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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

Researchers create interlocked self-assembled rings that contain just one molecular ingredient

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

An international team of researchers has succeeded in forming and studying self-assembled interlocked rings called 'nano-poly[n]catanenes' that contain just one molecular ingredient.

Jul 17, 2020

New technology promises to revolutionize nanomedicine

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Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and their colleagues from Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences have developed a breakthro...

Jul 17, 2020

Mysterious mechanism of graphene oxide formation explained

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Natural graphite, used as the precursor for graphene oxide production, is a highly ordered crystalline inorganic material, which is believed to be formed by decay of organic matter. It is extremely thermodynamically stable and resistant to be conv...

Jul 17, 2020

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

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USTC researchers proposed a robust electrometric method utilizing continuous dynamic decoupling (CDD) technique, where the continuous driving fields provide a magnetic-field-resistant dressed frame.

Jul 17, 2020

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

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