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Researchers reverse the flow of time on IBM's quantum computer

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An international team of scientists led by the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory explored the concept of reversing time in a first-of-its-kind experiment, managing to return a computer briefly to the past. The results, pub...

Mar 14, 2019

Engineering living 'scaffolds' for building materials

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Researchers at DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a platform that uses living cells as 'scaffolds' for building self-assembled composite materials. The technology could open the door to self-healing materials...

Mar 14, 2019

Converting biomass by applying mechanical force

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German nanoscientists have succeeded in demonstrating a new reaction mechanism to cleave cellulose efficiently. This new reaction could lead to an efficient, environmentally friendly and cost-effective process for the conversion of biomass. The st...

Mar 14, 2019

New method to reduce uranium concentration in contaminated water

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In a paper to be published in the forthcoming issue in NANO, researchers from China have proposed a way to reduce uranium concentration in contaminated water. As an essential nuclear fuel, uranium has been greatly used an inevitably released to th...

Mar 14, 2019

Review of the recent advances of 2D nanomaterials in Lit-ion batteries

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In a paper to be published in the forthcoming issue in NANO, researchers from the China University of Petroleum (East China) have summarized the recent advances in application of 2D nanomaterials on the electrode materials of lithium-ion batteries...

Mar 14, 2019

Fingermark imaging for drug detection

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In a paper to be published in the forthcoming issue in NANO, researchers from Zhejiang have uncovered a novel method of using nanocarrier-based biological fluorescent probes for detecting amphetamine and ketamine in latent fingermark, in a bid to ...

Mar 14, 2019

Bottom-up assembled chiral meta-molecules

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Inspired by chiral molecular structures, scientists are developing strategies to build artificial chiral materials by mimicking natural molecular structures using functional materials. Specifically, metal nanomaterials exhibit tailorable optical p...

Mar 13, 2019

Google Builds Circuit to Solve One of Quantum Computing’s Biggest Problems

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An ultra-low power cryogenic IC would help quantum computers scale up

Mar 13, 2019

Google Builds Circuit to Solve One of Quantum Computing’s Biggest Problems

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An ultra-low power cryogenic IC would help quantum computers scale up

Mar 13, 2019

Researchers create nano-bot to probe inside human cells

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Researchers have built a set of magnetic 'tweezers' that can position a nanoscale bead inside a human cell with unprecedented precision. The nano-bot has already been used to study the properties of cancer cells, and could lead to enhanc...

Mar 13, 2019

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