Oct 27, 2022 (Nanowerk News) When we encounter metals in our day-to-day lives, we perceive them as shiny. That’s because common metallic materials are reflective at visible light wavelengths and will bounce back any light that strikes them. While metals are well suited to conducting electricity and heat, they aren’t...
Nanoglues stabilize metal atoms for catalysis
Oct 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) In a study published in Nature ("Functional CeOx nanoglues for robust atomically dispersed catalysts"), a research team led by Prof. ZENG Jie from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and international collaborators developed a novel “nanoglue”...
Novel nanotechnology triggers potent therapeutic anti-tumor immune responses
Oct 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A Ludwig Cancer Research study has developed a novel nanotechnology that triggers potent therapeutic anti-tumor immune responses and demonstrated its efficacy in mouse models of multiple cancers. Led by Co-director Ralph Weichselbaum, investigator Wenbin Lin and postdoctoral researcher Kaiting Yang at the Ludwig Center at...
A soil-inspired multifunctional nanostructured chemical system
Oct 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Soil is a dynamic system of microbe-material interactions and environmental responsiveness. The soil-microbe complex is an integrated and adaptable system that can reshape its state according to the external environment. Inspired by these characteristics of soil, researchers have designed a chemical system in which chemical...
MOF and graphene-based nanoconfinement strategy enhances oxygen evolution performances
Oct 28, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Prof. ZHANG Tao's group at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Prof. HOU Yang from Zhejiang University and Prof. XIAO Jianping from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of CAS, proposed a...
Researchers discover a catalyst to remove emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas
Oct 27, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Methane is a primary component of natural gas, which has been promoted as a cleaner alternative to coal and petroleum-based fuels and whose use has skyrocketed in recent years. As a result, methane concentrations in the atmosphere have more than doubled since pre-industrial times. Methane...
Improving the efficiency of nanogenerators that harvest static electricity
Oct 27, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Triboelectric energy is the scientific term for static electricity, or the energy that is created when two surfaces rub against each other. Electrons are exchanged between the two surfaces, charging one of the surfaces after they are separated. For example, if a balloon is rubbed...
‘Kagome’ metallic crystal adds new spin to electronics
Oct 27, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A multinational team of researchers, co-led by a City University of Hong Kong (CityU) physicist, has found that a novel metallic crystal displays unusual electronic behaviour on its surface, thanks to the crystal’s unique atomic structure. Their findings open up the possibility of using this...
What if ceramics were ductile?
Oct 27, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Making of ductile ceramics is a hard task. Plasticity in ceramics is rarely observed and typically requires special conditions such as extreme temperatures to be plausible. Therefore, instead on denting, your ceramic coffee mug will fracture into pieces when dropped on a hard floor. In...
New hybrid structures could pave the way to more stable quantum computers
Oct 27, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A new way to combine two materials with special electrical properties — a monolayer superconductor and a topological insulator — provides the best platform to date to explore an unusual form of superconductivity called topological superconductivity. The combination could provide the basis for topological quantum...