Subterranean Power: How Bacteria’s Electric Grid Shapes Our World
Soil bacteria use proteins to power nanowires, forming an underground electrical grid that supports life and impacts methane emissions. To “breathe” in an environment without…
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Superconducting Nanowires: A Quantum Breakthrough in Protein Ion Detection
Detection efficiency is 1,000 times higher than conventional ion detectors due to high sensitivity. An international research team led by quantum physicist Markus Arndt (University…
Quantum Well Nanowire Array Micro-LEDs: The Future of On-chip Optical Communication
A new publication from Opto-Electronic Science overviews multiwavelength high-speed quantum well nanowire array micro-LED for next-generation on-chip optical communication. As the number of cores in…
Nanowire Innovation: Revolutionizing Fuel Cells With Enhanced Durability
The Los Alamos National Laboratory introduced a corrosion-resistant fuel cell design featuring a coaxial nanowire electrode. This innovative approach holds promise for heavy-duty trucking, showing…
Nanowire Made by Bacteria Provides Important Clues to Combating Climate Change
An ultra-stable protein nanowire made by bacteria provides clues to combating climate change. Rapid global warming poses a severe and immediate threat to life on…
Yale Scientists Discover That Light Accelerates Conductivity in Nature’s “Electric Grid”
There is a global web of tiny bacteria-generated nanowires in the soil and oceans that “breathe” by exhaling excess electrons, composing an intrinsic electrical grid…
Surprising Bacterial Nanowire Discovery May Lead to Living and Self-Repairing Electrical Circuits
Cooling Speeds Up Electrons in Bacterial Nanowires The ground beneath our feet and under the ocean floor is an electrically-charged grid created by bacteria “exhaling”…
Solar Nanowire-Nanotube Purification Filter Offers Easy Access To Clean Drinking Water
Even today, clean water is a privilege for many people across the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at least 1.8 billion people…
Newly Proven Physics: Smuggling Light Through Opaque Materials
Newly proven physics opens chalcogenide glasses to applications at visible and ultraviolet wavelengths. Electrical engineers at Duke University have discovered that changing the physical shape…
New Semiconductor Nanostructure for Efficient Quantum Electronics
Peculiar Bi provoked nanostructures in compound semiconductor nanowires controlled by atomically precise epitaxial crystal growth. Nanowire is a rod-structure with a diameter typically narrower than…
New Study Solves Longstanding Nanowire Mystery
Deep in the ocean or underground, where there is no oxygen, Geobacter bacteria “breathe” by projecting tiny protein filaments called “nanowires” into the soil, to…
Researchers Improve Bulk Metallic Glass Nanostructures
Scientists from Yale University have figured out a way to refine bulk metallic glasses to improve their electrochemical performance. Results of the research, based in…
Scientists Achieve New Quantum Teleportation Record
Scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology have set a new record for quantum teleportation, sending quantum information in light particles over 100…
InGaAs Nanowires Grown on Graphene Have Unique Structure
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have grown nanowires of the material indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) on a sheet of graphene, discovering that…
Nanoelectronics Take Another Step Forward
New research from the Max Planck Institute shows that silicon nanowires become doped with unexpectedly large amounts of aluminum during growth, increasing their conductivity and…
Scientists Develop Glass Nanofibers That Are 15 Times Stronger Than Steel
Scientists at the Optoelectronics Research Center have developed strong, lightweight silica nanofibers that are 15 times stronger than steel and can be manufactured in lengths…
3D Scaffold That Could Monitor Electrical Activity of Engineered Tissue
Designed by a team of scientists from Harvard, MIT, and Boston Children’s Hospital, electronic sensors made of silicon nanowires could be used to monitor electrical…
Berkeley Lab Reports Direct Observation of Oriented Attachment in Nanocrystal Growth
A team of scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have reported the first direct observation of “jump-to-contact” between nanoparticles, the critical step in oriented…