Researchers have now made a material that is superelastic even at extremely cold temperatures, which could be helpful in space.
Apr 12, 2019
In liquid crystals, molecules automatically arrange themselves in an ordered fashion. Researchers from the University of Luxembourg have discovered a method that allows an anti-ordered state, which will enable novel material properties and potenti...
Apr 12, 2019
A localization phenomenon boosts the accuracy of solving quantum many-body problems with quantum computers. These problems are otherwise challenging for conventional computers. This brings such digital quantum simulation within reach using quantum...
Apr 12, 2019
Can water reach minus 263 degrees Celsius without turning into ice? Yes it can, say researchers from ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich, if it is confined in nanometre-scale lipid channels. Making ice cubes is a simple process: you take a pl...
Apr 12, 2019
An international collaboration predicts that exponential progress in nanotechnology, nanomedicine, AI, and computation will lead this century to the development of a 'Human Brain/Cloud Interface', that connects neurons and synapses in th...
Apr 12, 2019
Graphene can come from graphite. But borophene? There's no such thing as borite.
Apr 12, 2019
In 1989, two undergraduate students at the Free University of Brussels were asked to test frozen blood serum from camels, and stumbled on a previously unknown kind of antibody. It was a miniaturized v...
Apr 12, 2019
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are promising for quantum computing and future electronics. Now, researchers can convert metallic gold into semiconductor and customize the material atom-by-atom on...
Apr 12, 2019
Novel batteries are the first to use water-splitting technology at their core.
Apr 12, 2019
Serial entrepreneur Tim Harper shares lessons from 20 years of good, bad and (occasionally) ugly experiences of starting and running nanotech businesses The post Seven rules for nanotech innovation appeared first on Physics World.
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