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N-doped carbon encapsulated transition metal catalysts to optimize performance of zinc-air batteries

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In a report published in Nano, a team of researchers from Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, China have developed N-doped carbon encapsulated transition metal catalysts for oxygen reduction reactions (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction...

Jul 17, 2020

Researchers realize nanoscale electrometry based on magnetic-field-resistant spin sensors

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A team led by Prof. Du Jiangfeng, Prof. Shi Fazhan, and Prof. Wang Ya from University of Science and Technology of China, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, proposed a robust electrometric method utilizing a continuous dynamic decoupling techniqu...

Jul 17, 2020

Skyrmions created in a centrosymmetric material lacking geometrical frustration

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A restriction on the kind of materials that can host nanoscale magnetic whirlpools known as skyrmions has been lifted by experimentalists at RIKEN. This will significantly expand the range of the materials skyrmions can be created in, making them ...

Jul 17, 2020

MIT “Light Squeezer” Reduces Quantum Noise in Lasers, Enhances Quantum Computing and Gravitational-Wave Detection

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Portable System Boosts Laser Precision, at Room Temperature Physicists at MIT have designed a quantum “light squeezer” that reduces quantum noise in an incoming laser... The post MIT “Light Squeezer” Reduces Quantum Noise in Lasers, Enhances Quan...

Jul 17, 2020

Chemical thermometers take temperature to the nanometric scale

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Scientists recently developed molecular films that can measure the operating temperature of electronic components on a nanometric scale. These patented temperature-sensitive molecules have the distinctive quality of being extremely stable, even af...

Jul 17, 2020

Atomtronic device could probe boundary between quantum, everyday worlds

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A new device that relies on flowing clouds of ultracold atoms promises potential tests of the intersection between the weirdness of the quantum world and the familiarity of the macroscopic world we experience every day. The atomtronic Superconduct...

Jul 17, 2020

Chemical thermometers take temperature to the nanometric scale

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The miniaturization of electronic components coupled with their increasing integration density has considerably expanded heat flows, which can lead to overheating. But measuring these nanometric events is difficult because conventional solutions s...

Jul 17, 2020

Replacing lithium with sodium in batteries

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An international team of scientists from NUST MISIS, Russian Academy of Science and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf has found that instead of lithium (Li), sodium (Na) "stacked" in a special way can be used for battery productio...

Jul 17, 2020

How to teach gold to tell left from right

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Nanometer-sized gold particles consisting of only a few atoms can be used as catalysts for important chemical reactions. Noelia Barrabés from the Institute of Materials Chemistry at TU Wien has been researching new methods of adapting and precise...

Jul 17, 2020

Chemical thermometers take temperature to the nanometric scale

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Scientists recently developed molecular films that can measure the operating temperature of electronic components on a nanometric scale. These patented temperature-sensitive molecules have the distinctive quality of being extremely stable, even af...

Jul 17, 2020

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