Day: October 17, 2022

Oct 17, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Transparent wood could soon replace plastics for making car windshields, see-through packaging and biomedical devices, according to a study published in the journal Science of The Total Environment ("Life cycle assessment of transparent wood production using emerging technologies and strategic scale-up framework"). The authors write...

Oct 17, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Northwestern University researchers have uncovered a previously unknown property of colloidal crystals, highly ordered three-dimensional arrays of nanoparticles. The team engineered colloidal crystals with complementary strands of DNA and found that dehydration crumpled the crystals, breaking down the DNA hydrogen bonds. But when researchers added...

Oct 17, 2022 (Nanowerk News) There is currently a race to develop edible tags for food so that, for example, you can see where the food comes from or its ingredients, and the information disappears once you’ve eaten it. Now, researchers from Japan have developed a way to include an...

Oct 17, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Chemists in Japan, Canada and Europe have uncovered flaws in the surface structure of cellulose nanocrystals—an important step toward deconstructing cellulose to produce renewable nano-materials relevant to biochemical products, energy solutions, and biofuels. The findings – published in Science Advances ("Molecular insights on the crystalline...

Oct 17, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Future optical communication that's vastly more reliable and faster than what's commonly available today will require new technology. Modern communication is based on charge transfer, which can result in large transmission losses during certain data-intensive applications. Excitons are alternatives, yet they face technical challenges for...