Imagine a robotic David Beckham six times smaller than an amoeba playing with a “soccer ball” no wider than a human hair … with all of the action happening on a field the size of single grain of rice.

Technique could yield insights into brain function, expedite drug development.

The US military can now calibrate high-power laser systems, such as those intended to defuse unexploded mines, more quickly and easily thanks to a novel nanotube-coated power measurement device.

A research team from Northeastern University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology has discovered, serendipitously, that a residue of a process used to build arrays of titania nanotubes—a residue that wasn’t even noticed before this—plays an important role in improving the performance of the nanotubes in solar cells that produce hydrogen gas from water.

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a method to measure the toughness — the resistance to fracture — of the thin insulating films that play a critical role in high-performance integrated circuits.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed an imaging system that quickly maps the mechanical properties of materials — how stiff or stretchy they are, for example — at scales on the order of billionths of a meter.

Energy from tiny movements, ultrasound waves and even bloodflow can charge the devices

Graphene, a new material that combines aspects of semiconductors and metals, could be a leading candidate to replace silicon in applications ranging from high-speed computer chips to biochemical sensors.

The JILA strontium clock would neither gain nor lose a second in more than 200 million years, compared to NIST F-1’s current accuracy of over 80 million years.

One of the immediate applications of carbon nanotubes (CNT) is as an additive to polymers to create electrically conducting plastics—a relatively low CNT concentration can dramatically change the polymer‘s electrical conductivity by orders of magnitude, from an insulator to a conductor.

Single carbon nanotube is fully functional radio, receiving music over standard radio bandwidth.

An innovative and inexpensive way of making nanomaterials on a large scale has resulted in novel forms of advanced materials that pave the way for exceptional and unexpected optical properties.

A starburst of wrinkles form in a thin film material when a drop of water is placed on the film.

Crafted with breakthrough manufacturing technique, centimeter-long fibers are visible to the naked eye.