Jan 24, 2026 Magnetic nanoparticles engineered T cells inside living mice and guided them into solid tumors, achieving over 90% tumor inhibition where conventional immunotherapy fails. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, known as CAR-T, has transformed the treatment of blood cancers. The approach involves extracting a patient's T...
Researchers discover record-setting heat-conducting metallic material
Jan 24, 2026 Theta-phase tantalum nitride conducts heat nearly three times better than copper, opening new pathways for cooling electronics, AI, and quantum hardware. (Nanowerk News) A UCLA-led, multi-institution research team has discovered a metallic material with the highest thermal conductivity measured among metals, challenging long-standing assumptions about the limits...
Dual cross-linked polymer design enables soft artificial muscles with record work density and strain
Jan 24, 2026 A dual cross-linked magnetic polymer solves the fundamental trade-off limiting soft artificial muscles, achieving unprecedented combinations of stretchability, force output, and shape-programming ability. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Soft artificial muscles can bend, stretch, and twist in ways that rigid motors cannot. They promise robots that navigate confined spaces, wearable...
Quantum measurements with entangled atomic clouds
Jan 23, 2026 Researchers have demonstrated how quantum mechanical entanglement can be used to measure several physical parameters simultaneously with greater precision. (Nanowerk News) Entanglement is probably the most puzzling phenomenon observed in quantum systems. It causes measurements on two quantum objects, even if they are at different locations, to...
New metal-organic framework material achieves real-time fluoride removal and detection in water
Jan 23, 2026 Researchers developed a MOF-based material that removes fluoride from water while giving a real-time visual signal, enabling efficient defluoridation and monitoring. (Nanowerk News) A research team led by Prof. KONG Lingtao at the Institute of Solid State Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese...
Octopus antioxidant shields perovskite solar cells from decay
Jan 23, 2026 Taurine from octopus and squid neutralizes oxygen radicals that destroy perovskite solar cells, then regenerates to provide continuous protection, dramatically extending operational lifetime. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Perovskite solar cells can match silicon's best laboratory efficiencies while promising far cheaper manufacturing. Built from semiconductors deposited from liquid solution at...
Graphene may have been unintentional byproduct of Edison’s 1879 light bulb experiments
Jan 23, 2026 Early carbon light bulbs may have produced graphene, since applying voltage to carbon filaments mirrors what is now called flash Joule heating. (Nanowerk News) What do Thomas Edison and 2010 Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According to a recent...
Researchers redefine capacitor behavior at the nanoscale
Jan 23, 2026 A new quantum framework now accurately models nanocapacitors where standard physics fails, enabling precise design and characterization of future electronics. (Nanowerk News) The State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook University) researchers led a new study published in Physical Review Letters ("First-Principles Nanocapacitor Simulations...
Astrophysicists discover largest sulfur-containing molecular compound in space
Feb 23, 2026 The discovery of a 13-atom sulfur ring in deep space links simple cosmic chemistry to the complex organic building blocks of life's origins. (Nanowerk News) Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), in collaboration with astrophysicists from the Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), CSIC-INTA, have...
The art of custom-intercalating 42 metals into layered titanate nanostructures
Jan 23, 2026 Researchers report a synthesis method enabling direct intercalation of many metal cations into layered titanates, enabling tailored catalysts and energy storage materials. (Nanowerk News) A research team, affiliated with UNIST has reported a novel synthesis strategy that enables the direct intercalation of a wide range of metal...