Researchers develop artificial building blocks of life

Mar 08, 2024 (Nanowerk News) For the first time, scientists from the University of Cologne (UoC) have developed artificial nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA, with several additional properties in the laboratory. They could be used as artificial nucleic acids for therapeutic applications. DNA carries the genetic information of all...

Physics-based predictive tool will speed up battery and superconductor research

Mar 08, 2024 (Nanowerk News) From lithium-ion batteries to next-generation superconductors, the functionality of many modern, advanced technologies depends on the physical property known as intercalation. Unfortunately, it's difficult to identify in advance which of the many possible intercalated materials are stable, which necessitates a lot of trial-and-error lab work...

Completely recycled viscose for the first time

Mar 06, 2024 (Nanowerk News) At present, viscose textiles are made of biomass from the forest, and there is no such thing as fully recycled viscose. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now succeeded in making new viscose – from worn-out cotton sheets. The research has been published in...

Advancing nanoscale temperature measurement in TEM with lanthanide-doped heavy-metal oxide

Mar 07, 2024 (Nanowerk News) A groundbreaking method for measuring the temperature of nanometer-sized samples within a transmission electron microscope (TEM) has been developed by Professor Oh-Hoon Kwon and his research team in the Department of Chemistry at UNIST. This innovative technology, utilizing nano-thermometers based on cathodoluminescence (CL) spectroscopy, opens...