Key Takeaways: The Convergence of Nanotechnology From Vertical to Horizontal: Nanotechnology has matured from a standalone research niche into a universal horizontal substrate that physically enables the 2025 breakthroughs in AI, biotechnology, and quantum computing. AI-Driven Discovery Synergy: Self-driving laboratories, such as Berkeley’s A-Lab and the MINERVA platform, are utilizing...
Titanium MXene nanosheets enable palladium recovery in mild acids
Dec 30, 2025 Researchers report a titanium-based MXene system that recovers palladium under weakly acidic conditions, unlike methods needing strong acids. (Nanowerk News) Palladium (Pd) is widely used in various industries and everyday products, including smartphones, semiconductor manufacturing processes, and hydrogen fuel cells. Palladium is an essential metal that acts...
Delivering genome editing components with Lipid Nanoparticles to repair the building blocks of muscles
Dec 30, 2025 Scientists have developed a novel approach of genome editing to repair muscle stem (satellite) cells, offering new hope for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) treatment. (Nanowerk News) DMD is a severe genetic disorder caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene, leading to progressive muscle weakness and degeneration. One...
Scientists turn cotton into a power source that harvests electricity from humidity day and night
Dec 30, 2025 Polymer-coated cotton fabric generates electricity from ambient humidity day and night, powering LEDs for over 24 hours and charging wearable devices from air moisture and sweat. (Nanowerk Spotlight) The global water cycle moves roughly 500,000 cubic kilometers of water through the atmosphere each year (Source: NASA). Every...
Ultrathin ferroelectric capacitors for next-generation memory devices
Dec 30, 2025 Researchers reduce the total thickness of capacitor stacks while maintaining strong polarization properties. (Nanowerk News) Modern electronic technology is rapidly advancing towards miniaturization, creating devices that are increasingly compact yet high-performing. As the devices continue to shrink in size, there is an increasing demand for ultra-small memory...
AI maps reaction pathways for colloidal quantum dots
Dec 29, 2025 Researchers use AI to visualize reaction pathways of colloidal quantum dots as subway maps, clarifying synthesis and speeding sensor design. (Nanowerk News) Professor Joongoo Kang's team from the Department of Physics and Chemistry at DGIST (President Kunwoo Lee) and Professor Sohee Jeong's team from the Department of...
Josephson junctions can operate with a single superconductor, experiment confirms
Dec 29, 2025 Experiments show Josephson junction-like behavior can arise with only one superconductor, challenging the standard two-superconductor model. (Nanowerk News) Separate two superconductors with a thin layer of material and something strange happens. Their superconductivity — a property driven by paired electrons that allows electricity to flow without energy...
Scalable thin-film cavities boost sensitivity of nanodiamond quantum sensors nearly fivefold
Dec 29, 2025 Polymer thin-film optical cavities boost the magnetic sensing sensitivity of nanodiamond quantum sensors nearly fivefold while enabling centimeter-scale fabrication with standard manufacturing techniques. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Somewhere inside many diamonds lies a flaw. Not the inclusions that diminish a gemstone's value, but something far stranger: individual atoms out...
Nanofilm reservoir computing hits peak performance at specific humidity
Dec 28, 2025 Balancing electronic and ionic charge carriers in polymer nanofilms significantly improves physical reservoir computing, a brain-inspired approach that harnesses material dynamics instead of traditional circuits. (Nanowerk Spotlight) A polymer film barely ten nanometers thick can perform computations by exploiting the interplay between two fundamentally different charge carriers,...
New nanosensor detects dopamine release from living brain organoids in real time
Dec 27, 2025 A novel electrode platform detects dopamine from single living brain organoids in real time, enabling non-destructive monitoring of neuronal function at concentrations as low as 7.51 nM. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Dopamine, the neurotransmitter central to movement, motivation, and the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, operates in the brain at...