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Dec 15, 2025 Method could help explain how transport properties emerge from quantum effects in materials like solar cells and superconductors. (Nanowerk News) A new computational approach developed at the University of Chicago promises to shed light on some of the world’s most puzzling materials—from high-temperature superconductors to solar cell...

Dec 17, 2025 Twisted graphene heterostructures detect temperature with 99% accuracy, reduce thermal image errors by 46%, and execute logic operations, mimicking how biological skin senses heat. (Nanowerk Spotlight) The human eye remains an engineering marvel that artificial systems struggle to match. Nature's solution to vision involves not just capturing...

Dec 17, 2025 New insights into single-crystal cathode degradation point to longer-lasting, safer batteries. (Nanowerk News) New research from Argonne National Laboratory and the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) has solved a major battery mystery that has led to capacity degradation, shortened lifespan and, in some cases,...

Dec 16, 2025 Silver coated nanospikes on empress cicada wings amplify Raman signals by up to a million times, offering a scalable low cost route to sensitive molecular detection. (Nanowerk News) Zoom in far enough on an empress cicada wing, and a strange landscape materializes. At the nanoscale, densely packed...

Dec 16, 2025 Chemical reactions that are sensitive to force could help power engineered materials that beat, twitch and shiver like living tissue for new applications in robotics and other technologies. (Nanowerk News) When people think of high-powered machines, they'd likely think of muscle cars before their own muscles. But...

Dec 16, 2025 Bizarre, lemon-shaped world has an atmosphere unlike any ever seen before. (Nanowerk News) Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, whose atmospheric composition challenges our understanding of how it formed. Officially named PSR J2322-2650b,...

Dec 16, 2025 Double explosion may have produced gravitational waves and light. (Nanowerk News) When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the universe with heavy elements such as carbon and iron. Another type of explosion—the kilonova—occurs when...

Dec 16, 2025 A multifunctional electronic tattoo (e?tattoo) that integrates energy harvesting, energy storage, and real?time biometric sensing into a single, skin?conformal platform. (Nanowerk News) Researchers at Boise State University have developed a breakthrough in wearable electronics: a multifunctional electronic tattoo (e‑tattoo) that integrates energy harvesting, energy storage, and real‑time...

Dec 15, 2025 Engineers debuted a new framework introducing computational tools and self-reflective AI assistants, potentially advancing fields like optical computing and astronomy. (Nanowerk News) Hyper-realistic holograms, next-generation sensors for autonomous robots, and slim augmented reality glasses are among the applications of metasurfaces, emerging photonic devices constructed from nanoscale building...

Dec 15, 2025 Researchers developed cSMRTS, an engineered mRNA that preferentially turns on therapeutic genes inside targeted cells, shown in mice, enabling safer, more precise treatments. (Nanowerk News) Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a first-of-its-kind mRNA system that switches on therapeutic genes preferentially...