Nov 07, 2023 (Nanowerk News) What are the hallmarks of a good battery? Is it its capacity? How fast it charges? Or its price? The answer depends on where the battery is used, says Empa researcher Kostiantyn Kravchyk. In the Functional Inorganic Materials Group, led by Maksym Kovalenko and part...
Neuromorphic computing will be great… if hardware can handle the workload
Nov 07, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Technology is edging closer and closer to the super-speed world of computing with artificial intelligence. But is the world equipped with the proper hardware to be able to handle the workload of new AI technological breakthroughs? Key Takeaways Current AI technologies are strained by the...
An ammonia trail to exoplanets
Nov 07, 2023 (Nanowerk News) They reveal the origin of wine, the age of bones and fossils, and they serve as diagnostic tools in medicine. Isotopes and isotopologues – molecules that differ only in the composition of their isotopes – also play an increasingly important role in astronomy. For example,...
Scaling up nano for sustainable manufacturing
Nov 07, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A new self-assembling nanosheet could radically accelerate the development of functional and sustainable nanomaterials for electronics, energy storage, health and safety, and more. Key Takeaways A novel nanosheet developed at Berkeley Lab promises to advance sustainable manufacturing and extend product shelf life. The material, overcoming...
Processor made for AI speeds up genome assembly
Nov 07, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A hardware accelerator initially developed for artificial intelligence operations successfully speeds up the alignment of protein and DNA molecules, making the process up to 10 times faster than state-of-the-art methods. This approach can make it more efficient to align protein sequences and DNA for genome...
Advances in soft robotics usher in a new era of scientific analysis
Nov 07, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Could robots, whose forms can be adapted to achieve almost any real-world task, soon be able to lend a hand in understanding the paleoecology tracing of extinct organisms? William Ausich, a professor of earth sciences at The Ohio State University who has studied paleontology for...
‘Hot’ new form of microscopy examines materials using evanescent waves
Nov 07, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Conventional microscopes irradiate a sample, usually with light or electrons. Any reflected or scattered radiation can be used to build a detailed image and obtain characteristic information about a material’s surface. This is called an active measurement, but it isn’t the only technique that can...