Sep 07, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Working on microscopic pipes only a millionth as wide as a single strand of human hair, Johns Hopkins University researchers have engineered a way to ensure that these tiniest of pipes are safe from the tiniest of leaks. Leak-free piping, made with nanotubes that self-assemble,...
New method converts 3D-printed polymer into a 100-times stronger, ductile hybrid carbon microlattice material
Sep 07, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Developing a lightweight material that is both strong and highly ductile has been regarded as a long-desired goal in the field of structural materials, but these properties are generally mutually exclusive. Researchers at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) recently discovered a low-cost, direct method...
Magnetic skyrmions – ready for take-off?
Sep 07, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Magnetic skyrmions are extremely small and stable swirls of magnetization, often referred to as ‘topological quasi-particles’ since an emerging stability embraces this spin ensemble. As such, skyrmions can be manipulated while retaining their shape. In ferromagnetic thin films, they can conveniently be created with an...
New materials might increase the stability of perovskite solar cells
Sep 07, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A group of chemists from Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania, the authors of numerous breakthrough innovations in the solar energy field, proposed yet another solution to increase the stability and performance of perovskite solar elements. They synthesised a new class of carbazole-based cross-linkable materials,...
‘Diamond rain’ on giant icy planets could be more common than previously thought
Sep 07, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A new study has found that “diamond rain,” a long-hypothesized exotic type of precipitation on ice giant planets, could be more common than previously thought. In an earlier experiment (Nature Astronomy, "Formation of diamonds in laser-compressed hydrocarbons at planetary interior conditions"), researchers mimicked the extreme...
New molecule chip changing the face of modern manufacturing
Sep 07, 2022 (Nanowerk News) University of Queensland researchers have pioneered a new chemical process to manufacture the molecules that are the building blocks for lifesaving medicines, vaccines and energy storage materials. Professor Matt Trau from UQ’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) has been awarded an ARC Laureate...
Researchers devise tunable conducting edge
Sep 07, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A research team led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, has demonstrated a new magnetized state in a monolayer of tungsten ditelluride, or WTe2, a new quantum material. Called a magnetized or ferromagnetic quantum spin Hall insulator, this material of one-atom thickness...