Month: July 2022

Jul 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Motors are everywhere in our day-to-day lives — from cars to washing machines. A futuristic scientific field is working on tiny motors that could power a network of nanomachines and replace some of the power sources we use in devices today. In new research published...

Jul 09, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A smartly designed pressure valve allows soft robots to respond to their environment without the need for computer control, reveal AMOLF researchers in their article in the journal Matter ("A fluidic relaxation oscillator for reprogrammable sequential actuation in soft robots"). That brings robots with natural...

Jul 09, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A multidisciplinary team of researchers combined liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) with a thermoelectric device (TED) to develop a stretchable transducer capable of electrically controlled actuation, active cooling, and thermal-to-electrical energy conversion for soft robotics. The shape memory polymers known as liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are...

Jul 09, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A new study brings us up to date on the benefits and pitfalls of robotics and autonomous systems (RASs) when it comes to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations (UN). RASs are changing the world. However, until recently, the opportunities...

Jul 12, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign research effort led by Pinshane Huang is accelerating imaging techniques to visualize structures of small molecules clearly — a process once thought impossible (Nano Letters, "Atomic-Resolution Imaging of Small Organic Molecules on Graphene"). Their discovery unleashes endless potential in improving...

Jul 12, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Electrons, present in all kind of matter, are charged particles and therefore they react to the application of light. When an intense light field hits a solid, these particles experience a force, called the Lorentz force, that drives them and induces some exquisite dynamics reflecting...

Jul 12, 2022 (Nanowerk News) After decades of development and many trials and frustrations along the way, the James Webb Telescope has finally started to deliver what it came for. On July 12, Nasa released the first science observations made by the suite of instruments carried on board the mission,...

Jul 12, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A new self-powered, wristwatch-style health monitor invented by researchers at the University of California, Irvine can keep track of a wearer’s pulse and wirelessly communicate with a nearby smartphone or tablet – without needing an external power source or a battery. In a paper published...

Jul 12, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Chemically propelled micropumps –i.e., small devices capable of driving the flow of a surrounding fluid by generating a chemical gradient and, hence, causing diffusion-osmotic or electroosmotic movements— have attracted great interest for their possible application in water decontamination and environmental remediation, as well as in...

Home > Press > Nano-rust: Smart additive for autonomous temperature control: FAU researchers develop a new, versatile method for temperature monitoring in materialsAbstract:The right temperature matters – whether in technical processes, for the quality of food and medicines, or the lifetime of electronic components and batteries. For this purpose, temperature...