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Research Highlights Archive
2025
Unveiling Dynamics of Pt/CeO2 Catalysts in H2 production through the Water-Gas-Shift Reaction
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
A 'Science Exocortex' Would Let Scientists Tackle Harder Problems
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Innovative Photoresist Chemistry Brings Angstrom-Scale Patterning Within Reach
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
2024
Magnesium Protects Tantalum, a Promising Material for Making Qubits
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Solvent Vapor Takes Nanopore Fabrication to New Heights
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Lighting Up PFAS: Rapid Detection with Fluorescent Nanosensors
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Atomic-Resolution Imaging of Bulk Samples by Scanning Electron Microscopy
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Transforming Polymer Membranes for Better Hydrogen and CO2 Separation
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Topological Breakthroughs: Tuning Quantum States in 2D Heterostructures
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Nanosheets Increase Perovskite Solar Cell Efficiency and Stability
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Patterning the Future of Biomineralization with Block Copolymers
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Solar-Powered Chlorine Production: A Sea Change in Water Splitting
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Building a Trustworthy Nanoscience ChatBot
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
AI Imaging of Molecules in Complex Mixtures
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Machine-Learning Accelerates Interpretation of Carbon X-Ray Spectra
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
2023
Watching Metals Oxidize at the Atomic Scale
Thursday, November 16, 2023
AI Deduces Material Structure From Complex X-Ray Spectra
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Warming up Valley Polarization
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Rare & Efficient Energy Transfer in 2D Heterostructures
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Understanding the Tantalizing Benefits of Tantalum for Qubits
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
In Fuel Cell Catalysts, Three Elements are Better than One
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
AI Discovers New Nanostructures Using X-rays
Sunday, April 30, 2023
High Throughput and Multimodal Materials Identification
Sunday, April 30, 2023
Controlling Oxide Catalysts with Peroxides
Sunday, April 30, 2023
Molecular Brushes Stabilize Nanoparticles in Extreme Solution Environments
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Detecting Pollutant Gases with Aromatic Sensors
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Unlocking a Diversity of Self-assembled Nanostructures by Layering
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
2022
A New Quantum Algorithm for Quantum Chemistry
Friday, September 30, 2022
Unexpected Kinetics in Clean Energy Catalysts
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
More Hydrogen from "Hot" Water Splitting
Friday, July 29, 2022
'No Linker' Single-Molecule Circuits
Thursday, June 30, 2022
Pressing Out Clean Interfaces in Layered 2D Devices
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Storing Electronic Data in Nanostructured Hybrids
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Visualizing the Internal Structure and Defects in 3D, Self-assembled Nanomaterials
Thursday, March 31, 2022
New Model Describes COVID-19 Waves, Plateaus, and Endemic States
Monday, February 28, 2022
Adding Up to Create Environmentally Friendly Anti-Corrosion Coatings
Friday, January 21, 2022
Rapid Atomic Ordering for Catalytic Nanoparticles
Friday, January 21, 2022
2021
High-throughput Maps of Polymer Self-Assembly
Friday, December 31, 2021
Resisting Moore's Law Limits with Hybrid Materials
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Looking Under the Hood of Superconducting Qubits
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Bond, DNA Bond. Assembling Ordered Arrays at the Nanoscale
Thursday, September 30, 2021
Tracking Electrons on the Move in Twisted Graphene
Thursday, September 30, 2021
Peering at Dynamic Perimeters that Promote Catalytic Activity
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
A Graded Route to Constructing Stable Batteries
Friday, July 30, 2021
A Good Hair Day for Stimuli-Responsive Emulsions
Friday, July 30, 2021
Trapping Elusive Radicals in a Metal-Organic Framework
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Discovering Flat Bands in Unexpected Places
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Disentangling the Roles of Oxygen Vacancies in Solar Water Splitting
Friday, May 28, 2021
Learning from Pileups in Li-Ion Batteries
Friday, May 28, 2021
The Secret to Growing Carbon Nanotube Forests
Friday, April 30, 2021
Uncovering Better Catalysts in Confined 2D Spaces
Friday, April 30, 2021
Coatings Choose All Sides for a Biomedical Imaging Win
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Having a Ball Designing Nanoarchitectures with DNA
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Watch-and-Learn How Nanostructured Thin-Films Grow
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Simulations to the Rescue! Designing Better Alkali Catalysts
