Decoding how molecules ‘talk’ to each other to develop new nanotechnologies

Aug 15, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Two molecular languages at the origin of life have been successfully recreated and mathematically validated, thanks to pioneering work by Canadian scientists at Université de Montréal. Published this week in the Journal of American Chemical Society ("Programming chemical communication: allostery vs multivalent mechanism"), the breakthrough...

Carbon-based quantum technology

Aug 15, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Graphene nanoribbons have outstanding properties that can be precisely controlled. Researchers from Empa and ETH Zurich, in collaboration with partners from Peking University, the University of Warwick and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, have succeeded in attaching electrodes to individual atomically precise nanoribbons,...

Programmable DNA hydrogels for advanced cell culture and personalized medicine

Aug 15, 2023 (Nanowerk News) In vitro culture of biological cells plays an important role in advancing biological research. However, currently available cell culture materials have significant drawbacks. Many of them are derived from animal sources, leading to poor reproducibility, and making it difficult to fine-tune their mechanical properties. Therefore,...

from tunable conductance to reconfigurable photoresponse

Aug 15, 2023 (Nanowerk News) In traditional vision systems, the optical information is captured by a frame-based digital camera, and then the digital signal is processed afterwards using machine-learning algorithms. In this scenario, a large amount of data (mostly redundant) has to be transferred from a standalone sensing elements to...