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Three Frosty Innovations for Better Quantum Computers

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

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

Nanotechnology Now   -   Nanotechnology Websites

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

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

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

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

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

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

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

Single atoms as a catalyst

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

For years, the metal nanoparticles used in catalysts have been getting smaller and smaller. Now, a research team at TU Wien in Vienna, Austria have shown that everything is suddenly different when you arrive at the smallest possible size: a single...

Jan 22, 2021

Observing chiral edge states in gapped nanomechanical graphene

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Edge states are an emerging concept in physics and have been explored as an efficient strategy to manipulate electrons, photons and phonons for next-generation hybrid electro-optomechanical circuits. Scientists have used gapless chiral edge states...

Jan 22, 2021

Enhancing hybrid flow batteries with graphene

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists 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 durations for about a fifth the price of current technologies, with minimal location res...

Jan 22, 2021

Targeted coating improves graphene oxide membranes for nanofiltration

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have developed a stable graphene oxide nanofiltration membrane with uniform pore size to remove organic micropollutants.

Jan 22, 2021

Researchers extend 4D printing to nanophotonics

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

The newly developed shape memory polymer resist, which allows for high-resolution 4D printing, promises a platform for information hiding for optical anti-counterfeiting and tunable photonic devices.

Jan 22, 2021

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