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Algorithm accurately predicts how electromagnetic waves and magnetic materials interact

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UCLA Samueli engineers have developed a new tool to model how magnetic materials, which are used in smartphones and other communications devices, interact with incoming radio signals that carry data. It accurately predicts these interactions down ...

Sep 10, 2018

Novel nano material for quantum electronics

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An international team led by Assistant Professor Kasper Steen Pedersen, DTU Chemistry, has synthesized a novel nano material with electrical and magnetic properties making it suitable for future quantum computers and other applications in electron...

Sep 10, 2018

Graphene enables clock rates in the terahertz range

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Graphene is considered a promising candidate for the nanoelectronics of the future. In theory, it should allow clock rates up to a thousand times faster than today's silicon-based electronics. Scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Ros...

Sep 10, 2018

Researchers discover how caged molecules 'rattle and sing'

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A team of energy researchers from the University of Minnesota and University of Massachusetts Amherst has discovered that molecular motion can be predicted with high accuracy when confining molecules in small nanocages. Their theoretical method is...

Sep 10, 2018

25+ year journey to superstrong carbon nanotube bundles | NextBigFuture.com

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In 1991, Sumio Iijima’s discovered multi-walled carbon nanotubes in the insoluble material of arc-burned graphite rods and Mintmire, Dunlap, and White’s independent prediction that if single-walled carbon nanotubes could be made, then they would e...

Sep 9, 2018

Breakthrough Carbon nanotube bundles are over 20 times stronger than Kevlar | NextBigFuture.com

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Finally ultralong (several centimeter) carbon nanotube fibers have been made into stronger bundles. The tensile strength of CNTBs (Carbon nanotube bundles) is at least 9–45 times that of other materials. If a more rigorous engineering definition i...

Sep 9, 2018

Physicists Manipulate and Control Individual Molecules

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New technique will open up research possibilities across the fields of nanoscience and nanophysics. Physicists at the University of Bath have discovered how to manipulate... The post Physicists Manipulate and Control Individual Molecules appeared...

Sep 9, 2018

Running quantum algorithms in the cloud just got a lot faster

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A startup called Rigetti Computing is linking quantum computers with classical ones in a new cloud service

Sep 9, 2018

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Cannibalistic materials feed on themselves to grow new nanostructures

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Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory induced a two-dimensional material to cannibalize itself for atomic "building blocks" from which stable structures formed.

Sep 9, 2018

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Neutrophil nanosponges soak up proteins that promote rheumatoid arthritis

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Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed neutrophil "nanosponges" that can safely absorb and neutralize a variety of proteins that play a role in the progression of rheumatoi...

Sep 9, 2018

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