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Graphene gives a tremendous boost to future terahertz cameras

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

Detecting terahertz (THz) light is extremely useful for two main reasons: Firstly, THz technology is becoming a key element in applications regarding security (such as airport scanners), wireless data communication, and quality control, to mentio...

Apr 17, 2019

Researchers Produce Gilded Nanodisks for Medical Needs

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Young researchers from Siberian Federal University (SibFU) along with their colleagues from FRC KSC SB RAS are designing a technology for producing multilayer gilded nanodisks for targeted drug...

Apr 17, 2019

New Microscopy Method Enables 3D Reconstructions of Protein Structures on a Nanometric Scale

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Coherent diffractive imaging, also known as lensless microscopy with X-rays, is known to be a promising technique. This approach enables scientists to examine intricate 3D structures, which often...

Apr 17, 2019

Graphene and Related Materials Inks Improve Solar Cells

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Imagine the environmental benefits if we could all simply paint solar cells onto the roof of our houses, or onto any surface for that matter. We could do this using perovskite solar cells (PSC), but,...

Apr 17, 2019

Printing nanoparticle shapes for medical applications

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have developed a technology to customize the shapes of polymers and polymeric nanoparticles using DNA. In both 2D and 3D, precise patterns of structures composed of biocompatible polymer materials can be easily designed and constructed...

Apr 17, 2019

Improving quantum computers

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

For decades, experts have predicted that quantum computers will someday perform difficult tasks, such as simulating complex chemical systems, that can't be done by conventional computers. But so far, these machines haven't lived up to th...

Apr 17, 2019

A light-activated remote control for cells

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

What if doctors had a remote control that they could use to steer a patient's own cells to a wound to speed up the healing process? Although such a device is still far from reality, researchers reporting in the ACS journal Nano Letters have t...

Apr 17, 2019

University of Barcelona researchers develop new variant of Maxwell's demon at nanoscale

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Maxwell's demon is a machine proposed by James Clerk Maxwell in 1897. The hypothetical machine would use thermal fluctuations to obtain energy, apparently violating the second principle of thermodynamics. Now, researchers of the University of...

Apr 17, 2019

World-record quantum computing result for Sydney teams

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

The quantum theory group at the University of Sydney is behind two papers published this month in Nature publications that are pushing the boundaries of quantum computing.

Apr 17, 2019

Quantum dot imaging advances

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Investigations of ‘quantum dots’ for looking deeply into body tissues are rapidly evolving, but more work is required

Apr 16, 2019

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