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...
Sweeping review reveals impact of integrating artificial intelligence technologies into photovoltaic systems
Jun 12, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Artificial intelligence is poised to bring photovoltaic systems into a new era through revolutionary improvements in efficiency, reliability, and predictability of solar power generation. In their paper published in CAAI Artificial Intelligence Research ("A Comprehensive Review of Artificial Intelligence Applications in the Photovoltaic Systems"), a...
Swimming microrobots deliver cancer-fighting drugs to metastatic lung tumors in mice
Jun 12, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed microscopic robots, known as microrobots, capable of swimming through the lungs to deliver cancer-fighting medication directly to metastatic tumors. This approach has shown promise in mice, where it inhibited the growth and spread of tumors...
Quantum dot based metasurface enables two objects to exist in the same space
Jun 12, 2024 (Nanowerk News) In relationships, sharing closer spaces naturally deepens the connection as bonds form and strengthen through increasing shared memories. This principle applies not only to human interactions but also to engineering. Recently, an intriguing study was published demonstrating the use of quantum dots to create metasurfaces,...
Affordable and sensitive nanofiber piezoelectric sensors for human and robot motion monitoring
Jun 12, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Flexible piezoelectric sensors are essential to monitor the motions of both humans and humanoid robots. However, existing designs are either are costly or have limited sensitivity. In a recent study, researchers from Japan tackled these issues by developing a novel piezoelectric composite material made from...