Jan 09, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Microplastics can go right through wastewater treatment plants, and researchers have engineered bacteria commonly found in there to break down this pollution before it can persist in the environment. Researchers from the University of Waterloo added DNA to several species of bacteria found in wastewater,...
Record cold quantum refrigerator paves way for reliable quantum computers
Jan 09, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Quantum computers have the potential to revolutionise fundamental technologies in various sectors of society, with applications in medicine, energy, encryption, AI, and logistics. While the building blocks of a classical computer – bits – can take a value of either 0 or 1, the most...
Method allows advanced materials to gain new property
Jan 09, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Ferroelectrics are special materials with polarized positive and negative charges — like a magnet has north and south poles — that can be reversed when external electricity is applied. The materials will remain in these reversed states until more power is applied, making them useful...
Novel mix-charged nanofiltration membrane developed for high-salinity wastewater treatment
Jan 08, 2025 (Nanowerk News) A research team led by Prof. WAN Yinhua at the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has recently developed an innovative mix-charged nanofiltration (NF) membrane featuring horizontal charge distribution, designed specifically for wastewater treatment. This novel membrane exhibits remarkable salt...