🪵☀️ Researchers modified the internal structure of balsa #wood to create a porous material that captures and stores sunlight as heat. This engineered sponge uses nanomaterials and phase-change #chemicals to release #energy for power generation once the #sun sets.
👉 https://gizmodo.com/scientists-used-wood-to-generate-solar-power-after-dark-2000745842
#solar #science #nanotechnology #engineering #physics #chemistry #sustainability #innovation #cleanenergy
AI UNLOCKS ATOMIC SECRETS OF NEW MATERIALS
Scientists are using AI and electron microscopes to study MXene materials. This helps create better batteries and water filters for people starting April 2026.
#materialscience, #aitechnology, #batterytech, #nanotechnology, #scientificresearch
https://newsletter.tf/ai-microscope-mxene-material-research-2026/
Researchers are now using AI to see atoms in new materials called MXenes. This is a big step forward compared to old ways of testing materials that took months to complete.
#materialscience, #aitechnology, #batterytech, #nanotechnology, #scientificresearch
https://newsletter.tf/ai-microscope-mxene-material-research-2026/
In 2045, Artificial Intelligence Will…
For Ray Kurzweil, 2045 isn’t just a random year — it’s the “Point of No Return.” While many people use “singularity” to mean “when AI gets smart,” Kurzweil has a much more specific (and perhaps scarier) prediction.
Kurzweil is an inventor, thinker, and futurist, with 35 years of pretty accurate predictions. He has been a leading developer in artificial intelligence for six decades, long before most of us even had heard of AI.
In his 2005 book, The Singularity Is Near (subtitle When Humans Transcend Biology), he discussed the threats, opportunities, and the profound changes that AI will offer. In his latest updates and in his 2024 book, The Singularity Is Nearer (subtitle When We Merge with AI), he points out two major milestones on the road to singularity.
Before we hit the Singularity, we have to pass the “Turing Test” threshold. Kurzweil predicts that by 2029, AI will achieve human-level intelligence. Some people say we are already there. But Kurzweil doesn’t mean AI will just be good at chat and answering your questions, but that it will possess the full range of human logic, emotional intelligence, and “common sense.”
His next milestone is the Singularity in 2045 when Kurzweil predicts we will multiply our effective intelligence a billion-fold.
That will happen through three “overlapping revolutions” that he calls GNR.
G is Genetics when we “reprogram” our biology to eliminate disease and aging. Next is N – nanotechnology. That is a scary one because he says it means nanobots the size of blood cells that can enter our brains non-invasively through the capillaries.
His R is robotics, which is his term for AI because the nanobots will connect our neurons directly to a synthetic neocortex in the cloud.
If Kurzweil is right, the world by 2045 would be unrecognizable. It may be a future you don’t want to recognize.
Those nanobots would create a “hybrid brain.” You won’t use the internet, because you will be the internet. If you want to know how to speak French or solve a physics equation, your brain will access that “module” in the cloud as if it were your own memory.
In this post-biological life, we begin to move away from being “mostly biological.” If your physical body fails, your “mind” is already backed up and running in a distributed cloud environment.
Like something out of Star Trek or other sci-fi, nanotechnology (foglets) could theoretically assemble physical objects—food, clothes, building materials—out of thin air (or common molecules). No scarcity? No poverty? Hard to even imagine.
In his 2024 book, Kurzweil noted that while AI is moving faster than expected, the biological integration (the nanobots) is unsurprisingly the bottleneck.
If you are fearful now of AI and where it is going, you’ll get no solutions to your fear from Ray Kurzweil. Of course, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t listen.
#AI #artificialIntelligence #nanotechnology #RayKurzweil #singularity
TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane
https://zenodo.org/records/19513269
#HackerNews #atomicmemory #fluorographene #nanotechnology #energyresearch #technews #scienceinnovation
The memory wall -- the widening gap between processor throughput and memory bandwidth -- has become the defining hardware constraint of the artificial intelligence era, now compounded by a structural NAND flash supply crisis driven by AI demand. We propose a post-transistor, pre-quantum memory architecture built on single-layer fluorographane (CF), in which the bistable covalent orientation of each fluorine atom relative to the sp3-hybridized carbon scaffold constitutes an intrinsic, radiation-hard binary degree of freedom. The C-F inversion barrier of ~4.6 eV (B3LYP-D3BJ/def2-TZVP, this work; verified transition state with one imaginary frequency; confirmed at 4.8 eV by DLPNO-CCSD(T)/def2-TZVP; rigorous lower bound from the fluorophenalane molecular model) yields a thermal bit-flip rate of ~10^{-65} s^{-1} and a quantum tunneling rate of ~10^{-76} s^{-1} at 300 K, simultaneously eliminating both spontaneous bit-loss mechanisms. The barrier lies below the C-F bond dissociation energy (5.6 eV) at both levels of theory, so the covalent bond remains intact throughout the inversion. A single 1 cm^2 sheet encodes 447 TB of non-volatile information at zero retention energy. Volumetric nanotape architectures extend this to 0.4-9 ZB/cm^3. We present a tiered read-write architecture progressing from scanning-probe validation (Tier 1, achievable with existing instrumentation) through near-field mid-infrared arrays (Tier 2) to a dual-face parallel configuration governed by a central controller, with a projected aggregate throughput of 25 PB/s at full Tier 2 array scale. A scanning-probe prototype already constitutes a functional non-volatile memory device with areal density exceeding all existing technologies by more than five orders of magnitude.
New Nano-Cage Technology Removes Most PFAS from Water
📰 Original title: Breakthrough water filter removes 98% of toxic PFAS forever chemicals
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️
View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/new-nano-cage-technology-removes-most-pfas-from-water/?redirpost=141c80b3-77bf-4407-927f-86a0597ad80f
New Nano-Cage Technology Removes Most PFAS from Water
📰 Original title: Breakthrough water filter removes 98% of toxic PFAS forever chemicals
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️
View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/new-nano-cage-technology-removes-most-pfas-from-water/?redirpost=141c80b3-77bf-4407-927f-86a0597ad80f
In Physica B, we show that porous silicon acts as an effective compliant buffer for 3C-SiC/Si heteroepitaxy, improving crystal quality and enabling more reliable integration of SiC with silicon platforms.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2026.418626
#Nanotechnology #MaterialsScience #Semiconductors #SiC #Microelectronics
Researchers 3D print cell-sized, shape-shifting robots that move and navigate without a ‘brain’
These robots are smaller than a strand of human hair but can move independently even without a motor and sensors.
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