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NIH Names Carnegie Mellon’s Zhao Top New Innovator

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Yongxin (Leon) Zhao, assistant professor of biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award. The award is part of the National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk, H...

Nov 20, 2018

Breakthrough technology offers new hope to people with glaucoma, retinitis and macular degeneration

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In January 2009, the life of engineer Michel Meunier, a professor at Polytechnique Montréal, changed dramatically. Like others, he had observed that the extremely short pulse of a femtosecond laser (0.000000000000001 second) could make nanometer-s...

Nov 20, 2018

Important Milestone in the Manufacture of Graphene Oxide

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2D Fluidics Pty Ltd files PCT Patent application on thin-film processing of graphene oxide and novel nanomaterials. Ability to manufacture high quality graphene oxides in a sustainable process...

Nov 20, 2018

Graphene water filtration system | NextBigFuture.com

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Graphene Leaders Canada has its new GLC+™ WATER TECHNOLOGIES PLATFORM. The platform offers a disruptive solution to water pollution and remediation and is based on years of expertise in graphene solutions work with a keen focus in water filtration...

Nov 20, 2018

Bilayer Graphene on the way to becoming a superconductor

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Scientists at HZB have found evidence that double layers of graphene have a property that may let them conduct current completely without resistance. They probed the bandstructure at BESSY II with extremely high resolution ARPES and could identify...

Nov 20, 2018

Graphene commercialized with warmer jackets and long lasting shoes | NextBigFuture.com

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Graphene was discovered in 2010 and has super strength and many other properties. It is finally being commercialized for products with improved endurance and heat properties. Vollebak’s graphene jacket is reversible: One side contains graphene, th...

Nov 20, 2018

Quantum Artificial Neural Network Model with Exponential Speedup | NextBigFuture.com

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Researchers have proposed a model for perceptrons to be directly implemented on near-term quantum processing devices, and we have experimentally tested it on a 5-qubits IBM quantum computer based on superconducting technology. Our algorithm presen...

Nov 20, 2018

Meta-surface corrects for chromatic aberrations across all kinds of lenses

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SEAS researchers have developed a so-called metacorrector, a single-layer surface of nanostructures that can correct chromatic aberrations across the visible spectrum and can be incorporated into commercial optical systems, from simple lenses to h...

Nov 20, 2018

Quantum artificial life created on the cloud

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The Quantum Technologies for Information Science (QUTIS) research group, led by the Ikerbasque Professor Enrique Solano of the UPV/EHU's Department of Physical Chemistry, has developed a quantum biomimetic protocol that reproduces the charact...

Nov 20, 2018

Chemists develop new method for selective binding of proteins

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A new method of selectively binding proteins to nanoparticles has been described by a team of German and Chinese researchers headed by Prof. Bart Jan Ravoo, a chemist at the "Center for Soft Nanoscience" at the University of Münster, Ger...

Nov 20, 2018

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