Feb 01, 2024 (Nanowerk News) The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, has recently resolved the jet base of an evolving jet of plasma at ultra-high angular resolution (Astronomy & Astrophysics, "Ordered magnetic fields around the 3C 84 central...
Single proton illuminates perovskite nanocrystals-based transmissive thin scintillators
Feb 01, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a transmissive thin scintillator using perovskite nanocrystals, designed for real-time tracking and counting of single protons. The exceptional sensitivity is attributed to biexcitonic radiative emission generated through proton-induced upconversion and impact ionisation. The detection of...
Nanoscale imaging method reveals new cells and structures in human brain tissue
Feb 01, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Using a novel microscopy technique, MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School researchers have imaged human brain tissue in greater detail than ever before, revealing cells and structures that were not previously visible. Among their findings, the researchers discovered that some “low-grade” brain tumors...
Machine learning guides carbon nanotechnology
Jan 31, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Carbon nanostructures could become easier to design and synthesize thanks to a machine learning method that predicts how they grow on metal surfaces. The new approach, developed by researchers at Japan's Tohoku University and China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University, will make it easier to exploit...
Hydrogel platform enables versatile data encryption and decryption
Jan 31, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Hydrogels are crosslinked polymer networks that can absorb huge volumes of water. In recent years, significant progress has been made with so-called "stimuli-responsive" hydrogels - materials that change properties in response to environmental triggers like pH or temperature shifts. Clever integration of these dynamics has...
Groundbreaking genome editing tools unlock new possibilities for precision medicine
Jan 31, 2024 (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers at the Carl Gustav Carus Faculty of Medicine, University of Technology Dresden, led by Prof. Frank Buchholz, has achieved a major breakthrough in genome editing technology. They've developed a cutting-edge method that combines the power of designer-recombinases with programmable DNA-binding domains...
Researchers discover new ways to excite spin waves with extreme infrared light
Jan 31, 2024 (Nanowerk News) As demands for computing resources continue to increase rapidly, scientists and engineers are looking for ways to build faster systems for processing information. One possible solution is to use patterns of electron spins, called spin waves, to transfer and process information much more rapidly than...