Day: March 18, 2024

Mar 18, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Scientists are always on the lookout for ways to make our world a better place, and one area they're focusing on is solar energy. One idea in this area is to make solar cells more efficient by concentrating more solar light onto them. While investigating...

Mar 18, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Professor Zhou Meng's team from the University of Science and Technology of China, in collaboration with Professor Wang Quanming's group from Tsinghua University, has made significant progress in the field of photoluminescence. Their research, published in Science ("Near-unity NIR phosphorescent quantum yield from a room-temperature...

Mar 18, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Astronomers have charted the largest-ever volume of the universe with a new map of active supermassive black holes living at the centers of galaxies. Called quasars, the gas-gobbling black holes are, ironically, some of the universe’s brightest objects. The new map logs the location of...

Mar 18, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at AIST, in collaboration with Osaka University, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Kyushu University, and National Tsing Hua University, have developed a technique to insert alkali metals into the interlayers of graphene. They have succeeded in directly observing the atomic arrangement of the inserted alkali metal...

Mar 18, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Doctors have long prescribed exercise to improve and protect health. In the future, a pill may offer some of the same benefits as exercise. Now, researchers report on new compounds that appear capable of mimicking the physical boost of working out — at least within...

Mar 18, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) The advent of wearable technology has brought with it a pressing need for energy storage solutions that can keep pace with the flexibility and stretchability of soft electronic devices. Conventional rigid batteries and supercapacitors have proven inadequate for seamless integration into wearables that must conform...