Home > Press > Unveiling the quantum dance: Experiments reveal nexus of vibrational and electronic dynamics: Coupling of electronic and nuclear dynamics revealed in molecules with ultrafast lasers and X-rays A molecule with two platinum atoms absorbs a photon and starts to vibrate. The vibration enables the molecules electron spin...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: A non-covalent bonding experience: Scientists discover new structures for unique hybrid materials by altering their chemical bonds
Home > Press > A non-covalent bonding experience: Scientists discover new structures for unique hybrid materials by altering their chemical bonds An artist's representation of some of the new structures Rajapakha and the team have designed. CREDIT Brookhaven National Laboratory/Angewandte Chemie Abstract:Putting a suite of new materials synthesis and...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Researchers put a new twist on graphite
Home > Press > Researchers put a new twist on graphite A University of Washington-led team has discovered that, by stacking a sheet of graphene onto bulk graphite at a small twist angle (top), exotic properties present at the graphene-graphite interface (yellow) can bleed down into the graphite itself. ...
Insights into designing advanced stimuli-responsive materials
Jul 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The “nothing” (empty space) feature of porous soft materials is foundational to their properties and applications, and has been a focus of study for many years. Now, researchers from Japan have solved a long-standing puzzle of these materials that will speed up research and development,...
Wide field-of-view metasurface-enhanced scanning lidar technology
Jul 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Pulsed laser scanning lidar is a core technology for autonomous driving and robotic mobility. Herein, a directional light pulse is backscattered by a reflective object and the elapsed time between emission and detection of the pulse is used to calculate depth. These direct time-of-flight (d-ToF)...
Detection of bacteria and viruses with fluorescent nanotubes
Jul 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) An interdisciplinary research team from Bochum, Duisburg and Zurich has developed a new approach to construct modular optical sensors which are capable of detecting viruses and bacteria. For this purpose, the researchers used fluorescent carbon nanotubes with a novel type of DNA anchors that act...
New graphene transistor sensor mimics cell membrane functions
Jul 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Drawing inspiration from natural sensory systems, an MIT-led team has designed a novel sensor that could detect the same molecules that naturally occurring cell receptors can identify. In work that combines several new technologies, the researchers created a prototype sensor that can detect an immune...
Nano-size carbon material could be used to treat Down syndrome
Jul 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Scientists at the Texas A&M University Health Science Center (Texas A&M Health) have discovered that a nano-sized carbon material derived from the oxidation of carbon-rich sources could be used to treat Down syndrome and other disorders associated with high levels of hydrogen sulfide. Hydrogen sulfide...
Steering ‘microswimmers’ through choppy waters
Jul 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) New research looks at navigation strategies for deformable microswimmers in a viscous fluid faced with drifts, strains, and other deformations. A deformable microswimmer is a small-scale organism or artificial structure that uses sinusoidal body undulations to propel itself through a fluid environment. The term applies...
Hubble sees boulders escaping from asteroid dimorphos
Jul 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The popular 1954 rock song "Shake, Rattle and Roll," could be the theme music for the Hubble Space Telescope's latest discovery about what is happening to the asteroid Dimorphos in the aftermath of NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) experiment. DART intentionally impacted Dimorphos on...