Feb 04, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at UCL and the University of Cambridge have discovered a new type of ice that more closely resembles liquid water than any other known ices and that may rewrite our understanding of water and its many anomalies. The newly discovered ice is amorphous -...
Tech that turns household surfaces into touch sensors is a touch closer to application
Feb 04, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new calibration algorithm for technology that turns common materials into touch sensors (ROBOMECH Journal, "One‑touch calibration of hum‑noise‑based touch sensor for unknown users utilizing models trained by different users"). HumTouch detects the current that runs from our...
This one-atom chemical reaction could transform drug discovery
Feb 03, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Pharmaceutical synthesis is often quite complex; simplifications are needed to speed up the initial phase of drug development and lower the cost of generic production. Now, in a study recently published in Science ("Single carbon atom transfer to α,β-unsaturated amides from N-heterocyclic carbenes"), researchers from...