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Light focused into nano-grooves in a gold film bonded to an atomically thin crystal flake produces a remarkable frequency doubling effect.

The interface between two tin-oxide semiconductors can exhibit unexpected metallic properties.

A professor, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has been awarded the James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials by the American Physical Society.

Highly luminescent inks made from copper–iodine hybrid clusters with aggregation-induced emission.

Sustainable highly conductive electrode materials from ultrathin carbon nanofiber aerogels derived from nanofibrillated cellulose.

An international team of researchers, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has unveiled that brittle diamonds can be bent and stretched elastically when made into ultrafine needles.

An international team of researchers, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has discovered a novel method for the synthesis of ultrathin semiconductors.

A team of researchers, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has demonstrated the possibility to induce and control a magnetic response in a nonmagnetic layer material though selective excitation of specific vibration of the material.

A team of researchers, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has introduced the next-generation of annealing-free and flexible organic solar cells (OSCs).

Spotting signatures of potential pollutants made easier with quantum lasers that emit tunable infrared light.

Researchers utilize cellular proteins to shape silver nanoplates, suggesting an efficient strategy for controlling the nanostructure of inorganic materials.

Researchers at Nagoya University find an inorganic semiconductor is brittle when exposed to light, but flexible in the dark.

A fast and safe method to prepare a 3D porous material that mimics the shape of a honeycomb could have broad applications from catalysis to drug delivery or for filtering air to remove pollutants or viruses.

New carbon-dioxide-adsorbing crystals could form the basis of future biomedical materials that rely on the shape-memory effect.

Organic salts with high proton conductivity

Nanocellulose offers renewable, biodegradable, strong and lightweight components for electronic products.

Perovskite-based solar cells reach a record 22.1% energy conversion rate, thanks to a new fabrication method.

An innovative chemical reactor for depositing semiconductors at very high temperatures draws on the strength of Saudi Arabia’s chemical industry.

Hokkaido University scientists have developed ‘fibre-reinforced soft composites’, that are extremely flexible and five times stronger than carbon steel.

Japanese researchers have observed superconductivity in a quasicrystal for the first time.

A novel algorithm to simulate the color appearance of objects under chromatic illuminants has been proposed by Ichiro Kuriki of Tohoku University.

~ A fluke discovery could pave the way towards improved graphene-based electronics ~

3D printing shows potential for fabricating personalized ‘soft’ robotic hands and hearts. But challenges need to be addressed.

A research team in Korea has newly developed imaging system that can analyze the movement of sound generated from 2D structure with the thickness of an atomic unit. It is expected to be used in new material, solar cell, and catalyst development.

A technique of microwave synthesis of layered oxides enables high-capacity aqueous zinc-ion batteries.

A soft, stick-on patch collects, analyses and wirelessly transmits a variety of health metrics from the body to a smartphone.

Researchers at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea, have succeeded in developing a new biosensing contact lens capable of detecting glucose levels in patients with diabetes.

Nanomaterial coating enables efficient delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 machinery into the cell.

Adding oxygen atoms to a perovskite-like crystal material splits it into layers, giving it unique electrical properties.

Researchers have developed ultra-small magnetic tunnel junctions with high retention properties for use in semiconductor technologies.