Feb 11, 2025 (Nanowerk Spotlight) The interactions between water and surfaces create small electrical charges – a phenomenon that could power the next generation of wearable technology. Small-scale devices that generate electricity from water movements and evaporation have attracted significant research interest as a potential power source for low-power electronics...
AI predicts the precursor materials needed for material synthesis
Feb 11, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Researchers in Korea have developed a technology that automatically identifies the necessary precursor materials to synthesize specific target materials ("Retrieval-Retro: Retrieval-based Inorganic Retrosynthesis with Expert Knowledge"). A joint research team led by Senior Researcher Gyoung S. Na from the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology...
Does the universe behave the same way everywhere? Gravitational lenses could help us find out
Feb 11, 2025 (Nanowerk News) “The cosmological principle is like an ultimate kind of statement of humility,” explains James Adam, astrophysicist at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, and lead author of the new paper. According to the Cosmological Principle, not only are we not at...