Jun 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Many different types of bacteria and viruses can cause pneumonia, but there is no easy way to determine which microbe is causing a particular patient’s illness. This uncertainty makes it harder for doctors to choose effective treatments because the antibiotics commonly used to treat bacterial...
Nanoparticle technology provides healthy trans, saturated fat alternative
Jun 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) The old adage that oil and water don’t mix isn’t entirely accurate. While it’s true that the two compounds don’t naturally combine, turning them into one final product can be done. You just need an emulsifier, an ingredient commonly used in the food industry. Yangchao...
Physicists build an atom laser that can stay on forever
Jun 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Imagining our everyday life without lasers is difficult. We use lasers in printers, CD players, pointers, measuring devices, and so on. What makes lasers so special is that they use coherent waves of light: all the light inside a laser vibrates completely in sync. Meanwhile,...
Researchers produce identical photons with different quantum dots
Jun 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Identical light particles (photons) are important for many technologies that are based on quantum physics. A team of researchers from Basel and Bochum has now produced identical photons with different quantum dots – an important step towards applications such as tap-proof communications and the quantum...
Researchers solve mystery surrounding dielectric properties of unique metal oxide
Jun 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led research team has solved a longstanding mystery surrounding strontium titanate, an unusual metal oxide that can be an insulator, a semiconductor, or a metal. The research provides insight for future applications of this material to electronic devices and data...
Building up new data-storage memory
Jun 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Scientists from the Institute of Industrial Science at The University of Tokyo fabricated three-dimensional vertically formed field-effect transistors to produce high-density data storage devices by ferroelectric gate insulator and atomic-layer-deposited oxide semiconductor channel (2022 IEEE Silicon Nanoelectronics Workshop, "A Vertical Channel Ferroelectric/Anti-Ferroelectric FET with ALD...