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From Microsaws to Nanodrills: Laser Pulses Act As Industrial-Grade Machining Tools

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Industrial-grade materials processing on the sub-micron scale is enabled by spatially structured ultrashort laser pulses. If light is strongly concentrated in time and space, resulting... The post From Microsaws to Nanodrills: Laser Pulses Act As...

Mar 8, 2021

Cheap, nontoxic carbon nanodots poised to be quantum dots of the future

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Tiny fluorescent semiconductor dots, called quantum dots, are useful in a variety of health and electronic technologies but are made of toxic, expensive metals. Nontoxic and economic carbon-based dots are easy to produce, but they emit less light....

Mar 8, 2021

Study highlights barriers for women and marginalized groups in supramolecular chemistry

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A new study by the international network Women In Supramolecular Chemistry (WISC) has highlighted the equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) issues faced by women and marginalised groups working within that field.

Mar 8, 2021

Nanoenzymes designed with a unique combination of structure and functions

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Researchers at the UAB have designed minimalist biostructures that imitate natural enzymes, capable of carrying out two differentiated and reversibly regulated activities thanks to a unique combination of structural and functional properties. The ...

Mar 8, 2021

China five-year plan aims for supremacy in AI, quantum computing

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China's tech industry has been hit hard by US trade battles and the economic uncertainties of the pandemic, but it's eager to bounce back in the relatively near future. According to the Wall Street Journal, the cou...

Mar 7, 2021

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: A COSMIC approach to nanoscale science: Instrument at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source achieves world-leading resolution of nanomaterials

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COSMIC, a multipurpose X-ray instrument at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's (Berkeley Lab's) Advanced Light Source (ALS), has made headway in the scientific community since its launch less than...

Mar 6, 2021

Video Friday: Nanotube-Powered Insect Robots

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Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

Mar 5, 2021

Samsung’s 3-nm Tech Shows Nanosheet Transistor Advantage

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Nanosheet devices allow tuning of memory cell design in a way FinFETs can’t

Mar 5, 2021

Samsung’s 3-nm Tech Shows Nanosheet Transistor Advantage

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The logic chip industry is heading toward a fundamental change in the structure of transistors. Today’s transistors, called FinFETs, will give way to devices variously called nanosheet transistors, multibridge channel FETs, and gate-all-around tr...

Mar 5, 2021

In the Race to Hundreds of Qubits, Photons May Have "Quantum Advantage"

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Canadian startup Xanadu says their quantum computer is cloud-accessible, Python programmable, and ready to scale

Mar 5, 2021

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