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New viable means of storing information for quantum technologies?

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Quantum information could be behind the next technological revolution. By analogy with the bit in classical computing, the qubit is the basic element of quantum computing. However, demonstrating the existence of this information storage unit and u...

Aug 3, 2021

Running quantum software on a classical computer

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Two physicists, from EPFL and Columbia University, have introduced an approach for simulating the quantum approximate optimization algorithm using a traditional computer. Instead of running the algorithm on advanced quantum processors, the new app...

Aug 3, 2021

Mimicking brain functions with graphene-diamond junctions

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The human brain holds the secret to our unique personalities. But did you know that it can also form the basis of highly efficient computing devices? Researchers from Nagoya University, Japan, recently showed how to do this, through graphene-diamo...

Aug 3, 2021

Nanoparticles could boost cancer immunotherapy

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Boosting function of natural killer cells with magnetic nanoparticles could make cancer immunotherapy more efficient, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in ACS Nano.

Aug 3, 2021

Quantum Metasurfaces Manipulate Free Photons

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A team at Los Alamos National Laboratory proposes that modulated quantum metasurfaces can control all properties of photonic qubits. According to the team, such a breakthrough would affect the fields of quantum information, communications, sensing...

Aug 3, 2021

Low-power dynamic manipulation of single nanoscale quantum objects

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Electrical engineers are powering the quantum computing revolution with the development of an on-demand, scalable technique to manipulate nanoscale nanodiamonds.

Aug 2, 2021

Pulsed lasers in liquids speed up hunt for effective catalysts

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Researchers document how the technique quickly produces arrays of highly active, carefully tuned nanoparticles with remarkably uniform properties that can be compared and tested for use as catalysts, far more quickly than traditional wet lab methods.

Aug 2, 2021

Innovative Nanomaterials To Decontaminate Water

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Patrick Drogui and My Ali El Khakani, professors at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), and Sébastien Sauvé, professor at the Université de Montréal, have received a $338,688 grant from the Ministère de l’Économie et de l’In...

Aug 2, 2021

Photothermal Process Irradiates Nanoparticles to Control Cell Activity

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Using nanoparticles as photothermal nanotransducers, scientists at Washington University in St. Louis demonstrated reversible modulation of electrical activity in excitable nerve and heart muscle cells. The biocompatible, minimally invasive approa...

Aug 2, 2021

PemTech Offers a Fixed Gas Transmitter for Hydrocarbons Using NevadaNano’s Molecular Property Spectrometer™ Sensor Technology

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NevadaNano, the world’s leading innovator in gas detection sensor technology, announced that PemTech added NevadaNano’s Molecular Property Spectrometer™ (MPS™) technology into its Ultra1000 Series Fixed Gas Sensors. PemTech is a US-based global ga...

Aug 2, 2021

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