Jul 14, 2022 (Nanowerk News) As our devices become smaller, faster, more energy efficient, and capable of holding larger amounts of data, spintronics may continue that trajectory. Whereas electronics is based on the flow of electrons, spintronics is based on the spin of electrons. An electron has a spin degree...
Nanotube-embedded coating detects threats from wear and tear in large structures
Jul 14, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A strain-sensing smart skin developed at Rice University that uses very small structures, carbon nanotubes, to monitor and detect damage in large structures is ready for prime time. The 'strain paint' first revealed by Rice in 2012 uses the fluorescent properties of nanotubes to show...
Scientists develop new method and device to isolate single cells using electric fields
Jul 14, 2022 (Nanowerk News) In cancer research, it all comes down to a single cell. Over the last decade, cancer researchers have homed in on the fact that an individual cell from a tumor can be used to perform molecular analyses that reveal important clues about how the cancer...
Hydrogen storage materials from industrial waste
Jul 14, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Whether it is cars, energy or mobile phones: modern society is built on metals and our future strongly depends on these materials, too. To store hydrogen in a safe, compact and still environmentally friendly way is still a major challenge. Metal hydrides could be an...
Rewinding a supernova with machine learning
Jul 14, 2022 (Nanowerk News) New work looks at using machine learning to decipher the early stages of supernovae explosions by reconstructing the light emitted during the outburst. The research was presented at the 2022 National Astronomy Meeting by Eleonora Parrag, a PhD student at the University of Cardiff. The...
Fully scalable all-perovskite tandem solar modules
Jul 14, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a prototype for fully scalable all-perovskite tandem solar modules. These modules have an efficiency of up to 19.1 percent with an aperture area of 12.25 square centimeters. This result, the first of its kind reported...
A robot learns to imagine itself
Jul 14, 2022 (Nanowerk News) As every athletic or fashion-conscious person knows, our body image is not always accurate or realistic, but it’s an important piece of information that determines how we function in the world. When you get dressed or play ball, your brain is constantly planning ahead so...
Turning white blood cells into medicinal microrobots with light
Jul 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Medicinal microrobots could help physicians better treat and prevent diseases. But most of these devices are made with synthetic materials that trigger immune responses in vivo. Now, for the first time, researchers reporting in ACS Central Science ("Optically Manipulated Neutrophils as Native Microcrafts In Vivo")...