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Researchers produce special nanoparticles and reveal their inner structure for the first time

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Tiny nanoparticles can be furnished with dyes and could be used for new imaging techniques, as chemists and physicists at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) show in a recent study. The researchers have also been the first to fully de...

Feb 12, 2021

Nanowire Could Provide a Stable, Easy-to-make Superconducting Transistor

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Superconductors — materials that conduct electricity without resistance — are remarkable. They provide a macroscopic glimpse into quantum phenomena, which are usually observable only at...

Feb 12, 2021

Researchers watch nanomaterials growing in real time

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For the first time, a team of scientists has succeeded in capturing in real time the first few milliseconds in the life of a gold coating as it forms on a polymer.

Feb 12, 2021

Nanospheres measure the forces of cell motors

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Special probes, germanium nanospheres, enable a higher resolution of displacements and forces that motor proteins generate.

Feb 12, 2021

Producing more sustainable hydrogen with composite polymer dots

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Hydrogen for energy use can be extracted in an environmentally friendly way from water and sunlight, using photocatalytic composite polymer nanoparticles developed by researchers at Uppsala University. In laboratory tests, these 'polymer dots...

Feb 12, 2021

Applying quantum computing to a particle process

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A team of researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) used a quantum computer to successfully simulate an aspect of particle collisions that is typically neglected in high-energy physics experiments, such as those that occu...

Feb 12, 2021

Detecting multiple sepsis biomarkers from whole blood - made fast, accurate, and cheap

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A multi-disciplinary team at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and the University of Bath, UK, has further developed the Institute's eRapid technology as an affinity-based, low-cost electrochemical diagnostic...

Feb 12, 2021

Increasing Optical Data Transmission Speed by a Factor of at Least 10,000

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A pulsed-laser repetition rate of 57.8 GHz was achieved by inserting a resonator containing graphene. The limitations of the manufacturing process were overcome by directly... The post Increasing Optical Data Transmission Speed by a Factor of at ...

Feb 11, 2021

Spontaneous quantum error correction demonstrated: New research tackles a central challenge of powerful quantum computing

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Physicists take a step toward building a fault-tolerant quantum computer. They have realized a novel type of QEC where the quantum errors are spontaneously corrected.

Feb 11, 2021

Innovative Origami-Inspired Antenna Technology for Use in Small Satellites

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A multidisciplinary team engineered a small, light, and low-cost deployable antenna for nano- and micro-satellite communications. In a brand-new study, scientists from Korea and the... The post Innovative Origami-Inspired Antenna Technology for U...

Feb 11, 2021

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