Day: April 23, 2022

Home > Press > New miniature heart could help speed heart disease cures: Boston University–led team has engineered a tiny living heart chamber replica to more accurately mimic the real organ and provide a sandbox for testing new heart disease treatments A miniature replica of a heart chamber made from...

Home > Press > UCI scientists turn a hydrogen molecule into a quantum sensor: New technique enables precise measurement of electrostatic properties of materials In the ultrahigh vacuum of a scanning tunneling microscope, a hydrogen molecule is held between the silver tip and sample. Femtosecond bursts of a terahertz laser...

Home > Press > New hardware integrates mechanical devices into quantum tech Angled-view photograph of the fully packaged device. The top (mechanical) chip is secured facedown to the bottom (qubit) chip by an adhesive polymer. CREDIT Agnetta Cleland Abstract:Stanford University researchers have developed a key experimental device for future...

Apr 23, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Don’t be fooled by the name. While 3D printers do print tangible objects (and quite well), how they do the job doesn’t actually happen in 3D, but rather in regular old 2D. Working to change that is a group of former and current researchers from...

Home > Press > The physics of a singing saw: Insights on centuries-old folk instrument is underpinned by a mathematical principle that may pave the way for high-quality resonators for sensing, electronics and more The researchers clamped the saw in two configurations: a J shape (left) and an S shape...

Apr 23, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Solar cells will doubtless play a significant part in a sustainable energy future. Polymer solar cells (PSCs) specifically provide an excellent option because they are cheap to produce and can be both flexible and semitransparent. Ternary polymer solar cells are showing encouraging power conversion efficiencies,...

Apr 23, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Robots have been working in factories for many years. But given the complex and diverse tasks they perform, as well as related safety concerns, most of them operate inside cages or behind safety glass to limit or prevent interaction with humans. In warehouse operations, where...

Home > Press > New quantum network shares information at a scale practical for future real-world applications: Researchers enable real-time adjustments to communication among three remote nodes in a quantum network Quantum equipment in the "Alice” laboratory, where the researchers stored the photon source and the first node in the...

Apr 23, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Using the Advanced Light Source (ALS), researchers found a unique insulating state in an atomically thin material, driven by the combined effects of lattice–electron interactions and atomic-bond formation (Nature Communications, "Large-gap insulating dimer ground state in monolayer IrTe2"). The work provides a better understanding of...

Home > Press > Water processing: light helps degrade hormones: KIT researchers use polymer membranes coated with titanium dioxide for photocatalytic cleaning – results are reported in Nature Nanotechnology Photocatalytic membrane filtration system with a sun simulator. The membranes are coated with titanium dioxide. (Photo: Markus Breig, KIT) CREDIT ...