Nanotechnology News from Nanowerk 2021-11-23

Origami- and kirigami-based metamaterials have applications from robotics to medical devices.

The novel approach might provide more effective long-term pain relief for people with sensitive teeth, compared to current options.

Visible-spectrum, compact, power-efficient, low-loss phase modulator is a breakthrough in integrated photonics; the device will improve LIDAR for remote sensing, AR/VR goggles, quantum information processing chips, implantable optogenetic probes, and more.

Researchers investigated how positively and negatively charged ions behave at the interface between a solid surface and an aqueous solution.