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Collaboration yields discovery of 12-sided silica cages
What do you call a materials science discovery that was given a major boost by a lecture from a Nobel laureate in chemistry, used...
Jun 29, 20183 min read


Polymer crystals hold key to record-breaking energy transport
Scientists from the universities of Bristol and Cambridge have found a way to create polymeric semiconductor nanostructures that absorb...
Jun 1, 20182 min read


Promising news from biomedicine: DNA origami more resilient than previously understood
The DNA origami technique is a widely used method for making complex, yet well-defined nanostructures, with applications in biophysics,...
Jun 1, 20182 min read


Porous materials make it possible to have nanotechnology under control
Half metal, half organic structure, like Robocop himself, is the material known as MOF, short for Metal Organic Framework. MOF has been...
May 24, 20182 min read


Polarized light: A simple route to highly chiral materials
Chirality is at the heart of chemical research and much technology. For organic chemists, choosing between the left- and right-handed...
May 16, 20182 min read


Morphing twisted nanoscale objects to tailor applications in future technologies
For the first time scientists have created a way to model the interaction between light and twisted molecules, as these molecules...
May 16, 20182 min read
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