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Mar 27, 2026 Multi-channel driver delivers precise control for a wide range of piezoelectric devices - including scanner tubes, shear, and XYZ actuator - in both static and dynamic applications. (Nanowerk News) PI’s piezo design and manufacturing division, PI Ceramic, offers a comprehensive portfolio of standard, custom, and value-added piezoelectric...

Mar 27, 2026 Researchers have successfully transferred the topological quantum Hall and spin Hall effects to a hybrid light-matter system using targeted material design. (Nanowerk News) In a groundbreaking advance in quantum physics, researchers at the Würzburg site of the Cluster of Excellence ctd.qmat have succeeded in transferring the topological...

Mar 27, 2026 A tellurium thin film that briefly melts under laser pulses delivers the first sub-nanosecond all-optical neuron, operating 100 times faster than previous designs. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Photonic neural networks should be able to run artificial intelligence at the speed of light. Optical waveguides can carry out the heavy...

Mar 27, 2026 Ultrafast microscopy reveals how light triggers electron oscillations in metallic nanoframes, enabling advances in biosensing, catalysis and quantum tech. (Nanowerk News) Argonne and Northwestern University scientists teamed up to understand how light interacts with metallic nanoframes, with implications for biosensing, quantum information science and beyond (ACS Nano,...

Mar 27, 2026 Researchers have identified how common testing errors lead to unreliable data, providing a new blueprint for building the ultra-safe infrastructure needed for a hydrogen-powered world. (Nanowerk News) The threat of climate change and intensifying geopolitical tensions has compelled nations to quickly transition toward cleaner energy sources. A...

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...