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Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Quantum supremacy milestone harnesses ORNL Summit supercomputer

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A joint research team from Google Inc., NASA Ames Research Center, and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated that a quantum computer can outperform a classical comp...

Oct 25, 2019

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Creating a nanospace like no other: Scientists build a nanocage with antiaromatic walls

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Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Copenhagen have built a self-assembled nanocage with a very unusual nanospace: Its walls are made of an...

Oct 25, 2019

Innovative Hydrogen Boride Nanosheets: Huge Potential As Hydrogen Carrier

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Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology, University of Tsukuba, and colleagues in Japan report a promising hydrogen carrier in the form of hydrogen boride nanosheets[1].... The post Innovative Hydrogen Boride Nanosheets: Huge Potential As Hyd...

Oct 25, 2019

Potential Nanotechnology Treatment for Celiac Disease Revealed

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Image credits: David A. Litman/shutterstock.com Advances made during recent clinical trials mean that those suffering from celiac disease may soon be able to reintroduce gluten back into their...

Oct 25, 2019

Multifunctional nanoparticles show promise for cancer therapy and imaging – Physics World

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Bismuth gadolinium oxide nanoparticles could act as a theranostic agent to enhance radiotherapy and increase image contrast The post Multifunctional nanoparticles show promise for cancer therapy and imaging appeared first on Physics World.

Oct 25, 2019

Nano-size food additives affect nutrient uptake in worms

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Nanoparticles from silicon dioxide are added to food products for example as anticaking agent. Recent research results from the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans show that within the intestinal cells of the roundworm nanosilica disturb the upt...

Oct 25, 2019

Super-strong magnetic supercrystals can assemble themselves

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Materials scientists who work with nano-sized components have developed ways of working with their vanishingly small materials. But what if you could get your components to assemble themselves into different structures without actually handling th...

Oct 25, 2019

Catalytic immunotherapy for cancer: Nanoparticles act as artificial enzymes

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Theoretically, our immune system could detect and kill cancer cells. Unfortunately, tumors are well armed to fight these attacks. Despite modern cancer treatments, metastases and relapses remain a major problem. Increasing anti-tumor immunity migh...

Oct 25, 2019

What Google's 'quantum supremacy' means for the future of computing

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For the first time ever, a quantum computer has performed a computational task that would be essentially impossible for a conventional computer to complete, according to a team from Google.

Oct 25, 2019

Catalytic immunotherapy for cancer: nanoparticles act as artificial enzymes

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Increasing anti-tumor immunity might now be made possible, thanks to copper telluride nanoparticles that mimic enzymes, especially under NIR-II light irradiation. This induces oxidative stress in tumor cells, quashing their immunosuppressive statu...

Oct 25, 2019

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