May 22, 2024 (Nanowerk News) A research team, jointly led by Professors Jiyun Kim, Chaenyung Cha, and Myoung Hoon Song from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UNIST, has unveiled the world’s first flexible, biodegradable bioelectronic paper with homogeneously distributed wireless stimulation functionality for simple personalization of bioelectronic...
Controlling the chaos of active fluids
May 22, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Physicists at UC Santa Barbara, with colleagues at University of Michigan (UM) and The University of Chicago (UChicago), have developed design rules that take advantage of topological defects to control self-sustained chaotic flows in active fluids. This framework, for now developed as a theoretical model,...
Nanostrings that can vibrate forever (kind of)
May 22, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from TU Delft and Brown University have engineered string-like resonators capable of vibrating longer at ambient temperature than any previously known solid-state object — approaching what is currently only achievable near absolute zero temperatures. Their study, published in Nature Communications ("Centimeter-scale nanomechanical resonators with...
Ultra-flexible electronic slime takes cues from shape-shifting amoeba
May 22, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) The field of epidermal electronics, which involves flexible electronic systems that interface with the skin, has attracted growing interest in recent years for potential applications ranging from health monitoring to human-machine interaction. However, widespread adoption has been hindered by limitations in existing technologies, including complex...
Researchers develop a MOF detector for continuously monitoring toxic gases
May 22, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Most systems used to detect toxic gases in industrial or domestic settings can be used only once, or at best a few times. Now, researchers at MIT have developed a detector that could provide continuous monitoring for the presence of these gases, at low cost....
New crystal production method could enhance quantum computers and electronics
May 22, 2024 (Nanowerk News) In a study published in Nature Materials ("Exceptional electronic transport and quantum oscillations in thin bismuth crystals grown inside van der Waals materials"), scientists from the University of California, Irvine describe a new method to make very thin crystals of the element bismuth – a...
Metamaterials achieve control of polarized light for molecular identification
May 21, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Polarized light waves spin clockwise or counterclockwise as they travel, with one direction behaving differently than the other as it interacts with molecules. This directionality, called chirality or handedness, could provide a way to identify and sort specific molecules for use in biomedicine applications, but...