Nanotechnology News from Nanowerk 2022-01-12

Researchers have developed a platform that uses machine learning to program the transformation of 2D stretchable surfaces into specific 3D shapes.

As superbugs become increasingly dangerous to human health, researchers have developed a soft material that preserves medicines capable of treating infections without the risk of antimicrobial resistance.

An ultrathin, super-lubricating layer of water on the ice's surface is essential for skaters' graceful glides. Inspired by this surface, researchers have developed a treatment for osteoarthritis that enhances lubrication and reduces friction and inflammation in a rat model of the disease.

These MOF nanoparticles, made of iron triazolate, are adaptable: they behave differently at different sizes and even at different temperatures.

Researchers have perfected a technique for embedding single atoms in a silicon wafer one-by-one. Their technology offers the potential to make quantum computers using the same methods that have given us cheap and reliable conventional devices containing billions of transistors.

Scientists have found a new way to create disturbances that do not fade away. Instead of relying on disorder to freeze things in place, they tipped a quantum container to one side - a trick that is easier to conjure in the lab.

With a little twist and the turn of a voltage knob, researchers have shown that a single material system can toggle between two of the wildest states in condensed matter physics: the quantum anomalous Hall insulator and the two-dimensional topological insulator.

Dressing the atoms with radio-frequency fields allows to tune the strength and sign of their interactions, and to create correlated atom pairs.

Researchers applied complementary many-body theoretical methods at multiple computing facilities to obtain new insights into VO2's interactions with different types of point defects. The researchers created the most complete picture of this complex compound's transformation to date.

Researchers create first nano-sized, molecular device potentially capable of sensing and altering the cell's electric field, ushering in new possibilities for basic research.

Chemists have synthesised materials that were used for constructing a record-breaking perovskite solar module, with an efficiency of 21.4 per cent.

New technique uses complement inhibitor Factor I to prevent proteins from attacking treatment-carrying nanoparticles.

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