Jun 13, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Southern Methodist University nanotechnology expert MinJun Kim and his team have developed a faster, more precise way to detect the properties and interactions of individual proteins crucial in rapid, accurate, and real-time monitoring of virus-cell interactions. This could pave the way for innovative medical therapies...
Researchers create nanocubes forming floating checkerboards via self-assembly
Jun 13, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers have engineered nanosized cubes that spontaneously form a two-dimensional checkerboard pattern when dropped on the surface of water. The work, published in Nature Communications ("Self-assembly of nanocrystal checkerboard patterns via non-specific interactions"), presents a simple approach to create complex nanostructures through a technique called...
Photonic chip integrates sensing and computing for ultrafast machine vision
Jun 13, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers have demonstrated a new intelligent photonic sensing-computing chip that can process, transmit and reconstruct images of a scene within nanoseconds. This advance opens the door to extremely high-speed image processing that could benefit edge intelligence for machine vision applications such as autonomous driving, industrial...
A novel approach for detecting a particular biomolecule associated with several diseases
Jun 13, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University report in Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X ("A novel aptamer-antibody sandwich electrochemical sensor for detecting ADAR1 in complex biological samples") a novel approach for detecting a particular biomolecule associated with several diseases. The results show good sensitivity...
A liquid crystal source of photon pairs
Jun 13, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), as a source of entangled photons, is of great interest for quantum physics and quantum technology, but so far it could be only implemented in solids. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) and Jozef Stefan...
Wind from black holes may influence development of surrounding galaxies
Jun 12, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Clouds of gas in a distant galaxy are being pushed faster and faster — at more than 10,000 miles per second — out among neighboring stars by blasts of radiation from the supermassive black hole at the galaxy’s center. It’s a discovery that helps illuminate...
How do supermassive black holes get super massive?
Jun 12, 2024 (Nanowerk News) By combining forefront X-ray observations with state-of-the-art supercomputer simulations of the buildup of galaxies over cosmic history, researchers have provided the best modeling to date of the growth of the supermassive black holes found in the centers of galaxies. Using this hybrid approach, a research...
Tiny robot enables unlocks secrets of the gut microbiome, one sample at a time
Jun 12, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) The complex community of microorganisms inhabiting the human digestive tract, known as the gut microbiome, plays a vital role in health and disease. In recent years, research into the gut microbiome has intensified as scientists have uncovered its far-reaching influence on everything from digestive disorders...