Apr 25, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Professor Yeom’s research team (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST) developed chiral ceramic nanostructures with broad chiroptical activity through a self-assembly process. They controlled the attraction and repulsion forces with copper sulfide nanoparticles (NPs) coated with cysteine (Cys), which led to the formation of...
Controlling heat flow in a solid by switching crystal structure dimensionality
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...
Nanotechnology in the Olympic Winter Games
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...
An easier way to teach robots new skills
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...
next generation of covalent 2D-2D heterostructures (w/video)
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...
Study quantifies metal supplies needed to reach EU’s climate neutrality goal
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:...
Researchers create exotic magnetic structures with laser light
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...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: New miniature heart could help speed heart disease cures: Boston Universityled 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
Home > Press > New miniature heart could help speed heart disease cures: Boston Universityled 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...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: UCI scientists turn a hydrogen molecule into a quantum sensor: New technique enables precise measurement of electrostatic properties of materials
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...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: New hardware integrates mechanical devices into quantum tech
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...