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...
Combining MXenes and graphene to create a high-performance, stretchy nanogenerator
Dec 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) The popularity of wearable electronics has induced demand for their parts, including power sources such as triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs). Such power sources must be both stretchy and high-performance, holding up under various deformation conditions over hours of use. To enhance the design and performance of...
Using lab-designed protein to create quantum dots at room temperature
Dec 13, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Nature uses 20 canonical amino acids as building blocks to make proteins, combining their sequences to create complex molecules that perform biological functions. But what happens with the sequences not selected by nature? And what possibilities lie in constructing entirely new sequences to make novel,...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: The National Space Society Congratulates NASA on the Success of Artemis I Same-day Launch of the Hakuto-R Lunar Landing Mission will Help Support Future Lunar Crews
Home > Press > The National Space Society Congratulates NASA on the Success of Artemis I Same-day Launch of the Hakuto-R Lunar Landing Mission will Help Support Future Lunar Crews Orion on Parachutes. Credit: NASA Abstract:On Sunday, December 11, the National Space Society marked two important steps toward a future...
A Janus carbon electrocatalyst can balance the intrinsic activity and electronic conductivity
Dec 12, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Carbon-based electrocatalysts are considered as promising alternatives to the state-of-the-art precious metal catalysts. Heteroatom doping can effectively create highly active catalytic centers, but unfortunately, resulting in lower electronic conductivity and thus hindering the electrocatalysis process. To address this issue, a team from South China University...