Feb 16, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Scientists at The University of Texas at Dallas and their collaborators at The Ohio State University have identified a new mechanism that gives rise to superconductivity in a material in which the speed of electrons is nearly zero, potentially opening a pathway to the design...
New compound that withstands extreme heat and electricity could lead to next-generation energy storage devices
Feb 15, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Society’s growing demand for high-voltage electrical technologies – including pulsed power systems, cars and electrified aircraft, and renewable energy applications – requires a new generation of capacitors that store and deliver large amounts of energy under intense thermal and electrical conditions. Researchers at the Department...
Scientists find first observational evidence linking black holes to dark energy
Feb 15, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Searching through existing data spanning 9 billion years, a University of Michigan physicist and colleagues have uncovered the first evidence of “cosmological coupling”—a newly predicted phenomenon in Einstein’s theory of gravity, possible only when black holes are placed inside an evolving universe. Gregory Tarlé, U-M...
New approach for Majorana research in short nanowires
Feb 15, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers and engineers from QuTech and Eindhoven University of Technology have created Majorana particles and measured their properties with great control. These Majoranas are so-called ‘poor man's Majoranas’ based on two quantum dots in a nanowire, which could be scaled up to a larger chain...
Lego-like universal connector makes assembling stretchable devices a snap
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...