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January 25, 2025

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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 converted into mechanical motion by biasing the Brownian ...

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 professors are studying the material at the nanoscale: a ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Scientists Develop 'Malteser-Like' Molecules With Potential Applications in Targeted Drug Delivery

Jan. 13, 2025 — Scientists have taken a major step forwards in tackling one of the greatest abiding challenges in chemistry, by learning how to program the ...

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 -- ...

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. ...

DNA Nanorobots Can Alter Artificial Cells

Jan. 13, 2025 — Scientists have succeeded in controlling the structure and function of biological membranes with the help of 'DNA origami'. The system they developed may facilitate the transportation of large ...

Harnessing Corrosion: Scientists Transform Dealloying Into Sustainable Lightweight Alloy Design

Jan. 10, 2025 — Alloying, the art of blending metals with other elements, has long been a cornerstone of materials science and metallurgy, creating materials with ...

Scientists Fuel Sustainable Future With Catalyst for Hydrogen from Ammonia

Jan. 9, 2025 — Scientists have created a catalyst for hydrogen generation from ammonia that becomes more active with time, and by counting atoms revealed changes that boost the catalyst's ...

Pioneering New Tool Will Spur Advances in Catalysis

Jan. 9, 2025 — Catalysts do several surprising things to assist with daily life -- from bread making to turning raw materials into fuels more efficiently. Now, researchers have developed a way to speed up the ...

Hidden Transport Pathways in Graphene Confirmed, Paving the Way for Next-Generation Device Innovation

Jan. 9, 2025 — Electron transport in bilayer graphene exhibits a pronounced dependence on edge states and a nonlocal transport mechanism, according to a recent ...

Breakthrough in 2D Material Growth Opens Doors to Cleaner Energy and Next-Generation Technology

Jan. 8, 2025 — A breakthrough in decoding the growth process of Hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN), a 2D material, and its nanostructures on metal substrates could pave the way for more efficient electronics, cleaner ...

Revolutionizing Data Centers: Breakthrough in Photonic Switching

Jan. 7, 2025 — Engineers created a smaller, faster and more efficient photonic switch, which leverages principles from quantum mechanics and could accelerate everything from streaming to training AI by ...

The Science Behind the Foldable Molecular Paths

Jan. 6, 2025 — A recent study highlights a groundbreaking development in foldable molecular paths within solid-state frameworks, illuminating their potential for dynamic pore control and transformative applications ...

New Quantum Sensing Technology Reveals Sub-Atomic Signals

Jan. 6, 2025 — Engineers have utilized quantum sensors to realize a groundbreaking variation of nuclear quadrupolar resonance (NQR) spectroscopy, a technique traditionally used to detect drugs and explosives or ...

New Nanocrystal Material a Key Step Toward Faster, More Energy-Efficient Computing

Jan. 3, 2025 — Chemistry researchers have taken a key step toward next-generation optical computing and memory with the discovery of luminescent nanocrystals that can be quickly toggled from light to dark and back ...

Water Treatment: Catching Steroid Hormones With Nanotubes

Jan. 2, 2025 — Steroid hormones are among the most widespread aquatic micropollutants. They are harmful to human health, and they cause ecological imbalances in aquatic environments. Researchers investigated how ...

New Method Turns E-Waste to Gold

Jan. 2, 2025 — A research team has developed a method for extracting gold from electronics waste, then using the recovered precious metal as a catalyst for converting carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, to ...

A Tour De Force: Engineers Discover New 'All-Optical' Nanoscale Sensors of Force

Jan. 1, 2025 — Researchers report that they have invented new nanoscale sensors of force. They are luminescent nanocrystals that can change intensity and/or color when you push or pull on them. These ...

High-Quality Nanodiamonds for Bioimaging and Quantum Sensing Applications

Dec. 23, 2024 — Researchers have developed nanodiamond sensors with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers, offering exceptional brightness and spin properties for quantum sensing and bioimaging. These nanodiamonds ...

Tiny, Wireless Antennas Use Light to Monitor Cellular Communication

Dec. 20, 2024 — Researchers developed a biosensing technique that eliminates the need for wires. Instead, tiny, wireless antennas use light to detect minute electrical signals in the solution around ...

Generate Electricity by Attaching Device to Your Clothes

Dec. 20, 2024 — A research team has developed a highly efficient wearable energy harvester that can power electronic devices using only body ...

Tinkering With the 'Clockwork' Mechanisms of Life

Dec. 19, 2024 — Opening new doors for the development of nanotechnologies in medicine and other fields, scientists recreate and compare two natural mechanisms to better program the timescale of molecular ...

This Prototype Sunscreen Protects Your Skin and Cools You Off, Too

Dec. 19, 2024 — Wearing sunscreen is important to protect your skin from the harmful effects of UV radiation but doesn't cool people off. However, a new formula protects against both UV light and heat from the ...

Breathing New Life Into Technology: New Way of Separating Oxygen from Argon

Dec. 19, 2024 — Combining the adsorption properties of solids with the dissolution capabilities of liquids, researchers have created a versatile and efficient material for improving oxygen separation in gases. In ...

Nano Drug Delivery System Heralds Safer Era for Drug Development

Dec. 17, 2024 — A team of researchers has created an innovative drug delivery system with outstanding potential to improve drug ...

Step Forward in Generating Solar-Powered Hydrogen

Dec. 17, 2024 — Another advance has been made by experts in nano-scale chemistry to propel further development of sustainable and efficient generation of hydrogen from water using solar power. Experts have now ...

New Discovery by Scientists Redefines Magnetism

Dec. 17, 2024 — Step into a world so tiny, it defies imagination -- the nanoscale. Picture a single strand of hair, now shrink it a million times. You've arrived. Here, atoms and molecules are the architects of ...

Peptide-Guided Nanoparticles Deliver mRNA to Neurons

Dec. 17, 2024 — Engineers have modified lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) -- the revolutionary technology behind the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines -- to not only cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) but also to target specific ...

Towards Quantitative Point-of-Care Testing With Novel Bioluminescent Immunosensor

Dec. 16, 2024 — A novel nanobody-based immunosensor, designed to function stably in undiluted biological fluids and harsh conditions, has been developed. Their innovative design leverages BRET -- bioluminescence ...

Microchips Capable of Detecting and Diagnosing Diseases

Dec. 16, 2024 — Researchers have developed microchips using field-effect transistors that can detect multiple diseases from a single air sample with high sensitivity. The technology enables rapid testing and could ...