Jul 27, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have created the first-ever atomic movies showing how atoms rearrange locally within a quantum material as it transitions from an insulator to a metal. With the help of these movies, the researchers discovered a new material phase that settles a...
Building ‘wind-up’ sensors with carbon nanotubes
Jul 27, 2024 (Nanowerk News) An international team of scientists, including two researchers who now work in the Center for Advanced Sensor Technology (CAST) at UMBC, has shown that twisted carbon nanotubes can store three times more energy per unit mass than advanced lithium-ion batteries. The finding may advance carbon...
Discovery sheds light on the origins of matter in the early universe
Jul 27, 2024 (Nanowerk News) The early universe was 250,000 times hotter than the core of our sun. That’s far too hot to form the protons and neutrons that make up everyday matter. Scientists recreate the conditions of the early universe in particle accelerators by smashing atoms together at nearly...
novel tunable ultrasonic liquid crystal light diffuser
Jul 26, 2024 (Nanowerk News) It is no mystery that light is essential to human life. Since the discovery of fire, humans have developed various artificial light sources, such as incandescent lamps, gaslights, discharge lamps, and light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The distribution and intensity of artificial lights indoors are important factors...