Day: March 29, 2022

Mar 29, 2022 (Nanowerk News) As a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of BTI faculty member Frank Schroeder, Max Helf saw his labmates continually struggle when they were analyzing data. So, he decided to do something about it and developed a free, open-source app called Metaboseek, which is now...

Mar 29, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Food and climate change are often treated as separate issues, but conservative estimates suggest that changing the way we produce and consume food could reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by at least 10.3 billion tonnes a year – 20 per cent of the cut needed...

Mar 29, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Even though robots don’t have eyes with retinas, the key to helping them see and interact with the world more naturally and safely may rest in optical coherence tomography (OCT) machines commonly found in the offices of ophthalmologists. One of the imaging technologies that many...

Mar 29, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A COVID-19 sensor developed at Johns Hopkins University could revolutionize virus testing by adding accuracy and speed to a process that frustrated many during the pandemic. In a new study published in Nano Letters ("Label-Free Spectroscopic SARS-CoV-2 Detection on Versatile Nanoimprinted Substrates"), the researchers describe...

Mar 29, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A novel and eco-friendly nano asphalt binder has been developed by researchers at Swansea University and the Technical University of Braunschweig (Nanotechnology Reviews, "Engineered nanocomposites in asphalt binders"). The product generates a new class of warm mix asphalt (WMA) additive that significantly reduces energy consumption...

Mar 29, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A team co-led team by the University of Surrey has successfully increased the levels of energy absorbed by wafer-thin photovoltaic panels by 25%. Their solar panels, just one micrometre thick (1μm), convert light into electricity more efficiently than others as thin and pave the way...

Mar 29, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Glass objects which glow in the dark, glass containers that heat up and cool down, or glass control knobs and switches that eliminate viruses and bacteria by themselves – all this seems to completely contradict our everyday experience of what glass can do. And yet,...

Mar 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances ("Intelligent metaphotonics empowered by machine learning") reviews the evaluation of metaphotonics induced by artificial intelligence and present a summary of the concepts of machine learning with some specific examples developed and demonstrated for metasystems and metasurfaces. Advances in the...

Mar 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Scientists studying V Hydrae (V Hya) have witnessed the star’s mysterious death throes in unprecedented detail. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the team discovered six slowly-expanding rings and two hourglass-shaped structures caused by the high-speed...

Mar 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) In the future, you may have a squid to thank for your coffee staying hot on a cold day. Drawing inspiration from cephalopod skin, engineers at the University of California, Irvine invented an adaptive composite material that can insulate beverage cups, restaurant to-go bags, parcel...