Mar 31, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Advanced materials are urgently needed for everyday life, be it in high technology, mobility, infrastructure, green energy or medicine. However, traditional ways of discovering and exploring new materials encounter limits due to the complexity of chemical compositions, structures and targeted properties. Moreover, new materials should...
A new model predicts the flexibility of DNA movement at the molecular scale
Mar 31, 2023 (Nanowerk News) In both physics and chemistry, the mesoscopic scale refers to the length scale on which the properties of a material or phenomenon can be studied, without entering into a discussion about the behavior of individual atoms. In a mesoscopic model, atomic scales are merged with...
New type of friction discovered in ligand-protein systems
Mar 31, 2023 (Nanowerk News) An interdisciplinary research team of the Institutes of Physical Chemistry and Physics of the University of Freiburg and the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt-am-Main has discovered a new, direction-dependent friction in proteins called anisotropic friction. “Until now, nobody had observed that friction in...
Connecting distant silicon qubits for scaling up quantum computers
Mar 31, 2023 (Nanowerk News) In a demonstration that promises to help scale up quantum computers based on tiny dots of silicon, RIKEN physicists have succeeded in connecting two qubits—the basic unit for quantum information—that are physically distant from each other (Nature Communications, "A shuttling-based two-qubit logic gate for linking...
A high-performance transparent-flexible electronic device based on a copper-graphene nanowire synthesized by scintillation
Mar 31, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The world's first technology for synthesizing high-quality, low-cost copper-graphene nanowires using intense scintillation has been developed by Professor Yoonkyu Lee's research team at DGIST. This groundbreaking technique has paved the way for the mass production of high-quality transparent-flexible electrode materials, which are essential in the...
Can we connect to a virtual world like in the movie ‘The Matrix’?
Mar 31, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A research team led by Professor Hongsoo Choi from DGIST's Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering has collaborated with Dr. Jongcheol Rah's team from the Korea Brain Research Institute to develop a microrobot capable of forming neural networks and sectioning hippocampal tissues in an in...
Can a solid be a superfluid? Engineering a novel supersolid state from layered 2D materials
Mar 30, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A collaboration of Australian and European physicists predict that layered electronic 2D semiconductors can host a curious quantum phase of matter called the supersolid. The supersolid is a very counterintuitive phase indeed. It is made up of particles that simultaneously form a rigid crystal and...
How cosmic winds transform galactic environments
Mar 30, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Much like how wind plays a key role in life on Earth by sweeping seeds, pollen and more from one place to another, galactic winds – high-powered streams of charged particles and gases – can change the chemical make-up of the host galaxies they form...
‘Taffy galaxies’ collide, leave behind bridge of star-forming material
Mar 30, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Galaxy collisions are transformative events, largely responsible for driving the evolution of the Universe. The mixing and mingling of stellar material is an incredibly dynamic process that can lead to the formation of molecular clouds populated with newly forming stars. But, a head-on collision between...
70 percent of lithium recovered
Mar 30, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Recovering up to 70 percent of lithium from battery waste without corrosive chemicals, high temperatures, and prior sorting of materials being required: This is achieved by a recycling method developed by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The method combines mechanical processes with chemical reactions and...