Research Summaries

Oil-free, nanoscale solid lubricant creates ultra-slippery layer between sliding surfaces in machinery.

Designing new levels of complex architectures using DNA strands and nanoparticles.

Precisely positioning molecules on wire-like DNA assemblies allows high efficiency energy transfer.

Team combines many innovative accelerator accomplishments to keep gold ions cold and advance nuclear physics research.

New results contradict a long-held classical theory of crystal nucleation.

Scientists reveal oxygen’s hidden talent for filling atomic gap in 2D semiconductors & the surprising role of electron spin in electronic conductivity

Scientists create flexible, ultrathin films of nanoparticles using a polymer ‘corona’ approach.

New finding may help explain why we develop chronic diseases and cancer as we age…and even why food decomposes over time.

Soils contain a large diversity of unknown RNA viruses that infect fungi and possibly plants and animals.

New approach doubles the current driven by microwave heating at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility.