Single electron pumping devices with high efficiency and controllability at room temperature play an essential role in implement spin-based quantum computing and quantum information processing. Researchers have now built single-electron transistor...
Apr 10, 2020
Oxidation of alkenes to carbonyl compounds is one of the most important industrial reactions. The oxidation products are important and useful intermediates or building blocks in synthetic organic chemistry, pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and bulk/...
Apr 10, 2020
A nanotechnology that can help both drug delivery and hair cosmetics industry.
Apr 10, 2020
Physicists’ discovery could lead to a new family of robust qubits for quantum computing. Physicists at MIT and
Apr 10, 2020
Since their invention in the 1930s, electron microscopes have helped scientists peer into the atomic structure of ordinary materials like steel, and even exotic graphene. But despite these advances,...
Apr 10, 2020
For years, scientists have looked for ways to cool molecules down to ultracold temperatures, at which point the molecules should slow to a crawl, allowing scientists to precisely control their quantum...
Apr 10, 2020
Physicists at MIT and elsewhere have observed evidence of Majorana fermions—particles that are theorized to also be their own antiparticle—on the surface of a common metal: gold. This is the first sighting of Majorana fermions on a platform that c...
Apr 10, 2020
The masks that health care workers wear to protect them from the virus that causes COVID-19 block the virus before it reaches their faces, but do not destroy it. To further protect doctors, nurses, and others on the front lines of the pandemic, re...
Apr 10, 2020
Groundbreaking discovery co-led by Berkeley Lab has implications for the atomic engineering of materials for fuel cells, hydrogen
Apr 10, 2020
Nanocarbons for purifying water get a lot more efficient by exposing a precursor mixture to high voltage.
Apr 10, 2020
