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...
New device rapidly decodes RNA for faster cancer diagnosis
Oct 23, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A new device created at the University of Notre Dame employs an innovative method for “listening in” on cells’ conversations. Key Takeaways A new device from the University of Notre Dame utilizes pH and electrical charge to isolate extracellular RNA (exRNA), which can signal the...
3D-printed hairs detect flow and environmental changes
Oct 23, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Eyelashes and brows catch dust and debris from entering eyes. The same idea goes for tiny nose and ear hairs. At a more microscopic level, the tiny hair-like cilia that line human cells help detect subtle environmental changes and can boost a person’s senses. Key...
Breakthrough in collaborative magnetic microrobotics (w/video)
Oct 23, 2023 (Nanowerk News) For the first time ever, researchers at the Surgical Robotics Laboratory of the University of Twente successfully made two microrobots work together to pick up, move and assemble passive objects in 3D environments. This achievement opens new horizons for promising biomedical applications. Imagine you need...
Plants transformed into detectors of dangerous chemicals
Oct 23, 2023 (Nanowerk News) What if your house plant could tell you your water isn’t safe? Scientists are closer to realizing this vision, having successfully engineered a plant to turn beet red in the presence of a banned, toxic pesticide. To achieve this, UC Riverside researchers had to solve...
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...