Dec 12, 2022 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Magnetism at atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials is of essential interest to scientists and engineers since it has the potential to revolutionize modern information technology enabling ultra-fast and ultra-small novel electronic and magnetic devices. Until recently, however, the existence of 2D magnetism was hotly debated....
Simulations are starting to gel
Dec 12, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Investigators from the Institute of Industrial Science at The University of Tokyo added the influence of hydrodynamics, which includes the flow and compressibility properties of water, to computer simulations of suspended charged particles in an electric field. They found that this greatly improved the predictions...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Team undertakes study of two-dimensional transition metal chalcogenides Important biomedical application, including biosensing
Home > Press > Team undertakes study of two-dimensional transition metal chalcogenides Important biomedical application, including biosensing Researchers present the property modulations of two-dimensional transition metal chalcogenides including their fundamental property, modulation methods, and functionalization. In addition, their applications as highly sensitive biosensors are thoroughly discussed. CREDIT Nano Research Energy,...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Rapid fluorescent mapping of electrochemically induced local pH changes
Home > Press > Rapid fluorescent mapping of electrochemically induced local pH changes Ultra-pH-sensitive (UPS) probe molecules used in this work hold a deprotonation-induced micellization equilibrium that is responsible for the fluorescent quenching, where the red dots are the fluorophores and black ones the quencher on the copolymeric chains, and...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Quantum receiver enhanced by adaptive learning
Home > Press > Quantum receiver enhanced by adaptive learning a, the hardware of a general quantum receiver composed of N rounds of processing. The jth processing round entails a variational quantum circuit represented by the unitary operation U ̂_j configured by the parameter set α_j, ancillary states ρ ̂_(s_j...
Researchers develop a scaled-up spintronic probabilistic computer
Dec 11, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at Tohoku University, the University of Messina, and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) have developed a scaled-up version of a probabilistic computer (p-computer) with stochastic spintronic devices that is suitable for hard computational problems like combinatorial optimization and machine learning. Moore's law...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Scientist mimic nature to make nano particle metallic snowflakes: Scientists in New Zealand and Australia working at the level of atoms created something unexpected: tiny metallic snowflakes
Home > Press > Scientist mimic nature to make nano particle metallic snowflakes: Scientists in New Zealand and Australia working at the level of atoms created something unexpected: tiny metallic snowflakes Nano-scale snowflake from Gallium solvent CREDIT Image: Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland Abstract:Scientists in New Zealand and...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: 3D-printed decoder, AI-enabled image compression could enable higher-res displays
Home > Press > 3D-printed decoder, AI-enabled image compression could enable higher-res displays The system uses an algorithm that encodes a high-resolution image to a lower-resolution one, and then translates the compressed image back to its original resolution by a decoder that unscrambles incoming light. CREDIT Ozcan Lab/UCLA Abstract:FINDINGSA...
2D material may enable ultra-sharp cellphone photos in low light
Dec 10, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A new type of active pixel sensors that use a novel two-dimensional material may both enable ultra-sharp cellphone photos and create a new class of extremely energy-efficient Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, according to a team of Penn State researchers. “When people are looking for...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: SLAC/Stanford researchers discover how a nano-chamber in the cell directs protein folding: The results challenge a 70-year-old theory of how proteins fold in our cells and have profound implications for treating diseases linked to protein misfolding
Home > Press > SLAC/Stanford researchers discover how a nano-chamber in the cell directs protein folding: The results challenge a 70-year-old theory of how proteins fold in our cells and have profound implications for treating diseases linked to protein misfolding An illustration depicts a study by SLAC and Stanford, including...