Indian Firm Scales Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Production for Batteries and Chips
NoPo Nanotechnologies, a Bengaluru‑based startup, has launched a pilot line and is constructing what it calls the world’s second‑largest single‑walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) plant, the first of its kind in South Asia. Leveraging a HiPco process with control over more than 200 production parameters, the company can consistently produce 0.8 nm SWCNTs and separate them by diameter and chirality for semiconductor and battery customers. After raising $3 million in a pre‑Series A round, NoPo is preparing a Series A to fund the larger facility and expand into water‑purification membranes. Its focus on ready‑to‑use dispersions aims to accelerate adoption in advanced batteries, chips, and other high‑performance materials.
Light Echoes Reveal Possible Dark Matter Buildup Around Supermassive Black Holes
Virginia Tech researchers employed reverberation (light‑echo) mapping on 14 active galaxies and identified five where the mass profile rises faster than visible matter can account for, suggesting dark‑matter buildup around supermassive black holes. By measuring the delay between an initial...
A New Kind of Entanglement Helps Quantum Sensors Tune Out Noise
Researchers at JILA, NIST and international partners have demonstrated a new class of entangled states—Lieb‑Mattis states—that are immune to common‑mode noise while remaining ultra‑sensitive to differential signals. By engineering photon exchange in a millimeter‑scale optical cavity, they create a decoherence‑free...
KONGSBERG Deploys New Seabed Mapping System on Nautilus Expedition
KONGSBERG and the Ocean Exploration Trust launched a deep‑water mapping expedition aboard the research vessel Nautilus from June 10‑24, marking the first field deployment of KONGSBERG’s EM 304 MKII multibeam echo‑sounder. The system is engineered for full‑ocean‑depth operations, delivering wide‑area, high‑resolution imaging of...
IIT Madras Brain Centre Releases World’s Most Detailed 3D Atlas of Human Brainstem at Cellular Resolution
The Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre at IIT Madras unveiled ANCHOR, the world’s most detailed 3‑D atlas of the human brainstem, capturing cellular‑level structures across prenatal, childhood and adult stages. The atlas charts more than 200 nuclei and fiber tracts using 10‑20‑micron...
Researchers Are Developing Textiles that Can Produce Drinking Water From the Air
University of Texas researchers have engineered a textile that can harvest atmospheric moisture, turning a wearable jacket into a personal water‑generation device. In lab tests the jacket produced 400 ml to 900 ml of drinkable water per day, depending on humidity. The...