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Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a revolutionary class of porous crystalline solids with applications in carbon capture, water harvesting from desert air, and drug delivery. The article highlights the work of Berkeley chemist Omar Yaghi and the potential of MOFs to address environmental and energy challenges.
This paper demonstrates the first successful positional control of adding and removing individual atoms on a silicon surface using inverted-mode scanning tunneling microscopy, representing a foundational step toward molecular assemblers.
The Nanotechnology Molecular Optimization (NMO) Benchmark introduces physics-based molecular design tasks replacing drug-discovery-focused metrics, aiming to drive scientific discovery in nanotechnology. The paper shows that advanced methods underperform simpler approaches on NMO, and proposes new baseline methods including a novel representation and domain-agnostic pretraining.
IBM announces a breakthrough chip architecture called NanoStack, achieving a sub-1nm node (0.7nm) that packs nearly 100 billion transistors on a fingernail-sized chip, with 50% better performance and 70% energy efficiency than its 2nm chip.
New research shows that confining water in 1-nanometer channels could lead to safer energy storage by reducing flammability and improving stability.
Researchers developed new antibiotics from scorpion venom and habanero peppers, demonstrating efficacy against resistant bacteria including tuberculosis strains, with ongoing work towards clinical trials.