Various surface/interfacial micro/nanostructures have been widely used in solar cells 1,2,3,4, light emitting diodes 5, surface wetting and adhesion 6,7,8, metamaterials 9,10,11,12, cell biophysics 13 ...

On a Saturday afternoon in the fall of 2021, Silvio Decurtins was leafing through a paper with a title that could have been pulled from a comic book for mathematically inclined teens: “Plato’s Cube ...

Optics meets 2D materials: a simple probe light beam exiting an optical moiré lattice can be chopped up into diffuse streaks or confined into a single bright spot, depending on the twist angle in the ...

An international team of surface scientists has now developed a simple method to produce large and very clean 2D samples from a range of materials using three different substrates. Ever since the ...

Neurons come in an astounding assortment of shapes and sizes, forming a thick inter-connected jungle of cells. Now, neuroscientists have found that there is a simple pattern that describes the ...

Spring time: This complex array of 3D silicon microstructures was formed by compressive buckling. (Courtesy: John Rogers, University of Illinois) “Tilted table”, “peacock” and “triple-floor building” ...