Aug 11, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A new analysis of seismic data from NASAâs Mars InSight mission has revealed a couple of surprises. The first surprise: the top 300 meters of the subsurface beneath the landing site near the Martian equator contains little or no ice. âWe find that Marsâ crust...
A strategy to control and observe the chemical reaction of a single nanocatalyst using an optical microscope
Aug 10, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A research team led by Professor Seo Dae-ha of the Department of Physics and Chemistry at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) developed an optical microscopy that can control and observe electron transfer and transfer in complex chemical reactions occurring in nano-catalysts (Chem,...
Checking road traffic inside cells with nano GPS
Aug 10, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) announced that a research team led by Professor Seo Dae-ha of the Department of Physics and Chemistry developed a dark field super-resolution microscope with excellent spatial and temporal resolution and observed the dynamic behavior of endosomes during...
Robotic motion in curved space defies standard laws of physics
Aug 10, 2022 (Nanowerk News) When humans, animals, and machines move throughout the world, they always push against something, whether it’s the ground, air, or water. Until recently, physicists believed this to be a constant, following the law of conservation momentum. Now, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have...
DARPA project to give satellites a shared, optical language
Aug 10, 2022 (Nanowerk News) In military operations and other communications channels of a sensitive nature, stovepiping is a structure that keeps the flow of information within a specific organization. When it comes to communication between satellites and their interested parties on the ground, stovepiping can be counterproductive. Space-BACN, or...
New programmable 3D printed materials can sense their own movements
Aug 10, 2022 (Nanowerk News) MIT researchers have developed a method for 3D printing materials with tunable mechanical properties, that sense how they are moving and interacting with the environment. The researchers create these sensing structures using just one material and a single run on a 3D printer. To accomplish...
A stretchable display without image distortion
Aug 10, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Stretchable electronic devices are usually implemented on 2D surfaces of some base elastomeric materials – these devices then deform following the stretching deformation of this base material. As a result, the internal shape of these stretchable devices is distorted from the initial shape under such...
Researchers 3D print first high-performance nanostructured alloy that’s both ultrastrong and ductile
Aug 10, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Georgia Institute of Technology has 3D printed a dual-phase, nanostructured high-entropy alloy that exceeds the strength and ductility of other state-of-the-art additively manufactured materials, which could lead to higher-performance components for applications in...
Implantable semiconductor nanomembrane could treat spinal cord injury and Parkinson’s disease
Aug 10, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Flexible implanted electronics are a step closer toward clinical applications thanks to a recent breakthrough technology developed by a research team from Griffith University and UNSW Sydney (PNAS, "Wide bandgap semiconductor nanomembranes as a long-term biointerface for flexible, implanted neuromodulator"). The work was pioneered by...
Heat and manipulate, one cell at a time
Aug 10, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at Kanazawa University report in ACS Nano ("Modulation of Local Cellular Activities using a Photothermal Dye-Based Subcellular-Sized Heat Spot") the development of a nanoparticle that acts as a heater and a thermometer. Inserting the nanoparticle in living cells results in a heat spot that,...