Dec 08, 2025 Researchers develop a cheaper, safer material for use in solar panels, sensors and optical devices. (Nanowerk News) Using proteins from a common tobacco plant virus, McGill chemistry researchers have developed a simple, eco-friendly way to arrange gold nanoparticles into ultrathin sheets, strengthening the particles’ optical properties. The...
New microscope can image an invisible 2D material
Dec 08, 2025 have found a new way to image layers of boron nitride that are only a single atom thick. This material is usually nearly invisible in optical microscopes because it has no optical resonances. To resolve this issue, the team uses nonlinear microscopy with infrared light, making the...
Turning carbon dioxide and electricity into protein-rich yeast
Dec 08, 2025 A membrane-free solid-state reactor turns captured carbon dioxideinto clean formic acid that feeds microbes, growing protein-rich yeast and suggesting how electricity and waste carbon could supply future protein. (Nanowerk Spotlight) A future low carbon menu might not start in fields or barns at all. Instead, it could...
New filterless air purifier uses nano water spray to capture ultrafine dust
Dec 08, 2025 New quiet, filterless air purifier sprays nano-sized water droplets to trap ultrafine dust, slashing power use and avoiding harmful ozone. (Nanowerk News) A KAIST research team has drawn attention by developing a new water-based air purification technology that combines “nano water droplets that capture dust” with a...
Patterned graphene-based carbon sheet is a tunable semiconductor and traps carbon monoxide
Dec 08, 2025 A new atomically precise carbon sheet combines nanoporous graphene and biphenylene stripes, offering controlled semiconducting behavior, tunable mechanics, and selective gas interaction for future electronic and sensing applications. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Digital electronics rely on materials that can switch cleanly between a conducting state and a nonconducting state....
New study sheds light on Milky Way’s mysterious chemical history
Dec 08, 2025 Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been revealed by a new study. (Nanowerk News) The research, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ("The Milky Way in context: The formation of...
Scientists identify the recipe for stabilizing atomically thin metals
Dec 08, 2025 Researchers stabilize atomically thin metallenes, turning flimsy metals into robust platforms for nanoscale devices, energy technologies and biomedicine. (Nanowerk News) Metallenes are atomically thin metals, whose unique properties make them extremely promising for nanoscale applications. However, their extreme thinness makes them also flimsy. Now, researchers at the...