Day: January 23, 2024

Jan 23, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Quantum magnetometers are able to detect and visualize the tiniest damage in ferromagnetic materials. In aerospace technology or the automotive industry, they can help to significantly increase the resilience and safety of systems and materials. This conclusion was reached by researchers from the recently completed...

Jan 23, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Web 3.0 is an internet paradigm that is based around blockchain technology, an advanced database mechanism. Compared to Web 2.0, the current internet paradigm, Web 3.0 provides some added advantages, such as transparency and decentralized control structures. This is because Web 3.0 is designed to...

Jan 23, 2024 (Nanowerk News) The humble membranes that enclose our cells have a surprising superpower: They can push away nano-sized molecules that happen to approach them. A team including scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has figured out why, by using artificial membranes that mimic...

Jan 23, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Aviation has grown considerably in recent decades and accounts for approximately 2 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions and some 4 percent of all climate change impacts annually. While aviation is an important contributor to climate change and other environmental problems, electrification is one option...

Jan 23, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at INL are using nanotechnology to develop functional foods that can be consumed by people with food intolerances and allergies. Ana Isabel Bourbon, from the Food Processing and Nutrition research group, explains: “Our society is increasingly changing its eating habits and this has several...

Jan 23, 2024 (Nanowerk News) The global consumption of pharmaceuticals is growing rapidly every year, reaching 4 billion doses in 2020. As more and more pharmaceuticals are metabolized by the human body and enter sewage and wastewater treatment plants, the amount and types of trace substances found in them are...

Jan 23, 2024 (Nanowerk News) An international team of researchers from Leibniz University Hannover (Germany) and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (United Kingdom) has disproved a previously held assumption about the impact of multiphoton components in interference effects of thermal fields (e.g. sunlight) and parametric single photons (generated in...

Jan 23, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Infrared spectroscopy allows scientists to study molecules by analyzing their unique vibrational signatures, which act as chemical fingerprints. However, conventional infrared techniques still struggle to detect ultrathin biolayers like those critical for tissue engineering, bioelectronic implants, environmental sensing, and fundamental cell biology. Though surface enhancements...

Jan 22, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) The dynamics of chemical reactions central to energy innovations unfold at nanometer lengths - a scale too small to directly witness in atomistic detail, obscured by limitations of observation tools. Scientists could only speculate based on indirect evidence rather than visually verifying the intricate molecular...

Jan 22, 2024 (Nanowerk News) A research team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed “supramolecular ink,” a new technology for use in OLED (organic light-emitting diode) displays or other electronic devices. Made of inexpensive, Earth-abundant elements instead of costly scarce metals, supramolecular ink could enable more...