Day: March 11, 2025

Mar 11, 2025 Researchers show that friction between microbead-covered surfaces significantly increases electric charge transfer, enhancing electricity generation. (Nanowerk News) Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) generate electricity through friction between different materials. Typically, this occurs when two distinct materials move against each other. New research by an international team of researchers from...

Mar 11, 2025 Engineers enhanced liquid nanofoam technology, originally used in football helmets, to protect internal organs from traumatic injuries with superior cushioning. (Nanowerk News) Researchers at Michigan State University have refined an innovation that has the potential to improve safety, reduce severe injury and increase survival rates in situations...

Mar 11, 2025 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Each exhaled breath carries distinct signatures of human activity - quick and shallow during exercise, deep and regular in sleep, irregular while speaking. These breathing patterns provide a window into behavior, but capturing and interpreting these subtle respiratory variations has challenged scientists and engineers. Camera...

Mar 11, 2025 A four-year study reveals how micro- and nanoplastics interact with human cells, animals, and exposed individuals, uncovering risks and biological impacts. (Nanowerk News) Microplastics and nanoplastics, two of the smallest and most invisible forms of plastic pollution, may pose risks to human health. This is one of...

Mar 11, 2025 Researchers have developed powerful, elastic artificial muscles using 3D printing, promising applications in medicine, robotics, and responsive technologies. (Nanowerk News) Empa researchers are working on artificial muscles that can keep up with the real thing. They have now developed a method of producing the soft and elastic,...

Mar 10, 2025 Researchers have achieved a remarkable result: capturing and studying phase changes in quantum hardware, which hold hold promise for next-generation technologies like quantum computing and ultra-sensitive sensors. (Nanowerk News) Phase transitions, like water freezing into ice, are a familiar part of our world. But in quantum systems,...

Mar 10, 2025 Researchers have successfully developed an innovative electrode material called Conductive-Bridge Interlayer Contact (CBIC), enabling the realization of a 2D semiconductor-based image sensor with high optical signal efficiency. (Nanowerk News) Next-generation imaging technology is rapidly expanding beyond smartphones into intelligent devices, robotics, extended reality (XR) devices, healthcare, CCTV,...

Mar 10, 2025 Scientists experimentally confirm electron vortices in momentum space, a quantum phenomenon that could enable efficient, low-energy quantum technologies. (Nanowerk News) A breakthrough that’s turning heads in the scientific community: A young research team from Würzburg has experimentally demonstrated a quantum tornado for the first time by refining...