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Early endeavors on the path to reliable quantum machine learning

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The future quantum computers should be capable of super-fast and reliable computation. Today, this is still a major challenge. Now, computer scientists led by ETH Zurich conduct an early exploration for reliable quantum machine learning.

Jun 8, 2021

Control over water friction with 2D materials points to 'smart membranes'

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The speed of water flow is a limiting factor in many membrane-based industrial processes, including desalination, molecular separation and osmotic power generation. Researchers at The University of Manchester have published a study revealing a dra...

Jun 8, 2021

Machine learning reduces microscope data processing time from months to just seconds

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With a new method that combines high-powered scanning force microscopes and machine learning, IBEC researchers have drastically reduced the processing time required to achieve nanoscale biochemical compositions map from electric images of eukaryot...

Jun 8, 2021

Absorbent aerogels show some muscle

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A simple chemical process developed at Rice University creates light and highly absorbent aerogels for environmental remediation or as membranes for batteries and other applications.

Jun 8, 2021

Online 'library of properties' helps to create safer nanomaterials

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Researchers have developed a 'library of properties' to help identify the environmental impact of nanomaterials faster and more cost effectively.

Jun 8, 2021

Femtosecond spectroscopy and first-principles calculations shed light on compositional dependence of

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Researchers from Skoltech and Ludwig Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Germany have studied the fundamental properties of halide perovskite nanocrystals, a promising class of optoelectronic materials. Using a combination of theory and experiment, t...

Jun 8, 2021

New research suggests mineral nanoparticles as ubiquitous enzyme mimetics in Earth systems

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Minerals are inorganic substances, whereas enzymes are organic substances (e.g., proteins). However, many types of Earth-abundant minerals exhibit intrinsic enzyme-like activities when their particles decrease to the nanometer (nm) scale (so calle...

Jun 8, 2021

Generating Electricity: MIT Engineers Discover New Using Tiny Carbon Particles

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MIT engineers recently discovered a new material made from carbon nanotubes that can be used for generating electricity.

Jun 7, 2021

New drug-formulation method may lead to smaller pills: Chemical engineers have found a way to load more drug into a tablet, which could then be made smaller and easier to swallow

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Chemical engineers have devised a simpler process for incorporating hydrophobic drugs into tablets or other drug formulations, using nanoemulsions. With this method, it may be possible to make many pills smaller and easier to swallow.

Jun 7, 2021

MIT Engineers Have Discovered a Completely New Way of Generating Electricity

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A new material made from carbon nanotubes can generate electricity by scavenging energy from its environment. MIT engineers have discovered a new way of generating electricity using tiny carbon particles that can create a current simply by interac...

Jun 7, 2021

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