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Cool down fast to advance quantum nanotechnology

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An international team of scientists have found an easy way to trigger an unusual state of matter called a Bose-Einstein condensate. The new method, recently described in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, is expected to help advance the research a...

Apr 21, 2020

Terahertz science discloses the ultrafast photocarrier dynamics in carbon nanotubes

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A team of researchers at the Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, in collaboration with TU Wien, Nanyang Technological University, Rice University, University of Alberta and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, comes closer to unr...

Apr 21, 2020

New Self-Assembled Monolayer Is Resistant to Air – Buckyballs Can Pave the Way for Molecular Electronics

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Organic self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) have been around for over forty years. The most widely used form is based on thiols, bound to a metal surface.... The post New Self-Assembled Monolayer Is Resistant to Air – Buckyballs Can Pave the Way for...

Apr 20, 2020

New mask material can remove virus-size nanoparticles

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Scientists around the world are scrambling to adapt their research to find solutions to the many problems raised

Apr 20, 2020

Nanoparticles to Achieve Targeted Elimination of Malignant Tumors

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At LMU, scientists have developed nanoparticles that can be triggered, through a change in pH, to discharge a lethal dose of ionized iron within cells. This mechanism could pave the way for new...

Apr 20, 2020

New discovery helps close the gap towards optically-controlled quantum computation

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Scientists have discovered a light-induced switching mechanism in a Dirac semimetal.

Apr 20, 2020

Mass-produced microscopic sensors see the light

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Theologians once pondered how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. Not to be outdone, researchers who build nanoscale electronics have developed microsensors so tiny, they can fit 30,000 on one side of a penny.

Apr 20, 2020

Scientists develop high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries

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Recently, research groups led by Prof. LIU Jian and Prof. WU Zhongshuai from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed Fe1-xS-decorated mesoporous carbon spheres as the nanoreactor, which ca...

Apr 20, 2020

Diagnostic biosensor quickly detects SARS-CoV-2 from nasopharyngeal swabs

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According to many experts, early diagnosis and management are critical for slowing the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Therefore, the race is on to develop diagnostic tests for the virus that are faster, easier and ...

Apr 20, 2020

New discovery helps close the gap towards optically-controlled quantum computation

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Scientists at Ames Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the University of Alabama Birmingham have discovered a light-induced switching mechanism in a Dirac semimetal. The mechanism establishes a new way to control the topological materi...

Apr 20, 2020

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