Month: December 2022

Dec 10, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Scientists in New Zealand and Australia working at the level of atoms created something unexpected: tiny metallic snowflakes. Why’s that significant? Because coaxing individual atoms to cooperate is leading to a revolution in engineering and technology via nanomaterials. (And creating snowflakes is cool.) Nanoscale structures...

Dec 10, 2022 (Nanowerk News) As the precision and portability of atomic clocks continue to improve, researchers want to put these precision timepieces to work in the quest to find dark matter. Scientists have been trying for decades to understand “dark matter,” the unknown essence that represents an estimated 85%...

Home > Press > Computational system streamlines the design of fluidic devices: This computational tool can generate an optimal design for a complex fluidic device such as a combustion engine or a hydraulic pump Researchers created a computational optimization pipeline that can automatically generate smooth designs for complex fluidic devices....

Dec 10, 2022 (Nanowerk News) According to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, space and time are inextricably connected. In our Universe, whose curvature is barely measurable, the structure of this spacetime is fixed. In a laboratory experiment, researchers from Heidelberg University have succeeded in realising an effective spacetime that can be...

Home > Press > Experimental nanosheet material marks a step toward the next generation of low-power, high-performance electronics Abstract:A team of researchers in China have developed a high-conductivity material that could greatly reduce contact resistance and Schottky barrier height within critical parts of electronic and optoelectronic microchips, paving the way...

Dec 10, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Two-dimensional materials, like transition metal dichalcogenide, have applications in public health because of their large surface area and high surface sensitivities, along with their unique electrical, optical, and electrochemical properties. A research team has undertaken a review study of methods used to modulate the properties...

Dec 10, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Logic gates are the fundamental components of computer processors. Conventional logic gates are electronic – they work by shuffling around electrons – but scientists have been developing light-based optical logic gates to meet the data processing and transfer demands of next-generation computing. New optical chirality...

Home > Press > New method of reducing carbon dioxide could be a golden solution to pollution A gold-based hybrid material (Au@CB[6]) is modified by CB[6] in order to efficiently convert CO2 to CO. CREDIT Nano Research, Tsinghua University Press Abstract:Reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) to carbon monoxide (CO) through...

Dec 10, 2022 (Nanowerk News) In a very cold vacuum chamber, single atoms of silver form a star-like lattice. The precise formation is not accidental, and it wasn’t constructed directly by human hands either. Researchers used a kind of artificial intelligence called deep reinforcement learning to steer the atoms, each...

Home > Press > Tin selenide nanosheets enables to develop wearable tracking devices Tin selenide nanosheets enables to develope wearable tracking devices. CREDIT Nano Research, Tsinghua University Press Abstract:Researchers have synthesized two-dimensional (2D) tin selenide (SnSe) nanosheets with remarkable piezoelectricity—turning mechanical stress into electricity—that enables to develop self-power wearable...