Dec 28, 2021 (Nanowerk News) The research neutron source Hein Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is playing an important role in the investigation of mRNA nanoparticles similar to the ones used in the Covid-19 vaccines from vendors BioNTech and Moderna. Researchers at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz...
Novel nanowires protection shell prepared for stable oxygen reduction reaction
Dec 28, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Chinese scientists have recently prepared stable face-centered tetragonal (fct)-phase platinum (Pt)-based intermetallics in nano-scaled size, which can be used as a protection shell for new PtFeIr nanowires preparation for stable oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). This research, published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition ("Ordered PtFeIr intermetallic...
Scientists find ways to help perovskite solar cell ‘self-healing’
Dec 28, 2021 (Nanowerk News) A team led by Prof. HU Linhua at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has recently developed a type of self-healing perovskite solar cell by functional combination of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP). Related results were published in Journal of Energy...
Engineers bring a soft touch to commercial robotics
Dec 28, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Inspired by the natural dexterity of the human hand, a team of engineers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has created a reconfigurable hybrid robotics system that is able to grip a variety of objects: from the small, soft and delicate to the large,...