Day: December 2, 2022

Dec 02, 2022 (Nanowerk News) What if you could tell if your surroundings contained COVID-19 particles or droplets the moment they or you entered the vicinity? A collaborative research group has engineered a self-sustaining device that brings this closer to reality (Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, "Battery-less Wireless Magnetostrictive Fe30Co70/Ni...

Nov 30, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Rainbows and sugar may conjure up images of a certain leprechaun-branded breakfast cereal. But now, researchers in ACS Nano ("A Rainbow Structural Color by Stretchable Photonic Crystal for Saccharide Identification") report a kaleidoscope-like film for telling different sweeteners apart that displayed multiple colors when stretched...

Nov 30, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Scientists from 4 Asian universities, namely Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, and Newcastle University in Singapore have reported a novel way to produce reinforced resin composite materials using clay particles with the potential to lower carbon...

Dec 02, 2022 (Nanowerk Spotlight) A consortium of research groups led by Prof. Preston Snee of the University of Illinois at Chicago chemistry department with Prof. Haw Yang of Princeton achieved a milestone in the synthesis of multifunctional photonic nanomaterials. They reported the synthesis of semiconductor 'giant' core-shell CdZnSe/CdS quantum...

Dec 02, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Engineering researchers have developed a battery-free, pill-shaped ingestible biosensing system designed to provide continuous monitoring in the intestinal environment. It gives scientists the ability to monitor gut metabolites in real time, which wasn’t possible before. This feat of technological integration could unlock new understanding of...