Feb 03, 2026 A research team has developed a single-use test strip which could ultimately change how diseases like cancer are diagnosed. (Nanowerk News) A research team led by La Trobe University has developed a single-use test strip which could ultimately change how diseases like cancer are diagnosed. The research,...
Edible electronics harvest heat from hot food to power color-changing safety displays
Feb 03, 2026 Thermoelectric generators built entirely from food-grade hydrogels and vanillin harvest heat from hot meals to power edible displays that change color when food reaches safe eating temperature. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Power has been the limiting factor for electronics designed to be swallowed. Any device that enters the digestive...
Oxygen-modified graphene filters boost natural gas purification
Feb 03, 2026 Adding oxygen to ultrathin graphene enables efficient carbon dioxide removal from methane while maintaining high permeability. (Nanowerk News) As we shift toward more sustainable fuels, natural gas and biogas, which mainly contain methane (CH4), have become important sources of energy and raw materials for chemical production. However,...
Genetic switch helps cells safely build large protein nanostructures
Feb 03, 2026 A new genetic control system lets lab-grown cells produce gas vesicles step by step, reducing stress on the cells and improving yields for medical uses. (Nanowerk News) Gas vesicles are among the largest known protein nanostructures produced and assembled inside microbial cells. These hollow, air-filled cylindrical nanostructures...
Anomalous magnetoresistance observed in an antiferromagnetic kagome semimetal
Feb 03, 2026 Anomalous low-field oscillatory magnetoresistance in an antiferromagnetic kagome semimetal heterostructure was linked to directly imaged topological magnetic textures. (Nanowerk News) Researchers from the High Magnetic Field Laboratory (CHMFL), the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with the State Key...
Machine learning outdesigns evolution to create ultrasensitive gold spiderwebs
Feb 03, 2026 Machine learning redesigns microscopic web sensors to be five times more flexible than nature-inspired versions, enabling detection of masses as small as trillionths of a gram. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Mechanical sensors built at microscopic scales face a fundamental problem: they are too stiff. As structures shrink to dimensions...
A clearer look at critical materials, thanks to refrigerator magnets
Feb 02, 2026 Researchers adapted ARPES to work in magnetic fields using nanoscale alternating magnets that confine fields near a sample, letting photoelectrons travel straight. (Nanowerk News) With an advanced technology known as angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), scientists are able to map out a material’s electron energy-momentum relationship, which encodes...
Thermonat makes nanoscale thermal prediction practical for real-world chip design
Feb 02, 2026 Heat limits sub-10 nm chips, but current tools miss nanoscale effects or run too slowly. New modeling bridges atom-level accuracy with fast design-ready predictions. (Nanowerk News) As microelectronics push far below the 10-nanometer scale, heat has become one of the most significant barriers to next-generation chip performance....
How aircraft wing physics could accelerate the next generation of RNA medicines
Feb 02, 2026 Aircraft wing-shaped structures inside tiny channels produce consistent drug delivery particles at any scale, from small laboratory tests to factory production, while substantially cutting costs. (Nanowerk Spotlight) The success of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines marked a turning point for medicine. Billions of doses proved that lipid nanoparticles, tiny...
pH sensitive carbon nanotube gates control the flow of water and ions
Feb 02, 2026 Carbon nanotubes can open and close in response to acidity, guiding water and ions one by one and mimicking how natural cell channels work. (Nanowerk News) When water and ions move together through channels only a nanometer wide, they behave in unusual ways. In these tight spaces,...