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Rice, Northwestern find new ways to image, characterize unique material

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Researchers at Rice and Northwestern have imaged and modeled the unique geometry of 2D borophene, a material that could surpass the promises of graphene for electronic, thermal, optical and other applications.

Apr 11, 2019

Oregon scientists drill into white graphene to create artificial atoms

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By drilling holes into a thin two-dimensional sheet of hexagonal boron nitride with a gallium-focused ion beam, University of Oregon scientists have created artificial atoms that generate single photons, which work in air and room temperature.

Apr 11, 2019

2D gold quantum dots are atomically tunable with nanotubes

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Gold atoms ski along boron nitride nanotubes and stabilize in metallic monolayers. The resulting gold quantum dots could be a promising material for future electronics and quantum computing.

Apr 11, 2019

New tunable nanomaterials possible due to flexible process invented by Bath physicists

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Physicists at the University of Bath have developed a flexible process allowing the synthesis in a single flow of a wide range of novel nanomaterials with various morphologies, with potential applications in areas including optics and sensors.

Apr 11, 2019

Wonder material: Individual 2D phosphorene nanoribbons made for the first time

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Tiny, individual, flexible ribbons of crystalline phosphorus have been made in a world first, and they could revolutionize electronics and fast-charging battery technology. Since the isolation of 2-dimensional phosphorene, which is the phosphorus ...

Apr 10, 2019

Wonder material—individual 2-D phosphorene nanoribbons made for the first time

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Tiny, individual, flexible ribbons of crystalline phosphorus have been made by UCL researchers in a world first, and they could revolutionise electronics and fast-charging battery technology.

Apr 10, 2019

Individual 2D phosphorene nanoribbons made for the first time

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Tiny, individual, flexible ribbons of crystalline phosphorus have been made by researchers in a world first, and they could revolutionise electronics and fast-charging battery technology.

Apr 10, 2019

Water that never freezes

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Can water reach minus 263 degrees Celsius without turning into ice? Yes it can, say researchers, if it is confined in nanometer-scale lipid channels.

Apr 10, 2019

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: New hybrid energy method could fuel the future of rockets, spacecraft for exploration: Nontraditional route shown to increase performance, burn rate

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Graphene, a new material with applications in biomedical technology, electronics, composites, energy and sensors, may soon help send rockets to space.

Apr 10, 2019

New algorithm optimizes quantum computing problem-solving: A Canadian quantum computer can solve complex problems more efficiently with an algorithm developed in Japan

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Researchers have developed an algorithm that enhances the ability of a quantum computer to more efficiently find the best solution for complicated problems.

Apr 10, 2019

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