Mar 16, 2026 Researchers combine photonics and nanotechnology to identify molecular cancer signals five to eight years earlier than traditional diagnostic tools. (Nanowerk News) Seemesh Bhaskar believes cancer detection should happen years before a diagnosis ever appears in a medical chart. The postdoctoral researcher in Professor Brian Cunningham’s Nanosensors Group...
Blog
High-entropy ceramics with bandgap engineering enable ultrafast energy discharge
Mar 16, 2026 Lead-free tungsten bronze ceramics combine high-entropy design and bandgap engineering for high energy density and ultrafast discharge performance. (Nanowerk News) Researchers at Guilin University of Technology have produced a new family of lead-free ceramic capacitors that store and release electrical energy with unusual speed and efficiency. The...
AI decodes the rules behind self-assembling protein nanoribbons
Mar 16, 2026 AI analysis of microscopy images reveals that a thin water layer on mineral surfaces guides the self-assembly of protein nanoribbons. (Nanowerk News) Two parallel experiments in protein self-assembly produced strikingly different results, demonstrating that protein designers should consider incorporating physical forces now missing from even Nobel-prize-winning protein...
Electron microscopy reveals how mitochondrial stress proteins remodel to protect cells
Mar 16, 2026 Cryo-electron tomography shows the mitochondrial protein mHsp60 restructures itself under stress to boost folding activity, offering clues to Parkinson's disease. (Nanowerk News) Researchers have used cryo-electron tomography to capture the structural behavior of a key mitochondrial protein under stress conditions with near-atomic resolution. An international team led...
Dual-gate vertical transistor enables stable nanoscale 3D chip stacking
Mar 16, 2026 Researchers developed a dual-modulated vertical transistor that suppresses leakage at nanoscale channels and supports scalable 3D semiconductor integration. (Nanowerk News) Researchers at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) in South Korea have developed a vertically stacked transistor that operates reliably at nanoscale channel dimensions...
How materials informatics aids photocatalyst design for hydrogen production
Mar 15, 2026 MLIP calculations identify optimal dopants for photocatalytic Sn3O4. Aluminum doping boosted hydrogen production 16-fold, advancing clean energy applications. (Nanowerk News) Building a sustainable hydrogen economy requires clean and efficient ways to produce hydrogen at scale. One particularly attractive approach is photocatalysis—using materials called photocatalysts to split water...
New photonic device efficiently beams light into free space
Mar 15, 2026 Light-emitting structures that curl off the chip surface could enable advanced displays, high-speed optical communications, and larger-scale quantum computers. (Nanowerk News) Photonic chips use light to process data instead of electricity, enabling faster communication speeds and greater bandwidth. Most of that light typically stays on the chip,...
Magnetic microbots turn nanodiamonds into steerable quantum sensors
Mar 15, 2026 Nanodiamond quantum sensors mounted on magnetic microbots achieve coherent spin control while moving freely through fluid, a first for untethered quantum sensing. (Nanowerk Spotlight) The quantum properties that make nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond exceptional sensors are also extraordinarily fragile in practice. Each NV center, a nitrogen...
Sub-nanometer pores in carbon nanoreactors trap chlorine and boost Li-Cl2 battery performance
Mar 14, 2026 Hollow carbon nanoreactors with sub-nanometer wall pores trap chlorine complexes inside lithium-chlorine battery cathodes, enabling record capacity and current density. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Some battery chemistries look extraordinary on paper and disappoint in practice. Rechargeable lithium-chlorine is one of them. Chlorine reacts aggressively with lithium, and that aggression...
First detection of laser-assisted electron scattering with circularly polarized light
Mar 14, 2026 Physicists have detected laser-assisted electron scattering using circularly polarized light for the first time, revealing new ways to probe atomic-scale chirality. (Nanowerk News) Physicists have detected laser-assisted electron scattering using circularly polarized light for the first time, a result that could eventually help reveal how atomic-scale handedness...