Month: March 2022

Mar 07, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges facing humanity. To combat its potentially catastrophic effects, scientists are searching for new technologies that could help the world reach carbon neutrality. One potential solution that is drawing growing attention is to capture and store carbon...

Home > Press > Controlling how fast graphene cools down An international study, published in ACS Nano, has demonstrated an unprecedented level of control of the optical properties of graphene. The work has promising applications in different technological fields ranging from photonics to teleco Graphene charge carriers lying on different...

Home > Press > Superb switching uniformity of RRAM with localized nanofilaments of wafer-scale Si subulate array Fig. 1. (a) Schematics of the SSA fabrication process. (b) SEM images of the SSA during the ICP etching process. (c–e) SEM images of the subulate RRAM devices with different c-radii. (f) 3D...

Home > Press > Development of semiconductor microchip that can detect prostate cancer markers with ultra-high sensitivity: Working toward the realization of IoT biosensors The semiconductor sensor that detects antigen molecules by capturing them on the surface of a nanosheet film. The peak shift amount represents the output value of...

Home > Press > Measuring pulse waves with a hair-thin patch Pulse signal map created by ultrathin wearable sensors with 100 sensing pixels. CREDIT POSTECH Abstract:A pulse wave is a wave in which the blood flow – that originates from the heartbeat – is transmitted to the body. It...

Home > Press > The future of data storage is double-helical, research indicates: The Information Age needs a new data storage powerhouse. With an expanded molecular alphabet and a 21st century twist, DNA may just fit the bill. (From left) University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers Charles Schroeder, Kasra Tabatabaei, and...

Mar 05, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered key clues behind the workings of “single-atom” catalysts based on iron-pyridine sites in a carbon matrix (Environmental Science & Technology, "Elucidating the Mechanistic Origin of a Spin State-Dependent FeNx–C Catalyst toward Organic Contaminant Oxidation via Peroxymonosulfate Activation"). High-spin...

Home > Press > Visualizing the invisible: New fluorescent DNA label reveals nanoscopic cancer features Yang Liu, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine and bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh and member of the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. CREDIT UPMC Abstract:Researchers have developed a new fluorescent label that gives a...

Mar 05, 2022 (Nanowerk News) By combining CRISPR technology with a protein designed with artificial intelligence, it is possible to awaken individual dormant genes by disabling the chemical “off switches” that silence them. Researchers from the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle describe this finding in the journal...

Home > Press > Atom by atom: building precise smaller nanoparticles with templates This scientific illustration of the study, created by Dr Takamasa Tsukamoto of Tokyo Tech, was selected as an Inside Cover Picture in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Image source: Dr. Tsukamoto, Tokyo Tech CREDIT Dr Takamasa Tsukamoto...