Making colors out of gold and DNA

May 31, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Folk belief says there’s a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but a new technology is turning that idea on its head – using particles of gold to make colours. With further work, the method developed at Aalto University could herald a...

High-performance graphene nanomesh filtration membranes inspired by cell walls

May 31, 2022 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Graphene-based membranes have attracted considerable attention as promising candidates for new filtration technologies for filtering out nanoparticles, organic molecules, and even small inorganic salt ions (see our previous Nanowerk Spotlight: "Novel desalination method with nearly perfect salt rejection and high water flux"). Putting a nature-inspired...

When AI is the inventor

May 31, 2022 (Nanowerk News) It’s not surprising these days to see new inventions that either incorporate or have benefitted from artificial intelligence (AI) in some way, but what about inventions dreamt up by AI – do we award a patent to a machine? This is the quandary facing lawmakers...