Aug 11, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A team led by Prof. LIU Guilin and Prof. HE Zhicheng from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) discovered superbubble pairs generated by quasar-driven outflows of three red quasars for the first time. This study...
A quantum leap in mechanical oscillator technology
Aug 11, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Over the past decade, scientists have made tremendous progress in generating quantum phenomena in mechanical systems. What seemed impossible only fifteen years ago has now become a reality, as researchers successfully create quantum states in macroscopic mechanical objects. By coupling these mechanical oscillators to light...
Scientists invent smallest known way to guide light
Aug 11, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Directing light from place to the place is the backbone of our modern world. Beneath the oceans and across continents, fiber optic cables carry light that encodes everything from YouTube videos to banking transmissions—all inside strands about the size of a hair. University of Chicago...
Simple ballpoint pen can write custom LEDs
Aug 11, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The invention of the printing press revolutionized duplication of the written word, giving the hands of tired scribes a break and making written material more accessible. A similar breakthrough has happened in reverse in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis....
Plastic waste transforms into soap
Aug 11, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A team led by Virginia Tech researchers has developed a new method for upcycling plastics into high-value chemicals known as surfactants, which are used to create soap, detergent, and more. Plastics and soaps tend to have little in common when it comes to texture, appearance,...
New technique enables precise atomic-scale manufacturing using electron beams
Aug 11, 2023 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Researchers have developed a novel technique that combines two approaches to nanofabrication - top-down and bottom-up methods - to enable unprecedented atomic-scale precision manufacturing using a focused electron beam. Their work has been published in Advanced Materials ("Top-Down Fabrication of Atomic Patterns in Twisted Bilayer...
Ribbons of graphene push the material’s potential
Aug 11, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Think you know everything about a material? Try giving it a twist – literally. That’s the main idea of an emerging field in condensed matter physics called twistronics, which has researchers drastically changing the properties of 2D materials, like graphene, with subtle changes – as...