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Successful instrument guidance through deep and convulted blood vessel networks

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A team led by Professor Sylvain Martel at the Polytechnique Montréal Nanorobotics Laboratory has developed a novel approach to tackling one of the biggest challenges of endovascular surgery: how to reach the most difficult-to-access physiological ...

Dec 3, 2019

New Way to Split and Sum Photons With Silicon Is Breakthrough for Quantum Computing, Solar Energy

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A team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Riverside have found a way to produce a long-hypothesized... The post New Way to Split and Sum Photons With Silicon Is Breakthrough for Quantum Computing...

Dec 3, 2019

Study suggests titanium dioxide nanofibres are safer when shorter

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In vivo and in vitro results point to safe-by-design strategy, scientists say

Dec 3, 2019

Mass-producible, centimeter-scale metalens for VR, imaging

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Metalenses -- flat surfaces that use nanostructures to focus light -- are poised to revolutionize everything from microscopy to cameras, sensors, and displays. But so far, most of the lenses have been about the size of a piece of glitter. While le...

Dec 3, 2019

Researchers develop a mass-producible, centimeter-scale metalens for VR, imaging

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Metalenses—flat surfaces that use nanostructures to focus light—are poised to revolutionize everything from microscopy to cameras, sensors, and displays. But so far, most of the lenses have been about the size of a piece of glitter. While lenses t...

Dec 3, 2019

Towards high quality zinc oxide quantum dots for biomedical applications

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Nanocrystalline zinc oxide (ZnO) is currently one of the most commonly used semiconductor metal oxide nanomaterials due to its unique catalytic and electro-optical characteristics. The inherent and distinctive physicochemical properties of ZnO nan...

Dec 3, 2019

Electron correlations in carbon nanostructures

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New materials are needed to further reduce the size of electronic components and thus make devices such as laptops and smartphones faster and more efficient. Tiny nanostructures of the novel material graphene are promising in this respect. Graphen...

Dec 3, 2019

Diamonds in your devices: Powering the next generation of energy storage

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Using conductive nanodiamond as electrode material in a water-based cell significantly increases its energy storage capacity.

Dec 3, 2019

Smog-eating graphene composite reduces atmospheric pollution

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Graphene Flagship partners the University of Bologna, Politecnico di Milano, CNR, NEST, Italcementi HeidelbergCement Group, the Israel Institute of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, and the University of Cambridge have developed a gr...

Dec 3, 2019

Towards high quality ZnO quantum dots prospective for biomedical applications

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists have moved a step closer to creating stable, high quality colloidal zinc oxide quantum dots (ZnO QDs) for use in modern technologies and nanomedicine. Using advanced DNP-enhanced NMR spectroscopy they have clearly proved the superiority...

Dec 3, 2019

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