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March 2, 2025

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Researchers Create the World's Smallest Shooting Video Game Using Nanoscale Technology

Feb. 26, 2025 — A research team demonstrated the 'world's smallest shooting game,' a unique nanoscale game inspired by classic arcade games. This achievement was made possible by real-time control of the force ...

New Low-Cost Challenger to Quantum Computer: Ising Machine

Feb. 26, 2025 — A low-energy challenger to the quantum computer also works at room temperature. The researchers have shown that information can be transmitted using magnetic wave motion in complex ...

Mesoporous Silicon: Semiconductor With New Talents

Feb. 25, 2025 — Silicon is the best-known semiconductor material. However, controlled nanostructuring drastically alters the material's properties. Using a specially developed etching apparatus, a team has now produced mesoporous silicon layers with countless tiny ...

From Defect to High-Tech Material

Feb. 25, 2025 — Cadmium selenide nanoplatelets provide a promising foundation for the development of innovative electronic materials. Since the turn of the millennium, researchers around the world have taken a particular interest in these tiny platelets, which are ...

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Mimicking Shark Skin to Create Clean Cutting Boards

Feb. 25, 2025 — Keeping work surfaces clean during meat processing is a challenge, and now researchers deliver key insights into a solution that could change the current practice altogether: Instead of working to ...

DNA Origami Suggests Route to Reusable, Multifunctional Biosensors

Feb. 24, 2025 — A team has used a process known as DNA origami to make electrochemical sensors that can quickly detect and measure ...

Highly Uniform Nanocrystals Synthesized by Liquid Crystalline Antisolvent

Feb. 21, 2025 — A research team has developed a groundbreaking method for synthesizing perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs), a next-generation semiconductor material, in a more uniform and efficient manner. This study is ...

Deep Nanometry Reveals Hidden Nanoparticles

Feb. 20, 2025 — Researchers have developed Deep Nanometry, an analytical technique combining advanced optical equipment with a noise removal algorithm based on unsupervised deep learning. Deep Nanometry can analyze ...

Towards New Battery Tech: Chemists Demonstrate High-Performance Sodium-Ion Cathode

Feb. 19, 2025 — For decades, scientists have sought ways to counter our dependence on lithium-ion batteries. These traditional, rechargeable batteries energize ...

Scientists Develop Innovative DNA Hydrogels for Sustained Drug Release

Feb. 13, 2025 — DNA hydrogels are biocompatible drug delivery systems for targeted therapeutic interventions. Conventional DNA hydrogels, formed with many DNA nanostructure units, lead to increased preparation costs ...

Researchers Record Ultrafast Chorus Dance of Electrons on Super-Small Particle

Feb. 18, 2025 — It may be the smallest, shortest chorus dance ever recorded. An international team of researchers observed how electrons, excited by ultrafast light ...

New Nanoscale Technique Unlocks Quantum Material Secrets

Feb. 18, 2025 — Using a novel surface-sensitive spectroscopy method, scientists explored atomic vibrations in crystalline material surfaces near interfaces. The findings illuminate quantum behaviors that play ...

Air Inside Your Home May Be More Polluted Than Outside Due to Everyday Chemical Products

Feb. 18, 2025 — Bringing aromas indoors with the help of chemical products -- yes, air fresheners, wax melts, floor cleaners, deodorants and others -- rapidly fills ...

Researchers Shed Light on the Mechanisms of Bacterial Flagellar Motors

Feb. 13, 2025 — Biological motors, which aid microorganism movement in fluids, are composed of two components -- the rotor and stators. Despite much research, the exact molecular mechanism underlying stator function ...

Scientists Discover Mechanism Driving Molecular Network Formation

Feb. 13, 2025 — Scientists have identified a new property, interface flexibility, that controls how certain molecules naturally self-organize into crystalline supramolecular networks. This significant discovery ...

AI Speeds Up Nanoparticle Research

Feb. 12, 2025 — A team of researchers succeeded in adapting an AI system to reliably assist with making nanoparticle measurements which speeds up the research process ...

'Smaller and Better': Research Uncovers Performance Sweet Spot for Relaxor Nanomaterial

Feb. 11, 2025 — A new study sheds light on how the extreme miniaturization of thin films affects the behavior of relaxor ferroelectrics -- materials with noteworthy energy-conversion properties used in sensors, ...

