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Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Nanotubes may give the world better batteries: Rice U. scientists' method quenches lithium metal dendrites in batteries that charge faster, last longer

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Rice University scientists are counting on films of carbon nanotubes to make high-powered, fast-charging lithium metal batteries a logical replacement for common lithium-ion batteries.

Oct 26, 2018

Shielded quantum bits

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A theoretical concept to realize quantum information processing has been developed by Professor Guido Burkard and his team of physicists at the University of Konstanz. The researchers have found ways to shield electric and magnetic noise for a sho...

Oct 26, 2018

Researchers develop new way to detect hidden urinary tract infections

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Researchers in infection biology have developed a new way to detect hidden urinary tract infections. The research was led by Professor Agneta Richter-Dahlfors, head of the Swedish Medical Nanoscience Center at Karolinska Institutet and published i...

Oct 26, 2018

New laser breakthrough: ‘random, transistor’ laser that can be manipulated at nanoscale

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In the last half-century, laser technology has grown into a multi-billion-dollar global industry and used in everything from

Oct 26, 2018

Nanophotonic device reads twisted light to unlock 100X fiber capacity | NextBigFuture.com

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The world-first nanophotonic device encodes more data and processes it much faster than conventional fiber optics by using a special form of ‘twisted’ light. The tiny nanophotonic device built for reading twisted light is the missing key required ...

Oct 26, 2018

Nanocrystals arrange to improve electronics

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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers are working to make better electronic devices by delving into the way nanocrystals are arranged inside of them.

Oct 26, 2018

Revealing the mechanisms behind the enhancement of thermal properties of graphene nanofluids

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Disperse graphene in a suitable solvent and the resulting nanofluid will have much better thermal properties than the original liquid. Three ICN2 research groups collaborated to describe and explain this effect from the inside out. The results, pu...

Oct 26, 2018

Carbon Fiber Mirror building block for space based solar power | NextBigFuture.com

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Lightweight parabolic mirrors for solar concentrators have been fabricated using carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) and a nanometer scale optical surface smoothing technique. The smoothing technique improved the surface roughness of the CFRP s...

Oct 26, 2018

Nanocrystal links could lead to better electronics

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Nanocrystals are promising building blocks for new and improved electronic devices, due to their size-tunable properties and ability to integrate into devices at low-cost.

Oct 26, 2018

Study provides insight into how nanoparticles interact with biological systems

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Personal electronic devices — smartphones, computers, TVs, tablets, screens of all kinds — are a significant and growing

Oct 26, 2018

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