Jan 09, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Fungi are a source of fascination. This kingdom of life – more closely related to animals than to plants – encompasses an enormous variety. Everything can be found here: from edible mushrooms to molds, from single-celled life to the largest organism on Earth, from disease-causing...
New AI predicts inner workings of cells
Jan 09, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Using a new artificial intelligence method, scientists can accurately predict the activity of genes within any human cell, essentially revealing the cell’s inner mechanisms. The system, described in Nature ("A foundation model of transcription across human cell types"), could transform the way scientists work to...
Novel graphene ribbons poised to advance quantum technologies
Jan 09, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have recently achieved a significant breakthrough in the development of next-generation carbon-based quantum materials, opening new horizons for advancements in quantum electronics. The innovation involves a novel type of graphene nanoribbon (GNR), named Janus GNR (JGNR). The...
Carbon dots enable precise nanoscale pores for high-performance supercapacitors
Jan 09, 2025 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Supercapacitors sit at the heart of modern energy storage, charging and discharging rapidly to power everything from electric buses to industrial equipment. Their performance depends on their electrodes, which are made from carbon materials filled with microscopic pores where electric charges collect. Creating these pores...
Removing microplastics with engineered bacteria
Jan 09, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Microplastics can go right through wastewater treatment plants, and researchers have engineered bacteria commonly found in there to break down this pollution before it can persist in the environment. Researchers from the University of Waterloo added DNA to several species of bacteria found in wastewater,...
Record cold quantum refrigerator paves way for reliable quantum computers
Jan 09, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Quantum computers have the potential to revolutionise fundamental technologies in various sectors of society, with applications in medicine, energy, encryption, AI, and logistics. While the building blocks of a classical computer – bits – can take a value of either 0 or 1, the most...
Method allows advanced materials to gain new property
Jan 09, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Ferroelectrics are special materials with polarized positive and negative charges — like a magnet has north and south poles — that can be reversed when external electricity is applied. The materials will remain in these reversed states until more power is applied, making them useful...
Novel mix-charged nanofiltration membrane developed for high-salinity wastewater treatment
Jan 08, 2025 (Nanowerk News) A research team led by Prof. WAN Yinhua at the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has recently developed an innovative mix-charged nanofiltration (NF) membrane featuring horizontal charge distribution, designed specifically for wastewater treatment. This novel membrane exhibits remarkable salt...