Day: April 11, 2023

Apr 11, 2023 (Nanowerk News) As automobile electrification speeds up, the world faces an overwhelming need for critical metals and minerals to make atmosphere-saving electric vehicles possible. The demand for battery-grade lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese and platinum will climb steeply as nations work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through mid-century,...

Apr 11, 2023 (Nanowerk News) In the realm of organoid production, bioprinting technology not only streamlines the creation and maintenance of intricate 3D biological shapes and structures but also enables standardization and quality control throughout the process. When combined with artificial intelligence, which can assess product potential during manufacturing, a...

Apr 11, 2023 (Nanowerk News) For millennia, humans have been fascinated by the mysteries of the cosmos. Unlike ancient philosophers imagining the universe’s origins, modern cosmologists use quantitative tools to gain insights into the universe’s evolution and structure. Modern cosmology dates back to the early 20th century, with the development...

Apr 11, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Sliding and twisting of van der Waals layers can produce fascinating physical phenomena. In a recent publication in Nature Communications ("Polar meron-antimeron networks in strained and twisted bilayers"), Daniel Bennett, Eric Bousquet and Philippe Ghosez, from the group of Theoretical Materials Physics (Q-MAT, CESAM Research...

Apr 11, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Cell secretions like proteins, antibodies, and neurotransmitters play an essential role in immune response, metabolism, and communication between cells. Understanding cell secretions is key for developing disease treatments, but current methods are only able to report the quantity of secretions, without any detail as to...

Apr 11, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Dr. H. Rusty Harris, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, has identified a new circuit element known as a meminductor. A circuit element is an electrical component used to help direct and control the flow of electricity...

Apr 11, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Drug-delivering nanoparticles could improve treatments for inflammatory bowel diseases that affect the quality of life of millions of people, Iowa State University researchers say. While there are treatments today, they tend to be short-term, with patients developing resistance to drugs and relapsing into inflammation and...

Apr 11, 2023 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Flexible electronics, which can maintain their functionality under various conditions such as bending, rolling, folding, or stretching, have seen significant advances in recent years. These electronics have expanded into a wide range of applications, including flexible sensors for monitoring physical and chemical changes, energy harvesting...

Apr 10, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Hidden stripes in a crystal could help scientists understand the mysterious behavior of electrons in certain quantum systems, including high-temperature superconductors, an unexpected discovery by RIKEN physicists suggests (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, "Correlation-driven electronic nematicity in the Dirac semimetal BaNiS2"). The electrons...

Apr 10, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Small proteins play a critical role in the regulation of immune response, inflammation and neurodegenerative diseases. In order to better detect and study them, scientists at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Light have combined one of the most effective microscopy methods, called iSCAT, with...