Oct 24, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Edwin Fohtung, associate professor of materials science and engineering, has combined expertise in mathematics and condensed matter physics with technological advances to discover new properties of magnetic ferroelectric materials. In research recently published in MRS Advances...
Penguin feathers may be secret to effective, nanostructured anti-icing technology
Oct 24, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Ice buildup on powerlines and electric towers brought the northern US and southern Canada to a standstill during the Great Ice Storm of 1998, leaving many in the cold and dark for days and even weeks. Whether it is on wind turbines, electric towers, drones,...
Even good gene edits can go bad
Oct 24, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A Rice University lab is leading the effort to reveal potential threats to the efficacy and safety of therapies based on CRISPR-Cas9, the Nobel Prize-winning gene editing technique, even when it appears to be working as planned. Bioengineer Gang Bao of Rice’s George R. Brown...
nanostructures help in many ways
Oct 24, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Tandem solar cells made of perovskite and silicon enable significantly higher efficiencies than silicon solar cells alone. Tandem cells from HZB have already achieved several world records. Most recently, in November 2021, HZB research teams achieved a certified efficiency of 29.8 % with a tandem...
Scientists manufacture ‘living blood vessel’
Oct 24, 2022 (Nanowerk News) An international consortium of researchers led by the University of Sydney, has developed technology to enable the manufacturing of materials that mimic the structure of living blood vessels, with significant implications for the future of surgery (Advanced Materials, "Rapid Regeneration of a Neoartery with Elastic...
Trapping polaritons in an engineered quantum box
Oct 24, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Australian researchers have engineered a quantum box for polaritons in a two-dimensional material, achieving large polariton densities and a partially ‘coherent’ quantum state (Physical Review Letters, "Enhancing ground-state population and macroscopic coherence of room-temperature WS2 polaritons through engineered confinement"). New insights coming from the novel...