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Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Advancement creates nanosized, foldable robots

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Army-funded researchers created nanosized robots that could enable locomotion, novel metamaterial design and high-fidelity sensors.

Mar 20, 2021

Free Open-Access Quantum Computer Now Operational

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Scientists worldwide can use ion-based testbed at Sandia National Laboratories. A new Department of Energy open-access quantum computing testbed is ready for the public. Scientists... The post Free Open-Access Quantum Computer Now Operational app...

Mar 20, 2021

Columbia Engineers Use DNA Nanotechnology to Build Tough 3D Nanomaterials

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Columbia Engineers use DNA nanotechnology to create highly resilient synthetic nanoparticle-based materials that can be processed through conventional nanofabrication methods. Columbia Engineering researchers, working with Brookhaven... The post ...

Mar 19, 2021

Researchers Debunk Decade-Old Photonics Myth, Demonstrate Practical Metal Nanostructures

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Researchers at the University of Ottawa have debunked the decade-old myth of metals being useless in photonics – the science and technology of light –... The post Researchers Debunk Decade-Old Photonics Myth, Demonstrate Practical Metal Nanostruc...

Mar 19, 2021

Building tough 3D nanomaterials with DNA

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Columbia Engineering researchers, working with Brookhaven National Laboratory, report today that they have built designed nanoparticle-based 3D materials that can withstand a vacuum, high temperatures, high pressure, and high radiation. This new f...

Mar 19, 2021

Plasmonic tweezers: For nanoscale optical trapping and beyond

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Optical tweezers and associated manipulation tools in the far field have had a major impact on scientific and engineering research by offering precise manipulation of small objects. More recently, near-field manipulation with surface plasmons has ...

Mar 19, 2021

Solving 'barren plateaus' is the key to quantum machine learning

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Many machine learning algorithms on quantum computers suffer from the dreaded "barren plateau" of unsolvability, where they run into dead ends on optimization problems. This challenge had been relatively unstudied—until now. Rigorous the...

Mar 19, 2021

A single-molecule electrical approach for amino acid detection and chirality recognition

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Analytical chemistry aims to efficiently discriminate between two amino acids. In a new report in Science Advances, Zihao Liu and a research team in Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Science in China and Japan, used a single-molecule electrical me...

Mar 19, 2021

Solving 'barren plateaus' is the key to quantum machine learning

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Many machine learning algorithms on quantum computers suffer from the dreaded 'barren plateau' of unsolvability, where they run into dead ends on optimization problems.

Mar 19, 2021

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Teamwork makes light shine ever brighter: Combined energy sources return a burst of photons from plasmonic gold nanogaps

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If youre looking for one technique to maximize photon output from plasmons, stop. It takes two to wrangle.

Mar 19, 2021

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