Mar 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) There are multiple ways to create two- and three-dimensional models of atoms and molecules. With the advent of cutting-edge apparatus that can image samples at the atomic scale, scientists found that traditional molecular models did not fit the images they saw. Researchers have devised a...
Inhibiting the thermal quenching of high-efficiency quasi-2D perovskite light-emitting diodes
Mar 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Metal halide perovskites are characterized by low-cost, high photoluminescence quantum yield, and high color purity. In recent years, perovskite light-emitting diodes are developing fast, with promising applications in lighting and display fields. However, the ubiquitous thermal-induced fluorescence quenching in perovskite emitters lacks systematic research, and...
Bioenergy scientists discover genetic pathway for better biofuel processing
Mar 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers working with the Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CBI) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has discovered a pathway to encourage a type of lignin formation in plants that could make the processing of crops grown for products such as sustainable jet fuels...
An electronic nanofiber catheter to kill circulating tumor cells
Mar 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Metastasis – the process of cancer spreading from its original site to distant tissues – is caused by marauding tumor cells that break off from the primary tumor site and ride in the bloodstream to set up colonies in other parts of the body. These...
Brain-inspired and out-of-the-cloud: new approaches to AI
Mar 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Will an autonomously driving vehicle respond fast enough, in case of unexpected and maybe even life-threatening situations? Doesn’t data communication and processing ‘in the cloud’ introduce delays that are too long? Local, ‘edge computing’, may speed things up in cases like this. On the other...
Growing quantum dots in a regular arrangement
Mar 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Quantum dots could one day constitute the basic information units of quantum computers. In collaboration with colleagues from Copenhagen and Basel, researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have decisively improved the manufacturing process for these tiny semiconductor structures. The...
Better forecasts of wind gusts with AI
Mar 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Better protection of humans and the environment requires precise forecasts of extreme weather phenomena, such as winter storms. Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have now compared methods of statistics and machine learning for forecasts of wind gusts with a view to make the...
Low-cost hydrocarbon membrane enables commercial-scale flow batteries for long-duration energy storage
Mar 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Flow batteries are promising for energy storage due to their high safety, high reliability, long cycle life, and high efficiency. The development of commercial-scale flow batteries for long-duration energy storage requires to reduce the cost of flow batteries, especially the cost of ion-exchange membranes. Recently,...