Dec 01, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Just as convincing images of cats can be created using artificial intelligence, new proteins can now be made using similar tools. In a report in Nature ("De novo protein design by deep network hallucination"), a team including researchers at the University of Washington, Rensselaer Polytechnic...
Astronomers discover strangely massive black hole in Milky Way satellite galaxy
Dec 01, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory have discovered an unusually massive black hole at the heart of one of the Milky Way’s dwarf satellite galaxies, called Leo I. Almost as massive as the black hole in our own galaxy, the finding...
Researchers propose method to increase charge of supercapacitors
Dec 01, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from HSE MIEM and the Institute of Non-Classical Chemistry in Leipzig have proposed a new theoretical model of supercapacitors that takes into account the properties of a cation, which considerably impacts the electric differential capacitance of supercapacitors. This is the first publication of its...
Holography meets frequency combs (w/video)
Dec 01, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Everybody has seen holograms, on a bank note, a passport or in Star Wars. Holography is a powerful technique of photography of a light field without a lens for 3D imaging and display. Now, scientists at the Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics move holography forward...
Strategies for improving rechargeable lithium-ion batteries
Dec 01, 2021 (Nanowerk Spotlight) One of the greatest environmental concerns in the near future is anthropogenic global warming caused by man-made carbon emissions. Electric vehicles (EVs) have received much attention as a new way of transportation with lower CO2 emissions. The high efficiency of electric motors and the ability...
Revolutionary intelligent transistor can be adapted to perform very different tasks
Dec 01, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Normally, computer chips consist of electronic components that always do the same thing. In the future, however, more flexibility will be possible: New types of adaptive transistors can be switched in a flash, so that they can perform different logical tasks as needed. This fundamentally...
New computational approach predicts chemical reactions at high temperatures
Dec 01, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Extracting metals from oxides at high temperatures is essential not only for producing metals such as steel but also for recycling. Because current extraction processes are very carbon-intensive, emitting large quantities of greenhouse gases, researchers have been exploring new approaches to developing “greener” processes. This...
Record-breaking simulations of large-scale structure formation in the Universe
Dec 01, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Current simulations of cosmic structure formation do not accurately reproduce the properties of ghost-like particles called neutrinos that have been present in the Universe since its beginning. But now, a research team from Japan has devised an approach that solves this problem. In a study...
Team builds first living robots that can reproduce (w/video)
Nov 30, 2021 (Nanowerk News) To persist, life must reproduce. Over billions of years, organisms have evolved many ways of replicating, from budding plants to sexual animals to invading viruses. Now scientists have discovered an entirely new form of biological reproduction — and applied their discovery to create the first-ever,...
Compact 3D laser nanoprinters for the desktop
Nov 30, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Lasers in conventional laser printers for paper printouts are very small. 3D laser printers for 3-dimensional microstructures and nanostructures, by contrast, have required big and expensive laser systems so far. Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Heidelberg University now use another process...