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Researchers use layered double hydroxide to increase neuronal growth in mice with spinal cord injuries

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Researchers from the Department of Orthopedics of Tongji Hospital at Tongji University in Shanghai have successfully used a nanobiomaterial called layered double hydroxide (LDH) to inhibit the inflammatory environment surrounding spinal cord injur...

Mar 23, 2021

Novel thermometer can accelerate quantum computer development

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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, have developed a novel type of thermometer that can simply and quickly measure temperatures during quantum calculations with extremely high accuracy. The breakthrough provides a...

Mar 23, 2021

Moiré effect: How to twist material properties

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2D materials like graphene have revolutionized materials science. Now a new interesting option has been added to this field of research: Two thin material layers can be stacked and twisted by a certain angle. This leads to a Moiré-effect and chang...

Mar 23, 2021

Nanofibres the key to advanced CFRP

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Hexcel, MHP Americas, Porsche Motorsports Toray and UST Mamiya are partnering with the university on ZT-CFRP commercialisation....

Mar 23, 2021

Porous carbon aerogels might power future Mars missions – Physics World

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Materials could be used to make electrodes in supercapacitors that operate at ultralow temperatures,

Mar 22, 2021

Scientists Make Advances Towards Quantum Supremacy

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A Russian-German research team has created a quantum sensor that grants access to measurement and manipulation of individual two-level defects in qubits. The study by... The post Scientists Make Advances Towards Quantum Supremacy appeared first o...

Mar 22, 2021

Planting the seed for DNA nanoconstructs that grow to the micron scale

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Nanobiotechnologists have devised a programmable DNA self-assembly strategy that solves the key challenge of robust nucleation control and paves the way for applications such as ultrasensitive diagnostic biomarker detection and scalable fabricatio...

Mar 22, 2021

Planting the seed for DNA nanoconstructs that grow to the micron scale

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A team of nanobiotechnologists at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) led by Wyss Founding Core Faculty member William Shih, Ph.D., has devised a programmable DNA self-ass...

Mar 22, 2021

Finding high-Q resonant modes in a dielectric nanocavity

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Optical resonators provide the foundation of modern photonics and optics. Thanks to its extreme energy confinement, the high-Q-factor optical resonator optimizes light-matter interaction and photonic device performance by enabling low-threshold la...

Mar 22, 2021

Modification of graphene using laser light

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Graphene is an exciting new material, which has been characterized as a 'wonder material' because of its excellent properties. Graphene gained widespread attention in 2010 when the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to researchers who di...

Mar 22, 2021

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