Month: May 2021

May 31, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Semiconductors that can exploit the omnipresent visible spectrum of light for different technological applications would serve as a boon to the material world. However, such semiconductors often do not come cheap and can often be toxic. Now, a group of material scientists from Tokyo Institute...

Home > Press > Emergence of a new heteronanostructure libraryAbstract:Organizing functional objects in a complex, sophisticated architecture at the nanoscale can yield hybrid materials that tremendously outperform their solo objects, offering exciting routes towards a spectrum of applications. The development in synthetic chemistry over past decades has enabled a library...

Using covalent self-assembly, researchers managed to synthesize new functional supramolecular systems based on dipeptides and genipin (a cross-sewing agent derived from plant material). The particles are polymer spheres 200-300 nanometers in diameter.

Home > Press > Hanging by a thread: Imaging and probing chains of single atoms: Scientists develop a method to visualize monoatomic chains and measure the strength and conductance of single-atom bonds(left) Schematic illustration of the technique. The stiffness of nanomaterials such as platinum (Pt) atomic chains can be measured...

May 28, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Quantum spin Hall insulators are a class of two-dimensional (2D) topological states of matter that are electrically insulating in their interior but, unlike semiconductors, carry a pair of one-dimensional (1D) metallic states, which are strictly confined to their edges. Particular to these ‘edgy’ 1D electrons...

Home > Press > New technology enables rapid sequencing of entire genomes of plant pathogensAbstract:Next-generation sequencing technology has made it easier than ever for quick diagnosis of plant diseases. "It's really exciting to see how sequencing technologies have evolved and how this new technology facilitates sequencing of entire genomes in...

May 26, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Whether in desalination, water purification or CO2 separation, membranes play a central role in technology. The Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon has been working for several years on a new variant: it consists of special polymers that form pores of the same size on the nanometer scale. The...

Home > Press > Nanophotonics enhanced coverslip for phase imaging in biologya The nanophotonics enhanced coverslip (NEC) adds phase imaging capability to a normal microscope coverslip, thereby shrinking bulky phase-imaging methods down to the size of a chip. The less than 200 nm thick design consists of a subwavelength spaced...

May 25, 2021 (Nanowerk News) The energy available from sunlight is 10,000 times more than what is needed to supply the world's energy demands. Sunlight has two main properties that are useful in the design of renewable energy systems. The first is the amount power falling on a fixed area,...

Home > Press > You're so vein: Scientists discover faster way to manufacture vascular materialsSynchronized manufacturing of a bioinspired structure with a hierarchical vascular network. CREDIT Mayank Garg, Nancy Sottos, Jeff Moore, and Phillipe GuebelleAbstract:Developing self-healing materials is nothing new for Nancy Sottos, lead of the Autonomous Materials Systems...