Controlled Suppression of Wear on the Nanoscale by Ultrasonic Vibrations

Controlled Suppression of Wear on the Nanoscale by Ultrasonic Vibrations - Wear on the nanoscale, as evidenced by the formation of periodic ripples on a model polystyrene thin film while a sharp tip i...

Vanadium Flow Battery for Energy Storage: Prospects and Challenges

Vanadium Flow Battery for Energy Storage: Prospects and Challenges by Cong Ding , Ph.D. student of DICP; Dr. Huamin Zhang, Professor at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science...

Switching of a Carbon Nanotube Chiral Junction Imaged with Nanometer Spatial Resolution

Optoelectronic Switching of a Carbon Nanotube Chiral Junction Imaged with Nanometer Spatial Resolution Authors Martin Gruebele and Lea Nienhaus discuss their work optoelectronically tuning the metall...

Catalytic Growth of Graphene: Towards Large-Area Single-Crystalline Graphene

Catalytic Growth of Graphene: Towards Large-Area Single-Crystalline Graphene by Hiroki Ago, Yui Ogawa, Masaharu Tsuji, and Seigi Mizuno, from Kyushu University, and Hiroki Hibino, from NTT Basic Resea...

Video abstract: The Power of Thiol-ene Chemistry

Craig Hawker and Daniel Burke at the University of California Santa Barbara describe their paper "The power of thiol-ene chemistry", published in the Journal of Polymer Science: Part A, Poly...

U21 3MT Competition 2013 - First Place - Jamie Gallagher - University of Glasgow

The judges awarded Jamie Gallagher of the University of Glasgow First Prize for his presentation entitled "Hot and Powerful" on the subject of nanostructured thermoelectronic materials. Jami...

A Nanoprinted Model of Interstitial Cancer Migration

A Nanoprinted Model of Interstitial Cancer Migration - Metastatic progression of tumours requires the coordinated dissemination of cancerous cells through interstitial tissues and their replication in...

Selective p- and n-doping of Colloidal PbSe Nanowires to Construct Optoelectronic Devices

Selective p- and n-doping of Colloidal PbSe Nanowires to Construct Optoelectronic Devices - We report the controlled and selective doping of colloidal PbSe nanowire arrays to define pn junctions for e...

Tailoring MoS2 Exciton–Plasmon Interaction by Optical Spin–Orbit Coupling

Tailoring MoS2 Exciton–Plasmon Interaction by Optical Spin–Orbit Coupling. In this video, the Nanosmart Team from Peking University describe MoS2 photoluminescence modification via optical spin-orbit...

Graphene Materials for Electrochemical Capacitors

Graphene Materials for Electrochemical Capacitors by Ji Chen, Chun Li, and Gaoquan Shi from the Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University in Beijing...

Do You Really Need A Flu Shot Every Year? — Speaking of Chemistry

The latest Speaking of Chemistry episode highlights recent research that might make this annual tradition more effective and less frequent. Speaking of Chemistry's Sophia Cai explains the chemistry be...

The Use of Synergistic Interactions to Fabricate Strong

The Use of Synergistic Interactions to Fabricate Strong, Tough, and Conductive Artificial Nacre Based on Graphene Oxide and Chitosan Author Sijie Wan describes recent work on fabricating artificial n...

2012 Three Minute Thesis Winner - Sumaiya Ahmed

Sumaiya Ahmed (School of Marketing, Australian School of Business) gives her winning presentation in the 2012 UNSW Three Minute Thesis competition - "The waiting game in the movie industry: Timin...

Room Temperature Multiferroicity of Charge Transfer Crystals

Room Temperature Multiferroicity of Charge Transfer Crystals - Authors Shenqiang Ren and Beibei Xu describe their research on the development of organic charge transfer complex for the charge-transfer...

2012 Three Minute Thesis People's Choice Award - Ludmilla Khodai

Ludmilla Khodai (School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences) won the People's Choice Award at the 2012 UNSW Three Minute Thesis competition with her presentation - "Forced gen...

Porphyrin-Based Supramolecular Nanoarchitectures for Solar Energy Conversion

Porphyrin-Based Supramolecular Nanoarchitectures for Solar Energy Conversion. By Taku Hasobe, Department of Chemistry, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, discusses his Perspective published in issue 11...

Three Minute Thesis Ontario 2013 Runner Up - Abraham Heifets (University of Toronto)

Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Ontario 2013 Runner Up -- Abraham Heifets (University of Toronto), presents his research "How can we make better medicines? Computer tools for chemistry" in 3 minut...

Three Minute Thesis (3MT) 2013 QUT winner - Megan Pozzi

Megan Pozzi, Faculty of Education was the winner of QUT's 2013 competition and the people's choice winner. She spoke about her research on teenage girls and social media identity and status updates....

Pushing the Envelope of the Intrinsic Limitation of Organic Solar Cells

Pushing the Envelope of the Intrinsic Limitation of Organic Solar Cells, by Nadia Camaioni and Riccardo Po, Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, vi...

Fluorescence Tracking of Genome Release during the Mechanical Unpacking of Single Viruses

Fluorescence Tracking of Genome Release during the Mechanical Unpacking of Single Viruses - Author Álvaro Ortega describes the new method they developed to break open a single virus and release its ge...