Advances in perovskite solar cell design may enable reliable power generation in some of the world's harshest environments.

A nearby super-Earth may be rockier and more habitable than thought, with lower mass and an orbit in the zone where liquid water could exist. (Nanowerk News) Using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at ...

A new AI-ready data framework could accelerate catalyst discovery, supporting cleaner energy and more sustainable chemical processes.

Machine learning helped identify new superconductors and a process that could speed the discovery of thousands more ...

A nanopore detection method can rapidly identify individual proteins, aiding disease research, drug development, and ...

A layered roof coating keeps radiative cooling intact while harvesting raindrop pulses for low-power sensing during wet ...

A roll-to-roll digital lithography system compensates for substrate distortion in real time, enabling faster mass production of flexible electronics. (Nanowerk News) A digital lithography system ...

A soft magnetic metasurface can morph into thousands of shapes, sense deformation, and show LED feedback, pointing to tactile interfaces, wearables, soft robotics, and AR/VR. (Nanowerk News) A team of ...

Graphene oxide helps turn PET plastic waste into synthetic graphite for lithium-ion battery anodes, offering a recycling route for battery materials. (Nanowerk News) A plastic bottle tossed into a ...

Atomic defects can tune carbon quantum dots across UV to near-infrared light, guiding cleaner design of sensors, bioimaging and solar materials. (Nanowerk News) Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are ...

All-glass atomic vapor cells could enable smaller, cheaper, more stable sensors for navigation, radar and wireless signals without silicon interference. (Nanowerk News) More accurate navigation ...

Surface-bound molecules reached the Fourier quantum limit, enabling cleaner studies of emitters for quantum tech and nanoscale control. (Nanowerk News) Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the ...