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Glaucoma: Seeing the light at the end of the (nano)tunnel

Medical Xpress   -   Scientific News Websites

Reduced blood flow and impaired neurovascular coupling are well-known features of glaucoma, the main cause of non-curable blindness affecting 80 million people worldwide in 2020.

Feb 7, 2022

Envoy speaks proudly of Iran’s technological advancement

Tehran Times   -   General News Websites

Iran's Ambassador to Thailand, Seyed Reza Nobakthi, says the country has made significant progress in the field of technology so that it is ranked fourth in the world in nanotechnology and twelfth in biotechnology.

Feb 7, 2022

Researchers observe rare fractional state in bilayer graphene for the first time

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Rare quantum particles and phenomena are difficult to study. For probing complex phenomena like superconductivity or particles that carry a fraction of the charge of an electron, extremely low temperatures or extremely high magnetic fields are req...

Feb 7, 2022

The 2x Gambit: IBM Tech Doubles Qubit Effectiveness

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Using a new technique known as “entanglement forging,” IBM researchers say they can halve the amount of quantum-computing resources needed to run simulations, a new study finds.

Feb 7, 2022

Nanowires under tension create the basis for ultrafast transistors

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Smaller chips, faster computers, less energy consumption. Novel concepts based on semiconductor nanowires are expected to make transistors in microelectronic circuits better and more efficient. Electron mobility plays a key role in this: The faste...

Feb 7, 2022

ERC Proof of Concept Grant for Arjen Jakobi

Delft University of Technology   -   Organizations and Universities Websites

Arjen Jakobi (Department of Bionanoscience) receives the ERC Proof of Concept Grant for his groundbreaking research on cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM). "This grant will allow us to take our new CryoChip technique for high resolution i...

Feb 7, 2022

Columns designed from nanographenes

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Several layers of nanographenes stacked on top of each other: such functional elements could one day be used in solar cells. Chemists have now paved the way for this.

Feb 7, 2022

Nanowires under tension create the basis for ultrafast transistors

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Nanowires have a unique property: These ultra-thin wires can sustain very high elastic strains without damaging the crystal structure of the material. A team of researchers has now succeeded in experimentally demonstrating that electron mobility i...

Feb 7, 2022

Columns designed from nanographenes

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Graphene is a carbon material that forms extremely thin layers. Because of its unusual properties, it is interesting for many technical applications. This also applies to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which can be regarded as cut-outs o...

Feb 7, 2022

A CMOS-based chip that integrates silicon quantum dots and multiplexed readout electronics

Tech Xplore   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory have recently designed an integrated circuit (IC) that integrates silicon quantum dots with conventional readout electronics. This chip, introduced...

Feb 7, 2022

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