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‘Smart’ shirt keeps tabs on the heart: Flexible carbon nanotube fibers woven into clothing gather accurate EKG, heart rate

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Carbon nanotube thread woven into athletic shirts gathered electrocardiogram and heart rate data that matched standard monitors and beat chest-strap monitors. The fibers are flexible and the shirts are machine washable.

Aug 30, 2021

Metallic Nanostructures for Generating Exotic Forms of Light

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LSU Quantum researchers rearrange photon distribution to create different light sources. For decades, scholars have believed that the quantum statistical properties of bosons are preserved... The post Metallic Nanostructures for Generating Exotic...

Aug 30, 2021

Unusual bandgap renormalization in 2D inorganic lead-halide perovskite nanoplatelets

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Owing to high quantum yields, large absorption cross-section, excellent carrier transport performance and narrow-band emission, inorganic lead-halide perovskite semiconductors have received increasing attention for their applications in solar cell...

Aug 30, 2021

Team Develops Scalable Quantum Computing Model

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Researchers at the University of Virginia developed a scalable quantum computing platform, which drastically reduces the number of devices needed to achieve quantum speed, on a photonic chip the size of a penny. Xu Yi, assistant professor of ele...

Aug 30, 2021

Polymeric and lipid nanoparticles in self-amplifying RNA vaccines result in higher protein expression and immunogenicity

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Self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) is an advanced platform for nucleic acid vaccine development. The backbone is typically derived from an alphaviral genome and encodes a gene of interest (GOI) and a viral replicase that can amplify the genomic and subge...

Aug 30, 2021

Novel Nanophotonic Analog Processor Developed for High Performance Computing

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Analog photonic solutions offer unique opportunities to address complex computational tasks with unprecedented performance in terms of energy dissipation and speeds, overcoming current limitations of... The post Novel Nanophotonic Analog Processo...

Aug 29, 2021

Researchers Develop “Nanopore-Tal” Technology That Enables Cells To Talk to Computers

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Genetically encoded reporter proteins have been a mainstay of biotechnology research, allowing scientists to track gene expression, understand intracellular processes, and debug engineered genetic circuits.... The post Researchers Develop “Nanopo...

Aug 29, 2021

New Nanomaterial Resists Projectile Impact Better Than Kevlar

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Thinner than a human hair, new material can absorb impacts from microparticles traveling at supersonic speeds. Engineers at Caltech, MIT, and ETH Zürich have developed... The post New Nanomaterial Resists Projectile Impact Better Than Kevlar appe...

Aug 28, 2021

Nanoscale systems for generating various forms of light: Quantum researchers rearrange photon distribution to create different light sources

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In new findings published in Nature Communications, researchers from Louisiana State University and four collaborating universities have introduced a discovery that changes a paradigm in quantum plasmonics by demonstrating the potential of metalli...

Aug 27, 2021

Sony's head of AI research wants to build robots that can win a Nobel Prize

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AI and Machine Learning systems have proven a boon to scientific research in a variety of academic fields in recent years. They’ve assisted scientists in identifying genomic markers ripe for cutting-edge treatments, accelerating the discovery of p...

Aug 27, 2021

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