Dec 20, 2023 (Nanowerk News) As industrial computing needs grow, the size and energy consumption of the hardware needed to keep up with those needs grows as well. A possible solution to this dilemma could be found in superconducting materials, which can reduce that energy consumption exponentially. Imagine cooling a...
A glass based on MOFs sifts carbon dioxide
Dec 20, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Separating carbon dioxide molecules from gas mixtures requires materials with extremely fine pores. Researchers from Friedrich Schiller University Jena, in cooperation with the University of Leipzig and the University of Vienna, have now found a novel way to do this: they transformed crystalline metal-organic framework...
Room temperature quasiparticle discovery advances superconductivity research
Dec 20, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Searching for superconductors – materials with zero resistivity – with the critical temperature approaching room temperature is one of the holy grails of science, with massive potential for transforming fundamental science, applied science, and society. Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark discovered that single...
First observation of coherent charge dynamics in graphene quantum dots
Dec 20, 2023 (Nanowerk News) In a recent study published in Nature Communications ("Coherent charge oscillations in a bilayer graphene double quantum dot"), researchers from RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich have reported the observation of coherent charge oscillations in bilayer graphene quantum dots. This marks a significant milestone on...
How researchers are ‘CReATiNG’ synthetic chromosomes faster and cheaper
Dec 20, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A groundbreaking new technique invented by researchers at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Science may revolutionize the field of synthetic biology. Known as CReATiNG (Cloning Reprogramming and Assembling Tiled Natural Genomic DNA), the method offers a simpler and more cost-effective approach to...
New approach enables rapid fabrication of sensitive and stable MXene gas sensors
Dec 20, 2023 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Two-dimensional materials like graphene and transition metal carbides have long attracted interest for gas sensing applications due to their high conductivity and surface area. However, reliably translating these properties into real-world ultrasensitive gas sensors has faced enduring obstacles. Challenges like optimizing surface interactions with target...
Aerogel can become the key to future terahertz technologies
Dec 20, 2023 (Nanowerk News) High-frequency terahertz waves have great potential for a number of applications including next-generation medical imaging and communication. Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have shown, in a study published in the journal Advanced Science ("Switchable Broadband Terahertz Absorbers Based onConducting Polymer-Cellulose Aerogels"), that the transmission of...
Advanced microfluidic system for early cancer detection
Dec 19, 2023 (Nanowerk News) In a groundbreaking study published in the journal Microsystems & Nanoengineering ("Microfluidic magnetic detection system combined with a DNA framework-mediated immune-sandwich assay for rapid and sensitive detection of tumor-derived exosomes"), Researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and...