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This book, including several contributions from CEMES scientists, provides an updated view of the rapidly growing field of mechanical properties of nano-objects like micropillars, nanowires, nanoparticles, nano-precipitates, nano-twins, MEMS, NEMS...

Researchers of CEMES and IMRE (Singapore) set a Guinness World Record with a 1.2nm controllable, molecule-sized gear, which is officially the world’s smallest. The gears are 100,000 times smaller than the width of a single strand of hair.

Gold nanoparticles are patterned into various cholesteric textures, onto a huge variety of substrates (glass, soft plastic, water), by controlling the film thickness and the interfaces. This demonstration offers a simple bottom-up technique for...

The ultrafast dynamics of individual gold nanorings has been studied by femtosecond spectroscopy. The influence of the nanoparticle/substrate interface on the vibration modes is discussed. For the first time, the impact of the surrounding medium...