Nanotechnology News – Latest Headlines

Novel metamaterials leverage buckling to revolutionize vibration damping

Researchers develop revolutionary buckling metamaterials that leverage elastic instabilities to achieve extreme vibration damping, enabling lightweight yet stiff structures. The materials set hard limits on vibration transmission regardless of input acceleration.

August 2, 2023 Read more

Manipulating light with metamaterials to make materials appear transparent (w/video)

This video explains how metamaterials made up of nanoscale components can potentially make materials appear transparent by manipulating how light interacts with them.

August 2, 2023 Read more

Nanopore technology achieves breakthrough in protein variant detection

Protein chains are fed through an engineered nanopore, with subtle variations in structure detected through the modulation of tiny electrical currents.

August 1, 2023 Read more

Faster thin film devices for energy storage and electronics

An international team finds new single-crystalline oxide thin films with fast and dramatic changes in electrical properties via Li-ion intercalation through engineered ionic transport channels.

August 1, 2023 Read more

A novel laser slicing technique for diamond semiconductors

The new technique uses laser pulses to slice diamond into thin wafers, paving the way for its adoption as a next-generation semiconductor material.

August 1, 2023 Read more

Making structures on 2D materials with a 3D printer

A new method for creating nanopatterns on layered materials.

August 1, 2023 Read more

Seeing light elements in a grain boundary: A further step in unravelling materials' properties down to the atomic scale

Scientists develop a workflow and code to characterize defects in steels.

August 1, 2023 Read more

Using sound waves to image nanostructures

Sound waves that have tiny wavelengths can be detected using a special electron microscope.

August 1, 2023 Read more

Nanotechnology assisted retina cell breakthrough could help treat blindness

Researchers have achieved a groundbreaking breakthrough by utilizing nanotechnology to construct a 3D 'scaffold' capable of cultivating cells from the retina.

July 31, 2023 Read more

Engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials

Made of cement, carbon black, and water, the device could provide cheap and scalable energy storage for renewable energy sources.

July 31, 2023 Read more

Stick-to-itiveness: Building blocks spontaneously construct 3D objects in solution

Engineers show self-organization of sticky micron-to-mesoscale 3D structures in confined fluids.

July 31, 2023 Read more

When electrons slowly vanish during cooling

Researchers observe an effect in the quantum world that does not exist in the macrocosm.

July 31, 2023 Read more

Can rainbows monitor the environment?

New nanotechnology may make it easier to identify the chemical composition of impurities and their geometrical shape in samples of air, liquid and live tissue.

July 31, 2023 Read more

Predicting early cancers with molecular vibration in serum

Scientists have taken a significant leap foward by developing a lable-free SERS-Artificial intelligence method for cancer screening. This technology merges the detection strengths of traditional SERS system with the analytical power of advanced big data tool.

July 31, 2023 Read more

Absence of universal topological signatures in high harmonic generation

Scientists have found no evidence of any universal topological signatures after performing the first ab initio investigation of high harmonic generation from topological insulators.

July 31, 2023 Read more

Innovative light enhancement in nanoscale structures could aid cancer detection

Researchers show how an engineered nanostructured surface can be used to trap micro and sub-micron particles within seconds, which helps in the transport of analytes to biosensing surfaces.

July 28, 2023 Read more