Aug 27, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are known for their remarkable properties, which make them essential in many advanced technologies. Yet, creating these nanotubes efficiently and on a large scale has been a persistent challenge. Now, a team led by Professor Takahiro Maruyama at Meijo University has...
Flexible quantum dot displays achieve ultra-high resolution and bending stability
Aug 27, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Flexible displays represent a promising technology for enhancing virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) experiences by providing immersive digital worlds and information-rich overlays on our physical environment. Despite rapid advances in computing power, graphics, and software, one crucial component has consistently lagged: the displays that bring...
New tool tells you how much micro- and nanoplastic you are drinking
Aug 27, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Micro- and nanoplastics are in our food, water and the air we breathe. They are showing up in our bodies, from testicles to brain matter. Now, UBC researchers have developed a low-cost, portable tool to accurately measure plastic released from everyday sources like disposable cups...
Berry extracts and nanocellulose as skin sprays and dressings to prevent microbes
Aug 27, 2024 (Nanowerk News) VTT has developed a skin spray, based on nanocellulose and antimicrobial compounds from wild berries, which can be used to treat wounds and eliminate hospital-acquired bacteria such as MRSA before surgery. The product can also be applied as a cream, transdermal patch or wound dressing....
Breakthrough in the process for mass fabricating an exotic quasi-one-dimensional material
Aug 27, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers have fabricated a quasi-one-dimensional van der Waals zirconium telluride thin film, which is a form of a substance that has long promised advances in quantum computing, nanoelectronics and other advanced technologies. Until now, it has stumped scientists who have tried to manufacture it in...
The future of telecom is atomically thin
Aug 27, 2024 (Nanowerk News) When light shines on a semiconductor, it excites the electrons in the semiconductor into higher energy states. This leaves behind the absence of an electron, which is equivalent to a positively charged space called a “hole.” The electron and the hole attract each other through...
First low frequency search for alien technology in distant galaxies
Aug 27, 2024 (Nanowerk News) The SETI Institute, the Berkeley SETI Research Center and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research announced a groundbreaking study using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in Western Australia. Led by Dr. Chenoa Tremblay of the SETI Institute and Prof. Steven Tingay of Curtin University,...