Advanced Science News
Technology
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Muscle Power: Piezoelectric Nanodevices Making Electricity
What if a nanodevice, implanted in your body, could power itself by harnessing the mechanical energy of your own moving muscles?
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MaterialsViews Interviews: Karen Gleason
MaterialsViews catches up with Karen Gleason, Associate Dean of Engineering at MIT, to talk CVD, scientific jigsaws, and The Good Doctor.
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Small, Fast, and High Contrast
Imaging technique enables studies on the dynamics of nanocatalysts at unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution.
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Patterned Graphene Growth
Graphene films grown over epitaxial metal films deposited on single-crystalline substrates give unique micropits with rectangular and triangular shapes, reflecting the crystallographic...
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Inner Space
Metals encapsulated within carbon nanotubes by capillary action are prevented from crystallizing by the confined space of the nanotubes.
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Gallium Arsenide Infiltrates Nanoparticle Multilayers
Gallium arsenide is infiltrated for the first time within porous nanoparticle-based periodic multilayers to yield a new structure displaying finely tuned enhanced...
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Shells, Fibers, and Superstructures
A new heteroepitaxial method of producing Ti02 nanomaterials with size, shape, and array control is discovered.
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Buckle Up
In situ mechanical testing of 50-mm-diameter bundles of uniaxially compressed carbon nanotubes reveals periodic buckle nucleation and propagation.
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Biting its Own Tail
New nanocontainer with an integrated switch
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Concepts of Nanochemistry—Nanoscience as Part of Undergraduate Studies?
Nikolaus Korber recommends “Concepts of Nanochemistry”, a “fun to read” textbook with high didactic quality addressed to university teachers, students, and the...
