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Applying quantum computing to a particle process

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers 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 occur at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

Feb 12, 2021

New Superconducting Nanowire Could Advance Superconducting Electronics

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Superconductors are materials that conduct electricity without any resistance. They have excellent potential and offer a macroscopic glimpse into quantum phenomena, which can generally be observed...

Feb 12, 2021

Magnetic Nanoparticles can be Manipulated to Destroy Cancer Cells

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers from the Scientific and Educational Center 'Smart Materials and Biomedical Applications' have performed a joint interdisciplinary research work on the development of a novel...

Feb 12, 2021

Nanospheres measure the forces of cell motors

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Motor proteins generate the forces for essential mechanical processes in our body. On a scale of nanometers—a millionth of a millimeter—motor proteins, for example, power our muscles or transport material within our cells. Such movements, invisibl...

Feb 12, 2021

Compact, Scalable Lidar Design Could Have Applications in Robotics, Health Care

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers from the University of Southampton, in collaboration with a team from San Francisco-based nanotechnology company PointCloud Inc., developed a scalable 3D lidar imaging system that the collaborators said matches and exceeds the performa...

Feb 12, 2021

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

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

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

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

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

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

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

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

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

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