Aug 23, 2022 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Throughout human history, technological progress has been inseparably intertwined with advances in military weaponry. Through the ages we can see how new inventions revolutionized both the living standards of society and the advancement of warfare technology. The Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age led...
Defect-engineering MOFs for properties and performance
Aug 23, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Metal-organic framework (MOF) nanocrystals are hybrid materials, built from metal clusters and organic linkers with an almost unlimited number of possible combinations. Their properties and functions are determined by the way they are grown. The vast diversity of shapes and sizes of MOFs, and especially...
Microscopic color converters move small laser-based devices closer to reality
Aug 22, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Lasers are everywhere. Devices that use them transmit information and enable the existence of long-distance communications and the internet; they aid doctors performing surgeries and engineers manufacturing advanced tools and technologies; and day-to-day, we encounter lasers as we scan our groceries and watch DVDs. “In...
Researchers discover a material that can learn like the brain
Aug 22, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) researchers have discovered that Vanadium Dioxide (VO2), a compound used in electronics, is capable of “remembering” the entire history of previous external stimuli (Nature Electronics, "Electrical Control of Glass-like Dynamics in Vanadium Dioxide for Data Storage and Processing"). This...