Nanotechnology/Micromachines

Recent findings by Slovenian and German scientists artfully explore potential to transform proteins into custom-made structuresCredit: Credit: Fabio Lapenta / National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia Origami may sound more like…

The findings pave the way for development of more efficient, next-gen LEDs covering the entire visible spectrumCredit: Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Singapore, 12 April 2021 - Researchers from the Low…

Credit: Professor Do Hyun Kim, KAIST KAIST researchers have developed a novel nanofiber production technique called 'centrifugal multispinning' that will open the door for the safe and cost-effective mass production of…

New quantity helps experimentally classify dimensionality of thermoelectric materialsCredit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan - Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have shown that a quantity known as…

Heidelberg scientists achieve defect control with a new reaction pathwayCredit: Simon Settele (Heidelberg) The properties of carbon-based nanomaterials can be altered and engineered through the deliberate introduction of certain…

High index surface-exposed and composition-graded [email protected]@Pt nanodendrites for high-performance oxygen reductionCredit: Chinese Journal of Catalysis Alloying is a general and efficient strategy to boost the catalytic activity of Pt…

The research could lead to electronics being designed with better enduranceCredit: University of Sydney Ferroelectric materials are used in many devices, including memories, capacitors, actuators and sensors. These devices are…

The radiator was developed using friction stir welding technologyCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Researchers from Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) invented a durable and compact…

Using DNA structures as scaffolds, Tim Liedl, a scientist of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich, has shown that precisely positioned gold nanoparticles can serve as efficient energy transmitters.  Since the inception of the…

A game-changer for the reductive amination of carbonyl compounds: Researchers from Osaka University develop an air-stable reusable metal-phosphide catalyst for the reductive amination of carbonyl compoundsCredit: Osaka University …

Credit: Department of Biofunction Research,TMDU Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) demonstrate an mRNA delivery system that effectively produces BDNF protein in rat brain to protect neurons from ischemia…

Pioneering study co-led by Berkeley Lab has significance for next-gen information technologiesCredit: Peter Fischer and Frances Hellman/Berkeley Lab A decade ago, the discovery of quasiparticles called magnetic skyrmions provided…

Credit: Peter Modin/LiU It may be possible in the future to use information technology where electron spin is used to store, process and transfer information in quantum computers. It has long been the goal of scientists to be…

Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology discover a surprising phase transition in twisted bilayer grapheneCredit: Weizmann Institute of Science Most materials go from being solids to…

By binding specific ions in specially designed cages within its pores, a new membrane could enable more efficient flows in energy storage devicesCredit: Artem Baskin/Berkeley Lab Membranes that allow certain molecules to quickly pass…

X-rays confirm promise of new luminescent markersCredit: Flinders University A novel way to pinpoint and illuminate bone damage promises to make X-rays more efficient at diagnosing bone and other injuries, Flinders University…

Can a mirror turn an orange into a doughnut?Credit: Dr Fan Wang Can a mirror turn an orange into a doughnut? The answer is definitely no in the real (macro) world. But at the nanoscale, a mirror can turn an "orange" shaped pattern into a…

Credit: (Image: Andreas Gottscholl / University of Wuerzburg) Boron nitride is a technologically interesting material because it is very compatible with other two-dimensional crystalline structures. It therefore opens up pathways to…

Metamaterials that can control the refractive direction of light or absorb it to enable invisible cloaks are gaining attention. Recently, a research team at POSTECH has designed a metasurface that can control the acoustic or elastic…

Credit: Keiji Murayama Nagoya University scientists in Japan have demonstrated how DNA-like molecules could have come together as a precursor to the origins of life. The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, not…