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Nanoscale Rotors Constructed From DNA – Smallest Flow-Driven Motors in the World

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists have constructed the smallest flow-driven motors in the world. Inspired by iconic Dutch windmills and biological motor proteins, they created a self-configuring flow-driven rotor from DNA that converts energy from an electrical or salt ...

Aug 4, 2022

Baidu’s PaddlePaddle Spins AI up to Industrial Scales

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Keras: Those three deep-learning frameworks have dominated AI for years even as newer entrants gain steam. But one framework you don’t hear much about in the West is China’s PaddlePaddle, the most popular Chinese framework...

Aug 4, 2022

Building Molecular Bridges: New Crystal Engineering Strategy to Design Ultrabright Fluorescent Solid Dyes

Tokyo Institute of Technology   -   Organizations and Universities Websites

When it comes to designing ultrabright solid-state fluorescent materials, bridged crystal designs might be the key to enabling monomeric emission and accessing novel crystalline systems, reveals a new study. In the study, a research team from Toky...

Aug 4, 2022

Flow-driven rotors at the nanoscale

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have constructed the smallest flow-driven motors ever. Inspired by iconic Dutch windmills and biological motor proteins, they created a self-configuring flow-driven rotor from DNA that converts energy from an electrical or salt gradien...

Aug 4, 2022

Optimizing SWAP networks for quantum computing: Experiment demonstrates how software-optimized circuits execute less error-prone quantum algorithms

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have demonstrated how a smart compiler specifically tailored for superconducting quantum hardware can optimize circuits and networks and execute less error-prone quantum algorithms such as Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QA...

Aug 4, 2022

Sponge-like electrodes inspired by sugar cubes could improve medical monitoring

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

To monitor heart rhythms and muscle function, doctors often attach electrodes to a patient's skin, detecting the electrical signals that lie beneath. These impulses are vital to the early diagnosis and treatment of many disorders, but current...

Aug 4, 2022

Turning fish waste into quality carbon-based nanomaterial

NanoDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

Thanks to their low toxicity, chemical stability, and remarkable electrical and optical properties, carbon-based nanomaterials are finding more and more applications across electronics, energy conversion and storage, catalysis, and biomedicine. Ca...

Aug 4, 2022

TU Delft researchers create flow-driven rotors at the nanoscale

Delft University of Technology   -   Organizations and Universities Websites

Onderzoekers van de TU Delft hebben de kleinste door stroming gedreven motoren ter wereld ontwikkeld. Geïnspireerd door de iconische Nederlandse windmolens en door biologische motoreiwitten hebben ze een zichzelf configurerende, stromingsgedreven ...

Aug 4, 2022

Exceeding 100 percent quantum efficiency in the photocurrent of a hybrid inorganic-organic semiconductor

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Tiny crystals, known as quantum dots, have enabled an international team to achieve a quantum efficiency exceeding 100 percent in the photocurrent generated in a hybrid inorganic-organic semiconductor.

Aug 4, 2022

Optimizing SWAP networks for quantum computing

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

A research partnership at the Advanced Quantum Testbed (AQT) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Chicago-based Super.tech (acquired by ColdQuanta in May 2022) demonstrated how to optimize the execution of the ZZ SWAP networ...

Aug 4, 2022

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