Home > Press > Turning any camera into a polarization camera: Metasurface attachment can be used with almost any optical system, from machine vision cameras to telescopes The grating is mounted just in front of the front face of a chosen objective lens in a tube that also houses a...
Biomolecular building blocks gripped by laser
Mar 19, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Laser pulses that briefly grab hold of floating molecules and align them precisely in space – this may sound like an original but academic party trick, however the technique which the team led by DESY’s Jochen Küpper is now presenting in the scientific journal Nature...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: A unified theory of electrochemical energy storage: Bridging batteries and supercapacitors: There is a spectrum from chemical to physical retention of ions. Researchers say acknowledging and understanding it is the key to progress for energy storage technology
Home > Press > A unified theory of electrochemical energy storage: Bridging batteries and supercapacitors: There is a spectrum from chemical to physical retention of ions. Researchers say acknowledging and understanding it is the key to progress for energy storage technology Abstract:For decades researchers and technologists have regarded batteries and...
A new brain-computer interface with a flexible backing
Mar 19, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Engineering researchers have invented an advanced brain-computer interface with a flexible and moldable backing and penetrating microneedles. Adding a flexible backing to this kind of brain-computer interface allows the device to more evenly conform to the brain’s complex curved surface and to more uniformly distribute...
3D printing giant nanotechnology models
Mar 19, 2022 (Nanowerk News) One challenge of researching nanotechnology is that you can’t manipulate the pieces with your hands. You can look at computer models, but it isn’t the same as tactile interaction. Models can be 3D printed, but this can be unrealistic for small high schools, universities, or...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Researchers develop the world’s first power-free frequency tuner using nanomaterials
Home > Press > Researchers develop the world's first power-free frequency tuner using nanomaterials How the technology works CREDIT Editor: Utku Emre Ali Narrator: Jack Davies Abstract:In a paper published today in Nature Communications, researchers at the University of Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania have found a power-free...
Ionic liquids make a splash in next-gen solid-state lithium metal batteries
Mar 19, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new quasi-solid-state cathode for solid-state lithium metal batteries, with significantly reduced interfacial resistance between the cathode and a solid electrolyte (iScience, "Ionic liquid-containing cathodes empowering ceramic solid electrolytes"). By adding an ionic liquid, their modified cathode could...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Unexplored dimensions of porous metamaterials: Researchers unlock hidden potential in a long-studied group of materials
Home > Press > Unexplored dimensions of porous metamaterials: Researchers unlock hidden potential in a long-studied group of materials This worm-like robot that inches forward by changing the friction between each segment of its body and the ground. CREDIT Bertoldi Lab/Harvard SEAS Abstract:When it comes to porous metamaterials ubiquitous,...
Ensuring the performance of microelectronics in space (w/video)
Mar 18, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A team of Melbourne researchers and international partners from the Italian Instituto Nazionale de Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and CERN, who are developing radiation-hardened semiconductor chips, used the unique state-of-art high energy ion microprobe on the SIRIUS ion accelerator at ANSTO’s Centre for Accelerator Science to...
Theoretical model explains how dust grains can grow into the seeds of new planets
Mar 18, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A key step in the formation of new planets may have been uncovered by a new theoretical model of a protoplanetary disk developed by a RIKEN astrophysicist and two collaborators that explains how dust in the disk overcomes a tendency to drift toward the star...