Month: October 2024

Oct 30, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Almost 14 billion years ago, at the very beginning of the Big Bang, a mysterious energy drove an exponential expansion of the infant universe and produced all known matter, according to the prevailing inflationary universe theory. That ancient energy shared key features of the current...

Oct 29, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) The demand for materials that combine high conductivity with flexibility has grown sharply, particularly in fields like bioelectronics and wearable technology. Traditional materials either provide conductivity, as metals do, or flexibility, as seen in gels, but achieving both properties in a single material has been...

Oct 29, 2024 (Nanowerk News) By applying an electric field, the movement of microswimmers can be manipulated. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS), the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad and the University of Twente, Netherlands, describe the underlying physical principles by comparing experiments and...

Oct 29, 2024 (Nanowerk News) In the fight against antibiotic resistance, a new technology developed at Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden, can be of great importance when, for example, hip and knee implants are surgically inserted. By heating up small nanorods of gold with near-infrared light (NIR), the bacteria...

Oct 29, 2024 (Nanowerk News) The research team led by Dr. Jeong Min Park from the Nano Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), in collaboration with Professor Jung Gi Kim of Gyeongsang National University and Professor Hyoung Seop Kim of Pohang University of Science and...

Oct 29, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Using state-of-the-art microscopy and simulation techniques, an international research team systematically observed how iron atoms alter the structure of grain boundaries in titanium. They were in for a surprise: “Iron atoms not only segregate to the interface, but they form entirely unexpected cage-like structures,” explains...

Oct 29, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Additive manufacturing (AM) has revolutionized many industries and holds the promise to affect many more in the not too distant future. While people are most familiar with the 3D printers that function much like inkjet printers, another type of AM offers advantages using a different...

Oct 28, 2024 (Nanowerk News) CRISPR-Cas9 has long been likened to a kind of genetic scissors, thanks to its ability to snip out any desired section of DNA with elegant precision. But it turns out that CRISPR systems have more than one strategy in their toolkit. A mechanism originally discovered...

Oct 28, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Research led by the University of Michigan has pored over more than two decades’ worth of data from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory to show there’s new knotty science to discover around black holes. In particular, the study looks at the high-energy jet of particles being...

Oct 28, 2024 (Nanowerk News) The Milky Way still holds many secrets about the universe. Now, researchers from DTU have managed to uncover one of them using an X-ray space telescope mounted on the International Space Station (ISS). It is a small but extremely massive and fast-spinning object - a...