures that suppress the “thin-film interference” phenomenon commonly observed in nature.
Let me count the ways – comparing graphene production methods
What’s the best way to produce graphene? An Italian research team have compared the alternatives in a new publication.
Laser pulses instead of electrical field poling
All-optical inscription of structures in an x-cut LiNbO3 crystal achieved by periodically lowering the nonlinear refractive index using ultrashort pulses.
Chad Mirkin is RSC World Entrepreneur of the Year
Northwestern University scientist Chad A. Mirkin has been named 2013 Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Greener process for steel production developed at MIT
Molten oxide electrolysis – intended to make oxygen in abundance from lunar soil – produces steel as a by-product.