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Developing a Biocompatible Nanoparticle to Visualize Lymph Nodes

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Breast cancer is among the top 10 leading causes of death among women worldwide. Although the treatment methods have improved, detecting and treating metastases of cancer in lymph nodes remains a...

Nov 19, 2019

Clean carbon nanotubes with superb properties

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists at Aalto University, Finland, and Nagoya University, Japan, have found a new way to make ultra-clean carbon nanotube transistors with superior semiconducting properties.

Nov 19, 2019

Atoms don't like jumping rope

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Nanooptical traps are a promising building block for quantum technologies. Austrian and German scientists have now removed an important obstacle to their practical use. They were able to show that a special form of mechanical vibration heats trapp...

Nov 19, 2019

UMass Amherst professor wins 2019 Nils Foss Excellence Prize for pioneering work in food design

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University of Massachusetts Amherst Distinguished Professor David Julian McClements was honored Monday in Hillerød, Denmark, with the 2019 Nils Foss Excellence Prize for his pioneering work in food design and nanotechnology.

Nov 18, 2019

Kick-Starting Moore’s Law With Breakthrough ‘Synthetic’ Method for Making Microchips

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

Breakthrough method for processing nanomaterials heralds advances in quantum computing, nanotechnology. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a new method for producing atomically-thin semiconducting... The post Kick-Starting Moo...

Nov 18, 2019

Quantum computers learn to mark their own work

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

A new test to check if a quantum computer is giving correct answers to questions beyond the scope of traditional computing could help the first quantum computer that can outperform a classical computer to be realized.

Nov 18, 2019

A four-way switch promises greater tunability of layered materials

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

A scientific team has made the first experimental observation of a material phase that had been predicted but never seen. The newly discovered phase couples with a known phase to enable unique control over material properties -- an advance that pa...

Nov 18, 2019

A four-way switch promises greater tunability of layered materials

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists made the first experimental observation of a material phase that had been predicted but never seen. The newly discovered phase couples with a known phase to enable unique control over material properties - an advance that paves the way ...

Nov 18, 2019

Photonic Cluster States Generated at Room Temps for Quantum Computation

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

To observe quantum phenomena on a macroscopic scale, researchers at the Center for Macroscopic Quantum States (bigQ) and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) created an extremely entangled quantum state, called a cluster state. The team’s sca...

Nov 18, 2019

Directional control of self-propelled protocells

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Synthetic protocells can be made to move toward and away from chemical signals, an important step for the development of new drug-delivery systems that could target specific locations in the body. By coating the surface of the protocells with enzy...

Nov 18, 2019

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