Being able to precisely locate individual nanoparticles in a device is no easy task but it is important for many research fields, including nanometrology,...
A rare-earth-free permanent magnet with properties approaching those of neodymium-based formulations has been created by researchers in France. Speaking at the 9th Joint European...
Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) impurities in nanodiamonds could be used as single-photon sources in quantum technologies, such as quantum computers and quantum sensors, thanks to their...
Dispersible electrodes based on gold-coated magnetic nanoparticles modified with DNA can detect microRNA in unprocessed blood samples at extremely low concentrations and over a...
World class equipment can be useless if the surrounding lab architecture is not conducive to optimum performance. Physics World talks to Wilson Architects, specialists...
Researchers at Lund University, Sweden, have grown single continuous GaAs nanowires consisting of segments of pure wurtzite and zincblende phases. Using photoluminescence spectroscopy, they...
Using a technique called DNA origami, researchers in the US and China have succeeded in designing biomimetic silica nanocomposites with pre-defined sizes and shapes...
Water contaminated with heavy metals is becoming an increasingly serious problem in many developing countries. For example, mercury, produced during some types of gold...
Quantum dots made from the carbon material graphene prevent alpha-synuclein from aggregating into strand-like structures known as fibrils. They also help disaggregate fibrils that...
