Jan 26, 2023 (Nanowerk News) In a new breakthrough, researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with Ruhr University Bochum, have solved a problem that has caused quantum researchers headaches for years. The researchers can now control two quantum light sources rather than one. Trivial as it may seem...
Inspiration for artificial anti-icing surfaces
Jan 26, 2023 (Nanowerk News) When environmental temperatures go below zero, ice crystals are formed on many leaves of evergreen plants. Nevertheless, they usually survive frost phases unharmed. Using a special cryo-scanning electron microscope, researchers from the Zoological Institute of Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU) were able to take high-resolution images...
Researchers decipher atomic-scale imperfections in lithium-ion batteries
Jan 26, 2023 (Nanowerk News) As lithium-ion batteries have become a ubiquitous part of our lives through their use in consumer electronics, automobiles and electricity storage facilities, researchers have been working to improve their power, efficiency and longevity. As detailed in a paper published in Nature Materials ("Resolving complex intralayer...
Nanotechnology researchers discover long-term memory in 2D nanofluidic channels
Jan 26, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Published in Science ("Long-term memory and synapse-like dynamics in two-dimensional nanofluidic channels"), a collaboration between teams from the National Graphene Institute (NGI) at The University of Manchester, and the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, demonstrated the Hebbian learning in artificial nanochannels, where the channels showed...
Artificial photosynthesis uses sunlight to make biodegradable plastic
Jan 25, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have succeeded in synthesizing fumaric acid, a raw material for plastics, from CO2 powered by solar energy—for the first time. Typically, fumaric acid is synthesized from petroleum as a raw material to make polybutylene succinate, a biodegradable plastic, but this research...
Astral alchemy
Scientists created a bound state of a proton and a K- meson and measured its mass. The data implied that it consisted of five quarks. This work may help scientists develop a theory of exotic matter that existed in the early Universe or in neutron stars.
New spray fights infections and antibiotic resistance
Jan 26, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The World Health Organization (WHO) ranks antibiotic resistance as one of the top ten threats to global health. There is therefore a great need for new solutions to tackle resistant bacteria and reduce the use of antibiotics. A group of researchers at Chalmers University of...
Online tool can help researchers synthesize millions of molecules
Jan 25, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Enzymes are substances that cause chemical reactions. Certain types of enzymes, such as polyketide synthases and nonribosomal peptide synthetases, have the ability to shuffle their parts, allowing them to produce new chemicals. If scientists can understand how these enzymes shuffle their parts, they can understand...
Recyclable mobile phone batteries a step closer with rust-busting invention
Jan 25, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Mobile phone batteries with a lifetime up to three times longer than today’s technology could be a reality thanks to an innovation led by engineers at RMIT University. The research is published in Nature Communications ("Recovery of oxidized two-dimensional MXenes through high frequency nanoscale electromechanical...
Were galaxies much different in the early universe?
Jan 25, 2023 (Nanowerk News) An array of 350 radio telescopes in the Karoo desert of South Africa is getting closer to detecting “cosmic dawn” — the era after the Big Bang when stars first ignited and galaxies began to bloom. In a paper accepted for publication in The Astrophysical...