Hacker News with Generative AI: Nanotechnology

Next Password Could Be Stored in Plastic (ieee.org)
Forget cloud storage. Scientists can now save data in plastic—storing digital information in short-chain polymers, and reading it back with electricity.

Data Storage, Materials Science, Security, Nanotechnology

7 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 5 comments

Accidentally discovered nanostructured material passively harvest water from air (phys.org)
A serendipitous observation in a Chemical Engineering lab at Penn Engineering has led to a surprising discovery: a new class of nanostructured materials that can pull water from the air, collect it in pores and release it onto surfaces without the need for any external energy.

Science, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Water Harvesting

26 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 5 comments

Ultra-thin cooling solution for mobile devices unlocks slimmer technology (techxplore.com)
Scientists from Nagoya University in Japan have developed an innovative cooling device—an ultra-thin loop heat pipe—that significantly improves heat control for electronic components in smartphones and tablets.

Mobile Devices, Cooling Technology, Engineering, Nanotechnology

6 points by PaulHoule 29 days ago | 1 comments

Stainless steel strengthened: Twisting creates submicron 'anti-crash wall' (techxplore.com)
A combined team of metallurgists, materials scientists and engineers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shandong University and the Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a way to make stainless steel more resistant to metal fatigue.

Materials Science, Engineering, Metallurgy, Nanotechnology

102 points by wglb 36 days ago | 44 comments

Origami Nanobot Drug Delivery To Kill Cancer Cells (phys.org)

Nanotechnology, Medicine, Cancer, Drug Delivery

11 points by I_Nidhi 45 days ago | 0 comments

First 1-nanometre RISC-V chip made in China with 2D materials (scmp.com)
Chinese scientists have developed the world’s most complex two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor microprocessor, with the chip set to enter pilot-scale production.

Chips, Nanotechnology, China, Semiconductor Industry, RISC-V

4 points by cocoggu 49 days ago | 1 comments

Tiniest Flying Robot (Wingspan <1cm) Soars Thanks to Magnets (ieee.org)
A new prototype is laying claim to the title of smallest, lightest untethered flying robot.

Robotics, Engineering, Microelectronics, Nanotechnology

18 points by bookofjoe 54 days ago | 10 comments

Efficient light control: Meta-optics replace conventional lenses (phys.org)
Conventional curved lenses, which direct light by refraction in glass or plastic, are often bulky and heavy, offering only limited control of light waves.

Physics, Optics, Nanotechnology, Metamaterials

37 points by bookofjoe 54 days ago | 7 comments

DNA scaffolds enable self-assembling 3D electronic devices (techxplore.com)
Researchers at Columbia Engineering have for the first time used DNA to help create 3D electronically operational devices with nanometer-size features.

Nanotechnology, Electronics, Self-Assembly, DNA

13 points by Brajeshwar 54 days ago | 1 comments

Thinner Films Conduct Better Than Copper (ieee.org)
Future chips need something better than copper. Are topological semimetals the answer?

Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Computing

66 points by rbanffy 57 days ago | 23 comments

Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator (economist.com)
Semiconductor chips are among the smallest and most detailed objects humans can manufacture. Shrinking the scale and upping the complexity is a fight against the limits of physics, and optical lithography—etching nanometre-scale patterns onto silicon with short-wavelength light—is its most extreme frontier.

Semiconductors, Nanotechnology, Physics, Manufacturing

65 points by jdaw0 67 days ago | 72 comments

Nanoscale tweaks help alloy withstand high-speed impacts (techxplore.com)
A Cornell-led collaboration devised a new method for designing metals and alloys that can withstand extreme impacts: introducing nanometer-scale speed bumps that suppress a fundamental transition that controls how metallic materials deform.

Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Engineering, Metallurgy

4 points by PaulHoule 70 days ago | 0 comments

Ceramic powders with Archimedean shapes resist extreme heat and oxidation (phys.org)
A research team led by Prof. Hu Xiaoye from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has synthesized high-quality boride ceramic powders with an Archimedean shape.

Materials Science, Ceramics, Nanotechnology, Heat Resistance

23 points by PaulHoule 74 days ago | 0 comments

Smart researchers pioneer nanosensor for real-time iron detection in plants (news.mit.edu)
Researchers from the Disruptive and Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) interdisciplinary research group of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, in collaboration with Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) and MIT, have developed a groundbreaking near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent nanosensor capable of simultaneously detecting and differentiating between iron forms — Fe(II) and Fe(III) — in living plants.

Science, Nanotechnology, Agriculture, Plants, Research

30 points by protik49 76 days ago | 3 comments

MIT physicists find unexpected crystals of electrons in new ultrathin material (news.mit.edu)
MIT physicists report the unexpected discovery of electrons forming crystalline structures in a material only billionths of a meter thick.

Physics, Materials Science, Nanotechnology

7 points by gnabgib 86 days ago | 0 comments

Laser-textured metal inspired by shark and cicada creates antibacterial surfaces (publishing.aip.org)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 2025 – Keeping work surfaces clean during meat processing is a challenge.

