Sep 02, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to recognise whether a tissue image contains a tumour. However, exactly how it makes its decision has remained a mystery until now. A team from the Research Center for Protein Diagnostics (PRODI) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum is developing a new...
Fluorescence patterns aid medical diagnostics
Sep 01, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from Osaka University and collaborating partners have used single-molecule electron-transfer kinetics to identify point mutations in mRNA. This development might facilitate treatment of glioma and other diseases Standard medical imaging readily detects most solid brain cancers, one third of which are gliomas. Unfortunately, two...
Why do galaxies stop making stars? A huge collision in space provides new clues
Sep 01, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Six billion years ago, two galaxies were colliding, their combined forces hurling a stream of gas hundreds of thousands of light years away. Reported this week by a team including Pitt astronomers, that unusual feature provides a new possible explanation for why galaxies stop forming...
MOXIE experiment reliably produces oxygen on Mars
Sep 01, 2022 (Nanowerk News) On the red and dusty surface of Mars, nearly 100 million miles from Earth, an instrument the size of a lunchbox is proving it can reliably do the work of a small tree. The MIT-led Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, or MOXIE, has been...
New photodetector design inspired by plant photosynthesis
Sep 01, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers have developed a new type of high-efficiency photodetector inspired by the photosynthetic complexes plants use to turn sunlight into energy. Photodetectors are used in cameras, optical communication systems and many other applications to turn photons into electrical signals. Researchers developed a new type of...
Fewer unknowns in the laser nanosynthesis of composites
Sep 01, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Composite particles with submicron sizes can be produced by irradiating a suspension of nanoparticles with a laser beam. Violent physical and chemical processes take place during irradiation, many of which have to date been poorly understood. Recently completed experiments, carried out at the Institute of...
Better metal oxides to boost the green credentials of many energy applications
Sep 01, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers have solved a key hurdle in greener manufacturing, carbon capture, energy storage and gas purification – using metal oxides. Metal oxides are compounds that play a crucial role in processes that reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. These processes include carbon capture, utilisation and storage...
A sustainable battery with a biodegradable electrolyte made from crab shells
Sep 01, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Accelerating demand for renewable energy and electric vehicles is sparking a high demand for the batteries that store generated energy and power engines. But the batteries behind these sustainability solutions aren’t always sustainable themselves. In a paper in the journal Matter ("A sustainable chitosan-zinc electrolyte...
Green adhesives made from whey
Sep 01, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Every day, large quantities of whey are produced as a by-product by the dairy industry. In Germany alone, this amounts to 12.6 million tons a year. For each kilogram of cheese, for example, 9 kilograms of whey are produced. Some of this is processed further,...
Advancing new technologies to halt bleeding
Sep 01, 2022 (Nanowerk News) The research arm of the U. S. Army has awarded Case Western Reserve University blood surrogate pioneer Anirban Sen Gupta a four-year, $2.5 million grant to advance and optimize his latest nanotechnology to stop bleeding from battlefield injuries. The new technology devised by Sen Gupta...