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University of Illinois researchers have developed a new way to produce highly uniform nanocrystals used for both fundamental and applied nanotechnology projects. “We have developed a unique approach for the synthesis of highly uniform icosahedral [...]

Insect-inspired device uses hemispherical, compound optics to capture wide, undistorted fields of view An interdisciplinary team of researchers has created the first digital cameras with designs that mimic those of ocular systems found in dragonflies, [...]

When a team of University of Illinois engineers set out to grow nanowires of a compound semiconductor on top of a sheet of graphene, they did not expect to discover a new paradigm of epitaxy. [...]

“When designing next generation solar energy conversion systems, we must first develop ways to more efficiently utilize the solar spectrum,” explained Lane Martin, whose research group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has done [...]

Nanometer-scale heating reveals surface plasmon resonance Recent progress in the engineering of plasmonic structures has enabled new kinds of nanometer-scale optoelectronic devices as well as high-resolution optical sensing. But until now, there has been a [...]

Though they be but little, they are fierce. The most powerful batteries on the planet are only a few millimeters in size, yet they pack such a punch that a driver could use a cellphone [...]

A new class of tiny, injectable LEDs is illuminating the deep mysteries of the brain. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University in St. Louis have developed ultrathin, flexible optoelectronic devices [...]

Findings may prove useful in search for elusive Majorana quasiparticle Topological insulators (TIs) are an exciting new type of material that on their surface carry electric current, but within their bulk, act as insulators. Since [...]

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a new class of fluorescent probes for studying biological processes at the single molecule level. Recent advances in fluorescence imaging and single-molecule fluorescence microscopy (SMFM) [...]

The recurrence of cancer has been one of the greatest mysteries plaguing the medical research field. After weeks, or even years of being declared cancer-free, a patient can see their cancer return stronger than it [...]