Apr 29, 2022 (Nanowerk News) This study (National Science Review, "Kinetic regulation of MXene with water-in-LiCl electrolyte for high-voltage micro-supercapacitors") is led by Prof. Zhong-Shuai Wu (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)), and Prof. Hui-Ming Cheng (Institute of Metal Research of CAS). MXenes,...
Biomedical polymers: Synthesis, properties, and applications
Apr 29, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Biomedical polymers have been extensively developed for promising applications in a lot of biomedical fields, such as drug delivery, disease detection/diagnosis, biosensing, regenerative medicine, and disease treatment. For example, polymer-based carriers provide major advances in improving bioavailability and therapeutic outcomes at spatiotemporal drug delivery, greatly...
Revealing the secret language of dark matter
Apr 29, 2022 (Nanowerk News) In the Universe, dark matter and standard matter “talk” to each other using a secret language. This “discussion” happens thanks to gravity, scientists say, but not in a way they can fully comprehend. A new SISSA study published in The Astrophysical Journal ("Empirical Evidence of...
Future wearable health tech could measure gases released from skin
Apr 29, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Scientists have taken the first step to creating the next generation of wearable health monitors. Most research on measuring human biomarkers, which are measures of a body’s health, rely on electrical signals to sense the chemicals excreted in sweat. But sensors that rely on perspiration...
Giant tunneling electroresistance in ferroelectric tunnel junctions successfully obtained in a newly suggested scheme
Apr 29, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Recently, in a paper published in Physical Review Applied ("Giant Tunneling Electroresistance Induced by Interfacial Doping in Pt/BaTiO3/Pt Ferroelectric Tunnel Junctions"), a research team in the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) studied the interfacial control of transport properties of...
Building ‘nanofactories’ to help make medicines and more
Apr 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Thanks to a lesser-known feature of microbiology, Michigan State University researchers have helped open a door that could lead to medicines, vitamins and more being made at lower costs and with improved efficiency. The international research team, led by Spartans Henning Kirst and Cheryl Kerfeld...
Portable desalination unit generates drinking water without the need for filters or high-pressure pumps (w/video)
Apr 29, 2022 (Nanowerk News) MIT researchers have developed a portable desalination unit, weighing less than 10 kilograms, that can remove particles and salts to generate drinking water. The suitcase-sized device, which requires less power to operate than a cell phone charger, can also be driven by a small, portable...
The instability at the beginning of the solar system
Apr 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Michigan State University’s Seth Jacobson and colleagues in China and France have unveiled a new theory that could help solve a galactic mystery of how our solar system evolved. Specifically, how did the gas giants — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — end up where...
Researchers unlock potential means to reduce lithium-Ion batteries reliance on rare metals
Apr 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A research group, utilizing inexpensive elements, has demonstrated the feasibility of synthesizing electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). If explored further, this method could reduce industrial reliance on rare metals such as cobalt and nickel. Details of their results were published in the American Chemical...
Earth’s atmosphere may be source of some lunar water
Apr 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Hydrogen and oxygen ions escaping from Earth’s upper atmosphere and combining on the moon could be one of the sources of the known lunar water and ice, according to new research by University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute scientists (Scientific Reports, "Distribution of water phase...