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Sheets of carbon nanotubes come in a rainbow of colors

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Nanomaterials researchers in Finland, the United States and China have created a color atlas for 466 unique varieties of single-walled carbon nanotubes.

Dec 14, 2020

First Optical Tweezers Capable of Trapping Nanoparticles

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Optical tweezers are a rapidly growing technology, and have opened up a wide variety of research applications in recent years. The devices operate by trapping particles at the focal points of tightly...

Dec 14, 2020

Future Wafer Scale Chips Could Have 100 Trillion Transistors | NextBigFuture.com

NextBigFuture   -   Scientific News Websites

The AI startup Cerebras has shown that a single wafer-scale Cerebras CS-1 can outperform one of the fastest supercomputers in the US by more than 200 times for physics simulations and many AI applications. They had 0.86 PetaFLOPS of performance on...

Dec 14, 2020

What's going on with nanomedicine?

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Back in the spring of 2015, one of our Nanowerk Spotlights asked the question: 'Has nanomedicine lived up to its promise?' The answer then was that, judging by research activity and funding, the field of nanomedicine has been very fertil...

Dec 14, 2020

Single Carbon Dot Emits Multiple Wavelengths of Light

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have synthesized a collection of nanoparticles known as carbon dots, capable of emitting multiple wavelengths of light from a single particle. The team discovered that...

Dec 14, 2020

Sheets of carbon nanotubes come in a rainbow of colours

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Nanomaterials researchers have created a colour atlas for 466 unique varieties of single-walled carbon nanotubes.

Dec 14, 2020

Artificial Chemist 2.0: Custom quantum dots in less than an hour

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A new technology, called Artificial Chemist 2.0, allows users to go from requesting a custom quantum dot to completing the relevant R+D and beginning manufacturing in less than an hour. The tech is completely autonomous, and uses artificial intell...

Dec 14, 2020

Nanoengineered cement shows promise for sealing leaky gas wells

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Leaking natural gas wells are considered a potential source of methane emissions, and a new nanomaterial cement mixture could provide an effective, affordable solution for sealing these wells, according to a team of Penn State scientists.

Dec 14, 2020

'Magic' angle graphene and the creation of unexpected topological quantum states

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Electrons inhabit a strange and topsy-turvy world. These infinitesimally small particles have never ceased to amaze and mystify despite the more than a century that scientists have studied them. Now, in an even more amazing twist, physicists have ...

Dec 14, 2020

International research project investigates photosensitive carbon nanoparticles

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

An international team of researchers, including researchers from FAU headed by Prof. Dr. Dirk M. Guldi have now managed to identify the fundamental problems relating to the photophysics and photochemistry of carbon nanocolloids (CNC), and ascertai...

Dec 14, 2020

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