Month: March 2022

Mar 14, 2022 (Nanowerk News) There are practical limits to the height at which aerosols may be deployed in the atmosphere to deflect incoming sunlight and countervail global warming. Very high-altitude injections might be more effective, but such climate intervention comes with substantially increased costs and safety risks, according to...

Mar 14, 2022 (Nanowerk News) When used as biocatalysts, enzymes accelerate many chemical reactions. At Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), researchers have now embedded enzymes in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). For the first time, they then demonstrated that stabilization by these frameworks is sufficient for use of the enzymes in a...

Mar 14, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Scientists have developed a ground-breaking achromatic lens for X-rays. This allows the X-ray beams to be accurately focused on a single point even if they have different wavelengths. The new lens will make it much easier to study nanostructures using X-rays, according to a paper...

Mar 14, 2022 (Nanowerk News) The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM), an institute under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Science and ICT, has successfully developed a new stretchable meta-display technology that can be stretched up to 25% without image distortion, for the first time in the world....

Mar 11, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Current computer and telecommunication technologies use electrical charges (electrons) and light (photons) to transport information. However, a breakthrough in this field could be brought about by the introduction of mechanical vibrations –phonons– as a means of transferring data, in combination with the other two. In...

Mar 12, 2022 (Nanowerk News) In a paper published in Sciences Advances ("Single-molecule Taq DNA polymerase dynamics"), researchers in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine revealed new details about a key enzyme that makes DNA sequencing possible. The finding...

Mar 12, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have uncovered a unique mechanism by which foams on walls drain and slip over time. They showed how a foam can lose liquid via “pinch-off”, like droplets from a faucet, finding that the amount of liquid and the extent of...

Mar 12, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Our Solar System is believed to have formed from a cloud of gas and dust, the so-called solar nebula, which began to condense on itself gravitationally ~ 4.6 billion years ago. As this cloud contracted, it began to spin and shaped itself into a disk...

Mar 12, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A research group led by Prof. WU Zhongshuai from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Prof. CHENG Huiming from the Institute of Metal Research of CAS, developed high-voltage aqueous MXene planar micro-supercapacitors (MSCs) with...

Mar 12, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Super-absorbent hydrogels can be engineered to absorb significant extents of water, in some cases with a swelling ratio as high as 3000 times their weight in water. These polymer gels find applications that range from diapers to biomedical use to additives that keep the soil...