Jul 18, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Precisely applied mechanical pressure can improve the electronic properties of a widely used polymer material. This requires that the material be mechanically processed to an accuracy of a few nanometres, a team from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) writes in the scientific journal Advanced Electronic...
A new look at disordered carbon
Jul 18, 2022 (Nanowerk News) When carbon atoms stack into a perfectly repeating three-dimensional crystal, they can form precious diamonds. Arranged another way, in repetitive flat sheets, carbon makes the shiny gray graphite found in pencils. But there are other forms of carbon that are less well understood. Amorphous carbon...
A new bio-inspired PEM fuel cell with graphene sponge
Jul 18, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A team from the Department of Energy Engineering at the University of Seville has developed an experimental research focused on the design of a bio-inspired PEM fuel, cell which included graphene porous sponge inserts. The model they have obtained has reached a maximum power which...
Synthetic tools conduct messages from station to station in DNA
Jul 18, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Rice University researchers have demonstrated that CRISPR-Cas9, increasingly famous as a gene-editing tool, can be employed in powerful additional ways in human cells. A team led by Rice bioengineer Isaac Hilton and graduate student Kaiyuan Wang used deactivated Cas9 (dCas9) proteins to target key segments...
Intelligent wireless walls for contactless in-home monitoring
Jul 18, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Patient health care strongly relies on in-hospital situation and remote monitoring at home is very challenging. Various human activity recognition systems have been proposed exploiting sensors, cameras and wearables. However, these techniques raise either privacy concerns or discomfort of carrying wearables all the time. These...