Day: March 28, 2024

Mar 28, 2024 (Nanowerk News) While advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have huge implications for national R&D systems, very little is known about how governments plan to accelerate the uptake of AI by science and research institutions. In "Preparing National Research Ecosystems for AI: Strategies and Progress in 2024"(PDF), the...

Mar 28, 2024 (Nanowerk News) A University at Buffalo-led research team is developing new catalysts that aim to turn climate-warming methane emissions into useful commercial products. The work, described in Nature Communications ("Challenging thermodynamics: combining immiscible elements in a single-phase nano-ceramic"), could impact numerous industries – including natural gas and...

Mar 28, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Weak fluctuations in superconductivity, a precursor phenomenon to superconductivity, have been successfully detected by a research group of Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech). This breakthrough was achieved by measuring the thermoelectric effect in superconductors over a wide range of magnetic fields and over a...

Mar 28, 2024 (Nanowerk News) The surface properties of complex crystalline materials can be calculated reliably and automatically using only the fundamental laws of physics, thanks to a new computer-based method. The method could speed up the search for new materials for important technologies such as photovoltaics, batteries or data...

Mar 28, 2024 (Nanowerk News) With the help of data from the Advanced Light Source (ALS), researchers found that small changes in how electron spins interact with each other can make a big difference in the magnetic transition temperatures of 2D magnets. The findings are published in Nano Letters ("Electronic...

Mar 28, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) In the pursuit of sustainable energy solutions, organic solar cells (OSCs) have emerged as a promising technology for semitransparent applications, such as building-integrated photovoltaics and greenhouses. The ability to fine-tune the optical properties of OSCs by manipulating the light-absorbing materials, known as donors and acceptors,...

Mar 28, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Dr. Cheol-Woo Ahn, leading a research team at the Department of Functional Ceramics within the Ceramic Materials Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science(KIMS), has developed the world's first heat dissipation material. This material reduces hydrophilicity through a chemical reaction that forms a nanocrystalline...

Mar 28, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Metalenses, nano-artificial structures capable of manipulating light, offer a technology that can significantly reduce the size and thickness of traditional optical components. Particularly effective in the near-infrared region, this technology holds great promise for various applications such as LiDAR which is called the ‘eyes of...

Mar 28, 2024 (Nanowerk News) A team of scientists from Columbia, Nanjing University, Princeton, and the University of Munster, writing in the journal Nature ("Evidence for chiral graviton modes in fractional quantum Hall liquids"), have presented the first experimental evidence of collective excitations with spin called chiral graviton modes (CGMs)...