Electrospun hierarchical CaCo2O4 nanofibers are promising materials for lithium-ion batteries

Home-Spun Fibers

Capturing Cancer Cells with Graphene Oxide Nanosheets
A new chip based on graphene oxide nanosheets detects circulating tumor cells with high specificity and sensitivity

Scientists (of the World) Behave!
Katharina Al-Shamery discusses ethics with regards to scientific publishing

More Transparency
Optically transparent water oxidation catalyst made from copper nanowires

New Low-Cost Catalyst for Fuel Cells
Titanium nitride nanoparticles grown on nitrogen-doped graphene sheets are better than Pt-based catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction

Electrochemistry as a Sizing Technique
An electrochemical technique can be used to derive the size distribution of organic nanoparticles

Analyzing Spider Silk
Characterization of silk of the recluse spider features a ribbon-like morphology unlike any other spider silk or synthetically spun polymer fiber

Carbon Peapods
C70 peapods: the host–guest chemistry of C70 and cycloparaphenylenes

Giant Host Molecules
New, large metallosupramolecular hosts integrate visible-light photofunctional and redox-active perylene bisimide (PBI) ligands

Power from the Sea?
Triboelectric nanogenerator extracts energy from ocean waves