Jan 28, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Qubits are the basic building blocks of information processing in quantum technology. An important research question is what material they will actually consist of in technical applications. Molecular spin qubits are considered promising qubit candidates for molecular spintronics, in particular for quantum sensing. The materials...
Building blocks of life delivered from space
Jan 28, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Organic molecules are among the necessary inventory of life-friendly worlds. On Earth, the compounds of carbon, hydrogen and – in smaller quantities – other elements form the basic building blocks of all life. In recent years, researchers have found such molecules at great distances from...
Black Holes can cook for themselves
Jan 28, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Astronomers have taken a crucial step in showing that the most massive black holes in the universe can create their own meals. Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) provide new evidence that outbursts from black holes can help cool...
Novel smart bandages enable real-time infection monitoring through integrated pH-correcting sensors
Jan 28, 2025 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Inside a wound, a complex chemical battle unfolds. As healing progresses, the wound environment shifts between acidic and basic states, each change signaling different stages of recovery or infection. These pH fluctuations create a major challenge for medical sensors - they can mask or amplify...
Localized surface plasmon resonance enhancement induced by oxide particle superlattices
Jan 27, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Recently, the research group of Professor Yang Liangbao from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, enhances localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) by studying Cu2O1–x superlattices with oxygen vacancies, offering new insights into vacancy doping in semiconductors and LSPR induction...
Riding the quantum Kelvin wave
Jan 27, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Lord Kelvin theorized in 1880 that stimulating a thin vortex line would produce a helical deformation, later known as a Kelvin wave. While these waves have been observed in classical fluids like water and air, their existence in quantum fluids has remained largely theoretical due...
Team uses achiral hard banana-shaped particles to assemble skyrmions and blue phases
Jan 27, 2025 (Nanowerk News) A research team has discovered that achiral hard banana-shaped particles can spontaneously form exotic structures like skyrmions and blue phase III phases. Skyrmions are tiny vortex-like structures found in various condensed-matter systems, such as helical ferromagnets and liquid crystals. Blue phase III is an amorphous...
High-brilliance radiation quickly finds the best composition for half-metal alloys
Jan 27, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Half-metals are unique magnetic compounds that have been attracting interest in the developments of mass-storage technologies. Some of the materials in the family of Heusler alloys were predicted to have a half-metallic nature, but their half-metallic electronic structure varies with their composition ratio and atomic...
Atomic coating prevents bacterial growth on surgical sutures
Jan 27, 2025 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Every surgical procedure, from routine appendectomies to complex organ transplants, relies on a technology that has remained fundamentally unchanged for thousands of years: the surgical suture. These threads that bind wounds closed serve as a critical tool in healing but can also become a dangerous...
Machine learning and nano-3D printing create breakthrough nano-architected materials
Jan 25, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering have used machine learning to design nano-architected materials that have the strength of carbon steel but the lightness of Styrofoam. In a new paper published in Advanced Materials ("Ultrahigh Specific Strength by Bayesian...