Jun 03, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Converting CO2 into fuel and chemicals using electricity, also known as electrochemical conversion of CO2, is a promising way to reduce emissions. This process allows us to use carbon captured from industries and the atmosphere and turn it into resources that we usually get from...
Ultra-thin infrared filter, thinner than cling wrap, revolutionizes night vision
Jun 03, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from TMOS, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, have made significant progress in their journey to deliver a new approach to night vision technology, creating an infrared filter that is thinner than a piece of cling wrap, and that could one...
A breakthrough in soft actuator technology
Jun 02, 2024 (Nanowerk News) In an age where robotics are seamlessly integrating into daily life, a team of researchers at Zhejiang University, China, has achieved a remarkable breakthrough. Their latest creation, a wrist-inspired soft actuator capable of bidirectional torsion, holds great promise for the advancement of soft robotics. The...
The future of drug testing: Vascularized organ-on-a-chip technologies
Jun 02, 2024 (Nanowerk News) In an era defined by rapid technological advances in biomedical engineering, a groundbreaking development is poised to transform our approach to drug testing and disease modeling. Researchers from Shanghai University and the University of California, Los Angeles, have made significant progress in creating in vitro...
Introducing the hybrid-driven robotic origami gripper
Jun 02, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University have unveiled a novel hybrid-driven origami gripper, designed to tackle the challenge of grasping and manipulating objects with unprecedented versatility and precision. This innovative device, highlighted in a recent study published in Cyborg Bionic Systems ("Hybrid-Driven Origami Gripper with...