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Low-Cost Synthetic Diamond Fabrication Could Step Up Quantum Tech

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

Using a thin tungsten layer as a restraining, conductive, removable hard mask, researchers at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) developed a method for the fabrication of synthetic diamond. The developed material can be used for the photoni...

Jun 8, 2021

Two-faced carbon nanotube particles generate electricity in MIT device

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Engineers at MIT have developed a device that generates electricity using a completely new mechanism. “Particles” made of carbon nanotubes are dunked in an organic solvent, which induces a current to potentially power small robots or drive chemica...

Jun 8, 2021

Nanozymes to the rescue - potential role in fighting COVID-19

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Over the last few decades, researchers have developed artificial enzymes for many applications. Recently, they deployed nanomaterial-based enzyme mimetics or nanozymes in diagnosis and therapeutics. Nanozymes find applications in various biomedica...

Jun 8, 2021

Super productive 3D bioprinter could help speed up drug development

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A new 3D bioprinter developed by UC San Diego nanoengineers operates at record speed--it can print a 96-well array of living human tissue samples within 30 minutes. The technology could help accelerate high-throughput preclinical drug screening an...

Jun 8, 2021

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

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