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
The Guiding Power of Graphene in Polymer Films
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Using Nanoparticles to Reveal Polymer Nanoarchitectures
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
2020
Designing Polarized Light Emitters with DNA
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Lithium as a Photocatalytic Performance Enhancer
Monday, November 30, 2020
Patching Cracks in Perovskite Solar Cells for Better Performance
Monday, November 30, 2020
Biofouling Prevention with Nanoscale Polymer Films
Friday, October 30, 2020
Framing up Design of Nanomaterials with DNA
Friday, October 30, 2020
Catching Light with 3D Hybrid Nanostructures
Thursday, September 24, 2020
New Model Shows NYC May Avoid a Second COVID-19 Wave
Monday, August 31, 2020
A New Model for Future Catalyst Design
Monday, July 27, 2020
Making 2-D Magnetic Semiconductors Through Substitutions
Monday, July 27, 2020
Nanocomposite Liposomes Kill Cancer Cells
Monday, June 29, 2020
On a Quest to Tailor the Reactivity of Oxide Catalysts
Monday, June 29, 2020
Machine Learning Deduces Material Structure from X-ray Spectra
Friday, May 29, 2020
Better Catalysts to Convert Carbon Monoxide to Fuels
Friday, May 29, 2020
Nanoscale Confinement Speeds Chemical Reactions
Thursday, April 30, 2020
Solving the Mystery of Fast Ion Transport in Batteries
Thursday, April 30, 2020
Platinum-free Nanocatalysts Provide a Fuel Cell Boost
Monday, March 30, 2020
Fighting Cancer with DNA Origami
Monday, March 30, 2020
Quantum Materials Cloak Thermal Radiation
Monday, February 24, 2020
Nanodiamonds Shine with Single Photons
Friday, January 31, 2020
Machine Learning Accelerates High-Resolution X-ray Imaging
Friday, January 31, 2020
2019
Harvesting Light with Nature-inspired Nanoantennae
Monday, December 30, 2019
A New Pathway to Highly-Interconnected Nanoarchitectures
Monday, December 30, 2019
Research Highlight: Catching Light with Zinc Oxide Nanomesh Sensors
Friday, November 29, 2019
Designing Plasmon Energies by Patterning Silicon at the 1-nm Scale
Friday, November 29, 2019
Manganese Nanocatalysts Provide a Fuel Cell Boost
Monday, September 30, 2019
Artificial Intelligence for Smarter & Faster Research
Friday, August 30, 2019
Tuning Electron Dynamics at 2D Interfaces
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Looking at Atoms to Make Cleaner Fuels from Petroleum
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Observing the Obstacles Underlying Battery Capacity Fade
Friday, June 28, 2019
Data Analytics Uncovers the Structure of Ultrathin Catalyst Coatings
Friday, June 28, 2019
Machine Learning Model Interprets X-ray Absorption Spectra
Friday, May 31, 2019
Nanocages Trap & Separate Elusive Noble Gases
Friday, May 31, 2019
A "Bright" Molecular Machine
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
LEGO™ Construction of Nanoparticle Assemblies
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Small Polymers Can Have a Big Impact on Self-Assembly
Monday, March 18, 2019
Engineered Nanowrappers Carry and Release Cargo
Monday, March 18, 2019
New Polymer Model Helps Explain the Origins of Life
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Smaller Nanoparticles are Better Battery Materials
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Painting Nanopatterns with Molecular Bottlebrushes
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Solving the Riddle of the Crystal Structure of Borophene
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
2018
Tripling the Energy Storage of Lithium-Ion Batteries
Friday, October 26, 2018
Nanocrystals Help Magnesium Batteries Go On-the-Move
Friday, October 26, 2018
3D Nanofabrication of Cell-Sized Machines
Friday, September 28, 2018
Super-stable Platinum-alloy/Graphene-tube Catalysts
Friday, September 28, 2018
Atomically-Precise Assembly of Graphene Nanoribbons
Friday, August 31, 2018
Understanding 'Strain-Free' Energy Storage in Lithium-ion Batteries
Friday, August 31, 2018
Nanostructured Phosphors Make Bright LEDs Without Rare-Earth Elements
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Measuring "The Impossible" X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Hydrogen and Helium
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
In a New Light: 2018 NSLS-II and CFN Joint Users' Meeting
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Filling the Gaps in Understanding Nanoporous Steel
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Superplastic Alumina: Protector of Metals
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Observing Structural Changes In Sub-nm Catalysts In Action
Monday, April 30, 2018
Nanoscience Moves the Continents
Friday, March 30, 2018
Uniform Size Rules the Performance of Quantum Dot Solids
Friday, March 30, 2018
Molecular "Roller-Wheels" Make Better Solar Cell Materials
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Tripod Nanocatalysts Support Faster Fuel Cell Reactions
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Mixing the Right Blend Speeds Up Polymer Self-Assembly
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Magnetic Quasicrystals are Both Ordered and Disordered Nanomaterials
Thursday, January 25, 2018
2017
Getting an Up-Close, 3D View of Optical Nanomaterials
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Sorting molecules with self-assembled nanoscale membranes
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Can you see the invisible glass?
