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Exoplanet may reveal secrets about the edge of habitability

Jun 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) How close can a rocky planet be to a star, and still sustain water and life? A recently discovered exoplanet...

New adhesive bandage relies on gold nanoparticles to quickly detect COVID-19 antibodies

Researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi have developed a new rapid testing method for COVID-19 – an adhesive bandage that relies on gold nanoparticles to...

Researchers have 3D printed the world’s smallest wineglass using a new technique

Jun 20, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers have 3D-printed the world’s smallest wine glass—nearly indistinguishable with the naked eye—with a rim smaller than the width...

Voltage enables ferro-rotational domain switching – Nature Nanotechnology

Hlinka, J., Privratska, J., Ondrejkovic, P. & Janovec, V. Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 177602 (2016).Article  CAS  Google Scholar  Cheong, S.-W., Talbayev, D., Kiryukhin,...

EPFL researchers achieve near-perfect control of individual molecules for improving sensing precision

Aleksandra Radenovic, head of the Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology in the School of Engineering, has worked for years to improve nanopore technology, which involves...

Clean, sustainable fuels made ‘from thin air’ and plastic waste

Jun 19, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers have demonstrated how carbon dioxide can be captured from industrial processes – or even directly from the air...

Single-use bioplastic sheets made from agricultural waste

Jun 18, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Plastic waste is a big problem for the environment, especially small plastics like bread clips that are hard to...

As Microplastics and Nano-Plastics Enter the Human Waste Stream, Concern Grows for the Effects and Impact of the Unintentionally Consumed Tiny Particles. What to...

Plastics, widely used in various aspects of our lives, have become pervasive materials that end up in the waste stream after use. Over...

New method creates material that could create the next generation of solar cells

Jun 17, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Perovskites, a family of materials with unique electric properties, show promise for use in a variety fields, including next-generation...

New, improved method of imaging and analyzing biological samples

There are various ways to image biological samples on a microscopic level, and each has its own pros and cons. For the first time,...

Novel approach to fabricating artificial graphene nanoribbons with embedded pentagon carbon

Jun 16, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have attracted much attention due to their unique electronic structures with high tunability of physical structures. However,...

Premelting occurs at 2D faults – Nature Nanotechnology

Using ABX3-type BaCeO3 as a model ionic crystal, the researchers systematically follow the structural evolution of a post-annealed polycrystalline sample at various temperatures below...

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