Jan 22, 2024 (Nanowerk News) A breakthrough technology has been developed that enables the production of green hydrogen in a more cost-effective and environmentally friendly manner, bringing us closer to a carbon-neutral society by replacing expensive precious metal catalysts. Led by Professor Jungki Ryu in the School of Energy and...
Trapping krypton atoms inside carbon nanotubes to form one-dimensional gas
Jan 22, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Scientists from the University of Nottingham’s School of Chemistry used advanced transmission electron microscopy (TEM) methods to capture the moment when krypton (Kr) atoms joined together, one by one, inside a carbon nanotube with diameter half a million times smaller than the width of a...
Artificial neural network hardware based on stacked neuron-synapse-neuron structural blocks
Jan 22, 2024 (Nanowerk News) With the emergence of new industries such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and machine learning, the world's leading companies are focusing on developing next-generation artificial intelligence semiconductors that can process vast amounts of data while consuming energy efficiently. Neuromorphic computing, inspired by the...
New sustainable method for creating organic semiconductors
Jan 22, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have developed a new, more environmentally friendly way to create conductive inks for use in organic electronics such as solar cells, artificial neurons, and soft sensors. The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications ("Ground-state electron transfer in all-polymer donor:acceptor...
New paper explores four nearby fast radio burst sources
Jan 20, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Fleeting blasts of energy from space, known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), are a cosmic enigma. A Canadian-led international team of researchers has published new findings suggesting that supernovae are the predominant contributors to forming sources that eventually produce FRBs. “Fast radio bursts are one...
Scientists unravel key steps in the road to DNA repair
Jan 20, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have been studying DNA repair by homologous recombination, where the RecA protein repairs breaks in double-stranded DNA by incorporating a dangling single-strand end into intact double strands, and repairing the break based on the undamaged sequence. They discovered that RecA...
New ultra-thin ‘skin’ for flexible electronics promises advancements for medical devices and prosthetics
Jan 20, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Electronic devices intricately mounted onto human skin have long captivated scientific imagination, tantalizing specialists by promising a seamless fusion of man and machine. Such skin-hugging circuitry could unlock medical sensors of unprecedented acuity or bionic limbs wired to the nervous system. But despite decades of...
Machine learning techniques accelerate development of anti-inflammatory biomaterials
Jan 20, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Biocompatibility is a crucial goal in medical device development. For years, scientists have worked to create implant coatings and components that integrate well with the body's immune systems. Despite thorough efforts, most prosthetics and implants still cause some inflammation, reducing their therapeutic value. The challenging...
Mini-robots modeled on insects may be smallest, lightest, fastest ever developed
Jan 18, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Two insect-like robots, a mini-bug and a water strider, developed at Washington State University, are the smallest, lightest and fastest fully functional micro-robots ever known to be created. Such miniature robots could someday be used for work in areas such as artificial pollination, search and...
revealing a novel magnetic phase diagram
Jan 18, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Quasicrystals are intermetallic materials that have garnered significant attention from researchers aiming to advance condensed matter physics understanding. Unlike normal crystals, in which atoms are arranged in an ordered repeating pattern, quasicrystals have non-repeating ordered patterns of atoms. Their unique structure leads to many exotic...