Month: March 2025

Mar 11, 2025 Engineers enhanced liquid nanofoam technology, originally used in football helmets, to protect internal organs from traumatic injuries with superior cushioning. (Nanowerk News) Researchers at Michigan State University have refined an innovation that has the potential to improve safety, reduce severe injury and increase survival rates in situations...

Mar 11, 2025 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Each exhaled breath carries distinct signatures of human activity - quick and shallow during exercise, deep and regular in sleep, irregular while speaking. These breathing patterns provide a window into behavior, but capturing and interpreting these subtle respiratory variations has challenged scientists and engineers. Camera...

Mar 11, 2025 A four-year study reveals how micro- and nanoplastics interact with human cells, animals, and exposed individuals, uncovering risks and biological impacts. (Nanowerk News) Microplastics and nanoplastics, two of the smallest and most invisible forms of plastic pollution, may pose risks to human health. This is one of...

Mar 11, 2025 Researchers have developed powerful, elastic artificial muscles using 3D printing, promising applications in medicine, robotics, and responsive technologies. (Nanowerk News) Empa researchers are working on artificial muscles that can keep up with the real thing. They have now developed a method of producing the soft and elastic,...

Mar 10, 2025 Researchers have achieved a remarkable result: capturing and studying phase changes in quantum hardware, which hold hold promise for next-generation technologies like quantum computing and ultra-sensitive sensors. (Nanowerk News) Phase transitions, like water freezing into ice, are a familiar part of our world. But in quantum systems,...

Mar 10, 2025 Researchers have successfully developed an innovative electrode material called Conductive-Bridge Interlayer Contact (CBIC), enabling the realization of a 2D semiconductor-based image sensor with high optical signal efficiency. (Nanowerk News) Next-generation imaging technology is rapidly expanding beyond smartphones into intelligent devices, robotics, extended reality (XR) devices, healthcare, CCTV,...

Mar 10, 2025 Scientists experimentally confirm electron vortices in momentum space, a quantum phenomenon that could enable efficient, low-energy quantum technologies. (Nanowerk News) A breakthrough that’s turning heads in the scientific community: A young research team from Würzburg has experimentally demonstrated a quantum tornado for the first time by refining...

Mar 10, 2025 Introducing a rapid single-step microwave synthesis method reduces MXene production time to ninety minutes and cut energy consumption by 75%. (Nanowerk News) MXenes are a lightweight two-dimensional material capable of protecting everything from spacecrafts, mechanical components, and maybe even people, from harmful radiation. Because traditional synthesis requires...

Mar 10, 2025 A novel nanotechnology approach identifies subtle cellular differences, enhancing early disease diagnosis and potentially improving outcomes for chronic conditions and cancer. (Nanowerk News) Early diagnosis is crucial in disease prevention and treatment. Many diseases can be identified not just through physical signs and symptoms but also through...

Mar 10, 2025 A new study suggests lighter dark matter particles may explain mysterious energy signals and ionised hydrogen clouds observed at the Milky Way's core. (Nanowerk News) A mysterious phenomenon at the centre of our galaxy could be the result of a different type of dark matter. Dark matter,...