Day: July 16, 2022

Home > Press > Strain-sensing smart skin ready to deploy: Nanotube-embedded coating detects threats from wear and tear in large structures A three-layer smart skin on a structure can detect strain through the fluorescence of embedded carbon nanotubes, according to its inventors at Rice University. The skin can be painted...

Home > Press > ‘Life-like’ lasers can self-organise, adapt their structure, and cooperate Microparticles clustering around a Janus particle. The dashed line delineates the lasing area, and the pink/yellow lines show the tracks of several microparticles CREDIT Imperial College London Abstract:By mimicking features of living systems, self-organising lasers could lead...

Jul 16, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A team of scientists in the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have combined robotics with biology by equipping E. coli bacteria with artificial components to construct biohybrid microrobots (Science Advances, "Magnetically steerable bacterial microrobots moving in 3D biological matrices...

Home > Press > Recent advances in 3D electronics Abstract:Most electronic devices are flat, and they are getting thinner and sleeker every year. But sometimes it’s necessary for electrical systems to be flexible, formed in odd orientations or integrated into 3D objects. Below are some recent papers published in ACS...

Jul 16, 2022 (Nanowerk News) For all the excitement about the healing potential of embryonic stem cells, with their ability to mature into any kind of body tissue, these cells are, surprisingly, not the winners of the “endless possibilities” award. This prize goes to even earlier cells that make up...

Home > Press > Novel compound boosts urea to sustainable energy reaction process, researchers report: Integrating energy-saving hydrogen production with urea electrooxidation over crystalline-amorphous NiO-CrOx electrocatalyst Researchers developed a new electrocatalyst that boost the urea electrooxidation and achieve energy-saving hydrogen production. CREDIT Nano Research, Tsinghua University Abstract:You might be flushing...

Jul 16, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Thermally regenerative ammonia batteries can produce electricity on demand from low-grade waste heat. A new process for creating these batteries improves their stability and affordability and may help address the country’s growing grid-scale energy storage problem, according to a team led by Penn State researchers....

Jul 16, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers with DARPA’s Machine Common Sense (MCS) program demonstrated a series of improvements to robotic system performance over the course of multiple experiments. Just as infants must learn from experience, MCS seeks to construct computational models that mimic the core domains of child cognition for...

Home > Press > Rensselaer researchers learn to control electron spin at room temperature to make devices more efficient and faster: Electron spin, rather than charge, holds the key In a Rashba-Dresselhaus spin transistor, the spin of electrons could be disrupted by spin-phonon coupling or non-ideal internal magnetic field distribution. ...

Jul 16, 2022 (Nanowerk News) The Tin Man didn’t have one. The Grinch’s was three sizes too small. And for soft robots, the electronically powered pumps that function as their “hearts” are so bulky and rigid, they must be decoupled from the robot’s body – a separation that can leak...