A research team at POSTECH, led by Professor Junsuk Rho (Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and the Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology), along with M.S./Ph.D. students Seokwoo…
Category: Nanotech
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Nanomaterials are emerging as a powerful tool for coastal oil spill cleanup
Cleaning up after a major oil spill is a long, expensive process, and the damage to a coastal region’s ecosystem can be significant. This is especially true for the world’s Arctic region, where newly opened sea lanes will expose remote shorelines…
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How to Grow a Laser on Silicon for Silicon Photonics
Today, silicon photonic circuits connect server racks and play key roles in chemical sensors, biosensors, and lidar for self-driving cars. But making these devices work requires an external light source, or multistep manufacturing processes to…
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Tiny copper ‘flowers’ bloom on artificial leaves for clean fuel production
Tiny copper ‘nano-flowers’ have been attached to an artificial leaf to produce clean fuels and chemicals that are the backbone of modern energy and manufacturing.
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and the University of California,…
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Printable molecule-selective nanoparticles enable mass production of wearable biosensors
The future of medicine may very well lie in the personalization of health care — knowing exactly what an individual needs and then delivering just the right mix of nutrients, metabolites, and medications, if necessary, to stabilize and improve…
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Scientists shocked by durability of surgery-sparing technique
A nanotechnology-based drug delivery system developed at UVA Health to save patients from repeated surgeries has proved to have unexpectedly long-lasting benefits in lab tests — a promising sign for its potential to help human patients.
The…
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New acoustic wave phenomenon discovered
A unique propagation phenomenon of acoustic waves has been discovered, paving the way for developing advanced communication technologies using acoustic devices. The research was led by the Institute for Materials Research at Tohoku University, in…
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“Mr. Transistor’s” Most Challenging Career Moment
It says something about your career at a company that makes hundreds of trillions of transistors every day when your nickname is “Mr. Transistor.” That’s what colleagues sometimes call Tahir Ghani, a senior fellow and director of process…
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Strong as steel, light as foam: High-performance, nano-architected materials
Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering have used machine learning to design nano-architected materials that have the strength of carbon steel but the lightness of Styrofoam.
In a new paper published in…
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Quiz: What Happened to Previous Top Tech Predictions?
Each January for more than a decade, the editors of IEEE Spectrum have delivered an issue that tries to predict the future. Specifically, we bring you a selection of important technology projects that we think will reach a significant milestone…
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