Month: October 2020

Oct 22, 2020 (Nanowerk News) While plastics recycling is not new science, current processes don’t make it economically worthwhile-- waste plastics get “down-cycled” into lower grade, less useful material. It’s a challenge that continues to be an obstacle in tackling a growing global pollution crisis in single use plastics. A...

Home > Press > Timekeeping theory combines quantum clocks and Einstein's relativity: Research reveals new time dilation phenomenonQuantum mechanics allows for a clock to move as if it were simultaneously traveling at two different speeds. New research finds that this leads to a correction in atomic clocks known as "quantum...

Oct 22, 2020 (Nanowerk News) Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have discovered a way to control the growth of twisting, microscopic spirals of materials just one atom thick. The continuously twisting stacks of two-dimensional materials built by a team led by UW–Madison chemistry Professor Song Jin create new properties...

Home > Press > New test method to standardize immunological evaluation of nucleic acid nanoparticles: Researchers believe accurate, affordable and easily reproduced protocol for assessing immune effects could further research collaboration and advance therapeutic use of new medicinesSchematic summary of the experimental flow. CREDIT Melina Richardson (Afonin Lab, UNC...

Oct 22, 2020 (Nanowerk News) No one has yet found the first stars. They're hypothesized to have formed about 100 million years after the Big Bang out of universal darkness from the primordial gases of hydrogen, helium, and trace light metals. These gases cooled, collapsed, and ignited into stars up...

Home > Press > Cicada-inspired waterproof surfaces closer to reality, researchers report Researchers have demonstrated a new fabrication technique that allows them replicate the nanostructures found on cicada wings that make them water- and microbe-repellent. Photo by Wayne Boo, U.S. Geological SurveyAbstract:A multidisciplinary group that...

Oct 23, 2020 (Nanowerk News) Bone disease is becoming increasingly prevalence in modern society due to population aging among other factors, and the use of dental and orthopedic implants to treat bone disease has been on the rise. The history of implants can be traced back all the way to...

Home > Press > A quantum material-based diagnostic paint to sense problems before structural failure Caption: Illustration used to visualize how compressive and tensile strain can change the emission wavelength of the quantum dots. Abstract:Imagine sometime in the near future the ability to quickly scan over airframes with...

Oct 23, 2020 (Nanowerk News) Topological states of matter hold tremendous promise for potential applications in quantum technologies. The creation and control of such states on demand with short flashes of light is currently under intense investigation. Now an international collaboration of researchers involving a theory team at the MPSD...

Home > Press > Trailblazing theoretical physicist Sylvester James Gates Jr. is among speakers at nanotechnology symposium: Annual event moves to virtual format, open to attendees worldwide at no charge Oct. 29Abstract:Sylvester James Gates Jr., one of the world’s leading authorities on supersymmetry, supergravity and superstring theory, is among four...