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Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Research Reveals Exotic Quantum States in Double-Layer Graphene: Findings shed new light on the nature of electron interactions in quantum systems and establish a potential new platform for future quantum computers

Nanotechnology Now   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers from Brown and Columbia Universities have demonstrated previously unknown states of matter that arise in double-layer stacks of graphene, a two-dimensional nanomaterial. These new states,...

Jun 27, 2019

A low-temperature method for making high-performance thermoelectric materials

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Some of the vast amount of wasted energy that machines and devices emit as heat could be recaptured using an inexpensive nanomaterial developed at KAUST. This thermoelectric nanomaterial could capture the heat lost by devices, ranging from mobile ...

Jun 27, 2019

Printing liquid metals in three-dimensional structures

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In a recent study on materials science and nanomedicine, Young-Geun Park and co-workers at the departments of Nanoscience, Nanomedicine and Materials Science and Engineering in the Republic of Korea developed an unconventional 3-D printing approac...

Jun 27, 2019

Cost-effective, large scale graphene with AIXTRON systems

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Today, Graphene Flagship partner AIXTRON showcased two systems that enable cost effective graphene production for applications in consumer electronics, sensors and photonic applications.

Jun 27, 2019

Georgia Tech Names Director for Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) | Research Horizons

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The Georgia Institute of Technology has named James J. Hudgens to be the new director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), Georgia Tech’s applied research division. Currently director of the Threat Intelligence Center (TIC) at S...

Jun 27, 2019

Novel approach to self-assembling mobile micromachines

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Building a robot with many different components is a challenging task, even more so at the micro scale. Very convenient, if the parts self-assemble. The self-assembly of particles is nothing new. In fact, it has been achieved for decades. Magneti...

Jun 27, 2019

Laboratory experiments show that semiconductor nanowires can be tuned over wide energy ranges

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Nanowires promise to make LEDs more colorful and solar cells more efficient, in addition to speeding up computers. That is, provided that the tiny semiconductors convert electric energy into light, and vice versa, at the right wavelengths. A resea...

Jun 27, 2019

Thermoelectric nanomaterial turns waste heat back into electricity

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A low-temperature method for making high-performance thermoelectric materials could recapture lost energy.

Jun 27, 2019

Printing graphene inks in space

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Studying the different self-assembly modes of graphene into functional patterns in zero-gravity will enable the fabrication of graphene electronic devices during long-term space missions, as well as help understand fundamental properties of graphe...

Jun 27, 2019

Scientists Use Magnetic Nanoclusters to Destroy Cancer with Heat

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Oregon State University researchers have developed a better technique for using magnetic nanoclusters to destroy difficult-to-reach tumors. Magnetic nanoparticles – miniature pieces of matter...

Jun 27, 2019

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