Oct 27, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) announced that the research team of Professor Sang-hyun Park at the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering had developed a new image translation model that could effectively reduce biases in data. In the process of developing an...
Hybrid nanomaterials promise a sustainability boost across multiple industries
Oct 27, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A new class of nanoscale hybrid materials has the potential to improve sustainability across energy systems, transport, biosensors, water purification and even 3D printing, but the field is still very young. A group of researchers has produced a detailed overview of the state of play...
Electrodes with hollow nanotubes improve performance of potassium-ion batteries
Oct 27, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers who are working to find alternatives to lithium-ion batteries have turned their attention to potassium-ion batteries. Potassium is an abundant resource and the technology functions in much the same way as lithium-ion batteries, but these batteries have not been developed at a large scale...
3D printed reactor core makes solar fuel production more efficient
Oct 27, 2023 (Nanowerk News) In recent years, engineers at ETH Zurich have developed the technology to produce liquid fuels from sunlight and air. In 2019, they demonstrated the entire thermochemical process chain under real conditions for the first time, in the middle of Zurich, on the roof of ETH...
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...
Tiny brick-busting ‘muscles’ for miniature robotics are sourced from wood
Oct 27, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Wood is the source for a brick-breaking mini robotic muscle material developed by researchers in Sweden and Germany. The material — a specially-developed hydrogel — can shape-shift, expand and contract on demand when controlled with electronic impulses of less than 1 volt. Robotics is just...
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,...