Month: February 2022

Feb 04, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Heat-shrinkable technology developed by a RIKEN team could allow solar cells and touch sensors to be attached to objects whose shapes make them challenging to laminate (Advanced Materials, "Developing the nondevelopable: Creating curved-surface electronics from nonstretchable devices"). Recent studies have indicated that curved solar-cell panels...

Feb 02, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A novel and better approach at detecting non-uniformities in the optical properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials could potentially open the door to new uses for these materials, such as the application of 2D materials for drug detection, according to a team of researchers. “The Two-Dimensional...

Feb 02, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Using a novel polymerization process, MIT chemical engineers have created a new material that is stronger than steel and as light as plastic, and can be easily manufactured in large quantities. The new material is a two-dimensional polymer that self-assembles into sheets, unlike all other...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...