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Mar 31, 2026 A new model measures defects that can be leveraged to improve materials' mechanical strength, heat transfer, and energy-conversion efficiency. (Nanowerk News) In biology, defects are generally bad. But in materials science, defects can be intentionally tuned to give materials useful new properties. Today, atomic-scale defects are carefully...

Mar 31, 2026 Researchers have created a groundbreaking physics?informed machine?learning model that can run molecular simulations for unprecedented lengths of time, even at temperatures as high as 1000 Kelvin. (Nanowerk News) The study, published in Communications Chemistry ("Unprecedented robustness of physics-informed atomic energy models at and beyond room temperature"), explores...

Mar 31, 2026 Researchers develop an innovative solution that could lower costs and improve reliability for direct-to-device satellite links. (Nanowerk News) Swarms of pico-satellites could work together as a single large antenna for direct-to-smartphone communications, as reported by researchers from Japan. Instead of relying on a single large satellite with...

Mar 31, 2026 Scientists develop biometric that could secure virtual and augmented reality platforms. (Nanowerk News) A team led by Rutgers University researchers has developed a security system that could change how people log in to virtual and augmented reality platforms by eliminating passwords, personal identification numbers and eye scans...

Mar 30, 2026 Researchers developed a simple, energy-efficient method to isolate the right photons - along with their quantum properties. (Nanowerk News) In quantum technologies, everything depends on the ability to detect the properties carried by a single photon. But in the real world, that photon of interest is often...

Mar 30, 2026 Seafood, insect, and mushroom industries generate chitin waste. New processing converts it into high-purity chitosan for biodegradable coatings and packaging. (Nanowerk News) The processing of crustaceans from the fishing industry, the production of insect protein, and mushroom cultivation generate large quantities of chitin-containing waste. The Fraunhofer Institute...

Mar 30, 2026 Chip-scale laser controls trapped ions for quantum clocks and qubits, enabling portable, scalable systems with high fidelity for sensing, computing, and space use. (Nanowerk News) In an ongoing effort to bring quantum science out of the tightly controlled lab environment and into the field, researchers from UC...

Mar 30, 2026 A new theoretical framework reveals why magnetoelectric nanoparticles behave unpredictably and how their nonlinear physics can be harnessed to build fully wireless brain-computer interfaces. (Nanowerk Spotlight) A single nanometer can determine whether a nanoparticle stimulates a neuron or sits inert against its membrane. That extreme sensitivity to...

Mar 30, 2026 Researchers developed a quantum-dot circularly polarized light sensor using chiral charge transport layers, spanning ultraviolet to short-wave infrared wavelengths. (Nanowerk News) Researchers at DGIST have developed an optical sensor that reads the rotational direction of light across a spectral range stretching from ultraviolet to short-wave infrared, using...

Mar 30, 2026 A research team has identified environmental interactions as the cause of ultrafast electronic decoherence in solids, a long-standing open question in quantum physics. (Nanowerk News) A physics team at DGIST has identified the microscopic mechanism responsible for the ultrafast loss of quantum coherence in solid materials, a...