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Mar 27, 2026 Researchers propose a modular system combining gas filtration, enrichment, and laser spectroscopy for trace gas detection and resource extraction on Venus. (Nanowerk News) A research team has designed a modular instrument that can filter corrosive aerosols, concentrate trace gases, and perform laser-based chemical analysis in the harsh...

Mar 27, 2026 A palladium-on-carbon catalyst electrochemically breaks lignin ether bonds and upgrades the fragments into cyclic chemicals under mild conditions without hydrogen gas. (Nanowerk News) Electrochemical process converts lignin to useful chemicals using only electricity A team led by Professor Jaehoon Kim at Sungkyunkwan University and Dr. Dong Ki...

Mar 27, 2026 Programmable recombinases let one cell produce multiple fates in preset ratios, enabling controlled division of labor, tunable traits, and engineered multicellular systems. (Nanowerk News) Cellular differentiation and a division of labor are essential to living systems, as distinct cell types performing specialized functions arise in defined proportions...

Mar 27, 2026 Atomic-scale EMCD imaging reveals antiferromagnetic order in single atomic columns, detects ultrathin interfacial 'dead' layers, and advances high-density spintronic design. (Nanowerk News) A collaborative research team led by the High Magnetic Field Laboratory at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with Anhui...

Mar 27, 2026 AI mined a catalysis database to uncover a universal design rule for copper single-atom alloy catalysts that convert CO2 into multi-carbon fuels, reducing trial and error. (Nanowerk News) Scientific discovery is often tedious, expensive, incremental trial and error, but the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating...

Mar 26, 2026 Researchers have developed a new method based on laser modification, which allows metal-organic materials to be grown locally one molecule-thick layer at a time. The method enables the precise construction of films of different shapes and offers new ways to modify the properties of materials for various...

Mar 26, 2026 A new LED design uses a built-in nanoscale metasurface to emit circularly polarized light directly, eliminating bulky optics for 3D displays and AR devices. (Nanowerk News) From 3D movie screens to augmented-reality devices, many modern technologies rely on our ability to manipulate light. Doing so in a...

Mar 26, 2026 3D metastructures produce programmable structural colors for optical encryption, with a destruction mechanism that permanently erases data after readout. (Nanowerk News) Researchers at City University of Hong Kong have developed three-dimensional metastructures, tiny engineered surface elements that manipulate light through their shape rather than through dyes or...

Mar 26, 2026 Researchers developed a method to self-assemble metal-organic framework nanosheets just 3 nanometers thick at a liquid-air interface, without toxic solvents or high temperatures. (Nanowerk News) Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous structures composed of metal ions (or clusters) and organic linker molecules – much like a molecular scaffold....

Mar 26, 2026 Nanoparticles built from red blood cell membranes and loaded with a sound-sensitive dye kill liver cancer cells when triggered by ultrasound while remaining nontoxic without activation. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Red blood cell (RBC) membranes carry CD47, a protein that sends a molecular "don't eat me" signal to immune...