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Optically active defects improve carbon nanotubes

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The properties of carbon-based nanomaterials can be altered and engineered through the deliberate introduction of certain structural "imperfections". The challenge, however, is to control the number and type of these defects. Chemists an...

Apr 9, 2021

Freezing Electrons as Temperature Rises: Discovered Graphene System Does That!

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In a new discovery regarding graphene, two research teams independently discovered a particular graphene system whose electrons "freeze" as temperature rises.

Apr 8, 2021

Graphene gives neural interfaces a boost, the amazing physics of hearing and vision – Physics World

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This podcast features a neuromedicine specialist and the author of a book on the physics of sight and sound The post Graphene gives neural interfaces a boost, the amazing physics of hearing and vision appeared first on Physics World.

Apr 8, 2021

Energy transmission by gold nanoparticles coupled to DNA structures

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Using DNA structures as scaffolds, Tim Liedl, a scientist of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich, has shown that precisely positioned gold nanoparticles can serve as efficient energy transmitters. 

Apr 8, 2021

Graphene: Everything under control in a quantum material

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In a new study, a team of researchers demonstrates that graphene's nonlinearity can be very efficiently controlled by applying comparatively modest electrical voltages to the material.

Apr 8, 2021

A new agent for brain diseases: mRNA

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Researchers prepared a nanomicelle delivery system to transport BDNF mRNA to the site of ischemic injury. The nanomicelle successfully produced BDNF and prevented the death of neurons when dosed 2 days after ischemia in rats. Long-term experiments...

Apr 8, 2021

Energy transmission by gold nanoparticles coupled to DNA structures

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Using DNA structures as scaffolds, scientists hae shown that precisely positioned gold nanoparticles can serve as efficient energy transmitters.

Apr 8, 2021

Researchers Discover a Surprising Phase Transition in "Magic-Angle" Graphene

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Most materials go from being solids to liquids when they are heated. One rare counter-example is helium-3, which can solidify upon heating. This counterintuitive and exotic effect, known as the...

Apr 8, 2021

A breakthrough that enables practical semiconductor spintronics

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It may be possible in the future to use information technology where electron spin is used to store, process and transfer information in quantum computers. It has long been the goal of scientists to be able to use spin-based quantum information te...

Apr 8, 2021

The spintronics technology revolution could be just a hopfion away

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A research team has created and observed quasiparticles called 3D hopfions at the nanoscale (billionths of a meter) in a magnetic system. The discovery could advance high-density, high-speed, low-power, yet ultrastable magnetic memory 'spintr...

Apr 8, 2021

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