Jul 09, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Creating periodic nanostructures is vital for progress in material science and nanotechnology. Traditional methods often struggle with complexity and scalability. Integrating bottom-up self-assembly of block molecules with top-down lithography offers a solution, enabling the formation of sophisticated nanostructures. These challenges necessitate innovative approaches to fabricate...
Moving from the visible to the infrared: Developing high quality nanocrystals
Jul 09, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, quantum dots have a wide variety of applications ranging from displays and LED lights to chemical reaction catalysis and bioimaging. These semiconductor nanocrystals are so small – on the order of nanometers – that their properties, such as...
Laser and 2D materials enable novel plastic breakdown for recycling
Jul 09, 2024 (Nanowerk News) A global research team led by Texas Engineers has developed a way to blast the molecules in plastics and other materials with a laser to break them down into their smallest parts for future reuse. The discovery, which involves laying these materials on top of...
Researchers aim for smaller chip features using new materials and advanced modeling
Jul 09, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are applying their expertise in physics, chemistry and computer modeling to create the next generation of computer chips, aiming for processes and materials that will produce chips with smaller features. “All of our existing electronic devices use chips...
Perovskite-filled carbon nanotube transistors pave the way for ultra-low power electronics
Jul 09, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) The miniaturization of electronic components has been a driving force behind computing advancements for over half a century. However, as silicon-based transistors approach their physical limits, researchers are exploring alternative materials to continue progress in semiconductor technology. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have long been considered promising...
New method for determining the exchange energy of 2D materials
Jul 09, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Ferromagnetism is an important physical phenomenon that plays a key role in many technologies. It is well-known that metals such as iron, cobalt and nickel are magnetic at room temperature because their electron spins are aligned in parallel — and it is only at very...
Novel strategy to develop high-performance hybrid bio-nanostructures
Jul 08, 2024 (Nanowerk News) The research team of Dr. Jae Ho Kim and Dr. Myungkwan Song from the Energy and Environmental Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) in collaboration with Professor Jin-Woo Oh from Pusan National University and Professor Jin Woo Choi from Kongju...