Berkeley - As scientists shrink materials down to the nanometer scale, creating nanodots, nanoparticles, nanorods and nanotubes a few tens of atoms across, they've found weird and puzzling behaviors ...

This figure depicts the synthesis of metallic 1D mirror twin boundaries through Van der Waals epitaxial growth (top) and the large-area 2D semiconductor integrated circuit constructed based on these ...

Imec is a world-leading research and innovation center in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. Imec has more than 6.000 employees and top researchers, for R&D in advanced semiconductor and system ...

A research team in Kiel has demonstrated a previously unknown effect in graphene—a single layer of carbon atoms whose discovery earned the 2010 Nobel Prize. For years, graphene has been seen as a ...

Heiner Linke, director of the Nanometer Structure Consortium (nmC) at Lund University in Sweden, tells Matthew Chalmers about a new project to develop nanomaterials for energy Clean-energy vision ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...