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Kirigami-style fabrication may enable new 3D nanostructures

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A new technique that mimics the ancient Japanese art of kirigami may offer an easier way to fabricate complex 3D nanostructures for use in electronics, manufacturing and health care.

Apr 2, 2021

Depositing Fe species inside ZSM-5 to oxidize cyclohexane to cyclohexanone

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A general strategy to selectively deposit highly-dispersed FeOx into the micropore of ZSM-5 by atomic layer deposition (ALD) is reported. The framework of ZSM-5 and the Brønsted acid sites are intact during ALD, and the Fe species are selectively ...

Apr 2, 2021

Oxygen-promoted synthesis of armchair graphene nanoribbons on Cu(111)

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Researchers report the systematic investigation of the effects of oxygen on the synthesis of 3p sub-family armchair graphene nanoribbons (3p-AGNRs), which revealed a strong catalytic effect with a reduction in the reaction temperature by approxima...

Apr 2, 2021

In-situ nanoscale insights into the evolution of solid electrolyte interphase shells

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Straightforward visualized evidence of SEI shells evolution during Li deposition/stripping to reveal anode degradation is provided via in-situ atomic force microscopy (AFM). Nucleation and growth of quasi-spherical Li particles are observed on a C...

Apr 2, 2021

Honey Healing Properties: Anti-Inflammatory Nanoparticles May Be Added in Ointments

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While honey has been mostly used for sweetening or preserving food, different cultures have recorded using the sweet substance as an ointment - and researchers have looked into its anti-inflammatory potential.

Apr 1, 2021

IBM Exec on Intel Chipmaking Collab: "Choose Your Strength"

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Intel and IBM—two of the titans of the U.S. semiconductor industry over the last 40 years—have joined forces to advance next-generation logic and packaging technologies. This new partnership comes as a bit of a surprise to anyone who has observed...

Apr 1, 2021

Quantum computer has the edge for NP verification – Physics World

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New protocol for verifying solutions to NP-complete problems outperforms known classical methods The post Quantum computer has the edge for NP verification appeared first on Physics World.

Apr 1, 2021

2D materials for conducting hole currents from grain boundaries in perovskite solar cells

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Grain boundaries (GBs) in PSCs have been found to be detrimental to the photovoltaic performance of the devices. Numerous papers reported that the defects in perovskite GBs should be passivated by suitable materials, such as quaternary ammonium ha...

Apr 1, 2021

Spin-to-charge conversion achieves 95% overall qubit readout fidelity

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A team led by Professor Du Jiangfeng and Professor Wang Ya from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Key Laboratory of Microscale Magnetic Resonance of the University of Science and Technology of China put forward an innovative spin-to-charge con...

Apr 1, 2021

Search for strange Skyrmion phenomenon fails but finds stranger magnetic beaded necklace

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Physicists on the hunt for a rarely seen magnetic spin texture have discovered another object that bears its hallmarks, hidden in the structure of ultra-thin magnetic films, that they have called an incommensurate spin crystal.

Apr 1, 2021

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