Carbon nanowires have been obtained by tempering diamantane dicarboxylic acid inside carbon nanotubes.

Non-birefringent and Birefringent Ring-Banded Spherulites in PLLA Thin Films
The formation of different ring-banded spherulites as a function of film thickness has been described by Taiwanese and Indonesian researchers.

Increasing SERS enhancement in patterned nanoparticle arrays
How to improve efficient focusing of light on the nanoscale by using lithographically patterned metal nanoparticle arrays.

Litmus paper for detecting organic solvents
A litmus-type sensor system for the detection of volatile organic compounds is developed using a common office inkjet printer.

Nanomaterials kaleidoscope: building a nanochemistry periodic table
In a new piece, Prof. Geoffrey Ozin makes his case for a new kind of combinatorial strategy for nanomaterials based on the idea of nanochemistry DNA.

Casting Aluminum Composite Ingots
Chinese scientists produced composite ingots made from different aluminum alloys with the potential for a great deal of commercial use.

Advanced Optical Materials publishes first issue
The first independent issue of Advanced Optical Materials is now online, including a review on magnetoplasmonics as well as ten excellent, original research articles.

Welding polymers with lasers
Welding incompatible polymers with lasers in seconds could spur new industrial products.

Professors Ali Khademhosseini and Hua Zhang win 2012 Small Young Innovator Awards
Awards were presented at the Small Science Symposium: Frontiers in Nanomedicine, held 10 – 12 December 2012 in Singapore.
University of Waterloo buys Veeco system for Quantum-Nano Centre
GEN10 Molecular Beam Epitaxy system will be installed in lab to be established by Professor Zbig Wasilewski.