Sep 18, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A team including Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Raluca Rufu recently calculated that most of the Moon’s permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) are at most around 3.4 billion years old and can contain relatively young deposits of water ice. Water resources are considered key for sustainable exploration...
Atomic layer deposition route to scalable, electronic-grade van der Waals Te thin films
Sep 18, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A research team, led by Professor Joonki Suh in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering at UNIST, has made a significant breakthrough in thin film deposition technology. By employing an innovative atomic layer deposition...
Research identifies new potential hurdle for nano-based therapies
Sep 18, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered that certain nano-based cancer therapies may be less effective in younger patients, highlighting the need for further investigation into the impact of aging on the body’s ability to respond to treatment. The researchers...
Copper-doped tungstic acid nanocrystals transform infrared light conversion
Sep 18, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Sunlight is an inexhaustible source of energy, and utilizing sunlight to generate electricity is one of the cornerstones of renewable energy. More than 40% of the sunlight that falls on earth is in the infrared, visible and ultraviolet spectra; however, current solar technology utilizes primarily...
New quasi-particle bridges microwave and optical domains
Sep 18, 2023 (Nanowerk News) In a paper published in Nature Communications ("Microcavity phonoritons – a coherent optical-to-microwave interface."), researchers from the Paul-Drude-Institut in Berlin, Germany, and the Instituto Balseiro in Bariloche, Argentina, demonstrated that the mixing of confined quantum fluids of light and GHz sound leads to the emergence...
MXene paves the way for mass production
Sep 18, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Developed in 2011, MXene is a two-dimensional nanomaterial with alternating metal and carbon layers, which has high electrical conductivity and can be combined with various metal compounds, making it a material that can be utilized in various industries such as semiconductors, electronic devices, and sensors....