Jul 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Moore’s law has driven the semiconductor industry to continue downscaling the critical size of transistors to improve device density. At the beginning of this century, traditional scaling started to encounter bottlenecks. The industry has successively developed strained Si/Ge, high-K/metal gate, and Fin-FETs, enabling Moore's Law...
a new and easy-to-use webserver to identify genome edited cells
Jul 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Diseases of genetic cause can be investigated by inducing the respective mutations in cell lines that are then used to model human diseases. The overall aim is to elucidate underlying mechanisms, interactions with environmental factors and ideally to find curative strategies. A crucial step in...
An efficient electrochemical intercalation method for high-yield production of TMD nanosheets
Jul 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), an emerging class of materials that can be used as semiconductors and insulators, have promising potential in various applications due to their unique properties. But the reliable production of these atomically thin 2D materials has been challenging. A research...
First synthetic mechanosensitive potassium channel
Jul 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Intrigued by the properties of ion channel proteins commonly observed in cells, Tokyo Tech researchers have developed the first synthetic mechanosensitive potassium channel using a newly developed aromatic fluorinated amphiphilic cyclophane. Displaying both “stimuli responsiveness” and “selective ion transport” abilities, their new ion channel could...
MXene in complex 3D device architectures
Jul 14, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Despite being only a few atoms thick, MXene packs a powerful punch. This class of single layer, two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials exhibits desirable properties like excellent thermal and electrical conductivity, heat resistance and high specific surface area. These characteristics promise to revolutionize high-performance electronic devices and...
Atomically-smooth gold crystals help to compress light for nanophotonic applications
Jul 14, 2022 (Nanowerk News) KAIST researchers and their collaborators at home and abroad have successfully demonstrated a new platform for guiding the compressed light waves in very thin van der Waals crystals. Their method to guide the mid-infrared light with minimal loss will provide a breakthrough for the practical...
Cyborg collaboration finds 40,000 ring galaxies
Jul 14, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Human and machine intelligence worked together to find 40,000 ring galaxies, scientists at the National Astronomy Meeting will announce this week. Dr Mike Walmsley of the University of Manchester and the Galaxy Zoo collaboration will present the new work, describing how this “cyborg” approach measured...
Researchers control electron spin at room temperature to make devices more efficient and faster
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...