Aug 17, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Machine learning method for harnessing large volumes of X-ray data will speed materials discovery. Color coding makes aerial maps much more easily understood. Through color, we can tell at a glance where there is a road, forest, desert, city, river or lake. Working with several...
New van der Waals heterostructures for high-efficiency infrared photodetection
Aug 16, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Profs HU Weida and PENG Hailin, two of researchers at Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics and Peking University, recently proposed momentum-matching and band-alignment van der Waals heterostructures to solve the low QE of 2D materials infrared photodetectors. The results were published in Science Advances ("Momentum-matching...
Single-atom-kernelled nanocluster catalyst for carbon dioxide conversion
Aug 16, 2022 (Nanowerk News) According to a study published in Nano Letters ("Single-Atom-Kernelled Nanocluster Catalyst"), researchers led by Prof. WU Zhikun from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) obtained reduced palladium (Pd)-based alloy nanoclusters (abbreviated as Au4Pd6 and Au3AgPd6) for the...
In-memory mathematical operations with spin-orbit torque devices
Aug 16, 2022 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Analogue arithmetic operations are the most fundamental mathematical operations used in image processing, signal processing and artificial intelligence (AI). Under error-tolerant circumstance, compared to the digital processor, analogue computing presents a promising and possibly revolutionary paradigm in recent years, as it doesn’t need analogue-to-digital conversion...
Unexpected quantum effects in natural double-layer graphene
Aug 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has detected novel quantum effects in high-precision studies of natural double-layer graphene and has interpreted them together with the University of Texas at Dallas using their theoretical work. This research provides new insights into the...
2D array of electron and nuclear spin qubits opens new frontier in quantum science
Aug 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) By using photons and electron spin qubits to control nuclear spins in a two-dimensional material, researchers at Purdue University have opened a new frontier in quantum science and technology, enabling applications like atomic-scale nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and to read and write quantum information with...
Scientists publish guide for memristor hardware design
Aug 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) They are many times faster than flash memory and require significantly less energy: memristive memory cells could revolutionize the energy efficiency of neuromorphic computers. In these computers, which are modeled on the way the human brain works, memristive cells function like artificial synapses. Numerous groups...
Scientists develop gel made from spider silk proteins for biomedical applications
Aug 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences have discovered that spider silk proteins can be fused to biologically active proteins and be converted into a gel at body temperature. One of the goals is to develop an injectable protein...
MXene material can counter mercury contamination
Aug 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers estimate that mercury emissions in the atmosphere have quadrupled since the Industrial Revolution. The heavy metal, generated by burning fossil fuels and the disposal of industrial and medical waste, has become so persistent in aquatic environments that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration suggests...
Identifying favorable immunological profiles suitable for personalized treatments with RNA nanoparticles
Aug 15, 2022 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Therapeutic nucleic acids (TNAs) and nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) are designed to enact specific intracellular responses beneficial for various biomedical applications. TNAs become especially attractive to researchers and clinicians since their functional versatility, programmability and modularity show great promise for treating disorders such as viral...