Jun 19, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Organic light-emitting diodes are used in smart phones, tablets, and large TV screens. As they do not need any additional background illumination, they are energy-efficient. The can be produced at low costs by thin-film technology and also work on flexible carrier materials, thus enabling bendable...
CRISPR tool with Big Data visualization platform developed for genome editing and modification
Jun 19, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has spearheaded the development of a novel analysis service platform named CRISPRimmunity. This interactive web server has been constructed to identify and understand crucial molecular events linked to CRISPR and the regulatory...
Clean, sustainable fuels made ‘from thin air’ and plastic waste
Jun 19, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers have demonstrated how carbon dioxide can be captured from industrial processes – or even directly from the air – and transformed into clean, sustainable fuels using just the energy from the Sun. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, developed a solar-powered reactor that...
Researchers control individual molecules for precision sensing
Jun 19, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Aleksandra Radenovic, head of the Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology in the School of Engineering, has worked for years to improve nanopore technology, which involves passing a molecule like DNA through a tiny pore in a membrane to measure an ionic current. Scientists can determine DNA’s...
photon pairs compress an electron beam into short pulses
Jun 19, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Physicists at the University of Konstanz generate one of the shortest signals ever produced by humans: Using paired laser pulses, they succeeded in compressing a series of electron pulses to a numerically analyzed duration of only 0.000000000000000005 seconds. Processes in nature that occur in molecules...