Nov 09, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) have discovered a new material, MnBi6Te10, which can be used to create quantum highways along which electrons can move. These electron thoroughfares are potentially useful in connecting the internal components of powerful, energy-efficient...
Silicon nanochip could treat traumatic muscle loss
Nov 09, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Technology developed by researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine that can change skin tissue into blood vessels and nerve cells (see: "Innovative silicone nanochip can reprogram biological tissue in living body") has also shown promise as a treatment for traumatic muscle loss. Tissue...
Quantum materials enable next-generation photonics for mobile networks in the terahertz regime
Nov 09, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Terahertz light, radiation in the far-infrared part of the emission spectrum, is currently not fully exploited in technology, although it shows great potential for many applications in sensing, homeland security screening, and future (sixth generation) mobile networks. Indeed, this radiation is harmless due to its...
The VR glove from the 3D printer
Nov 08, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Together with EPFL and ETH Zurich colleagues, an Empa team is developing next-generation VR gloves that will make virtual worlds tangible. The glove is to be tailored to each user and capable of being produced largely automatically – using a 3D printing process. The next-generation...
New quantum phase discovered for developing hybrid materials
Nov 08, 2022 (Nanowerk News) If you have ever watched water freeze to ice, you have witnessed what physicists call a "phase transition." Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have discovered an unprecedented phase transition during which crystals achieve amorphous characteristics while retaining their crystalline properties. Their findings contribute to developing hybrid...
A new nanoparticle to act at the heart of cells
Nov 09, 2022 (Nanowerk News) How can a drug be delivered exactly where it is needed, while limiting the risk of side effects? The use of nanoparticles to encapsulate a drug to protect it and the body until it reaches its point of action is being increasingly studied. However, this...
Novel nanowire fabrication technique paves way for next generation spintronics
Nov 09, 2022 (Nanowerk News) As our world modernizes faster than ever before, there is an ever-growing need for better and faster electronics and computers. Spintronics is a new system which uses the spin of an electron, in addition to the charge state, to encode data, making the entire system...
Magnetism or no magnetism? The influence of substrates on electronic interactions
Nov 09, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A new study at Monash University illustrates how substrates affect strong electronic interactions in two-dimensional metal-organic frameworks (npj Computational Materials, "Correlation-induced magnetism in substrate-supported 2D metal-organic frameworks"). Materials with strong electronic interactions can have applications in energy-efficient electronics. When these materials are placed on a...
New blue quantum dot technology could lead to more energy-efficient displays
Nov 08, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Quantum dots are nanoscale crystals capable of emitting light of different colors. Display devices based on quantum dots promise greater power efficiency, brightness and color purity than previous generations of displays. Of the three colors typically required to display full color images — red, green...
Extremely fluid in two ways
Nov 08, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Two superfluids can exist at the same time in ultracold atomic clouds. Until now, their coexistence could not be observed experimentally. Now, however, physicists from Heidelberg University have demonstrated such a magnetic quantum fluid – it is fluid in two ways – in an atomic...