From November 2017 to March 2018 there was the announcement of IBM 50 qubit prototype, Intel’s 49 qubit test chip and Google 72 qubit processor. These processors had 10% to as low as 1% error rates. In 2017, D-Wave systems had commercial ava...
Aug 13, 2018
Researchers have collaborated with others to develop a simple way to create and functionalize virus-like polymer particles that have various nanostructures.
Aug 13, 2018
The discovery of buckyballs surprised and delighted chemists in the 1980s, nanotubes jazzed physicists in the 1990s, and graphene charged up materials scientists in the 2000s, but one nanoscale carbon structure—a negatively curved surface called a...
Aug 13, 2018
Chemists have proved that three carbon structures recently created are in fact the long-sought schwarzites, which researchers predict will have unique electrical and storage properties like those now being discovered in fullerenes, nanotubes and g...
Aug 13, 2018
The aerogel, which looks like a flattened plastic contact lens, is so resistant to heat that you could put a strip of it on your hand and light a fire on top without feeling a thing.
Aug 13, 2018
Scientists at Tohoku University in Japan have teamed up with others to create a simple method to develop and functionalize virus-like polymer particles that have many nanostructures. The partnership...
Aug 13, 2018
A new form of electronics manufacturing which embeds silicon nanowires into flexible surfaces could lead to radical new forms of bendable electronics, scientists say.
Aug 13, 2018
A new form of electronics manufacturing which embeds silicon nanowires into flexible surfaces could lead to radical new forms of bendable electronics, scientists say.
Aug 13, 2018
Though nanotechnology is portrayed as a fairly recent human invention, nature is actually full of nanoscopic architectures. They underpin the essential functions of a variety of life forms, from bacteria to berries, wasps to whales.
Aug 13, 2018
Scientists are experimenting with narrow strips of graphene, called nanoribbons, in hopes of making cool new electronic devices,
Aug 13, 2018