Sep 14, 2022 (Nanowerk News) The UPC’s INTEXTER has conducted a pioneering analysis to calculate the share of fibres used in the clothes that are dumped in textile collection bins. The study uses an innovative methodology and is therefore more accurate than other approaches so far. It is part of...
Interplay of electronics and photonics as a new basis for quantum computers
Sep 14, 2022 (Nanowerk News) For building quantum computers, making use of both electronics and photonics – technology that works with light – on one and the same chip, is promising. Thanks to silicon technology that we know well from today’s electronic devices, quantum devices could be better protected from...
Nanorattles shake up new possibilities for disease detection
Sep 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at Duke University have developed a unique type of nanoparticle called a “nanorattle” that greatly enhances light emitted from within its outer shell. Loaded with light scattering dyes called Raman reporters commonly used to detect biomarkers of disease in organic samples, the approach can...
New method for comparing neural networks exposes how artificial intelligence works
Sep 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a novel approach for comparing neural networks that looks within the “black box” of artificial intelligence to help researchers understand neural network behavior. Neural networks recognize patterns in datasets; they are used everywhere in society, in...
Intriguing material property found in complex nanostructures could dissipate energy
Sep 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and North Carolina State University have discovered for the first time a unique property in complex nanostructures that has thus far only been found in simple nanostructures. Additionally, they have unraveled the internal mechanics of the materials...
Simulation aids the search for the origin of cosmic rays
Sep 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) An international research team has developed a computer programme that can simulate the transport of cosmic rays through space. The researchers hope it will help them solve the mystery of the sources of cosmic rays. So far, we do not know which celestial objects emit...
Researchers discover a new type of surface lattice resonance
Sep 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) High-index dielectric nanostructures supporting electric and magnetic resonances have emerged as new building blocks in nanophotonics for novel functionalities. By periodically arranging these nanostructures, the coherent interference between the localized Mie resonances of single nanostructures and the in-plane diffracted light can result in the so-called...
Highly reflecting mirrors from the inkjet printer
Sep 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Dielectric mirrors, also referred to as Bragg mirrors, reflect light nearly completely. Hence, they are suited for various applications, such as camera systems and sensor systems for microscopy and medical technologies. So far, such mirrors have been produced by complex processes in expensive vacuum devices....
Nanotubes illuminate the way to living photovoltaics
Sep 12, 2022 (Nanowerk News) “We put nanotubes inside of bacteria,” says Professor Ardemis Boghossian at EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences. “That doesn't sound very exciting on the surface, but it's actually a big deal. Researchers have been putting carbon nanotubes in mammalian cells that use mechanisms like endocytosis, that...
Through the quantum looking glass
Sep 12, 2022 (Nanowerk News) An ultrathin invention could make future computing, sensing and encryption technologies remarkably smaller and more powerful by helping scientists control a strange but useful phenomenon of quantum mechanics, according to new research recently published in the journal Science ("Resonant metasurfaces for generating complex quantum states")....