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Smart soft robotic grippers enabled by self-powered tribo-skins

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Grippers or end effectors are an essential tool integrated with robotic arms for implementing grasping and manipulating functions in a variety of tasks, ranging from picking up and holding objects, to digging and sorting, to locomotion and scratch...

Jan 21, 2020

Let the europium shine brighter

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A stacked nanocarbon antenna makes a rare earth element shine 5 times more brightly than previous designs, with applications in molecular light-emitting devices.

Jan 21, 2020

Let the europium shine brighter

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

A stacked nanocarbon antenna makes a rare earth element shine 5 times more brightly than previous designs, with applications in molecular light-emitting devices.

Jan 21, 2020

Study Shows Large Molecules Move Faster on Rough Surfaces at Nanoscale

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have not been able to perform any experiment that can test whether the behavior of molecules actually obeys the same trend as seen at human scale. Led by Simone Napolitano, a research...

Jan 20, 2020

Heuristic Approach Uses Photonics to Solve Complex Problems Fast

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers at MIT and the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies have opened the path to solving NP-complete problems with integrated photonics, by developing a heuristic algorithm dedicated to solving the NP-complete Ising problem using photonic...

Jan 20, 2020

Nanomaterial-coated fabric destroys chemical warfare agents – Physics World

Physics World   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Composite metal-organic frameworks might be used in protective suits and face masks for soldiers The post Nanomaterial-coated fabric destroys chemical warfare agents appeared first on Physics World.

Jan 20, 2020

Inverse design of porous materials using artificial neural networks

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

The ability to generate optimized nanomaterials with artificial neural networks can significantly revolutionize the future of materials design in materials science. While scientists had progressively created small and simple molecules, complex cry...

Jan 20, 2020

Addressing global warming with new nanoparticles and sunshine

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Harvesting sunlight, researchers of the Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS, South Korea) published in Materials Today ("Phase-Selective Highly Efficient Nanostructured Metal-decorated Hybr...

Jan 20, 2020

Chemists find fungal shrapnel in the air

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

In a discovery that has implications for our understanding of the air we breathe, UCI chemists report that they've found nanoscale fragments of fungal cells in the atmosphere. The pieces are extremely small, measuring about 30 nanometers in d...

Jan 20, 2020

Engineering defects in ferroelectrics provides key to improved polarisation stability

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Improved polarisation retention in ferroelectric a significant step forward for domain-wall nanoelectronics in data storage.

Jan 20, 2020

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