Day: March 29, 2023

Mar 29, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Despite the many advantages of concrete as a modern construction material, including its high strength, low cost, and ease of manufacture, its production currently accounts for approximately 8 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. Recent discoveries by a team at MIT have revealed that introducing...

Mar 29, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Two-dimensional materials such as graphene have served as a playground for the experimental discovery and theoretical understanding of a wide range of phenomena in physics and materials science. Beyond graphene, there are a large number 2D materials, all with different physical properties. This is promising...

Mar 29, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Like electronics or photonics, magnonics is an engineering subfield that aims to advance information technologies when it comes to speed, device architecture, and energy consumption. A magnon corresponds to the specific amount of energy required to change the magnetization of a material via a collective...

Mar 29, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Artificial intelligence training can generate more than 200 tonnes of carbon dioxide, equivalent to the lifetime of five cars. Wireless communication systems and digital technologies have transformed our society to such an extent that it now seems almost impossible to live without Wi-Fi or a...

Mar 29, 2023 (Nanowerk News) As the EV market is witnessing skyrocketing growth, there is a surging demand for high-capacity batteries to enhance EV driving range. A joint research team from POSTECH and Sogang University has developed a functional polymeric binder for a stable, high-capacity anode material, promising a 10-fold...

Mar 29, 2023 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Diabetic ulcers, a serious complication of diabetes, can substantially increase amputation rates and mortality for diabetic patients. The inefficient healing of these ulcers is primarily due to the presence of high levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the wound, contributing to oxidative stress and...

Mar 28, 2023 (Nanowerk News) If an electric car charges while driving, the size of the battery can be reduced by up to 70 per cent, and the load on the power grid can be spread out over the day. Charging on the move suits most people, but not everyone....

Mar 28, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Following a successful proof-of-concept to recycle spent lithium-ion batteries using reagent extracted from fruit peel waste, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) is partnering Se-cure Waste Management Pte Ltd (SWM), a Singapore battery recycling and processing company, to scale up the technology in a pilot...

Mar 28, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The lunar surface's water has garnered significant interest due to its potential for in-situ resource utilization in future lunar explorations and other space missions. A team of researchers, led by Professor HU Sen from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG) at the Chinese Academy...

Mar 28, 2023 (Nanowerk News) An international team of researchers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to measure the temperature of the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b. The measurement is based on the planet’s thermal emission: heat energy given off in the form of infrared light detected by Webb’s Mid-Infrared...