Professor Geoffrey Ozin gives us his thoughts on nanochemistry and photonic metamaterials.
Rogach, Talapin and Shevchenko on 'Organisation of Matter on Different Size Scales'
Prof. Andrey Rogach, Prof. Dmitri Talapin and Dr. Elena Shevchenko look back on 10 exciting years of nanocrystal superstructures.
Embedded Rods: Chitin-Silicon Dioxide Nanocomposites
Chitin-silicon dioxide nanocomposite made by self-organization and sol-gel chemistry.
Nanostructured, Functional and for Commercial Use
The sample size of nanomaterials with functional properties has been limited to just a few millimeters. This fact has limited their commercial use, so far.
MaterialsViews Interviews: Rod Ruoff
Professor Rod Ruoff, nanoscience researcher at the University of Texas, on his work, his life, and how his knees got him into chemistry…
Cilia Revolution
University of Southern Mississippi scientists imitated Mother Nature by developing a new, skinny-molecule-based material that resembles cilia, the tiny, hair-like structures through which organisms derive smell, vision, hearing and fluid flow.
Bottom-Up Meets Top-Down for Simple Surface Stripes
A simple way to create very small patterns on a surface by using a mixture of top-down and bottom-up technology has been developed. Self-assembly is combined with evaporation to make highly ordered nanoscale structures.

MaterialsViews Interviews: Yanglong Hou
MaterialsViews interviews Yanglong Hou of Peking University on nanobiotechnology and magnetic nanoparticles.
Flick of Switch Controls Medicine: Nanoparticle Drug Delivery
A recent review gives an up-to-the-minute round-up of how mesoporous silica nanoparticles are used to deliver drugs into cells.
Focussed Nanopatterning
Scientists develop a simple way to organise nanoparticles on a surface without the need to first alter the surface.