The discovery of the first Single-Molecule Magnet, Mn12-ac, in 1993 changed the
perspective of how information can be stored. The current bit, occupying few hundreds of …

The creation and development of carbon nanomaterials promoted material science
significantly. Bottom-up synthesis has emerged as an efficient strategy to synthesize …

This review highlights recent efforts on applying electron microscopy (EM) to soft (including
biological) nanomaterials. We will show how developments of both the hardware and …

One of the attractive properties of the hollow carbon clusters, known as fullerenes, is the
possibility to use them as robust containers for other species. Although an IUPAC …

As quantum mechanics ventures into the world of applications and engineering, materials
science faces the necessity to design matter to quantum grade purity. For such materials …

Discretizing spacetime is often a natural step towards modelling physical systems. For
quantum systems, if we also demand a strict bound on the speed of information propagation …

Isolated electronic and nuclear spins in solids are at present being actively explored for
potential quantum-computing applications. Spin degrees of freedom provide an excellent …

Nonlinear optical (NLO) materials have spanned a large area of science and technology
owning to their potential applications in optoelectronics. The invention of the first Ruby laser …

Metal–metal bonding is crucial in chemistry for advancing our understanding of the
fundamental aspects of chemical bonds. Metal–metal bonds based on alkaline-earth (Ae) …

Density functional theory calculations have been performed for alkali metal encapsulated
X12Y12 nano-cages (X= B, Al and Y= N, P) to evaluate their stability, boundary crossing …