Jan 15, 2025 (Nanowerk News) A milestone in graphene research: Würzburg chemists have succeeded in controlling the passage of halide ions by deliberately introducing defects into a two-layer nanographene system. Their results have been published in Nature ("Bilayer nanographene reveals halide permeation through a benzene hole"). The paper shows new...
Ultra-compact, high-speed alignment system for industrial PIC test and assembly
Jan 15, 2025 (Nanowerk News) PI's new F-141 photonics alignment system provides high throughput with motion in 4 and 6 degrees of freedom for industrial test and assembly of photonic integrated circuits (PIC). This ultra-compact precision alignment system fits inside a space of ~5x7x4 inches (WxLxH) while providing 40mm of...
A new optical memory platform for super fast calculations
Jan 15, 2025 (Nanowerk News) For decades there has been near constant progress in reducing the size, and increasing the performance, of the circuits that power computers and smartphones. But Moore’s Law is ending as physical limitations — such as the number of transistors that can fit on a chip...
What if scientists ran science? The Decentralized Science (DeSci) dream
Jan 15, 2025 (Nanowerk Spotlight) What if researchers had more direct control over how science is funded, shared, and governed? Today's scientific ecosystem is shaped by a complex interplay of funding agencies, universities, publishers, private industry, and regulatory bodies - each playing important but sometimes constraining roles in how research...
Researchers unlock new insights into tellurene, paving the way for next-gen electronics
Jan 14, 2025 (Nanowerk News) To describe how matter works at infinitesimal scales, researchers designate collective behaviors with single concepts ⎯ like calling a group of birds flying in sync a “flock” or “murmuration.” Known as quasiparticles, the phenomena these concepts refer to could be the key to next-generation technologies....
Carbon nanotube recycling paves way for sustainable materials
Jan 14, 2025 (Nanowerk News) In a significant step toward creating a sustainable and circular economy, Rice University researchers have published a landmark study in the journal Carbon ("Fully recyclable carbon nanotube fibers") demonstrating that carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers can be fully recycled without any loss in their structure or...
New hydrogel maintains flexibility in extreme cold through nanoscale engineering
Jan 14, 2025 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Developing materials that remain flexible in extreme cold represents one of materials science's persistent challenges. Standard flexible materials become brittle below freezing temperatures because their molecular structures stiffen or water within them turns to ice. This limitation has blocked progress in cold-environment technologies, from polar...
Engineering quantum entanglement at the nanoscale
Jan 14, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Physicists have spent more than a century measuring and making sense of the strange ways that photons, electrons, and other subatomic particles interact at extremely small scales. Engineers have spent decades figuring out how to take advantage of these phenomena to create new technologies. In...
A new technology to visualize nanocarriers in cells and tissues
Jan 14, 2025 (Nanowerk News) How can we ensure that life-saving drugs or genetic therapies reach their intended target cells without causing harmful side effects? Researchers at Helmholtz Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) and Technical University Munich (TUM) have taken an important step to answer this question. They have developed a method...
new properties discovered in diamond semiconductors
Jan 14, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Diamond, often celebrated for its unmatched hardness and transparency, has emerged as an exceptional material for high-power electronics and next-generation quantum optics. Diamond can be engineered to be as electrically conductive as a metal, by introducing impurities such as the element boron. Researchers from Case...