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New mask material can remove virus-size nanoparticles

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists around the world are scrambling to adapt their research to find solutions to the many problems raised by the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the world, not the least being a face mask shortage.

Apr 15, 2020

Lung-Heart Super Sensor on a Chip Tinier Than a Ladybug | Research Horizons

Georgia Tech   -   Organizations and Universities Websites

The future of socially distanced lung and heart health monitoring could lie in this inconspicuous yet incredibly sensitive chip. It records multiple lung and heart signals along with body movements in high resolution. Bioengine...

Apr 15, 2020

Researchers develop nanometer-thick electromagnetic shielding film using MXene

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

A Korean research team has developed a technology to fabricate an ultrathin material for electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding. The research team, led by Koo Chong-Min, the head of the Materials Architecturing Research Center at the Korea I...

Apr 15, 2020

Carbon nanostructure stronger than diamonds

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have architecturally designed plate-nanolattices - nanometer-sized carbon structures - that are stronger than diamonds as a ratio of strength to density. In a recent study...

Apr 15, 2020

Nanometer-thick MXene films can be used as electromagnetic shields

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers developed an ultrathin nanometer-thick film, using MXene, a new two-dimensional nanomaterial for EMI shielding.

Apr 15, 2020

KIST develops nanometer-thick electromagentic shielding film using MXene

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

A Korean research team has developed a technology to fabricate an ultrathin material for electromagnetic interference(EMI) shielding. The research team, led by Koo Chong-Min, the head of the Materials Architecturing Research Center at the Korea In...

Apr 15, 2020

New COVID-19 test quickly and accurately detects viral RNA

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Millions of people have been tested for the novel coronavirus, most using a kit that relies on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). This sensitive method amplifies SARS-CoV-2 RNA from patient swabs so that tiny amounts of the virus can be detected...

Apr 15, 2020

Speeding-up quantum computing using giant atomic ions

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

An international team of researchers have found a new way to speed up quantum computing that could pave the way for huge leaps forward in computer processing power.

Apr 15, 2020

Speeding-up quantum computing using giant atomic ions

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Trapped Rydberg ions can be the next step towards scaling up quantum computers to sizes where they can be practically usable, a new study in Nature shows.

Apr 15, 2020

Substances trapped in nanobubbles exhibit unusual properties

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Skoltech scientists modeled the behavior of nanobubbles appearing in van der Waals heterostructures and the behavior of substances trapped inside the bubbles. In the future, the new model will help obtain equations of state for substances in nano-...

Apr 15, 2020

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