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Nanopolyaniline filled with gold nanoparticles sniffs ammonia vapour

Resistive device made from composite material operates at room temperature

CMOS chip transformed into nanopore sensor

Platform paves the way for highly compact and massively parallel biosensors on-a-chip

Plasmonics ramp up nanocrystal photosensor performance

Adding a layer of metallic nanoparticles upgrades light-sensitive device skin

Understanding the mechanical response of super-stiff supramolecular nanotubes

Level and rate of applied load could be used to adjust polydispersity and length of cyclic structures through fragmentation process

Contact-free electrical characterisation of semiconductor nanowires

Optical pump-terahertz probe spectroscopy helps to guide the choice of nanowires for different applications such as solar cells or high-speed electronics

Nanowire team examines emission from radial quantum structures

Correlated micro-photoluminescence spectroscopy and cathodoluminescence imaging measurements reveal narrow peaks and identify spatial origin of the emission

Graphene forms transparent actuator

Applications include tactile displays and vari-focal lenses

Plasmonic nanoscope measures heterogeneous nanostructures

Scanning plasmonic ridge aperture senses changes in refractive index and absorption of nanostructures, which is useful for detecting voids or defects in a sample.

Boron nitride whiskers exhibit extremely high surface area

Porous material could store hydrogen or help to clean up wastewater

Short- and long-range SPP waveguides detect xylene

Nanostructured plasmonic gas sensors fabricated by embedding sinusoidal surface plasmon metallic gratings in phenyl-bridged polysilsesquioxane films.

Electronic connection to biomolecular fibre established

STM reveals electron transfer molecules organized by protein fibres.

AFM captures dynamics of photodissolution

Continuous imaging during patterned optical illumination allows surface morphology, roughness and particle size distribution to be spatially and statistically monitored as a function of time.

Magnetic fields drive ZnO nanostructures

Superparamagnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles attached to ZnO tetrapod nanostructures pave the way for a range of applications including water treatment.

Shaped nanosphere lithography delivers large area nanoring and nanocrescent arrays

Substrates being developed for surface enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy.

Charged magnetic nanoparticles induce cellular membrane instability

Surface charge modification could benefit image contrast agents.

Split-press-merge process aligns graphene nanosheets in composites

Materials team reports on alignment of two-dimensional nanomaterials in paraffin wax to produce composite with EMI shielding properties.

Graphene-based antireflection stack suits solar cells and UV detectors

FDTD calculations confirm light trapping and lower reflectance values for graphene-SiO2-silicon structure.

Nanowires grown on polycrystalline silicon

Freestanding nanowires on glass-based polycrystalline silicon could improve light-emitting devices.

New sequential process delivers pure Pt EBID structures

Post-treatment includes in situ annealing and electron beam irradiation under oxygen flux.

Nanostencils define sub-10 nm gaps in plasmonic antennas

Process can be used with SiO2-based nanostructures and substrates including glass and quartz.