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Household Ingredients Rich in Sodium Help Grow Carbon Nanotubes

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Baking soda, table salt, and detergent are surprisingly effective ingredients for cooking up carbon nanotubes, researchers at MIT have found. In a study published this... The post Household Ingredients Rich in Sodium Help Grow Carbon Nanotubes ap...

Jun 2, 2019

Backstory: VCSEL Breakthrough, 1989

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

Our VCSEL (vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser) project stemmed from my doctoral work, under Hyatt Gibbs between 1980 and 1984 at the University of Arizona Optical Sciences Center, using nonlinear optical properties of GaAs (gallium arsenide) t...

Jun 2, 2019

D-Wave Speeds Up Quantum Computers Over 25 Times With Low-Noise Materials | NextBigFuture.com

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D-Wave Speeds Up Quantum Computers Over 25 Times With Low-Noise Materials

Jun 2, 2019

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Russian scientists investigate new materials for Li-ion batteries of miniature sensors: Researchers are developing new materials for solid-state thin-film Li-ion batteries for micro and nanodevices

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Researchers of Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) are developing new materials for solid-state thin-film Li-ion batteries for micro and nanodevices. The first stage of the pr...

Jun 1, 2019

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Quantum information gets a boost from thin-film breakthrough: Method opens new path to all-optical quantum computers, other technologies

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Efforts to create reliable light-based quantum computing, quantum key distribution for cybersecurity, and other technologies got a boost from a new study demonstrating an innovative method for creatin...

Jun 1, 2019

Another Step Toward the End of Moore’s Law

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Samsung and TSMC move to 5-nanometer manufacturing

May 31, 2019

Another Step Toward the End of Moore’s Law

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Samsung and TSMC move to 5-nanometer manufacturing

May 31, 2019

Flexible generators turn movement into energy: Laser-induced graphene nanogenerators could power future wearables

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Researchers have produced triboelectric nanogenerators with laser-induced graphene. The flexible devices turn movement into electrical energy and could enable wearable, self-powered sensors and devices.

May 31, 2019

Publications in the Series on the Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials - OECD

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Nanomaterials have unique physical and chemical features. OECD's Decision Framework and Guiding Principles tools fill data gaps in the hazard characterisation by identifying the most useful parameters and best available methods for a given ty...

May 31, 2019

How a quantum computer could break 2048-bit RSA encryption in 8 hours

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A new study shows that quantum technology will catch up with today’s encryption standards much sooner than expected. That should worry anybody who needs to store data securely for 25 years or so.

May 31, 2019

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