Month: March 2022

Mar 29, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Glass objects which glow in the dark, glass containers that heat up and cool down, or glass control knobs and switches that eliminate viruses and bacteria by themselves – all this seems to completely contradict our everyday experience of what glass can do. And yet,...

Mar 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances ("Intelligent metaphotonics empowered by machine learning") reviews the evaluation of metaphotonics induced by artificial intelligence and present a summary of the concepts of machine learning with some specific examples developed and demonstrated for metasystems and metasurfaces. Advances in the...

Mar 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Scientists studying V Hydrae (V Hya) have witnessed the star’s mysterious death throes in unprecedented detail. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the team discovered six slowly-expanding rings and two hourglass-shaped structures caused by the high-speed...

Mar 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) In the future, you may have a squid to thank for your coffee staying hot on a cold day. Drawing inspiration from cephalopod skin, engineers at the University of California, Irvine invented an adaptive composite material that can insulate beverage cups, restaurant to-go bags, parcel...

Mar 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Metallurgy has advanced society for millennia. The earliest metal used by humans was copper. Fast forward 10,000 years, and now we’re using metals to meet essential global-energy demands. This is because many of the proposed clean-energy solutions hinge on the ability to understand and predict...

Mar 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Similar to a light switch, RNA switches (called riboswitches) determine which genes turn “on” and “off.” Although this may seem like a simple process, the inner workings of these switches have confounded biologists for decades. Now researchers led by Northwestern University and the University at...

Mar 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) There are multiple ways to create two- and three-dimensional models of atoms and molecules. With the advent of cutting-edge apparatus that can image samples at the atomic scale, scientists found that traditional molecular models did not fit the images they saw. Researchers have devised a...

Mar 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Metal halide perovskites are characterized by low-cost, high photoluminescence quantum yield, and high color purity. In recent years, perovskite light-emitting diodes are developing fast, with promising applications in lighting and display fields. However, the ubiquitous thermal-induced fluorescence quenching in perovskite emitters lacks systematic research, and...

Mar 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers working with the Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CBI) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has discovered a pathway to encourage a type of lignin formation in plants that could make the processing of crops grown for products such as sustainable jet fuels...

Mar 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Metastasis – the process of cancer spreading from its original site to distant tissues – is caused by marauding tumor cells that break off from the primary tumor site and ride in the bloodstream to set up colonies in other parts of the body. These...