Home > Press > Tattoo technique transfers gold nanopatterns onto live cells An array of gold nanodots was tattooed onto a living fibroblast cell. CREDIT Adapted from Nano Letters, 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c01960 Abstract:For now, cyborgs exist only in fiction, but the concept is becoming more plausible as science progresses....
Capturing carbon where it is produced
Aug 12, 2023 (Nanowerk News) EPFL engineers in Sion, Switzerland have demonstrated the potential for achieving net-zero and net-negative emissions in essential industrial sectors through the integration of carbon capture and mineralization directly into the industrial processes themselves. Focusing on cement production, steel manufacture, and waste incineration, the study, published...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Chloride ions from seawater eyed as possible lithium replacement in batteries of the future
Home > Press > Chloride ions from seawater eyed as possible lithium replacement in batteries of the future Xiaowei Teng Abstract:Sodium, Potassium and zinc have all been promising contenders for lithiums place in rechargeable batteries of the future, but researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have added an unusual...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Researchers discover a potential application of unwanted electronic noise in semiconductors: Random telegraph noises in vanadium-doped tungsten diselenide can be tuned with voltage polarity
Home > Press > Researchers discover a potential application of unwanted electronic noise in semiconductors: Random telegraph noises in vanadium-doped tungsten diselenide can be tuned with voltage polarity Time evolution of RTN signals with the corresponding RTN histograms of 1/f 2 feature in the noise power spectra at negative (a)...
Astronomers discover quasar-driven superbubble pairs
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...