Jul 29, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Helium ion beam (HIB) technology plays an important role in the extreme fields of nanofabrication. Due to high resolution and sensitivity, HIB nanofabrication technology is widely used to pattern nanostructures into components, devices, or systems in integrated circuits, materials sciences, nano-optics, and bio-sciences applications. HIB-based...
Stamp-sized stickers that can see inside the body (w/video)
Jul 29, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Ultrasound imaging is a safe and noninvasive window into the body’s workings, providing clinicians with live images of a patient’s internal organs. To capture these images, trained technicians manipulate ultrasound wands and probes to direct sound waves into the body. These waves reflect back out...
Scientists fabricate high-performance large-area perovskite submodules for solar cells
Jul 29, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are promising solar technologies. Although low-cost wet processing has shown advantages in small-area PSC fabrication, the preparation of uniform charge transport layers with thickness of several nanometers from solution for meter-sized large area products is still challenging. Recently, a research group...
Seeing double for better solar cells
Jul 29, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A new material can make solar cells a thousand times thinner than today’s silicon solar cells. This material is a hybrid organic–inorganic crystal called halide perovskite. Now, a novel approach allows scientists to watch changes in the material’s structure and functional properties at the same...
A paper battery with water switch
Jul 29, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers at Empa developed a water-activated disposable paper battery. The researchers suggest that it could be used to power a wide range of low-power, single-use disposable electronics – such as smart labels for tracking objects, environmental sensors and medical diagnostic devices –...
Hydrogen production and carbon capture
Jul 29, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Hydrogen production takes place using natural gas as the raw material, combined with a very special ceramic membrane. Both hydrogen production and CO2 capture are achieved in a single step, which makes the method highly energy efficient. This is why the technologyhas been the subject...
Novel ‘2D petri dish’ captures first images of atoms ‘swimming’ in liquid (w/video)
Jul 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Graphene scientists from The University of Manchester have created a novel ‘nano-petri dish’ using two-dimensional (2D) materials to create a new method of observing how atoms move in liquid. Publishing in the journal Nature ("Tracking single adatoms in liquid in a Transmission Electron Microscope"), the...
Researching components made of natural fibers
Jul 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) 3D printing has been in use in architecture for a while, and now it is to become ecologically sustainable as well: Together with partners, the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) is researching how to produce individual building elements from natural fibers using additive manufacturing. In...