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Study Shows Spaced-Out Nanotwins Could Improve Strength and Other Properties of Metals

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A research team from Brown University and the Institute of Metals Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered a new method to apply nanotwins to make stronger metals. Nanotwins are...

Nov 5, 2018

Exploring the structure and properties of new graphene-like polymers

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

A team of scientists from Siberian Federal University (SibFU), together with foreign colleagues, described the structural and physical properties of a group of two-dimensional materials based on polycyclic molecules called circulenes. The possibil...

Nov 5, 2018

Nanorobots propel through the eye

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers of the Micro, Nano and Molecular Systems Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, together with an international team of scientists, have developed propeller-shaped nanorobots that, for the first time, are ...

Nov 5, 2018

Scientists Demonstrate Topologically Protected Biphoton States

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

An optical circuit based on the principles of topology could provide protection for propagation of biphoton states, which will be needed for quantum computing. Researchers at the University of Sydney have experimentally demonstrated topological p...

Nov 5, 2018

Spaced-out nanotwins make for stronger metals

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers from Brown University and the Institute of Metals Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found

Nov 5, 2018

Nanoplatelets improve LCD and LED screens

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have designed semiconductor nanoplatelets with a broadened range of colors to improve LCD and LED screens.

Nov 5, 2018

Nanotube film drowns out battery-killing lithium tentacles

New Atlas   -   Scientific News Websites

Battery researchers are fighting battles on many fronts in their efforts to advance our energy capabilities, and one of those centers on dangly tentacles of lithium called dendrites. These form as a battery charges and quickly degrade thei...

Nov 5, 2018

Researchers develop new technique to understand biology at the nanoscale

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Washington State University researchers for the first time have shown that they can use electrical fields to gain valuable information about the tiny, floating vesicles that move around in animals and plants and are critically important to many bi...

Nov 5, 2018

Physicists name and codify new field in nanotechnology: 'electron quantum metamaterials'

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New materials are being synthesized by twisting and stacking atomically thin layers. To bring it all under one roof, physicists Nathaniel Gabor of UC Riverside, and Justin C. W. Song of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, propose this fi...

Nov 5, 2018

Physicists designed new antenna for supersensitive magnetometers of a new generation

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Scientists from ITMO University and Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences proposed a new microwave antenna that creates a uniform magnetic field in large volume. It is capable for uniform and coherent addressing of the elec...

Nov 5, 2018

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