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UIC chemical engineers first to functionalize boron nitride with other nanosystems

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Scientists report that treatment with a superacid causes boron nitride layers to separate into atomically thick sheets, while creating binding sites on the surface of these sheets that provide opportunities to interface with nanoparticles, molecul...

Sep 25, 2018

Oxygen vs. nanochip

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For the first time ever, an international team of scientists from NUST MISIS, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the University of Namur (Belgium), and Korea Research Institute for Standards & Science has managed to trace in details the st...

Sep 25, 2018

Team finds Wigner crystal—not Mott insulator—in 'magic-angle' graphene

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Recently, a team of scientists led by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) created a huge stir in the field of condensed matter physics when they showed that two sheets of graphene twisted at specific angles—dub...

Sep 24, 2018

China is far behind in computer chips | NextBigFuture.com

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China’s largest computer chip maker is Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC). They makes chips to order but use a 28-nanometer process technology. This is several generations behind Taiwan Semiconductor and Intel. TSMC is pr...

Sep 24, 2018

Wigner crystal -- not Mott insulator -- in 'magic-angle' graphene

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Recently, scientists created a stir in the field of condensed matter physics when they showed that two sheets of graphene twisted at specific angles display two emergent phases of matter. After a careful review of the experimental data researchers...

Sep 24, 2018

Quantum computing: A new way to count qubits

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Researchers have developed a new technique for measuring the state of quantum bits, or qubits, in a quantum computer.

Sep 24, 2018

D-Wave Systems Publishes Quantum Computer Study

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Quantum computing systems developer D-Wave Systems Inc. has published a study demonstrating a topological phase transition using its 2048-qubit annealing quantum computer. This complex quantum simulation of materials is a major step toward reduc...

Sep 24, 2018

Perovskite/CIGS tandem cell with record efficiency of 24.6 percent

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Today at the EU PVSEC conference, imec, the world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics, energy and digital technologies, presents a thin-film tandem solar cell consisting of a top perovskite cell developed by Imec within the part...

Sep 24, 2018

Screen-printed, large-area nPERT solar cells surpass 23 percent efficiency

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At today's EU PVSEC conference, imec—the world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics, energy and digital technology and partner in EnergyVille—announced that its latest generation of large-area monofacial screen-printed rear-...

Sep 24, 2018

International effort to uncover properties of polymer nanoparticles

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From photonics to pharmaceuticals, materials made with polymer nanoparticles hold promise for products of the future. However, there are still gaps in understanding the properties of these tiny plastic-like particles.

Sep 24, 2018

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