Mar 09, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Sometimes the best things in life come by chance, when we happen to be in the right place at the right time. Now, researchers from Japan have found a way to ensure that new medications are delivered to the right place in the body and...
Electrocatalysis under the atomic force microscope
Mar 09, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A further development in atomic force microscopy now makes it possible to simultaneously image the height profile of nanometre-fine structures as well as the electric current and the frictional force at solid-liquid interfaces. A team from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the Fritz Haber Institute...
Colloids get creative to pave the way for next generation photonics
Mar 09, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Scientists have devised a way of fabricating a complex structure, previously found only in nature, to open up new ways for manipulating and controlling light. The structure, which naturally occurs in the wing scales of some species of butterfly, can function as a photonic crystal,...
The formation of boron clusters with magic numbers on monolayer borophene
Mar 09, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with collaborators from the University of Science and Technology of China, have revealed the formation of boron clusters with magic numbers on monolayer borophene and observed the evolution process from monolayer borophene...
Tuning thermoelectric materials for efficient power generation
Mar 09, 2023 (Nanowerk News) How to make energy conversion more efficient and use waste heat for electricity? Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research tuned the microstructure of thermoelectric materials by doping the grain boundaries with titanium. This way they were able to achieve optimal low thermal...
The world’s first mRNA vaccine for deadly bacteria
Mar 09, 2023 (Nanowerk News) For the first time in the world: a team of researchers from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Institute for Biological Research have developed an mRNA-based vaccine that is 100% effective against a type of bacteria that is lethal to humans. The study, conducted in...
World’s first energy-saving paint is inspired by butterflies
Mar 09, 2023 (Nanowerk News) University of Central Florida researcher Debashis Chanda, a professor in UCF’s NanoScience Technology Center, has drawn inspiration from butterflies to create the first environmentally friendly, large-scale and multicolor alternative to pigment-based colorants, which can contribute to energy-saving efforts and help reduce global warming. The development...
Researchers produce materials at the frontier between order and disorder with state-of-the-art technology in sustainable chemistry
Mar 08, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The University of Alicante's Laboratory of Molecular Nanotechnology (NANOMOL) has created a cutting-edge opportunity for the chemical industry, renewable energy, and pollution reduction with a new family of materials. Published in Nature Communications ("Tunable hybrid zeolites prepared by partial interconversion"), the discovery has opened up...