Making a Mini Mona Lisa: Nanotechnique creates image 30 microns in width

Gray Scale Mona Lisa
Alternative materials could bring 'plasmonic' technologies

This graphic depicts a device created using "negatively refracting metamaterials" that could bring advances in applications including...
Cobalt Replacements Make Solar Cells More Sustainable

The dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) converts light to electricity. A coloured copper complex absorbs light and injects an electron into a...
Galaxies Fed by Funnels of Fuel

Created with the help of supercomputers, this still from a simulation shows the formation of a massive galaxy...
Auto lubricant could rev up speed of medical imaging

Shown is an experimental photodetector made out of amorphous silicon and molybdenum disulfide (MoS2). The two semiconductors together form...
Faster Treatment of Third-Degree Burns by Nanofibrous Coatings
VCU Physicists Discover Theoretical Possibility of Large, Hollow Magnetic Cage Molecules: New molecules could be larger than the original Buckminster fullerene with potential applications in technology and health care

Illustration depicts a Mn24C18 cluster carrying a magnetic moment of 70 Bohr magnetons.