Antibacterial Surfaces, Nanotechnology, Engineering, Biology

3 points by giuliomagnifico 87 days ago | 0 comments

Harnessing orbital Hall effect in spin-orbit torque MRAM (nature.com)
Spin-Orbit Torque (SOT) Magnetic Random-Access Memory (MRAM) devices offer improved power efficiency, nonvolatility, and performance compared to static RAM, making them ideal, for instance, for cache memory applications.

Hardware, Nanotechnology, Memory, Spintronics

54 points by PaulHoule 87 days ago | 3 comments

Nanotini – smallest pasta makes a good bandage (scientificamerican.com)
The skinniest pasta yet made—let’s call it “nanotini”—has an average diameter of 372 nanometers and only two ingredients: flour and formic acid.

Nanotechnology, Science, Food Science, Materials Science

7 points by utiiiD 94 days ago | 0 comments

Terabytes Encoded Within a Millimeter-Sized Crystal (bioengineer.org)
In a groundbreaking study, researchers from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have made significant strides toward enhancing the efficiency of classical computer memory by harnessing the properties of crystal defects.

Storage, Nanotechnology, Materials Science, Physics

27 points by geox 98 days ago | 7 comments

TSMC 2nm Process Disclosure – How Does It Measure Up? (semiwiki.com)
TSMC presented its 2nm Platform Technology at IEDM 2024, focusing on energy-efficient nanosheet transistors and 3DIC co-optimization for various applications.

Semiconductors, Technology, Nanotechnology, Manufacturing, TSMC

136 points by sroussey 101 days ago | 101 comments

Printable molecule-selective nanoparticles enable wearable biosensor mass prod (phys.org)
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 their condition.

Biotechnology, Wearable Technology, Nanotechnology, Medical Technology

6 points by bookofjoe 108 days ago | 0 comments

Graphene tattoos that are biosensors (ieee.org)
Imagine it’s the year 2040, and a 12-year-old kid with diabetes pops a piece of chewing gum into his mouth. A temporary tattoo on his forearm registers the uptick in sugar in his blood stream and sends that information to his phone.

Biotechnology, Future Technology, Nanotechnology

3 points by headalgorithm 109 days ago | 0 comments

Machine learning and nano-3D printing produce nano-architected materials (utoronto.ca)
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.

Machine Learning, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, 3D Printing

58 points by gmays 115 days ago | 6 comments

Integration of 1,024 silicon quantum dots with on-chip electronics (phys.org)
Researchers at Quantum Motion in London recently demonstrated the integration of 1,024 independent silicon quantum dots with on-chip digital and analog electronics, to produce a quantum computing system that can operate at extremely low temperatures.

Quantum Computing, Nanotechnology, Electronics, Research

19 points by bookofjoe 118 days ago | 0 comments

Cytoskeleton-functionalized synthetic cells with life-like mechanical features (nature.com)
The cytoskeleton is a crucial determinant of mammalian cell structure and function, providing mechanical resilience, supporting the cell membrane and orchestrating essential processes such as cell division and motility.

Science, Biology, Nanotechnology, Synthetic Biology

24 points by PaulHoule 122 days ago | 1 comments

Plastic supercapacitors could solve energy storage problems (newsroom.ucla.edu)
UCLA chemists have created a new type of textured, fur-like PEDOT film with more surface area to store charge and built a supercapacitor with it that stored nearly ten times more charge than conventional PEDOT and lasted nearly 100,000 charging cycles.

Energy Storage, Nanotechnology, Materials Science, Chemistry

5 points by gnabgib 122 days ago | 2 comments

Impact of Low Temperatures on the 5nm SRAM Array Size and Performance (semiengineering.com)
A new technical paper titled “Novel Trade-offs in 5 nm FinFET SRAM Arrays at Extremely Low Temperatures” was published by researchers at University of Stuttgart, IIT Kanpur, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Khalifa University, and TU Munich.

Semiconductors, Nanotechnology, Computer Architecture

40 points by rbanffy 122 days ago | 23 comments

Optical Fresnel zone plate flat lens: colored photoresist through I-line stepper (nature.com)
Light manipulation and control are essential in various contemporary technologies, and as these technologies evolve, the demand for miniaturized optical components increases.

Optics, Nanotechnology, Engineering, Materials Science

61 points by bookofjoe 126 days ago | 14 comments

Inverse Design of Complex Nanoparticle Heterostructures via DL on Graphs (chemrxiv.org)

Nanotechnology, Machine Learning, Chemistry, Materials Science

23 points by pizza 148 days ago | 8 comments

Self-Assembly Trick Makes Transistors and Diodes (ieee.org)
Using liquid metal, scientists have devised a new way to make electronics that assemble themselves.

Nanotechnology, Electronics, Materials Science

4 points by rbanffy 156 days ago | 0 comments