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The demonstration of a light-driven plastic motor opens new opportunities for photomobile applications.

Processing steel to a fibre-like structure and adding nanoparticles can make it really strong.

Hierarchical self-assembly provides a new route to building nanostructures.

Self-assembled hollow spheres with reversibly gated pores allow precious cargo to be carried and released at will.

Scientists show that transistors can be made ofa wide range mateirals including metals thus opening up the possiblity of novel devices structures not possible with conventional semiconductors.

Ultraviolet irradiation is used to create nanotube-polymer composites of any desired shape.

Viruses and bacteria team up to build protein-based biological nanotubes.

The sensitivity of ceria oxide nanowires to carbon monoxide increases significantly when the wires are coated with platinum nanoscrystals.

Deeper insights into the switching mechanisms of individual redox-active molecular complexes may lead to novel applications in molecular electronics.

A scalable approach to building complex nanotube structures and devices makes the next step towards nanotube electronic chips.

New insights into the role of iron nanoparticles in the formation of nanotrenches in oxide substrates may have implication for nanodevice fabrication.

Plasmonic nanostructures enable a very efficient production of coherent extreme ultraviolet light.

A tiny ribbon modeled on natural viruses could deliver both DNA and drugs into cancer cells.

New findings explain why organic semiconductors can carry charge in the form of both electrons and holes.

A new class of semiconducting materials are proposed that exhibit full spin polarization and tunable carrier densities, and could be useful for the next generation of spintronic devices.

Thermoresponsive hydrogels can be made to bend by asymmetrically altering the nanostructure.

A polymer template with a multiscale hierarchical structure makes stable superhydrophobic surfaces in a simple, one-step process.

A new iron-arsenide based superconductor with critical temperature above 40 K.

A new compound containing fluorine in the family of iron-based superconductors has a transition temperature of 55 K.

The oscillations of a tiny mechanical beam can store bits of information for low-power computing.