Month: March 2023

Mar 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Scientists investigating a compound called “Y-ball” – which belongs to a mysterious class of “strange metals” viewed as centrally important to next-generation quantum materials – have found new ways to probe and understand its behavior. The results of the experiments, aided by the insights of...

Mar 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Glucose-responsive insulin that eliminates the need for people with type 1 diabetes to check their blood sugar levels could be a step closer thanks to research led by RMIT and Monash University. Published in Advanced Materials ("An engineered nanosugar enables rapid and sustained glucose-responsive insulin...

Mar 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) An international team of scientists is developing an inkable nanomaterial that they say could one day become a spray-on electronic component for ultra-thin, lightweight and bendable displays and devices. The material, zinc oxide, could be incorporated into many components of future technologies including mobile phones...

Mar 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Artificial muscles are a progressing technology that could one day enable robots to function like living organisms. Such muscles open up new possibilities for how robots can shape the world around us; from assistive wearable devices that can redefine our physical abilities at old age,...

Mar 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) 3D printers could be the bakers of the future, according to international experts who attempted to make cheesecakes out of seven ingredients. Isometric cut view of the final iteration of a seven-ingredient printed dessert. (Image: Jonathan Blutinger / Columbia Engineering) A three-dimensional printing system capable...

Mar 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A team of international astronomers have discovered a galaxy that has changed classification due to unique activity within its core. The galaxy, named PBC J2333.9-2343, was previously classified as a radio galaxy, but the new research has revealed otherwise. The work is published in Monthly...

Mar 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Syngas, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, is an important intermediate product in the manufacture of many chemical starter materials such as ammonia, methanol and synthetic hydrocarbon fuels. "Syngas is currently made almost exclusively using fossil raw materials," says Prof. Roland Fischer from the...

Mar 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from the University of Twente developed a new composite material that outperforms the individual compounds by one to two orders of magnitude. The composite consists of several earth-abundant elements, that could potentially be used for efficient hydrogen generation without rare and precious metals like...

Mar 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Physicists have discovered a remarkable correspondence between dense states of gluons—the gluelike carriers of the strong nuclear force within atomic nuclei—and enormous black holes in the cosmos. The dense walls of gluons, known as a color glass condensate (CGC), are generated in collisions of atomic...

Mar 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The virus responsible for E. coli infection has a secret weapon: teamwork. Always scrappy in its bid for survival, the virus alights on an unassuming host cell and grips the surface with the business end of its tubular tail. Then, the proteins in the tail...