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Sheaths drive powerful new artificial muscles

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Over the last 15 years, researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas and their international colleagues have invented several types of strong, powerful artificial muscles using materials ranging from high-tech carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to ordina...

Jul 11, 2019

Sheaths drive powerful new artificial muscles

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Over the last 15 years, researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas and their international colleagues have invented several types of strong, powerful artificial muscles using materials ranging from high-tech carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to ordina...

Jul 11, 2019

New superomniphobic glass soars high on butterfly wings using machine learning

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Glass for technologies like displays, tablets, laptops, smartphones, and solar cells need to pass light through, but could benefit from a surface that repels water, dirt, oil, and other liquids. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh's...

Jul 11, 2019

The best of both worlds: How to solve real problems on modern quantum computers

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Researchers have developed hybrid algorithms to run on size-limited quantum machines and have demonstrated them for practical applications.

Jul 11, 2019

Squeezing Quantum Dots to Tune Their Wavelength, Allow Interaction

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

A technique for squeezing quantum dots, developed at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), could enable many quantum dots to interact with each other in a quantum network. The new technique provides a way to realize quantum dots that are tuned...

Jul 11, 2019

Physicists use nanostructures to free photons for highly efficient white OLEDs

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Thanks to intensive research in the past three decades, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have been steadily conquering the electronics market—from OLED mobile phone displays to roll-out television screens, the list of applications is long.

Jul 11, 2019

New superomniphobic glass soars high on butterfly wings using machine learning: Engineers develop new superclear, supertransparent, stain-resistant, anti-fogging nanostructured glass based on butterfly wing

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Glass for technologies like displays, tablets, laptops, smartphones, and solar cells need to pass light through, but could benefit from a surface that repels water, dirt, oil, and other liquids. Researchers have created a nanostructure glass that ...

Jul 11, 2019

New superomniphobic glass soars high on butterfly wings using machine learning

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Engineers develop new superclear, supertransparent, stain-resistant, anti-fogging nanostructured glass based on butterfly wing.

Jul 11, 2019

Organic porous structures on 2-D defect networks

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NUS scientists have developed a method for self-assembly of hexagonal organic porous structures on molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2) film to create ordered nanostructures.

Jul 11, 2019

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