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China beats Google to claim the world's most powerful quantum computer

New Scientist   -   Scientific News Websites

A team in China has demonstrated that it has the world's most powerful quantum computer, leapfrogging the previous record holder, Google

Jul 5, 2021

A nanofiber membrane could help solve the drinking water crisis

Engadget   -   General News Websites

Korean scientists claim a new desalination technique makes sea water fit to drink in minutes. The researchers used a membrane distillation process that resulted in 99.9 percent salt rejection for one month. If commercialized, they say the solution...

Jul 5, 2021

Waste hop stem in the beer industry upcycled into cellulose nanofibers

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Some three quarters of the biomass in hop plants used in beer-making ends up in landfills. But a group of Japanese researchers has developed a technique that 'upcycles' that waste hop into cellulose nanofibers (CNFs). A paper describing ...

Jul 5, 2021

Graphene-Based Nano-Inks: Researchers Investigate How an Energy Device Can Charge, Discharge Ultrafast

Science Times   -   Scientific News Websites

A study showed possible ways to manufacture graphene-based nano-inks for additive manufacturing of supercapacitors in flexible and printable electronics form.

Jul 5, 2021

NMR Techniques Help Determine the Structure of Nb23 Nanobody

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers from New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE, have used, for the first time, nuclear magnetic resonance techniques to identify the structure of a particular nanobody called Nb23. Image...

Jul 5, 2021

Graphene for the protection of paintings: paving the way for novel methods in art preservation and restoration

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

The exposure of colors used in artworks to ultraviolet (UV) and visible light in the presence of oxidizing agents triggers color degradation, fading and yellowing. These degradation mechanisms can lead to irreversible alteration of artworks. Prot...

Jul 5, 2021

How AI and Nanotechnology Offer Solutions to Global Food Security Threats

Science Times   -   Scientific News Websites

Recent research suggests that a combination of AI and nanotechnology could open new solutions in precision agriculture that would help farmers react to real-time challenges in crop growth and prevent global hunger by 2030.

Jul 5, 2021

Piezoelectric microelectromechanical system-based optical metasurfaces

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Optical metasurfaces can unprecedently regulate versatile wavefronts at the subwavelength scale. Most well-established optical metasurfaces are, however, static and feature well-defined optical responses that are determined by optical metasurface ...

Jul 5, 2021

High-Energy E-Beam Helps Create 3D Graphene Films

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

At the Chinese Academy of Sciences' (CAS) Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), Prof. Zhenyang Wang’s research group recently created macroscopic thick three-dimensional (3D)...

Jul 5, 2021

New Technique 'Upcycles' Waste Hop Stem into Cellulose Nanofibers

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Some three quarters of the biomass in hop plants used in beer-making ends up in landfills. But a group of Japanese researchers has developed a technique that 'upcycles' that waste hop into...

Jul 5, 2021

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