Dec 21, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Scientists find way to make new materials for batteries, magnets and microelectronics. The world’s best artists can take a handful of differently colored paints and create a museum-worthy canvas that looks like nothing else. They do so by drawing upon inspiration, knowledge of what’s been...
Infinite creaminess – the disintegration of drops has no limit
Dec 20, 2022 (Nanowerk News) New computer simulations can go where experiments reach their limits. Scientists from the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) at the University of Bremen have developed a computer code that enables accurate predictions of the disintegration of droplets in turbulent flows. Surprisingly it...
Scientists use machine learning to get an unprecedented view of small molecules
Dec 20, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A new machine learning model will help scientists identify small molecules, with applications in medicine, drug discovery and environmental chemistry. Developed by researchers at Aalto University and the University of Luxembourg, the model was trained with data from dozens of laboratories to become one of...
Researchers develop winged robot that can land like a bird
Dec 20, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A bird landing on a branch makes the maneuver look like the easiest thing in the world, but in fact, the act of perching involves an extremely delicate balance of timing, high-impact forces, speed, and precision. It’s a move so complex that no flapping-wing robot...
Cosmological enigma of Milky Way’s satellite galaxies solved
Dec 20, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Astronomers say they have solved an outstanding problem that challenged our understanding of how the Universe evolved - the spatial distribution of faint satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way. These satellite galaxies exhibit a bizarre alignment – they seem to lie on an enormous thin...
Designing better battery electrolytes with AI and robot-assisted labs
Dec 20, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Designing a battery is a three-part process. You need a positive electrode, you need a negative electrode, and — importantly — you need an electrolyte that works with both electrodes. An electrolyte is the battery component that transfers ions — charge-carrying particles — back and...
Single-chain polymer nanoparticles could provide a promising approach in the battle against malaria
Dec 20, 2022 (Nanowerk News) New research by a team of University of Twente researchers could provide a promising approach in the battle against malaria. In the research published in the scientific journal ACS Infectious Diseases ("Single-Chain Polymer Nanoparticles Targeting the Ookinete Stage of Malaria Parasites"), the researchers combat the...
How science behind epidemics helped physicists to develop state-of-the-art conductive paint
Dec 20, 2022 (Nanowerk News) In new research published in Nature Communications ("Explosive percolation yields highly-conductive polymer nanocomposites"), University of Sussex scientists demonstrate how a highly conductive paint coating that they have developed mimics the network spread of a virus through a process called 'explosive percolation' – a mathematical process which can also be...