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With the help of the Langmuir–Schaefer method, semiconducting carbon nanotubes can be forced into extremely dense arrays with an almost perfect parallel alignment that can be used to create high-performance transistors.
Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale spin configurations that hold promise as information carriers in ultradense memory and logic devices owing to the extremely low spin-polarized currents needed to move them.
Experiments on nanowires have shown evidence of solid-state analogues of the particles predicted by Ettore Majorana more than 70 years ago. Although stronger confirmation is still to come, these first observations have already fuelled expectations of fundamental results and potential applications in quantum information technology.
Functionalized magnetic nanoparticles act as signalling hot spots that can be manipulated inside living cells to locally trigger intracellular signalling and induce morphological changes.
Two or more enzymes encapsulated in a thin polymer shell can lower blood alcohol levels in intoxicated mice, offering a way to prevent liver injury arising from the overconsumption of alcohol.
Gate-tunable hole quantum dots can be formed in InSb nanowires and used to demonstrate Pauli spin blockade and electrical control of single hole spins.