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Dec 08, 2025 Researchers develop a cheaper, safer material for use in solar panels, sensors and optical devices. (Nanowerk News) Using proteins from a common tobacco plant virus, McGill chemistry researchers have developed a simple, eco-friendly way to arrange gold nanoparticles into ultrathin sheets, strengthening the particles’ optical properties. The...

Dec 08, 2025 have found a new way to image layers of boron nitride that are only a single atom thick. This material is usually nearly invisible in optical microscopes because it has no optical resonances. To resolve this issue, the team uses nonlinear microscopy with infrared light, making the...

Dec 08, 2025 A membrane-free solid-state reactor turns captured carbon dioxideinto clean formic acid that feeds microbes, growing protein-rich yeast and suggesting how electricity and waste carbon could supply future protein. (Nanowerk Spotlight) A future low carbon menu might not start in fields or barns at all. Instead, it could...

Dec 08, 2025 New quiet, filterless air purifier sprays nano-sized water droplets to trap ultrafine dust, slashing power use and avoiding harmful ozone. (Nanowerk News) A KAIST research team has drawn attention by developing a new water-based air purification technology that combines “nano water droplets that capture dust” with a...

Dec 08, 2025 A new atomically precise carbon sheet combines nanoporous graphene and biphenylene stripes, offering controlled semiconducting behavior, tunable mechanics, and selective gas interaction for future electronic and sensing applications. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Digital electronics rely on materials that can switch cleanly between a conducting state and a nonconducting state....

Dec 08, 2025 Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been revealed by a new study. (Nanowerk News) The research, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ("The Milky Way in context: The formation of...

Dec 08, 2025 Researchers stabilize atomically thin metallenes, turning flimsy metals into robust platforms for nanoscale devices, energy technologies and biomedicine. (Nanowerk News) Metallenes are atomically thin metals, whose unique properties make them extremely promising for nanoscale applications. However, their extreme thinness makes them also flimsy. Now, researchers at the...

Dec 07, 2025 Nanoporous polymer aerogel channels boost soft transistor performance while remaining stretchable and recyclable, offering a single materials platform for high gain biosensors, neuromorphic elements and pressure sensitive electronic skin. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Stretchable electronics force together requirements that rarely coexist in a single material. A channel that moves...

Dec 06, 2025 New technology is helping astronomers open new windows into novae, stellar explosions that can act as 'laboratories for extreme physics'. (Nanowerk News) An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Michigan, has captured unprecedented images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their...

Dec 06, 2025 Nanoengineered hard-carbon with nanoporous channels and an ultrathin SEI boosts fast, reversible all-slope sodium storage in hard-carbon anodes. (Nanowerk News) A research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has demonstrated ultrafast and highly reversible all-slope sodium storage using specially...