Month: March 2022

Mar 29, 2022 (Nanowerk News) It is not possible to tell from the outside whether a wound will heal without problems under the dressing or whether bacteria will penetrate the injured tissue and ignite an inflammation. To be on the safe side, disinfectant ointments or antibiotics are applied to the...

Mar 29, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Using data from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds system (VMC), researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), in collaboration with scientists from the VMC team, confirmed the existence of elongated orbits which are at the backbone of the bar formation process....

Mar 29, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A new study finds that temporary nature-based carbon removal can lower global peak warming levels but only if complemented by ambitious fossil fuel emission reductions. Nature-based climate solutions aim to preserve and enhance carbon storage in terrestrial or aquatic ecosystems and could be a potential...

Mar 29, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A global diet that increasingly includes ultra-processed foods is having a negative impact on the diversity of plant species available for human consumption while also damaging human and planetary health, according to a commentary published in the journal BMJ Global Health ("Ultra-processed foods should be...

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...