Apr 22, 2020 (Nanowerk News) Now you see it, now you don't. What astronomers thought was a planet beyond our solar system has now seemingly vanished from sight. Though this happens in science fiction, such as Superman's home planet Krypton exploding, astronomers are looking for a plausible explanation. One interpretation...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Graphene heterostructures with black phosphorus, arsenic enable new infrared detectors
Home > Press > Graphene heterostructures with black phosphorus, arsenic enable new infrared detectorsImage CREDIT Daria Sokol/MIPT Press OfficeAbstract:MIPT scientists and their colleagues from Japan and the U.S. have calculated the parameters of photodetectors comprised by layers of graphene and a combination of black phosphorus and black arsenic. These...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Development of new photovoltaic commercialization technology: The cause for efficiency degradation in an actual operating environment has been identified, with proposal of material processing method for improving performance stability
Home > Press > Development of new photovoltaic commercialization technology: The cause for efficiency degradation in an actual operating environment has been identified, with proposal of material processing method for improving performance stabilityIllustration of stable initial PCE under the actual operating environment of PV devices with the deployment of KI. ...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Hair surface engineering to be advanced by nano vehicles: This new researched technology can help both drug delivery and hair cosmetics industry
Home > Press > Hair surface engineering to be advanced by nano vehicles: This new researched technology can help both drug delivery and hair cosmetics industryAbstract:"Hair surface engineering: modification of fibrous materials of biological origin using functional ceramic nano containers", a project headed by Rawil Fakhrullin, is supported by the...
Tiny self-powered temperature sensors built with graphene
Apr 14, 2020 (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers from the University of Oxford, Delft University and IBM Zurich have demonstrated that graphene can be used to build sensitive and self-powering temperature sensors. The findings (Advanced Functional Materials, "Single-Material Graphene Thermocouples") pave the way for the design of highly sensitive...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: A step ahead in the race toward ultrafast imaging of single particles
Home > Press > A step ahead in the race toward ultrafast imaging of single particlesAn intense X-ray pulse scatters off a sucrose cluster (red, white, and gray spheres are oxygen, carbon and hydrogen atoms, respectively) resulting in ejected electrons (blue spheres) and structural deformation. CREDIT Stacy HuangAbstract:Using a...
Single-electron pumping in a ZnO single-nanobelt transistor
Apr 10, 2020 (Nanowerk News) Single electron pumping devices with high efficiency and controllability at room temperature play an essential role in implement spin-based quantum computing and quantum information processing. In a recent study, which was published in Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy ("Single-electron pumping in a ZnO single-nanobelt...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: A twist connecting magnetism and electronic-band topology: Combined optical and torque measurements establish the microscopic mechanism linking magnetism and electronic-band topology in a Dirac material
Home > Press > A twist connecting magnetism and electronic-band topology: Combined optical and torque measurements establish the microscopic mechanism linking magnetism and electronic-band topology in a Dirac materialAntiferromagnetic (top) and canted-antiferromagnetic order (bottom). In the latter case the spins are canted relative to the easy c-axis, leading to a...
Technique offers path for biomanufacturing medicines during space flights
Apr 10, 2020 (Nanowerk News) An instrument currently aboard the International Space Station could grow E. coli bacteria in space, opening a new path to bio-manufacturing drugs during long term space flights. Research published in Nature Microgravity ("Growth of microorganisms in an interfacially driven space bioreactor analog") used an Earth-bound...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: 3D reconstructions of individual nanoparticles: Liquid phase electron microscopy illuminates 3D atomic structures of platinum nanoparticles, advancing full control of nanoengineering
Home > Press > 3D reconstructions of individual nanoparticles: Liquid phase electron microscopy illuminates 3D atomic structures of platinum nanoparticles, advancing full control of nanoengineeringThe schematic shows a liquid sample contained between two sheets of graphene -- the thinnest, strongest material known. Nanoparticles in the liquid freely rotate while a...