Researchers flip the switch at the nanoscale by applying light to induce bonding for single-molecule device switching. In a new Nature Communications study, Columbia Engineering researchers report ...

Electronics keep shrinking, but silicon is starting to run into physical limits. To go smaller, researchers are turning to ...

When disease begins forming inside the human body, something subtle happens long before symptoms appear. Individual molecules such as DNA, RNA, peptides, or proteins begin shifting in quantity or ...

Since the completion of the human genome project in 2003, structural and genetic factors within the genome are continuously being mapped to various diseases previously not considered to have genetic ...

The binary nature of single-molecule magnets—metal coordination complexes with switchable magnetic polarity—makes them good candidates for designing new technologies like miniaturized memory storage ...

Molecular electronics is a branch of nanotechnology that focuses on using individual molecules or nanoscale molecular structures as electronic components to create miniaturized circuits and devices.

A disassembled charge-detection mass spectrometry ion trap. A disassembled charge detection mass spectrometry ion trap Credit: Gwendolyn Jarrold At the University of Oxford, Justin Benesch studies ...

Xiaohui Xu, Juejun Wang, Nickel Blankevoort, Abdalghani Daaoub, Sara Sangtarash, Jie Shi, Chao Fang, Saisai Yuan, Lichuan Chen, Junyang Liu, Yang Yang, Hatef Sadeghi, Wenjing Hong Proceedings of the ...

A nanoscale junction forces molecules into reactive configurations, allowing a small voltage to catalyze a chemical transformation that normally requires ultraviolet light. (Nanowerk Spotlight) ...

In a new Nature Communications study, Columbia Engineering researchers report that they have built highly conductive, tunable single-molecule devices in which the molecule is attached to leads by ...