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...
Using magnetic effects in electrons for a hundredfold reduction in the power consumption of future chips
Aug 15, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Electronic devices are shrinking all the time. At the same time, the computer chips inside them are getting more and more powerful, but they are also using more energy, and running hotter. This makes it essential to find new ways to reduce the power consumption...
Astronomers confirm Maisie’s galaxy is among earliest ever observed
Aug 15, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers racing to find some of the earliest galaxies ever glimpsed have now confirmed that a galaxy first detected last summer is in fact among the earliest ever found. The findings are in the journal Nature ("Confirmation and...