Sep 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A newly-developed 3D printing technique could be used to cost-effectively produce customized electronic “machines” the size of insects which enable advanced applications in robotics, medical devices and others. The breakthrough is seen as a potential game-changer for manufacturing chip-based microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). These mini-machines are...
Scientists chip away at a metallic mystery, one atom at a time
Sep 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Gray and white flecks skitter erratically on a computer screen. A towering microscope looms over a landscape of electronic and optical equipment. Inside the microscope, high-energy, accelerated ions bombard a flake of platinum thinner than a hair on a mosquito’s back. Meanwhile, a team of...
Engineers discover new process for synthetic material growth, enabling soft robots that grow like plants (w/video)
Sep 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) An interdisciplinary team of University of Minnesota Twin Cities scientists and engineers has developed a first-of-its-kind, plant-inspired extrusion process that enables synthetic material growth. The new approach will allow researchers to build better soft robots that can navigate hard-to-reach places, complicated terrain, and potentially areas...
‘Screw this!’ – Spiral dislocation gives 3D topological photonics a robust edge
Sep 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from the University of Rostock and Technion Haifa have created the first three-dimensional topological insulator for light. A judiciously placed screw dislocation allows optical signals to wind around the surface of a synthetic lattice while keeping it protected from scattering. Their discovery has recently...
Biosensor detects brain tumors with less than a drop of blood
Sep 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Despite significant advances, mortality from brain tumors remains high with five-year survival rates of 36%, according to the National Cancer Institute. More accurate diagnoses might improve the situation, but tissue biopsies are invasive and can miss important information about a tumor’s make-up. Imaging-based methods, meanwhile,...
Optical logic gates in future computers
Sep 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A new publication from Opto-Electronic Science considers optical logic gates in future computers ("All-optical logic gate computing for high-speed parallel information processing"). If you are reading this on your smartphone, its CPU (central processing unit) is running at its full speed. It is a tiny...
Instantaneous ultrafast pulse, forever optical information
Sep 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) In the development history of human society, data storage plays an indispensable and pivotal role and has significantly boosted spacious domains from social science to industrial production. With the advent of the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence, the total amount of information has doubled...
Quantum technology reaches unprecedented control over captured light
Sep 27, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers in quantum technology at Chalmers University of Technology have succeeded in developing a technique to control quantum states of light in a three-dimensional cavity. In addition to creating previously known states, the researchers are the first ever to demonstrate the long-sought cubic phase state....
Electronic skin with a mesh structure that allows for long-term attachment with no discomfort
Sep 27, 2022 (Nanowerk News) The research team led by professor Lee Sungwon from the Department of physics and chemistry at DGIST (President Kuk Yang) succeeded in developing the world’s first ultrathin and breathable nanomesh (mesh) organic field-effect transistor (OFET) that can be applied to electronic skin devices (Advanced Functional...