Feb 03, 2022 (Nanowerk News) EPFL researchers have developed a new type of printing process that involves removing material rather than depositing it (Light: Advanced Manufacturing, "Engineering multi-state transparency on demand"). Their method could be particularly useful for printing banknotes and ID documents, for example. “We’ve developed an entirely new...
Warps drive disruptions in planet formation in young solar systems
Feb 03, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A new study from the University of Warwick demonstrates the impact of passing stars, misaligned binary stars and passing gas clouds on the formation of planets in early star systems. Scientists have modelled how cosmic events like these can warp protoplanetary discs, the birthplaces of...
Liquid metals, surface patterns, and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Feb 03, 2022 (Nanowerk News) "The long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been." The opening lines of the great Chinese historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms condense its complex and spectacular stories into a coherent pattern, that is, power blocs divide and unite...
Shadow of cosmic water cloud reveals the temperature of the young Universe
Feb 02, 2022 (Nanowerk News) An international group of astrophysicists has discovered a new method to estimate the cosmic microwave background temperature of the young Universe only 880 million years after the Big Bang (Nature, "Microwave background temperature at a redshift of 6.34 from H2O absorption"). It is the first...
Tracking multiple genes with flying colors
Feb 03, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Even fans of black-and-white film can’t deny that color brought new life to photography and motion pictures. And when it comes to learning what happens inside the body, there’s no substitute for color. Were it possible, for example, to map out real-time gene expression in...
Quantum leap on film
Feb 03, 2022 (Nanowerk News) In order to better understand (and possibly control) fast chemical reactions, it is necessary to study the behaviour of electrons as precisely as possible – in both space and time. However, up to now, microscopy methods have delivered only either spatially or temporally sharp images....
A revolutionary customizable fabrication platform for electronic skins (w/videos)
Feb 03, 2022 (Nanowerk Spotlight) For years, thin-film electronics have shown their superior performance over conventional electronic devices in many applications. Consequently, the demand for thin-film devices is continuing to grow at a rapid pace. Thin-film electronics are mostly attached to something, for instance as flexible sensors to skin, but...
Experts design a ‘smart’ FFP2 facemask that sends a mobile alert when CO2 limits are exceeded
Feb 03, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Scientists and engineers from the University of Granada (UGR) have developed and tested a ‘smart’ FFP2 facemask that notifies the user via their smartphone when the permitted carbon dioxide (CO2) limits inside the mask are exceeded. This important scientific advance addresses a problem that has...
Researchers develop AI solutions for next-gen medical research
Feb 03, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Data is not only the answer to numerous questions in the business world; the same applies to biomedical research. In order to develop new therapies or prevention strategies for diseases, scientists need more and better data, faster and faster. However, the quality is often very...
Quantum material should be a conductor but remains an insulator
Feb 03, 2022 (Nanowerk News) This research (Scientific Reports, "Giant electron-phonon coupling of the breathing plane oxygen phonons in the dynamic stripe phase of La1.67Sr0.33NiO4") sheds light on the mechanism behind how a special quantum material transitions from an electrical insulator to an electricity-conducting metal. Below a critical temperature, the...