Home > Press > Intelligent optical chip to improve telecommunications: An INRS team uses autonomous learning approaches for optical waveform generators to boost optical signal processing functionalities for current and future telecom applicationsThe smart pulse-shaper can autonomously adjust the output to a user-defined target waveform.Abstract:From the internet, to fibre or...
Plugging into ocean waves with a flexible, seaweed-like nanogenerator (w/video)
Oct 20, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Ocean waves can be powerful, containing enough energy to push around sand, pebbles and even boulders during storms. These waves, as well as smaller, more gentle ones, could be tapped as a source of renewable energy. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Nano ("Flexible Seaweed-Like Triboelectric...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Cellular environments shape molecular architecture: Researchers glean a more complete picture of a structure called the nuclear pore complex by studying it directly inside cells
Home > Press > Cellular environments shape molecular architecture: Researchers glean a more complete picture of a structure called the nuclear pore complex by studying it directly inside cellsA model of the human nuclear pore complex (NPC), depicting the major proteins that make up the pores three rings. From top...
Astronomers detect signs of an atmosphere stripped from a planet in a giant impact
Oct 20, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Young planetary systems generally experience extreme growing pains, as infant bodies collide and fuse to form progressively larger planets. In our own solar system, the Earth and moon are thought to be products of this type of giant impact. Astronomers surmise that such smashups should...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Using quantum Parrondos random walks for encryption: Asst Prof Kang Hao Cheong and his research team from SUTD have set out to apply concepts from quantum Parrondos paradox in search of a working protocol for semiclassical encryption
Home > Press > Using quantum Parrondos random walks for encryption: Asst Prof Kang Hao Cheong and his research team from SUTD have set out to apply concepts from quantum Parrondos paradox in search of a working protocol for semiclassical encryptionThe SUTD team discovered that chaotic switching for quantum coin...
Amount of information in visible universe quantified
Oct 19, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Researchers have long suspected a connection between information and the physical universe, with various paradoxes and thought experiments used to explore how or why information could be encoded in physical matter. The digital age propelled this field of study, suggesting that solving these research questions...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Molecular Sciences Software Institute receives $15 million grant from National Science Foundation
Home > Press > Molecular Sciences Software Institute receives $15 million grant from National Science FoundationT. Daniel Crawford CREDIT Virginia TechAbstract:The Molecular Sciences Software Institute (MolSSI), based in Virginia Techs Corporate Research Center, has received a $15 million renewal grant from the National Science Foundation. Molecular Sciences Software Institute...
Four-legged swarm robots
Oct 18, 2021 (Nanowerk News) As a robotics engineer, Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin, assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, gets her inspiration from biological systems. The collective behaviors of ants, honeybees and birds to solve problems and overcome obstacles is something researchers have developed in aerial and...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: How to program DNA robots to poke and prod cell membranes: A discovery of how to build little blocks out of DNA and get them to stick to lipids has implications for biosensing and mRNA vaccines
Home > Press > How to program DNA robots to poke and prod cell membranes: A discovery of how to build little blocks out of DNA and get them to stick to lipids has implications for biosensing and mRNA vaccinesImage shows how to build DNA nanostructures to effectively manipulate synthetic...
How water surfaces can be used to produce functional materials
Oct 15, 2021 (Nanowerk News) The production of high-quality monolayers – i.e. only one molecule high - is highly relevant for optoelectronic components such as organic light-emitting diodes used today in modern cell phones: Both lifetime and energy efficiency can be increased. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer...