Dec 10, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Detecting the activity of CRISPR gene editing tools in organisms with the naked eye and an ultraviolet flashlight is now possible using technology developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Scientists demonstrated these real-time detection tools in plants and anticipate their use...
Astronomers find clue to solar system formation through little-known star
Dec 10, 2021 (Nanowerk News) An international study led by Monash University astronomers focusing on an infamous star in Orion may help to shed light on how the solar system formed. In 1936, over the course of the year, a previously unremarkable faint star in Orion, FU Ori, became 250...
How the Internet-of-Things can also be a threat
Dec 10, 2021 (Nanowerk News) 5G is the newest set of technologies for broadband cellular networks, making mobile phones, homes, fridges and even toilets smarter and more efficient. The technologies open many doors for us, as it’s much faster and more stable. More homes are now built as smart homes...
A new mechanism for generation of vesicles that transport molecules and vaccine nanoparticles into living cells
Dec 10, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Canadian and American researchers have discovered a new mechanism by which membrane vesicles are made. These self-contained nanoparticles trap proteins, RNA and other molecules from inside or outside of living cells as nutrients or regulate the numbers of cell surface hormone receptors, such as those...
Nanotechnology book round-up December
The 3-volume set Nanotechnology for Energy Sustainability, 3 Volume Set (Applications of Nanotechnology) provides a detailed overview of nanotechnology as it is applied to energy sustainability.Clearly structured, following an introduction, the first part of the book is dedicated to energy production, renewable energy, energy storage, energy distribution, and energy conversion...
Development of a high-energy-resolution, LaB6 nanowire-based field emission gun
Dec 10, 2021 (Nanowerk News) The National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and JEOL, Ltd. have developed a lanthanum hexaboride (LaB6) nanowire-based field emission gun that is installable on an aberration-corrected transmission electron microscope (TEM). This combined unit is able to perform atomic resolution observation at an energy resolution of...
Resolving the puzzles of graphene superconductivity
Dec 10, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Since superconductivity in three-layered graphene was discovered in September, the physics community has been left puzzled. Now, three months later, physicists from IST Austria together with colleagues from the Weizmann Institute of Science can successfully explain the results by drawing from a theory of unconventional...
A new layer-by-layer built inorganic-organic material enables optical switching of magnetic properties
Dec 09, 2021 (Nanowerk News) In the big data era, photo-controlled room-temperature magnets could open new horizons for high-density information storage, in particular, if these materials could be synthesized from non-critical raw materials and fabricated in device-integrable thin-film form. Now a team of Aalto University researchers from the Department of...
Quest to deliver ultra-fast and energy efficient magnetic recording moves step closer
Dec 09, 2021 (Nanowerk News) The quest to deliver ultra-fast and energy efficient magnetic recording could be a step closer to fruition, due to pioneering new research on all-optical switching of magnetization. As the capacity and electricity consumption of data centres increases exponentially, there is a pressing economic and societal...
A new super-cooled microwave source boosts the scale-up of quantum computers
Dec 09, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Researchers in Finland have developed a circuit that produces the high-quality microwave signals required to control quantum computers while operating at temperatures near absolute zero (Nature Electronics, "A low-noise on-chip coherent microwave source"). This is a key step towards moving the control system closer to...