Jun 14, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Children first learning to walk may go a bit too fast and fall down, or run into a piece of furniture. However, that cause-and-effect element teaches them invaluable information about how their bodies move through space so that they can avoid falling in the future....
Scientists create long-lasting, cobalt-free, lithium-ion batteries
Jun 14, 2023 (Nanowerk News) In a discovery that could reduce or even eliminate the use of cobalt – which is often mined using child labor – in the batteries that power electric cars and other products, scientists at the University of California, Irvine have developed a long-lasting alternative made...
A novel technique to observe colloidal particle degradation in real time
Jun 14, 2023 (Nanowerk News) In the early 2000s, scientists from the UK made a worrisome discovery that the oceans are teeming with small particles of plastic (less than one millimeter in length) due to the continuous degradation of plastic waste. These microscopic particles of plastic have become a major...
Tiny device mimics human vision and memory abilities
Jun 14, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers have created a small device that ‘sees’ and creates memories in a similar way to humans, in a promising step towards one day having applications that can make rapid, complex decisions such as in self-driving cars. The neuromorphic invention is a single chip enabled...
Advancements in meta-holographic display enable ultraviolet domain holograms
Jun 14, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The term meta means a concept of transcendence or surpassing, and when applied to materials, metamaterials encompass artificially engineered substances that exhibit properties not naturally found in the environment. Metasurfaces, characterized by their thinness and lightness, have garnered considerable interest as a potential component for...
Shining potential of missing atoms
Jun 14, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Single photons have applications in quantum computation, information networks, and sensors, and these can be emitted by defects in the atomically thin insulator hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Missing nitrogen atoms have been suggested to be the atomic structure responsible for this activity, but it is...
Researchers succeed in arranging nanoscale quantum sensors on desired targets
Jun 14, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The University of Tokyo scientists achieve the delicate task of arranging quantum sensors at a nanoscale, allowing them to detect extremely small variations in magnetic fields. The high-resolution quantum sensors will have potential uses in quantum materials and electronic device research. For example, the sensors...