Jul 16, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Tantalising evidence of potential dark matter objects has been detected with the help of the Universe’s ‘timekeepers’. These pulsars – neutron stars which rotate and emit lighthouse-like beams of radio waves that rapidly sweep through space – were used to identify mysterious hidden masses. Pulsars...
Researchers are making electrons visible in slow motion
Jul 16, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Physicists at the University of Stuttgart under the leadership of Prof. Sebastian Loth are developing quantum microscopy which enables them for the first time to record the movement of electrons at the atomic level with both extremely high spatial and temporal resolution. Their method has...
Teaching the gene scissors to detect RNA
Jul 16, 2024 (Nanowerk News) CRISPR-Cas systems, defense systems in bacteria, have become a plentiful source of technologies for molecular diagnostics. Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg have expanded this extensive toolbox. Their novel method, called PUMA, enables the detection of RNA with Cas12...
Novel hydrogel sensor enables real-time monitoring of movement disorders
Jul 16, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) The field of wearable health monitoring devices has seen tremendous growth in recent years, driven by advances in flexible electronics, biocompatible materials, and miniaturized sensors. These technologies have enabled the development of skin-adherent patches, smart textiles, and other wearable form factors that can continuously track...
Capturing carbon with energy-efficient sodium carbonate-nanocarbon hybrid material
Jul 16, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Industrial emissions are one of the main sources of climate change-inducing carbon dioxide (CO2). While adopting renewable and clean energy alternatives is one option for mitigating these carbon emissions, carbon capture technology is another solution to control CO2 emissions. In big CO2-emitting industries, such as...
A new metamaterial concept offering the potential for more efficient data storage
Jul 16, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), TU Chemnitz, TU Dresden and Forschungszentrum Jülich have been the first to demonstrate that not just individual bits, but entire bit sequences can be stored in cylindrical domains: tiny, cylindrical areas measuring just around 100 nanometers. As the team...
Researchers achieve unprecedented nanostructuring inside silicon
Jul 16, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Silicon, the cornerstone of modern electronics, photovoltaics, and photonics, has traditionally been limited to surface-level nanofabrication due to the challenges posed by existing lithographic techniques. Available methods either fail to penetrate the wafer surface without causing alterations or are limited by the micron-scale resolution of...