With his rugged beard and signature lumberjack blouse, nanotechnologist Roy van der Meel seems to have walked straight out of a Canadian forest hut instead of a high-tech lab. In Canada, Van der Meel ...

Researchers at TU Delft and Brown University have developed scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails that could support future advances in space exploration and experimental physics. Their research, ...

Nanotechnology is at the heart of critical and emerging technologies from quantum computing to precision farming—yielding tremendous economic, societal, and national security benefits. As global ...

Scientists have used DNA's self-assembling properties to engineer intricate moiré superlattices at the nanometer scale—structures that twist and layer like never before. With clever molecular ...

Cell membranes are the boundaries of living cells. They are made up of amphiphilic lipids, cholesterol, and membrane proteins arranged in a dynamic bilayer. They regulate signal transduction, ...

Nanoscale science, engineering, and technology, often referred to simply as "nanotechnology," is the understanding, characterization, and control of matter at the scale of nanometers, the dimension of ...

Philiswa Nomngongo works for the Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Johannesburg, Doornfontein Campus, P.O. Box 17011, Doornfontein, 2028, South Africa. She receives funding from Water ...

The Nanotechnology Revolution in Advanced Materials It’s pretty wild to think about how much materials science has ...

Experts say advances in nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, quantum computing, autonomous transport, and ...