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Focused Ion Beam: a 'tool' for micro/nano fabrication and characterization – Physics World

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Join the audience for a live webinar on 24 February 2021 sponsored by Hiden Analytical and Agilent Technologies, in partnership with IUVSTA The post Focused Ion Beam: a ‘tool’ for micro/nano fabrication and characterization appeared first on Physi...

Feb 1, 2021

Tunable chiral optics suitable for on-chip devices

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Inspired by chiral molecular structures, scientists are developing strategies to build artificial chiral materials by mimicking natural molecular structures using functional materials. Specifically, metal nanomaterials exhibit tailorable optical p...

Feb 1, 2021

Think modular, think flexible: unlocking innovation in quantum computing – Physics World

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Oxford Instruments NanoScience reckons its Proteox dilution refrigerator will help researchers and start-ups to fast-track the development of next-generation quantum technologies The post Think modular, think flexible: unlocking innovation in quan...

Feb 1, 2021

New Strategies for Designing Efficient Electroluminescent Materials

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A collaborative team of materials scientists and theoretical chemists provide hybrid perovskite nanoparticles that are high-efficiency light emitters by using a comprehensive defect-suppression strategy. New... The post New Strategies for Designi...

Feb 1, 2021

Graphene-MOF-based hybrid supercapacitor that offers the best of both worlds in energy storage

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Researchers developed a hybrid supercapacitor which has a capacitor-type titanium carbide-based negative electrode and a battery-type graphene-hybrid positive electrode.

Feb 1, 2021

Newly discovered "nano-chameleon" is world's smallest known reptile

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A tiny new species of chameleon has been discovered, and it seems to be the smallest reptile in the world. Known as Brookesia nana, or the nano-chameleon, the petite species can perch on a fingertip and may have the smallest adult males of any ver...

Feb 1, 2021

Physicists have developed new material for water desalination

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Titanium dioxide nanoparticles decorated by gold absorb about 96% of the solar spectrum and turn it into heat. The material can accelerate the evaporation in desalination plants up to 2.5 times and can track hazardous molecules and compounds. An i...

Feb 1, 2021

Are plastics and microplastics in the Ocean on the increase?

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A cohort of high-profile co-authors posed this question in a study recently published in the Microplastics and Nanoplastics journal.

Feb 1, 2021

Easily assembled gold nanoparticle scaffolding serves as molecular probe

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The development of pharmaceutical treatments is difficult -- clinicians and researchers know a certain drug can regulate particular functions, but they might not know how it actually works. Researchers at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Techno...

Feb 1, 2021

Next Tesla Full Self Driving Chip Will Use 5 Nanometer Lithography | NextBigFuture.com

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Tesla will work with Samsung to develop a 5nm-class semiconductor for the HW4 version of the Tesla Full Self Driving Chip. Samsung is supplying 14nm chips to Tesla for the HW3 version of FSD. The in-vehicle infotainment system (IVI) uses a variety...

Jan 31, 2021

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