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Apr 12, 2026 Researchers show superconductivity can be tuned by the surrounding environment in twisted bilayer graphene, pointing to more efficient electronics and quantum devices. (Nanowerk News) Researchers have discovered evidence that superconductivity can be controlled by influencing the surrounding environment, a finding that may lead to more efficient electronics...

Apr 11, 2026 A layered coating on delignified wood enables solar heat storage and electricity generation without carbonization, while adding water, fire, and microbial resistance. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Photothermal conversion can in principle capture more than 90% of incoming solar radiation, far exceeding the roughly 25% ceiling that bounds conventional photovoltaics....

Apr 10, 2026 The Kardar Parisi Zhang equation models surface growth. After forty years, researchers confirmed its two dimensional behavior using polaritons in engineered materials. (Nanowerk News) Crystals, bacterial colonies, flame fronts: the growth of surfaces was first described in the 1980s by the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation. Since then, it has...

Apr 10, 2026 Researchers developed a biochar nanocomposite that removes tetracycline from water by adsorption and light driven breakdown, achieving over ninety percent removal and enabling reuse. (Nanowerk News) Antibiotic contamination in water is a growing global concern, threatening ecosystems and human health. Now, researchers have developed a novel biochar-based...

Apr 10, 2026 Researchers argue that progress in SOFCs and SOECs depends on linking materials, electrochemistry, and system engineering through a reverse-guided design strategy. (Nanowerk News) A review from Northwestern Polytechnical University and Fuzhou University contends that progress in solid oxide fuel cells and solid oxide electrolysis cells has stalled...

Apr 10, 2026 A biodegradable implant powered by a new single-atom iron electrode delivered acupuncture-style pain relief in mice, then dissolved harmlessly in the body. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Supercapacitors sit between batteries and ordinary capacitors in the energy storage landscape. They charge in seconds rather than hours, survive hundreds of thousands...

Apr 10, 2026 A theoretical study shows that quantum excitations without topological protection, previously considered experimental limitations, can serve as spectroscopic tools for identifying quantum statistics. (Nanowerk News) A “Majorana fermion” is a particle that would be identical to its antiparticle. Such an object has not yet been found. However,...

Apr 09, 2026 Materials databases lie at the heart of future data-driven discovery in energy-related fields, say researchers. (Nanowerk News) In a new article published in Precision Chemistry ("Materials Databases: Foundations of Modern Digital Materials"), they examined how different types of databases, both computational and experimental, work together to support...

Apr 09, 2026 Researchers developed a laser optothermal nanobomb method that flattens nanobubbles in 2D materials in 50 milliseconds while preserving optoelectronic properties. (Nanowerk News) A research team at Tsinghua University has developed an all-optical method to eliminate nanobubbles that form in two-dimensional van der Waals materials during fabrication. The...

Apr 09, 2026 Breakthrough findings offer new insight into spintronics to enable faster, smaller and more efficient devices. (Nanowerk News) Data is growing at a staggering pace, pushing charge‑based microelectronics, such as smartphones and laptops, to their physical limits. Spintronics — technology that uses electron spin rather than charge —...