Aug 24, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Getting atoms to do what you want isn’t easy – but it’s at the heart of a lot of groundbreaking research in physics. Creating and controlling the behaviour of new forms of matter is of particular interest, and an active area of research. Our new...
Researchers pioneer nanoelectronic sensor that simultaneously measures electrical and mechanical activity in heart cells
Aug 24, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Using a suspended nanowire, a University of Massachusetts research team has, for the first time, created a tiny sensor that can simultaneously measure electrical and mechanical cellular responses in cardiac tissue, work promising for cardiac disease studies, drug testing and regenerative medicine. Electrical and computer...
Researchers engineer novel material capable of ‘thinking’
Aug 24, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Someone taps your shoulder. The organized touch receptors in your skin send a message to your brain, which processes the information and directs you to look left, in the direction of the tap. Now, Penn State and U.S. Air Force researchers have harnessed this processing...
An extrasolar world covered in water?
Aug 24, 2022 (Nanowerk News) An international team of researchers led by Charles Cadieux, a Ph.D. student at the Université de Montréal and member of the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx), has announced the discovery of TOI-1452 b, an exoplanet orbiting one of two small stars in a binary...
New platform speeds up design of lipid nanoparticles for gene medicine delivery
Aug 24, 2022 (Nanowerk News) The success of COVID-19 vaccines is a great example of gene medicine's tremendous potential to prevent viral infections. One reason for the vaccines' success is their use of lipid nanoparticles, or LNPs, to carry delicate messenger RNA to cells to generate and boost immunity. LNPs—tiny...
Novel smart material enables high-performance and reliable light control of droplets
Aug 24, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Manipulating droplet plays vital roles in fundamental research and practical applications from chemical reactions to bio-analysis. Light control of droplets enables remote and contactless control with remarkable spatial and temporal accuracy. However, high-performance and reliable light control of droplets is still challenging. Now, a research...
Biological nanofibrils can efficiently extract valuable metal elements from water
Aug 24, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Many valuable metals like Au, Ag, Li and U are vital to high technology and modern industry. The terrestrial mineral reserves of these metals are generally very limited or suffer from high mining cost. Although most of these valuable metal ions could be found in...
Damage-reporting and self-healing skin-like polymeric coatings
Aug 24, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Skin-like polymeric coatings are applied to the surfaces of automobiles, ships, and buildings to protect them from the external environment. As it is difficult to determine whether the currently used coatings are already damaged or not, these non-reusable coatings must be regularly replaced, leading to...