Sep 23, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Plastics permeate every facet of modern life, from the packaging that protects our food to the components in our smartphones. This ubiquity, however, comes at a steep environmental cost. The production of plastics contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, while plastic waste chokes our oceans...
Artificial intelligence helps produce clean water
Sep 23, 2024 (Nanowerk News) About 2.2 billion people, more than a quarter of the world's population, lack access to safe, managed drinking water, and about half of the world's population experiences severe water scarcity at some point during the year. To overcome these shortages, huge socioeconomic costs are being...
New cell type discovered
Sep 23, 2024 (Nanowerk News) A team of SAHMRI scientists has discovered a completely new type of cell which has the potential to enhance the future of tissue repair and generation. Dr Sanuri Liyange, from the research team says the cells, dubbed ‘EndoMac progenitors’, possess the unique ability to transform...
Light momentum turns indirect semiconductor into direct one
Sep 20, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) UCI-led research reveals that the optical properties of materials can be dramatically enhanced – not by changing the materials themselves, but by giving the light new properties. The researchers demonstrated that by manipulating the momentum of incoming photons, they could fundamentally change how light interacts...
Linear positioning stage with absolute encoder, frictionless motor and excellent guiding precision
Sep 20, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Global precision motion control and nanopositioning industry leader PI introduces a new high dynamics linear motor stage family, the V-574 - a new series of linear positioning stages with excellent guiding precision and frictionless 3-phase linear motors. Ultra-precise linear motor stage, V-574, new from PI....
Intrinsic magnetic structure observed for the first time in a kagome lattice
Sep 20, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Recently, using the highly sensitive magnetic force microscopy (MFM) system of the Steady High Magnetic Field Facility (SHMFF), along with electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy and micromagnetic simulations, a research group led by Prof. LU Qingyou at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese...
Recharging the powerhouse of the cell
Sep 20, 2024 (Nanowerk News) When we need to recharge, we might take a vacation or relax at the spa. But what if we could recharge at the cellular level, fighting against aging and disease with the microscopic building blocks that make up the human body? The ability to recharge...
Taking a star’s temperature
Sep 19, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Astronomers study stars by looking at the different colours of light they emit – colours they capture and analyze using spectroscopy. Now a team led by Université de Montréal’s Étienne Artigau has developed a technique that uses a star’s spectrum to chart variations in its...
AI model can reveal the structures of crystalline materials
Sep 19, 2024 (Nanowerk News) For more than 100 years, scientists have been using X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of crystalline materials such as metals, rocks, and ceramics. This technique works best when the crystal is intact, but in many cases, scientists have only a powdered version of the...
Mysteries of the bizarre ‘pseudogap’ in quantum physics finally untangled
Sep 19, 2024 (Nanowerk News) By cleverly applying a computational technique, scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding the ‘pseudogap,’ a long-standing puzzle in quantum physics with close ties to superconductivity. The discovery, presented in Science ("Origin and fate of the pseudogap in the doped Hubbard model"), will help scientists...