Test tube chemistry just took a leap down in size to the nano-scale, with new test-tubes measuring only about one billionth of a meter across. The scaling factor is like scaling up from a normal test ...

Sara Sheykhi collected these colorful solutions in test tubes as they flowed from a silica gel column, which is used to separate chemical mixtures. Sheykhi is a postdoc at North Carolina State ...

When Federico Begato grew this crystal of a fluorescent organic nanomaterial so he could determine its structure by X-ray diffraction, he noticed that it kind of looked like a boat. So he decided to ...