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Ultra-flat graphene goes wrinkle free – Physics World

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Proton-assisted growth smooths out the carbon sheet The post Ultra-flat graphene goes wrinkle free appeared first on Physics World.

Jan 17, 2020

How sensitive can a quantum detector be?

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Quantum physics is moving out of the laboratory and into everyday life. Despite headline results about quantum computers solving problems impossible for classical computers, technical challenges are standing in the way of getting quantum physics i...

Jan 17, 2020

Imprinted Color Patterns

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Structural colors appear because the imprinted pattern on a surface changes the wavelengths of light. Chinese scientists have introduced an azopolymer that allows the imprinting of nanopatterns in a novel room-temperature lithographic process. A ...

Jan 17, 2020

Pretty with a twist

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Nanoscience can arrange minute molecular entities into nanometric patterns in an orderly manner using self-assembly protocols. Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have functionalized a simple rod-like building block with hydrox...

Jan 17, 2020

Light powers world's fastest-spinning object

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Nanoparticle levitated by light rotates at 300 billion rpm.

Jan 17, 2020

Programmable nests for cells

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Using DNA, smallest silica particles, and carbon nanotubes, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) developed novel programmable materials. These nanocomposites can be tailored to various applications and programmed to degrade quick...

Jan 17, 2020

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero wins Wolf Prize for groundbreaking work on twistronics

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Professor of physics honored alongside Allan MacDonald and Rafi Bistritzer for pioneering research on twisted bilayer graphene.

Jan 16, 2020

Colloidal quantum dot photodetectors can now see further than before

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Optical sensing in the mid to long infrared (5 microns [um]) is becoming of utmost importance in different fields since it is proving to be an excellent tool for environmental monitoring, gas sensing, thermal imaging as well as food quality contro...

Jan 16, 2020

Complex, porous, chiral nano-patterns arise from a simple linear building blocks

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Nanoscience can arrange minute molecular entities into nanometric patterns in an orderly manner using self-assembly protocols. Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have functionalized a simple rod-like building block with hydroxa...

Jan 16, 2020

An electrically pumped surface-emitting semiconductor green laser

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Scientists and Engineers have used surface-emitting semiconductor lasers in data communications, for sensing, in FaceID and within augmented reality glasses. In a new report, Yong-Ho Ra and a research team in the departments of Electrical and Comp...

Jan 16, 2020

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