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Nanoscale alloy redesign tackles cold brittleness for potential deep-space and deep-sea applications
Metallic materials used in extremely cold environments must maintain high strength, ductility and fracture toughness to support applications in aerospace, clean energy, superconducting systems and deep-space exploration. ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 24, 2026
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Chemically modified sugars enable direct nanostructure formation
Researchers at AIST have demonstrated the synthesis of nanoporous carbonaceous materials and carbonaceous materials with layered nanostructures through a simple process involving the chemical modification of common sugars ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 23, 2026
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Gold nanoparticles unexpectedly alter process that controls electrical conductivity in organic devices
Researchers at Umea university thought gold particles would make electronic components emit more light. Instead, they discovered an unexpected effect that could be important for the future of organic electronics.
Nanophysics
Oct 23, 2026
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Archimedes screw inspires single-molecule motor powered by electric current
Molecular machines are regarded as the next step in miniaturization. Their models can be found in living cells, where molecular motors convert energy and generate movement. Scientists have been working for decades to artificially ...
Nanophysics
Oct 23, 2026
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Shrinking iron films strengthens laser-driven demagnetization
From photos and videos to documents, vast amounts of data are stored on hard drives in large data centers. These devices use tiny magnetic regions whose orientation determines the information stored. But how could data be ...
Nanophysics
Oct 22, 2026
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Supramolecular assembly opens a new route to building quantum materials
A joint research team fabricated a two-dimensional structure that exhibits properties of both the honeycomb and Kagome lattices using organic molecules. They discovered that edge states specific to topological materials (states ...
Nanophysics
Oct 22, 2026
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Amino acid stabilizes material's quantum state above room temperature
New research started with a special material that behaves unusually when it's extremely cold—135 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (minus 93 degrees Celsius), close to the most frigid temperature ever recorded in Antarctica—and ...
Nanophysics
Oct 22, 2026
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Locusts get a sensory assist from nanomaterials—helping them detect more chemicals
Scientists have long explored the idea of using insects as our agents in the field in places where humans won't fit or survive. Imagine a cockroach in an earthquake zone, able to skitter into the rubble to map out exactly ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 20, 2026
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Octopus-inspired patch grips skin and reveals pulse through shifting colors
It looks like a small, transparent patch with a rainbow on its surface—or for those old enough to remember, the back of a CD. The patch is the first of its kind in the world and, when combined with an ordinary smartphone ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 20, 2026
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Electrical sliding switches graphene between magnetic states
In a discovery that could offer a new way to control quantum properties in two-dimensional materials, researchers at Cornell have found that electrically sliding the layers of ultrathin graphene can switch the material between ...
Nanophysics
Oct 17, 2026
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Tiny molecular changes, big microparticle deformation
Materials that change their shape upon exposure to light are attracting growing interest in applications such as soft robotics, microscale actuators and smart materials. However, the connection between molecular-level structural ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 16, 2026
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Single 2D crystal transforms into transistor with built-in insulation and electrical contacts
A transistor normally requires several fundamentally different materials—a semiconductor to carry current, an insulating dielectric to control it and metallic contacts through which current enters and leaves. Integrating ...
Nanophysics
Oct 15, 2026
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Liquid metal dealloying creates nanoporous silicon carbide at just 800°C
Silicon carbide (SiC) is a ceramic known for its excellent heat resistance and chemical stability, which makes it attractive for a wide range of applications like electronics, catalysts and energy-related materials. However, ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 13, 2026
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Water-based process turns wood industry byproduct into carbon nanofibers for sodium-ion batteries
A new study led by researchers at the University of Limerick (UL) has identified a new battery material from a renewable wood industry byproduct that could help reduce reliance on scarce and expensive materials.
Nanomaterials
Oct 12, 2026
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New sensor uses slowed light to detect gravitational pull of tiny objects
Gravity, the attraction between objects with mass, is the weakest of the four fundamental forces governing physical processes. Detecting the tiny gravitational pull of objects that are just a few millimeters in size and have ...
Adjustable nanosensors turn water pressure into fluorescent signals, with stiffness shaping sensitivity
A novel nanovesicle-based platform developed at Institute of Science Tokyo can measure hydrostatic pressure by converting pressure-induced molecular changes into fluorescence signals.
Bio & Medicine
Oct 9, 2026
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New sensing method expands label-free particle detection beyond sensor surfaces
Finding a single cancer cell in a tube of blood is a bit like finding a needle in a haystack. As researchers seek to detect ever-smaller and rarer targets, from viruses to circulating tumor cells in blood, the demand for ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 9, 2026
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How information is written in ferroelectric memory at the nanoscale
What happens at the nanoscale when information is written to memory? Researchers at KAIST have shown how tiny regions with a new polarization direction form while previously formed regions continue to expand in a promising ...
Nanophysics
Oct 8, 2026
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Tiny plasma-grown particles enable easier magnetization reversal in materials for high-frequency electronics
Researchers at South China University of Technology, in collaboration with the Dongguan Institute of Materials Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, have developed a novel supranano multi-precipitate microstructure ...
Nanophysics
Oct 7, 2026
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New display technology combines record brightness with pixels that stretch like rubber
A research team led by Professor Jiwoong Yang of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering at DGIST has developed the world's first foundational technology for an ultrahigh-resolution stretchable quantum dot display ...
Nanophysics
Oct 7, 2026
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