The Portela Lab’s motto is “architected mechanics and materials across scales.” The Perspective aims to bridge the gap ...

Efficiently remediating large quantities of complex wastewater to the standards of increasingly strict regulations is both ...

Researchers at TU Delft and Brown University have developed scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails that could support ...

1.1 What is friction? Take this everyday example: when a coffee mug rests on a flat table, the kinetic frictional force is zero. There is no force trying to move the mug across the table, so there is ...

A new method for manufacturing lightsails that can reach up 20% of the speed of light is making the technology look more ...

A new era in the treatment of triple-negative breast cancer is about to begin. Scientists in Australia have offered new hope ...

The many breakthroughs in science and engineering made during the last century are well documented and there is a general consensus about who discovered what. It is widely agreed, for instance ...

As climate change, soil degradation, and food security concerns continue to rise, nanotechnology presents an opportunity to enhance crop production efficiently and sustainably.

This is the difficulty of knowing which predictions — technological, economic or otherwise — about the future of nanotechnology are sufficiently plausible to merit some reflection and action.

Revolutionary Advances in DNA Nanotechnology Propel Market Growth. The global DNA nanotechnology market, valued at $4.77 billion in 2024, is set to witness an unprecedented expans ...