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Graphene Helps Probe Behavior of Strontium Titanium Oxide for Memristor Research

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Researchers across the globe have been studying new materials to develop neuromorphic computers, with a design based on the human brain. The combination with graphene opens up a new path to...

Nov 23, 2020

Controlling fully integrated nanodiamonds

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Physicists have succeeded in fully integrating nanodiamonds into nanophotonic circuits and at the same time addressing several of these nanodiamonds optically. The study creates the basis for future applications in the field of quantum sensing sch...

Nov 23, 2020

Direct visualization of quantum dots reveals shape of quantum wave function

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Trapping and controlling electrons in bilayer graphene quantum dots yields a promising platform for quantum information technologies. Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have now achieved the first direct visualization of quantum dots in bilayer graphene...

Nov 23, 2020

Nature's toolkit for killing viruses and bacteria

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Engineers reveal how zinc oxide nanoneedles and droplet hydrodynamics can stop pathogens.

Nov 23, 2020

Carbon nanocomposites are now one step closer to practical industrial

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Multifunctional materials were designed to allow self-diagnostic monitoring through an inexpensive technique. These materials were created by adding the carbon nanoparticles to polymer matrices. Essentially, the use of such materials has the poten...

Nov 23, 2020

Perfect imperfection: Electrode defects boost resistive memory efficiency

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Resistive switching memory devices offer several advantages over the currently used computer memory technology. Researchers from the MIPT Atomic Layer Deposition Lab have joined forces with colleagues from Korea to study the impact of electrode su...

Nov 23, 2020

Controlling fully integrated nanodiamonds

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Physicists at Münster University have succeeded in fully integrating nanodiamonds into nanophotonic circuits and at the same time addressing several of these nanodiamonds optically. The study creates the basis for future applications in the field ...

Nov 23, 2020

Vibrational encounters - phonon polaritons meet molecules

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Researchers from CIC nanoGUNE BRTA (San Sebastian, Spain), in collaboration with the Donostia International Physics Center (San Sebastián, Spain) and the University of Oviedo (Spain) employed a spectroscopic nanoimaging technique to study how infr...

Nov 23, 2020

Understanding frustration could lead to better drugs

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Atom-scale models of proteins that incorporate ligands, like drug molecules, shows a strong correlation between minimally frustrated binding sites and drug specificity. Such models could lead to better-designed drugs with fewer side effects.

Nov 23, 2020

Strain engineering of 2D semiconductor and graphene

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Strain engineering can significantly manipulate the two-dimensional (2D) materials' electronic and optical properties, which endow it the potential applications in optoelectronics and nanophotonics. To summarize recent fascinating work about ...

Nov 23, 2020

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