Month: June 2022

Jun 16, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Astronomers analyzing data from the VLA Sky Survey (VLASS) have discovered one of the youngest known neutron stars -- the superdense remnant of a massive star that exploded as a supernova. Images from the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) indicate...

Jun 16, 2022 (Nanowerk News) To develop new drugs and vaccines, detailed knowledge about nature’s smallest biological building blocks – the biomolecules – is required. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, are now presenting a groundbreaking microscopy technique that allows proteins, DNA and other tiny biological particles to be...

Jun 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Experts at the University of Bristol have discovered that the scales on moth wings act as excellent sound absorbers even when placed on an artificial surface. The researchers, which recently discovered that moth wings offer acoustic protection from bat echolocation calls, have been studying whether...

Jun 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Here we sit, situated on Earth amid the Milky Way galaxy. And here the Milky Way galaxy sits, having grown inside a large dark matter halo Dark matter is a curious thing: It doesn’t interact with light, so it should really be called transparent matter,...

Jun 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers in Sweden report that they are closing in on a way to replace batteries for wearables and low-power applications in the internet of things (IoT). The answer lies in an ink coating that enables low-grade heat, which is generated by devices, to be converted...

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,...

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...

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...

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....

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...