Aug 18, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Applying new CRISPR-based technology to a broad agricultural need, researchers at the University of California San Diego have set their aims on a worldwide pest known to decimate valuable food crops. Nikolay Kandul, Omar Akbari and their colleagues first demonstrated the precision-guided sterile insect technique,...
Engineers fabricate a chip-free, wireless electronic ‘skin’
Aug 18, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Wearable sensors are ubiquitous thanks to wireless technology that enables a person’s glucose concentrations, blood pressure, heart rate, and activity levels to be transmitted seamlessly from sensor to smartphone for further analysis. Most wireless sensors today communicate via embedded Bluetooth chips that are themselves powered...
A breakthrough in magnetic materials research could lead to novel ways to manipulate electron flow with much less energy loss
Aug 19, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Newly discovered magnetic interactions in the Kagome layered topological magnet TbMn6Sn6 could be the key to customizing how electrons flow through these materials. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory conducted an in-depth investigation of TbMn6Sn6 to...
Bio-based materials used to salvage rare earth elements
Aug 19, 2022 (Nanowerk News) What do corncobs and tomato peels have to do with electronics? They both can be used to salvage valuable rare earth elements, like neodymium, from electronic waste. Penn State researchers used micro- and nanoparticles created from the organic materials to capture rare earth elements from...
Sharpest image ever of Universe’s most massive known star
Aug 19, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Astronomers have yet to fully understand how the most massive stars — those more than 100 times the mass of the Sun — are formed. One particularly challenging piece of this puzzle is obtaining observations of these giants, which typically dwell in the densely populated...
Scientists unravel ‘Hall effect’ mystery in search for next generation memory storage devices
Aug 19, 2022 (Nanowerk News) An advance in the use of antiferromagnetic materials in memory storage devices has been made by an international team of physicists. Antiferromagnets are materials that have an internal magnetism caused by the spin of electrons, but almost no external magnetic field. They are of interest...
Expanding the possibilities with MicroOrganospheres
Aug 19, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A team of scientists, led by Xiling Shen, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, and Professor at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI), has reached new levels in patient model development. They have developed improved methods for generating micro-organospheres (MOS) and have shown that these MOS...
Building blocks of the future for photovoltaics
Aug 19, 2022 (Nanowerk News) An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has, for the first time, observed the build-up of a physical phenomenon that plays a role in the conversion of sunlight into electrical energy in 2D materials. The scientists succeeded in making quasiparticles – known...
Programming bacterial systems to self-assemble into desired 2D shapes
Aug 18, 2022 (Nanowerk News) LEGO blocks can be manually attached to each other in certain prescribed ways to create complex structures. What if we could engineer living LEGO-like structures that can self-replicate and move around, and can be programmed to grow and self-assemble into any desired target shape? An...
Exploring quantum electron highways with laser light
Aug 18, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Topological insulators, or TIs, have two faces: Electrons flow freely along their surface edges, like cars on a superhighway, but can’t flow through the interior of the material at all. It takes a special set of conditions to create this unique quantum state – part...