In collaboration with experimentalists from Ghent University, Belgium and Utrecht University, Netherlands, researchers at the Nanoscience Center (NSC) at the University of Jyväskylä, have recently discovered that the choice of a support material f...
Jun 16, 2020
Researchers developed a nano-cobalt phosphide catalyst (nano-Co2P) for the hydrogenation of nitriles to primary amines. The catalyst was stable in air and achieved activity up to 500-fold higher than other catalysts. A range of nitriles were hydro...
Jun 16, 2020
Several technical advances have been achieved recently in the pursuit of powerful quantum computers. Now, Computer scientists from ETH Zurich have made an important breakthrough... The post Quantum Programming Breakthrough: First Intuitive Langua...
Jun 15, 2020
Several technical advances have been achieved recently in the pursuit of powerful quantum computers. Now, Computer scientists have made an important breakthrough in the field of programming languages: their quantum language is the first of its kin...
Jun 15, 2020
The first quantum phase battery has been realized. It consist of an indium arsenide nanowire in contact with aluminum superconducting leads and is a key element for quantum technologies based on phase coherence.
Jun 15, 2020
New findings could make fabrication of advanced graphene devices more efficient.
Jun 15, 2020
A new technique has been developed by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University for self-assembling nanostructures with gamma-modified peptide nucleic acid (γPNA)—an artificial imitator of...
Jun 15, 2020
Researchers have made a first-ever experimental observation of a plasmon nanojet. This physical phenomenon enables nanoscale focusing of light and, theoretically, allows engineers to bypass one of the fundamental limitations of the ordinary conver...
Jun 15, 2020
Researchers at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) have successfully measured the current-voltage curve of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) that were suspended between two electrodes. Measurements were performed using transmissio...
Jun 15, 2020
Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have developed a new method of creating metasurfaces, which could bring mass production of ultrathin lenses closer to reality. Metasurfaces consist of a multitude of interacting nanoparticles th...
Jun 15, 2020
