Oct 11, 2023 (Nanowerk News) UCLA researchers have developed a new treatment method using a tiny nanocapsule to help boost the immune response, making it easier for the immune system to fight and kill solid tumors. Key Takeaways New treatment involves nanocapsules encapsulating an enzyme to reduce lactate levels around...
Groundbreaking achievement as bionic hand merges with user’s nervous and skeletal systems (w/video)
Oct 11, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Karin's life took a dramatic turn when a farming accident claimed her right arm over 20 years ago. Since then, she endured excruciating phantom limb pain. “It felt like I constantly had my hand in a meat grinder, which created a high level of stress...
Preventing medical implant infections with nitric oxide generating MOF coatings
Oct 11, 2023 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Medical implants from artificial joints to pacemakers improve quality of life for millions. However, bacteria can colonize the surface of these devices, forming resilient biofilms and sparking stubborn infections. Around half of orthopedic implants become infected within the first five years, often necessitating repeated surgery...
Finding explanation for Milky Way’s warp
Oct 11, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The Milky Way is often depicted as a flat, spinning disk of dust, gas, and stars. But if you could zoom out and take an edge-on photo, it actually has a distinctive warp — as if you tried to twist and bend a vinyl LP....
Making more magnetism possible with topology
Oct 11, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers who have been working for years to understand electron arrangement, or topology, and magnetism in certain semimetals have been frustrated by the fact that the materials only display magnetic properties if they are cooled to just a few degrees above absolute zero. Key Takeaways...
Unlocking brain-like memory with photoferroelectric synapses
Oct 11, 2023 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Scientists have developed a new type of electronic component that demonstrates learning and memory functions like the human brain. The novel "photoferroelectric synapse" device, created by an international team of researchers from China, mimics the biological connections between neurons that allow the nervous system to...
Scientists discover ‘flipping’ layers in heterostructures to cause changes in their properties
Oct 11, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors are special materials that have long fascinated researchers with their unique properties. For one, they are flat, one-atom-thick two-dimensional (2D) materials similar to that of graphene. They are compounds that contain different combinations of the transition metal group (e.g., molybdenum,...
Bringing out the color in zinc
Oct 11, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Zinc is an important element that is found widely in biological systems, is cheap to manufacture relative to other metals, and has low toxicity. However, unlike other similar metals that exhibit a variety of vibrant colors in metal complexes, seeing different colors for zinc materials...
Nanosheet technology developed to boost energy storage dielectric capacitors
Oct 10, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A research group led by Professor Minoru Osada at the Institute for Materials and Systems for Sustainability (IMaSS), Nagoya University in Japan, in collaboration with NIMS, has developed a nanosheet device with the highest energy storage performance yet seen. Their results were published in Nano...
Titanium oxide nanofilament can remove toxic dyes from wastewater
Oct 10, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Discharged in large quantities by textile, cosmetic, ink, paper and other manufacturers, dyes carry high-toxicity and can bring potential carcinogens to wastewater. It’s a major concern for wastewater treatment—but researchers in Drexel University’s College of Engineering may have found a solution, using a tiny nanofilament....