Jun 26, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from The University of Queensland have made a dust from baker’s yeast that can detect COVID-19 and could safeguard communities against future pandemics. The powdery ‘nanoprobes’ developed at UQ’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) are synthetic yeast fragments which can be deployed...
Breakthrough boosts quantum AI
Jun 26, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A groundbreaking theoretical proof shows that a technique called overparametrization enhances performance in quantum machine learning for applications that stymie classical computers. “We believe our results will be useful in using machine learning to learn the properties of quantum data, such as classifying different phases...
Webb makes first detection of crucial carbon molecule
Jun 26, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A team of international scientists has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to detect a new carbon compound in space for the first time. Known as methyl cation (pronounced cat-eye-on) (CH3+), the molecule is important because it aids the formation of more complex carbon-based molecules....
Tuning T cell traits and functions with biomechanical materials
Jun 26, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The successful campaign of adoptive T cell therapies, a type of immunotherapy in which immune T cells are collected from a patient, enhanced outside of the body, and reinfused back into the same patient, especially against blood cancers is well under way. But improving the...
Innovative paper-like, battery-free, AI-enabled sensor for holistic wound monitoring
Jun 26, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Most wearable wound sensors measure only one or a small number of parameters, and they require bulky printed circuit boards and batteries. The PETAL sensor patch, on the other hand, currently measures 5 biomarkers and does not require any battery to operate. More biomarkers can...
Thin metasurfaces instead of thick lenses
Jun 26, 2023 (Nanowerk News) "After 500 years of lenses and mirrors, it is time to think ahead," explains Dr. Falk Eilenberger, head of the Department of Micro- and Nanostructured Optics at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF. So-called metasurfaces can be an alternative here. These...
Europe launches massive AI test facilities
Jun 26, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Artificial intelligence has entered the public sphere. The term AI is everywhere, and millions of Europeans use the technology every day, often without even realising it. But who will oversee these new technologies? And how do we know if the AI we are using works...
New type of computer memory could greatly reduce energy use and improve performance
Jun 24, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers have developed a new design for computer memory that could both greatly improve performance and reduce the energy demands of internet and communications technologies, which are predicted to consume nearly a third of global electricity within the next ten years. The researchers, led by...
Experiments reveal that water can ‘talk’ to electrons in graphene
Jun 23, 2023 (Nanowerk News) For the last 20 years, scientists have been puzzled by how water behaves near carbon surfaces. It may flow much faster than expected from conventional flow theories or form strange arrangements such as square ice. Now, an international team of researchers from the Max Plank...
Metasurface enables strong coupling effects between light and transition metal dichalcogenides
Jun 23, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The interaction of light and matter on the nanoscale is a vital aspect of nanophotonics. Resonant nanosystems allow scientists to control and enhance electromagnetic energy at volumes smaller than the wavelength of the incident light. As well as allowing sunlight to be captured much more...