Apr 24, 2025 Scientists have developed oral nanorobots that target damaged heart tissue, deliver energy, and repair mitochondrial function, offering a novel approach to treating ischemic heart disease. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Mitochondria serve as cellular power plants, converting nutrients into adenosine triphosphate (ATP) – the energy molecule that fuels cellular functions....
‘Tattooing’ living tardigrades with nanoscale patterns
Apr 24, 2025 New ice lithography method enables creation of nanoscale patterns on living tardigrades, advancing integration of biological systems with technology for sensing and monitoring. (Nanowerk Spotlight) The merging of engineered microscopic patterns with living organisms promises to revolutionize medicine, environmental monitoring, and biological research. Imagine microscopic markers that...
Mysteriously mundane turbulence revealed in 2D superfluid
Apr 24, 2025 Researchers have developed a new tool for measuring velocities in a Bose-Einstein condensate superfluid and applied it to studying superfluid turbulence. (Nanowerk News) Despite existing everywhere, the quantum world is a foreign place where many of the rules of daily life don’t apply. Quantum objects jump through...
Nanophotonic platform boosts efficiency of nonlinear-optical quantum teleportation
Apr 24, 2025 Nanophotonic platform enables single-photon nonlinear quantum communication, solving efficiency barriers that hindered previous implementation attempts. (Nanowerk News) Researchers have long recognized that quantum communication systems would transmit quantum information more faithfully and be impervious to certain forms of error if nonlinear optical processes were used. However, past...
FRESH bioprinting brings vascularized tissue one step closer
Apr 24, 2025 Using their novel Freeform Reversible Embedding of Suspended Hydrogels (FRESH) 3D bioprinting technique, which allows for the printing of soft living cells and tissues, researchers built a first-of-its-kind microphysiologic system, or tissue model, entirely out of collagen. (Nanowerk News) Collagen is well-known as an important component of...
Engineers print synthetic metamaterials that are both strong and stretchy
Apr 23, 2025 A new method could enable stretchable ceramics, glass, and metals, for tear-proof textiles or stretchy semiconductors. (Nanowerk News) In metamaterials design, the name of the game has long been “stronger is better.” Metamaterials are synthetic materials with microscopic structures that give the overall material exceptional properties. A...
New electronic skin could enable lightweight night-vision glasses
Apr 23, 2025 Engineers developed ultrathin electronic films that sense heat and other signals, and could reduce the bulk of conventional goggles and scopes. (Nanowerk News) MIT engineers have developed a technique to grow and peel ultrathin “skins” of electronic material. The method could pave the way for new classes...
‘Periodic table of machine learning’ could fuel AI discovery
Apr 23, 2025 Researchers have created a unifying framework that can help scientists combine existing ideas to improve AI models or create new ones. (Nanowerk News) MIT researchers have created a periodic table that shows how more than 20 classical machine-learning algorithms are connected. The new framework sheds light on...
Revolutionary microscope reveals quantum dance of atoms in twisted graphene
Apr 23, 2025 Scientists use a novel cryogenic Quantum Twisting Microscope to reveal how electrons interact with phasons in twisted graphene, offering insights into superconductivity. (Nanowerk News) In new research published in Nature ("Quantum twisting microscopy of phonons in twisted bilayer graphene"), Weizmann Institute scientists introduce a powerful tool to...
Ultrafast plasmon-enhanced magnetic bit switching at the nanoscale
Apr 23, 2025 Researchers have demonstrated a successful way to control and manipulate nanoscale magnetic bits using an ultrafast laser pulse and plasmonic gold nanostructures. (Nanowerk News) All-optical, helicity-independent magnetization switching (AO-HIS) is one of the most interesting and promising mechanisms for this endeavor, where the magnetization state can be...