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AGM Reaches Tech Progress in the Coatings Field and Announces New Liquid Coating Roofing System

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Applied Graphene Materials recently announced it has achieved significant technological progress (patent pending) on the deployment of graphene into water-based coatings to enhance their barrier...

Jul 23, 2019

ELSI scientists discover new chemistry that may help explain the origins of cellular life

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All life is cellular, but the origins of cellularity remain unknown. Scientists at the Earth-Life Science Institute have discovered that simple organic compounds like glycolic and lactic acid polymerize and self-assemble into cell-sized droplets w...

Jul 23, 2019

Unconventional phenomena triggered by acoustic waves in 2D materials

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IBS researchers and colleagues have reported a novel phenomenon, called Valley Acoustoelectric Effect, which takes place in 2D materials, similar to graphene. This research is published in Physical Review Letters and brings new insights to the st...

Jul 23, 2019

A new concept for self-assembling micromachines

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Polarisable microrobots components can be designed to find each other in an electric field.

Jul 23, 2019

Towards a light driven molecular assembler

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A team of chemists at Kiel University (Germany) built the first artificial assembler, which uses light as the energy source. These molecular machines are performing synthesis in a similar way as biological nanomachines. Advantages are fewer side p...

Jul 23, 2019

Physicists have let light through the plane of the world's thinnest semiconductor crystal

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An international research team has studied how photons travel in the plane of the world's thinnest semiconductor crystal. The results of the physicists' work open the way to the creation of monoatomic optical transistors -- components fo...

Jul 23, 2019

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: A graphene superconductor that plays more than one tune: Researchers at Berkeley Lab have developed a tiny toolkit for scientists to study exotic quantum physics

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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a graphene device that's thinner than a human hair but has a depth of special traits...

Jul 22, 2019

Why carbon is an amazing material – part two – Physics World

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Nanocarbon’s remarkable electronic qualities originate from its atomic and molecular properties The post Why carbon is an amazing material – part two appeared first on Physics World.

Jul 22, 2019

Researchers Confirm Strong Magneto-Optical Resonance in Graphene

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The interaction between graphene and light suggests that graphene could be used to control infrared (IR) and terahertz (THz) waves. Researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the University of Manchester have demonstrated an efficient w...

Jul 22, 2019

Increased control over ions’ motions may help improve quantum computers

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Scientists precisely manipulated the ion’s oscillations and energy levels, a key step toward building better quantum computers.

Jul 22, 2019

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