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New Technique Builds Super-Hard Metals by Smashing Tiny Nanoparticles Together

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Brown University researchers have shown a way to make bulk metals by smashing tiny metal nanoparticles together, which allows for customized grain structures and improved... The post New Technique Builds Super-Hard Metals by Smashing Tiny Nanopar...

Jan 23, 2021

Quantum Computer Breakthrough: New Blueprint for Better, Faster Qubits

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Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have put forward a detailed plan of how faster and better defined quantum bits — qubits — can... The post Quantum Computer Breakthrough: New Blueprint for Better, Faster Qubits appeared first on SciT...

Jan 22, 2021

New technique builds super-hard metals from nanoparticles

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Researchers have shown a way to make bulk metals by smashing tiny metal nanoparticles together, which allows for customized grain structures and improved mechanical and other properties.

Jan 22, 2021

Crystal structures in super slow motion: Physicists succeed in filming a phase transition with extremely high spatial and temporal resolution

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Laser beams are used to change the properties of materials in an extremely precise way. However, the underlying processes generally take place at such unimaginably fast speeds and at such a small scale that they have so far eluded direct observati...

Jan 22, 2021

New blueprint for more stable quantum computers

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Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have put forward a detailed plan of how faster and better defined quantum bits—qubits—can be created. The central elements are magnetic atoms from the class of so-called rare-earth metals, which wou...

Jan 22, 2021

Three Frosty Innovations for Better Quantum Computers

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Putting these in the cryogenic freezer could make quantum computers more powerful and compact

Jan 22, 2021

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Quantum Optimization: Computer scientist Yufei Ding receives NSF Early CAREER Award to advance efforts to improve quantum applications

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The key to the incredible speed of a quantum computer lies in its ability to fabricate and manipulate quantum bits, or qubits, typically artificial particles such as ions, superconducting oscillators...

Jan 22, 2021

Research team extends 4-D printing to nanophotonics

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The Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and its research collaborators have successfully demonstrated the four-dimensional (4-D) printing of shape memory polymers in submicron dimensions which are comparable to the wavelength of v...

Jan 22, 2021

Highly functional membrane developed for producing freshwater from seawater: A desalination membrane laminated with nanosheets featuring 2D nanochannels

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Researchers have developed a new desalination membrane by laminating a two-dimensional carbon material on to the surface of a porous polymer membrane. This membrane has the potential to perform highly efficient desalination because it is possible ...

Jan 22, 2021

Researchers modify hybrid flow battery electrodes with nanomaterials

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Researchers in WMG at the University of Warwick, in collaboration with Imperial College London, have found a way to enhance hybrid flow batteries and their commercial use. The new approach can store electricity in these batteries for very long dur...

Jan 22, 2021

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