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New electronic cooling technology to enable miniaturization of quantum computers

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VTT researchers have successfully demonstrated a new electronic refrigeration technology that could enable major leaps in the development of quantum computers. Present quantum computers require extremely complicated and large cooling infrastructur...

Apr 14, 2020

"Stronger Than Diamonds" Carbon Nanostructure Designed – Reaches Theoretical Limit of Performance

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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... The post “Stronger Than Diamonds” Carbon Nanos...

Apr 14, 2020

Researchers create tiny self-powered temperature sensors

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A team of researchers from the University of Oxford, Delft University and IBM Zurich have demonstrated that graphene can be used to build sensitive and self-powering temperature sensors. The findings pave the way for the design of highly sensitive...

Apr 14, 2020

Tiny self-powered temperature sensors built with graphene

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have demonstrated that graphene can be used to build sensitive and self-powering temperature sensors. The findings pave the way for the design of highly sensitive thermocouples, which could be integrated in nanodevices and even living ...

Apr 14, 2020

Substances trapped in graphene nanobubbles exhibit unusual properties

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Scientists modeled the behavior of nanobubbles appearing in van der Waals heterostructures and the behavior of substances trapped inside the bubbles. The new model will help obtain equations of state for substances in nano-volumes, opening up new ...

Apr 14, 2020

Nanostructures could safely deliver a notoriously fragile drug to coronavirus

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Researchers are developing new peptide-based therapeutics for targeting and disabling the coronavirus' so-called "spike proteins."

Apr 14, 2020

Will Smartphones Help Us Keep COVID-19 Under Control? | Research Horizons

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Automated contact tracing using smartphone apps could help control future COVID-19 outbreaks by allowing rapid notification of people who may have been exposed to the coronavirus.  Cybersecurity Electronics and Nanotechnol...

Apr 14, 2020

Team designs carbon nanostructure stronger than diamonds

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Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, and other institutions have architecturally designed plate-nanolattices – nanometer-sized carbon structures

Apr 14, 2020

Research Team Develops High-Power Device that Helps Create Nanoplasma

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Researchers at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have developed a nanodevice that operates more than 10 times faster than today’s fastest transistors, and about 100 times faster than personal computers. The team at the Power and Wi...

Apr 14, 2020

Development of graphene-based attachable sticker-type rechargeable batteries

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have developed're-attachable micro-supercapacitors using highly swollen laser-induced-graphene electrodes.

Apr 14, 2020

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