Delivering advanced cleanroom-compliant, automated AFM solutions for the semiconductor industry

Oct 24, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Nanosurf, a leading provider of cutting-edge atomic force microscope (AFM) measurement equipment, offers fully automated, clean-room compliant AFM measurement solutions for the semiconductor industry. By providing measurement solutions for quality control, Nanosurf is a key contributor to the advancement of semiconductor industry. Through substantial experience...

Silk nanointerfaces merge biology and electronics

Oct 24, 2023 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Our breath can reveal a lot about our health. Tiny molecules in our exhaled air provide clues to everything from lung disease to diabetes. That’s why researchers are keen to develop ever-more-sensitive breath sensors, capable of detecting tell-tale compounds with precision. Now scientists report a...

A step on the way to solid-state batteries

Oct 24, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A lithium ceramic could act as a solid electrolyte in a more powerful and cost-efficient generation of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. The challenge is to find a production method that works without sintering at high temperatures. In the journal Angewandte Chemie ("Time-Temperature-Transformation (TTT) Diagram of Battery-Grade...

Researchers create the most water-repellent surface ever

Oct 23, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers have developed a new mechanism to make water droplets slip off surfaces, described in a paper published in Nature Chemistry ("Droplet slipperiness despite surface heterogeneity at molecular scale"). The discovery challenges existing ideas about friction between solid surfaces and water and opens up a...

New exoplanet-informed research sets clearer bounds on the search for radio technosignatures

Oct 23, 2023 (Nanowerk News) In a new study published in the Astronomical Journal ("Developing a Drift Rate Distribution for Technosignature Searches of Exoplanets"), researchers used the known population of exoplanets and extrapolated to the much larger, unknown population of exoplanets to set better thresholds for planetary effects on signals...

LIGO surpasses the quantum limit

Oct 23, 2023 (Nanowerk News) In 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, made history when it made the first direct detection of gravitational waves, or ripples in space and time, produced by a pair of colliding black holes. Since then, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded LIGO and...