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Feb 12, 2025 (Nanowerk News) For the first time, scientists have demonstrated that negative refraction can be achieved using atomic arrays - without the need for artificially manufactured metamaterials. Scientists have long sought to control light in ways that appear to defy the laws of Nature. Negative refraction - a...

Feb 12, 2025 (Nanowerk News) The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) has developed a safety evaluation technology for nanoparticles used in UV-blocking cosmetics and has listed it as an international standard. The ‘acute nanoparticle phototoxicity (a phenomenon in which a specific substance causes a toxic reaction in...

Feb 12, 2025 (Nanowerk News) An international research team, including scientists from the TUD Dresden University of Technology, has developed a breakthrough two-dimensional conducting polymer - a special, ordered form of polyaniline (2DPANI) that demonstrates exceptional electrical conductivity and metallic charge transport behavior. The discovery is a fundamental breakthrough in...

Feb 12, 2025 (Nanowerk Spotlight) The maxillofacial bone defects after the trauma, deformity, tumor, or infection may cause severe dysfunctions and dramatically decrease the life quality of patients. According to clinical data, there are about 2 million patients suffer from maxillofacial bone defects worldwide. The clinical treatments of maxillofacial bone...

Feb 12, 2025 (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers at the University of Konstanz has succeeded in adapting an artificial intelligence (AI) system to reliably assist with making nanoparticle measurements which speeds up the research process significantly. The findings have been published in Scientific Reports ("Pre-trained artificial intelligence-aided analysis of...

Feb 12, 2025 (Nanowerk News) A new study led by Rice University materials scientist Lane Martin sheds light on how the extreme miniaturization of thin films affects the behavior of relaxor ferroelectrics — materials with noteworthy energy-conversion properties used in sensors, actuators and nanoelectronics. The findings reveal that as the...

Feb 12, 2025 (Nanowerk News) When world-leading teams join forces, new findings are bound to be made. This is what happened when quantum physicists from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) in Heidelberg combined atomic and nuclear physics with unprecedented accuracy using two...

Feb 11, 2025 (Nanowerk Spotlight) The interactions between water and surfaces create small electrical charges – a phenomenon that could power the next generation of wearable technology. Small-scale devices that generate electricity from water movements and evaporation have attracted significant research interest as a potential power source for low-power electronics...

Feb 11, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Researchers in Korea have developed a technology that automatically identifies the necessary precursor materials to synthesize specific target materials ("Retrieval-Retro: Retrieval-based Inorganic Retrosynthesis with Expert Knowledge"). A joint research team led by Senior Researcher Gyoung S. Na from the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology...

Feb 11, 2025 (Nanowerk News) “The cosmological principle is like an ultimate kind of statement of humility,” explains James Adam, astrophysicist at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, and lead author of the new paper. According to the Cosmological Principle, not only are we not at...