nanotechnology

Purdue researchers engineered a cobalt-aluminum intermetallic alloy that is 6 to 10 times stronger than structural steel while still bending under load.

A Monash University team reports in Nature Photonics the first integrated chip that can create, route, and read information carried in light's 'valley' degree of freedom.

University of Hong Kong team shows ultrathin polycrystalline diamond membranes generate voltage when bent, overturning the century-old classification of diamond as non-piezoelectric.

Researchers at Northwestern University have used aerosol jet printing to create flexible artificial neurons that generate biologically realistic signals and directly activate living neural tissue.

German researchers used molten salts and iodine vapor to build atomically ordered MXenes, boosting conductivity 160x over conventional methods.

A molecular cage embedded in silica captures short-chain PFAS that elude conventional filters, achieving 98 percent removal in lab tests and remaining effective after five reuse cycles.

Researchers achieved reversible switching between graphene polytypes at 30-nanometer scale using sub-nanonewton forces and sub-femtojoule energy, opening a path to slidetronic memory and neuromorphic computing.