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Growing large-area single-grain graphene layers

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers demonstrate that single-grain growth of graphene crystals can be achieved over a large, macroscale, area. Specifically, the team shows that graphene flakes, nucleated over a polycrystalline graphene film, synchronize during growth so a...

Sep 30, 2020

Graphite instead of gold: Nanolayers for better hydrogen cars

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers devlop innovative coating for bipolar plates in fuel cells.

Sep 30, 2020

Deadly Surprise: Tiny Crystals Behind Unexpected Violent Volcanic Eruptions

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

In a new study of volcanic processes, Bristol scientists have demonstrated the role nanolites play in the creation of violent eruptions at otherwise ‘calm’ and predictable volcanoes.

Sep 30, 2020

The most sensitive and fastest graphene microwave bolometer

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists from Harvard, ICFO, MIT, Raytheon BBN Technologies and NIMS construct the fastest and most sensitive graphene-based microwave bolometer achieved so far.

Sep 30, 2020

Colloidal quantum dot light emitters go broadband in the infrared

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

A team of ICFO researchers develops a new class of broadband solid state light emitter in the short-wave infrared that could be miniaturized, integrated with CMOS technology and used for many applications including food inspection, health or safety.

Sep 30, 2020

Zebrafish embryos help prove what happens to nanoparticles in the blood

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

What happens to the nanoparticles when they are injected into the bloodstream, for example, to destroy solid tumours? With new results published in ACS Nano, researchers from Aarhus University are now ready to tackle such a challenging question us...

Sep 30, 2020

Scientists propose immune cocktail therapy to boost cancer-immunity cycle in multiple aspects

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

A research team led by Prof. TIAN Huayu from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (CIAC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences proposed an innovative immune cocktail therapy that combined ICT along with other therapeutic approaches. The cockt...

Sep 30, 2020

IBM Envisions the Road to Quantum Computing Like an Apollo Mission

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Within three years, Big Blue intends to have a 1,121-qubit processor that will serve as an inflection point for an entirely new era in quantum computing.

Sep 29, 2020

Nanoparticles warm up faster than they cool down – Physics World

Physics World   -   Nanotechnology Websites

On the nanoscale, objects warm-up faster than they cool down. So, an object that is slightly warmer than room temperature will reach room temperature at the same time as an identical object that started slightly below room temperature.

Sep 29, 2020

D-Wave claims it has the world's most powerful quantum computer

New Scientist   -   Scientific News Websites

D-Wave calls its new Advantage quantum computing system “the largest and most powerful quantum computer in existence” – but experts are sceptical about that claim

Sep 29, 2020

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