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Hall effect measurement set-up on a single core–shell semiconductor nanowire enables spatially resolved determination of carrier concentration and mobility in the nanowire shell.
Photocurrent microscopy on suspended vanadium dioxide nanobeams reveals the thermal origin of the photoresponse in materials with strong electron–electron and electron–phonon correlations.
Nanomechanical signatures of human breast biopsies obtained using an atomic force microscope show close correlation between softening of cancer cells and progression of cancer.
The conductance properties of a narrow graphene nanoribbon are correlated with its electronic states over a wide range of bias voltages using a scanning tunnelling microscope.
Ethical questions arising from biotechnology first, then nanotechnology, and synthetic biology now, present common features, but as Chris Toumey explains, the scientific and ethical issues arising in each case should be treated individually.
Constructive quantum interference is verified experimentally in a parallel single-molecule circuit, potentially offering an intuitive approach to designing intramolecular circuits.
Valley degeneracy in carbon nanostructures can be detrimental to electron spin control and readout based on spin blockade. As a way around this problem, it is now shown how to use a combined valley–spin blockade instead.
An elegant modification of nuclear magnetic resonance allows detailed structural analysis of self-assembled semiconductor quantum dots, so far hindered by the intrinsic strain in these nanostructures.
Microfluidic technologies can tackle some of the challenges in translating nanoparticles to the clinic. This Progress Article outlines these advances and offers an assessment of the near- and long-term impact of microfluidic technologies in nanomedicine.
A single layer of graphene can be used as a tunnel barrier for spin injection in silicon with several advantages over other materials that have previously been used.
