Wearable sensors that detect gas leaks
Credit: POSTECH Gas accidents such as toxic gas leakage in factories, carbon monoxide leakage of boilers, or toxic gas suffocation ...
Tag: Nanotechnology/Micromachines
Medically savvy smartphone imaging systems
Development of smartphone-based imaging systems for medicine and healthcare can be optimized by newly published guidelines for holistic assessmentCredit: Hunt ...
Process simultaneously removes toxic metals and salt to produce clean water
Adding absorbent nanoparticles to polymer membranes simplifies desalinationCredit: UC Berkeley photos courtesy of Adam Uliana University of California, Berkeley, chemists ...
Oxygen migration enables ferroelectricity on nanoscale
Credit: University of Groningen Hafnium-based thin films, with a thickness of only a few nanometres, show an unconventional form of ...
Water purification system engineered from wood, with help from a microwave oven
Credit: Giuseppe Melilli Researchers in Sweden have developed a more eco-friendly way to remove heavy metals, dyes and other pollutants ...
Finally, 3D-printed graphene aerogels for water treatment
Study shows how to make stable and large aerogels that remove heavy metals, organic solvents, organic dyesCredit: University at Buffalo ...
Transforming circles into squares
Researchers reconfigure material topology on the microscaleCredit: (Image courtesy of Shucong Li/Bolei Deng/Harvard SEAS) Reconfigurable materials can do amazing things. ...
Superbug killer: New nanotech destroys bacteria and fungal cells
Nanothin antimicrobial coating could prevent and treat potentially deadly infectionsCredit: RMIT University Researchers have developed a new superbug-destroying coating that ...
Unlocking richer intracellular recordings
CMU/ITT researchers develop novel microelectrode platform to access and record intracellular activityCredit: College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Behind every ...
UMass Amherst joins partnership to develop sustainable food products
Big Idea Ventures chooses university collaborators for $125 million Generation Food Rural Partners fundCredit: UMass Amherst The University of Massachusetts ...
Atom interferometry demonstrated in space for the first time
Researchers present results of experiments with atom interferometry on a sounding rocket / Further rocket missions set to followCredit: photo/©: ...
Student’s second-year homework picked up by Amazon quantum researchers
Elegant code could shorten timeline to achieve scalable quantum computationCredit: Louise Cooper/The University of Sydney What started out as a ...
Abandoning the old ways: Progress in the low-cost electrochemical synthesis of ammonia
Scientists develop high performing electrocatalyst to synthesize ammonia in an effort to replace conventional eco-unfriendly methodsCredit: Freepik Ammonia (NH3) is ...
Lighting the way to folding next-level origami
Recent findings by Slovenian and German scientists artfully explore potential to transform proteins into custom-made structuresCredit: Credit: Fabio Lapenta / ...
Centrifugal multispun nanofibers put a new spin on COVID-19 masks
Credit: Professor Do Hyun Kim, KAIST KAIST researchers have developed a novel nanofiber production technique called 'centrifugal multispinning' that will ...
SMART discovers the science behind varying performance of different colored LEDs
The findings pave the way for development of more efficient, next-gen LEDs covering the entire visible spectrumCredit: Singapore-MIT Alliance for ...
Better metric for thermoelectric materials means better design strategies
New quantity helps experimentally classify dimensionality of thermoelectric materialsCredit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan - Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University ...
Discovery could help lengthen lifespan of electronic devices
The research could lead to electronics being designed with better enduranceCredit: University of Sydney Ferroelectric materials are used in many ...
Optically active defects improve carbon nanotubes
Heidelberg scientists achieve defect control with a new reaction pathwayCredit: Simon Settele (Heidelberg) The properties of carbon-based nanomaterials can be ...
A lightweight and durable radiator for cooling electric vehicle batteries
The radiator was developed using friction stir welding technologyCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Researchers from Peter the Great ...