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Nanowires Replace Newton's Famous Glass Prism

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Scientists have designed an ultra-miniaturised device that could directly image single cells without the need for a microscope or make chemical fingerprint analysis possible from a smartphone. The...

Sep 17, 2019

Using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope to Make Origami Structures Out of Grapheme

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A team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Vanderbilt University and the University of Maryland has created origami-like structures made out of graphene using scanning tunneling...

Sep 17, 2019

First Graphene Secures Major Production Order for Mining Wear Linings

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First Graphene has signed a new agreement with newGen for the supply of three tonnes of its PureGRAPH products. These will be used by newGen for the manufacture of wear linings used in bucket...

Sep 17, 2019

New Self-healing, Highly Conductive Nanocomposite for Wearable Devices

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The KIST-Stanford research team has developed a new material that simultaneously possesses high stretchability, high electrical conductivity, and self-healability even after being subjected to severe...

Sep 17, 2019

Quantum Computing Breakthrough: New Detection Tool Uncovers “Noise” That Can Kill Qubits

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Uncovering the hidden “noise” that can kill qubits: New detection tool could be used to make quantum computers robust against unwanted environmental disturbances. MIT and... The post Quantum Computing Breakthrough: New Detection Tool Uncovers “Noi...

Sep 17, 2019

Nanotechnology Now - News Story: Journal Nanotechnology Progress International (JONPI), volume 7, issue 1 out

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This issue is a special edition covering the African-nano-conference of Focus Nanotechnologyy Africa-US-EU-Africa-Asia and Caribbean Academy of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (FONAI-USEACANN) at Sheraton hotel, Abuja Nigeria; January 10, 2020.

Sep 16, 2019

Ultrablack Coating Is 10× Darker Than Other Very Black Materials

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MIT engineers have developed a material they say is 10× blacker than any ultrablack material that has previously been reported. The material is made from vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) that the team grew on a surface of sodium chloride...

Sep 16, 2019

New High-Performance Photovoltaic Solar Cells That Work Indoors

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Wide-gap non-fullerene acceptor enabling high-performance organic photovoltaic cells for indoor applications. Swedish and Chinese scientists have developed organic solar cells optimized to convert ambient indoor... The post New High-Performance Ph...

Sep 16, 2019

Nanotronics Announces New Manufacturing Facility in Brooklyn, NY

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Nanotronics and New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul have announced a high-tech manufacturing center at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The facility will be located in the historic Building 20, a 150-year-old former shipbuilding factory, and will bring manufa...

Sep 16, 2019

One step closer future to quantum computers

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Physicists at Uppsala University in Sweden have identified how to distinguish between true and 'fake' Majorana states in one of the most commonly used experimental setups, by means of supercurrent measurements. This theoretical study is ...

Sep 16, 2019

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