Month: March 2024

Mar 19, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Tiny chips may equal a big breakthrough for a team of scientists led by Brown University engineers. Writing in Nature Electronics ("An asynchronous wireless network for capturing event-driven data from large populations of autonomous sensors"), the research team describes a novel approach for a wireless...

Mar 19, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Organic electronics is a field that has garnered significant interest in academic and industrial circles due to its potential applications in OLEDs and organic solar cells, offering advantages such as lightweight design, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. These devices are made by depositing a thin film of...

Mar 19, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) The blood-brain barrier, a tightly regulated interface between the circulating blood and the central nervous system, has long been a daunting obstacle in the quest to deliver effective treatments for neurodegenerative diseases. Despite significant advancements in our understanding of these debilitating conditions, the development of...

Mar 18, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Scientists at the University of Surrey have built a new kind of solar panel with two faces, both of them pretty. Their flexible perovskite panels have electrodes made of carbon nanotubes. These can generate more power with greater efficiency and at a cost 70% lower...

Mar 18, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Shenzhen International Graduate School of Tsinghua University, the Institute of Metal Research of CAS, and the University of Science and Technology of China of CAS, have synthesized bulk...

Mar 18, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from IMDEA Materials Institute have published groundbreaking work demonstrating, for the first time, the ability to recycle high-performance carbon nanotube (CNT) sheets while preserving their shape, structural alignment, mechanical and electrical properties, and intrinsic flexibility. The paper was recently published in a special issue...

Mar 18, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Leafhoppers, a common backyard insect, secrete and coat themselves in tiny mysterious particles that could provide both the inspiration and the instructions for next-generation technology, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers. In a first, the team precisely replicated the complex geometry...

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...