Month: March 2022

Mar 12, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Macromolecules such as cellular structures or virus capsids can emerge from small building blocks without external control to form complex spatial structures. This self-organization is a central feature of biological systems. But such self-organized processes are also becoming increasingly important for the building of complex...

Mar 11, 2022 (Nanowerk News) The world’s smallest car race will return to Toulouse (southwestern France) on 24-25 March. Eight international teams will be at the starting line for the competition. Christian Joachim, a CNRS research professor and the event organiser, provides details regarding the issues involved. Event: NanoCar Race...

Mar 11, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Metal-organic frameworks, a class of materials with porous molecular structures, have a variety of possible applications, such as capturing harmful gases and catalyzing chemical reactions. Made of metal atoms linked by organic molecules, they can be configured in hundreds of thousands of different ways. To...

Mar 11, 2022 (Nanowerk News) An international team led by researchers from the Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD at Leibniz University Hannover (Germany) imaged the fastest and tiniest details of the electron dynamics in atoms using light with wavelengths which were until now considered far too long for this task. “The...

Mar 11, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new computational tool that allows users to conduct simulations of multi-functional magnetic nanoparticles in unprecedented detail. The advance paves the way for new work aimed at developing magnetic nanoparticles for use in applications from drug delivery...

Mar 11, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Nanoparticles, inserted in the form of quantum dots in nanostructures, can make these nanostructures develop specific functions, notably in efficient miniature lasers and light-emitting diodes, photovoltaics, electric capacitors, gas sensors, energy conversion and batteries. Until today, scientists would place the nanoparticles inside randomly but would...

Mar 11, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Physicists have discovered a new way to coat soft robots in materials that allow them to move and function in a more purposeful way. The research, led by the University of Bath, is described in Science Advances ("Active elastocapillarity in soft solids with negative surface...

Mar 11, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Solar power is expected to reach 10 percent of global power generation by the year 2030, and much of that is likely to be located in desert areas, where sunlight is abundant. But the accumulation of dust on solar panels or mirrors is already a...

Mar 11, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Nanoparticles can be used to carry substances to certain parts of the body—for example, to deliver a chemotherapy drug to a tumor. Although such nanomedicine offered hope for improving cancer therapeutics, the survival benefits of clinically approved nanomedicines are often modest when compared with conventional...

Mar 11, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers from Purdue University and other institutions have discovered a supermassive black hole binary system, one of only two known such systems (Astrophysical Journal Letters, "The Unanticipated Phenomenology of the Blazar PKS 2131–021: A Unique Supermassive Black Hole Binary Candidate"). The two...