Jan 21, 2025 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Water molecules make up the essence of life on Earth, playing a crucial role in countless biological and chemical processes. Each water molecule, with its positively charged hydrogen atoms and negatively charged oxygen, acts as a tiny magnet that can interact with and transport other...
Imaging electron dynamics with attosecond X-ray flashes opens new frontiers
Jan 21, 2025 (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers from the University of Hamburg and collaborators has achieved a breakthrough by capturing images of individual nanoparticles using single X-ray attosecond pulses. This advancement, which has been published in Nature Communications ("Non-linear enhancement of ultrafast X-ray diffraction through transient resonances"), sets...
Next-gen textile fibers sense light, pressure, smell and even taste
Jan 20, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Professor Bonghoon Kim from the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST) has successfully developed a groundbreaking multifunctional sensor that mimics the five human senses. This innovative achievement, a collaborative effort with Professor Sangwook Kim at...
Novel quantum state discovered in twisted graphene
Jan 20, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Professor Youngwook Kim of the Department of Physics and Chemistry at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST), in collaboration with Professor Gilyoung Cho of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), has uncovered a groundbreaking quantum state. This state emerges...
Washable smart floor technology generates power from footsteps
Jan 20, 2025 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Imagine floors that could light your path during a power outage or alert you to an intruder - all powered by your footsteps. While this concept has appealed to architects and engineers, creating practical smart floors has proven challenging. Regular cleaning damages electronic components, while...
AI-powered data analysis uncovers issues in scientific publications
Jan 20, 2025 (Nanowerk News) AI-powered data analysis tools have the potential to significantly improve the quality of scientific publications. A new study by Professor Mathias Christmann, a chemistry professor at Freie Universität Berlin, has uncovered shortcomings in chemical publications. Using a Python script developed with the help of modern...
The art and science of twisting light
Jan 20, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Left and right circularly polarized light, where the electromagnetic waves spiral in a clockwise and counterclockwise manner as they travel, plays a crucial role in a wide range of applications, from enhancing medical imaging techniques to enabling advanced communication technologies. However, generating circularly polarized light...
AI advances label-free photoacoustic microscopy for confocal cell imaging
Jan 19, 2025 (Nanowerk News) A research team at POSTECH has developed a technology that surpasses the constraints of traditional imaging methods, providing stable and highly accurate cell visualization. Their findings were published in Nature Communications ("Unsupervised inter-domain transformation for virtually stained high-resolution mid-infrared photoacoustic microscopy using explainable deep learning"),...
The Universe’s rapid expansion challenges physics and reshapes our cosmic models
Jan 19, 2025 (Nanowerk News) The Universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous — and highly debated — results had shown: The Universe is expanding faster than predicted by theoretical models, and faster than can be explained by our current understanding...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Department of Energy announces $71 million for research on quantum information science enabled discoveries in high energy physics: Projects combine theory and experiment to open new windows on the universe
Home > Press > Department of Energy announces $71 million for research on quantum information science enabled discoveries in high energy physics: Projects combine theory and experiment to open new windows on the universeAbstract:Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $71 million in funding for 25 projects in high...