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Control over the light emission from nanoparticles can be achieved through the use of photonic crystals.

An iron-carrying blood protein transforms into long fibres that may play a key role in brain diseases.

The current-driven movement of magnetic domain walls in a ferromagnetic wire enables the construction of a new type of all-metallic logic gate.

A new method to stop current leaking from capacitors could vastly improve computer memory chips.

Micro- and nanoscale structures on aluminium provide a superhydrophobic surface, making it resistant to corrosion.

The demonstration of the transfer of quantum information from light to electrons in a semiconductor offers a new way for implementing quantum computers.

An organic material that glows by a process of aggregation induced emission could enable better red emitters for use as organic displays.

Researchers have developed the first nano-scale parallel processor in which one molecule influences the state of many others.

Precisely defined arrays of gold nanostructures produced by electron beam lithography exhibit enhanced photoluminescence emission efficiency.

The macroscopic form of hybrid polymer-calcium carbonate films can be controlled using an underlying liquid crystalline template.

Polymer vesicles are made with complex ‘vesicles within vesicle’ architectures and membranes that are reversibly permeable to hydrophilic molecules.

Graphene sheets can be prevented from aggregating by a method exploiting simple electrostatic repulsion; a major advance for large scale production of this unique 2D-structure of carbon.

The surface morphology and diameter of ZnO nanowires can be used to control the electronic properties of field effect transistors based on these nanostructures.

Quantification of the spin-transfer torque effect is a major advance towards the realization of practical non-volatile magnetic memory devices.

Choosing the appropriate ‘hole’ carrying material leads to a sizeable blue-shift in ZnO LEDs.

Quantum size effects are used to control the Kondo resonance in a spin-based thin-film device.

Real time photoelectron spectroscopy tracks the transition of thin metallic films from disorder to order.

Electrons have a tendency to gather in the vicinity of ‘twists’ in cyclacene molecules, an important finding in the development of nonlinear optical molecules.

Fluorescent host emitters enable bright, high-efficiency organic light emitting diodes that meet international standards for deep blue light emission.

Stacking gold nanoparticles into three dimensional cells increases data storage capacity.