Quantum effects in novel functional materials and new device concepts represent a potential
breakthrough for the development of new information processing technologies based on …

Friction, wear and lubrication between materials in contact are of fundamental importance in
many pure and applied sciences. Owing to the development of experimental and computer …

The conductance of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) was found to be quantized.
The experimental method involved measuring the conductance of nanotubes by replacing …

Using remarkably simple experimental techniques it is possible to gently break a metallic
contact and thus form conducting nanowires. During the last stages of the pulling a neck …

Silver nanowires have been synthesized by a polyol process. A detailed parametric study
determining the relationship between final morphology of the products and temperature …

A few years after the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), the atomic force
microscope (AFM) was developed. 1 Instead of measuring tunneling current, a new physical …

As the scale of microelectronic engineering continues to shrink, interest has focused on the
nature of electron transport through essentially one-dimensional nanometre-scale channels …

Block copolymers have received considerable attention as a promising platform for the
synthesis of nanomaterials and fabrication of nanostructures because of their self …

We demonstrate that the limits of drawing of fibre can be pushed down to nanometre
dimensions. By a process similar to dry-spinning, nanofibres can be drawn with ultimate …

The large interest in nanostructures results from their numerous potential applications in
various areas such as materials and biomedical sciences, electronics, optics, magnetism …