Dec 20, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Phosphorene nanoribbons (PNRs) are ribbon-like strands of the 2D material phosphorous, which, similar to graphene, are made of single-atom-thick layers of atoms. PNRs were first produced in 2019, and hundreds of theoretical studies have predicted how their properties could enhance all kinds of devices, including...
Shellac for environmentally friendly printed circuits
Dec 20, 2021 (Nanowerk News) More precise, faster, cheaper: Researchers all over the world have been working for years on producing electrical circuits using additive processes such as robotic 3-printing (so-called robocasting) – with great success, but this is now becoming a problem. The metal particles that make such "inks"...
Enhancing charge density waves by moire engineering in twisted heterostructures
Dec 20, 2021 (Nanowerk News) When stacking two layers of van der Waals (vdW) materials, a moiré pattern is produced by the modulation of the long wavelength periodic potential. The moiré pattern is a promising means in engineering both the atomic geometry and electronic structure. A variety of emergent phenomena...
Soft semiconductors that stretch like human skin can detect ultra-low light levels
Dec 20, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Semiconductors are moving away from rigid substrates, which are cut or formed into thin discs or wafers, to more flexible plastic material and even paper thanks to new material and fabrication discoveries. The trend toward more flexible substrates has led to fabrication of numerous devices,...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Redrawing the lines: Growing inexpensive, high-quality iron-based superconductors: Regions of different crystalline orientation in superconductors can be manipulated in a simple and scalable manner to improve their properties
Home > Press > Redrawing the lines: Growing inexpensive, high-quality iron-based superconductors: Regions of different crystalline orientation in superconductors can be manipulated in a simple and scalable manner to improve their properties Schematic illustration of how vortices are pinned by low-angle grain boundaries in a (Ba,K)Fe2As2 superconductor. The pinning force...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Activating lattice oxygen in perovskite oxide to optimize fuel cell performance
Home > Press > Activating lattice oxygen in perovskite oxide to optimize fuel cell performance A figure that explains the modulation of the stability and activity of the SOFC anode confirmed by the researchers in this study. As the level of cobalt increases, the hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR) activity in...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Series of preclinical studies supports the Armys pan-coronavirus vaccine development strategy
Home > Press > Series of preclinical studies supports the Armys pan-coronavirus vaccine development strategy A vial of spike ferritin nanoparticle (SpFN), WRAIRs COVID-19 vaccine. Built on a ferritin platform, the vaccine offers a flexible approach to targeting multiple variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 and potentially other coronaviruses...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: QuTech takes important step in quantum computing with error correction: Until now researchers have encoded and stabilized. We now show that we can compute as well.
Home > Press > QuTech takes important step in quantum computing with error correction: Until now researchers have encoded and stabilized. We now show that we can compute as well. Artistic image of a seven-transmon superconducting quantum processor similar to the one used in this work CREDIT DiCarlo Lab...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Nanoparticle therapeutic enhances cancer immunotherapy
Home > Press > Nanoparticle therapeutic enhances cancer immunotherapy Dawen Zhao, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical engineering at Wake Forest School of Medicine, and team have discovered that a nanoparticle therapeutic enhances cancer immunotherapy and is a possible new approach in treating malignant pleural effusion (MPE). CREDIT Wake...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: UMass Lowell scientist pioneers new class of semiconductors: $1.7M NSF project aims to improve wireless communication, imaging, more
Home > Press > UMass Lowell scientist pioneers new class of semiconductors: $1.7M NSF project aims to improve wireless communication, imaging, more Abstract:A new class of faster, more powerful semiconductors for enhanced wireless communication and digital imaging is on the drawing board, thanks to research led by a UMass Lowell...