Day: October 8, 2022

Oct 08, 2022 (Nanowerk News) The vision of Purdue University biomedical engineer Chi Hwan Lee to develop specialized smart soft contact lenses that can accurately measure intraocular pressure (IOP) in a person’s eye could be the latest answer to stopping glaucoma-related blindness. Lee, the Leslie A. Geddes Associate Professor of...

Oct 08, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a low-cost device that can harness energy from wind as gentle as a light breeze and store it as electricity. When exposed to winds with a velocity as low as two metres per second (m/s),...

Home > Press > Boron nitride with a twist could lead to new way to make qubits: Easy control over bright emissions from the crystalline material offer a route toward scalable quantum computing and sensing An electron beam placed at a series of locations on a sheet of twisted hBN...

Oct 08, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a thin, flexible and stretchy sweat sensor that can show the level of glucose, lactate, sodium, or pH of your sweat, at the press of a finger. It is the first standalone wearable device that...

Home > Press > Disposable electronics on a simple sheet of paper An electronic circuit printed on paper could be a more flexible and disposable option for single-use electronics. CREDIT Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2022, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c13503 Abstract:Discarded electronic devices, such as cell phones, are a...

Oct 08, 2022 (Nanowerk News) One of the many peculiarities of quantum mechanics is that particles can also be described as waves. A common example is the photon, the particle associated with light. In ordered structures, known as crystals, electrons can be seen and described as waves that spread across...

Home > Press > The “dense” potential of nanostructured superconductors: Scientists use unconventional spark plasma sintering method to prepare highly dense superconducting bulk magnesium diboride with a high current density Scientists at SIT and University of Normandie developed bulk MgB2 with promising superconductivity. This picture shows unreacted magnesium oxide and...

Home > Press > Milestones achieved on the path to useful quantum technologies: Researchers at Paderborn and Ulm universities are developing the first programmable optical quantum memory Graphic (Silberhorn et al. 2022): On the left of the image (green triangle) is a quantum light source that is pumped until it...

Home > Press > Taking salt out of the water equation KAUST researchers have developed a membrane (pictured above) with excellent water desalination performance in forward and reverse osmosis configurations. CREDIT © 2022 KAUST; Anastasia Serin. Abstract:Ultrathin polymer-based ordered membranes that effectively remove salt from seawater and brine could...

Home > Press > The battery that runs 630 km on a single charge An electrode was manufactured by coating an ion conductive layer composed of polyethyleneimine polymer, silver, lithium salt, and carbon black on the surface of a copper current collector. The ion conductive substrate fabricated this way can...