Home > Press > Bosch launches longevity program for industrial and IoT applications: High-performance accelerometer, IMU and pressure sensor with 10-year availabilityAbstract:Bosch Sensortec expands its product portfolio to serve industrial applicationsNew high-performance and robust sensors: IMU, accelerometer and barometric pressure sensor10-year product availability gives customers peace of mind and increased...
Manipulating non-magnetic atoms in a chromium halide enables tuning of magnetic properties
Jul 24, 2020 (Nanowerk News) The magnetic properties of a chromium halide can be tuned by manipulating the non-magnetic atoms in the material, a team, led by Boston College researchers, reports in the most recent edition of Science Advances ("Accessing new magnetic regimes by tuning the ligand spin-orbit coupling in...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Polymers self-assembling like links of a chain for innovative materials: Nature just published the research on unprecedented “Self-assembled poly-catenanes”
Home > Press > Polymers self-assembling like links of a chain for innovative materials: Nature just published the research on unprecedented "Self-assembled poly-catenanes"Nano-[2]catenane, nano-[5]catenane and nano-poly[22]catenane CREDIT Politecnico di TorinoAbstract:The "nanolimpiad", as the complex structure of self-assembled links has been named, looks like the five Olympic Rings and may...
the new prodigy in flatland
Jul 21, 2020 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Borophene is the name for atomically thin, two-dimensional (2D) sheets of boron. Whereas boron is a nonmetallic semiconductor in its bulk form, it becomes a metallic conductor in 2D, even at a thickness of only one atomic layer. Borophene is structurally similar to graphene, with...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Solid-state intramolecular motions in continuous fibers for fluorescent humidity sensor
Home > Press > Solid-state intramolecular motions in continuous fibers for fluorescent humidity sensorSchematic illustration of fluorescence variation of AIE/polymer fiber sensor when exposed to water molecules. CREDIT ©Science China PressAbstract:Taking advantages of intramolecular motion of D-A based aggregation-induced emission (AIE) molecular rotors and one-dimensional (1D) polymer fibers, highly...
Atomtronic device could probe boundary between quantum, everyday worlds
Jul 17, 2020 (Nanowerk News) A new device that relies on flowing clouds of ultracold atoms promises potential tests of the intersection between the weirdness of the quantum world and the familiarity of the macroscopic world we experience every day (Nature Communications, "Quantum interference of currents in an atomtronic SQUID")....
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Purifying water with the help of wood, bacteria and the sun
Home > Press > Purifying water with the help of wood, bacteria and the sunA solar steam generator has an upper layer (black) of light-absorbing carbon nanotubes, a middle layer (grey) of heat-insulating glass bubbles, and a bottom layer (brown) of water-transporting wood. CREDIT Adapted from Nano Letters 2020,...
New insights into the quenching of star formation
Jul 16, 2020 (Nanowerk News) Astronomers studying galaxy evolution have long struggled to understand what causes star formation to shut down in massive galaxies. Although many theories have been proposed to explain this process, known as "quenching," there is still no consensus on a satisfactory model. Now, an international team...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Rock ‘n’ control: Göttingen physicists use oscillations of atoms to control a phase transition
Home > Press > Rock 'n' control: Göttingen physicists use oscillations of atoms to control a phase transitionArtist's impression of the phase transition of indium atoms on a silicon crystal controlled by light pulses CREDIT Dr Murat SivisAbstract:The goal of "Femtochemistry" is to film and control chemical reactions with...
Gigantic, red and full of spots
Jul 13, 2020 (Nanowerk News) Among the Sun's most striking features are its sunspots, relatively darker areas compared to the rest of the surface, some of which are visible from Earth even without magnification. Numerous other stars, which like the Sun are in the prime of their lives, are also...