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 ...

EPFL researchers have developed a new high-precision technology that enables them to carve nanometric patterns into two-dimensional materials. The new technology allows the researchers to break the ...

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 ...

North Carolina State University researchers have developed a method for having 2D patterns made of plastic self-assemble into 3D objects using a heat lamp and printer ink. North Carolina State ...

Researchers have developed a simple way to convert two-dimensional patterns into three-dimensional objects using only light. Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a simple ...

“It’s extremely hard to structure 2D materials using conventional lithography, which often employs aggressive chemicals or accelerated, electrically charged particles, like electrons or ions, that can ...

Physicists in Israel have invented a neat method of making elaborate 3D structures from flat 2D discs. The trick is to pre-treat a gel disc half the size of a beer coaster with a monomer solution ...

Biaxially stretched poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) films are currently the most widely used polymeric substrate material in the fields of display technologies ...