Month: August 2023

Aug 07, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Just as carbon makes up both the brittle core of a No. 2 pencil and the harder-than-steel diamond in a cutting tool, boron nitride gives rise to compounds that can be soft or hard. Yet, unlike carbon, far less is known about boron nitride’s forms...

Aug 07, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at Tohoku University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have unveiled a representative effect of the anomalous dynamics at play when an electric current is applied to a new class of magnetic materials called non-collinear antiferromagnets. Their findings were published in the journal Nature...

Aug 04, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A new way to monitor two-photon lithography nanoscale fabrication could help improve the accuracy and efficiency of creating 3D engineered tissue scaffolds, according to a new study. Tissue scaffolds mimic the natural extracellular matrices found in the body, which creates a 3D environment ideal for...

Aug 04, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Electronic devices typically use the charge of electrons, but spin — their other degree of freedom — is starting to be exploited. Spin defects make crystalline materials highly useful for quantum-based devices such as ultrasensitive quantum sensors, quantum memory devices, or systems for simulating the...

Aug 04, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Liquid metals (LM) such as pure gallium (Ga) and Ga-based alloys are a new class of materials with unique physicochemical properties. One of the most prominent applications of LMs is photothermal therapy against cancer, in which functional LM nanoparticles convert light energy to heat energy,...

Aug 04, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from Michigan State University and the University of British Columbia have invented a system that can quickly and inexpensively detect airborne viruses using the same technology that enables high-speed trains. The team showed that a technique known as magnetic levitation can be used to...

Aug 04, 2023 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Soft robotics is a rapidly growing field that aims to create machines that mimic the flexibility, adaptability, and complex movements found in living organisms. Soft robots, made of flexible, stretchable materials, can perform tasks that are challenging for traditional rigid robots. They can squeeze through...

Aug 04, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Scientists are looking for ways to use the low-value energy widely distributed in natural environments to generate electricity. A research team has created a power generator that collects the natural atmospheric humidity and produces continuous electrical signals. This is the first humidity generator designed using...

Aug 04, 2023 (Nanowerk News) New observations and simulations of three spiral arms of gas feeding material to three protostars forming in a trinary system have clarified the formation of multi-star systems. Most stars with a mass similar to the Sun form in multi-star systems together with other stars. So...

Aug 04, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Engineers are constantly searching for materials with novel, desirable property combinations. For example, an ultra-strong, lightweight material could be used to make airplanes and cars more fuel-efficient, or a material that is porous and biomechanically friendly could be useful for bone implants. Cellular metamaterials —...