Benzene—a common hydrocarbon—has been used by researchers for the first time to produce a new form of molecular nanotube, which could pave the way to advanced nanocarbon-based...
Jan 11, 2019
Identical phenine nanotube structures may bring insights into pore chemistry and its role in fundamental processes The post New nanocarbon hits the scene appeared first on Physics World.
Jan 11, 2019
In 2006, I made about 156 predictions. One of the predictions was that carbon nanotube fiber would be inexpensive and with over 50GPa tensile strength around 2014-2018. Relative to 2006, there is inexpensive carbon nanotubes. Macroscopic carbon na...
Jan 11, 2019
Electrochemical sensors and biosensors allow researchers to measure small quantities of chemicals or physico-chemical parameters in experimental settings.
Jan 11, 2019
This review seeks to analyze current advances of potential applications of graphene and its family of nano-materials for drug delivery and other major biomedical purposes.
Jan 11, 2019
Recently, a research team led by Prof. Luyan Sun from Tsinghua University has successfully demonstrated the arbitrary quantum channel simulation for a single qubit in a superconducting quantum circuits, which could be used for simulating the evolu...
Jan 11, 2019
Using one of the most powerful microscopes in the world, scientists from SBP and UNC-Chapel Hill have identified a dense, dynamic and disorganized actin filament nanoscaffold -- resembling a haystack -- that is induced in response to a molecular s...
Jan 11, 2019
D-Wave Systems had a presentation that summarized the utility of their quantum adiabatic system. It is a specialized QUBO solver. QUBO stands for quadratic unconstrained binary optimization and is a problem type traditionally used in computer scie...
Jan 10, 2019
Intentionally 'squashing' colloidal quantum dots during chemical synthesis creates dots capable of stable, 'blink-free' light emission that is fully comparable with the light produced by dots made with more complex processes.
Jan 10, 2019
Tellurium nanowires make nanomanufactured cardiac monitors feasible The post Scalable wearable piezoelectric materials prove elementary appeared first on Physics World.
Jan 10, 2019
