Apr 06, 2023 (Nanowerk News) There's an invisible monster on the loose, barreling through intergalactic space so fast that if it were in our solar system, it could travel from Earth to the Moon in 14 minutes. This supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 20 million Suns, has left...
Fully recyclable printed electronics ditch toxic chemicals for water
Apr 06, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Engineers at Duke University have produced the world’s first fully recyclable printed electronics that replace the use of chemicals with water in the fabrication process. By bypassing the need for hazardous chemicals, the demonstration points down a path industry could follow to reduce its environmental...
New atomic-scale understanding of catalysis could unlock massive energy savings
Apr 06, 2023 (Nanowerk News) In an advance they consider a breakthrough in computational chemistry research, University of Wisconsin–Madison chemical engineers have developed model of how catalytic reactions work at the atomic scale. This understanding could allow engineers and chemists to develop more efficient catalysts and tune industrial processes —...
Producing 2D nanoparticles in an environmentally friendly way
Apr 06, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A German-Chinese research team with participants from the University of Konstanz has discovered how catalysts and many other nanoplatelets can be produced in an environmentally friendly way from readily available materials and in sufficient quantities. Hydrogen is considered an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional fossil...
Discovery of ferroelectricity in an elementary substance
Apr 06, 2023 (Nanowerk News) National University of Singapore (NUS) physicists have discovered a novel form of ferroelectricity in a single-element bismuth monolayer that can produce regular and reversible dipole moments for future applications of non-volatile memories and electronic sensors. Ferroelectricity refers to the phenomenon of certain materials exhibiting a...
New cyber software can verify how much knowledge AI really knows
Apr 04, 2023 (Nanowerk News) With a growing interest in generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems worldwide, researchers at the University of Surrey have created software that is able to verify how much information an AI farmed from an organisation’s digital database ("Program Semantics and Verification Technique for AI-centred Programs"). Surrey’s...