Oct 04, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) The tools used to understand materials at their smallest scales have shaped entire industries. From the semiconductors in smartphones to the advanced materials in medical devices, understanding how materials behave at the atomic level is crucial for designing more efficient, reliable, and powerful technologies. Conductive...
Glimmers of antimatter to explain the ‘dark’ part of the universe
Oct 04, 2024 (Nanowerk News) One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to reveal the nature of dark matter. We know it exists (it constitutes over 85% of the matter in the Universe), but we have never seen it directly and still do not know what it is....
Taking twistronics into new territory
Oct 04, 2024 (Nanowerk News) In 2018, a discovery in materials science sent shock waves throughout the community. A team showed that stacking two layers of graphene at a precise magic angle turned it into a superconductor, says Ritesh Agarwal of the University of Pennsylvania. This sparked the field of...
Engineers create a chip-based tractor beam for biological particles
Oct 04, 2024 (Nanowerk News) MIT researchers have developed a miniature, chip-based “tractor beam,” like the one that captures the Millennium Falcon in the film “Star Wars,” that could someday help biologists and clinicians study DNA, classify cells, and investigate the mechanisms of disease. Small enough to fit in the...
Restoring quantum dot solar cells as if ‘flattening crumpled paper’
Oct 04, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Professor Jongmin Choi’s team from the Department of Energy Science and Engineering at DGIST conducted joint research with Materials Engineering and Convergence Technology Professor Tae Kyung Lee from Gyeongsang National University and Applied Chemistry Professor Younghoon Kim from Kookmin University. The researchers developed a new...