Home > Press > A simple way to get complex semiconductors to assemble themselves: Much like crystallizing rock candy from sugar syrup, the new method grows 2D perovskites precisely layered with other 2D materials to produce crystals with a wide range of electronic propertiesA diagram shows how layers of two...
Twisted layers of MoS2 enable the engineering of novel states of matter
Sep 24, 2021 (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers from Germany, China and the United States has discovered that two twisted layers of MoS2 can be used to control kinetic energy scales in solids. In addition to using the twist angle to control the material’s electronic properties, the researchers have...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Researchers reveal multi-path mechanism in electrochemical CO2 reduction
Home > Press > Researchers reveal multi-path mechanism in electrochemical CO2 reductionResearchers reveal multi-path mechanism in electrochemical CO2 reduction CREDIT DICPAbstract:A research group led by Prof. XIAO Jianping from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and their collaborators synthesized a single-atom...
Using nanoparticles, engineers create light-emitting plants that can be charged repeatedly
Sep 20, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Using specialized nanoparticles embedded in plant leaves, MIT engineers have created a light-emitting plant that can be charged by an LED. After 10 seconds of charging, plants glow brightly for several minutes, and they can be recharged repeatedly. These plants can produce light that is...
Porous nanocrystals change the shape of water to speed up chemical reactions
Sep 20, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Chemical engineers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign now understand how water molecules assemble and change shape in some settings, revealing a new strategy to speed up chemical reactions critical to industry and environmental sustainability. The new approach is poised to play a role in...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Getting to the root of tooth replantation challenges: Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) report a delivery system that promotes healing in tooth replantation in rats
Home > Press > Getting to the root of tooth replantation challenges: Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) report a delivery system that promotes healing in tooth replantation in ratsExcessive inflammation after tooth replantation induces several omplications including root resorption, termination of root formation and pulp necrosis, caused...
Nanoscale discovery could help prevent overheating in electronics
Sep 20, 2021 (Nanowerk News) A team of physicists at CU Boulder has solved the mystery behind a perplexing phenomenon in the nano realm: why some ultra-small heat sources cool down faster if you pack them closer together. The findings, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Silver nanoparticles boost performance of microbial fuel cells
Home > Press > Silver nanoparticles boost performance of microbial fuel cellsAbstract:Coating Shewanella bacteria with silver nanoparticles greatly boosts the performance of biofilm-based microbial fuel cells, researchers report. It achieves this effect by improving the transfer of electrons from the microbe to graphene electrodes in the fuel cells. Silver nanoparticles...
the story of an intrinsic magnetic topological insulator
Sep 21, 2021 (Nanowerk News) An intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 has been discovered with a large band gap, making it a promising material platform for fabricating ultra-low-energy electronics and observing exotic topological phenomena. Hosting both magnetism and topology, ultra-thin (only several nanometers in thickness) MnBi2Te4 was found to have...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Scientists demonstrate pathway to forerunner of nanotubes that could lead to widespread industrial fabrication
Home > Press > Scientists demonstrate pathway to forerunner of nanotubes that could lead to widespread industrial fabricationAuthor and co-authors with figure from paper. Clockwise from top left: Lead author Yuri Barsukov with co-authors Igor Kaganovich, Alexander Khrabry, Omesh Dwivedi, Sierra Jubin, Stephane Ethier. CREDIT Batalova Valentina, Elle Starkman/Office...