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Honeywell spins off Minnesota-grown quantum-computing division into new company, Quantinuum

Tech Xplore   -   Scientific News Websites

One of the world's most powerful quantum computers sits in Golden Valley, where Honeywell has spent more than a decade building what it considers the next big thing in technology.

Dec 1, 2021

Visualizing Temperature Transport: An Unexpected Technique for Nanoscale Characterization

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Thermal transport properties of molecular junctions in materials have remained difficult to characterize. Now, researchers from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) unexpectedly discovered a combination of contact and non-contact thermal mic...

Dec 1, 2021

Developing wafer-scale highly oriented graphene on sapphire

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers have used direct chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth of wafer-scale, high-quality graphene on dielectrics for versatile applications. However, graphene synthesized this way has shown a polycrystalline film with uncontrolled defects,...

Dec 1, 2021

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

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