Jun 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Finding forming planets is a tough but important job for astronomers: Only three planets have ever been discovered caught in the process of forming, and the most recent of these was found just weeks ago. Evan Rich, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan,...
All-optical switching on the nanometer scale
Jun 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Ultrafast light-driven control of magnetization on the nanometer length scale is key to achieve competitive bit sizes in next generation data storage technology. Researchers at Max Born Institute in Berlin and of the large scale facility Elettra in Trieste, Italy, have successfully demonstrated the ultrafast...
New insights into binding configuration and mobility of molecules on nanoparticle surfaces
Jun 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) How molecules bind to a surface is of central importance in chemical reactions, making the possibility of studying binding configurations in isolated nanosystems of great interest. A Freiburg research team led by Dr. Lukas Bruder and Prof. Dr. Frank Stienkemeier has now succeeded in studying...
2D monolayer polymeric fullerene is the latest member of the carbon family
Jun 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Synthetic carbon allotropes are fascinating for their outstanding properties and potential applications. Scientists have devoted decades to synthesizing new types of carbon materials. However, a two-dimensional fullerene, which possesses unique structure, has not been successfully synthesized until now. Recently, a research group led by Prof....
World’s first verified measurement comparison for graphene production
Jun 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) The results of the first international comparison of the measurement of graphene have been published in 2D Materials ("International interlaboratory comparison of Raman spectroscopic analysis of CVD-grown graphene"), led by NPL, through the Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards (VAMAS) and in collaboration with...
Astronomers discover a multiplanet system nearby
Jun 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have discovered a new multiplanet system within our galactic neighborhood that lies just 10 parsecs, or about 33 light-years, from Earth, making it one of the closest known multiplanet systems to our own. At the heart of the system lies...
Functionalizing van der Waals materials by shaping them
Jun 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) PN junction is the elementary building block of semiconductor devices, like diode, solar cell and LED, which make up the modern (opto-)electronics. Recently, researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed a novel method to fabricate two-dimensional...
Origami millirobots bring health care closer to precision drug delivery
Jun 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) If you’ve ever swallowed the same round tablet in hopes of curing everything from stomach cramps to headaches, you already know that medicines aren’t always designed to treat precise pain points. While over-the-counter pills have cured many ailments for decades, biomedical researchers have only recently...
Millisecond pulsars can explain the gamma-ray excess in the Milky Way center
Jun 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Old and fast spinning neutron stars called millisecond pulsars could be responsible for an unexplained signal from the center of our Milky Way, reports a team of astrophysicists in a new study published in Nature Astronomy ("Millisecond pulsars from accretion-induced collapse as the origin of...
Real-time imaging of dynamic atom-atom interactions
Jun 14, 2022 (Nanowerk News) In a breakthrough, Tokyo Tech researchers have managed to observe and characterize dynamic assembly of metallic atoms using an ingenious combination of scanning transmission electron microscopy and a video-based tracking (Nature Communications, "Dynamic hetero-metallic bondings visualized by sequential atom imaging"). By visualizing short-lived molecules, such...