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Entangled Photons Created 100 Times More Efficiently Than Previously Possible

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Fast, ultra-bright photon source brings scalable quantum photonics within reach. Super-fast quantum computers and communication devices could revolutionize countless aspects of our lives — but first,... The post Entangled Photons Created 100 Time...

Dec 19, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Nanotechnology -- nanoparticles as weapons against cancer

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Many chemotherapeutic agents used to treat cancers are associated with side-effects of varying severity, because they are toxic to normal cells as well as malignant tumors. This has motivated the sear...

Dec 19, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Ultra-fast gas flows through tiniest holes in 2D membranes: Researchers from the National Graphene Institute at the University of Manchester and the University of Pennsylvania identify ultra-fast gas flows through atomic-scale apertures in 2D membrane and validate a century-old e

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Researchers from the National Graphene Institute at the University of Manchester and the University of Pennsylvania have identified ultra-fast gas flows through the tiniest holes in one-atom-thin memb...

Dec 19, 2020

Sustained, High-Fidelity Quantum Teleportation Achieved for the First Time

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A viable quantum internet — a network in which information stored in qubits is shared over long distances through entanglement — would transform the fields... The post Sustained, High-Fidelity Quantum Teleportation Achieved for the First Time app...

Dec 19, 2020

High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy Reveals COVID-19 Surface Transmission Mechanism

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Paderborn University investigated COVID-19 transmission mechanisms. The study results could make a significant contribution to combating COVID-19 and have now been published in Advanced Nano-Biomed... The post High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy R...

Dec 18, 2020

Ultra-fast gas flows through tiniest holes in 2-D membranes

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Researchers from the National Graphene Institute at the University of Manchester and the University of Pennsylvania have identified ultra-fast gas flows through the tiniest holes in one-atom-thin membranes, in a study published in Science Advances.

Dec 18, 2020

Novel amorphous nanoparticles can efficiently and selectively kill cancer cells

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LMU researchers have developed a novel type of nanoparticle that efficiently and selectively kills cancer cells, thus opening up new therapeutic options for the treatment of tumors.

Dec 18, 2020

Sound waves spin droplets to concentrate, separate nanoparticles

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Mechanical engineers at Duke University have devised a method for spinning individual droplets of liquid to concentrate and separate nanoparticles for biomedical purposes. The technique is much more efficient than traditional centrifuge approaches...

Dec 18, 2020

Capillary condensation follows classical law even at the nanoscale – Physics World

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150-year-old Kelvin equation remains valid for confinement widths as small as 1 nm thanks to the elasticity of capillary walls The post Capillary condensation follows classical law even at the nanoscale appeared first on Physics World.

Dec 18, 2020

Nanotechnology: Nanoparticles as weapons against cancer

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Researchers have developed a novel type of nanoparticle that efficiently and selectively kills cancer cells, thus opening up new therapeutic options for the treatment of tumors.

Dec 18, 2020

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