Feb 15, 2023 (Nanowerk News) An international team led by researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a universal connector to assemble stretchable devices simply and quickly, in a ‘Lego-like’ manner. Stretchable devices including soft robots and wearable healthcare devices are assembled using several different modules with...
Discovering the magic in superconductivity’s ‘magic angle’
Feb 15, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers have produced new evidence of how graphene, when twisted to a precise angle, can become a superconductor, moving electricity with no loss of energy. In a study published in the journal Nature ("Evidence for Dirac Flat Band Superconductivity Enabled By Quantum Geometry"), the team...
Bionic fingers create 3D maps of human tissue, electronics, and other complex objects
Feb 15, 2023 (Nanowerk News) What if, instead of using X-rays or ultrasound, we could use touch to image the insides of human bodies and electronic devices? In a study publishing in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science ("A smart bionic finger for subsurface tactile-tomography"), researchers present a bionic finger...
Two-dimensional oxides open door for high-speed electronics
Feb 15, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Advances in computing power over the decades have come thanks in part to our ability to make smaller and smaller transistors, a building block of electronic devices, but we are nearing the limit of the silicon materials typically used. A new technique for creating 2D...
The thermal limits of boron nitride nanotubes
Feb 15, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A team of FAMU-FSU College of Engineering researchers at the High-Performance Materials Institute is exploring the thermal limits of advanced nanomaterials, work that could have a direct impact on medicine delivery systems, electronics, space travel and other applications. The research team, led by Assistant Professor...
When the light is neither ‘on’ nor ‘off’ in the nanoworld
Feb 14, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Whether the light in our living spaces is on or off can be regulated in everyday life simply by reaching for the light switch. However, when the space for the light is shrunk to a few nanometers, quantum mechanical effects dominate, and it is unclear...
How to make hydrogen straight from seawater
Feb 14, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The new method from RMIT University researchers splits the seawater directly into hydrogen and oxygen – skipping the need for desalination and its associated cost, energy consumption and carbon emissions. Hydrogen has long been touted as a clean future fuel and a potential solution to...
3D-printed smart contact lens with navigation function
Feb 14, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Dr. Seol Seung-Kwon's Smart 3D Printing Research Team at KERI and Professor Lim-Doo Jeong's team at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) developed core technology for smart contact lenses that can implement augmented reality (AR)-based navigation, with a 3D printing process (Advanced Science,...