Apr 24, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A study spearheaded by Professor Yang Liangbao from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science at the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered that hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) effectively inhibits electron tunneling, thereby extending the ultimate plasmonic enhancement boundaries in single-atom-layer gaps. This breakthrough offers valuable insights...
New technique paves way for imaging individual molecules
Apr 24, 2023 (Nanowerk News) An international research team has succeeded for the first time in using X-rays for an imaging technique that exploits a particular quantum property of light. As the researchers describe in their work just published in the journal Physical Review Letters ("Imaging via Correlation of X-Ray...
Greener batteries
Apr 24, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Our modern rechargeable batteries, such as lithium-ion batteries, are anything but sustainable. One alternative is organic batteries with redox-organic electrode materials (OEMs), which can be synthesized from natural “green” materials. In the journal Angewandte Chemie ("A Recyclable and Scalable High-Capacity Organic Battery"), a Chinese team...
Vaccine printer could help vaccines reach more people
Apr 24, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Getting vaccines to people who need them isn’t always easy. Many vaccines require cold storage, making it difficult to ship them to remote areas that don’t have the necessary infrastructure. MIT researchers have come up with a possible solution to this problem: a mobile vaccine...
New programmable smart fabric responds to temperature and electricity
Apr 24, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A new smart material developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo is activated by both heat and electricity, making it the first ever to respond to two different stimuli. The resarch has been published in Small ("Multi-Stimuli Dually-Responsive Intelligent Woven Structures with Local Programmability...