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Nanocrystal 'factory' could revolutionize quantum dot manufacturing

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

North Carolina State University researchers have developed a microfluidic system for synthesizing perovskite quantum dots across the entire spectrum of visible light. The system drastically reduces manufacturing costs, can be tuned on demand to an...

Mar 15, 2019

Nanocrystal 'factory' could revolutionize quantum dot manufacturing

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

A new system for synthesizing quantum dots across the entire spectrum of visible light drastically reduces manufacturing costs, can be tuned on demand to any color and allows for real-time process monitoring to ensure quality control.

Mar 15, 2019

No, scientists didn’t just “reverse time” with a quantum computer

MIT Technology Review   -   Scientific News Websites

Amazing headlines about time machines are a long way off the mark, sadly.

Mar 15, 2019

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Nanometrics Announces $80 Million Share Repurchase Program

Nanotechnology Now   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Nanometrics Incorporated (NASDAQ: NANO), a leading provider of advanced process control systems, today announced that its board of directors has authorized the repurchase of up to $80 million of the c...

Mar 15, 2019

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Researchers reverse the flow of time on IBM's quantum computer

Nanotechnology Now   -   Nanotechnology Websites

We all mark days with clocks and calendars, but perhaps no timepiece is more immediate than a mirror. The changes we notice over the years vividly illustrate science's "arrow of time" -- the likely pr...

Mar 15, 2019

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Lightweight metal foams become bone hard and explosion proof after being nanocoated

Nanotechnology Now   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Strong enough not only for use in impact protection systems in cars, but able to absorb the shock waves produced by a detonation. Those are just some of the properties shown by the metallic foams deve...

Mar 15, 2019

Speeding up artificial intelligence

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

A group at Politecnico di Milano has developed an electronic circuit able to solve a system of linear equations in a single operation in the timescale of a few tens of nanoseconds. The performance of this new circuit is superior not only to classi...

Mar 15, 2019

Long-distance quantum information exchange—success at the nanoscale

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

At the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, researchers have realized the swap of electron spins between distant quantum dots. The discovery brings us a step closer to future applications of quantum information, as the tiny dots have to...

Mar 15, 2019

Researchers Review Latest Developments of 2D Nanomaterials in Lithium-Ion Batteries

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

The forthcoming energy crisis and huge energy demands of electronic devices have brought attention to the field of energy storage. In a new study reported in the forthcoming issue in NANO,...

Mar 15, 2019

New Method Uses Nanocarrier-Based Biological Fluorescent Probes for Drug Detection

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

In a to-be-published paper in the upcoming issue in NANO, scientists from Zhejiang have revealed a new method of using nanocarrier-based biological fluorescent probes for identifying ketamine and...

Mar 15, 2019

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