Researchers may have opened the door to a simpler approach for the fabrication of plasmonic materials -- one of the hottest new fields in high tech -- by inducing polyhedral-shaped silver nanocrystals ...

The question of how many polyhedral nanocrystals of silver can be packed into millimeter-sized supercrystals may not be burning on many lips but the answer holds importance for one of today's hottest ...

(Nanowerk News) The 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage presented a vision of the future that includes tiny machines gliding through the body and repairing injuries. Almost 50 years later, scientists are ...

Like cheerleaders forming a human pyramid, many particles might be able to assemble themselves into organized superstructures, a new study has found. Rather than actually manufacturing countless tiny ...

A research team led by Prof. HU Xiaoye from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has successfully synthesized high-quality boride ceramic powders with an ...

Technically, the shape is a rhombic dodecahedron with a hexagon for a base; the geometry was specially designed by Orgusaar to create a space that was easily assembled out of identical elements. The ...