Nanogels have emerged over the last few years as an effective vessel for carrying and releasing drugs to patients and have since become one of the many parts of nanomedicine—the interface where nanotechnology, medicine and pharmaceuticals have merged together to create their own defined field.

Researchers at the University of Antwerp report how higher-order periodic modulations called supermoiré caused by the encapsulation of graphene between hexagonal boron nitride affect the electronic and structural properties of graphene, as revealed in three recent independent experiments.