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Dark excitons can make a high contribution to light emission from nanotubes

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Tailoring the dimensions and other attributes of carbon nanotubes can substantially boost the amount of light they emit, three physicists at RIKEN have discovered. This finding promises to lead to the development of highly efficient photonic devices.

Mar 6, 2020

Neural Hardware for Image Recognition in Nanoseconds

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Automatic image recognition is widely used today: There are computer programs that can reliably diagnose skin cancer, navigate self-driving cars, or control robots. Up to now, all this has been based on the evaluation of image data as delivered b...

Mar 6, 2020

Water splitting observed on the nanometer scale

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Whether as a fuel or in energy storage: hydrogen is being traded as the energy carrier of the future. To date, existing methodologies have not been able to elucidate how exactly the electrochemical process of water splitting into hydrogen and oxy...

Mar 6, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Global Summit on Material Science and Nanotechnology

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Mar 6, 2020

Nanoscale 4-D printing technique may speed development of new therapeutics

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Researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY (CUNY ASRC) and Northwestern University have created a 4-D printer capable of constructing patterned surfaces that recreate the complexity of cell surfaces. The techn...

Mar 6, 2020

Nanoscale 4-D printing technique may speed development of new therapeutics

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The technology combines nanolithography, microfluidics, and organic chemistry to create synthetic surfaces at the scale and with the complexity of nature.

Mar 6, 2020

'Tickling' an atom to investigate the behavior of materials

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Scientists and engineers working at the frontier of nanotechnology face huge challenges. When the position of a single atom in a material may change the fundamental properties of that material, scientists need something in their toolbox to measure...

Mar 6, 2020

'Magnonic nanoantennas': optically-inspired computing with spin waves one step closer

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An article was published in the journal Advanced Materials, and will appear on the front cover of the March 5th issue, demonstrating a new methodology for generating and manipulating spin waves in nanostructured magnetic materials. This work opens...

Mar 6, 2020

Proposed optical terahertz graphene transistor

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Researchers have proposed a transistor made of graphene and a two-dimensional superconductor that amplifies terahertz (THz) signals.

Mar 6, 2020

Magnonic nanoantennas demonstrated: Optically-inspired computing with spin waves one step closer

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An international research team demonstrates a new methodology for generating and manipulating spin waves in nanostructured magnetic materials. This work opens the way to developing nano-processors for extraordinarily quick and energy efficient ana...

Mar 6, 2020

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