From Photons to Protons: Team Makes Breakthrough in High-Energy Particle Detection

Feb. 11, 2025 — Researchers have discovered that superconducting nanowire photon detectors can also be used as highly accurate particle detectors, and they have found the optimal nanowire size for high detection ...

Nanoscale Tin Catalyst Discovery Paves the Way for Sustainable CO2 Conversion

Feb. 10, 2025 — Researchers have developed a sustainable catalyst that increases its activity during use while converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into valuable products. This discovery offers a blueprint for designing ...

Stormwater Pollution Sucked Up by Specialized Sponge

Feb. 5, 2025 — A specialized sponge that works to slurp up pollutants, and then release them as desired, may present a reusable, low-cost ...

Pushing the Boundaries of Flat Optics

Feb. 4, 2025 — A research team has developed a novel multidimensional sampling theory to overcome the limitations of flat optics. The study not only identifies the constraints of conventional sampling theories in ...

Nanomaterials Are Emerging as a Powerful Tool for Coastal Oil Spill Cleanup

Feb. 4, 2025 — Advances in nanotechnology may provide solutions to oil spill cleanups in coastal regions that are more effective, safer and work much faster than current methods, according to a new paper. The paper ...

Tiny Copper 'Flowers' Bloom on Artificial Leaves for Clean Fuel Production

Feb. 3, 2025 — Tiny copper 'nano-flowers' have been attached to an artificial leaf to produce clean fuels and chemicals that are the backbone of modern energy and ...

Printable Molecule-Selective Nanoparticles Enable Mass Production of Wearable Biosensors

Feb. 3, 2025 — Researchers have developed a way to print nanoparticles like ink, creating inexpensive sweat sensors that can continuously monitor multiple ...

Scientists Shocked by Durability of Surgery-Sparing Technique

Jan. 30, 2025 — A nanotechnology-based drug delivery system developed to save patients from repeated surgeries has proved to have unexpectedly long-lasting benefits in lab tests -- a promising sign for its potential ...

New Acoustic Wave Phenomenon Discovered

Jan. 29, 2025 — This novel finding regarding the nonreciprocal diffraction of acoustic waves could open doors for next-generation communication ...

Strong as Steel, Light as Foam: High-Performance, Nano-Architected Materials

Jan. 24, 2025 — Researchers have used machine learning to design nano-architected materials that have the strength of carbon steel but the lightness of Styrofoam. The team describes how they made nanomaterials with ...

From Soot Particle Filters to Renewable Fuels

Jan. 22, 2025 — Unraveling the chemical processes in soot particle filters reveals new ways to produce synthetic ...

Can DNA-Nanoparticle Motors Get Up to Speed With Motor Proteins?

Jan. 21, 2025 — DNA-nanoparticle motors are exactly as they sound: tiny artificial motors that use the structures of DNA and RNA to propel motion by enzymatic RNA degradation. Essentially, chemical energy is ...

Scientists Harness the Power of 'Layered' Crystals for Energy Innovation

Jan. 21, 2025 — Scientists are unlocking the secrets of halide perovskites -- a material that's poised to reshape our future by bringing us closer to a new age of energy-efficient optoelectronics. Two physics ...

New Chainmail-Like Material Could Be the Future of Armor

Jan. 16, 2025 — Resembling the interlocking links in chainmail, novel nanoscale material is incredibly strong and flexible. The interlocked material contains 100 trillion mechanical bonds per 1 square centimeter -- ...

Autonomous AI Assistant to Build Nanostructures

Jan. 16, 2025 — The chemical composition of a material alone sometimes reveals little about its properties. The decisive factor is often the arrangement of the molecules in the atomic lattice structure or on the ...

Diamond Continues to Shine: New Properties Discovered in Diamond Semiconductors

Jan. 14, 2025 — Diamond, often celebrated for its unmatched hardness and transparency, has emerged as an exceptional material for high-power electronics and next-generation quantum optics. Diamond can be engineered ...

SCP-Nano: A New Technology to Visualize Nanocarriers in Cells and Tissues

Jan. 14, 2025 — How can we ensure that life-saving drugs or genetic therapies reach their intended target cells without causing harmful side effects? Researchers have taken an important step to answer this question. ...