Aug 03, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Sandwich compounds are special chemical compounds used as basic building blocks in organometallic chemistry. So far, their structure has always been linear. Recently, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Marburg were the first to make stacked sandwich complexes form a...
Novel metamaterials leverage buckling to revolutionize vibration damping
Aug 02, 2023 (Nanowerk Spotlight) All mechanical systems exhibit vibrational resonances, where energy transmission through the structure spikes at certain natural frequencies. This resonance effect stems from the mass and stiffness properties of the system. At these resonant frequencies, even small vibrational inputs can get amplified into large oscillatory motions....
Manipulating light with metamaterials to make materials appear transparent (w/video)
Aug 02, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from the Institute of Industrial Science（IIS）, The University of Tokyo, conducts a wide range of research, including physics, chemistry and biology. In this context, DLX Design Lab carries out activities aimed at fusing science, technology, and design. One of these activities is the Treasure...
Absence of universal topological signatures in high harmonic generation
Jul 31, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Topology plays an enormous role in modern condensed matter physics and beyond. It describes how solid materials can combine two very different and somewhat contradictory properties – for example, topological insulators are materials whose bulk acts as an insulator, but whose surfaces and edges can...
‘Drycells’ promise to transform single cell research
Aug 01, 2023 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Cell culturing demands the ability to isolate and analyze individual cells, a requirement that is especially critical in tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and gene therapy. Cell culturing involves growing cells in controlled conditions outside their natural environment, and is a fundamental technique used in biological...
A novel laser slicing technique for diamond semiconductors
Aug 01, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Silicon-based materials are currently the undisputed leaders in the field of semiconductors. Even so, scientists around the world are actively trying to find superior alternatives for next-generation electronics and high-power systems. Interestingly, diamonds are among the most promising materials for applications such as fast telecommunications...
Nanopore technology achieves breakthrough in protein variant detection
Aug 01, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A team of scientists led by the University of Oxford have achieved a significant breakthrough in detecting modifications on protein structures. The method, published in Nature Nanotechnology ("Enzyme-less nanopore detection of post-translational modifications within long polypeptides"), employs innovative nanopore technology to identify structural variations at...
Faster thin film devices for energy storage and electronics
Aug 01, 2023 (Nanowerk News) An international research team from the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle (Saale), Germany, the University of Cambridge, UK and the University of Pennsylvania, USA reported the first realization of single-crystalline T-Nb2O5 thin films having two-dimensional (2D) vertical ionic transport channels, which results in...
A further step in unravelling materials’ properties down to the atomic scale
Aug 01, 2023 (Nanowerk News) To develop advanced materials, a deep understanding of their underlying microstructure and chemistry is necessary. Knowing how defects influence the interplay between microstructure and chemical composition is crucial, as they are the entry gate for material’s failure due to corrosion or crack initiation. Scientists of...
Making structures on 2D materials with a 3D printer
Aug 01, 2023 (Nanowerk News) In the quest to leverage the exceptional properties of graphene and other 2D materials, researchers at Graphene Flagship Associated Member KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) and Graphene Flagship Partner the University of the Bundeswehr Munich (Germany) & SENS Research Center joined forces to structure...