Apr 08, 2022 (Nanowerk News) In the last seven years, scientists at the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration (LVC) have detected 90 gravitational waves signals. Gravitational waves are perturbations in the fabric of spacetime that race outwards from cataclysmic events like the merger of binary black holes (BBH). In observations from the first...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Interdisciplinary team studies challenges and prospects of lithium-CO2 dioxide batteries
Home > Press > Interdisciplinary team studies challenges and prospects of lithium-CO2 dioxide batteries Schematic illustration of the concept of Li-CO2 batteries toward high efficient energy storage and CO2 fixation. CREDIT Nano Research Energy Abstract:The lithium-carbon dioxide battery is an emerging energy storage and conversion device. Although development of...
Nanotechnology-based optical sensors for faster, cheaper COVID tests
Apr 08, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A University of Georgia nanotechnology research group entered the race to develop a rapid test for COVID-19 in August 2020, running experiments on a new sensor for an American manufacturing company. The group, led by Yiping Zhao and Ralph Tripp, tested nanotechnology-based optical sensors designed...
Invisible helium atoms provide exquisitely sensitive test of fundamental theory
Apr 08, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Physicists at the Australian National University have developed the most sensitive method ever for measuring the potential energy of an atom (within a hundredth of a decillionth of a joule – or 10-35 joule), and used it to validate one of the most tested theories...
Researchers redefine how liquid and solid layers stick together based on molecular forces
Apr 08, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A recent study by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences redefines how liquids maintain their contact with solid surfaces -also known as wettability - from an intermolecular force perspective. The findings were published in Nano Research ("Investigation on the intrinsic wetting thresholds of liquids...