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MIT team shows flexible ligands can direct nanoparticle assembly

Published the paper on Nov. 2, 2026

For about 20 years, the rule for building ordered materials from nanoparticles was to make the connector molecules rigid. Flexible links were expected to produce disorder. A team at MIT has now assembled nanoparticles by doing the opposite.

Updated Nov 2

Hall effect works with in-plane magnetic fields, Carnegie Mellon team shows

New Capabilities

As of September 2026: Publisher of the research

For 147 years, physicists relied on a simple rule: the Hall effect needs a magnetic field pointing straight at a material's surface. Carnegie Mellon researchers just showed that rule was wrong.

Updated Sep 6