The findings should help researchers improve the performance of catalysts to drive reactions toward desired products faster

Energy from the sun and a block of wood smaller than an adult’s hand are the only components needed to heat water to its steaming point in these devices

This finding could lead to soft robotics, liquid circuitry, shape-shifting fluids, and a host of new materials that use soft, rather than solid, substances

What could you use as building blocks if you wanted to create something really small—a structure less than the width of a human hair?

Microneedle skin patch that delivers fat-shrinking drug locally could be used to treat obesity and diabetes

New FlowCam® Nano ends biopharmaceutical dark ages, begins enlightenment

SWIFT magnetic resonance tool assures removal of nanoparticles from rewarmed samples

Atoms in quasicrystals are arranged in an orderly but nonperiodic way, unlike most crystals, which are made up of a three-dimensional, orderly, and periodic (repeating) arrangement of atoms

To boost crop yields, scientists have developed a method to make a low-cost, biocompatible fertilizer with carbon dots derived from rapeseed pollen

The particulates—known as titanium suboxide nanoparticles—are unintentionally produced as coal is burned, creating these tiniest of particles, as small as 100 millionths of a meter