Day: March 17, 2026

Mar 17, 2026 Researchers paired lignin-derived porous carbon electrodes with a fluorinated electrolyte to build a supercapacitor operating at 4.0 volts and 77.4 Wh per kg. (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers has built a supercapacitor that operates stably at 4.0 volts by matching a lignin-based porous carbon electrode with...

Mar 17, 2026 Adding iron to a copper-based propellant MOF simultaneously solves its water stability problem and boosts laser propulsion efficiency, breaking a trade-off once thought inherent. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Microsatellites weighing less than a kilogram can now photograph Earth, relay communications, and monitor weather. Steering them in orbit requires propulsion,...

Mar 17, 2026 Concentrated rivers of current create flickering hotspots in conventional amorphous OLEDs, but crystalline designs may not have this problem. (Nanowerk News) The pixels in phone screens and other OLED displays appear to provide a uniform glow, but a team of University of Michigan Engineering researchers has discovered...

Mar 17, 2026 Researchers defy expectations by creating quantum bits from perovskite materials, once thought too unstable, opening a new field toward functional quantum computers. (Nanowerk News) For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that the properties of the perovskite family of materials can be used to create so-called quantum...

Mar 17, 2026 A new printing technique places perovskite photodetectors on contact lenses, and AI upscaling turns 100 sparse pixels into an eye-tracking interface for robotic control. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Turning a contact lens into a camera-like sensor that captures and interprets light patterns requires solving two problems at once. The...

Mar 17, 2026 The complete set of nucleobases found in terrestrial DNA and RNA have been detected in samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu, offering insights into the early Solar System's chemistry. (Nanowerk News) The complete set of nucleobases found in terrestrial DNA and RNA — adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine...

Mar 17, 2026 Engineered multilayer bismuth ferrite films achieve piezoelectric performance four times higher than conventional forms at just nanometers thick. (Nanowerk News) Researchers have engineered ultrathin films of bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3) that deliver a piezoelectric response more than four times greater than the material's conventional form, removing a critical...

Mar 17, 2026 Instead of using more and more concrete and steel, a research team is focusing on intelligent shapes, digital manufacturing, and alternative binders. The aim is to create a climate-friendly building material that is delicate yet stable and can be custom-made using 3D printing, dismantled, and reused. (Nanowerk...

Mar 16, 2026 Astronomers identified a new type of planet beyond our Solar System - one that stores large amounts of sulphur deep within a permanent ocean of magma. (Nanowerk News) The exoplanet (a planet that orbits a star outside the Solar System), known as L 98-59 d, orbits a...

Mar 16, 2026 Researchers experimentally confirm their 2021 hypothesis that electron-phonon coupling, not electron-electron interactions, explains why some metallic oxides are transparent. (Nanowerk News) Researchers from the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) Gyanendra Singh and Josep Fontcuberta (MULFOX group) have experimentally confirmed a theory they proposed in 2021...