Month: August 2021

Aug 06, 2021 (Nanowerk News) KAIST researchers fabricated a brain-inspired highly scalable neuromorphic hardware by co-integrating single transistor neurons and synapses. Using standard silicon complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology, the neuromorphic hardware is expected to reduce chip cost and simplify fabrication procedures. The research team led by Yang-Kyu Choi and Sung-Yool...

Home > Press > Graphene nanotubes revolutionize touch screen use for prosthetic hands Abstract:The use of graphene nanotubes in fingerstalls made of electrically conductive silicones allowed young scientists from Motorica to make functional prosthetic hands that can interact with touch screens. The cost of cyber prostheses with such functions is...

Aug 07, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Scientists have learned how to place crystalline defects in new materials with atomic-scale precision. This enables materials that can control excitons—energy carriers that are similar to subatomic particles. New research (Chemistry of Materials, "Optical Effects of Divalent Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes") shows that, by precisely...

Home > Press > Researchers find 'layer Hall effect' in a 2D topological Axion antiferromagnet: It is first experimental evidence of this type of quantum state and can one day help generate a magneto-electric effectAbstract:A team of researchers have discovered a 'layer Hall effect' in a 2D topological Axion antiferromagnet....

Aug 06, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Heart muscle becomes damaged and cardiac function is affected when blood vessels feeding the heart are blocked. A new stem-cell-carrying hydrogel helps mice recover from this condition, called myocardial infarction, by stimulating formation of new blood vessels. Developed by a team of scientists at Kansai...

Home > Press > UCF researchers develop new nanomaterial to derive clean fuel from the sea: The material offers the high performance and stability needed for industrial-scale electrolysis, which could produce a clean energy fuel from seawaterAbstract:Hydrogen fuel derived from the sea could be an abundant and sustainable alternative to...

Aug 04, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Polymer semiconductors — materials that have been made soft and stretchy but still able to conduct electricity — hold promise for future electronics that can be integrated within the body, including disease detectors and health monitors. Yet until now, scientists and engineers have been unable...

Home > Press > Water as a metalIn the sample chamber, the NaK alloy drips from a nozzle. As the droplet grows, water vapour flows into the sample chamber and forms a thin skin on the drop's surface. CREDIT HZBAbstract:Every child knows that water conducts electricity - but this...

Aug 04, 2021 (Nanowerk News) As photovoltaic (PV) technology continues to progress, PV devices' applications in harvesting energy from indoor ambient light have become more realistic. During the AIP Publishing Horizons -- Energy Storage and Conversion virtual conference, which will be held Aug. 4-6, Behrang Hamadani, from the National Institute...

Home > Press > Chaotic electrons heed ‘limit’ in strange metalsAbstract:Electrons in metals try to behave like obedient motorists, but they end up more like bumper cars. They may be reckless drivers, but a new Cornell-led study confirms this chaos has a limit established by the laws of quantum mechanics....