The field of self-repairing materials is rapidly expanding, and what used to be science fiction might soon become reality, thanks to scientists who developed eco-friendly nanocrystal semiconductors capable of self-healing. Their findings describe ...
Jan 3, 2022
Ultra-precise lasers can be used for optical atomic clocks, quantum computers, power cable monitoring, and much more. But all lasers make noise, which researchers from DTU Fotonik want to minimize using machine learning.
Jan 3, 2022
Ultrathin nanomaterials, known as MXenes, are poised to make it easier to monitor a person's well-being by analyzing their perspiration.
Jan 3, 2022
HyVIS, an EU-funded initiative targeting degenerative eye disease, is scheduled to get underway. The four-year project aims to develop a way to restore sight in people with diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa...
Jan 3, 2022
Compact desktop printers could soon take the place of big, expensive laser printers for printing 3D micro- and nanostructures. A two-step 3D-printing process, invented by researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Heidelberg Univer...
Jan 3, 2022
Invisibility devices may soon no longer be the stuff of science fiction. A new study published in the De Gruyter journal Nanophotonics by lead authors Huanyang Chen at Xiamen University, China, and Qiaoliang Bao, suggests the use of the material M...
Jan 3, 2022
I don’t like it, and I’m sorry I had anything to do with it,” the physicist Erwin Schrödinger supposedly said of the quantum theory.He was so sorry that he worked to prove it nonsensical with the most famous thought problem in physics, one that in...
Dec 31, 2021
We’re back from the holidays and gearing up to (virtually) cover CES 2022. Cherlynn and Devindra chat about some of the most interesting new tech we expect to see, like Quantum Dot OLED displays and new CPUs. And they discuss what the global chip ...
Dec 31, 2021
Researchers have published a paper in the Journal of Molecular Liquids that systematized the origins of graphene-based nanomaterials (GBN) functionalization utilizing organic and inorganic compounds, polymeric materials, biomolecules, and anticanc...
Dec 31, 2021
Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new and potentially more effective way to deliver messenger RNA (mRNA) into cells. Their approach involves packing mRNA inside nanoparticles that mimic the flu virus—a natura...
Dec 31, 2021
