Day: June 12, 2026

Jun 12, 2026 Molecular rings reveal how hidden chain length controls stiffness, toughness and elasticity, offering a blueprint for tunable smart materials. (Nanowerk News) From household plastic packaging to the flexible frameworks that support wearable electronics, polymer materials form the invisible backbone of modern life. At a microscopic level, polymers...

Jun 12, 2026 Defect-free copper pathways let electrons travel with less scattering, pointing to ways of reducing resistance in future nanoscale wiring. (Nanowerk News) A joint research team led by Professor Gil-Ho Lee of the Department of Physics at POSTECH, Professor Emeritus Se-Young Jeong of the School of Transdisciplinary Engineering...

Jun 12, 2026 A silicon carbide transistor uses negative differential resistance at millikelvin temperatures to enable low-power local control near quantum processors. (Nanowerk News) Researchers from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering under the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the Centre for Advanced Semiconductors...

Jun 12, 2026 A 4D-printed microwave absorber uses heat to reshape itself and strengthen internal energy loss, enabling tunable shielding after fabrication. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Microwave absorbers are shielding materials used in radar stealth, electromagnetic protection, and interference control because they take in microwave energy and dissipate it rather than reflecting...

Jun 12, 2026 Lithium or sodium substitution turns abundant zinc oxide into a stress-activated near-infrared emitter for self-powered optical sensing. (Nanowerk News) Mechanoluminescent materials convert mechanical energy such as stress, strain, and vibration directly into light, making them attractive as self-powered sensors that require no batteries or wiring. From biomedical...

Jun 12, 2026 A boron-rich ladder molecule narrows spontaneous emission, improving color purity while exposing stability challenges inside OLED devices. (Nanowerk News) Over the past several decades, light sources have gradually transitioned to light emitting diodes, or LEDs, and inorganic LEDs are now used across a wide range of applications....

Jun 12, 2026 Counterjet observations reveal clumpy, dense ionized gas around a supermassive black hole, offering a new probe of AGN jet�gas interactions. (Nanowerk News) 3C 84, the central galaxy of the Perseus cluster, is one of the nearest and brightest radio active galactic nucleis (AGNs) in the sky. Recently,...

Jun 12, 2026 Diamond, long deemed non-piezoelectric, now shows stable voltage generation in ultrathin flexible membranes, unlocking self-powered medical sensors. (Nanowerk News) A research team led by Professor Zhiqin Chu, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Professor Yuan Lin, Professor in the Department of Mechanical...

Jun 11, 2026 Robust metallicity in a fullerene-based material challenges conventional electron-behavior theories and may inform future quantum technologies. (Nanowerk News) An international team whose research was coordinated by Osaka Metropolitan University (OMU) has reported the survival of metallic behavior in the strongly correlated molecular material, ytterbium cesium fulleride (Yb₂CsC₆₀)...

Jun 11, 2026 The device selectively captured cancer biomarkers from the blood serum of ovarian cancer patients. (Nanowerk News) A research team in Japan has developed an efficient and minimally invasive cancer detection device that uses high-performance zinc oxide nanowires to selectively capture extracellular vesicles (EVs) from bodily fluids. Using...