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What is a quantum computer?

New Scientist   -   Scientific News Websites

Quantum computers are machines that use the properties of quantum physics to store data and perform computations.

Oct 28, 2019

Soft double gyroids are unique, but imperfect, crystals: Materials scientists detail unexpected distortions in self-assembling polymers

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Engineers analyze soft double gyroids and find their crystalline forms are not perfect. Gyroids interact with light and sound waves and promise nanoscale materials with novel properties.

Oct 28, 2019

How to move against the current? One answer is 'tilt'-illating

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Going upstream, and against a current, involves a front-first downward tilt and then moving along a surface, shows new research by a team of scientists, which created 'nano-motors' to uncover this effective means of locomotion under such...

Oct 28, 2019

New Nanotube Drug Delivery Shows Promise

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

A new drug delivery method designed by researchers at PNNL and Washington State University (WSU) has shown it

Oct 28, 2019

Topological nanoelectronics

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Topological insulators are materials with astonishing properties: Electric current flows only along their surfaces or edges, whereas the interior of the material behaves as an insulator. In 2007, Professor Laurens Molenkamp at Julius-Maximilians-U...

Oct 28, 2019

Crystallization clarified, researchers report

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University have made it possible to observe and simulate the self-assembly of crystalline materials at a much higher resolution than before.

Oct 28, 2019

How to move against the current? One answer is 'tilt'-illating

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Going upstream, and against a current, involves a front-first downward tilt and then moving along a surface, shows new research by a team of scientists, which created "nano-motors" to uncover this effective means of locomotion under such...

Oct 28, 2019

Materials scientists detail unexpected distortions in self-assembling polymers

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists report their characterization of a soft-matter double gyroid. What they briefly thought would be a perfect double gyroid, its curving arrangement of nodes and rods repeating ad infinitum, was not to be. They found instead their hoped-fo...

Oct 28, 2019

An amazingly simple recipe for nanometer-sized corundum

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Almost everyone uses nanometer-sized alumina these days—this mineral, among others, constitutes the skeleton of modern catalytic converters in cars. Until now, the practical production of nanocorundum with a sufficiently high porosity has not been...

Oct 28, 2019

Google's qubit rivals: The race to useful quantum computers has begun

New Scientist   -   Scientific News Websites

Google recently claimed to have achieved quantum supremacy, but many companies are still hoping their own quantum computers will soon overtake Google's

Oct 28, 2019

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