Jan 26, 2024 (Nanowerk News) MIT researchers have developed an additive manufacturing technique that can print rapidly with liquid metal, producing large-scale parts like table legs and chair frames in a matter of minutes. Their technique, called liquid metal printing (LMP), involves depositing molten aluminum along a predefined path into...
Turning glass into a transparent light-energy harvester
Jan 26, 2024 (Nanowerk News) What happens when you expose tellurite glass to femtosecond laser light? That’s the question that Gözden Torun at the Galatea Lab, in a collaboration with Tokyo Tech scientists, aimed to answer in her thesis work when she made the discovery that may one day turn...
Puffed-up MOFs for improved drug delivery
Jan 26, 2024 (Nanowerk News) The spongelike structure of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) allows these polymers to possibly carry and deliver a range of therapeutic compounds. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Applied Bio Materials ("Performance of MIL-101(Cr) and MIL-101(Cr)-Pore Expanded as Drug Carriers for Ibuprofen and 5‑Fluorouracil Delivery") treated a...
Locusts’ sense of smell boosted with custom-made nanoparticles
Jan 26, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Our sensory systems are highly adaptable. A person who cannot see after turning off a light in the night slowly achieves superior power to see even small objects. Women often attain a heightened sense of smell during pregnancy. How can the same sensory system that...
The internal clock of materials
Jan 26, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Physicists in Darmstadt are investigating ageing processes in materials. For the first time, they have measured the ticking of an internal clock in glass. When evaluating the data, they discovered a surprising phenomenon. In everyday life, we experience time as having only one direction. Who...
Using graphene to generate powerful and focused X-rays using electron waveshaping
Jan 26, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Scientists led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed and simulated a new energy-efficient way to generate highly focused and finely controlled X-rays that are up to a thousand times more intense than those from traditional methods (Light: Science & Applications, "Free-electron crystals...
The most insane text-to-video AI system yet (w/video)
Jan 26, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Once simply science fiction fantasy, the capability to automatically generate fully formed, realistic videos from text prompts alone has inched closer to reality in recent years thanks to rapid advances in artificial intelligence. However, modeling the intricacy and fluidity of natural motion has persistently challenged...
Breakthrough in muscle regeneration uses MXene scaffolds to support tissue growth
Jan 25, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Tissue engineering, which involves the use of grafts or scaffolds to aid cell regeneration, is emerging as a key medical practice for treating volumetric muscle loss (VML), a condition where a significant amount of muscle tissue is lost beyond the body's natural regenerative capacity. To...
New method flips the script on topological physics
Jan 25, 2024 (Nanowerk News) The branch of mathematics known as topology has become a cornerstone of modern physics thanks to the remarkable – and above all reliable – properties it can impart to a material or system. Unfortunately, identifying topological systems, or even designing new ones, is generally a...