Blog

Mar 26, 2026 Researchers identify why graphene oxide selectively destroys bacteria while remaining safe for human cells, with applications from toothbrushes to sportswear. (Nanowerk News) A graphene-coated toothbrush has sold more than 10 million units on the strength of its antibacterial properties, but until now the precise mechanism behind that...

Mar 24, 2026 Researchers have uncovered the origin of polarity inversion, a long-standing phenomenon in polymer semiconductors that occurs only in certain materials. (Nanowerk News) A research team led by Prof. Boseok Kang at Sungkyunkwan University has uncovered the origin of polarity inversion—a long-standing phenomenon in polymer semiconductors that occurs...

Mar 25, 2026 Extracting and restoring potassium from layers of nickel and sulfur enables switching between two electronic states. (Nanowerk News) A team of scientists led by Argonne National Laboratory have identified a rare, switchable quantum property in a new type of nickel sulfide material (Matter, "Evolution from topological Dirac...

Mar 25, 2026 A molybdenum-based spin-flip emitter harvested singlet fission excitons at 130% quantum yield, demonstrating a new path beyond the Shockley-Queisser solar cell efficiency limit. (Nanowerk News) Solar cells built from standard semiconductors can convert only about one-third of incoming sunlight into electricity. High-energy photons waste their excess as...

Mar 25, 2026 New insights into metallic cracks that harm battery performance could advance the longstanding quest to develop energy-dense solid-state batteries. (Nanowerk News) Batteries that use solid metal as their charge-carrying electrolyte could potentially be a safer and far more energy-dense alternative to lithium-ion batteries. However, these solid-state batteries...

Mar 25, 2026 Astronomers found evidence that some of the fastest-spinning stars in the Universe broadcast radio waves from far beyond where scientists thought possible. (Nanowerk News) Pulsars are ultra-dense, rapidly spinning, and highly magnetised remnants of dead stars. They act like cosmic lighthouses, sending out regular pulses of radio...

Mar 25, 2026 Silicon nanospheres amplify second-harmonic generation from monolayer semiconductors over 40-fold while retaining valley-polarization information. (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers has demonstrated that silicon nanospheres placed on monolayer tungsten disulfide can amplify second-harmonic generation more than 40-fold without disrupting the circular polarization that encodes valley information. Published...

Mar 25, 2026 Tunable DNA hairpin springs stretch millions of protein copies under piconewton tension, enabling bulk biochemical discovery of binding partners invisible to single-molecule techniques. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Some proteins only reveal their full function when they are physically pulled. Under tension, their folded structures open up, exposing surfaces that...

Mar 25, 2026 Fluorinated donor-acceptor self-assembled molecules achieve 25.02% efficiency in inverted perovskite solar cells while improving film quality and ambient stability. (Nanowerk News) Perovskite solar cells built with a new class of donor-acceptor self-assembled molecules show measurable gains in both efficiency and durability. Researchers at National Taiwan University designed...

Mar 25, 2026 Researchers have engineered a dual-targeting nanocarrier that safely sneaks potent chemotherapy past the blood-brain barrier. By homing in on a specific protein expressed by both the glioblastoma cells and their protective helper cells, this approach directly shrinks the deadly tumor while reprogramming the immune system to join...