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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

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Expanding the freedom of design: powder coating on FRP thanks to conductive gelcoats with graphene nanotubes

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New conductive gelcoats with graphene nanotubes as a protecting layer on top of fiber-reinforced plastics (FRPs) grant engineers and designers the ability to produce special surfaces and uniformly coa...

Mar 5, 2021

Compression or strain: The material expands always the same

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Researchers have discovered a new two-dimensional material with unprecedented properties: regardless if it is strained or compressed, it always expands. This so-called half-auxetic behavior is promising for the design of new applications, especial...

Mar 5, 2021

Light in concert with force reveals how materials become harder when illuminated

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Semiconductor materials play an indispensable role in our modern information-oriented society. For reliable performance of semiconductor devices, these materials need to have superior mechanical properties: they must be strong as well as resistant...

Mar 5, 2021

Compression or strain—the material always expands

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An international research team led by chemist Prof. Thomas Heine of TU Dresden has discovered a new two-dimensional material with unprecedented properties: regardless of whether it is strained or compressed, it always expands. This so-called half-...

Mar 5, 2021

Improved understanding of plasma source for synthesis of carbon nanotubes

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Researchers have developed an insight that could facilitate production of microscopic carbon nanotubes, structures thousands of times thinner than a human hair used in everything from microchips to sporting goods to pharmaceutical products. The re...

Mar 5, 2021

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