Oct 11, 2025 Chemists use gold nanorods to transfer light energy to molecules without contact, enabling efficient, low-waste, light-driven reactions. (Nanowerk News) Scientists are exploring many ways to use light rather than heat to drive chemical reactions more efficiently, which could significantly reduce waste, energy consumption, and reliance on non-renewable...
Twistronics and CRISPR enable attomolar biosensing of cancer biomarkers
Oct 11, 2025 Twisted graphene precisely aligned with gold nanodisks and coupled with CRISPR achieves attomolar detection of cancer biomarkers, revealing a new path for low light molecular diagnostics. (Nanowerk Spotlight) The search for faster and more sensitive disease diagnostics has drawn together two highly specialized areas of research: advanced...
Programmable proteins use logic to improve targeted drug delivery
Oct 10, 2025 Researchers created proteins that fold into logic-based shapes, letting therapies target disease sites precisely and cut off-target effects. (Nanowerk News) Targeted drug delivery is a powerful and promising area of medicine. Therapies that pinpoint the exact areas of the body where they’re needed — and nowhere they’re...
AI shortens time taken to measure the sustainability impact of a product
Oct 10, 2025 Researchers have developed a streamlined life cycle assessment method that makes environmental evaluation faster, cheaper, and more accessible to product designers without compromising reliability. (Nanowerk News) Choices made in the earliest stages of product design can influence the environmental impact of a product for years to come....
Batteries that recycle themselves
Oct 10, 2025 Controlled thermal runaway lets lithium-ion batteries recycle themselves using stored energy, cutting external heat, chemicals, and emissions while improving recovery efficiency and economic viability. (Nanowerk Spotlight) The clean energy transition depends on batteries, and those batteries are becoming a serious environmental problem. Electric vehicles, consumer electronics, and...
Breaking thermodynamic limits with non-thermal energy harvesting
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Breakthrough mirror-image nanopores open door to new biomedical applications
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A new type of light-controlled non-volatile memory
Max-Planck-Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter. "A new type of light-controlled non-volatile memory." Nanowerk, 10 October 2025, https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news3/newsid=67858.php. Max-Planck-Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter. (2025, October 10). A new type of light-controlled non-volatile memory. Nanowerk. https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news3/newsid=67858.php Max-Planck-Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, "A new...
Self-powered clothing that listens and understands
Oct 10, 2025 A self-powered fabric with nanostructured materials converts sound into electrical signals and uses deep learning to recognize speech, turning clothing into a soft and responsive voice interface. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Most voice-controlled systems still depend on rigid microphones housed in plastic or metal. They work well for phones...
When being first matters more than being reliable
Oct 09, 2025 Researchers, funders, and industry experts in 2D materials call for science to reward reliability over speed, proposing shared tools and standards to strengthen transparency and reproducibility across research. (Nanowerk Spotlight) On a good day in a 2D materials lab, the data line up neatly, devices behave as...