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Disorder plays a key role in phase transitions of materials

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists discover that disorder is part of the structural transition of Vanadium Dioxide from an insulator state to a metallic state at extremely small time resolutions This provides a new perspective on how to control matter, especially in the ...

Nov 2, 2018

Researchers turn plastic bottle waste into ultralight supermaterial with wide-ranging applications

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers from the the National University of Singapore (NUS) have made a significant contribution towards resolving the global issue of plastic waste, by creating a way to convert plastic bottle waste into aerogels for many useful applications.

Nov 2, 2018

A high-performance nanopowder facility for metal 3-D printing

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Scientists from the Department of Industrial Technologies of the Yurga Institute of Technology of Tomsk Polytechnic University are developing an advanced high-performance facility for the production of metal powders used for 3-D printing. The TPU ...

Nov 2, 2018

Natural nanotech anticancer drug

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Sanguinarine is a natural product, a chemical made by certain plants including the bloodroot plant (Sanguinaria canadensis), the Mexican prickly poppy (Argemone mexicana), Chelidonium majus, and Macleaya cordata. It is a slightly toxic polycyclic ...

Nov 2, 2018

Disorder plays a key role in phase transitions of materials

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have discovers that disorder is part of the structural transition of Vanadium Dioxide from an insulator state to a metallic state at extremely small time resolutions. The results of the study provide a new perspective on how to control...

Nov 2, 2018

One step closer to complex quantum teleportation: Novel complex quantum entanglement generated in the laboratory for the first time

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For future technologies such as quantum computers and quantum encryption, the experimental mastery of complex quantum systems is inevitable. Scientists have now succeeded in making another leap. While physicists are trying to increase the number o...

Nov 2, 2018

Highly secure physically unclonable cryptographic primitives based on interfacial magnetic anisotropy

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In a step forward for information security for the Internet of Things, a team of researchers has published a new paper in the online edition of Nano Letters in which they have engineered a new type of physically unclonable function (PUF) based on ...

Nov 2, 2018

Berkeley computer theorists show path to verifying that quantum beats classical

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As multiple research groups around the world race to build a scalable quantum computer questions remain about how

Nov 2, 2018

Researchers turn plastic bottle waste into ultralight supermaterial

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Researchers has found a way to turn plastic bottle waste into ultralight polyethylene terephthalate (PET) aerogels that are suitable for various applications, including heat insulation and carbon dioxide absorption.

Nov 2, 2018

Exploring the structure and properties of new graphene-like polymers

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A new report describes the structural and physical properties of a group of two-dimensional materials based on polycyclic molecules called circulenes. The possibility of flexible design and variable properties of these materials make them suitable...

Nov 2, 2018

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