The team’s new synthesis protocol allows for the production of tungsten disulfide nanotubes which point in the same direction. The material they make show the key properties of single nanotubes. Tokyo ...

Nanotubes can serve as biosensors. They change their fluorescence when they bind to certain molecules. Until now, it was unclear why. Researchers have gained new insights into the cause of the ...

A team of scientists from Japan's RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics have revealed how carbon nanotubes emit more energetic light than the light they absorb. Since materials typically emit less ...

Boron-nitride nanotubes can template the growth of TMD nanotubes both inside and outside the tube. These can be directly observed by transmission electron microscopy (right). Tokyo, Japan – ...

There's an old Monty Python gag about a man who inherits 122,000 miles of string and wants to cash in. Unfortunately, the string comes in 3-inch lengths, rendering it useless. A similar hitch has ...

What if we could capture the carbon dioxide that power plants put into the air and make it something useful? East Tennessee startup SkyNano is trying to make that possible. The company has produced ...

A new study details how researchers successfully built and operated a motor using coils woven from pure carbon nanotubes instead of the heavy copper that has been the standard for a century. But can ...

In a study published in Nano Letters, Tokyo Metropolitan University researchers created the first tungsten disulfide nanotubes that point in the same direction upon formation. The team’s new synthesis ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have engineered a range of new single-walled transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) nanotubes with different compositions, chirality, and ...

Scientists have designed a new type of gas sensor that can tell apart "mirror image" versions of the same smell molecule, ...