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Next four years will determine if noisy quantum computers can beat current computers | NextBigFuture.com

NextBigFuture   -   Scientific News Websites

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

Creation and selective functionalization of virus-like polymer particles

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

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

Schwarzites: Long-sought carbon structure joins graphene, fullerene family

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

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

Long-sought carbon structure 'schwarzite' joins graphene, fullerene family

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

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

From office windows to Mars: Scientists debut super-insulating gel

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

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

Simple Method to Create and Functionalize Virus-Like Polymer Particles Having Nanostructures

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

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

Printed electronics breakthrough could lead to flexible electronics revolution

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

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

Printed nanowire electronics breakthrough could lead to flexible electronics revolution

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

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

Five ways that natural nanotechnology could inspire human design

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

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

Tying electrons down with nanoribbons

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists are experimenting with narrow strips of graphene, called nanoribbons, in hopes of making cool new electronic devices,

Aug 13, 2018

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