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Nanochip Team Aims for Quantum Advantage with Photons

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

Collaborating researchers from the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute and the University of Bochum (Germany) have developed a chip with scale-up potential that they say will serve as a core component of a quantum simulator. The resear...

Dec 9, 2020

'Sparkling' clean water from nanodiamond-embedded membrane filters

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Although most of the planet is covered by water, only a fraction of it is clean enough for humans to use. Therefore, it is important to recycle this resource whenever possible. Current purification techniques cannot adequately handle the very hot ...

Dec 9, 2020

Hunting out hidden hydrogen: Novel holey nanosheets for detecting hydrogen gas leaks: Scientists develop hydrogen sensors with holey zinc oxide

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Although touted as the best clean energy carrier, the explosive nature of hydrogen (H2) warrants highly sensitive gas sensors for detecting H2 leaks. Currently used gas sensors either require high operating temperatures or have low sensitivity. No...

Dec 9, 2020

'Sparkling' clean water from nanodiamond-embedded membrane filters

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Although most of the planet is covered by water, only a fraction of it is clean enough for humans to use. Therefore, it is important to recycle this resource whenever possible. Current purification techniques cannot adequately handle the very hot ...

Dec 9, 2020

New tools 'turn on' quantum gases of ultracold molecules

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have developed tools to 'turn on' quantum gases of ultracold molecules, gaining control of long-distance molecular interactions for potential applications such as encoding data for quantum computing and simulations.

Dec 9, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: A molecule like a nanobattery: Chemical scientists decipher complex electronic structure of a three-nuclear metallorganic compound with the capacity of donating and receiving multiple electrons

Nanotechnology Now   -   Nanotechnology Websites

How do molecular catalysts - molecules which, like enzymes, can trigger or accelerate certain chemical reactions - function, and what effects do they have? A team of chemists at the University of Olde...

Dec 9, 2020

Electricity-Carrying Bacteria Lead to New Applications—and New Questions

Scientific American   -   Scientific News Websites

As researchers develop sensors and other devices based on conductive microbes’ nanowires, they continue to debate exactly how the organisms conduct electricity -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Dec 9, 2020

New tools 'turn on' quantum gases of ultracold molecules

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

JILA researchers have developed tools to "turn on" quantum gases of ultracold molecules, gaining control of long-distance molecular interactions for potential applications such as encoding data for quantum computing and simulations.

Dec 9, 2020

Hidden symmetry could be key to more robust quantum systems

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have found a way to protect highly fragile quantum systems from noise, which could aid in the design and development of new quantum devices, such as ultra-powerful quantum computers.

Dec 9, 2020

Chemists get peek at novel fluorescence

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

That carbon nanotubes fluoresce is no longer a surprise. Finding the second level of fluorescence is surprising and

Dec 9, 2020

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