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A magnetic skyrmion lattice can mediate transport of spin information between hybrid nano-objects that are formed from organic molecules and atoms in an iron monolayer.
Ennio Tasciotti describes an interactive video game app that helps children learn the concepts of nanomedicine, and hopes to expand it by attracting like-minded scientists, educators and investors.
3D printing is allowing more complex three-dimensional structures to be manufactured than ever before. Could the convergence between this technology and nanotechnology eventually usher in a new era of artificial intelligence, asks Andrew D. Maynard.
Nanoscale objects provide opportunities to revolutionize the conversion of solar energy by enabling highly efficient and low-cost devices. Challenges associated with demonstrating high efficiency and stability are now being addressed in the research community.
This article reviews the different strategies and devices that combine nanoscale and microscale materials to bring about faster, more sensitive and reliable diagnostic results in clinical medicine.
Excitation transfer between nitrogen–vacancy centres and graphene can be used to detect the spin of the electron in the nitrogen–vacancy centre through electrical measurements.
The splitting of electron pairs, which is essential for electron-based quantum information processing, can now be obtained with electron pairs that have been generated on-demand.
A silicon-based photocathode with an epitaxial strontium titanate protection layer and a mesh-like nanostructured catalyst can provide an applied bias photon-to-current efficiency of 4.9% for water reduction.
Under continuous illumination, a non-symmetric axle-type molecule transits through a macrocycle only in one direction via a ratchet mechanism that rectifies Brownian motion.
Stiffness topography with sharp atomic force microscopy tips can be used to generate nanoscale cross-sections of nuclear pore complexes, and suggests that the selective barrier in the complexes consists of a crosslinked network of nuclear pore proteins.
The systemic circulation time of adenosine is prolonged by forming nanoassemblies with squalene, and this can improve neurologic recovery in mice affected by a stroke or spinal cord injury.
Magnetic droplet solitons are shown to be stable excitations that can be controlled by applied magnetic fields and electrical currents in thin films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy.
An alternating charge current pumped by the precessing magnetization of a ferromagnet demonstrates the direct conversion of magnons into charge currents via relativistic spin–orbit coupling.
Magnetic excitations in a ferromagnet known as magnons can be converted into charge currents through a relativistic interaction that couples the spin of an electron with its orbital angular momentum.
The Stark effect can be used to address two qubits independently that are represented by semiconductor quantum dots, placed only a few nanometres apart.
An array of interconnected nanobatteries templated in anodic aluminium oxide pores shows high capacity retention during fast cycling and excellent cyclability while operating at the maximum theoretical capacity of the storage material.