Feb 23, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A new and simple method for upcycling plastic waste at room temperature has been developed by a team of researchers at the Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies (CSCT) at the University of Bath. The researchers hope the new process will help recycling become more...
Astronomers map mysterious element in space
Feb 23, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has provided an important clue to the origin of the element Ytterbium in the Milky Way, by showing that the element largely originates from supernova explosions. The groundbreaking research also provides new opportunities for studying the...
Clean driving technology enables cleaner rocket fuel
Feb 23, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A chemical used in electric vehicle batteries could also give us carbon-free fuel for space flight, according to new UC Riverside research. In addition to emission reductions, this chemical also has several advantages over other types of rocket fuels: higher energy, lower costs, and no...
Organic compounds on Ceres
Feb 23, 2022 (Nanowerk News) The third-largest crater on the dwarf planet Ceres was geologically active at least once many millions of years after its formation. In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications ("Brine residues and organics in the Urvara basin on Ceres"), researchers from the Max...
Sensor of novel material an alternative for blood glucose measurement
Feb 22, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Anyone suffering from diabetes cannot live without them - the test strips for measuring blood glucose levels. They contain enzymes that react with glucose in the blood. "Once used, the conventional enzyme based photometric or electrochemical measurement no longer work and the test strip is...
Researchers reproduce artificially the learning and forgetting functions of the brain with magnetic systems
Feb 22, 2022 (Nanowerk News) With the advent of Big Data, current computational architectures are proving to be insufficient. Difficulties in decreasing transistors’ size, large power consumption and limited operating speeds make neuromorphic computing a promising alternative. Neuromorphic computing, a new brain-inspired computation paradigm, reproduce the activity of biological synapses...
Perfecting the EV battery recycling process
Feb 22, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Recycling of electric car batteries can be easier, cheaper, and more environmentally friendly, according to a new scientific article from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, which outlines an optimised recycling process. The research, published in the journal Waste Management ("Recovery of critical metals from EV...
Building artificial nerve cells
Feb 22, 2022 (Nanowerk News) For the first time, researchers demonstrate an artificial organic neuron, a nerve cell, that can be integrated with a living plant and an artificial organic synapse. Both the neuron and the synapse are made from printed organic electrochemical transistors. On connecting to the carnivorous Venus...
Galaxy collision creates ‘space triangle in new Hubble image
Feb 22, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies fueled the unusual triangular-shaped star-birthing frenzy, as captured in a new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The interacting galaxy duo is collectively called Arp 143. The pair contains the glittery, distorted, star-forming spiral galaxy NGC 2445 at...
Understanding bacterial biofilms
Feb 22, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Biofilms are a ubiquitous, resilient form of microbial life. They can form where liquids and solids meet, like around a knee replacement; where air and liquid meet, like in the lungs; and where oil and water meet, like in an oil spill on the ocean....