Technology Update

Gallium nitride quantum dots can emit single photons at room temperature, according to new experimental observations by researchers at the University of Tokyo.

Researchers in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands have succeeded in creating a light-hole exciton ground state by applying tensile elastic stress to a semiconductor quantum dot.

The so-called nitrogen vacancy (NV) centre in nanodiamond could be ideal for use in a host of future quantum technologies, including quantum computing and nanoscale sensing.

Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Lab and the University of South Carolina in the US say that they have observed chaotic behaviour in a ferroelectric material

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created the first in vivo carbon nanotube sensors

The electronic properties of graphene can be significantly altered by placing it on top of hexagonal boron nitride (another 2D material that has the same type of honeycombed structure as graphene)

A special coating that can hide its own temperature from thermal cameras has been developed

A version of the quantum Hall effect (QHE) involving light rather than electrons has been created by physicists in the US

Researchers at Stanford University in the US have succeeded in fabricating a corrosion-resistant photoanode

Superlubricity (or the almost absence of all friction) exists in centimetre-long double-walled carbon nanotubes, according to new experiments by researchers at Tsinghua and Peking universities in China.

Researchers in the US say that they have observed room-temperature ferromagnetism in a graphene nanostructure.

Researchers in the US and Korea have come up with a new and simple way to make 2D, well-ordered, periodic nanopatterns using self-assembling brush block copolymers.

Graphene can be directly transferred onto a variety of flexible substrates using a lamination process that does not require an intermediate “glue” step.

Two layers of graphene can be brought together at an extremely close distance of just one nanometre – ten times closer than is possible for other, more traditional, materials.

Researchers in Sweden, Germany and Taiwan have succeeded in fabricating single-crystalline gallium arsenide nanowires doped with magnetic manganese ions using an innovative implantation technique.

Researchers in the US, Germany, Singapore and Spain have developed a new technique to image grain boundary defects in graphene by analysing how surface plasmons are reflected and scattered by the defects

Mesoporous silica (mSiO2) can be used to carry anti-cancer drugs to tumour sites in mice.

At just a molecule thick, it’s a new record: The world’s thinnest sheet of glass,

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have succeeded in generating intense magnetic fields on the nanoscale by focusing electric current through a nanosized metal constriction.

A new ternary electrode made from nanostructured silicon nanoparticles,