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Quantum experiments explore power of light for communications, computing

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A team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has conducted a series of experiments to gain a better understanding of quantum mechanics and pursue advances in quantum networking and quantum computing, which could lead t...

Jan 23, 2020

Researchers obtain atomically thin molybdenum disulfide films on large-area substrates

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Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have managed to grow atomically thin films of molybdenum disulfide spanning up to several tens of centimeters square. It was demonstrated that the material's structure can be mod...

Jan 23, 2020

Quantum experiments explore power of light for communications, computing

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Quantum researchers have conducted a series of experiments to gain a better understanding of quantum mechanics and pursue advances in quantum networking and quantum computing, which could lead to practical applications in cybersecurity and other a...

Jan 23, 2020

Tuning of optical absorbance of graphene quantum dots by high magnetic fields

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Scientists report the synthesis of graphene quantum dots under an external high magnetic field and their applications in photothermal therapy.

Jan 23, 2020

New cages to trap molecules push boundaries of protein design

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Protein design is a popular and rapidly growing field, with scientists engineering novel protein cages—capsule-like nanostructures for purposes such as gene therapy and targeted drug delivery. Many of these structures fashioned in the lab, while p...

Jan 23, 2020

Invisible dye embeds vaccination records on skin – Physics World

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A microneedle patch containing fluorescent quantum dots invisibly encodes vaccination history in the skin The post Invisible dye embeds vaccination records on skin appeared first on Physics World.

Jan 23, 2020

Well-designed substrates make large single crystal bi-/tri-layer graphene possible

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Researchers of the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM) within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS, South Korea) have reported in Nature Nanotechnology the fabrication and use of single crystal copper-nickel alloy foil substrates f...

Jan 23, 2020

A new way to count and identify microscopic particles in fluids

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A new method is proposed to automate the measurement of nano- to microscale particles suspended in fluid. The single particle extinction and scattering (SPES) method can accurately determine the material properties and size distribution of individ...

Jan 23, 2020

New phase diagrams of superfluid helium under varying degrees of confinement

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Physicists have been studying superfluid 3He under nanoscale confinement for several years now, as this unique liquid presents a rich variety of phases with complex order parameters that can be stabilized. While past studies have gathered many int...

Jan 23, 2020

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