Organic nanofilms transform resistive memory and electronics

Oct 27, 2023 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Researchers have been keenly interested in leveraging the useful properties of crystalline nanoporous materials for electronic applications. Ordered frameworks such as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), covalent organic frameworks (COFs), and hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks (HOFs) have highly periodic structures and tunable functionality. Their unique characteristics make them...

Unlocking sugar to generate biofuels and bioproducts

Oct 27, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Plant biologists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have engineered enzymes to modify grass plants so their biomass can be more efficiently converted into biofuels and other bioproducts. As described in a paper just published in Plant Biotechnology Journal ("Simultaneous suppression...

Advances in chiral nanophotonics with anisotropic lattice and high-Q metasurfaces

Oct 27, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Chirality is an intrinsic property of an object that cannot coincide with its mirror image by translation or rotation. In order to realize strong chiral light-matter interactions which are usually weak in natural materials for practical applications, artificial sub-wavelength structures such as metamaterials, metasurfaces, and...

Deep learning speeds up galactic calculations

Oct 27, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Supernovae, exploding stars, play a critical role in the formation and evolution of galaxies. However, key aspects of them are notoriously difficult to simulate accurately in reasonably short amounts of time. For the first time, a team of researchers, including those from The University of...

Ultrathin crystals vibe with infrared light

Oct 27, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Combining electronics with infrared light can enable small, fast, and sensitive devices for sensing, imaging, and signaling at the molecular level. However, in the infrared spectrum, materials must meet strict quality requirements for their crystals in order to meet the requirements for these functions. Now,...