Valley-transistor in two-dimensional materials – an ingredient for all-optical quantum technologies

Apr 23, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay have devised a novel method to construct valley transistors in two-dimensional materials using brief light pulses, bringing us closer to realizing practical all-optical quantum technologies. Transistors, essential components in electronics, control the flow of electric current and...

From sheets to stacks, new nanostructures promise leap for advanced electronics

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...

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...

from board games to protein design

Apr 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Scientists have successfully applied reinforcement learning to a challenge in molecular biology. A team led by UW Medicine researchers developed powerful new protein design software adapted from a strategy proven adept at board games like chess and Go. In one experiment, proteins made with the...