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A nanoglazed facade that is a power plant and a guarantee

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A new building facade produces more energy than the unit needs over the course of the year.

Sep 25, 2018

A nanoglazed facade that is a power plant and a guarantee

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A new building facade produces more energy than the unit needs over the course of the year.

Sep 25, 2018

UIC chemical engineers first to functionalize boron nitride with other nanosystems

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists report that treatment with a superacid causes boron nitride layers to separate into atomically thick sheets, while creating binding sites on the surface of these sheets that provide opportunities to interface with nanoparticles, molecul...

Sep 25, 2018

Oxygen vs. nanochip

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

For the first time ever, an international team of scientists from NUST MISIS, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the University of Namur (Belgium), and Korea Research Institute for Standards & Science has managed to trace in details the st...

Sep 25, 2018

Team finds Wigner crystal—not Mott insulator—in 'magic-angle' graphene

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Recently, a team of scientists led by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) created a huge stir in the field of condensed matter physics when they showed that two sheets of graphene twisted at specific angles—dub...

Sep 24, 2018

China is far behind in computer chips | NextBigFuture.com

NextBigFuture   -   Scientific News Websites

China’s largest computer chip maker is Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC). They makes chips to order but use a 28-nanometer process technology. This is several generations behind Taiwan Semiconductor and Intel. TSMC is pr...

Sep 24, 2018

Wigner crystal -- not Mott insulator -- in 'magic-angle' graphene

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Recently, scientists created a stir in the field of condensed matter physics when they showed that two sheets of graphene twisted at specific angles display two emergent phases of matter. After a careful review of the experimental data researchers...

Sep 24, 2018

Quantum computing: A new way to count qubits

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have developed a new technique for measuring the state of quantum bits, or qubits, in a quantum computer.

Sep 24, 2018

D-Wave Systems Publishes Quantum Computer Study

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

Quantum computing systems developer D-Wave Systems Inc. has published a study demonstrating a topological phase transition using its 2048-qubit annealing quantum computer. This complex quantum simulation of materials is a major step toward reduc...

Sep 24, 2018

Perovskite/CIGS tandem cell with record efficiency of 24.6 percent

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Today at the EU PVSEC conference, imec, the world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics, energy and digital technologies, presents a thin-film tandem solar cell consisting of a top perovskite cell developed by Imec within the part...

Sep 24, 2018

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