Month: March 2025

Mar 26, 2025 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Millions of medical procedures every year rely on stents—small mesh-like tubes—to keep body channels open when diseases threaten to close them off. These stents help restore blood flow, keep airways open, and maintain the function of passages in the digestive and urinary systems. Yet, existing...

Mar 26, 2025 A fully 3D-printed walking robot made from a single material and powered by compressed gas works without electronics or external control systems. (Nanowerk News) Imagine a robot that can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off the 3D-printer....

Mar 26, 2025 Scientists have for the first time filmed the real-time growth and contraction of Palladium nanoparticles, opening new avenues for utilising and recycling precious metal catalysts. (Nanowerk News) Scientists have for the first time filmed the real-time growth and contraction of Palladium nanoparticles, opening new avenues for utilising...

Mar 26, 2025 Researchers integrated ferrocene (Fe-containing molecular sandwich) with carbon nanohoops to create a system releasing Fe2+ ions when activated by green light. (Nanowerk News) In an international cooperation, researchers at the Universities of Amsterdam and Zurich have developed a molecular system for controlled release of iron. They integrated...

Mar 26, 2025 A novel method to improve the photoluminescent efficiency of metal clusters has been developed - which could potentially be used in applications such as bioimaging or display technologies. (Nanowerk News) Photoluminescent materials are more than just the glow-in-the-dark stars your parents glued to your bedroom ceiling as...

Mar 26, 2025 Researchers have developed a technology that utilizes nanoscale wrinkles formed on transparent films to display or conceal color patterns, such as the Korean traditional Dancheong designs, by folding and unfolding the film. (Nanowerk News) A research team, led by Professor Taesung Kim from the Department of Mechanical...

Mar 25, 2025 Engineered for cutting-edge applications in photonics, semiconductor metrology, super-resolution microscopy and nanomanufacturing this advanced motion system delivers nanometer-level accuracy, repeatability, and very high dynamic performance with millisecond responsiveness across six degrees of freedom (X, Y, Z, pitch, roll, yaw). (Nanowerk News) PI (Physik Instrumente), a global leader...

Mar 25, 2025 Metals like silver, gold and copper can kill bacteria and viruses. An electric current can also eliminate microorganisms. A team of researchers combined the two approaches and created a new type of antimicrobial surface. (Nanowerk News) Metals like silver, gold and copper can kill bacteria and viruses....

Mar 25, 2025 A flower-shaped structure only a few micrometres in size made of a nickel-iron alloy can concentrate and locally enhance magnetic fields. (Nanowerk News) A flower-shaped structure only a few micrometres in size made of a nickel-iron alloy can concentrate and locally enhance magnetic fields. The size of...

Mar 25, 2025 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Cancer treatments have traditionally involved a difficult balance between effectiveness and side effects. For skin cancers, this challenge is particularly pronounced. Researchers have worked to find ways to selectively target cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue, but progress has been limited by several persistent obstacles....