Month: November 2019

Nov 15, 2019 (Nanowerk News) Two pathways diverged in a chemical synthesis, and one molecule took them both. Chemists at the University of Tokyo have studied how molecular building blocks can either form a spherical cage or an ultrathin sheet that shows some of the basic properties of a "smart"...

Nov 15, 2019 (Nanowerk News) The cells in our body are workshops that continuously operate to produce and process substances to keep us going. When a substance enters a cell for processing, it is surrounded by a portion of the cell's outer membrane to form a sac. The sac then...

Home > Press > Scientists probe the limits of ice: Transition between ice and liquid water gets fuzzy at the nanoscaleThe coexistence of ice and liquid water breaks down at the nanoscale. Credit: Wikimedia CommonsAbstract:How small is the tiniest possible particle of ice? According to new NSF-funded research published...

Nov 15, 2019 (Nanowerk News) Catalysts accelerate chemical reactions, but the widely used metal platinum is scarce and expensive. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), together with Chinese, Singaporean and Japanese researchers, have now developed an alternative with a 20x higher activity: a catalyst with hollow nanocages of an...

Home > Press > A distinct spin on atomic transport: Work that demonstrates simultaneous control over transport and spin properties of cold atoms establishes a framework for exploring concepts of spintronics and solid-state physicsAn optical beam (red) introduces an effect equivalent to applying a magnetic field inside an optically defined...

Nov 14, 2019 (Nanowerk News) Verner Hkonsen works with cubes so tiny that nearly 5 billion of them could fit on a pinhead. He cooks up the cubes in the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's (NTNU) NanoLab, in a weird-looking glass flask with three necks on the top using...

Home > Press > Thorium superconductivity: Scientists discover a new high-temperature superconductorThis is the crystal structure of ThH10. CREDIT Dmitry V.Semenok et al., Materials TodayAbstract:A group of scientists led by Artem Oganov, Professor at Skoltech and MIPT, and Dr. Ivan Troyan at the Institute of Crystallography of RAS have...

Nov 13, 2019 (Nanowerk News) In the nanometer range, complex, free-standing 3D architectures are very difficult to produce in a single step due to the required precision. In the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Direct Write Fabrication of 3D Nano-Probes, scientists at Graz University of Technology are therefore devoting themselves to...

Home > Press > Argonne collaborates to review current battery recycling processes for electric vehicles(Image by Argonne National Laboratory.) Abstract:The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has collaborated with the Faraday Institution in a newly released Nature review of challenges and opportunities associated with recycling lithium-ion batteries in...

Nov 12, 2019 (Nanowerk News) Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are valuable for a wide variety of applications. Made of graphene sheets rolled into tubes 10,000 times smaller than a human hair, CNTs have an exceptional strength-to-mass ratio and excellent thermal and electrical properties. These features make them ideal for a range...