Molecular switches - they are the molecular counterparts of electrical switches and play an important role in many processes in nature. Such molecules can reversibly interconvert between two or more states and thereby control molecular processes.
Jun 19, 2020
Researchers at the University of Rochester are exploring new ways of creating quantum-mechanical interactions between distant electrons. The research marks an important advance in quantum computing.
Jun 19, 2020
A team of researchers led by Sufei Shi, an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has uncovered new information about the mass of individual components that make up a promising quasiparticle...
Jun 19, 2020
In new research published in EPJ E, researchers demonstrate a high level of control over a type of colloid in which the suspended particles take the form of hollow, nanoscale cubes. This case has only previously been explored through theoretical c...
Jun 19, 2020
Researchers at the University of Exeter have developed a pioneering production method for heterostructure devices, based on 2D materials such as graphene.
Jun 19, 2020
Plasmon nanojet: Physicists implement efficient mechanism for subwavelength focusing of plasmons. Russian and Danish researchers have made a first-ever experimental observation of a plasmon nanojet.... The post Plasmon Nanojet: Superlens Squeezes...
Jun 18, 2020
Imagine if scientists could stop the coronavirus infection in its tracks simply by diverting its attention away from living lung cells? A new therapeutic countermeasure, announced in a Nano Letters study by researchers from Boston University'...
Jun 18, 2020
A neutron scientist, quantum entrepreneur and student contributor join us this week. The post Neutrons join the battle against COVID-19, firm aims for a million-qubit quantum computer, cyanobacteria power a solar cell appeared first on Physics World.
Jun 18, 2020
Life depends on remarkable arrays of biochemical reactions. Understanding the workings of biomolecules involves real-time monitoring of these reactions. Happening in only tiny fractions of a millisecond, this is very difficult even with highly sen...
Jun 18, 2020
Honeywell's quantum computer is now commercially available after it was first announced in March. The company, best known in the US for making thermostats, says enterprise customers can access the machine either directly through one of its ow...
Jun 18, 2020
