Researchs integrate vanadium oxide onto a silicon chip, paving the way for multifunctional spintronic smart sensors and next-generation spintronic devices.

Integrating electronics with cells to detect bacteria
Device made of organic transistor integrated with a human intestinal cell-line successfully detects Salmonella typhimurium.

Drawing chemical sensors on paper with a flexible toy pencil
Research team at Northwestern University show that chemical sensors capable of detecting toxic vapors can be drawn with a toy pencil on paper.

Polymer optics – the future of light modulation
Free access to the latest special issue of the Journal of Polymer Science: Polymer Physics, on polymer optics.

100% stretchable graphene nanopaper
Researchers in Singapore have developed method to fabricate stretchable graphene nanopaper for use in strain detectors.

Graphene-Based Nanosensors for Toxic Gases
CSIRO scientists have developed new nanosensors capable of detecting very low concentrations of toxic gases such as ammonia and nitrogen dioxide, which can be reset using water molecules or ethanol.

New optical sensor can detect individual nanoscale objects
Special polydimethylsiloxane-coated deformed microcavity acts as an optical “whispering gallery”.

Book Review: Biosensor Nanomaterials
Biosensor nanomaterials, edited by Songjun Li, Jagdish Singh, He Li, and Ipsita A. Banerjee, reviewed by Professor Luisa Torsi from the University of Bari.

One-dimensional wires with suppressed conductivity
Researchers create perfect one-dimensional molecular wires in which the electrical conductivity can almost entirely be suppressed by a weak magnetic field

Super-sensitive light sensor from molybdenite
An EPFL team has built a prototype for an image sensor based on the semi-conducting properties of molybdenite.