Month: April 2021

Home > Press > Synthetic gelatin-like material mimics lobster underbelly’s stretch and strength: The membrane’s structure could provide a blueprint for robust artificial tissuesAn MIT team has fabricated a hydrogel-based material that mimics the structure of the lobster’s underbelly, the toughest known hydrogel found in nature. Credits:Courtesy of the researchersAbstract:A...

Home > Press > Experiments cast doubts on the existence of quantum spin liquidsArrangement of the spins in a triangular lattice: Two spins each form a pair, whereby their magnetic moments cancel each other out when viewed from the outside. CREDIT University of Stuttgart, PI1Abstract:When temperatures drop below zero...

Apr 23, 2021 (Nanowerk News) The giant star featured in this latest Hubble Space Telescope anniversary image is waging a tug-of-war between gravity and radiation to avoid self-destruction. The star, called AG Carinae, is surrounded by an expanding shell of gas and dust -- a nebula -- that is shaped...

Home > Press > JEOL USA Welcomes New Managing Director, Hidetaka SawadaDr. Hidetaka SawadaAbstract:JEOL USA welcomes a new Managing Director, Dr. Hidetaka Sawada, to its Peabody, Massachusetts office this April. Dr. Sawada is a world-renowned expert in aberration corrected electron microscopy. Most recently he served as General Manager of the...

Apr 21, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Scientists have found fragments of titanium blasting out of a famous supernova. This discovery, made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, could be a major step in pinpointing exactly how some giant stars explode. This work is based on Chandra observations of the remains of a...

Home > Press > Better metric for thermoelectric materials means better design strategies: New quantity helps experimentally classify dimensionality of thermoelectric materials(a)-(c) show how the Seebeck coefficient varies for 1D, 2D and 3D materials, while (d)-(f) show the thermoelectric conductivity for the same systems. No major changes in the shape...

Apr 16, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Scientists have figured out how to modify CRISPR's basic architecture to extend its reach beyond the genome and into what's known as the epigenome -- proteins and small molecules that latch onto DNA and control when and where genes are switched on or off. In...

Home > Press > Energy transmission by gold nanoparticles coupled to DNA structuresA 40 nm gold sphere induces plasmonic coupling between two 50 nm long gold rods that are arranged in a chiral fashion. Source: T. LiedlAbstract:Using DNA structures as scaffolds, Tim Liedl, a scientist of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich,...

Apr 14, 2021 (Nanowerk News) For centuries, ivory was often used to make art objects. But to protect elephant populations, the ivory trade was banned internationally in 1989. To restore ivory parts of old art objects, one must therefore resort to substitute materials - such as bones, shells or plastic....

Home > Press > Chile coating and composite industry makes leap forward leveraging graphene nanotube solutionsAbstract:The most cutting-edge technologies for the production of coatings, composites, and plastics with a new set of properties are now available for industry in Chile as a result of OCSiAl and Compaa Comercializadora Industrials agreement...