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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

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

Topological nanoelectronics

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Physicists have succeeded for the first time in constructing an essential element a fundamentally new generation of electronic components - a Quantum Point Contact.

Oct 28, 2019

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

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology 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 nanomotors to uncover this effective means of locomotion under such conditions.

Oct 28, 2019

An amazingly simple recipe for nanometer-sized corundum

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Until now, the practical production of nanocorundum with a sufficiently high porosity has not been possible. The situation has changed radically with the presentation of a new method of nanocorundum production.

Oct 28, 2019

New research may contribute to a better diagnosis of cancer

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

A team of researchers from the Institute of Materials Science at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania together with colleagues from Japan and Latvia came up with a method that forces over 300 million metal nanoparticles to self-assembl...

Oct 28, 2019

Development of mass production equipment for thin magnetic ribbon, minimizing energy-loss

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

JST announces that enterprise-led development of production equipment for ultra-low loss nano crystal ribbon, supported through the NexTEP-B type phase of the agency's "Adaptable and Seamless Technology Transfer Program through Target-dr...

Oct 28, 2019

Gold-DNA nanosunflowers for efficient gene silencing and controlled transformation

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Developing an efficient delivery system for enhanced and controlled gene interference-based therapeutics is an existing challenge in molecular biology. The advancing field of nanotechnology can provide an effective, cross-disciplinary strategy to ...

Oct 28, 2019

Small magnets reveal big secrets

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

An international research team has identified a microscopic process of electron spin dynamics in nanoparticles that could impact the design of applications in medicine, quantum computation, and spintronics.

Oct 28, 2019

Baby steps for transparent electronics

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

A submicrometer-thin mesh of silver nanowires—that is transparent to light, highly electrically conductive, flexible and stretchable, and simple to make—has been developed by researchers at KAUST. The material could find use in flexible electronic...

Oct 28, 2019

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