Red or even green aurorae observations at mid-latitudes are rare but not exceptional. However, while high-latitude sightings of blue aurorae are frequent, sighting at mid-latitudes have rarely been reported. During …

Scientists from CNRS have studied the shape evolution of gold nano-tetrapods and revealed a two-step kinetics process: the four arms—initially sharp—quickly blunt, followed by a slow retraction towards an almost …

Researchers at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides have studied the self-assembly of liquid-crystal particles inside a droplet when the latter evaporates within an acoustic levitator. The resulting structures formed …

Researchers have developed a new method to introduce controlled disorder intro crystals of anisotropic gold nanoparticles. This result, at the crossroad between chemistry and engineering, offers prospects for the synthesis …

Imogolite nanotubes (INTs) are unique anisometric particles with monodisperse nanometric diameters while the aspect ratio can be controlled by the synthesis conditions. It thus appears as an interesting model system …

There are different methods, which generate quasiperiodic tilings. In a recent study, researchers from the MATRIX team propose a new method based on grids of regular tessellations of the plane …

Gradient Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (PFG-NMR) allows to measure the diffusion coefficients of molecular and macromolecular species. The probed scales correspond to the nanometric and micrometric domains found in ‘nano’ …