Over the past decades, nanoactuators for detection or probing of different biomolecules have attracted vast interest for example in the fields of biomedical, food and environmental industry. To provide more versatile tools for active molecular control in nanometer scale, researchers at University of Jyväskylä and University of Tampere have devised a nanoactuator scheme, where gold…

Researchers at the Nanoscience Center, University of Jyväskylä have made a new discovery in nanomaterial research — the essence resides in the exclusive use of metallic elements in flat, atomically thin nanostructures. The best known flat nanomaterial is graphene. Graphene is stable because the non-metallic element carbon prefers covalent, directional bonds that effectively cause structural…

Academy Professor Kari Rissanen and Dr. Lotta Turunen at the University of Jyväskylä, together with research groups from Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Professor Christoph A. Schalley and M.Sc.  Ulrike Warzok, have published a study on a new nano-sized hexameric molecular capsule based on a completely new concept. Construction of nano-sized structures by exploiting non-covalent interactions…

Like drums in regular drum sets, graphene membranes at the nanoscale possess a distinct set of oscillating modes that correspond to specific oscillation frequencies. The modes can be excited by applying an external voltage. In this study, published in Nature Nanotechnology, researchers from Cornell University and the University of Jyväskylä show that by applying an…