Monday, November 20, 2017
Thicker, efficient polymer-based solar cells
Monday, November 20, 2017
Efficient composite synthesis boosts battery energy delivery
Monday, October 23, 2017
Data Science Heals Imperfect X-ray Scattering Datasets
Monday, October 23, 2017
A dash of P stabilizes nanocrystalline Ni under stress
Friday, September 29, 2017
Superacids are good medicine for 2D semiconductors
Friday, September 29, 2017
Understanding Growth of Ceria Nanocatalysts on Practical Oxide Supports
Monday, August 21, 2017
Self-stacking DNA Tablets Construct Towers of Nanoparticles
Monday, August 21, 2017
Metasurfaces Shrink Broadband Photonics to Smallest Sizes Ever
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Photonic Hypercrystals Shine Brightly and Colorfully
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Watching Ionic Liquids at Electrode Interfaces in Real Time
Monday, June 26, 2017
Trapping Argon Atoms in Two-Dimensional Arrays of Tiny Cages
Monday, June 26, 2017
Drawing at the One-Nanometer Length Scale
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Hybrid Nanorods Glow Like Jellyfish
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Self-Assembled Nanotextures are Impervious to Fog
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Blowing Nanobubbles in Perovskite Crystals
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
New Assembly of Multifunctional, Responsive Nanomaterials
Monday, March 13, 2017
Watching oxidation of bimetallic catalysts in 3D
Monday, March 13, 2017
Platinum-Lead Core/Shell Nanoplates are High-Performance, Highly-Stable Fuel Cell Catalysts
Monday, February 13, 2017
A General Model Explains Binary Nanoparticle Assembly
Monday, February 13, 2017
Tricking Self-Assembly into Creating New Shapes
Monday, January 16, 2017
2016
Producing Valuable Chemicals from Waste Carbon Dioxide
Friday, September 30, 2016
The Curious Behavior of Proteins in Confined Spaces
Sunday, July 31, 2016
Electron Microscopy Reveals in-Situ Evolution of Lithium Batteries
Friday, July 1, 2016
Bi-functional Nanocrystal Coatings Enhance the Performance of Silicon Solar Cells
Thursday, June 30, 2016
Positioning Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers for Diamond-Based Quantum Computers
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Watching Gallium Nitride Nanowires Grow at the Atomic Scale
Sunday, May 1, 2016
Nanomaterial Composites Greatly Enhance the Efficiency of Photodetectors
Sunday, May 1, 2016
Ultrathin Nanoporous Coatings Prevent Metals from Rusting
Friday, April 1, 2016
Realizing Diamond-Shaped Nanoparticle Superlattices
Monday, February 1, 2016
Nanocrystals Within Nanowires
Friday, January 22, 2016
Location, Location, Location: Titanium Doping Improves Hematite's Water Splitting Performance
Friday, January 8, 2016
2015
Atomically Designed Imide-Based Nanoribbons Enable Efficient Organic Solar Cells
Friday, December 18, 2015
Pathway-Dependent Ordering of Block Copolymers
Friday, December 4, 2015
Industrially Favorable Fabrication of Electrodes for High-Performance Supercapacitors
Friday, November 20, 2015
Efficient Conversion of CO2 into Methanol Using Nanocatalysts
Friday, November 6, 2015
Bacteria Hairs Make Excellent Electrical Wires
Friday, October 23, 2015
Doping Crystals of Nanocrystals
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Room Temperature Oxidation of Carbon Monoxide with 100% Efficiency
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Photonic Waveguides Suppress "Crosstalk among Neighbors"
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Artificial Moth Eyes Enhance the Performance of Silicon Solar Cells
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Peering into How Rechargeable Lithium Ion Batteries Function
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Metal Oxidation – Controlled by Atomic Surface Steps
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Swapping Tellurium for Sulfur Improves Light Absorption in Organic Solar Cells
Thursday, February 5, 2015
2014
Scalable Growth of High Quality Bismuth Nanowires
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Transforming the Composition of Nanoparticles Using Electrochemistry
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Research Highlight: Graphene Sees the Light
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Optimization of Lead Sulfide Quantum Dot Synthesis for Monodispersity
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Unraveling Atomic-scale Edge Structure of Nanoscale Graphene Islands
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Role of Size and Defects in Ultrafast Broadband Emission Dynamics of ZnO Nanostructures
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Ion-Implanted Si Waveguide Photodetectors
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Resonant Energy Transfer from Quantum Dots to Graphene
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Research Highlight: Quantum vs. Bulk Behavior: It Depends on the Energy
Monday, April 21, 2014
Visualizing and Understanding Reaction Paths in Lithium-ion Batteries
Monday, March 31, 2014
The Mechanism of Caesium Intercalation of Graphene
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Unlocking the Potential of Rechargeable Lithium Batteries
Friday, January 10, 2014
2013
Measurement of Spin Torque Non-adiabaticity in Magnetic Vortices
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Thermopower of Highly Conducting Au-C Bonded Single-molecule Circuits
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Resolution Limits of Electron-beam Lithography Pushed Towards the Atomic Scale
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Polymer Solar Cells Employing Förster Resonance Energy Transfer
Monday, August 19, 2013
Sub 15-nm Patterns for Magnetic Recording Using Block Copolymers
Monday, July 8, 2013
Mesoscale Linear Assembly of Nanostructures
Monday, July 8, 2013
Engineering Catalytic Contacts with Binary Nanocrystal Superlattices
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Chemical Modification of Self-Assembled Block Copolymers for Area-Selective Formation of Metal Oxide Nanostructures
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Resolving the Internal Structure of Nanoparticle Dimers Linked by DNA
Tuesday, January 15, 2013