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Tuneable superconductivity appears in topological insulator - Physics World

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A key step towards making a quantum computer from these materials The post Tuneable superconductivity appears in topological insulator appeared first on Physics World.

Oct 27, 2018

Superstrong materials for electric spaceplanes instead of space elevators | NextBigFuture.com

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China has carbon nanotube bundles in the lab that are 20 times stronger than kevlar. They are trying to scale them up for mass production. If they succeed in mass producing tons of this material then what has been impossible become possible engine...

Oct 26, 2018

CNT bundle material for flywheels 40 times better than batteries | NextBigFuture.com

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In the lab, China has small quantities of carbon nanotube bundles 20 times stronger than Kevlar. These are ultralong (several centimeters) carbon nanotube fibers have been made into stronger bundles. The tensile strength of CNTBs (Carbon nanotube ...

Oct 26, 2018

Directional Character of Nanolight Could Improve Efficiency of Nanophotonic Devices

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Squeezed light in the nanoscale (“nanolight”) was found to propagate only in specific directions along thin slabs of a natural anisotropic 2D material, molybdenum trioxide (α-MoO3). The discovery was made by an international team of researchers fr...

Oct 26, 2018

Audiolab cuts the cord with Hi-Res Bluetooth DAC

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British maker of award-winning Digital-to-Analog Converters Audiolab has added a new mobile DAC/headphone amp to its range. The M-DAC Nano cuts down on a little cable clutter by leveraging the wireless streaming power of Bluetooth... Conti...

Oct 26, 2018

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Nanotubes may give the world better batteries: Rice U. scientists' method quenches lithium metal dendrites in batteries that charge faster, last longer

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Rice University scientists are counting on films of carbon nanotubes to make high-powered, fast-charging lithium metal batteries a logical replacement for common lithium-ion batteries.

Oct 26, 2018

Shielded quantum bits

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A theoretical concept to realize quantum information processing has been developed by Professor Guido Burkard and his team of physicists at the University of Konstanz. The researchers have found ways to shield electric and magnetic noise for a sho...

Oct 26, 2018

Researchers develop new way to detect hidden urinary tract infections

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Researchers in infection biology have developed a new way to detect hidden urinary tract infections. The research was led by Professor Agneta Richter-Dahlfors, head of the Swedish Medical Nanoscience Center at Karolinska Institutet and published i...

Oct 26, 2018

New laser breakthrough: ‘random, transistor’ laser that can be manipulated at nanoscale

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In the last half-century, laser technology has grown into a multi-billion-dollar global industry and used in everything from

Oct 26, 2018

Nanophotonic device reads twisted light to unlock 100X fiber capacity | NextBigFuture.com

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The world-first nanophotonic device encodes more data and processes it much faster than conventional fiber optics by using a special form of ‘twisted’ light. The tiny nanophotonic device built for reading twisted light is the missing key required ...

Oct 26, 2018

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