Day: April 25, 2022

Apr 25, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Just as how an electrical switch regulates the flow of electric current, thermal switches can control the flow of heat. These switches serve as thermal control devices and are useful for thermal management applications. For example, they can be used in industries to reduce waste...

Apr 25, 2022 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Modern sports equipment often appears to be a showcase for new material technologies and nowhere has this been more true than in global sport competitions from sailing, racing and biking to skiing, golfing and tennis. High-tech materials help designers and manufacturers to improve their sports...

Apr 25, 2022 (Nanowerk News) With e-commerce orders pouring in, a warehouse robot picks mugs off a shelf and places them into boxes for shipping. Everything is humming along, until the warehouse processes a change and the robot must now grasp taller, narrower mugs that are stored upside down. Reprogramming...

Apr 25, 2022 (Nanowerk News) The most widespread method for the synthesis of 2D-2D heterostructures is the direct growth of materials on top of each other. 2D structures are atomically thin layered materials that can be stacked to build functional heterostructures. In such structures built by atomic deposition, 2D layers...

Apr 25, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Meeting the European Union’s Green Deal goal of climate neutrality by 2050 will require 35 times more lithium and 7 to 26 times the amount of increasingly scarce rare earth metals compared to Europe’s limited use today, according to a study ("Metals for Clean Energy:...

Apr 25, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Magnetic skyrmions are sometimes described as magnetic vortices. Unlike ferromagnetic states - which occur in conventional magnets such as compasses and refrigerator magnets - the skyrmion state is quite peculiar: the orientation of the magnetization does not point in the same direction everywhere in the...