Mar 13, 2023 (Nanowerk News) In a paper published in the journal Science Advances ("In situ amplification of spin echoes within a kinetic inductance parametric amplifier"), Associate Professor Jarryd Pla and his team from UNSW School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, together with colleague Scientia Professor Andrea Morello, described a...
3D Bioprinter to print human meniscus on the ISS
Mar 13, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The knee is not only one of the largest and most complex joints in the body—it is also easily injured. In fact, one of the most common orthopedic injuries is the tearing of the meniscus, a half-moon-shaped piece of cartilage in the knee. Each knee...
A quick new way to screen virus proteins for antibiotic properties
Mar 13, 2023 (Nanowerk News) As conventional antibiotics continue to lose effectiveness against evolving pathogens, scientists are keen to employ the bacteria-killing techniques perfected by bacteriophages, the viruses that infect bacteria. One major challenge standing in their way is the difficulty of studying individual bacteriophage (phage) proteins and determining precisely...
Magnetism fosters unusual electronic order in quantum material
Mar 13, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Physicists were surprised by the 2022 discovery that electrons in magnetic iron-germanium crystals could spontaneously and collectively organize their charges into a pattern featuring a standing wave. Magnetism also arises from the collective self-organization of electron spins into ordered patterns, and those patterns rarely coexist...
Scientists determine new proton hydration structure
Mar 13, 2023 (Nanowerk News) MXenes are able to store large amounts of electrical energy like batteries and to charge and discharge rather quickly like a supercapacitor. They combine both talents and thus are a very interesting class of materials for energy storage. The material is structured like a kind...
2D phosphorus sets the pace in high-performance transistors
Mar 13, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A newly discovered blue form of ultrathin phosphorus — with electronic properties that can be tuned to enhance the injection of charge carriers (negatively and positively charged) into transistors — are set to push next-generation electronic devices forward. Two-dimensional semiconductors, such as graphene and transition...
Understanding quantum mechanics with active particles
Mar 13, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The study of active particles is one of the fastest-growing areas of physics. With „active particles“ physicists refer to objects which move by themselves as a result of internal self-propulsion. These include living things such as bacteria and fish swimming, birds flying or humans walking...
Single-photon nanowire detectors to combat spies
Mar 13, 2023 (Nanowerk News) How can we combat data theft, which is a real issue for society? Quantum physics has the solution. Its theories make it possible to encode information (a qubit) in single particles of light (a photon) and to circulate them in an optical fibre in a...