Magnetism is usually taught as a story of straight lines, with field arrows marching neatly from north to south. In a lab at Florida State University, that picture has just been shattered by a new ...

Novel lithography approach offers photonic crystal patterns with a 600 nm period. Villigen, Switzerland, January 27, 2010 - Today, Eulitha AG of Switzerland and Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (DNP) of ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The use of design concepts adapted from nature is a promising new route to the development of advanced materials, with biominerals providing an ample source of examples. For ...

The orientation of powdered crystals of diarylethene can be controlled to form in the shape of straight lines or numerals. News organizations may use or redistribute this image, with proper ...

What's more useful: a quick and easy nanoscale fabrication method that yields lots of loosely assembled products, or a painstaking procedure for making robust structures one molecule at a time? This ...