Dec 21, 2025 Atomic defects in nanodiamonds enable both precise heating of lysosomes inside macrophages and nanoscale temperature measurement, revealing that localized thermal spikes trigger immune cell reprogramming. (Nanowerk Spotlight) The human body maintains a core temperature of about 37 °C, but the interiors of individual cells tell a different...
This message will self-destruct, courtesy of living bacteria
Dec 20, 2025 Bacterial patterns invisible to the eye reveal hidden information only with correct biochemical triggers, creating anti-counterfeiting codes that are harder to copy or forge. (Nanowerk Spotlight) A petri dish sits under ultraviolet light, revealing a glowing QR code formed entirely from living bacterial colonies. Scan it with...
Nanofluidic chips could make nanopore sensing practical for diagnostics
Dec 19, 2025 Linking nanopores with nanofluidic chips can slow molecules, cut noise, scale measurements, and enable early disease detection and precision diagnostics. (Nanowerk News) When disease begins forming inside the human body, something subtle happens long before symptoms appear. Individual molecules such as DNA, RNA, peptides, or proteins begin...
Laser-assisted imprinting patterns ultrathin nanowires on flexible transparent films
Dec 19, 2025 A scalable nanofabrication method uses electric-field alignment and picosecond laser welding to imprint patterned silver nanowire networks on polymer films. (Nanowerk News) A breakthrough development in nanofabrication could help support the development of new wireless, flexible, high-performance transparent electronic devices. Researchers from the University of Glasgow’s James...
A high-yield, nontoxic route to nitrogen-doped graphene
Dec 19, 2025 Glycine replaces toxic precursors in solvent-free graphene production, yielding nanoplatelets with high conductivity and month-long dispersion stability that enable electrically triggered self-healing. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Graphene's practical applications remain limited by a fundamental tension: the material disperses poorly in solvents and polymer matrices, yet the most common fix,...
Sustainable production of high-quality perovskite solar cells
Dec 18, 2025 Researchers have found a new way to produce perovskite photovoltaic modules in an environmentally friendly manner and on commercial scale. (Nanowerk News) Perovskite solar modules provide numerous benefits. They are lightweight, highly efficient, easily scalable, and at the same time inexpensive and facile to produce. However, their...
Edible electronics made from kitchen ingredients keep fruit fresh and harvest electricity
Dec 19, 2025 A fruit coating made from kitchen ingredients harvests electricity from humid air to power sensors while suppressing bacteria and extending shelf life up to 3.4 times. (Nanowerk Spotlight) One-third of all food produced globally spoils before anyone eats it. Edible fruit coatings can slow decay by retaining...
Vapor deposition delivers durable perovskite silicon tandems on textured wafers
Dec 19, 2025 First successful use of vapor deposition on industrial silicon wafers delivers unprecedented durability in perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells. (Nanowerk News) Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a groundbreaking vapour-deposition method that dramatically improves the long-term and high-temperature stability of perovskite-silicon (Si) tandem solar...
Physicists bring unruly molecules to the quantum party
Dec 19, 2025 Researchers used atomic clock laser methods and a helper calcium atom to control a calcium monohydride molecule, expanding molecular options for quantum tasks, tests of physics, and chemistry control. (Nanowerk News) Scientists have made leaps and bounds in bending atoms to their will, making them into everything...
Flipping the switch on material chirality: modifying chirality with electricity
Dec 19, 2025 A voltage-driven method enables reversible, tunable chiral states in semiconductor materials. (Nanowerk News) A way to electrically modify the chirality of organic–inorganic hybrid materials, in which chiral molecules adsorb onto inorganic surfaces, has been demonstrated by researchers at Science Tokyo. By using an electric double-layer transistor with...