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Development of polyimide-mica nanocomposite film with high resistance to low-Earth-orbit environments

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Polyimide (PI) composite films are widely used on the external surfaces of spacecraft to protect them from the adverse environments of low Earth orbit (LEO) due to their outstanding comprehensive performance. However, current PI composite films ha...

Dec 1, 2021

Scientists Shrunk Qubits While Maintaining Their Performance Using van der Waals Materials

Science Times   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers from Columbia University has found a way to shrink qubits for quantum computers that will still retain its performance and allow for storing energy to power it,

Dec 1, 2021

Physicists create time crystals with quantum computers

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

There is a huge global effort to engineer a computer capable of harnessing the power of quantum physics to carry out computations of unprecedented complexity. While formidable technological obstacles still stand in the way of creating such a quant...

Dec 1, 2021

New Virus-Mimicking Nanoparticles for Efficient mRNA Delivery into Cells

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new and potentially more effective way to deliver messenger RNA (mRNA) into cells. Their approach involves packing mRNA inside nanoparticles that mimic the flu virus-;a natur...

Dec 1, 2021

First Graphene announces milestone on supercapacitor materials

Graphene Info   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

First Graphene (FGR) has announced that it has reached a milestone on its program to develop high performing supercapacitor materials. FGR’s recent work has been focused on the development of an optimized bill of materials for a supercapacitor to ...

Dec 1, 2021

Researchers develop nanometer-scale adaptive transistor

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Normally, computer chips consist of electronic components that always do the same thing. In the future, however, more flexibility will be possible: New types of adaptive transistors can be switched in a flash, so that they can perform different lo...

Dec 1, 2021

Group IV Laser Materials Prepare to Board Silicon Photonics Train

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

A team of scientists led by Moustafa El Kurdi from the Center for Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies, University of Paris-Saclay and collaborators from the Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in France have developed a technolog...

Dec 1, 2021

Physicists Confirm The Existence of Time Crystals in Epic Quantum Computer Simulation

ScienceAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

In a new study, an international team of researchers used Google's Sycamore quantum computing hardware to double-check their theoretical vision of a time crystal, confirming it ticks all of the right boxes for an emerging form of technology w...

Dec 1, 2021

Time crystals created in Google's quantum processor

New Atlas   -   Scientific News Websites

Time crystals sound like something a video game character would be trying to collect, but this bizarre phase of matter is very real – and now one of them has been created in Google’s quantum processor, Sycamore.

Dec 1, 2021

Stanford's Simple New Quantum Computer Design: Photonic Computation in a Synthetic Time Dimension

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

A relatively simple quantum computer design that uses a single atom to manipulate photons could be constructed with currently available components.

Nov 30, 2021

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