Nov 21, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Protein design aims to create customized antibodies for therapies, biosensors for diagnostics, or enzymes for chemical reactions. An international research team has now developed a method for designing large new proteins better than before and producing them with the desired properties in the laboratory. Their...
Emerging laser-induced graphene-based skin-like sensor systems
Nov 21, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) The burgeoning demands for health care and human-machine interfaces call for the next generation of multifunctional and flexible integrated sensor systems. Principally, flexible sensors are categorized as physical, chemical, and electrophysiological types. Judicious integration of them renders multifunctional flexible sensor systems with skin-like compliance and...
Electrospinning nanofibers of white flour
Nov 21, 2024 (Nanowerk News) The world’s thinnest spaghetti, about 200 times thinner than a human hair, has been created by a UCL-led research team. The spaghetti is not intended to be a new food but was created because of the wide-ranging uses that extremely thin strands of material, called...
pioneering practical solutions for a greener, healthier future
Nov 21, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are materials composed of metal ions or clusters coordinated to organic molecules to form one, two, or three-dimensional structures. These highly porous structures possess large surface areas, making them extremely versatile for various applications. MOFs are a significant area of research in...
Nanoink, printing technologies could enable electronics repairs, production in space
Nov 21, 2024 (Nanowerk News) An Iowa State University engineer floats in the air while other researchers hang tight to a metal frame surrounding and supporting their special printer. It’s not the usual photo you see in a research paper. Tests aboard microgravity flights aren’t your typical materials experiments, either....
Electrochemistry unlocks unusual nanoparticle
Nov 21, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Palladium, a rare metal that physically resembles platinum, is a top-billing catalyst famous in the energy sector for hydrogen storage and catalytic converters. Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology discovered a new type of nanoparticle containing palladium and hydrogen. Their work...
Rapid synthesis of gold microsphere array for advanced packaging
Nov 20, 2024 (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers led by researchers from the Institute of Solid State Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Acadamy of Sciences, enables the efficient construction of gold microsphere array-based anisotropic conductive adhesives film (ACF) for advanced packaging. The research findings...
How can electrons split into fractions of themselves?
Nov 20, 2024 (Nanowerk News) MIT physicists have taken a key step toward solving the puzzle of what leads electrons to split into fractions of themselves. Their solution sheds light on the conditions that give rise to exotic electronic states in graphene and other two-dimensional systems. The new work is...
Clinically validated, wearable ultrasound patch for continuous blood pressure monitoring
Nov 20, 2024 (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers at the University of California San Diego has developed a new and improved wearable ultrasound patch for continuous and noninvasive blood pressure monitoring. Their work marks a major milestone, as the device is the first wearable ultrasound blood pressure sensor to...
Machine learnable language to predict nanopore properties
Nov 20, 2024 (Nanowerk News) A large number of 2D materials like graphene can have nanopores – small holes formed by missing atoms through which foreign substances can pass. The properties of these nanopores dictate many of the materials’ properties, enabling the latter to sense gases, filter out seawater, and...