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...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: 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
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...
Thermally regenerative battery produces ample energy using low-grade waste heat
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 countryâs growing grid-scale energy storage problem, according to a team led by Penn State researchers....
AI improves robotic performance (w/videos)
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...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: 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
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. ...
Deformable pump gives soft robots a heart
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...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Crystal phase engineering offers glimpse of future potential, researchers say
Home > Press > Crystal phase engineering offers glimpse of future potential, researchers say With two decades of focused attention on how regulating such rearrangements, a process called phase engineering may enable sustainable energy conversion processes. CREDIT Nano Research, Tsinghua University Press Abstract:Atomic rearrangement changes a materials physical and chemical...
A novel graphene based NiSe2 nanocrystalline array for efficient hydrogen evolution reaction
Jul 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) In the face of low electrolytic water splitting catalytic activity, the development of efficiency and stable electrolytic catalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction is critical necessary. Moreover, the rather high price with insufficient supply of noble mental namely platinum and palladium has become the obstacle of...
Microparticles could be used to deliver ‘self-boosting’ vaccines
Jul 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Most vaccines, from measles to Covid-19, require a series of multiple shots before the recipient is considered fully vaccinated. To make that easier to achieve, MIT researchers have developed microparticles that can be tuned to deliver their payload at different time points, which could be...
Why perovskites could take solar cells to new heights
Jul 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Perovskites hold promise for creating solar panels that could be easily deposited onto most surfaces, including flexible and textured ones. These materials would also be lightweight, cheap to produce, and as efficient as today’s leading photovoltaic materials, which are mainly silicon. They’re the subject of...