Dec 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Tech companies have developed many devices that work outside the body, such as cell phones, smart watches, tablets and hundreds of others. Inside the body, though? That’s obviously trickier for several reasons, but power for a device is a big one. Biobattery researchers at Binghamton...
Graphene oxide influences gut microbiome and immune system interactions
Dec 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) The nanomaterial graphene oxide – which is used in everything from electronics to sensors for biomolecules – can indirectly affect the immune system via the gut microbiome, as shown in a new study on zebrafish by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The findings are...
Cellular ‘glue’ to regenerate tissues, heal wounds, regrow nerves
Dec 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have engineered molecules that act like “cellular glue,” allowing them to direct in precise fashion how cells bond with each other. The discovery represents a major step toward building tissues and organs, a long-sought goal of regenerative medicine. Adhesive...
Discovery overturns major assumptions in crystal photochemistry
Dec 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Photochemical reactions were thought to occur uniformly so that when light shines on crystals evenly, they change color evenly. But a research group at Osaka Metropolitan University has discovered that a photomechanical molecular crystal, 2,5-distyrylpyrazine (DSP), undergoes photochemical reactions differently, with the color change spreading...
AI makes rooftop solar panels more efficient
Dec 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Determining how much electricity rooftop solar panels can produce is difficult. For individual house owners, solar panels can be a good investment for their house. The challenge is to decide on the number of panels and how to position them to optimise the amount of...
Light can be used to control molecular handedness
Dec 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) In a recent study, researchers at Freie Universität Berlin, the DESY research center in Hamburg, Kiel University, and Kansas State University have shown how light can turn a planar molecule into a chiral molecule with just one particular handedness, providing a solution to the long-standing...
ALICE estimates how transparent the Milky Way is to antimatter
Dec 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) The antimatter counterpart of a light atomic nucleus can travel a long distance in the Milky Way without being absorbed, shows the international ALICE collaboration in an article published in Nature Physics ("Measurement of anti-3He nuclei absorption in matter and impact on their propagation in...
A new finding in superconducting nanotechnology
Dec 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Superconducting nanotechnology is a rapidly developing field with a series of promising applications in the field of new quantum technologies such as advanced superconducting quantum processors based on qubits with Josephson tunnel junctions. Recently, an international team of researchers – with participation of Leibniz Institute...
The advanced photonic chip shaping an ultrafast tech future
Dec 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Research led by Monash University, RMIT and the University of Adelaide has developed an accurate method of controlling optical circuits on fingernail-sized photonic integrated circuits. The development, published in Optica ("Phase retrieval of programmable photonic integrated circuits based on an on-chip fractional-delay reference path"), builds...
Single gold nanolayer-based passive heating for eyewear (w/video)
Dec 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed an ultrathin, gold-based transparent coating that is able to convert sunlight into heat. It can be applied to glass and other surfaces to prevent them from fogging (Nature Nanotechnology, "Transparent Sunlight-Activated Antifogging Metamaterials"). Applications for the new coating include...