Aug 06, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Ultrafast pulses from X-ray lasers reveal how atoms move at timescales of a femtosecond. That’s a quadrillionth of a second. However, measuring the properties of the pulses themselves is challenging. While determining a pulse’s maximum strength, or ‘amplitude,’ is straightforward, the time at which the...
Synthetic mouse embryo models created solely from stem cells
Aug 06, 2022 (Nanowerk News) An egg meets a sperm – that’s a necessary first step in life’s beginnings, and it’s also a common first step in embryonic development research. But in a Weizmann Institute of Science study published in Cell ("Post-Gastrulation Synthetic Embryos Generated Ex Utero from Mouse Naïve...
Water can’t touch this sanded, powdered surface (w/video)
Aug 06, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Want a surface that won’t get wet? Grab some sandpaper. Rice University researchers have developed a simple method to make surfaces superhydrophobic — that is, very water-repellant — without the chemicals often used in such processes. Their technique involves sandpaper, a selection of powders and...
2D materials for next generation computing
Aug 06, 2022 (Nanowerk News) In a compact comment published in Nature Communications ("2D Materials for Future Heterogeneous Electronics"), Max Lemme and colleagues outline the most promising fields of applications of two-dimensional (2D) materials, as well as the challenges that still need to be solved to see the appearance of...