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Perovskite Study Correlates Phase Transition and Photoluminescence

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

Three research teams at Clemson University joined forces to study the phase transition in nanocrystal (NC) perovskites and the correlation between phase transition and photoluminescence (PL). The researchers studied NCs that included chlorine (CsP...

Aug 28, 2020

Progress in Quantum Computing might Soon Slow down due to Cosmic Rays

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Needless to say, building fully functional quantum computers depends on, to a large extent, the integrity of qubits

Aug 28, 2020

An improved wearable, stretchable gas sensor using nanocomposites

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

A stretchable, wearable gas sensor for environmental sensing has been developed and tested by researchers at Penn State, Northeastern University and five universities in China.

Aug 28, 2020

An improved wearable, stretchable gas sensor using nanocomposites

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have developed a stretchable, wearable gas sensor for environmental sensing.

Aug 28, 2020

Nanoparticles can cause unusual reorientation transitions in liquid crystals

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Many of the electronic devices we use in our everyday life employ liquid crystals in their optical displays. Electric field induced orientational transitions of elongated liquid crystal molecules are at the heart of LC technologies. Changing the a...

Aug 28, 2020

Preventing infection, facilitating healing: New biomaterials from spider silk

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

New biomaterials developed at the University of Bayreuth eliminate risk of infection and facilitate healing processes. These nanostructured materials are based on spider silk proteins. They prevent colonization by bacteria and fungi, but at the sa...

Aug 28, 2020

Observation charge accumulation at nanocavity on plasmonic photocatalyst

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Understanding where the plasmonic charge accumulated at catalysts surface and how to improve local charge density at catalytic sites is promising for solar energy conversion. Scientists find plasmonic charge accumulation at nanocavity of Au nanopa...

Aug 28, 2020

Giant nanomachine aids the immune system

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

In order to kill diseased cells, our immune system must first identify them. The so-called peptide-loading complex plays a key role in this process. In collaboration with colleagues from Jülich, a research team at Ruhr-Universität Bochum has analy...

Aug 28, 2020

New “Trapped Ion” Algorithm Predicts Computational Power of Early Quantum Computers

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

University of Sussex quantum physicists have developed an algorithm which helps early quantum computers to perform calculations most efficiently   The team used their model... The post New “Trapped Ion” Algorithm Predicts Computational Power of E...

Aug 27, 2020

Google performed the first quantum simulation of a chemical reaction

New Scientist   -   Scientific News Websites

For the first time, Google has used its quantum computer Sycamore to simulate a chemical reaction, paving the way for quantum chemistry algorithms

Aug 27, 2020

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