Aug 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Recently, National Science Review ("Controllable Majorana vortex states in iron-based superconducting nanowires") has published collaborative research results of Prof. Xin Liu's research team at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Prof. Dong Liu at Tsinghua University, and Prof. Fu-Chun Zhang at the Kavli Institute for...
A new method boosts wind farms’ energy output, without new equipment
Aug 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Virtually all wind turbines, which produce more than 5 percent of the world’s electricity, are controlled as if they were individual, free-standing units. In fact, the vast majority are part of larger wind farm installations involving dozens or even hundreds of turbines, whose wakes can...
Smart contact lenses for cancer diagnostics and screening
Aug 12, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Scientists from the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI) have developed a contact lens that can capture and detect exosomes, nanometer-sized vesicles found in bodily secretions which have the potential for being diagnostic cancer biomarkers (Advanced Functional Materials, "A microchambers containing contact lens for the...
Brightest stars in the night sky can strip Neptune-sized planets to their rocky cores
Aug 12, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Over the last 25 years, astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around stars in our galaxy, but more than 99% of them orbit smaller stars — from red dwarfs to stars slightly more massive than our sun, which is considered an average-sized star. Few have...
One more clue to the Moon’s origin
Aug 11, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Humankind has maintained an enduring fascination with the Moon. It was not until Galileo’s time, however, that scientists really began study it. Over the course of nearly five centuries, researchers put forward numerous, much debated theories as to how the Moon was formed. Now, geochemists,...
Betelgeuse recovers – for now
Aug 11, 2022 (Nanowerk News) New observations of the red supergiant suggest that the 2019 mass ejection of its atmosphere might significantly affects its fate ("The Great Dimming of Betelgeuse: a Surface Mass Ejection (SME) and its Consequences"). This doesn't mean Betelgeuse is going to explode any time soon, but...
Material scientists discover a new mechanism to increase the strength and ductility of high-entropy alloys
Aug 11, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A research team co-led by materials scientists from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has recently discovered a new mechanism to increase the strength and ductility of a high-entropy alloy, two properties which normally vary inversely with each other. The findings provide important insights for...
What if we could recycle the energy remaining in discarded batteries?
Aug 11, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Alkaline and zinc-carbon batteries are common in many self-powered devices. However, once a battery is discharged, it is no longer usable and is discarded. According to estimates, nearly 15 billion batteries are produced and sold worldwide annually. Most of these end up in landfills and...
Novel design for nanoparticles that train immune cells into fighting cancer
Aug 11, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Scientists of the department of Advanced Organ Bioengineering and Therapeutics (TechMed Centre) recently published a novel cancer immune therapy in the scientific journal Nature Communications ("Cancer immune therapy using engineered ‛tail-flipping’ nanoliposomes targeting alternatively activated macrophages"). In their research, Prof Dr Jai Prakash and his...
A novel hydrogel material for next-generation integrated touch panels
Aug 11, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Many of today's touch panels based on indium tin oxide and face various limitations due to its brittle and stiff nature. However, given the rapid progress of artificial intelligence and the internet of things, researchers have devoted considerable efforts to explore novel materials for next-generation...