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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...

Mar 16, 2026 MoS2 monolayers doped across the periodic table show p-type, n-type, metallic, and magnetic behavior, providing building blocks for all-MoS2 device integration. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Among the many techniques that make modern processors possible, doping is one of the most fundamental. By introducing trace impurity atoms into a semiconductor,...

Mar 16, 2026 Inhaled nanoparticles release disease biomarkers in the lungs, detected in exhaled breath by a chip-scale nanoplasmonic sensor for fast pneumonia diagnosis. (Nanowerk News) Diagnosing some diseases could be as easy as breathing into a tube. MIT engineers have developed a test to detect disease-related compounds in a...

Mar 16, 2026 Chemists grew the longest conductive polymer chains ever made on a surface, nearly one micrometer long, using a clean process that enables precise nanoribbons. (Nanowerk News) Chemists have grown the longest conductive polymer chains ever produced on a surface, reaching nearly one micrometer, and shown that these...

Mar 16, 2026 A new study raise questions about how scientists use the Small Magellanic Cloud, our neighboring galaxy, as a reference point for understanding galaxies across the history of the universe. (Nanowerk News) The Small Magellanic Cloud or the SMC is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors...