Dec 06, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A new study involving researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago achieved a milestone in the synthesis of multifunctional photonic nanomaterials. In a paper published in the American Chemical Society’s journal Nano Letters ("Parabolic Potential Surfaces Localize Charge Carriers in Nonblinking Long-Lifetime “Giant” Colloidal Quantum Dots"),...
Robots can identify and remove space junk
Dec 05, 2022 (Nanowerk News) There is a lot of space junk orbiting the Earth. Norwegian researchers believe that in the future, there will be a market for its removal and have developed an entirely new type of robot vision that will make this possible. This has stimulated the interest...
Six-dimensional force and torque sensor helps robot feel and touch
Dec 05, 2022 (Nanowerk News) As an integral part of modern life, sensors are now almost ubiquitous. They measure physical input from the environment and converts it into data that can be interpreted by humans or machines. A six-dimensional force/torque sensor was developed by a research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical...
Scientists develop novel hyperspectral surface plasmon resonance microscopy system
Dec 05, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Hyperspectral surface plasmon resonance microscopy (HSPRM) is an advanced analytical technique for spectral imaging and chemical and biological sensing, which enables high-resolution visualization and precise quantification of chemical and biological analytes. A study published in Nature Communications ("Flexible hyperspectral surface plasmon resonance microscopy") describes a...
Food decontamination spray deploys ‘billions of tiny soldiers’
Dec 05, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at McMaster University have created a powerful new weapon against bacterial contamination and infection. They have developed a way to coax bacteriophages – harmless viruses that eat bacteria – into linking together and forming microscopic beads. Those beads can safely be applied to food...
Measuring times in billionths of a billionth of a second
Dec 05, 2022 (Nanowerk News) How fast do electrons inside a molecule move? Well, it is so fast that it takes them just few attoseconds (1 as = 10-18 s or one billionth of billionth of a second) to jump from one atom to another. Blink and you missed it...