Mar 10, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The sense of touch may soon be added to the virtual gaming experience, thanks to an ultrathin wireless patch that sticks to the palm of the hand. The patch simulates tactile sensations by delivering electronic stimuli to different parts of the hand in a way...
Speedy surface analysis for semiconductors
Mar 10, 2023 (Nanowerk News) This is the first study to apply machine learning algorithms to complex diffraction patterns of surface superstructures. The ever-advancing miniaturization of technology requires fine control and analysis of the structure of materials at the atomic scale. Researchers in Japan have now developed a machine learning...
Purifying water with just a few atoms
Mar 09, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Due to their considerable efficiency, catalysts made of just a few atoms show great promise in the field of water treatment. In a new study, researchers looked into how to optimize the performance of these catalysts and make them viable for practical use. The results...
Engineering breakthrough in softbotics
Mar 09, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Carnegie Mellon University engineers have developed a soft material with metal-like conductivity and self-healing properties that is the first to maintain enough electrical adhesion to support digital electronics and motors. This advance, published in Nature Electronics ("A self-healing electrically conductive organogel composite"), marks a breakthrough...
Novel silver nanowire transparent heating films
Mar 09, 2023 (Nanowerk News) There are many sputtered metal film heaters on the market, but they are opaque and can only be used on the back of the anti-counterfeiting label. In addition, the heating rate is slow and the bending resistance is usually poor. A research team led by...
Transporting antibodies across the blood-brain barrier to treat Alzheimer’s disease
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...