Apr 22, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University have successfully developed multi-layered nanostructures of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) that form in-plane junctions. By growing multi-layered molybdenum disulfide structures from the edge of niobium-doped molybdenum disulfide shards, the scientists created a robust, bonded, planar heterostructure. They demonstrated that these...
Future circular bioeconomy values raw materials and uses them comprehensively
Apr 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The Natural Resources Institute Finland’s (Luke) vision for the resource-smart use of biomasses provides businesses and society with added value opportunities for sustainable primary production, product manufacturing, and service models. Globally depleting natural resources, the COVID pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have increased the...
AI system can generate novel proteins that meet structural design targets
Apr 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) MIT researchers are using artificial intelligence to design new proteins that go beyond those found in nature. They created algorithms for machine learning that can produce proteins with particular structural characteristics, potentially used to manufacture materials with specific mechanical traits, such as rigidity or pliability....
Physicists explore microscopic filament behavior
Apr 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Recently-published research from an international team of physicists reveals how the three-dimensional shape of rigid microscopic filaments determines their dynamics when suspended in water, and how control of that shape can be used to engineer solid-like behavior even when the suspension is more than 99%...
Researchers create nanoscale mechanical metamaterials with exceptional energy absorption
Apr 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers from the Materials Research Center of the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Chongqing University has successfully fabricated mechanical metamaterials with ultra-high energy absorption capacity using the ion track technology. Their findings were published...
New stellar danger to planets identified by NASA’s Chandra program
Apr 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) An exploded star can pose more risks to nearby planets than previously thought, according to a new study from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other X-ray telescopes. This newly identified threat involves a phase of intense X-rays that can damage the atmospheres of planets up...
Nanowire networks can exhibit both short- and long-term memory like the human brain
Apr 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) An international team led by scientists at the University of Sydney has demonstrated nanowire networks can exhibit both short- and long-term memory like the human brain. The research has been published today in the journal Science Advances ("Neuromorphic learning, working memory, and metaplasticity in nanowire...